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A Returning Comrade

hey Jerry! long time no see. in case you don’t remember (or know) Its me… Melany! let’s see I am now a junior and I am 16. I’ve been coming to one room for the past three years.  And let me tell you our chaos and craziness never ends. You should know ,after all, you do go to class with us.

now I want to introduce a little bit about myself.

I was never a homeschooler before, until I joined one Room my freshman year of high school. public school wasn’t the best experience for me but it wasn’t that bad either. I did have a lot of good times there. Now, when I joined One room I was overjoyed cause I had asked my parents to put me into homeschooling since like the beginning of Sixth grade. And m amazing teacher and friends just make ORL so much fun. I also have my little sister, Megan, in there with me. She’s fun to be around but her energy can sometimes ( Most of the time for me) be a little overwhelming. See thing is, i’m the more calm one in our house while my younger sibling is the more energetic one…which causes us to clash every so often. But we do love each other. most people don’t believe me when I say that I am the calm one ( it’s because they know me) but truth be told my crazy personality is just one side of me. I usually like to spend my free time doing something quiet.

Lets see…. what else? oh, yeah! I love to do anything artsy. Its my hobby. I love to be creative. I’ve done drawings, and paintings, and sculptures. I’ve even picked up writing. My favorite thing to do though is draw. I’ve been doing it since I was little. I guess what I do is decent and I do enjoy doing it. its something that lets me expand my creativity, imagination, and skills. Writing just so happens to come in a close second. I never knew how much fun it could be to just write a book. Making up a storyline and random characters is a challenge but its also very fun!

hope to keep writing more to you this year.

your old friend,

Dear Jerry,
You know who I am but you may have forgotten, I haven’t written to you in a while. Let’s start over. My name is Mya, I’m 16 years old, in a family of 6. I have three brothers. Cameron, 19, Nash, 13, and Maximus, 12. Yes I’m the only girl! Also, since we’ve talked I have gotten a car. Yes I know! it’s so exciting!
Now here are some things about myself. I play basketball, this will be my fifth season playing for LCHS. Last year we were undefeated and one the State Championship, it was awesome.
I play guitar as well. I got my guitar for Christmas but did not really start playing it until a few months ago. My older brother Cam and I have covered a few songs together, I will put the link below.
Another hobby I have is horseback riding. I have been riding horses for 9 years now. This last horse I bought, Jon, I trained to jump, he loves it. I’m selling him to someone who has more time to work with him though, because Jon is a thoroughbred and requires a lot of time that I don’t have at the moment. I am planning on getting another, more calm horse soon.
This is my third year in One Room Learning, and I love it! Yes it can be crazy at times… well most of the time, But that’s what makes it unique. All of the students in One Room are so nice. The teachers are pretty cool too I guess.
My favorite subject is science. Mrs. Becca is the best science teacher ever, she keeps it fun while we are still learning stuff. Miss Sarah’s favorite subject to teach is history. That may not be on my top five, but Miss Sarah’s way of teaching definitely helps!
Links to the Cam and I’s covers:
“Keep Holding On” by Falling in Reverse- https://youtu.be/u6L7DdEypg
And also this one(this was for my Dad’s birthday)
“Angel” by Theory of a Deadman- https://youtu.be/5wkdB5n8hl4

New Girl

Dear Jerry,

This is my first time chatting with you, so let me tell you a little about myself. My name is Amelia but almost everyone calls me Mia. I have 2 older sisters and 1 older brother, so that makes me the baby. ^_^ I’ve been homeschooled my whole life and I’m a senior this year…. CRAZZYY!!! I’ve played volleyball and basketball for 6 years and I love them both to death! This is my first year in One Room Learning and I was so excited when it was finally the first day of school……well I was excited the night before, then morning came and I felt sick to my stomach….seriously I almost threw-up xD On the first day of school I was so nervous I didn’t want to go but my mom said it was to late to change my mind. So I was about 2 minutes away from my house when I told me sister to turn the car around. She thought I was bailing out before I had even got there, but it turns out I had forgotten my Pre-Calc. books…..that would of been bad to show up on the first day of school without your math books! I was nervous the whole drive there, but once I got there and saw all my awesome friends I was just fine. I just finished my 3rd week of One Room and even though I’m not liking the homework much, I’m still glad to be apart of it and to spend time with some of my really amazing friends! 🙂 Oh also I recently kinda tried out for the part of Wendy in our One Room Drama Wendy and Peter Pan, I really hope I get to play Wendy!

Well see you later Jerry,

Your new friend Amelia (Mia)

What’s New With Me

Dear Jerry,
It seems like forever since I last wrote you. So many things have changed since last time we talked and I just wanted to give you an update on what’s been going on since I wrote last. At the beginning of the summer my sister, her husband and my three year old nephew moved down from Tennessee and are now living in my house. I cannot even describe how awesome it is to have them living with us (although it does get crowded with seven of us living in the same house.) After my sister and her family moved down from Tennessee, we wanted chickens again so we decided to build a chicken barn. The barn is twelve by sixty feet and we built it in three weeks. It has a porch and we are in the process of adding a lawnmower/ go-cart shelter attached to it. Our house has grown from four people and three dogs at the beginning of the summer to seven people, seven dogs, a hundred chickens, nine fish, two guinea pigs, a rabbit and a cat. We are also working on our garden which we have already planted some okra, a lemon tree, peach tree and a mango tree. Along with our house expanding something very important happened over the summer. It is one of the most important and biggest things that has happened to me in my life, I turned sixteen, got my license, and got my first car. Well I say car but it’s actually a tan ford truck. It is just the right size and I decked it out with stickers and camo stuff. I have been driving everywhere and it has been super fun. I drive to church, the store and pretty much wherever (my mom says I have gasoline in my veins because I’m always gone.) Since I got my license I have been finding myself at the library very often, and I have found that I have become a little bit of a bookworm. It’s so easy and convenient to get to the library, after all I have to pass it to get home from church. I have read over thirteen books during the summer and am currently working on four new ones. Something that I have discovered is that I have really taken an interest in zoology and animal photography. I have always liked zoology but I recently got back into it. It amazes me how animals and nature work and I love to learn about them. We started school again and I can’t even believe that I’m a junior. It’s crazy to think I’m only one year away from being a senior! Of course being a junior comes with a lot of challenging questions like, “what do you want to do with your life?” Honestly I’m still trying to figure that one out, although I’m thinking zoology might be fun. Everything is so different since last year, I mean even my big brother graduated last year so I’m the last one in my family in school (besides my nephew who just started pre-k.) Well Jerry that’s the run-down of everything that’s happened since I last wrote to you. I can guarantee that you will be hearing from me soon. Sincerely, your bud.

– Caroline

Returning Friend

Dear Jerry,

Its been a whole year since the last time I talked to you, sorry I haven’t gotten to it sooner, looking back I never really said anything about myself to you, im sorry for that. I’m Bethany, seventeen years old almost eighteen, ALMOST AN ADULT!!! how scary is that… very, I’m a senior this year and im so excited to graduate but not ready to leave the nest, I am the fourth out of six kids, yes I know Jerry that’s a lot. so jerry are you like only child or do you have siblings?? I like to play basketball and volleyball but basketball is my favorite no doubt about it, Jerry you wont believe the book I just got done reading its called The Giver it was so awesome I loved the whole thing, I wont say anything about it so I don’t spoil it for anyone, Jerry I must say you should really ask the teacher if you could borrow hers maybe she has an extra book and would let you use it while you just sit there watching us do our school work that must be boring. well jerry I have to go get some homework done I promise I’ll write again soon.

Getting to Know me.

Dear Jerry,

I never really did introduce myself to you when I first joined One Room which seems extremely rude and I am very sorry about that. Let’s start off with the basics, My name is Stephanie and I grew up in Florida. I am the third child of six kids, yes I know that’s a lot. I’m a twin which is extremely fun and sometimes annoying. People always come to me and my sister, Bethany and ask if we are sister’s or twins… Now jerry, I know you have never seen Bethany or I because you don’t exactly have eyes anymore but if you did you will know for sure that we are twins. Sometimes when the person asks if we’re sister’s or twins I say no we’re actually cousins because it’s extremely annoying getting asked the same questions all the time and I want to have a little fun with it. On my free time I enjoy reading, playing basketball, hanging with my friends and, of course watching Netflix I’m pretty sure that’s every girls favorite thing to do. I dislike Sushi, some seafood, Mushrooms, and the cold. I have lived in Florida my whole life, I would rather be hot getting a farmers tan playing basketball, then being extremely cold getting snow off my car. I’m a senior this year which is extremely weird and amazing at the same time. I always remember thinking back into the 5th grade saying I can’t wait to graduate and now the time is almost here and I’m sad about it and super excited that I will be starting a new part of my life after I graduate.

Well Jerry.. This is my letter to you.

Midnight musings

Dear Jerry,
A lot has changed since you heard from me last. I’m not a child anymore. I’m not entirely made of flesh anymore either. There’s some serious metal going on in my ankle. (Don’t play ultimate frisbee barefoot, Jerry. More on that another day.)

I’m no longer a member of a huge family of mostly girls. There have been so many boys added lately, both of the brother-in-law and adorable nephew variety. And speaking of nephews, I’m no longer the auntie to just one niece. Well, there’s still only one niece, but now she is joined by four nephews!

I no longer measure the length of my high school sport career in years, but in months. That’s weird.

I can’t put off graduation any longer. It’s coming this May, ready or not.

I’m not anxious about flying solo for the first time. Did it. Nailed it.

I don’t have the companionship of a lovable German shepherd anymore, but hopefully that void will be filled by another fluffy buddy before too long.

I wish I could say that I no longer depend on others to drive me around, but that previously mentioned chunk of reconstructive metal has restricted any dreams of cruising around in my own Ferrari (for now).

I’m no longer unemployed! (wut, wut!) And what’s more, I don’t even have just one job. Multitasking to the max.

What more do you need to know, Jerry? We’ve been together since the beginning. You and I have had a lot of good talks, and hopefully we’ll have some more before this year is through.

I’m not going to just get through my senior year; I’m going to live it.

I’m not going to squander my mind; I’m going to invest it.

I’m ready.

Your dearest chum,


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The Jewels

 Turn around, every now and then I…

“Darren… really, Bonnie Tyler, I picked you to be more of a heavy metal guy.”

“Why are you interrupting me? You made me miss my favorite part… ‘Listening to the sound of my tears,’ I love that part. Oh well, the new guy next door was bitching about my music anyway.”

“What’s wrong with you?”

“Wrong question…”

“You’re better off asking what’s not wrong with me,” Darren said as he opened the patio door and stepped inside his condo.

“Ok Darren, I’ll play your silly game. What’s not wrong with you?” Jim replied, following Darren into the condo and closing the door.

“I don’t cross dress, that’s one thing.”

“Ok, real funny, come on are you just going to stay here and stare at that crane? You’re the best strategic planner I’ve ever met and you can’t plan your way out of this dump.”

“I guess that means you found a buyer!” Darren said, trying to control the volume of his voice.

“No, nothing yet,” Jim replied

“Then get out of my face, fifty three million in jewels in worthless without a buyer.”

* * *

“Come on Donnie, staring at that crane is not going to help us find the thief. We have to find a new approach; the guy is probably half way around the world by now.”

“It feels like we’re so close,” Donnie replied. “I’m caught up on that last report that said the Jewels would be handed off at that port, right down there.”

“Surveillance has been all over the port for the last few days what else do you expect.”

“I don’t know, I can’t think with that music playing so loud… Hey, can you turn that down, what is your obsession with Bonnie Tyler anyway,” Donnie yelled to the guy next door.

“Sure I’ll turn it down. I enjoy the lyrics I guess.”

This story was inspired by the WordPress Daily Prompt.

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President Obama’s State of The Union: Education

Barack Obama, on February 12, 2013, gave his second State of The Union Address as one of the major kick-offs to his second term as President of the United States.

In the duration of his speech he touched on many different topics, from energy, climate, technology, and education.

As a college student witih scholarships, grants, and of course loans, hear our President talk about the state of the education system was exciting for me. I have high expectation for my education and so do my parents. I attend Delaware State University, the #13 (and rising) Historically Black College in the Country. So as a college student attending and HBCU, education is twice as important to me because I have to be prided in my studies and continue to help my university strive. But listening to President Obama talk about education, it would seem he merely grazed the surface. Education is broad starting from pre school and extending to Doctoral and PhD. levels.

During the hour long speech President Obama talked about education for five minutes and two seconds. How in that little time can you cover the range of education issues specific to parents of K-12 children, college students and beyond.

The president said he is proposing a “new challenge to redesign America’s high schools so they better equip graduates for the demands of a high-tech economy.” His desire to “reward schools that develop new partnerships with colleges and employers, and create classes that focus on science, technology, engineering, and math” is what I feel needs to happen to not only improve our schools curriculum and excite our students, but also to prepare them for entering the workwolrd of the 21st century prepared to make a living.

In addition to preparing my students for college and careers, so his idea of a “‘College Scorecard’ that parents and students can use to compare schools based on a simple criteria: where you can get the most bang for your educational buck” feels like a huge step in the right direction to empower families towards sensible college planning. AS a current college student I wish we would have had such a plan in order to narrow down college choices based on price and on where I could benefit most from my field.

Although the time spent on education reform was little I do commend the President for touching most education aspects, but next time I would hope he would go a little deeper into how me might increase financial aid, but that’s just one issue.

I hope to see these plans go into action soon Mr. President!


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artists, Plastic Sunshine

Christine Salama

Christine Salama was one of our artists from our first show Plastic Sunshine.  Her work reflects the ideas of history as created by a society and personal history.  She uses encaustic to create her work which is a direct reference to her heritage.
You can see more of her work here:
99.3% (In A Game Of Chess)
Wax, oil paint, dammar resin, dye, ink, magazine collage, wax paper on poplar
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Prawn is a fast, tiny, and nimble PDF generator for Ruby

gem install prawn -v 2.2.2

Gregory Brown Brad Ediger James Healy Evan Sharp Felipe Doria Alexander Mankuta Daniel Nelson Jonathan Jamis Buck Alex Dowad Kenneth Kalmer Mike Daines Hartwig Brandl Michaël Witrant Thomas Leitner Petrik de Heus Tommy Back Jesse Doyle Riopro Roger Nesbitt Adam St. John Simon Hürlimann Uwe Kubosch Wojtek Piekutowski

See all contributors

Prawn: Fast, Nimble PDF Generation For Ruby

Gem Version Build Status Code Climate Maintained: yes

Prawn is a pure Ruby PDF generation library that provides a lot of great functionality while trying to remain simple and reasonably performant. Here are some of the important features we provide:

  • Vector drawing support, including lines, polygons, curves, ellipses, etc.
  • Extensive text rendering support, including flowing text and limited inline formatting options.
  • Support for both PDF builtin fonts as well as embedded TrueType fonts
  • A variety of low level tools for basic layout needs, including a simple grid system
  • PNG and JPG image embedding, with flexible scaling options
  • Security features including encryption and password protection
  • Tools for rendering repeatable content (i.e headers, footers, and page numbers)
  • Comprehensive internationalization features, including full support for UTF-8 based fonts, right-to-left text rendering, fallback font support, and extension points for customizable text wrapping.
  • Support for PDF outlines for document navigation
  • Low level PDF features, allowing users to create custom extensions by dropping down all the way to the PDF object tree layer. (Mostly useful to those with knowledge of the PDF specification)
  • Lots of other stuff!

Should You Use Prawn?

If you are looking for a highly flexible PDF document generation system, Prawn might be the tool for you. It is not a reporting tool or a publishing toolchain, though it could be fairly easily used to build those things.

One thing Prawn is not, and will never be, is an HTML to PDF generator. For those needs, consider looking into FlyingSaucer via JRuby, or one of the WebKit based tools, like Wicked or PDFKit. We do have basic support for inline styling but it is limited to a very small subset of functionality and is not suitable for rendering rich HTML documents.

Supported Ruby Versions and Implementations

Because Prawn is pure Ruby and all of its runtime dependencies are maintained by us, it should work pretty much anywhere. We officially support MRI (2.1, 2.2, and 2.3) and JRuby 9000, however we will accept patches to fix problems on other Ruby platforms if they aren't too invasive.

Installing Prawn

Prawn is distributed via RubyGems, and can be installed the usual way that you install gems: by simply typing gem install prawn on the command line.

You can also install from git if you'd like, the master branch contains the latest developments, and stable represents the latest bug fixes to the currently released version of Prawn. If you go this route, using Bundler is encouraged.

Hello World!

If the following code runs and produces a working PDF file, you've successfully installed Prawn.

require "prawn"

Prawn::Document.generate("hello.pdf") do
  text "Hello World!"

Of course, you'll probably want to do more interesting things than that...

Felipe Doria provided us with a beautiful system for generating a user manual from our examples. This can be generated from the prawn source or you can download a pre-generated snapshot of it at

Note that while we will try to keep the downloadable manual up to date, that it's provided as a convenience only and you should generate the manual yourself if you want to be sure the code in it actually runs and works as expected. To build the manual, here's what you need to do:

  1. Clone the repository
  2. Switch to the stable branch (optional, stay on master for development version)
  3. Install bundler if necessary
  4. Run bundle install
  5. Run bundle exec rake manual, which will generate manual.pdf in the project root

Release Policies

Before upgrading Prawn on one of your projects, you should read our API compatibility guidelines. Generally speaking, you can expect tiny and minor version updates to always be safe upgrades, but major updates can introduce incompatibilities.

Be sure to read the release notes in each time we cut a new release, and lock your gems accordingly.

The easiest way to get help with Prawn is to post a message to our mailing list:

Feel free to post any Prawn related question there, our community is very responsive and will be happy to help you figure out how to use Prawn, or help you determine whether it's the right tool for the task you are working on.

Please make your posts to the list as specific as possible, including code samples and output where relevant. Do not post any information that should not be shared publicly, and be sure to reduce your example code as much as possible so that those who are responding to your question can more easily see what the issue might be.

Code of Conduct

Prawn adheres to the Contributor Covenant. Unacceptable behavior can be reported to [email protected] which is monitored by the core team.

If you've found a bug or want to submit a patch, please enter a ticket into our GitHub tracker.

We strongly encourage bug reports to come with failing tests or at least a reduced example that demonstrates the problem. Similarly, patches should include tests, API documentation, and an update to the manual where relevant. Feel free to send a pull request early though, if you just want some feedback or a code review before preparing your code to be merged.

If you are unsure about whether or not you've found a bug, or want to check to see whether we'd be interested in the feature you want to add before you start working on it, feel free to post to our mailing list.

You can run our test suite in a few different ways:

  1. Running rake will run the entire test suite excluding any unresolved issues
  2. Running rspec will run the entire test suite including unresolved issues
  3. Running rspec -t unresolved will run only unresolved issues
  4. Running rspec -t issue:NUMBER will run the tests for a specific issue

These filters make it possible for us to add failing test cases for bugs that are currently being researched or worked on, without breaking the typical full suite run.

Maintenance team

Prawn has always been heavily dependent on community contributions, with dozens of people contributing code over the year. In that sense, the lines have blurred to the point where we no longer have a strong distinction between core developers and contributors.

That said, there are a few folks who have been responsible for cutting releases, merging important pull requests, and making major decisions about the overall direction of the project.

Current maintainers

These are the folks to contact if you have a maintenance-related issue with Prawn:

Inactive maintainers

These folks have helped out in a maintenance role in the past, but are no longer actively involved in the project:

Prawn is released under a slightly modified form of the License of Ruby, allowing you to choose between Matz's terms, the GPLv2, or GPLv3. For details, please see the LICENSE, GPLv2, and GPLv3 files.

If you contribute to Prawn, you will retain your own copyright but must agree to license your code under the same terms as the project itself.

Prawn was originally developed by Gregory Brown, under the auspices of the Ruby Mendicant Project, a grassroots initiative in which the Ruby community collectively provided funding so that Gregory could take several months off from work to focus on this project.

Over the last several years, we've received code contributions from dozens of people, which is amazing considering the low-level nature of this project. You can find the full list of folks who have at least one patch accepted to Prawn on GitHub Contributors page.

After a long period of inactivity, Prawn reached its 1.0 milestone in 2014 thanks to some modest funding provided to Gregory by Madriska, Inc. (Brad Ediger's company).


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June’s Book Display

Library News - June 7, 2017 - 8:10am
June is 35th Anniversary of the first notation of AIDS. Get "educated" about this silent killer. Read our full library post on our blog.
Categories: Library News, News

May’s Book Display

Library News - May 4, 2017 - 8:33am
Tribute to Nurses during the month of May. Congrats to our WCC graduating nurses as well.
Categories: Library News, News

April’s Book Display

Library News - April 19, 2017 - 7:44am
United States officially declares war on Germany and its allies on April 6, 1917. come visit our blog and collection during the month of April 2017.
Categories: Library News, News

Library Systems Maintenance

Library News - March 14, 2017 - 8:26am
The library will be performing required library systems maintenance Today, Tuesday March 14, 2017 beginning at 8:00 a.m. This will manifest in item availability information being unable to display, missing or incorrect information in “My Account”, and an inability to place holds on or renew materials. Until this maintenance is performed, our Faculty Reserves system … Continue reading Library Systems Maintenance →
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March 2017 Book Display

Library News - March 6, 2017 - 1:31pm
March 2017 - anniversary of the year when the Dalai Lama had to flee Tibet because of Communist China's persecution of Buddhism. Read the full post by visiting our blog.
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Dear all,
Pls read the below news ” Man of the Millennium award” by US Government
*Mr.Kalayanasundaram worked as a Librarian for 30 years. Every month in
his 30 year experience(service), he donated his entire salary to help the
needy. He worked as a server in a hotel to meet his needs. He donated even
his pension amount of about ten lakh rupees to the needy.*

*He is the first person in the world to spend the entire earnings for a
social cause. In recognition to his service, the American government
honoured him with the “Man of the Millennium” award. He received a sum of
Rs 30 crores as part of this award which he distributed entirely for the
needy as usual.*

*Moved by his passion to help others, Super Star Rajinikanth adopted him as
his father. He still stays as a bachelor and dedicated his entire life for
serving the society. You can read more about him

Hats off Kalayanasundaram.We are proud.
with regards


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Re-evaluating priorities

I’ve been expending a great of energy lately on wasting time, procrastinating to avoid doing the things I want and need to do. Yesterday was lost to endlessly wandering on the Internet, aimless, pointless, useless wandering. I don’t know what I was looking for, but I didn’t find it. I stayed awake long past the point of headache, doing absolutely nothing productive, tethered to Firefox like it was a Book of Wisdom. It’s not. I’m not going to find whatever it is I’m looking for in cyberspace. I need a real life, not a virtual one.

I’ve given over many years of my life to various hobby pursuits that are fast becoming anchors, weighing me down and more often than not making me feel worse about myself rather than better. At what point do the negatives outweigh the positives to the point that I move on? Some days it feels close. Today, it feels so close that I can almost touch the exit door. Surely I should be expecting to feel more than just “meh” when it comes to how I pass my time? But I’m a packrat and it’s hard to throw out the time investment without long, hard thought — unfortunately, long, hard thought usually turns into inaction and more of the same old, same old. Am I willing to let this continue? That’s what I need to consider.I’m including my Jonathan Cainer horoscopes for today and yesterday here because they are appropriate to the thoughts I’ve been having lately. Tomorrow’s is particularly poignant — my self-confidence sits on a bed of shifting sand, with the tide coming in. When I feel successful, I am confident moving forward. When I make a mistake, however large or small, I feel useless — it completely negates anything good I may have done up to that point. I recognize that as being self-destructive. And I recognize that I’m the only person who can strengthen the base that my self-esteem and self-confidence are sitting on. I’m the one allowing it to be eroded by external factors, and I’m the one who can protect it. That needs to be one of my priorities or everything else is doomed to failure.

Horoscopes: From Jonathan Cainer

For Monday: You have got what it takes. You can do what’s needed. You can find what you need. Etc. I am tempted to carry on in this vein for the remainder of your forecast. You need as much encouragement as you can get because, though your outlook is now very helpful, your memory of a recent difficult experience is weighing on you heavily. You doubt yourself. You fear a recurrence of some old problem. You half expect to encounter disappointment or failure. Stop it, drop it and be brave. It’s time for a new relationship with the past.

For Tuesday: (This is particularly apropos, given my feelings and thoughts today.) A sense of success can keep you warm at night, even when a cold wind is blowing. If you feel you have made a wise choice or are in a good mood, you can withstand a lot of tension and trouble. If, though, there is one mistake that you just can’t stop yourself from thinking about, it undermines the entire platform on which your confidence rests. That one little regrettable development eats away at everything else until you begin to feel that you deserve no credit. Don’t succumb to that syndrome now. You haven’t got a ‘problem’. You have an incredible opportunity.

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life insurance investment

Is Life Insurance Really a Good Investment?

Most people want to know their families will have a secure financial future. When you start planning for how you’ll care for your family years from now, it’s likely that you will consider a variety of options. Life insurance should be among the possibilities you study. Life insurance protects your assets and offers you a […]

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That Time I Ran Consistently Without Injury

YOU. GUYS. I now have two solid weeks of running under my belt with knees that are co-operating 100%. I feel like my running has been fighting me ever since August when I started getting back into it, so to actually feel like I am forming some semblance of a foundation is beyond amazing. What better way to celebrate than by joining up with Christina’s Marathon Monday? We all know the (suuuuuper way far off in the distance) end goal is Boston anyway.

I’m not going to recap two weeks of training – ain’t nobody got time for dat! What I will tell you about last week, though, is that I had an absolutely breathtaking 7 mile run. I decided to start my ‘long’ run by running home from my doctors appointment since it was only 3k and bussing would take 30+ minutes…yeah Edmonton transit is horrific. Anyway, the relief of being at home / good news at my appointment / beautiful fall weather just propelled me forward and I ran 7 miles @ 8:25 pace. I never felt like I was running too fast, working hard, or wanted to be done. I could have gone longer but some stomach issues prevented that.

This week the main goal was to maintain last week’s mileage of 20 miles. Low for a lot of people, but I peaked for my half marathon at 24 so this feels like a fair amount of running to me!

Monday: OFF. Last day at home. 😦 Instead of working out I ate bread pudding and listened to drunk guys on the plane. It was a jolly old time. Especially when I started crying and the guy beside me laughed.

Tuesday: 4 miles @ 7:58. I warmed up for 10ish (I think) minutes, and then ran 8 x 1 minute @ 7:13 plus 2 x 1 minute @ 6:58, with one minute of recovery @ 8:30 in between all. 5 minute cool down because I was sweating like a crazy person!

Wednesday: 5 miles @ 8:26. This run was SO super awkward because after 20 minutes a girl came into the fitness room (there is only one treadmill) and literally sat down on a bench texting. She was too far away for it to be 100% clear she was waiting for the treadmill but she wasn’t doing anything so it was pretty obvious. But she said absolutely nothing for twenty whole minutes and asked me ‘how much longer’ when I had twelve seconds left.

Head in Hands

Thursday: Total body strength! Heavy upper body but mainly bodyweight / lightish dumbbells for legs in an attempt to save them for runs. No such luck apparently.

Friday: 3 miles @ 8:33. My legs felt like LEAD. It was my first time upping the incline (to a whopping 0.5%) on the treadmill, so that was part of it I am sure. But looking back on the last three days its no surprise!

Saturday: 8 miles @ 8:44

This was strange because at the end, cardio wise, I was not even remotely tired. My heart could have kept on pumping’! My legs, however, wanted to murder me in my sleep with an axe. I got the eight miles in that I hoped for, though, which is what counts!

Sunday: Total body strength. With a rest day ahead on Monday, I had no fear in the weight room and ATTACKED the squat rack. 105lbs and counting, baby! I’m at the same for deadlifts, and while I know I can go a lot heavier because it feels fairly easy, I’m not confident in my form (been feeling low back pain) and my booty always wants to die after my leg sessions so I’m not too concerned just yet.

I think I will just hang out around 20 miles per week for a while so that I stay relaxed / acclimate to running regularly again and then slooooowly start upping it to 30! And then the half craziness begins…I CAN’T FREAKING WAIT!!!

Have you ever experienced that awkwardness at a busy gym? What did you do?

As soon as I walk in the door if someone is on the treadmill I ask them how long they will be on there. It’s not rude if you are polite about it (i.e. not sounding entitled) and if they say they have 30 minutes left I can do something productive with my morning instead of texting.

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  1. I miss the days of being able to run pain free, hopefully soon! That’s great to hear that you got good news about your knees! Whenever the machines I want to use are busy I just use another until its free. That way I can still workout.

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See you – Sat. Feb. 4th

Hi guys, long time no write, I’ve been living in my head lately.

My talented cover artist, Amanda Walker, is hosting an event and I have a take over spot @ 2:30pm EST. I will do a few giveaways, so do come check it out. 🙂

Here’s the link for the event:

Here’s her blurb for the event:

Show your love for reading and indie authors by attending this multi-genre event. Lots of super talented New York Times, Bestselling, and even some new to you authors, all different genres all in one location.
Times are in EST.
10:00: Jen Doyle, Ink
10:30: Mollie Cox Bryan, author
11:00: Author Pamela Gibson
11:30: Author Debbie Dickerson
12:00: Lane Whitt
12:30: Victoria Renteria
1:00: Deborah Josupait Roach
1:30: Cary Hart Author Page
2:00: Jalpa Williby Author
2:30: Linda Bloodworth
3:00: Christina Tetreault
3:30: Victoria Saccenti – Author
4:00: Author CC Monroe
4:30: Amber Lacie
5:00: Reina Torres
5:30: Ana E Ross
6:00: Stephanie St. Klaire
6:30: Author Cora A. Murray
7:00: Maria Elena Writes
7:30: Heatherly Bell
8:00: Lyssa Layne
8:30: Theresa Paolo, Author
9:00: Christina Butrum, Author
9:30: Author Annelise Reynolds

Be sure to drop by and have some fun! 🙂

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Are You Able To Really Reduce How Big Your Belly?

Are you able to really reduce how big your belly without gastric by pass surgery? Gastric surgery modifications how big your belly through stapling, banding or in different ways surgically modifying the belly itself. It restricts the quantity of food as you are able to consume by limiting your belly right into a smaller boat. In banding, your belly becomes how big a basketball.

You’d undoubtedly prefer to be leaner, and surgery seems like an immediate repair, but would not you love to conserve all of your cash by lacking that procedure and attempt to help-yourself by diminishing your personal belly. In the end you increased it that large by padding just as much food while you desired into the mouth area. Skin is flexible and certainly will extend to whichever dimension you-grow. Your belly can also be flexible and certainly will extend to any dimension that’ll support the quantity of food you consume. The talk of the can also be accurate-your belly may reduce to suit the quantity of food you put in it.

What’s the actual form of your belly? It’s roughly twelve inches extended and six inches broad at its largest level. It funnels the food after it’s ingested in to the top alimentary channel where it’s refined into gas for the physique. Whenever your physique has enough gas to maintain it heading, then your extra gas is saved within you as fat and cellulose.

How large may your belly stretch? Have a look in a one-gallon pot of water. One-gallon of water weighs at-least eight lbs. A quart equals sixteen mugs. Your belly may extend to support a minumum of one quart, and on the normal diet of over-stuffing at each dinner, it may extend to much more huge dimensions.

Consider likewise a glance at a-one quart pot. One-quart of water weighs over two lbs and it is add up to four mugs. This really is big enough to support enough food in a normal dinner to gas the body but still shop body fat and cellulose. Two glasses of food is significantly more than sufficient to maintain your requirements in a dinner. Attempt calculating the meals you placed on your dish. Place your normal quantity of food in your dish after which calculate anything. Jot down this quantity. You’ll be amazed at how large of the helping of meals you’re really consuming. The main reason you’ve desires to consume is basically because the body wants gas to function, play, stroll and workout. You may not wish to invest all of your hard earned cash on surgery. There are many of methods to reduce steadily the dimension of one’s belly.

Consume little and regular dinners.

Your belly wont remain large should you choosen’t maintain it packed. It’ll gradually reduce to whichever dimension it requires for that inward food it’s given. So long as you gradually reduce your belly by smaller and smaller quantities every single day, then you definitely may preserve a sense of volume. In the end, your belly includes a big yelling speech and certainly will cause you to focus on its requirements. In the place of providing this quart-dimension pot an flood, you may make it feel happy simply by eating each mouthful of food super gradually. Are you aware that it requires twenty units for the belly to deliver a note for your mind that you simply reach the entire tag. Thirty units is just a very long time to simply continue eating and eating and eating. You have to accelerate the concept athlete. Truly your specific athlete is transporting lots of fat and certainly will barely chug as much as the mind to drive the end eating switch.
Therefore today you’ve an issue. That you don’t understand when to prevent eating, and also you possibly dislike to possess your belly with jerks of gap. The very best answer for this issue would be to chew slowly. Flavor each and every mouthful. Did not your mom actually let you know to chew the food at-least fifty occasions! Obviously that you don’t need certainly to masticate soft ingredients like mashed carrots. They are able to you need to be wolfed down as quickly while you may scoop. For soft meals, you have to subsequently participate of itsy small attacks. Attempt consuming having a child scoop, one which moms utilize to nourish their infants. Audio humorous. You’re attempting to fulfill your belly towards the phase of volume and also you need certainly to pay the spade.

Foods along with other more strong meals must certanly be chewed at-least 40 occasions. That you don’t need certainly to depend, simply chew until the food is nearly like mashed carrots. You-can’t choke you to ultimately death in this way.

Your belly wants fluid to simply help consume the meals, therefore another method you’re likely to begin experience complete would be to consume when you are consuming. Have a chunk of food, chew it-up actual good-and clean it along having a large slug of water. Do not fear, it’s not going to clean all of the diet from the food. Your lower alimentary channel is where all of the nutrients and vitamins is likely to be refined.

I’ve a buddy who 3 years previously went having a tummy tuck and liposuction. The procedure cost her really and he or she almost washed the household banking account. She was decided to become thin again! 3 years later and thirty lbs acquired, she’d another liposuction at a price of $5,000.00! Why did she need to have two liposuction procedures? For that easy cause that she didn’t alter her diet plan and he or she didn’t workout. It had been no simple repair on her. Today she strolls two kilometers each day and restricts her consumption of calories even while experience complete and happy. She might have preserved lots of cash just by third consume gradually and sometimes plan in the place of surgery.

The alimentary channel is really a lengthy elastic pipe. In this essay we’re concentrating on the start of the alimentary channel which begins at the mouth area, where your spit and teeth create the food respectable towards the digestion procedure within the belly. Because a lot of individuals are actually ingesting their food total, it’d be seemingly advisable if future decades had their teeth within their belly like, for example lobsters. They chew their food within their belly, that will be really near to their mouth, between three milling areas that seem like molar teeth named the “gastric work”. Or possibly people must simply possess a craw such as for instance a poultry that will be saturated in mud and stones to work their food up. Two great pictures of why you have to chew the food. You’re provided teeth and need certainly to utilize them to consume correctly.tummy-tuck1

To sum up, you’re that which you consume. Your belly may be the dimension you let it be. Less food indicates less calories that you simply digest and less calories lead to body-mass reduction. This isn’t a fast repair. It required you quite a long time to obtain large, but when you follow the sluggish chew and several little foods per day, it’ll fall off you quicker than you believe.

This really is only a notice on viewing tv as you consume. This can be a routine you’re not likely to split no real matter what. Keep in mind that ads for food seem often throughout a plan which their single objective would be to induce you into purchasing their item even when it creates you receive fat! I usually prefer to entice myself into performing anything I actually don’t actually want to do having a small financial incentive. I spot a large container within the home, so when I visit the shop and do not purchase these greasy products I Have observed on tv, I place the preserved profit the container and handle myself to fresh garments for my leaner physique

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Re: How to cope with patches sanely --> Debian New Maintainers'

On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 10:53:55AM +0100, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> (BTW. there is no need to CC me with your answers, I did not ask for
> that as I am subscribed to the list :-)
> On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 12:50:46AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> >   quilt is way more powerful to refresh patches when a new upstream
> > occurs. It does what it can do best without having mergeing features,
> > that only an advanced SCM can provide anyways.
> That does mean quilt is able to refresh patches on upstream changes, so
> that with luck the maintainer does not have to refresh the patches for
> changes sources himself? That would be quiet nice, however I still fail
> to see why this is a reason to prefer quilts *format* as an *exchange
> format* if quilt itself is not to be used, which is what you say.

Who said quilt itself is not to be used?  The point of the discussion is
that we agree on a patch-exchange format, without forcing an
implementation on people.  People who like the quilt implementation will
still be able and encouraged to use quilt with it.  Others might just
use vi to edit quilt patches, or git, or something else.

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 Best 5 Free Watermark Software For Images
Home » Softwares » Best 5 Free Watermark Software For Images

Best 5 Free Watermark Software For Images

An image is worth a thousand words. When we write some text-based content, we use the proper images to display what we mean or to complement the content.

When we use pictures with our content, then we need to make sure that we protect them from getting used without any permission. We need to find a way to let people know who the owner of the image actually is.

So the best way to do it is to add watermark to photos.

I’m talking about the image watermark here in this post so I’ll focus on that only.

Image watermarking is a term which is used when we apply an imprint on an image that is either a text or a logo and it points at some kind of information like the name of the owner of the image or even some website or copyright.

This is a useful way of protecting the pictures as the remove watermark process is not that much easy.

If you’re puzzling with a question “How to make a watermark on images?”, you may check this post as I’m going to discuss the best 5 free image watermark software that can be used in an effortless way.

Without any further ado, let’s start the discussion!

Useful Free Software To Watermark the Images

Below are the 5 valuable tools to create watermark for your images!

uMark is one of the best and the easiest image watermark software which can be used right now. It has many pros like it can watermark images in batches and you can also choose a whole folder and the software will automatically select the pics.

You can apply text watermarks, image watermarks and you can also choose which position they will appear at.

Though there are a few features like image conversion or image resizer that are only available for the pro version at a price.

But it’s worth it and the free version is also functional and does the insert watermark job accurately.

Visual Watermarkvisual-watermark-software

This is intuitive and easy to use free watermark software and allows you to watermark photos very easily.

It supports a lot of image formats and the thing I like the best about this software is that it adds the copyright data into the image metadata and also preserves the EXIF data. It also makes sure that the images don’t lose their colors.

It is a program that uses multithreading so expect it to be much faster as it can actually use up to all 4 cores of a CPU.

TSR Watermark Image Software Pro

This is not really the best looking of them all but it is functional though. The software allows you to choose the source folder and then you can specify where it will be exported. You can choose the export format and it lets you prevent the EXIF information.

Choose a position for the watermark. Everything is shown right in front. It just works!

Star Watermark

Star Watermark is a good addition to the list of watermark creator. It is a functional free watermark software and as you can see in the above shown image, it provides you quite a lot of options.

The feature that I like the most is that it allows you to choose the text fonts and size in case you are applying text watermark. You may head over to the website to download this watermark maker and try it out.

Photo Helper

With this dynamic free watermark software, you may rotate the pictures and add a copyright watermark with just few mouse clicks.

Moreover, you’ll be allowed to either choose a text or an image to use as watermark then you just have to choose the position where you want the watermark to appear and done.

Photo helper is a must have tool to protect your images from being shared by others.

I hope that your mystification on “How to Watermark photos?” has been solved through this list of free software to watermark images. Personally I like uMark the best. You can choose one from the list though.

What is your opinion about these free watermark software? Which is your preferred watermark creator? How do you watermark pictures for your blog posts/Web Pages? Leave your views in comment section.

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Nirmala is a devoted blogger who blogs at MyMagicFundas.com. She is one of the active partners in this blog who would like to publish posts on her fascinating topics.

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  1. thank you very much madam, I am full suffering from copy, my new year site get full copied from others some people copied my images also I suffered a lot for that, now in fb I saw this article and read thoroughly, if the software workes I am so lucky thank you madam

  2. Hello,

    Very nice and useful post.You described all things in very well manner. I loved your way how you present this.

    Keep sharing such awesome post!

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A Novella Approach with Brian Allen Carr

Produce a portion of a publishable novella, create an outline to be followed for the remainder of the text, and learn how to publish and market the final product.

Your Instructor: Brian Allen Carr, author of "Sip" and "Motherfucking Sharks"

Where: Online — Available everywhere!

When: September 12, 2017 - October 3, 2017

Enrollment: 16

Price: $250

Class Description

Novellas are more popular than ever, and have become a great entry point for emerging authors.

They allow writers to create stand-alone pieces while removing the stress of producing a massive tome. There are also fewer rules to adhere to, so you can write a plot-driven bullet or an esoteric piece of art. For readers, they can be a cost effective way to scope out new talent. Some of literature's most enduring works are novellas, including The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, and The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.

In this three week course, Brian Allen Carr guides you through the process of planning, executing, and positioning your novella in today's ever-expanding marketplace. He will help you construct an outline and perfect a pitch, then start you down the path towards completing a saleable work.

Brian Allen Carr is an award-winning author who has mastered the novella and utilized the form to great effect. His short books, Motherfucking Sharks and The Last Horror Novel in the History of the World greatly expanded his readership and paved the way for his debut novel, Sip. They contributed to both the honing of his craft as well as his visibility in the marketplace, which ultimately led to a larger sale. Despite his bizarre ideas, which may not have flown if he had attempted to cram them into a novel right out of the gate, he paid his dues, showcased his skills, and now he has the freedom to let his freak flag fly.

Have an idea too long for a story but too short for a novel? Or maybe you have some bold, experimental ideas that would be more palatable as a novella? Either way, this class will help you get the words on the page and get them out there.

What This Class Covers

Week One: What the Novella Can Do and What the Novella Has Done

Lecture: A general history of the novella and an attempt to define what a novella is--it's an old form but people still fight over this.

Assignment: Students will write an elevator pitch and outline to be used in the production of a novella.

Week Two: Chaptering and Execution

Lecture: This week's lesson will deal with techniques used to break up the novella into more manageable chunks so students can begin to execute.

Assignment: Students will draft an approximately 2,000 word portion of a novella.

Week Three: Critique and Reasoning

Lecture: A discussion of the novella marketplace in general, focusing on novellas that are successful now and why.

Assignment: Students will compose an argument and pitch for how to position their novella in the marketplace.

Goals Of This Class

  • Obtain a deeper understanding of the novella as a form
  • Complete a pitch and working outline for your own novella
  • Complete and refine a section of your novella based on instructor and peer criticism
  • Work up a plan to position your novella in the marketplace
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It’s Gonna Get a Little Uncomfortable in Here

I’m not gonna lie, I like this link up thing already. It is pretty dandy. Today is day three and it isn’t too late to sign up! Click on the link above and you will see what I’m talking about.

Day Three: Update on Getting Uncomfortable in 2014

The cool thing about comfort zones is that they are unique to each person. One thing could be completely, totally out of a person’s comfort zone and it could be something that another person does on a daily basis…and vice versa. I had some things that I didn’t do in 2013 that I wanted to do this year. I’m happy to say that I have done some of those things.

Exploring a new city

I live in New Zealand and it is a great place to live. I might be a little biased but hey, that’s all because of country pride…right? Despite my saying that I live in a great place I don’t travel around a whole lot. Part of that is because I didn’t have a reason to travel and the second was because I have absolutely no internal compass. I can get lost at the drop of a hat. This year I wanted to travel the country more…alone and I have. I’ve made several trips into Auckland, to Rotorua and I’ve taken to parking my car and just walking around random parts of Hamilton. There is nothing like exploring a city with no plans.

Gym classes

I joined the gym last year in an attempt to ‘get in shape’. Ha. What a joke that was. It looks like this year is going in the same manner too. No bueno. I had made it a goal of mine to go to gym classes alone so I could focus and give it a proper go. Well, I did and I liked them. It really was a good workout for an hour. I enjoyed myself. It turns out that exercising in a group really is an effective way to get fit.

Blind dates

I’m not a stranger to the online dating scene. I dated someone I met online. It didn’t last very long because he got a littttttle clingy but it was a good experience. After the app Tinder came out, I decided to give this ‘online’ thing another shot. I’ve “met” four lads and I can say that three of the four were really solid, lovely people. For a long time I was in a place that I wasn’t certain about what I wanted in a relationship or if I was even ready to be a part of one.

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What’s the Big Deal About Plastic Surgery?

To clear any confusion beforehand, this blog post is neither a promotion of plastic surgery, nor a rejection of it, but a defense of those who choose to get it done.

I’ve neglected this blog for too long. It’s just that nothing new has happened lately! But when summer comes…

I’ll be able to sit in on a surgery! SO excited for that.

Until then, though, I thought I’d write about something that, as Americans, always seems to bug us: the ethics of plastic surgery.

Whenever I tell people that I intern at a plastic surgery clinic, they always get extremely uncomfortable. They stare at me, and their expression clearly says, “I am totally judging you right now.”

Huh? After the umpteenth time, it’s gotten extremely irritating. What’s the big deal about plastic surgery? What’s with the stigma? To me, plastic surgery is a personal decision, something everyone has a right to do.

I mean, I myself am not completely comfortable with getting it done, but if other people want to go for it, why not?

After a bit of thinking and research, I came to this conclusion.

People shy away from plastic surgery because they:

1) See it as “fake” and “unnatural.”

2) Have religious reasons (to not change the body that God created).

3) Are frightened of the procedure itself.

4) Are scared of any potentially bad results.

5) Can’t afford it.

6) Are afraid of being judged by society.

I feel that the first and last are the most common. They are also the ones which annoy me the most.

I respect the opinions of those who seriously do not want to get surgery. That’s completely fine. It’s not like I’m going to hunt them down with a giant syringe and force them into plastic surgery.

What I absolutely cringe at, though, is when people try to force their stigmas and tabboos down other people’s throats. The disgust and horror and “Ew! Why would you get plastic surgery?That’s what I cannot tolerate.

When people say, “Oh, but plastic surgery is shallow and fake” I find it highly hypocritical. Yes, plastic surgery is about altering our appearance, but don’t we do this everyday?

We do our makeup to look prettier. We put on mascara and eyeliner to make our eyes bigger. We use wrinkle creams to get rid of wrinkles unnaturally. We take diet pills to get rid of weight unnaturally. We wear braces to force our teeth to become straight, and when that doesn’t work, we use surgery.

All of this is artificial and can certainly be considered “fake.”

No matter what others say, we live in a world where, sadly, looks do matter. They say, “Don’t judge a book by its cover,” but the depressing truth is, most people do. And we respond to this.

We alter our appearances constantly to impress a highly critical and judgmental world.

Those who get plastic surgery are also altering their appearances. It’s definitely more permanent, but it works on exactly the same context: become more attractive.

Unless the person critiquing plastic surgery has never worried about their appearance, has never cared how their hair or teeth or clothes looked, and has never truly cared about beauty in any degree, does he or she really have a right to criticize plastic surgery patients?

They are doing exactly what you do everyday except on a more permanent level.

Also, as I mentioned earlier, it really isn’t fair to deprive unattractive people of the opportunity to be attractive. Life is unfair. Some are blessed with beauty, and some are not, but why can’t those who were not remedy this? Why can beautiful people continue to reap the benefits of their attractiveness (and it is useless to pretend that being beautiful does not have its own pluses), while those who are not must continue to be this way?

“Nuh uh. You will remain ugly, girlfriend.”

People who get plastic surgery often do it to feel more confident about themselves. If fixing uneven eyes or plumping your lips or getting those high cheekbones you’ve always coveted will make make you feel more beautiful, more confident, and stronger as a person… then why not?

Who are we to judge people for only wanting to be prettier? Something that we do everyday? Who are we to deprive people of self-confidence when we don’t even know their story, what they’ve suffered and how they feel?

Plastic surgery is a choice that people shouldn’t be judged for. It’s their life, their face, and their option. If you don’t want to go through with it, that’s perfect! Do whatever you want….but don’t try to shame others because they chose a different route.

This topic is a complex one, but in the end, it all boils down to the same thing: we are all humans, and beauty, no matter how much we may deny it, plays an irrefutable role in our world.

Why can’t we stop judging each other and just respect each other for once?

Motivational speech = Done

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I'm a sophomore at Yale University with a passion for storytelling and a massively sleep-deprived mind. My favorite things in the world include: airports, mummies, scones, bookstores, bear hugs, Wikipedia, and my dysfunctional family. When I'm not blogging, I'm hibernating, cartooning, teaching, unicycling (I know), and writing novels about edible magic and child-rearing criminals.

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More from Angela Carter’s The Sadeian Woman

Thanks to Akismet anti-spam filters, I can blog more about Angela Carter’s book. It has great nuggets about politics (“Class dictates our choice of partners […] it must be obvious that sexual sophistication is a by-product of education”); about psychology (“Sade is a great puritan and will disinfect of sensuality anything he can lay his hands on; therefore he writes about sexual relations in terms of butchery and meat”); about clever historical critique (“Sade, the eighteenth-century lecher, knew that manipulation of the clitoris was the unique key to the female orgasm, but a hundred years later, Sigmund Freud, a Viennese intellectual, did not wish to believe that this grand simplicity was all there was to the business […] Yet Freud, the psychoanalyst, can conceive of a far richer notion of human nature as a whole than Sade, the illiberal philosopher, is capable of; the social boundaries of knowledge expand in some areas and contract in others due to historical forces”).

The central theme of the book was perhaps an exercise in hope for a growth in the level of common discourse that, as far as I can see, has not occurred in the last thirty years or so: not because Angela Carter hasn’t been read (the book, unlike most feminist critique, is still in print); but perhaps because we haven’t been courageous enough. Her first chapter, aptly named “Polemical Preface: Pornography in the Service of Women”, sets out a lucid diagnosis and a vision for change, a change that did not happen in her lifetime, and I doubt I may see in mine:

Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers, as if sexual relations were not necessarily an expression of social relations, as if sex itself were an external fact, as immutable as the weather, creating human practice but never a part of it. […] It is fair to say that, when pornography serves — as with rare exceptions it always does — to reinforce the prevailing system of values and ideas in a given society, is it tolerated; and when it does not, it is banned. […]

Out of this dilemma, the moral pornographer might be born.

The moral pornographer would be an artist who uses pornographic material as part of the acceptance of the logic of a world of absolute sexual licence for all the genders, and projects a model of the way such a world might work. A moral pornographer might use pornography as a critique of current relations between the sexes. His business would be the total demystification of the flesh and the subsequent revelation, through the infinite modulations of the sexual act, of the real relations of man and his kind. Such a pornographer would not be the enemy of women, perhaps because he might begin to penetrate to the heart of the contempt for women that distorts our culture even as he entered the realms of true obscenity as he describes it. […]

Sade remains a monstrous and daunting cultural edifice; yet I would like to think that he put pornography in the service of women, or, perhaps, allowed it to be invaded by an ideology not inimical to women.

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  1. I don´t know who you are, but I quite enjoy reading your spread spectrum of opinions on Facebook, Kafka, Muslim headscarves, European entrepreneurs, and Italian women. What next?

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A week of maths.

Over at the
4 real learning forum, I am a moderator for the maths section – Living and Loving Numbers.

We have recently been discussing maths without a textbook.

I’ll be up front – my children do have maths workbooks. Of their choosing, with discussion and input from me.

They do not, however, work in maths books every day.

Okay, they don’t work in any book every day!

This is the essence of unschooling. Seasons of unschooling.

We have had seasons of no maths books and seasons of books.

I love keeping maths journals with the kids.

I like to often just see how maths will come up in every day life, without me manipulating things for a “maths lesson.” Keeping a (maths ) journal for myself of these daily/weekly things has enabled me to see learning.

And I also like going to the library to the children’s non fiction and pulling out a different fun maths book or maths picture book on each visit, for us to borrow.

We have used games books, maths cooking books, history of maths books, maths for real life, “all the maths you’ll ever need” books for teens – you name it!

Over the last week, I have kept a log of our unschooly maths activities, for the purpose of sharing at the 4 real learning forum. I am sharing it here, too.

Here is the log of some of our maths activities this last week.

As you can see, we have some workbook stuff and non workbook activities.

1. Collaborative and internet computer games followed by discussion on problem solving and strategies.

2. Plan routes for delivery of newspaper, using street directory and co-ordinates.

3.Work on budget and wish list, check savings record and bank statements.

4. Written maths – workbook pages on fractions, patterns, probability, money and written problems.

5.Fractions and double recipes for cooking.

6.Mental calculations while playing board games and rpgs – Rum Rebellion, Tunnels and Trolls.

7. Probability and calculations – card games – Bridge, 21s, Up and Down the River, etc.

8. Play with our geoboards and discuss making another geoboard.

9. Mathematical thinking – game of RISK.

10. Maths journals – mathography – when and how did you learn to count? How old were you when you first counted to 100? When you were younger, what did you think about maths?

So we are doing “things mathematical” ( very Gilbert and Sullivan ~ The Pirates of Penzance) . Sometimes this is formal and sometimes informal. Sometimes suggested by me ( the written maths, the maths journal) ~ sometimes initiated by the dc.

“The best way to meet numbers is in real life, as everything else. It’s embedded in the context of reality, and what schooling does is to try to take everything out of the context of reality. So everything appears like some little thing floating around in space, and it’s a terrible mistake. You know, there are numbers in building; there are numbers in construction; there are numbers in business; there are numbers in photography; there are numbers in music; there are fractions in cooking. So wherever numbers are in real life, then let’s go and meet them and work with them.” John Holt in an interview for the Natural Child Project.

“Mathematics depend upon the teacher rather than upon the textbook and few subjects are worse taught; chiefly because teachers have seldom time to give the inspiring ideas…which should quicken the imagination. How living would Geometry become in the light of the discoveries of Euclid as he made them!” (Charlotte Mason Study Guide, p. 107-108)

Charlotte Mason also said, “The chief value of arithmetic, like that of the higher mathematics, lies in the training it affords to the reasoning powers, and in the habits of insight, readiness, accuracy, intellectual truthfulness it engenders…” (Charlotte Mason Study Guide, p. 106)

Feast of the Archangels

September 29.

Traditionally, I make a Devils’ Food Cake on this day – well, when we have time, that is.

You can see the connection can’t you? – St Michael fighting the devil.

This year, I looked for a lower fat version of the cake.

I found a recipe for lower fat devil’s food muffins, in the
Calorie Queens book.

Here is my adaptation. Makes six muffins but the recipe can be doubled/tripled.

One muffin is definitely enough!

Devil’s Food Muffins

2 tablespoons Nutella
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 cup self raising flour
1/2 cup skim or no fat milk
1/3 – 1/2 cup chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 180 C. Lightly spray muffin cups with cooking spray.

Cream together the Nutella and sugar. Stir in eggs and beat until smooth.

Stir in the flour. Stir in the milk. Fold in the chocolate chips.

Divide the batter between the six muffin cups. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until muffins spring back when pressed.

Serving – two muffins, 240 calories, 6g fat.

But I only had one!

Homeschool learning.

I have been inspired by the blogs of Julie,
Cindy and Maria.

I enjoyed their sharing of homeschool learning.

I thought I’d share our homeschool learning – burned popcorn ! I will try to post some pics.

A chemistry experiment that failed. I burned the microwave popcorn ~ we were experimenting with different methods of cooking popcorn. The effect of heat.

Well , cooking is certainly not my forte ( I haven’t found my forte yet).

But – mistakes and burned popcorn are learning experiences.

Homeschool learning.

Julie’ s blog describes relaxed homeschooling.

She writes – The chief difference between home education and school is the word “home.” School happens in a building with teachers and dozens of other age-mates who must work through a set curriculum for each subject so that the school system can measure its effectiveness in achieving goals and standards of education. Fair enough.

Home is a whole other animal and that’s why we have such difficulty figuring out if what we’re doing is working, or whether or not we are producing comparable results to school. Let’s just admit right up front: we don’t do a good job of duplicating what school does. In point of fact, we signed up for this homeschool gig in order to not produce all the things school does.

But that admission needs to make us brave, not cowards. If the conditions of education at home are not the same as school, then Pysch Reseach 101 teaches us that the results will be different.

Read all of Julie’s post. It is a good discussion of what homeschool learning can be. Is.

Then read these other blogs.

Cindy shares her history learning with her sons.

Maria writes about classical unschooling in her home.

And, apart from burning popcorn, what sort of learning experiences are going on here in our home?

The popcorn was inspired by our attendance at Group Learning today. We have been undertaking activities in Chemistry with the other Group Learners ( homeschoolers) this term. Our focus has been kitchen or food chemistry.

Today, I am working with the Juniors ( ages 6-11). The topic is Eggs and Starches.

We are looking at the denaturation of the protein in eggs and making meringues ( which I will probably burn! lol! Typically, my meringues turn out to be shapeless blobs of an alien nature).

We are looking at the moisture content of carbohydrates and making popcorn. The reason for the (burnt) experiments above.

Here are my notes, in case you’d like to try these activities yourself. Hopefully, your food chemistry activities will not set off smoke alarms.

Meringue and the properties of egg whites

*To demonstrate how the protein in egg white can be denatured by mechanical energy.

*Observe the egg white in different stages of preparation, with and without sugar.

4 egg whites
pinch salt
250g. caster sugar
1 1/2 dessertspoons cornflour
1/2 teaspoon white vinegar

1.Pre-heat oven to 130deg.C. Lightly grease biscuit trays and then
dust with cornflour – shake off excess.

2.Beat egg whites and salt until frothy (at the mouth). Gradually add sugar, a spoonful at a time, until all the sugar is incorporated and the granules
have dissolved – test by rubbing a small amount of mixture between thumb
and forefinger. Add cornflour and vinegar and beat to mix in.

3.Using a spoon, place small amounts of mixture
on the prepared trays. Place in the oven and bake for 40 minutes. Turn oven off and leave door ajar until the oven is cool.

1. Egg white is made of water and protein.
2. When the egg is whipped, the structure of the protein is changed by the beating.
3. Is it possible for the egg white to return to its non whipped state? No, when protein is denatured, it is a permanent state of change.
4. How else can protein be denatured? By heat – cooking meringues, cooking meat or eggs.

Popcorn and the effect of moisture on seeds.

To determine the effect of moisture content on the ability of popcorn to pop.

1. Observe the difference between wet and dry popcorn.
2. Observe the difference between cooked and uncooked popcorn
3. Why is some popped corn big and some small? It depends on the differences in moisture content in the kernels.
4. What happens to water when you boil it? The liquid will convert to steam and the steam takes up more space than the liquid. So, the liquid or moisture content of the popcorn helps the corn to rise and pop.
5. Moisture inside the seeds affects the size of the popped corn.
6. The application of heat also causes the corn to pop.
7. Carbohydrate in popcorn helps the corn to expand.

½ cup popcorn
A bit less than ¼ cup canola oil
In a mixing bowl, add canola oil and popping corn.
Rest a paper plate on top of bowl (it is fine if it is resting in the bowl on the corn, it will rise up with the popping and keep kernels from going everywhere). NOTE: put the plate right side-up or upside-down depending on how it is resting in/on the bowl. The idea is to avoid dripping oil steam in your microwave if you can.

The tricky bit is how long to microwave. Set it for about 5 minutes ( probably less, in my experience!) and listen for the popping to slow. Add more time if needed. If you go too long then you get some burning. ( Some burning? )

Sharing my reading and thinking.

I am currently reading four books.

One is Scott Hahn’s “The Lamb’s Supper.”

Can I share a quote? I read this during my prayer/reading time this morning.

“We offer ourselves and all that we have. Not because we’re so special, but because we know the Lord can take what is temporal and make it eternal, take what is human and make it divine. The Second Vatican Council spoke powerfully of the offering of the laity: “Their work, prayers and apostolic endeavours, their ordinary married and family life, their daily labour, their mental and physical relaxation…all of these become spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. During the celebration of the Eucharist these sacrifices are most lovingly offerred to the Father along with the Lord’s body. Thus as worshippers whose every deed is holy, the lay faithful consecrate the world itself to God.” ( Lumen Gentium 34)”

Hahn also writes, with regard to the Mass, that
~ ” Homilies don’t have to entertain us.”

Ouch. Father’s homily yesterday, on praying well, was an example of this.

Not entertaining but requiring me to question myself. Another ouch.

Am I praying for God’s will or for what I or dh want?

Is my work and life a spiritual sacrifice?

Home is for self expression, not good impressions.

“Home is for self expression, not good impressions.”

So says the mother in the 2006 re-make of the film “Yours, Mine and Ours.”

I like this comment. Home is where we get to be and to explore – we don’t have to try to make a good impression on others. We are ourselves – learning and growing, yes, but ourselves.

Anthony’s current exploration at home has been triggered by the movie “Troy.”

{ Aside – it is too funny to see how much of our learning is inspired by movies! }

“Troy” is not super movie and it is not historically correct and you may have to FF through some scenes. It, was, however interesting to watch.

Anthony , since watchng “Troy”, has been reading re-tellings of “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey” by Barbara Leonie Pickard. We have all been discussing Greek myths and legends.

All learning, all tastes of learning and of life, all our expressions and explorations at home are valid learning experiences.

It all counts.

This is not, by the way, a postmodern view that “anything goes” or that all perspectives are societal constructions or even “only” culturally relative.

It is a view of learning as one thing leading to another. It is a support of both pop culture and “high” culture.

I have seen this one thing leading to another in my own home – my sons can read Garfield comics and Shakespeare stories in one day. Can enjoy Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Good Charlotte.

James Paul Gee, in “What Video Games Have to Teach us About Learning and Literacy“, discusses a canonical list of books which one must read . He discusses learning and video games and “high” and “low” culture.

Gee writes – Right wingers and left wingers who argue over the canon ( of books) tend to act as if people…will read books realizing and accepting their “inferior station” and either want to emulate their “betters”..or passively accept their inferiority as dupes of the elites in the society…. The Mary Smiths of this world need do no such thing. They already know that they are thinking, worthy beings. They sometimes see in canonical literature examples of who and what they could be ….

But schools have, by and large, tamed the canon ( of books). They have made it into the stuff of tests, of multiple-choice answers, and standardized responses. Everyone, now, finally has access to the canon at a time when schools have rendered it toothless and the left applauds ignoring it as a historical vestige of old, dead, western, aristocratic elites……

I am not pleading for the canon here, least of all, as a list…I am claiming that elites can use anything – canonical literature, the Bible, biology or any other sort of text – to attempt to dupe people by trying to force them to read it in the elite’s way. I am claiming, as well, that there are plenty of Mary Smiths who are more than capable of saying ‘No, thank you’ and reading it both their way and intelligently.

Video games are a new form of art. They will not repace books; they will sit beside them, interact with them, and change them and their role in society in various ways , as, indeed, they are already doing strongly with movies…We have no idea yet how people ‘read’ video games or what meaning they make from them. Still less do we know how they will ‘read’ them in the future. It won’t do to start this investigation by assuming they are dupes of capitalist marketers – though, of course, some of them very likely will be. But there will always be Mary Smiths out there who use cultural products, whether ‘high’ or ‘low’, for good purposes.

The self expression and exploration of learning in our house tends to be such a mix of high or low cultural products. An eclectic mix . A learning mix. Hopefully for good purposes.

From “Troy” to “The Illiad”.

Hello from Jonathon!

Hey!!! Jonathon here.
Been a while since I was last posting here, so I thought there’s no time like the present!
I’m not doing much right now. Just finished work on a new painting. It’s called “Escape”. Basically, it shows a kid walking through this field, away from his old life and into his new. I’ll see if I can post pictures this week. Sadly, it’s too big to scan and I’m currently not on speaking terms with our digital camera. It just doesnt understand me.

Tomorow I have youth band again, which should be fun! The members of the band came ’round on friday night and we all watched Back to the Future. I’ve been practising Michael J Fox guitar playing ever since….

Anyway, I’d better head off to bed. But first, I just want to say thankyou to mum and dad for being the best parents anyone could ever ask for. I know you’re going to read this mum, so thankyou!! 😉 I really am lucky.

Goodnight everyone! Hope you had as good a week as I did.


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So it’s not a perfect Christmas?

So it’s not a perfect Christmas? You didn’t get the presents all wrapped or bought or you didn’t have money to buy presents at all. People forgot you. Or you forgot someone.

You’re tired or someone else is tired or grumpy .

You didn’t get to all those little traditions, the candles, the crafts. Or you did and they, those kids, that family, just didn’t want to cooperate or join in,

The car breaks down.

The dishwasher breaks.

You burn the turkey (God forbid!).

You are away from the ones you love. You feel unloved.

You feel alone or you wish you could be alone. Memories abound, happy and unhappy.

You know what?

It doesn’t matter. It plain and simple, doesn’t matter.

It’s Christmas for God’s sake. A time for prayer and reflection. For praying at the crèche of the Child Jesus. It’s time for little things and big things: smiles, saying hello, watching a movie, listening to music. Reading a book. Having a glass of wine. Or two. Or a cup of hot tea in a festive mug.

A perfect Christmas doesn’t exist. For Christmas, like life, is full of the spectrum of humanness and of the Divine. We humans bring our grief, our sorrows, our grumpiness, our dark sides, our joy, our laughter, our love, our light sides to Christmas. And The Christ Child meets us there, in all of our Christmases and in our life. In the entire spectrum of life and emotions. With Love.

This is it. This is Christmas. With the nativity of Our Lord and with an attitude of embracing it all, the good and the bad. Love it all. It’s life. Even at Christmas.

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  1. Leonie, I just found this address of yours.
    Beautiful post, I think all of those things have happened through the years except the burned turkey. I especially felt like a Christmas failure this year, but you are right that the not-good things are part of what it means as well as the good things. New Year and Epiphany blessings for you and your family.

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Healthy Easter Treats

Growing up I remember Easter with chocolate bunnies, malted eggs, jellybeans and a variety of other marshmallow and chocolate treats. This was all on top of the traditional Easter Egg. Below I have listed some healthy alternative Easter treats.

Healthy Marshmallow Recipe (or Homemade Peeps)

These fluffy honey-sweetened homemade marshmallows will deliver all the flavor but none of the health-compromising refined sugar. Plus, these can be made in a coconut or chocolate version (see below) based on the recipes plans or preferences. This simple recipe will make you wonder why you ever bought marshmallows at the store. But remember, sugar that comes from whole foods like honey or fruit is still sugar, so remember to eat these as a treat, not a regular snack.

  • 1 1/2 tbsp. grass-fed gelatin (or agar agar for a vegan option)
  • 1/2 cup cold water
  • 1/2 cup honey
  • 1/8 tsp. salt
  • 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

1. Lightly grease a loaf pan. Then cover with parchment paper (with enough to hang over the sides of the pan one way), then grease the parchment paper.
2. Put ¼ cup of water in a medium bowl (or in the bowl of a mixer with attached whisk) , and sprinkle the gelatin over the water. Set aside to soften.
3. In a small pot, place the honey, salt, and the other ¼ cup of water. Heat on medium heat. Using a candy thermometer, bring the mixture to 240 degrees. (You can also test it by dribbling a little of the liquid into a bowl of ice cold water. It should be in the candy stage of forming little soft balls when cooled in the water and taken out. It takes about 7-8 minutes to reach this temperature. ). Remove from the heat immediately when reaching temp.
4. Using a hand mixer on low, very carefully mix in the hot syrup into the gelatin mixture by pouring the hot syrup in a drizzle down the side of the bowl. Once it’s all combined, add the vanilla and increase speed to high. Beat for 12- 15 minutes, or until the mixture is thick and fluffy (it will look like marshmallow fluff). *Scrap into the prepared pan and leave, uncovered, for 4-12 hours to dry. Cut into squares, serve as is or for an extra treat cut with bunny cookie cutter to create little bunny ‘peeps’.

*If making Peeps you will want to divide the mixture into parts (as many as you need) an add food coloring to make the various color peeps before leaving to let dry. Then proceed to cutting with cookie cutter. You will need to coat the cutter lightly with cooking oil to keep marshmallow from sticking.

Homemade Reeses Peanut Butter Eggs

Total Time: 10m
Yield: 6-9 eggs

  • 1/4 cup peanut butter OR allergy-friendly alternative at room temperature (homemade recipe here)
  • dash salt
  • 1/4 cup powdered sugar
  • 2 more tbsp of the sugar

  • 3/4 cup (3.6 ounces) sugar free chocolate chips
  • 1 tablespoon coconut oil

  1. Mix the first three ingredients together in a bowl into crumbly dough. Also, I put the dough into a plastic bag to shape into a ball with less mess.) Add the extra 2 tbsp. sugar if it’s too gooey, and add a little more pb if it’s too dry. (Different brands of peanut butter will yield different results.) Taste the dough and add a little more salt if desired. Form dough into egg shaped ovals** (like Reeces eggs). Freeze the dough for an hour or until firm.
  2. Meanwhile, melting the chocolate chips and coconut oil for 30 seconds in the microwave. Stir until smooth.
  3. Next dip frozen peanut butter eggs into melted chocolate. Set on tray with wax paper and refrigerate until chocolate is set.

**Note Alternatively, you can use candy egg molds. Instead of shaping peanut butter pour mixture into egg molds and freeze for about 1 hour. Remove from mold Next melt chocolate chips and coconut oil and then dip peanut better eggs. Set on wax paper and refrigerate until set.

Filled Plastic Eggs

Growing up our family always had the traditional Easter Egg Hunt. What made it an extra special treat was my mom used to hide a few plastic eggs filled with special treats. She would put a variety of Easter surprises in them. You can fill ‘em up with dried fruits or peeled snacks and/or nuts or even little toys!

Healthy Easter Egg Popsicle

Saw this on a Pinterest post and thought it’s the perfect Easter morning brekkie!

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Can mangosteen help cancer patients to heal naturally

on August 5, 2014

Can mangosteen help cancer patients to heal naturally

Mon. Feb. 10, 2014 by Karen Sanders, staff writer
Mangosteen and Cancer News” hspace=(NaturalHealth365) Mangosteen, a tropical fruit indigenous to southeast Asia, is gaining in popularity as a dietary supplement and nutriceutical. Scientifically known as Garcinia mangostana, mangosteen features a dark purple rind and an inner pulp that is sweet, tart, juicy and refreshing.

Although Western medicine has been slow to embrace the therapeutic properties of mangosteen, it is no secret to natural healers in the far east. Since the days of the Ming dynasty, practitioners of Chinese Traditional Medicine have relied on mangosteen and its extracts to treat skin infections, wounds, dysentery and cholera.

Can mangosteen prevent heart disease and cancer?

In addition to beneficial anthocyanins, tannins, phenols and antioxidant vitamin C, mangosteen also contains plant chemicals called xanthones, incuding alpha-mangostin, beta-mangostin and gamma-mangostin. Although the names of these substances may sound as if they’re straight out of science fiction, there’s nothing fictional about their benefits.

According to Dr. Ray Sahelian, M.D, a medical doctor and specialist in herbal medicine, these xanthones can benefit conditions such as atherosclerosis, ischemic heart disease and high blood pressure. They reduce the “stickiness” of platelets, possess vasorelaxant abilities, and help prevent the cell membrane damage, inflammation and fat oxidation that can contribute to coronary disease.

In addition, evidence supporting the xanthones’ ability to prevent and even slow the growth of cancer has emerged from in vitro – or test tube – studies.

How does mangosteen inhibit cancer cell growth?

In a laboratory study, published in 2002 in Planta Medica, researchers found that yet another of mangosteen’s xanthones, known as garcinone E, had inhibitory effects on liver, stomach and lung cancer cells. This effect was confirmed in a test tube study published in 2008 in Journal of Natural Products.

Researchers screened twelve different xanthones from mangosteen and determined that three of them – garcinone E, alpha-mangostin and gamma-mangostin – inhibited the activity of breast cancer cells. The team noted that mangosteen should be further investigated for its potential to prevent breast cancer.

The studies indicating mangosteen’s therapeutic properties – performed by professional medical researchers and published in peer-reviewed journals – just kept coming. A study, published in 2004 in Journal of Ethnopharmacology, supported the ability of mangosteen extract to cause apoptosis – cell suicide – in breast cancer cells. Researchers concluded that mangosteen extracts “have potential for cancer prevention;” they also noted its “potent” antioxidant effects.

A 2009 study published in Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry showed that alpha-mangostin suppressed metastasis in the human prostate carcinoma cell line PC-3.

The most sweeping endorsement of mangosteen’s cancer-fighting powers came in a scientific review published in Current Molecular Medicine in 2011.

The authors assert that xanthones found in mangosteen demonstrate chemotherapeutic effects in the initiation, promotion and progression of cancer, and can control cancer cell division, growth and metastasis. They concluded that compelling evidence exists for the use of mangosteen not only to prevent cancer, but to treat it.

How, exactly, do xanthones attack cancer cells?

Xanthones inhibit molecular substances in tumor cells, including kinases and DNA polymerases. They perform cell cycle arrest, inhibit tumor cell proliferation, causes apoptosis – or self-destruction of cancer cells – and suppress the adhesion, invasion and metastasis of aggressive cancer cells.

Alpha-mangostin “preferentially targets” leukemia cells, without damaging nearby lymphocytes in the blood. Some experts believe that inflammation contributes to the development of cancer; mangosteen attacks inflammation as well by inhibiting the conversion of arachadonic acid to prostaglandin. Finally, additional cancer-fighting properties may come from mangosteen’s levels of epicatechin, the same beneficial flavonoid found in life-prolonging green tea.

How can I get xanthones into my diet?

Xanthone-packed mangosteen juice is available online and in many local health food stores; you can also buy mangosteen extracts in capsule or tablet form. The customary dosage for the capsules and tablets is 500 milligrams by mouth twice a day; the usual dose for mangosteen juice is 30 milliliters a day.

Naturally, especially when dealing with a serious health problem, consult a trusted medical health professional before using mangosteen, and don’t use it to treat cancer unless under medical supervision. Although there are no serious adverse effects reported, it is best to enjoy mangosteen juice and mangosteen fruit in moderation. As with any food, allergic reactions are possible.

Although the research on mangosteen is extremely promising, human studies have not yet been conducted. But it remains very likely that mangosteen and its amazing constituents can play an important role in fighting and preventing life-threatening conditions such as heart disease and cancer. Enjoy it in good health.

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Greenview Regional Hospital: Giving Back at Lost River Cave, Bowling Green, KY

Dodging raindrops, staying hydrated, and strengthening ties with the community are how seven Greenview Regional Hospital executives spent their day at Lost River Cave & Valley on Wednesday, July 28th. As part of the annual United Way Day of Caring event, these volunteers worked for over 40 hours towards the completion of a security fence for boats and other equipment that is necessary for the day to day operation of the park.

Although a tremendous amount of effort was exerted at today’s activity, the daunting task adopted by the eager volunteers was not completed due to a spontaneous summer thunderstorm. Determined to see the project complete, each altruist offered to return next week to finalize the project.

Today’s work consisted of framing and preparing the fence for assembly, prepping the area for use i.e. weeding, removing rocks and debris, and determining specific locations within the area for the boats and equipment. The fencing that is being built is a much needed addition to the park that will keep important equipment safe.

We at Lost River Cave & Valley are so grateful to Greenview Regional Hospital for promoting the spirit of volunteerism in Bowling Green.

Check back with us next week to see pictures of the finished project!