tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32343982153197839822024-03-05T06:36:28.128-08:00Recovery CornerRecovery is all about change. If you are suffering from addiction, depression, anxiety or just finding life overwhelming, I hope to make a difference in your world. To be yourself is to become yourself.Sara Hadiarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05516964407492575361noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3234398215319783982.post-85288873047681747022013-01-24T09:15:00.000-08:002013-01-24T09:24:36.676-08:00Earth Hour 2013<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Hundreds of millions of people, businesses and governments around the world unite each year to support the largest environmental event in history – Earth Hour.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Earth Hour is organised by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). With almost 5 million supporters and a global network in over 100 countries/territories, it’s one of the world's largest and most respected independent conservation organisations. WWF’s mission is to stop the degradation of the Earth's natural environment and build a future where people live in harmony with nature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In 2007, WWF-Australia inspired Sydney-siders to show their support for climate change action in the first ever Earth Hour event. It showed that everyone, from children to CEOs and politicians, has the power to change the world they live in. In Sydney, Australia, 2.2 million individuals and more than 2,000 businesses turned their lights out for one hour to take a stand against climate change.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In 2008, the plan was to take Earth Hour to the rest of Australia. But then the City of Toronto, Canada, signed up and it wasn’t long before 35 countries and almost 400 cities and towns were part of the event. It said something compelling to the world: that the climate challenges facing our planet are so significant that change needs to be global.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">With the invitation to ‘switch off’ extended to everyone, Earth Hour quickly became an annual global event. It’s scheduled on the last Saturday of every March – closely coinciding with the equinox to ensure most cities are in darkness as it rolled out around the Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In 2011, Earth Hour saw hundreds of millions of people across 135 countries switch off for an hour. But it also marked the start of something new – going Beyond the Hour to commit to lasting action on climate change. In 2012, Earth Hour celebrated its largest event to date with more than 6,950 cities and towns in 152 countries and territories switching off their lights, and with hundreds of thousands of people accepting an IWIYW challenge to take their commitment to the planet beyond the hour. With the power of social networks used to promote the campaign, Earth Hour is working towards an interconnected global community committed to creating a more sustainable planet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">More than 7,000 cities and towns in 152 countries and territories switched off their lights for Earth Hour 2012, sending a powerful message for action to save the planet. This year, more than 200,000 individuals accepting<strong> I Will If You Will</strong> challenges on YouTube to turn their symbolic action for the planet into an on-going commitment to a sustainable future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Global warming is the greatest threat facing our planet today. A warming planet alters weather patterns, water supplies, seasonal growth for plants and a sustainable way of life for us, and the world’s wildlife. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A continuous flow of energy from the sun heats the Earth. Naturally occurring gases in the atmosphere, known as greenhouse gases, trap this heat like a blanket, keeping the Earth at an average of 15 degrees Celsius – warm enough to sustain life. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the most significant of these gases. The amount of naturally produced CO2 is almost perfectly balanced by the amount naturally removed through photosynthesis and its dissolution in oceans. However, the overuse of fossil fuels is leading to increased CO2 in the atmosphere, trapping more and more heat and warming the Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">As a result, we’re seeing more dramatic weather patterns across the globe. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The effects of Earth’s changing weather not only causes devastating natural disasters but shrinking of the world’s ice shelves and glaciers due to warming sea water. Because ice acts as a solar reflector, the less ice there is, the less heat the Earth reflects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Humanity’s overconsumption of food, material goods, fossil fuels, and non-renewable resources is putting a huge toll on the planet, exceeding its capacity to sustain us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Forests absorb and remove CO2 from the atmosphere. So areas undergoing excessive deforestation experience higher carbon emissions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Agriculture is the second largest greenhouse gas emitter after fossil fuels. Methane produced by livestock, manure management, the burning of savannah, and the conversion of forests to pasture land are all major sources of greenhouse gas emissions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Climate change has already started, but it’s not too late to take action. There’s still time for us all to be part of the solution. Although the journey to a sustainable future may seem difficult to imagine, it is far from impossible. We can all do our part individually and together.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We can celebrate our planet one day a year for Earth Hour – and go Beyond the Hour towards a sustainable future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Earth Hour is a unique opportunity for you to become more sustainable and do something positive for the environment. It’s been the source of inspiration for millions of people taking steps towards a cleaner, safer future. It’s not just about saving energy for one hour, it’s about going <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Beyond the Hour</b> with lasting, behaviour-changing actions for a sustainable planet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">There are lots of ways you can take action for Earth Hour. Whether you’re a social media fan or a hands-on organiser, you’re sure to find some inspiration right <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://earthhour.org/page/get-involved" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a></b>!</span><br />
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Sara Hadiarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05516964407492575361noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3234398215319783982.post-34775480820907799762013-01-23T11:19:00.000-08:002013-01-23T11:23:01.397-08:00Lance Armstrong : The Truth Shall Set You Free<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"I don't like that guy. That is a guy who felt he was invincible, was told he was invincible, truly believed he was invincible. That's who that guy was. That guy is still there. I'm not going to lie to you or to the public and say, Oh, I'm in therapy. I feel better. He's still there."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I was so hopeful that the truth behind the allegations against <strong><a href="http://recovery-corner.blogspot.com/2012/10/is-lance-armstrong-guilty.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Lance Armstrong</span></a></strong> would be justified but as I watched Lance Armstong’s admission of guilt on the Oprah show, I have to admit that I was disappointed. I do still feel an amount of compassion for the man who was a hero in many of our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Surviving cancer against all odds and the ability to return to cycling, his passion in life, should have been enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But instead he was caught up in a game of drug abuse, the only way he knew how to win the Tour de France.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Getting away with it once became an obsession to continue his lies and cheating – what I call an addiction to power and glory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But what I think is not important and the abusive accusations of others are not important here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is important is why he let his ego get the better of him, resulting in the hurt to family, friends and the world at large.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I decided to look up a couple of psychological evaluations to find some answers.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">If you've ever told a lie and felt uncomfortable because you see yourself as scrupulously honest, then you've experienced cognitive dissonance. It occurs whenever your view of yourself clashes with your performance in any area—you see yourself as smart but can't believe you made such dumb stock investments. Exactly how we choose to resolve the dissonance, and its discomfort, is a good reflection of our mental health.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I quote from an <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-healing-crowd/201208/cognitive-dissonance-group-opinion-and-the-fall-lance-armstrong" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">article</span></strong></a> in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Psychology Today </b>called <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Cognitive Dissonance Group Opinion and the Fall of Lance Armstrong: How to cope with a fallen hero”</b>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Lance Armstrong generates dissonance. The man who became famous for never giving up is giving up. He is a winner and a loser.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yesterday he was quoted as saying "I refuse to participate in a process that is so one-sided and unfair." With his unimaginatively weak statement the man who almost single-handedly galvanized attention interest and fascination on the Tour De France and raising consciousness and money and funds for cancer has admitted to being another sports hero impostor. If there would have been truth behind his innocence Lance Armstrong would have fought this, and he did his own cancer, until he was victorious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this giving up is as clear an admission of wrongdoing as can be, and also stops the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency from testifying about anything else they might know about him, including10 former teammates ready to testify against him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lance Armstrong is a survivor and a liar; an incredibly strong man, and an incredibly weak man; a source of inspiration, and a source of disgrace and embarrassment; a hero and a villain. In short he has become the modern day exemplar of cognitive dissonance.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2. “It doesn’t matter that they stripped him of his titles because he has already done so much good in the world.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">But these biases nudge us away from reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The truth now is that Lance Armstrong is both good and bad; inspiring and despicable; a legend and fake. My hope is that another group forms based on allowing two truths to remain intact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The struggle is in trying not to make this dissonance even out, take it away, or stop it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead the work is to try and leave the truth as it is: Lance Armstrong is profoundly human.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“It might be hard to remember after this week’s Oprah interview, but before Armstrong was driven from professional cycling and the Livestrong Foundation he founded, he was a hero to millions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although many people weren’t all that surprised that he doped and lied, many others were and have responded with intense anger and sadness. The blogosphere, social media sites, and airwaves are filled with angry condemnations of Armstrong. One tweet reads, “Lance Armstrong. pathetic. liar, bully, sad role model for bike race enthusiasts.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Clearly there’s some truth to that statement. Armstrong doped. Armstrong lied. And he made untold millions doing it. Our opinion is that there should be consequences for his wrongdoings. But lots of people behave in equally unethical ways, and we don’t find ourselves getting nearly as upset about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What was it about Armstrong?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why were we so willing to put him up on a pedestal?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why did he have so far to fall before hitting earth?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A good part of the answer may be his status as a cancer survivor. Armstrong’s story is nothing short of amazing: In 1996, after years of professional cycling, he was diagnosed with a testicular cancer that had already spread to his lungs and brain. The prognosis looked bad. But, after surgery (including an operation on his brain) and extensive chemotherapy, he recovered, rejoined the world of professional cycling in 1998, and won the Tour de France many times over.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When survivors experience amazing recoveries, we are often quick to label them “inspirations." And not just in an “it’s-amazing-you-survived” kind of way. Many of us are quick to assume they’re amazing and inspirational in other ways, as well. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In short, we assume they must also be good people. Psychologists have a term for this—the halo effect.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The halo effect is a kind of cognitive bias in which our evaluation of someone’s character is unduly influenced by our overall impression of him or her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because someone’s survival story is inspirational, we jump to the unwarranted conclusion that he or she, as a person, must also be inspirational in other ways, even those not connected to his or her ordeal. So we tend to accord survivors role model status more broadly, even though we may have no real evidence they deserve it.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance and a deep need for admiration. Those with narcissistic personality disorder believe that they're superior to others and have little regard for other people's feelings. But behind this mask of ultra-confidence lies a fragile self-esteem, vulnerable to the slightest criticism. Narcissistic personality disorder is one of several types of personality disorders. Personality disorders are conditions in which people have traits that cause them to feel and behave in socially distressing ways, limiting their ability to function in relationships and in other areas of their life, such as work or school. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I quote from an <a href="http://darkpsychology.co/2013/01/narcissism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=narcissism#sthash.SEJgV38u.qSIBvqQj.dpbs" target="_blank"><strong>article</strong></a> in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dark Psychology </b>called “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A brief snapshot of a highly successful athlete admitting steroid usage”:</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Given the recent national news of Lance Armstrong disclosing he has previously used anabolic steroids, the nation seems to be split in accusing him of being a pathological liar and narcissist or an athlete who made a mistake and should be forgiven being a cancer survivor. What has been frequently discussed, by those following his story, is his multitude of television and media appearances over the years where he convincingly and calmly stated he had never used anabolic steroids. For those who look at Mr. Armstrong as a hypocrite & pathetic liar, his calm demeanor during his past press conferences are the examples they use to illustrate he is a nefarious character.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) has been defined as a chronic pattern of grandiosity, a lack of empathy and an obsessive need for recognition. People with NPD perceive they are extremely important to everyone within their social spheres. People with NPD are often described as being pretentious, cocky, arrogant, patronizing, disdainful and pompous. In laypeople terms, someone with this disorder may be described simply as a “narcissist” or as someone with “narcissism.” Both of these terms generally refer to someone with narcissistic personality disorder. Based on the severity of NPD, the dysfunction to the sufferer’s life and associates can range from minimal negative impact to devastating and highly destructive.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Not having evaluated Lance Armstrong and knowing very little about his childhood, family dynamics, past self-destructive behaviors, past harmful behaviors towards others, this writer does not have an opinion. Not having any demographic or psychological information to formulate a diagnostic impression, this writer can only conclude, by observing his deceptive talents, that he has practiced the art of deception for many years to be as talented as he presents on media.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Whatever the prognosis, has Lance Armstong hit rock bottom yet?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am sure there is more to come with pending court cases and harsh public abuse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only way he can bring justice to himself and the world is to change his attitude and make his amends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has made the first step of acceptance by admitting his guilt but he has a long road ahead of truth and reconciliation. As his ex-wife Kristen said: “The truth shall set you free”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Armstrong's fall from grace is so huge. It means a lot that he has finally come clean. But he also needs to realize his life is not just about a bike, races or a big mistake. Everybody has the ability within them to rise again. What really matters in the world is what kind of human being he chooses to be."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">As the job hunting has been totally unfruitful, one of my options for earning money is to go over to London and do a course on Care Giving for the elderly. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once you have passed the exam with over 80%, cannot be too hard, the agency finds you a position with a family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is very well paid but friends and family have asked me if I could cope doing this kind of work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do tend to be empathetic so, as long as I can keep my boundaries and not get emotionally involved, I am sure I would be fine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I realise now that it may not be so easy ……</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I came across this story on Facebook the other day which emphasizes the insensitivity towards the elderly. It also teaches us that although they can be difficult and tend to not communicate, they are still human and have feelings like us all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It makes me wonder how many times we presume that an elderly person has Alzeimers or are senile when in fact they are mourning their past, are full of fear for what future they have left and do not know how to express their feelings. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">When an old man died in the geriatric ward of a nursing home in North Platte, Nebraska , it was believed that he had nothing left of any value.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later, when the nurses were going through his meagre possessions, they found this poem. Its quality and content so impressed the staff that copies were made and distributed to every nurse in the hospital.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One nurse took her copy to Missouri .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The old man's sole bequest to posterity has since appeared in the Christmas edition of the News Magazine of the St. Louis Association for Mental Health.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A slide presentation has also been made based on his simple, but eloquent, poem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">And this little old man, with nothing left to give to the world, is now the author of this 'anonymous' poem winging across the Internet…….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A crabby old man . . . . . Not very wise,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">When you say in a loud voice . . . . . 'I do wish you'd try!'<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Who seems not to notice . . . . . The things that you do.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">With bathing and feeding . . . . . The long day to fill?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Who need me to guide . . . . . And a secure happy home.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A man of Thirty . . . . . My young now grown fast,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Bound to each other . . . . . With ties that should last.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">At Forty, my young sons . . . . . Have grown and are gone,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">But my woman's beside me . . . . . To see I don't mourn.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">At Fifty, once more, babies play 'round my knee,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Again, we know children . . . .. . My loved one and me.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Dark days are upon me . . . . . My wife is now dead.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I look at the future . . . . . Shudder with dread.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For my young are all rearing . . . . . Young of their own.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">And I think of the years . . . . . And the love that I've known.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Tis jest to make old age . . . .. . Look like a fool.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">There is now a stone . .. . . Where I once had a heart.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">But inside this old carcass . . . . . A young guy still dwells,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">And now and again . . . . . My battered heart swells.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I remember the joys . . . . . I remember the pain.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">And accept the stark fact . . . . That nothing can last.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">So open your eyes, people . . . . . Open and see.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Not a crabby old man . . . Look closer . . . See ME!!<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Remember this poem when you next meet an older person who you might brush aside without looking at the young soul within.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will all, one day, be there, too!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The best and most beautiful things of this world cannot be seen or touched.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They must be felt by the heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">“Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Sara Hadiarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05516964407492575361noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3234398215319783982.post-80674767807693111822013-01-17T01:07:00.005-08:002013-01-17T01:52:54.308-08:00Understanding Cholesterol<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">“Eating properly is great. I mean you cut the fat down, cut the cholesterol out, but still you got to get your rest and you got to have some form of exercise”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Mike Ditka<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">It may surprise you to know that cholesterol itself isn't bad. In fact, cholesterol is just one of the many substances created and used by our bodies to keep us healthy. Some of the cholesterol we need is produced naturally (and can be affected by your family health history), while some of it comes from the food we eat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">There are two types of cholesterol:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Cholesterol is a soft, fat-like substance found in the bloodstream and in all your body's cells. Your body makes all the cholesterol it needs. Low-density lipoprotein (LDL or 'bad') cholesterol can join with fats and other substances to build up in the inner walls of your arteries. The arteries can become clogged and narrow, and blood flow is reduced. High-density lipoprotein (HDL or 'good') carries harmful cholesterol away from the arteries and helps protect you from heart attack and stroke. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It's important to understand the difference, and to know the levels of "good" and "bad" cholesterol in your blood. Too much of one type — or not enough of another — can put you at risk for the following heart diseases:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">As your blood cholesterol rises, so does your risk of coronary heart disease. If you have other risk factors such as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://recovery-corner.blogspot.com/2013/01/have-you-checked-your-blood-pressure.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">high blood pressure</span></a></b> or diabetes as well as high cholesterol, this risk increases even more. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Understanding Cholesterol: How to Stay Within the Healthy Range<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">High cholesterol has been associated with poor health and an increased risk of heart disease for the last two decades. This idea immediately spawned myths about saturated fats, which demonized certain categories of food, like eggs and healthy oils. Most physicians will advise you to keep your cholesterol levels as low as possible, or else suffer serious complications.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">But did you know that high cholesterol is not necessarily a precursor to poor health nor is it an indicator of heart disease?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Conventional doctors neglect to tell you the truth: your body NEEDS cholesterol. And there are far better indicators of your heart health than just your total cholesterol level. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Back to Basics: What is the Purpose of Cholesterol?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">About 75 percent of the cholesterol in your body is produced in your liver, while the other 25 percent is obtained from the foods you eat. This soft, waxy substance is essential for the production of:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Cholesterol also contributes to the formation of your memories and is crucial for your neurological function. Cholesterol also affects the formation of serotonin, a hormone that is involved in your mood regulation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Studies have found that people with insufficient levels of cholesterol have a higher chance of developing depression and suicidal thoughts, while others may experience an increased capacity for violence and aggression. In extreme cases, low cholesterol can raise your risk of cancer and Parkinson’s disease.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A rise in cholesterol levels, on the other hand, occurs in response to damaged cells. A high amount of this substance in your bloodstream just proves that your body is working to repair or create new cells. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Having elevated levels of cholesterol is not a disease that requires statins, yet millions are taking them as we speak. It is unfortunate that Americans are led to believe that this class of cholesterol-lowering drugs is the answer to normalizing cholesterol levels, when there over 900 studies documenting their adverse effects.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For instance, statins also deplete your CoQ10 levels. CoQ10 or Coenzyme Q10 is a substance that plays a crucial role in the creation of your ATP molecules needed for cellular energy production. Other than the side effects brought by statins, CoQ10 deficiency can also yield to a number of complications, including heart failure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Unfortunately, conventional doctors oftentimes immediately base judgment on numbers and prescribe dangerous statins, which ironically puts your heart health at risk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Cholesterol shouldn't be feared to the point that you need toxic drugs to suppress it. Rather, the key is to understand how cholesterol works to know how to stay within an optimal range. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">It's time to shatter the myths surrounding cholesterol and statins! </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Top 10 Cholesterol Lowering Foods:</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">High cholesterol has been linked to heart disease and stroke. While exercise and a healthy lifestyle are important factors when trying to lower your cholesterol, making modifications to your diet can help too. Cut back on saturated and trans fats found in some meats, oils, packaged cookies, crackers and cakes, and add a mix of cholesterol lowering foods. Here are the top 10 foods that can help.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Oatmeal<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Because fibre helps to absorb cholesterol from your intestines, oatmeal and oat bran can lower your low-density lipoprotein, LDL, which is the bad cholesterol. Aim for 10 grams or more of soluble fiber a day, which is the equivalent of 1-1/2 cups of cooked oatmeal with a banana mixed in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">According to the Food and Drug Administration, eating a handful of walnuts, almonds, pecans or most other nuts can reduce your cholesterol. Nuts help to decrease cholesterol in the blood while keeping vessels elastic and healthy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Fish<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Some fish, particularly salmon, mackerel, trout, sardines and albacore tuna, have been linked with lowering cholesterol because they are rich in omega-3 fatty acids. Omega-3 also helps to reduce blood pressure and the chance of blood clots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Olive oil can reduce your LDL and maintain your HDL (good cholesterol). You can choose to cook with olive oil, use it as salad dressing and substitute butter with it. Extra virgin olive oil has the most benefit because it is processed less and therefore contains more antioxidants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Apples contain a powerful ability to absorb cholesterol and clean it out of your bloodstream, according to the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela in Spain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Beans are a good source of soluble fibre. They are also high in protein, which can replace high-cholesterol foods such as red meat in your diet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The oil in brown rice helps to reduce cholesterol. You can combine this with beans and vegetables for a healthy side or main dish.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Cinnamon<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">As little as one-half teaspoon a day can help reduce triglycerides or LDL. Sprinkle it on your oatmeal or apples for a tasty and healthy treat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Not only can garlic help decrease cholesterol, it can also reduce bacteria, fungi and digestive disorders and keep blood clots from forming.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Soy is found in soy nuts, tofu, soy beans, soy milk and tempeh. The soluble fiber and isoflavones in soy can lower LDL and raise HDL.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><u>American Heart Association</u></b></span></div>
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</span></span>Sara Hadiarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05516964407492575361noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3234398215319783982.post-21653829586363786072013-01-16T19:12:00.004-08:002013-01-17T01:37:05.183-08:00Have You Checked Your Blood Pressure Lately?<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Everyone has and needs blood pressure. However, high blood pressure, or hypertension, is a disease. Even though it typically has no symptoms, HBP can have deadly health consequences if not treated. High blood pressure often does its damage without creating symptoms, but when blood pressure numbers rise above 180 for the systolic pressure or 110 for the diastolic pressure, you need emergency treatment. Although it is possible that low blood pressure can alert you to a problem, it is usually only dangerous if it causes notable signs and symptoms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Blood pressure is typically recorded as two numbers, written as a ratio for example 120/80.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The top number, which is also the higher of the two numbers, measures the pressure in the arteries when the heart beats (when the heart muscle contracts).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The bottom number, which is also the lower of the two numbers, measures the pressure in the arteries between heartbeats (when the heart muscle is resting between beats and refilling with blood).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This chart reflects blood pressure categories defined by the American Heart Association.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">120 - 139<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">80 – 89<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">If, while monitoring your blood pressure, you get a systolic reading of 180 mm Hg or higher OR a diastolic reading of 110 mm HG or higher, wait a couple of minutes and take it again.If the reading is still at or above that level, you should seek immediate emergency medical treatment for a hypertensive crisis. If you can't access the emergency medical services (EMS), have someone drive you to the hospital right away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A hypertensive emergency exists when blood pressure reaches levels that are damaging organs. Hypertensive emergencies generally occur at blood pressure levels exceeding 180 systolic OR 120 diastolic, but can occur at even lower levels in patients whose blood pressure had not been previously high.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The consequences of uncontrolled blood pressure in this range can be severe and include<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Plant-based diets and diets high in fruits and vegetables are strongly associated with lower blood pressure -- so much so that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) officially recommends adopting healthy eating practices as one of the primary actions to take to prevent or lower high blood pressure and hypertension.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Mark Houston, a physician and medical director of the Hypertension Institute of Nashville at Saint Thomas Hospital, recommends celery to patients as a natural remedy for lowering blood pressure. This recommendation isn't anything new: Doctors of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) have been prescribing celery or celery root to patients with high blood pressure for more than a century.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">How it works</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">: Celery contains phytochemicals known as phthalides, which relax the muscle tissue in the artery walls, enabling increased blood flow and, in turn, lowering blood pressure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Cold-water fish are rich in anti-inflammatory omega-3 fats, which are famous for their cardiovascular benefits. In particular, omega-3s lower blood pressure and reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke. Wild (not farmed) salmon, tuna, mackerel, cod, trout, halibut, herring, and sardines are among the best sources.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Nutritionally speaking, broccoli is a red-carpet regular, connecting the worlds of scientific research and natural health. This cruciferous veggie is hailed as a super-food because of its powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. And when it comes to lowering blood pressure, broccoli sells itself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">How it works</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">: Broccoli is a potent package of fiber, potassium, calcium, magnesium, and vitamin C, all nutrients that may help lower blood pressure. One cup of steamed broccoli provides more than 200 percent of the vitamin C you need each day. Researchers aren't sure how, exactly, vitamin C helps. Theories range from the vitamin promoting the excretion of lead to calming the sympathetic nervous system to protecting nitric oxide, a molecule that relaxes blood vessels, thereby increasing blood flow. But the results are the same: Antioxidant vitamin C helps bring down blood pressure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For more than a century, dandelion has been used as a cure-all for countless conditions and ailments in cultures around the world, particularly in its native Asia and Europe. The entire plant is edible, from leaves to roots. And in addition to lowering blood pressure, it's good for the liver, eyes, and skin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">How it works</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">: A natural diuretic, dandelion helps reduce blood pressure by releasing excess sodium without the loss of potassium (as occurs with some over-the-counter diuretics). This is doubly important because excess sodium raises blood pressure by constricting blood vessels, while potassium helps regulate it. Dandelion is also loaded with magnesium, a mineral that is critical to proper function of the heart and muscles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In a 12-week study comparing whole-grain oat-based cereals to refined wheat-based cereals, researchers reported that 73 percent of hypertensive participants in the oats group were able to cut out their antihypertensive medications, or reduce them by half. The remaining participants also experienced significantly reduced blood pressure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">How they work</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">: The fiber and magnesium found in oats both have beneficial effects on blood pressure. In addition, oats help slow atherosclerosis, the plaque buildup that occurs in blood vessels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Legumes boast a high fiber-to-protein ratio that you won't find in any other type of food. This combination helps maintain lower blood sugar and cholesterol levels, both of which help keep artery walls healthy, which promotes lower blood pressure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">How they work</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">: Black beans are a nutrient-dense source of fiber and magnesium, which are essential for healthy blood pressure levels. What puts them at a distinct advantage over other foods, though, is the folate you'll find in these legumes. Folate, also known as folic acid in its synthetic form, is a B-complex vitamin that appears to lower blood pressure (especially systolic blood pressure) by relaxing blood vessels and improving blood flow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">How much</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> 400 micrograms of folate is the recommended daily allowance (RDA). Aim for that as a minimum; 800 micrograms daily has shown significant benefit in reducing blood pressure in multiple large-scale studies. One cup of cooked black beans provides 256 micrograms of folate. Many cereals are also fortified with folic acid.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Calorie for calorie, berries are among the most nutritional foods on the planet when it comes to fiber and antioxidant capacity. All berries are great for you, but blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries are tops for their ability to help lower blood pressure, thanks to high doses of fiber, vitamin C, potassium, and other plant compounds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In a Dutch study of hypertension in adults 55 and older, researchers found that low-fat dairy products such as milk, cheese, and yogurt may help prevent hypertension.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b><a href="http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/" target="_blank">American Heart Foundation</a></b></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span>Sara Hadiarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05516964407492575361noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3234398215319783982.post-67073307400029229682013-01-15T03:16:00.002-08:002013-01-15T03:39:43.471-08:00Matters Of The Heart<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“The human heart is an amazing organ. Although we all know it is the main organ of the body and is the pump that keeps us alive, there is evidence to show that it is so much more”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When it comes to matters of the heart, we must remember that the heart is not just another organ that pumps blood through our system but we can also learn to feel from our hearts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Listen to what your heart is telling you and start looking after your heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I have discussed <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://recovery-corner.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-stroke-of-insight.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">strokes</span></a></b> and shared an amazing video on how a woman followed her own stroke. Now we are going to find out what causes heart attacks.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The heart works 24 hours a day, pumping oxygen and nutrient-rich blood to the body. Blood is supplied to the heart through its coronary arteries. If a blood clot suddenly blocks a coronary artery, it cuts off most or all blood supply to the heart and a heart attack results. Cells in the heart muscle that do not receive enough oxygen-rich blood begin to die. The more time that passes without treatment to restore blood flow, the greater the damage to the heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">A heart attack is an emergency. Call emergency services if you think you or someone else may be having a heart attack. Prompt treatment of a heart attack can help prevent or limit damage to the heart and prevent sudden death. If blood flow in the blocked artery can be restored quickly, permanent heart damage may be prevented. Yet, many people do not seek medical care for 2 hours or more after symptoms start.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The most common symptom of heart attack is chest pain or discomfort. Most heart attacks involve discomfort in the center of the chest that lasts for more than a few minutes or goes away and comes back. The discomfort can feel like uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, fullness, or pain. It can be mild or severe. Heart attack pain can sometimes feel like indigestion or heartburn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The symptoms of angina can be similar to the symptoms of a heart attack. Angina is pain in the chest that occurs in people with coronary artery disease, usually when they’re active. Angina pain usually lasts for only a few minutes and goes away with rest. Angina that doesn’t go away or changes from its usual pattern (occurs more frequently or occurs at rest) can be a sign of the beginning of a heart attack and should be checked by a doctor right away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Other common signs and symptoms that a person can have during a heart attack include:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Not everyone having a heart attack experiences the typical symptoms. If you’ve already had a heart attack, your symptoms may not be the same for another one. The more signs and symptoms you have, the more likely it is that you’re having a heart attack.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Sometimes the signs and symptoms of a heart attack happen suddenly, but they can also develop slowly, over hours, days, and even weeks before a heart attack occurs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Certain factors make it more likely that you will develop coronary artery disease and have a heart attack. These risk factors include some things you <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">cannot</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">change</b>: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Importantly, there are many risk factors that you <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">can</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">change</b>. These include:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Certain risk factors tend to occur together. When they do, it's called metabolic syndrome. In general, a person with metabolic syndrome is twice as likely to develop heart disease and five times as likely to develop diabetes as someone without metabolic syndrome.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">You can help prevent a heart attack by knowing about your risk factors for coronary artery disease and heart attack and taking action to lower your risks. You can make <strong>lifestyle changes</strong> to lower your risk by doing the following:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Losing weight gradually if you are obese or overweight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Get treatment for <strong>related conditions</strong> that might make having a heart attack more likely:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Take your medicines for the above as directed by your doctor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(Information taken from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.news-medical.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">News Medical</span></a></b>, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article on "Stroke".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All material adapted used from Wikipedia is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Wikipedia® itself is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Much research has been done on the other functions of the heart and what an amazing organ it actually is – take the time to hear what Gregg Braden has to say:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“When we form heart-centered beliefs within our bodies, in the language of physics we're creating<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the electrical and magnetic expression of them as waves of energy, which aren't confined to our hearts or limited by the physical barrier of our skin and bones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So clearly we're "speaking" to the world around us in each moment of every day through a language that has no words:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the belief-waves of our hearts.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In addition to pumping the blood of life within our bodies, we may think of the heart as a belief-to-matter translator.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It converts the perceptions of our experiences, beliefs, and imagination into the coded language of waves that communicate with the world beyond our bodies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps this is what philosopher and poet John Mackenzie meant when he stated, "The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained ... all existing thing are ... imaginary."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Sara Hadiarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05516964407492575361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3234398215319783982.post-60161999993580403182013-01-14T23:22:00.000-08:002013-01-14T23:22:19.631-08:00Healing With Ho’oponopono<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">“You have two ways to live your life – from memory or from inspiration. Inspiration is the Divine giving you a message. You want to come from inspiration. The only way to hear the Divine and receive inspiration is to clean all memories. The only thing you have to do is clean.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Dr. Hew Len, Zero Limits, Pg. 31<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Ho’oponopono is an ancient Hawaiian technique for solving spiritual, emotional, mental or any type of problem. The use of this advanced technique of problem solving can be traced back to the original inhabitants of Hawaii some of who are fabled to have come from other galaxies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Hoo in Hawaiian means cause and ponopono means perfection. It is the state of perfection that we came in with before the fall into the knowledge of ‘good and evil’ and it is to this state that we can return.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">When a so called problem surfaces in our lives, rather than emotionally attacking the situation we need to recognize the deeper reality of why this problem surfaced in the first place and love and forgive ourselves for it. That’s the energy that heals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">This process, which has the ability to release us from past karmic ties, gives us complete freedom to develop a personal relationship with Divinity - the power within us. It is an understanding that every moment we have the ability to cleanse ourselves of error whether in thought, word, deed or action. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We can easily free our minds from past memories and restore the purity of our hearts using this ancient art to clean up repetitive issues that keep surfacing from our subconscious mind, replaying over and over.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Our memory banks are our enemies. They harbour fear with all its resident buddies - resentment, hate, anger, attachments and judgments from the past and replay them over and over. The only way to release ourselves from these tyrants is to take responsibility for them and love them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Use Ho’oponopono during a crisis by simply asking for whatever is causing division in your thoughts to be brought to the surface to be loved, healed and released. Simply ignoring issues will not change a thing. It only buries it temporarily until the next trigger sets it off and the issue you ignored has reared its ugly head again. You must engage your conscious powers to effect healing and Ho’oponopono does this very thing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Not only is Ho’oponopono used to heal one’s inner issues, it is also used when confronted with someone else’s seeming problem. Rather than going into judgment at these trying times, we must once again reflect into ourselves and ask to clear our own consciousness of division so that we no longer see this situation as a problem or experience division in thought in ourselves or others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We are the problem not them. We can only change ourselves, which in turn changes the world and that is the power of Ho’oponopono.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We affect change in the world by affecting change within ourselves. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is that simple. Taking 100% responsibility for our lives removes the victim mentality and places us in a place of authentic power.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Just as the light in a room shines on everyone with the same intensity, no matter who turned it on, Ho’oponopono uses the same principle. We are all connected. We live in a holographic Universe. By affecting ourselves we affect others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">When faced with adverse conditions ask yourself “What is it in me that is causing this event to take place, this person to behave this way, this sickness to manifest?” Ho’oponopono practitioners are aware that to blame others is the surest way to make sure the problem happens again, and again and again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">It is easy to master the basic principles of Ho’oponopono using these powerful mantras:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Dear Father:</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The very first thing we must do is to acknowledge our Creator, after all, only the Creator can fix the mess that we’ve created. Begin with your own personal connection to Source…whatever those feelings or words are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I am sorry:</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The power to heal any situation lies in our willingness to take responsibility for negative conditions. Using this statement opens the door to unity and atonement with all life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Please forgive me:</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">With absolute certainty that it has been granted, ask for forgiveness for having shut the Creator out of your life as well as forgetting the love the Creator holds for you. (that’s why you ended up in a negative state)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I love you:</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Sending these powerful words through your psyche generates an immediate feeling of contentment. Love is the greatest healing power there is and just thinking loving thoughts tunes your mind to that frequency amazingly fast.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I thank you:</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The moment you take responsibility for any issue that presents itself in your life and consciously seek a solution, you set in motion laws that guarantee a response. By saying “thank you” you are affirming that your plea has been acknowledged and needs no further action.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">As with all energetic healing you must not harbour expectations as to how or when the results will occur. You must allow the Universe complete freedom to act and choose whatever method is needed. Your only job is to act in accordance with Ho’oponopono mantras and have the Faith to know that it is done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We carry inside us as parts of the Unconscious Mind, all the significant people in our lives. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ho'oponopono makes it "all right" with them. The process of Ho'oponopono is to align with and clean up our genealogy as well as to clean up our relationships with other people in our lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bring to mind anyone with whom you do not feel total alignment or support, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imagine an infinite source of love and healing flowing from a source above the top of your head (from your Higher Self), and open up the top of your head, and let the source of love and healing flow down inside your body, fill up the body, and overflow out your heart to heal up the person on the stage. Be sure it is all right for you to heal the person and that they accept the healing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next, let go of the person, and see them floating away. .If you are healing in a current primary relationship, then assimilate the person inside you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do this with every person in your life with whom you are incomplete, or not aligned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The final test is, can you see the person or think of them without feeling any negative emotions. If you do feel negative emotions when you do, then do the process again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">“If we can accept that we are the sum total of all past thoughts, emotions and words, deeds and actions and that our present lives and choices are coloured or shaded by this memory bank of the past, then we begin to see how a process of correcting or setting aright can change our lives, our families and our society.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Mormah Nalamaku Simeona</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">For more inspiration or information visit:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<a href="http://www.ancienthuna.com/ho-oponopono.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Ancient Huna</b></span></a></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">“Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfil my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The media, our families and our friends tell us that our goal is to be somebody. It’s the American Dream. Many of us have chosen a particular career, relationship status or some sort of accomplishment that assure a future of being that somebody, getting somewhere and hopefully being spared from debt, despair, or vulnerability in the process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is nothing wrong with having goals or plans but when we use these to overestimate our potential than we let ourselves down and become disappointed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I have spent over half of my life trying to be the best wife and the best friend only to get rejection, obtaining a university degree and working my butt off in demanding jobs only to be taken for granted, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and after all of this ending up suicidal on a therapist’s couch and escaping into the dark abyss of addiction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps this was the best thing that happened because in reaching the bottom and realizing my options, my spiritual journey began.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I have redefined the goal of getting somewhere and being somebody to loving who I already am. Healing comes from within. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I have accepted pain as lovingly and with as much compassion as I would success. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I have and continue to forgive my mistakes and my resentments and overcome my fears. They are the very things that propel me forward into gratitude and self-love – and in turn, love for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Place your hand over your heart. Feel that? That’s called purpose. You’re alive for a reason. No matter what your circumstances are, embrace each day. Find one thing you are grateful for in this moment right now. Remember that any struggle is just as important as the lesson and awareness it provides. In the midst of movement and chaos, find serenity within. Love yourself because without you, perfectly imperfect you, the rest of us are without a source or many wonderful things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I posted this </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Self Love Poem by Charlie Chaplin </b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://recovery-corner.blogspot.com/2012/10/who-was-real-charlie-chaplin.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">previously</span></a>, but it is fitting to repeat it here:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Today, I know, this is “AUTHENTICITY”.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">As I began to love myself I understood how much it can offend somebody As I try to force my desires on this person, even though I knew the time was not right and the person was not ready for it, and even though this person was me. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Today I call it “RESPECT”.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Today I call it “MATURITY”.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">As I began to love myself I understood that at any circumstance, I am in the right place at the right time, and everything happens at the exactly right moment. So I could be calm.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Today I call it “SELF-CONFIDENCE”.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">As I began to love myself I quit steeling my own time, and I stopped designing huge projects for the future. Today, I only do what brings me joy and happiness, things I love to do and that make my heart cheer, and I do them in my own way and in my own rhythm. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Today I call it “SIMPLICITY”.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health – food, people, things, situations, and everything the drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">As I began to love myself I quit trying to always be right, and ever since I was wrong less of the time. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">As I began to love myself I refused to go on living in the past and worry about the future. Now, I only live for the moment, where EVERYTHING is happening. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But As I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Today I call this connection “WISDOM OF THE HEART”.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We no longer need to fear arguments, confrontations or any kind of problems with ourselves or others. Even stars collide, and out of their crashing new worlds are born.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn't healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits - anything that kept me small. My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Sara Hadiarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05516964407492575361noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3234398215319783982.post-36674562244140923472013-01-08T09:22:00.001-08:002013-01-08T10:25:25.038-08:00Happy National Braille Week<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">National Braille Week will be celebrated from 4th -11th January 2013 - more than 200 years after the birth of Louis Braille. And each year 4th January marks World Braille Day commemorating the birth of Louis Braille on 4th January 1809.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Louis Braille was born in a small town near Paris. Playing in his father's leather workshop when he was 4, Louis tried to use a sharp, pointed tool called an awl, used for making holes in leather. He bent over, intending to try making shoes like his father did, but the awl slipped and went into his eye, blinding it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">With sight in just one eye, he attended school for two years, but his other eye became infected by the first, and he became totally blind. He had to leave school because he wouldn't be able to learn much more without eyesight. In those days there was little assistance for blind people, and most blind adults were forced to become beggars in the street as their only means of making any sort of living.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">When he was 10, a school for blind boys opened in Paris, one of the first such schools in the world. Louis was lucky enough to be accepted there as a pupil. As in all schools at that time, discipline was harsh, and pupils who misbehaved were beaten, locked up and fed bread and water. Most people left school at the age of 12 in order to work in factories or down mines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">At the school for the blind, pupils were taught practical skills like weaving cane seats on chairs or making slippers so that when they left the school they would be able to earn a living. Once a week, the boys were taken for a walk in the park, linked together by a long rope. They were taught to read but not to write. The writing they read was raised on the page so that they could feel the words with their fingertips. The letters were made by pressing copper wire alphabet shapes into one side of the paper to make a raised shape on the other. It was very difficult to tell the letters apart. Because each letter had to be made out of wire first and then forced into the paper with a press, blind people couldn't write anything for themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In 1821 a soldier named Charles Barbier came to give a talk at the school. He told them about a system he had invented called 'night writing', so that soldiers could pass instructions along at night without having to talk and let the enemy know where they were. Because they couldn't use a light, which would let the enemy spot them, they had to feel the messages. Night writing consisted of twelve raised dots which could be combined to represent different sounds. Unfortunately, this system was too complicated and the army didn't use it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">However, Louis was quick to see the possibilities of the system. He worked over the next few months and came up with a simpler version made up of 6 dots. For several years he developed it further, adding maths and music codes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In 1827 the first book in braille was published.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">It took a while for the system to catch on. Sighted people did not realise how useful it could be, and it was not taught in the school for the blind. However, blind children began learning it in secret. Eventually, the benefits of the system were realised and it was put into use. One major benefit was that at last blind people could write, using a simple tool to make the dots. This was the beginning of true independence for blind people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Later in life, Louis Braille invented another new method for writing, called raphigraphy. It was a method that enabled both the blind and the sighted to read it, so that now blind people and sighted people could write to each other. He also invented a machine similar to a typewriter that produced raphigraphy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Louis Braille became a teacher in the school where he had been a student. He did not live to see his system widely used. He had always had poor health, and he died of tuberculosis in 1852, at the age of 43.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">So who uses braille? Millions of blind, deafblind and visually impaired people worldwide. In a world where communication is everything, living without it would be impossible.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Braille allows people to read books, exam papers and other important documents that need to be understood to get through life and the working world. It also lets people use computers in a society where technology is used nearly everywhere we go. Even some mobile phones are fitted with braille coding!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Although helping people with braille has been a huge success, there is still lots more to be done. Braille on mobile phones is miles away from developing countries who just can’t afford enough braille books. Some facilities like bank machines and button panels on elevators still don’t have braille. These are basic tasks that should be easy to come by when you’re getting through the day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">When the important day comes around, visually impaired people along with their family and friends, will be taking part in events all around the globe. In the past people have celebrated by taking part in essay competitions or braille readings. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">It really is happening everywhere. Postage stamps with Louis Braille’s picture have been published in many places and an <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.solarviews.com/eng/braille.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">asteroid called Braille</span></a></b> orbits our planet in space!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">If you’re interested in finding out more about braille, visit the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.nationalbrailleweek.org/page/news" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">National Braille Week</span></a></b> website. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">“Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Sara Hadiarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05516964407492575361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3234398215319783982.post-26489680458325516132013-01-08T06:40:00.000-08:002013-01-08T09:47:42.350-08:00A Stroke Of Insight<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“In the course of four hours, I watched my brain completely deteriorate in its ability to process all information. On the morning of the hemorrhage, I could not walk, talk, read, write or recall any of my life. I essentially became an infant in a woman’s body.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Jill Bolte Taylor</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> is a neuroanatomist - a brain scientist who studies the anatomy of the brain. Her training is in the postmortem investigation of the human brain as it relates to schizophrenia and the severe mental illnesses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Dr. Jill experienced a severe hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her brain in 1996. On the afternoon of this rare form of stroke (AVM), she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life. It took eight years for Dr. Jill to completely recover all of her functions and thinking ability. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>(published in 2008 by Viking Penguin). In 2008, Dr. Jill gave a presentation at the TED Conference in Monterey, CA, which has become the second most viewed TED Talk of all time. This now famous 18-minute presentation catapulted her story into the public eye. As a result, she was chosen as one of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World for 2008. In addition, Dr. Jill was the premiere guest on Oprah's Soul Series web-cast and was interviewed by Oprah and Dr. Oz on The Oprah Winfrey Show in October, 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Dr. Jill is working on the creation of a serious game for health for neurological recovery. She feels passionate about helping others find their way back from neurological trauma. In addition, she is working on her next book and is excited about the upcoming feature film of her life. She has just created Jill Bolte Taylor BRAINS, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing educational services and promoting programs related to the advancement of brain awareness, appreciation, exploration, education, injury prevention, neurological recovery, and the value of movement on mental and physical health, as well as other activities that support this purpose. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://drjilltaylor.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Brain Extravaganza!</span></a></b> is the not-for-profits first educational awareness program she is bringing to the <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">community of Bloomington, Indiana, and then the world. </span></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A stroke (sometimes called an acute cerebrovascular attack) is the rapidly developing loss of brain function(s) due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia (lack of glucose & oxygen supply) caused by thrombosis or embolism or due to a hemorrhage. As a result, the affected area of the brain is unable to function, leading to inability to move one or more limbs on one side of the body, inability to understand or formulate speech, or inability to see one side of the visual field. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A stroke is a medical emergency and can cause permanent neurological damage, complications, and death. It is the leading cause of adult disability in the United States and Europe. It is the number two cause of death worldwide and may soon become the leading cause of death worldwide.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Stroke symptoms typically start suddenly, over seconds to minutes, and in most cases do not progress further. The symptoms depend on the area of the brain affected. The more extensive the area of brain affected, the more functions that are likely to be lost. Some forms of stroke can cause additional symptoms: in intracranial hemorrhage, the affected area may compress other structures. Most forms of stroke are not associated with headache, apart from subarachnoid hemorrhage and cerebral venous thrombosis and occasionally intracerebral hemorrhage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Given the disease burden of stroke, prevention is an important public health concern. Because stroke may indicate underlying atherosclerosis, it is important to determine the patient's risk for other cardiovascular diseases such as coronary heart disease. Conversely, aspirin prevents against first stroke in patients who have suffered a myocardial infarction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Ideally, people who have had a stroke are admitted to a "stroke unit", a ward or dedicated area in hospital staffed by nurses and therapists with experience in stroke treatment. It has been shown that people admitted to a stroke unit have a higher chance of surviving than those admitted elsewhere in hospital, even if they are being cared for by doctors with experience in stroke.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In addition to definitive therapies, management of acute stroke includes control of blood sugars, ensuring the patient has adequate oxygenation and adequate intravenous fluids. Patients may be positioned with their heads flat on the stretcher, rather than sitting up, to increase blood flow to the brain. It is common for the blood pressure to be elevated immediately following a stroke. Although high blood pressure may cause some strokes, hypertension during acute stroke is desirable to allow adequate blood flow to the brain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions -- motion, speech, self-awareness -- shut down one by one. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An astonishing story:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sara Hadiarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05516964407492575361noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3234398215319783982.post-10224863678635501622013-01-08T01:30:00.000-08:002013-01-08T01:30:20.503-08:00Perception: How Do You View The World?<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Amy Grant<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apprehension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apprehension; cognition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apprehending material objects or qualities through the senses; -- distinguished from conception.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">2012 was a long year full of fearful predictions but we have made it through the holidays, the end of the Mayan calendar and the world has not come to an end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of us have started or already set some goals or intentions for 2013 but these probably all focus on external materialistic things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Depending on our perception of this crazy world, our plans may be sourced in fear and ego.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ego is tricky and it's easy to end up letting it be the one who creates our vision board or goals for the year ahead, setting us up for disappointments and a sense of failure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Depending on the source of our perception, we will interpret life in different ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The definition above refers to the normal five senses: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> T</span>ouch, Sight, Hearing, Smell and Taste.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also refers to bodily organs including the mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mind can play tricks on us but when we start feeling from the heart, really feeling from the heart, our visions and interpretations can change for the better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The heart is the source of love, happiness and gratitude.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Jafree Oswald</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.supermanifestor.com/index.html?manifest=sarakzn" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Enlightened Beings</span></a></b> gave me some great advice when it comes to being positive:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">“When you are positive about everything in your life, something magical happens. Everything good seems to effortlessly flow your way and people just love hanging around you. People in your presence smile and laugh more, which makes you feel even better inside about being alive. Being positive is more important than you think. It's the foundation of your very survival. If you could only think a stream of negative thoughts for the next few weeks, you might start believing suicide is the only viable option. Once you learn how to find the good within the bad, you'll easily manifest a continual flow of success wherever you go. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Life contains both polarities of nature, the deep and dark as well as the light bright, and everything between the two. The dark always contains the light, and the light always contains the dark. Just like the eastern Yin-Yang symbol. They co-exist as complementary energies that cannot exist separately. This melting light/dark energy is found in the fabric and matrix of every atom in our Universe. When you remember this, you'll know that somewhere inside the negative you can find a seed of something positive. You just have to get out your microscope and look more closely at the situation with a creative mind and an open heart. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The greatest advice I've ever received for being unstoppably positive about life is the thought that "anything is possible". This one little concept has allowed my mind to continuously open, even after it became momentarily closed. Believe it or not, it is possible to be positive about everything that happens to you in life. There is always something to be learned from each situation, person and circumstance no matter how challenging it may be. Being consistently positive is simply a choice that you make in each moment. It's a creative choice where you decide that you are 100% devoted to finding some possible way to enjoy this experience. Finding positivity in everything stems FROM believing in the impossible. You start realizing that you're living in an infinite Universe that has no boundary to it, thus there is no boundary to your mind or imagination. How would you view your life differently this week if you knew without a doubt that anything and everything was possible? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I'd like to give you a little exercise that will help you find the power to be positive about everything. Right now, focus your attention on your heart. What emotions and sensations do you notice are going on in there? Allow the energy around and inside your heart to soften and relax until you feel your mind follows along, and becomes more relaxed and quiet with it. Breathe slowly and deeply, focusing only on your heart relaxing. Do this for 5-10 minutes and enjoy the process of relaxing and letting go. Just explore the experience of relaxing your heart. You'll soon notice as your heart relaxes, it feels like there is more space for you to think positive thoughts about your life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The mind is like a parachute, when it opens up it will save your life. With an open mind you don't have to try so hard to only think positive thoughts. You can allow for any life experience to show up and simply open your mind to seeing the positive come out of it. It is a constant moment to moment choice to have an open positive mind. If you can just choose to have an open mind, you'll be able to manifest anything and everything you want in life. If the mind is impatient and continues to stay closed and will not open, embrace it with curiosity. The more doubt, disbelief, and resistance you have, the greater the transformation will be! If you can maintain an open mind and a relaxed heart for the next 30 days of your life, an orgasmic experience of constant bliss will be awaiting you. That is something to look forward to!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I do not normally say affirmations but here is one that can truly change your perception of life:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can choose which it shall be. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Perhaps the hardest part of the 12 step process of recovery is making amends to those you have hurt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I examined my past and came up with a list of resentments and fears that were holding me back in my recovery, I examined each area where I had been either selfish, dishonest, self-seeking and inconsiderate and without intention I had caused others to feel </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And so we make our amends to the best of our ability and promise to try our best on our road to recovery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But with so many unbroken promises from the past, we have to accept that only time and a living amends may heal the past. I still get things thrown in my face which hurt but I have to accept and forgive, because I have no idea how much hurt I have done to my kids, my family and my friends and others<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I still hear:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">So we hold our head up high and take each day by day and show tolerance, unconditional love and forgiveness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We do it, not just forgiveness of others, but to forgive ourselves, to heal, to put the past behind us and move on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><strong>holding a hand and chaining a soul<o:p></o:p></strong></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><strong>and you learn love doesn't mean leaning<o:p></o:p></strong></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><strong>and company doesn't always mean security.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><strong>And you begin to learn<o:p></o:p></strong></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><strong>that kisses aren't contracts<o:p></o:p></strong></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><strong>and presents aren't always promises<o:p></o:p></strong></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><strong>and you begin to accept your defeats<o:p></o:p></strong></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><strong>to build all your roads on today<o:p></o:p></strong></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><strong>too uncertain for plans<o:p></o:p></strong></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><strong>and futures have a way<o:p></o:p></strong></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><strong>of falling down in mid-flight.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><strong>that even sunshine burns if you get too much<o:p></o:p></strong></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><strong>and decorate your own soul<o:p></o:p></strong></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><strong>for someone to bring you flowers<o:p></o:p></strong></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><strong>that you really can endure,<o:p></o:p></strong></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><strong>that you really are strong<o:p></o:p></strong></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><strong>and you really do have worth<o:p></o:p></strong></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><strong>and you learn and you learn<o:p></o:p></strong></span></i></div>
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<strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">With every good-bye you learn”</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">"Be wary of strong drink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss"</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">People drink to socialize, celebrate, and relax.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alcohol often has a strong effect on people – and throughout history, we’ve struggled to understand and manage alcohol’s power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why does alcohol cause us to act and feel differently?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How much is too much? Why do some people become addicted while others do not?</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">Consequences of drinking too much<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">Alcohol enters your bloodstream as soon as you take your first sip. Alcohol’s immediate effects can appear within about 10 minutes. As you drink, you increase your blood alcohol concentration (BAC) level, which is the amount of alcohol present in your bloodstream. The higher your BAC, the more impaired you become by alcohol’s effects. These effects can include:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">Other risks of drinking can include:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">People who drink too much over a long period of time may experience alcohol’s longer-term effects, which can include:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">Drinking too much – on a single occasion or over time – can take a serious toll on your health. Here’s how alcohol can affect your body:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">Brain</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;"><br />Alcohol interferes with the brain’s communication pathways, and can affect the way the brain looks and works. These disruptions can change mood and behaviour, and make it harder to think clearly and move with coordination. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">Heart</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;"><br />Drinking a lot over a long time or too much on a single occasion can damage the heart, causing problems including:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">Research also shows that drinking <span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><a href="http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/overview-alcohol-consumption/moderate-binge-drinking"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">moderate amounts of alcohol</span></a></span> may protect healthy adults from developing coronary heart disease.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">Immune System</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;"><br />Drinking too much can weaken your immune system, making your body a much easier target for disease. Chronic drinkers are more liable to contract diseases like pneumonia and tuberculosis than people who do not drink too much. Drinking a lot on a single occasion slows your body’s ability to ward off infections – even up to 24 hours after getting drunk.</span></div>
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</span></b>Sara Hadiarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05516964407492575361noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3234398215319783982.post-62716856120638577042012-12-31T18:33:00.000-08:002012-12-31T19:24:46.330-08:00Happy New Year 2013<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Another fresh new year is here . . .<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Another year to live!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">To banish worry, doubt, and fear,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">To love and laugh and give!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This bright new year is given me<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">To live each day with zest . . .<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">To daily grow and try to be<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">My highest and my best!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">To pray for peace, to plant a tree,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And sing more joyful songs!”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It has just turned 12 midnight on the 31<sup>st</sup> December 2012 so by the time I post this it will be 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When I look back on 2012, it was not an easy year – but with every challenge comes opportunity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Career challenges:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Wound down my accounting practice in the hopes of getting a full time job.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Completed two blog challenges.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Signed up for every webinar I could on internet marketing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I do not believe in New Years’ Resolutions - life is too short to live with regrets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In his moving presentation, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Pausch was included in TIME Magazine's 2008 list of the world's 100 most influential people. His book, "The Last Lecture," co-written by Jeff Zaslow of the Wall Street Journal and based on Pausch's now-famous talk "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," is a New York Times #1 bestseller.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Sara Hadiarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05516964407492575361noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3234398215319783982.post-22126710638540338202012-12-02T03:22:00.000-08:002012-12-18T07:09:02.427-08:00A Tribute To Zig Ziglar <br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">“Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Zig Ziglar<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">If one is looking for pleasure in life, they look to their desires. If one is seeking truth, they look for answers. If one wants to get motivated, they pick up a Zig Ziglar book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">On Thursday, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.zigziglarstory.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Zig Ziglar</span></a></b> died of complications from pneumonia at a hospital in Plano, Texas. He was 86 years old. Ziglar had suffered a brain injury after falling down a staircase in 2007.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">When one thinks of making a difference in this world, they can think of Zig Ziglar. As a talented author and speaker, his international appeal has transcended every colour, culture, and career. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Zig Ziglar has been a popular figure in the motivational speakers circuit for three decades. He wrote more than 30 books aimed at helping people to lead more productive and balanced lives. His books include <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Born To Win</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Better Than Good</b></i>, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How To Get What You Want</i></b> and are available on Amazon.com.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Here are some famous quotes by Zig Ziglar:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">“Every choice you make has an end result”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">“Remember that failure is an event, not a person”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">“You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">“People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">“People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">“If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">“If you want to reach a goal, you must "see the reaching" in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">“The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">“It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">“I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In all his teachings and motivational speeches, Ziglar had a way with words. He could inspire, enlighten, and encourage people whenever he spoke. He focused on human nature. He challenged people to think creatively and outside the box. He raised the confidence in one’s mind, enlightened their soul, and proved to be more than just the common man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">He may not be with us physically now, but his motivational quotes and books will live on in the minds, hearts and spirits of those who are inspired by him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">“Even in tragedy, God through His word offers hope for those who seek and believe. It starts with the promise of a better tomorrow, of life everlasting, of eternal peace. It’s called faith, and it offers hope where none existed.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Sara Hadiarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05516964407492575361noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3234398215319783982.post-13412977999306310022012-12-01T12:38:00.001-08:002013-01-08T09:48:21.088-08:00Today Is World Aids Day<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">"History will judge us on how we respond to the AIDS emergency in Africa....whether we stood around with watering cans and watched while a whole continent burst into flames....or not."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">World AIDS Day</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> on 1 December brings together people from around the world to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and demonstrate international solidarity in the face of the pandemic. The day is an opportunity for public and private partners to spread awareness about the status of the pandemic and encourage progress in HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care in high prevalence countries and around the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">World AIDS Days will have the theme of:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Getting to zero: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Zero new HIV infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS related deaths". <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The World AIDS Campaign focus on "Zero AIDS related deaths" signifies a push towards greater access to treatment for all; a call for governments to act now. It is a call to honour promises like the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.who.int/healthsystems/publications/abuja_declaration/en/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Abuja declaration</span></a></b> and for African governments to at least hit targets for domestic spending on health and HIV. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) targets the immune system and weakens people's surveillance and defense systems against infections and some types of cancer. As the virus destroys and impairs the function of immune cells, infected individuals gradually become immunodeficient. Immune function is typically measured by CD4 cell count. Immunodeficiency results in increased susceptibility to a wide range of infections and diseases that people with healthy immune systems can fight off. The most advanced stage of HIV infection is Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), which can take from 2 to 15 years to develop depending on the individual. AIDS is defined by the development of certain cancers, infections, or other severe clinical manifestations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Signs and symptoms <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The symptoms of HIV vary depending on the stage of infection. Though people living with HIV tend to be most infectious in the first few months, many are unaware of their status until later stages. The first few weeks after initial infection, individuals may experience no symptoms or an influenza-like illness including fever, headache, rash or sore throat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">As the infection progressively weakens the person's immune system, the individual can develop other signs and symptoms such as swollen lymph nodes, weight loss, fever, diarrhoea and cough. Without treatment, they could also develop severe illnesses such as tuberculosis, cryptococcal meningitis, and cancers such as lymphomas and Kaposi's sarcoma, among others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Transmission<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">HIV can be transmitted via the exchange of a variety of body fluids from infected individuals, such as blood, breast milk, semen and vaginal secretions. Individuals cannot become infected through ordinary day-to-day contact such as kissing, hugging, shaking hands, or sharing personal objects, food or water.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Risk factors<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Behaviours and conditions that put individuals at greater risk of contracting HIV include:</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Diagnosis<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">An HIV test reveals infection status by detecting the presence or absence of antibodies to HIV in the blood. Antibodies are produced by an individual’s immune system to fight off foreign pathogens. Most people have a "window period" of usually 3 to 6 weeks during which antibodies to HIV are still being produced and are not yet detectable. This early period of infection represents the time of greatest infectivity, but transmission can occur during all stages of the infection. If someone has had a recent possible HIV exposure, retesting should be done after 6 weeks to confirm test results, which enables sufficient time to pass for antibody production in infected individuals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Testing and counselling<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">HIV testing should be voluntary and the right to decline testing should be recognized. Mandatory or coerced testing by a health-care provider, authority or from a partner or family member is not acceptable as it undermines good public health practice and infringes on human rights. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">All testing and counselling services must include the five C’s recommended by WHO: informed Consent, Confidentiality, Counselling, Correct test results and linkage to Care, treatment and other services.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Prevention<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Individuals can reduce the risk of HIV infection by limiting exposure to risk factors. Key approaches for HIV prevention, which are often used in combination, include:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1. Male and female condom use<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Correct and consistent use of male and female condoms during vaginal or anal penetration can protect against the spread of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. Evidence shows that male latex condoms have an 85% or greater protective effect against the sexual transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">2. Testing and counselling for HIV and STIs<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Testing for HIV and other STIs is strongly advised for all people exposed to any of the risk factors so that they can learn of their own infection status and access necessary prevention and treatment services without delay. WHO also recommends offering testing for partners or couples.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">3. Voluntary medical male circumcision<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Medical male circumcision, when safely provided by well-trained health professionals, reduces the risk of heterosexually acquired HIV infection in men by approximately 60%. This is a key intervention in generalized epidemic settings with high HIV prevalence and low male circumcision rates.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A recent trial has confirmed if an HIV-positive person adheres to an effective antiretroviral therapy regimen, the risk of transmitting the virus to their uninfected sexual partner can be reduced by 96%. For couples in which one partner is HIV-positive and the other HIV-negative, WHO recommends offering ART for the HIV-positive partner regardless of her/his CD4 count.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">5. Harm reduction for injecting drug users<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">People who inject drugs can take precautions against becoming infected with HIV by using sterile injecting equipment, including needles and syringes, for each injection. A comprehensive package of interventions for HIV prevention and treatment includes: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The transmission of HIV from an HIV-positive mother to her child during pregnancy, labour, delivery or breastfeeding is called vertical or mother-to-child transmission (MTCT). In the absence of any interventions HIV transmission rates are between 15-45%. MTCT can be nearly fully prevented if both the mother and the child are provided with antiretroviral drugs throughout the stages when infection could occur. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">HIV can be suppressed by combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) consisting of three or more antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. ART does not cure HIV infection but controls viral replication within a person's body and allows an individual's immune system to strengthen and regain the capacity to fight off infections. With ART, people living with HIV can live healthy and productive lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">More than 8 million people living with HIV in low- and middle-income countries were receiving ART at the end of 2011. Of this, about 562 000 were children. This is a 20-fold increase in the number of people receiving ART in developing countries between 2003 and 2011, and a 20% increase in just one year (from 6.6 million in 2010 to more than 8 million in 2011). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Since the beginning of the epidemic, WHO has been leading the global health sector response to HIV. As a cosponsor of the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS), WHO leads on the priority areas of HIV treatment and care, and HIV/tuberculosis co-infection, and jointly coordinates with UNICEF the work on the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In 2011, WHO Member States adopted a new Global health sector strategy on HIV/AIDS for 2011-2015. The strategy outlines four strategic directions to guide actions by WHO and countries for five years:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>With regards to my last post on the movie <a href="http://recovery-corner.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-cure-is.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">"The Cure Is ...."</span></a>, I have received an urgent email from the filmmaker - details below:</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">"My name is David Scharps, filmmaker of the The Cure Is… (You!).</span><span style="color: black; font-family: '&apos','serif';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">In case you missed my Thanksgiving gift to you, your friends and loved ones, I’m again enclosing a link for the film (below). It’s for you to share with everyone you care about—to offer something that cannot be valued: the gift of health. You can cut and paste it, give it to anyone you wish and they can also do the same.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: '&apos','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">WE FORGOT TO TELL YOU THIS: ANYONE YOU SHARE THIS WITH CAN GIFT IT TOO! There is no charge or obligation to buy anything. It’s simply a gift from my team to the world!</span><span style="color: black; font-family: '&apos','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The incredible feedback I have received from sharing my film with friends, loved ones and colleagues, for free, has been nothing short of overwhelming in the most wonderful way. It continues to spark something deep within those who watch it. For people to be able to pass along this powerful message to those who need it most makes every minute of the two years I took to make The Cure Is… such a humbling and worthwhile journey.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: '&apos','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Why do we want to share it for free? Because it has the potential to change lives—of people you know—in incredible ways. So, Please join us in spreading this powerful message: that we are all responsible for our own good health, or lack of it.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: '&apos','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">So, now YOU can help spread health around the globe. Please share this with anyone and let them know they are most welcomes to share it too!</span><span style="color: black; font-family: '&apos','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Yours in gratitude and wellness,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: '&apos','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A transformational film about how every human body is brilliantly designed for vitality and longevity. Why then is our health and life expectancy declining? Have we lost our connection to our natural way of living? Is it possible there is a powerful and effective means to address our health and disease, which can assist in tapping into our natural healing capacity of our profoundly powerful human body?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">THE CURE IS...</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> unveils one of the most profound, ancient health formulas to be released in over a century. Amazing true stories, woven with testimonials from top scientists, doctors and evolutionary leaders creates a mind-blowing journey of self-discovery that will radically shift the way you look at health and disease forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">"Absolutely everything that happens in our lives has a spiritual cause. Mental, emotional and physical events are only effects. Your body has a healing order of priority, and the spiritual always comes first. Your body stores your life's memories. When you focus on what is wrong you wound your body and empower your enemy. When you focus on life and living, miracles happen."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Bernie's writings in the 12 books he has published so far reflect his passion to reach people struggling with all of life's challenges—not just the physical ones—so that each person can live life fully with the understanding that, as Bernie reminds us, "We only have today". Believing that we are all here to love one another, Bernie has crafted eternal truths and the timeless wisdom of the ages into his reflections on the true stories of his patients in much of his work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In May 2011, Bernie was honored by the Watkins Review of London, England, as one of the Top 20 Spiritually Influential Living People on the Planet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Marianne Williamson<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">"We know there are people who were told they are going to die within a week who live for another 30 or 40 more years. We do have documented cases where there is a seemingly miraculous cessation of symptoms. And we know these things happen. We know that there are people who were told that they are going to die within a week who live for another 30 or 40 more years. So I think sometimes we think about and study a little bit too much the places where it goes the way we have heard about going in many people, and perhaps we don't study enough: What happened in that place where a miracle occurred?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed author and lecturer. Six of her ten published books have been New York Times Best Sellers. Four of these have been #1 New York Times Best Sellers. A Return to Love is considered a must-read of The New Spirituality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A paragraph from that book, begins, "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure". Williamson speaks often on the subject of how shifts in thinking from fear to love make all the difference in how we live and how we feel. Learning to think differently to stand psychologically and emotionally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">"Now to many people when we think of the heart, we think simply of a pump that moves blood through our bodies and while that is an important function, what the studies are showing is that it may be the least of what our hearts do."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Gregg Braden, is a rare blend of "scientist, visionary and scholar with the ability to speak to our minds while touching the wisdom of our hearts".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">He is a New York Times best-selling author and internationally renowned as a pioneer in bridging science and spirituality. His work is featured on the History Channel, Discovery Channel, and NBC. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">How much do genes contribute to the diseases in our world? It turns out far less than 10 per cent. Probably even less than five percent. So wait, if genes are only responsible for five, at most 10 per cent of the illness on our planet, what about the other 90 per cent of the illness? And the answer is that it has nothing to do with genes and has everything to do with..."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Bruce Lipton is an internationally recognized leader in bridging science and spirit. One of the first to conduct stem cell research, a biologist, best-selling author of The Biology of Belief and recipient of the 2009 Goi Peace Award, he has been a guest speaker on hundreds of TV and radio shows, as well as keynote presenter for national and international conference.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">His discoveries, which ran counter to the established scientific view that life is controlled by the genes, presaged one of today’s most important fields of study, the science of epigenetics. Two major scientific publications derived from these studies defined the molecular pathways connecting the mind and body. Many subsequent papers by other researchers have since validated his concepts and ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">His deepened understanding of cell biology highlighted the mechanisms by which the mind controls bodily functions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">"We put our finger on the primary factors that creates the disease but people have the right to know it."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">"I have spent almost all my waking hours reading everything from the site of literature on human nutrition, probably read over 20,000 medical journal articles. And the bottom line is you don't have to have a heart attack, you don't have to have strokes, you don't have to get demented when you get older and yes we can even win the war against cancer."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Joel Fuhrman, M.D. is a board-certified family physician, and nutritional researcher, who specializes in preventing and reversing disease through nutritional and natural methods. He is the author of seven books including a New York Times best-seller. As one of the country's leading experts in nutritional and natural healing, Dr. Fuhrman's articles, case studies, and advice are widely published, from medical journals such as the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Orthopedics and Nutrition Journal, to consumer publications. He has appeared on hundreds of radio and television shows including: ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, Today, Good Morning America, the Discovery Channel, TV Food Network, and the Dr. Oz Show.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">"If you are not... as healthy as you would like to be, there is a reason. And it always stems from a basic core belief system. We have limited what is possible for us and what is not possible for us based upon past experiences that we have had. And it is all stored at the subconscious level."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Dr. Sue Morter is an internationally recognized authority on bridging science, spirit and human possibility. Her high-energy platform presence ignites passion, imparts knowledge, and affects audiences around the globe through her keynote addresses, workshops and programs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Dr. Sue Morter is a leading authority and master of the Bio Energetic Synchronization Technique (B.E.S.T.), a neuro-emotional process that addresses the mind, body, and spirit and their integrated influence on health. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">"It's safe to say that human beings are moving approximately 90 per cent less than they did 40 years ago, yet we maintain the same biology, the same genes, and the same requirements that human beings have had throughout their evolution in nature. If we do not get adequate enough movement we do not pump the body, clean the body and therefore we cannot maintain vitality. A lack of movement is a disease in and of itself and it is easy to cure."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For over 25 years, Chek's unique, holistic approach to treatment and education has changed the lives of thousands of people worldwide. By treating the body as a whole system and finding the root cause of a problem, Paul has been successful where traditional approaches have consistently failed. Paul is the founder of the C.H.E.K (Corrective Holistic Exercise Kinesiology) Institute, based in California. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">"We usually exercise for every reason from the neck down, but in reality when you do exercise, what it ends up doing is affecting everything from the neck up."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Tony Horton, the master behind the best-selling fitness program in America P90X®. Tony helps people get fit all over the world by keeping them motivated in health, physique, and lifestyle. Over the last 17 years Tony has acquired, perfected, and shared his fitness expertise with countless individuals across America. From professional athletes, sports teams, television and major movie stars, recording artists to the average American, Tony has helped people turn their lives around with the perfect mix of encouragement, humor, discipline and fun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">It is time for us look beyond the band-aid approach of medicine in our Western culture and deeper into the unlimited healing capacity of the human body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">"Absolutely everything that happens in our lives has a spiritual cause. Mental, emotional and physical events are only effects. Your body has a healing order of priority, and the spiritual always comes first. Your body stores your life's memories. When you focus on what is wrong you wound your body and empower your enemy. When you focus on life and living, miracles happen."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Bernie's writings in the 12 books he has published so far reflect his passion to reach people struggling with all of life's challenges—not just the physical ones—so that each person can live life fully with the understanding that, as Bernie reminds us, "We only have today". Believing that we are all here to love one another, Bernie has crafted eternal truths and the timeless wisdom of the ages into his reflections on the true stories of his patients in much of his work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In May 2011, Bernie was honored by the Watkins Review of London, England, as one of the Top 20 Spiritually Influential Living People on the Planet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Marianne Williamson<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">"We know there are people who were told they are going to die within a week who live for another 30 or 40 more years. We do have documented cases where there is a seemingly miraculous cessation of symptoms. And we know these things happen. We know that there are people who were told that they are going to die within a week who live for another 30 or 40 more years. So I think sometimes we think about and study a little bit too much the places where it goes the way we have heard about going in many people, and perhaps we don't study enough: What happened in that place where a miracle occurred?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed author and lecturer. Six of her ten published books have been New York Times Best Sellers. Four of these have been #1 New York Times Best Sellers. A Return to Love is considered a must-read of The New Spirituality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A paragraph from that book, begins, "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure". Williamson speaks often on the subject of how shifts in thinking from fear to love make all the difference in how we live and how we feel. Learning to think differently to stand psychologically and emotionally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Gregg Braden, is a rare blend of "scientist, visionary and scholar with the ability to speak to our minds while touching the wisdom of our hearts".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">He is a New York Times best-selling author and internationally renowned as a pioneer in bridging science and spirituality. His work is featured on the History Channel, Discovery Channel, and NBC. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">How much do genes contribute to the diseases in our world? It turns out far less than 10 per cent. Probably even less than five percent. So wait, if genes are only responsible for five, at most 10 per cent of the illness on our planet, what about the other 90 per cent of the illness? And the answer is that it has nothing to do with genes and has everything to do with..."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Bruce Lipton is an internationally recognized leader in bridging science and spirit. One of the first to conduct stem cell research, a biologist, best-selling author of The Biology of Belief and recipient of the 2009 Goi Peace Award, he has been a guest speaker on hundreds of TV and radio shows, as well as keynote presenter for national and international conference.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">His discoveries, which ran counter to the established scientific view that life is controlled by the genes, presaged one of today’s most important fields of study, the science of epigenetics. Two major scientific publications derived from these studies defined the molecular pathways connecting the mind and body. Many subsequent papers by other researchers have since validated his concepts and ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">His deepened understanding of cell biology highlighted the mechanisms by which the mind controls bodily functions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">"We put our finger on the primary factors that creates the disease but people have the right to know it."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">"I have spent almost all my waking hours reading everything from the site of literature on human nutrition, probably read over 20,000 medical journal articles. And the bottom line is you don't have to have a heart attack, you don't have to have strokes, you don't have to get demented when you get older and yes we can even win the war against cancer."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Joel Fuhrman, M.D. is a board-certified family physician, and nutritional researcher, who specializes in preventing and reversing disease through nutritional and natural methods. He is the author of seven books including a New York Times best-seller. As one of the country's leading experts in nutritional and natural healing, Dr. Fuhrman's articles, case studies, and advice are widely published, from medical journals such as the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Orthopedics and Nutrition Journal, to consumer publications. He has appeared on hundreds of radio and television shows including: ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, Today, Good Morning America, the Discovery Channel, TV Food Network, and the Dr. Oz Show.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">"If you are not... as healthy as you would like to be, there is a reason. And it always stems from a basic core belief system. We have limited what is possible for us and what is not possible for us based upon past experiences that we have had. And it is all stored at the subconscious level."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Dr. Sue Morter is an internationally recognized authority on bridging science, spirit and human possibility. Her high-energy platform presence ignites passion, imparts knowledge, and affects audiences around the globe through her keynote addresses, workshops and programs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Dr. Sue Morter is a leading authority and master of the Bio Energetic Synchronization Technique (B.E.S.T.), a neuro-emotional process that addresses the mind, body, and spirit and their integrated influence on health. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">"It's safe to say that human beings are moving approximately 90 per cent less than they did 40 years ago, yet we maintain the same biology, the same genes, and the same requirements that human beings have had throughout their evolution in nature. If we do not get adequate enough movement we do not pump the body, clean the body and therefore we cannot maintain vitality. A lack of movement is a disease in and of itself and it is easy to cure."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For over 25 years, Chek's unique, holistic approach to treatment and education has changed the lives of thousands of people worldwide. By treating the body as a whole system and finding the root cause of a problem, Paul has been successful where traditional approaches have consistently failed. Paul is the founder of the C.H.E.K (Corrective Holistic Exercise Kinesiology) Institute, based in California. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">"We usually exercise for every reason from the neck down, but in reality when you do exercise, what it ends up doing is affecting everything from the neck up."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Tony Horton, the master behind the best-selling fitness program in America P90X®. Tony helps people get fit all over the world by keeping them motivated in health, physique, and lifestyle. Over the last 17 years Tony has acquired, perfected, and shared his fitness expertise with countless individuals across America. From professional athletes, sports teams, television and major movie stars, recording artists to the average American, Tony has helped people turn their lives around with the perfect mix of encouragement, humor, discipline and fun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Happy Thanksgiving to all my online friends in America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We do not celebrate Thanksgiving here in South Africa but it is a reminder for me to live daily with an attitude of gratitude.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A year ago I wrote a post on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.intherooms.com/addiction/happy-thanksgiving/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Thanksgiving</span></a> </b>and so much has happened since then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So to add to that list, I am thankful for:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The opportunity to meet other bloggers from around the world<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The chance to make a difference in a crazy world<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">My contribution to your celebrations is a little thanksgiving prayer and a video:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For forests tall and oceans deep <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For canyons wide and mountains steep <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For sunset skies of pink and gold <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For every sunrise we behold <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For Winter's snow and springtime's thaw <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For Summer's warmth and Autumn's awe <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For roofs that keep the rain away <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For walls that hold it all at bay <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For work that puts food on the table <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For health and rest to keep us able <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For friends and family around us <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For years to come, may they surround us <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For soldiers fighting for our peace <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For days to come when wars may cease <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For hope, so burdens won't enslave us <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For thy forgiveness which will save us <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For feast, and those with whom we share it <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For loving hands that did prepare it <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For all that makes this life worth living <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We take this time on this Thanksgiving <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">To bow our heads and bend a knee <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">And pause to look around and see <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For all that was, is, and shall be <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We have none to thank, Oh Lord, but thee. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Amen. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Robert Caspar Lintner<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
Sara Hadiarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05516964407492575361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3234398215319783982.post-76880599971231274392012-11-12T00:59:00.001-08:002013-01-08T09:51:34.688-08:00Today Is World Pneumonia Day<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">World Pneumonia Day seeks to raise awareness of pneumonia as a public health issue and help prevent the millions of avoidable child deaths from pneumonia that occur each year. It is organized by the Global Coalition against Child Pneumonia (a network of international, government, non-governmental and community-based organizations, research and academic institutions, foundations, and individuals) to bring much-needed attention to pneumonia among donors, policy makers, health care professionals, and the general public.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Pneumonia is a form of acute respiratory infection that affects the lungs. The lungs are made up of small sacs called alveoli, which fill with air when a healthy person breathes. When an individual has pneumonia, the alveoli are filled with pus and fluid, which makes breathing painful and limits oxygen intake.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Pneumonia is the single largest cause of death in children worldwide. Every year, it kills an estimated 1.2 million children under the age of five years, accounting for 18% of all deaths of children under five years old worldwide. Pneumonia affects children and families everywhere, but is most prevalent in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Children can be protected from Pneumonia. It can be prevented with simple interventions, and treated with low-cost, low-tech medication and care</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Pneumonia is caused by a number of infectious agents, including viruses, bacteria and fungi. The most common are:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Pneumonia can be spread in a number of ways. The viruses and bacteria that are commonly found in a child's nose or throat, can infect the lungs if they are inhaled. They may also spread via air-borne droplets from a cough or sneeze. In addition, pneumonia may spread through blood, especially during and shortly after birth. More research needs to be done on the different pathogens causing pneumonia and the ways they are transmitted, as this has critical importance for treatment and prevention.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The symptoms of viral and bacterial pneumonia are similar. However, the symptoms of viral pneumonia may be more numerous than the symptoms of bacterial pneumonia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When pneumonia becomes severe, children may experience lower chest wall indrawing, where their chests move in or retract during inhalation (in a healthy person, the chest expands during inhalation). Very severely ill infants may be unable to feed or drink and may also experience unconsciousness, hypothermia and convulsions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">While most healthy children can fight the infection with their natural defences, children whose immune systems are compromised are at higher risk of developing pneumonia. A child's immune system may be weakened by malnutrition or undernourishment, especially in infants who are not exclusively breastfed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Pneumonia can be treated with antibiotics. These are usually prescribed at a health centre or hospital, but the vast majority of cases of childhood pneumonia can be administered managed effectively within the home. Hospitalization is recommended in infants aged two months and younger, and also in very severe cases.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Preventing pneumonia in children is an essential component of a strategy to reduce child mortality. Immunization against Hib, pneumococcus, measles and whooping cough (pertussis) is the most effective way to prevent pneumonia. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Adequate nutrition is key to improving children's natural defences, starting with exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life. In addition to being effective in preventing pneumonia, it also helps to reduce the length of the illness if a child does become ill.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Addressing environmental factors such as indoor air pollution (by providing affordable clean indoor stoves, for example) and encouraging good hygiene in crowded homes also reduces the number of children who fall ill with pneumonia. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Research has shown that prevention and proper treatment of pneumonia could avert one million deaths in children every year. With proper treatment alone, 600 000 deaths could be avoided. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The cost of antibiotic treatment for all children with pneumonia in 42 of the world's poorest countries is estimated at around US$ 600 million per year. Treating pneumonia in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa – which account for 85% of deaths – would cost a third of this total, at around US$ 200 million. The price includes the antibiotics themselves, as well as the cost of training health workers, which strengthens the health systems as a whole.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In 2009, WHO and UNICEF launched the Global action plan for the prevention and control of pneumonia (GAPP). The aim is to accelerate pneumonia control with a combination of interventions to protect, prevent, and treat pneumonia in children with actions to:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">“Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">It moves forward because of you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It moves forward because you reaffirmed the spirit that has triumphed over war and depression, the spirit that has lifted this country from the depths of despair to the great heights of hope, the belief that while each of us will pursue our own individual dreams, we are an American family and we rise or fall together as one nation and as one people.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Tonight, in this election, you, the American people, reminded us that while our road has been hard, while our journey has been long, we have picked ourselves up, we have fought our way back, and we know in our hearts that for the United States of America the best is yet to come.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I am from South Africa and I sat up the whole night watching the Unites States elections.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because what happens to the USA affects me and the rest of the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Obama was re-elected and I read the resentful and nasty remarks on Social Media, I decided to look into what he actually has accomplished and whether he deserves another four years as the President.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My conclusion was what I had believed in the first place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Too bad the American public still thinks Obama hasn’t accomplished anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Measured in sheer legislative tonnage, what Obama got done in his first two years is stunning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s done more in four years than any president in decades:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Passed Health Care Reform:</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> After five presidents over a century failed to create universal health insurance, signed the Affordable Care Act (2010). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Passed Wall Street Reform:</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (2010) to re-regulate the financial sector after its practices caused the Great Recession. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Ended the War in Iraq:</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Ordered all U.S. military forces out of the country. Last troops left on December 18, 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">That Obama has done all this while also steering the country out of what might have been a second Great Depression would seem to have made him already, just three years into his first term, a serious candidate for greatness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">And yet a solid majority of Americans nevertheless thinks the president has not accomplished much. Why? There are plenty of possible explanations. The most obvious is the economy. People are measuring Obama’s actions against the actual conditions of their lives and livelihoods, which, over the past four years, have not gotten materially better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In negotiations, he came off to Democrats as naïvely trusting, and to Republicans as obstinately partisan, leaving the impression that he could have achieved more if only he had been less conciliatory—or more so, depending on your point of view. And for such an obviously gifted orator, he has been surprisingly inept at explaining to average Americans what he’s fighting for or trumpeting what he’s achieved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In short, when judging Obama’s record so far, conservatives measure him against their fears, liberals against their hopes, and the rest of us against our pocketbooks. But if you measure Obama against other presidents—arguably the more relevant yardstick—a couple of things come to light. But the effects of some of those achievements have yet to be felt by most Americans, often by design. Here, too, Obama is in good historical company.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">So please American citizens, although we have problems in the world, there are global situations that even the President of the USA cannot change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Try to be less resentful and put more faith in your leader’s closing words:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Thank you, America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God bless you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God bless these United States."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">“I have never been more hopeful about America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I ask you to sustain that hope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the side lines or shirk from a fight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/07/transcript-obama-reelection-speech/"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/07/transcript-obama-reelection-speech/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I am honoured and humbled to have been nominated for the Liebster Award which requires me to pass it on to 11 other bloggers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Select 11 fellow bloggers you wish to bestow this honour.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Ask them 11 questions about themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Post your answers and nominees to your blog.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">But first I have been asked to answer 11 questions by my nominator, <a href="http://www.biblefascination.com/congratulations-to-the-liebster-award-winners/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Retha Groenewald</b><o:p></o:p></span></a></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">My 11 questions for my nominees and my answers to them:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Are you a new entrepreneur or have you been in business for a while?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I have an accounting business that is not doing too well in the current economic climate but have been writing online since November 2011<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">To make my own small contribution in making the world a better place<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Read and write, write, write!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Twitter, Google+, Linked In<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">My dreams for sure! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My blog – non-profit to help others <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mark Michael @ <a href="http://www.beyondfaithintofreedom.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Beyond Faith into Freedom</span></a></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">2.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Peggy Lee Hanson @ <a href="http://www.inspiration4encouragement2supportu.com/blog.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Inspire Encourage Support<o:p></o:p></span></a></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">3.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Kina @ <a href="https://humaninrecovery.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Human in Recovery<o:p></o:p></span></a></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">4.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Lisa Selow @ <a href="http://lisaselow.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Lisa Marie Selow <o:p></o:p></span></a></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">5.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Riki Cleveland @ <a href="http://missriki.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Refreshingly Riki<o:p></o:p></span></a></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">6.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Steve Eason @ <a href="http://www.ingeniousinternetincome.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Ingenious Internet Income<o:p></o:p></span></a></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">7.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>William H Chaney @ <a href="http://www.healthyfoodanddiet.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">A Healthy Lifestyle For Mind Body and Spirit<o:p></o:p></span></a></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">8.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Amy Lynn Andrews @ <a href="http://bloggingwithamy.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Blogging with Amy<o:p></o:p></span></a></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">9.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ken Jaques @ <a href="http://kenjaques.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Enlighten, Empower, Change<o:p></o:p></span></a></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">10.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Emily Brewer @ <a href="http://myinspiredlifewithfibromyalgia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">My Inspired Life With Fibromyalgia<o:p></o:p></span></a></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">11.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dana Mallon @ <a href="http://www.soulfitwomen.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Journey Within Lift and Lead!</span></a></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">To keep that mo growing<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">During November each year, Movember is responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on thousands of men’s faces around the world. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The aim of which is to raise vital funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer and other cancers that affect men.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">On Movember 1st, guys register at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://movember.com/"><span style="color: blue;">Movember.com</span></a></b> with a clean-shave face and then for the rest of the month, these selfless and generous men, known as Mo Bros, groom, trim and wax their way into the annals of fine moustachery. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mo Sistas are the women who register to support the men in their lives, raising funds by seeking sponsorship for their Mo-growing efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Mo Bros effectively become walking, talking billboards for the 30 days of November and through their actions and words raise awareness by prompting private and public conversation around the often ignored issue of men’s health. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">At the end of the month, Mo Bros and Mo Sistas celebrate their gallantry and valour by either throwing their own Movember party or attending one of the infamous Gala Partés held around the world by Movember, for Movember. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The History behind Movember<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The Movember Foundation was co-founded by Luke Slattery, Travis Garone, Adam Garone and Justin Coghlan in 2004.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Foundation is a not for profit organisation dedicated to having an everlasting impact on the face of men’s health.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Movember started in Australia and has since grown to a global movement, running official campaigns in Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, United States of America, New Zealand, Spain, the Netherlands, South Africa and Finland.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The idea of Movember came from a conversation between Luke Slattery and Travis Garone the year before the Foundation was established.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luke and Travis were watching the world go by and critiquing the comeback of fashion trends from the past when the question was raised, why no return of the moustache?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Both felt that the Mo could do with a revival.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, with the seed of an idea, Luke and Travis talked a couple of mates into growing a moustache for one month and with that, Movember was born.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 2003, just 30 Mo Bros took part.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rules were simple; start on Movember 1st clean shaven and spend the remainder of the month growing a Mo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No money was raised; the idea was simply to see who could grow the better moustache.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">It wasn’t until 2004, having been overwhelmed by the conversations prompted by the previous year’s growth, that the founders decided to develop the idea into a cause that gave birth to the Movember Foundation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today, Movember takes place around the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Motivated and inspired by what was happening in Australia, Movember will continue to work to change established habits and attitudes and make men aware of the health risks they face, thereby increasing early detection, diagnosis and effective treatment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More importantly however, Movember’s success will remain with its ability to stay true to its origins, mates and moustaches, which is how it all began.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Since its humble beginnings in Melbourne Australia, Movember has grown to become a truly global movement inspiring more than 1.9 Million Mo Bros and Mo Sistas to participate with formal campaigns in Australia, New Zealand, the US, Canada, the UK, South Africa, Ireland, Finland, the Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Belgium and the Czech Republic. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition, Movember is aware of Mo Bros and Mo Sistas supporting the campaign and men’s health cause across the globe, from Russia to Dubai, Hong Kong to Antarctica, Rio de Janeiro to Mumbai, and everywhere in between.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">No matter the country or city, Movember will continue to work to change established habits and attitudes men have about their health, to educate men about the health risks they face, and to act on that knowledge, thereby increasing the chances of early detection, diagnosis and effective treatment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We are accountable and transparent. We strive to exceed best practice cost-to-fundraising ratios.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We are passionate, dedicated, caring people that are here to serve the Movember Community.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Although we are spread across the world we are one team with the same deeper sense of purpose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We have a humble attitude and approach to everything we do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Born from an entrepreneurial spirit, we apply innovation across the organisation to improve the Mo Bro and Mo Sista experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">At every touch point – phone, email, online, in person, at our events we create a remarkable experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We will drive significant outcomes for men’s health from the funds we raise.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Campaign strategic goal<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We will get men to grow moustaches by creating an innovative, fun and engaging annual Movember campaign that raises funds and awareness globally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We will fund survivorship initiatives that provide information and support for men and their families affected by prostate and testicular cancer that helps them make informed decisions and improves their quality of life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Through our annual campaign and funded programs we will significantly increase the understanding of the health risk that men face and encourage men to act on that knowledge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We will fund catalytic research and clinical trials infrastructure that leads to significantly improved diagnostic and prognostic tests and treatments to reduce the burden of prostate cancer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We will fund research that helps to inform health policy and knowledge translation that accelerates improved health outcomes for men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">At Movember, we recognise that every business is different and has different expectations and aims from their participation in Movember; as such we work with each one to develop a tailored program. We take the time to understand the culture of your business, appreciating current altruistic activities and available resources, before helping to develop a relationship that will add genuine value to your organisation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Each year, Movember works alongside a large number of companies, from all corners of the business world, ranging in size from the relatively small, right up to some of the largest global corporations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The contribution and level of involvement may vary from one business to another but all support helps Movember in trying to achieve its vision; to have an everlasting impact on the future of men’s health.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">SISTAS CAN MO TOO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Never a truer word was spoken, when it was said that behind every great man, stands a great woman. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wise words indeed from a past generation, words which are as meaningful today as the day they were uttered. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whilst a Mo Bro may grow, it is the Mo Sista that is often the driving force, first planting the seed (of an idea) and then carefully working away behind the scenes of fine moustachery for the 30 days of Movember.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A Mo Sista is essentially a woman who loves a Mo. An individual that is dedicated to supporting the Mo Bros in her life through their moustache growing journey; whether it be a friend, colleague, family member, partner or boyfriend. These inspirational women are committed to raising awareness of men's health issues and much needed funds for men's health along the way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING A MO SISTA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">To be a Mo Sista is to be an agent for change. It's not an exaggeration to say that without Mo Sistas, Movember would never have achieved the success it has to date.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For many Mo Bros, the thought of growing a moustache can be a daunting one. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They may be concerned about how they will look with their newly acquired facial friend, nervous as to whether they are capable of growing a Mo or apprehensive about the commitment it takes to grow a Mo for the full 30 days of Movember. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mo Sistas play a vital role in supporting the journey, not least by being supportive of their courageous commitment. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A kind word of encouragement, a wink or a smile of recognition can go a long way to helping a Mo Bro as he navigates the month of Movember – this may be particularly true in the first few weeks when growth can, for some, be a little bit slow. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Mo Sistas also have an important role in helping men to break down barriers and talk about their health. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Women are traditionally more comfortable when it comes to talking about these matters, so can be great facilitators in supporting the Mo Bros in their life to share their personal journeys with each other, or a health care professional. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Getting men to better understand the risks they face is key for Movember and Mo Sistas are a great way to help get health messages to Mo Bros. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The rules listed below must be adhered to with the complete love and devotion that you will find for your new furry look. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once registered at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://movember.com/"><span style="color: blue;">movember.com</span></a></b> each mo bro must begin the 1st of Movember with a clean shaven face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the entire month of November each mo bro must grow and groom a moustache.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is to be no joining of the mo to [one's] sideburns. (That’s considered a beard.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each mo bro must conduct himself like a true country gentleman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Follow Movember on Pinterest for all things moustache related.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><a href="http://us.movember.com/mo-community/instagram/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">INSTAGRAM<o:p></o:p></span></a></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Follow Movember @Movember and make sure you hashtag your pics with #Movember<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Join the Movember app on facebook<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><a href="https://twitter.com/Movember" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">TWITTER<o:p></o:p></span></a></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Follow Movember on Twitter and tweet your progress</span></div>
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Sara Hadiarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05516964407492575361noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3234398215319783982.post-21123223668702753672012-10-31T12:52:00.000-07:002012-10-31T12:52:07.047-07:00Are You An Insomniac?<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“I remember when staying up until midnight was hard to do - now it's a bad habit”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Insomnia is a symptom, not a stand-alone diagnosis or a disease. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By definition, insomnia is "difficulty initiating or maintaining sleep, or both" or the perception of poor quality sleep. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Insomnia may therefore be due to inadequate quality or quantity of sleep. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Insomnia is not defined by a specific number of hours of sleep that one gets, since individuals vary widely in their sleep needs and practices. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although most of us know what insomnia is and how we feel and perform after one or more sleepless nights, few seek medical advice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Insomnia affects all age groups. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Among adults, insomnia affects women more often than men. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The incidence tends to increase with age. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is typically more common in people in lower socioeconomic (income) groups, chronic alcoholics, and mental health patients. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stress most commonly triggers short-term or acute insomnia. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you do not address your insomnia, however, it may develop into chronic insomnia. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Insomnia is generally classified based on the duration of the problem. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not everyone agrees on one definition, but generally:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">symptoms lasting less than one week are classified as transient insomnia, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">symptoms between one to three weeks are classified as short-term insomnia, and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">those longer than three weeks are classified as chronic insomnia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Insomnia Causes<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Insomnia may be caused by a host of different reasons. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These causes may be divided into situational factors, medical or psychiatric conditions, or primary sleep problems. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Insomnia could also be classified by the duration of the symptoms into transient, short-term, or chronic. Transient insomnia generally last less than seven days; short-term insomnia usually lasts for about one to three weeks, and chronic insomnia lasts for more than three weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Many of the causes of transient and short-term insomnia are similar and they include: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Excessive or unpleasant noise<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Causes of Chronic or Long-Term Insomnia<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The majority of causes of chronic or long-term insomnia are usually linked to an underlying psychiatric or physiological condition. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Psychological Causes of Insomnia<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The most common psychological problems that may lead to insomnia include:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">stress (mental, emotional, situational, etc), <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">schizophrenia, and/or<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Physiological Causes of Insomnia<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Physiological causes span from circadian rhythm disorders (disturbance of the biological clock), sleep-wake imbalance, to a variety of medical conditions. The following are the most common medical conditions that trigger insomnia:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Night time angina (chest pain) from heart disease<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Acid reflux disease (GERD)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Degenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Brain tumors, strokes, or trauma to the brain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">High Risk Groups for Insomnia<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In addition to people with the above medical conditions, certain groups may be at higher risk for developing insomnia:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Shift workers with frequent changing of shifts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Medication Related Insomnia<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Certain medications have also been associated with insomnia. Among them are: </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Certain over-the-counter cold and asthma preparations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The prescription varieties of these medications may also contain stimulants and thus produce similar effects on sleep.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Some medications used to treat high blood pressure have also been associated with poor sleep. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Some medications used to treat depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Doctors associate a variety of signs and symptoms with insomnia. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Often, the symptoms intertwine with those of other medical or mental conditions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Some people with insomnia may complain of difficulty falling asleep or waking up frequently during the night. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The problem may begin with stress. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, as you begin to associate the bed with your inability to sleep, the problem may become chronic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Most often daytime symptoms will bring people to seek medical attention. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Daytime problems caused by insomnia include the following:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In addition to the causes and conditions listed above, there are also a number of conditions that are associated with insomnia in the absence of another underlying condition. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are called primary sleep disorders, in which the sleep disorder is the main cause of insomnia. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These conditions generally cause chronic or long-term insomnia. Some of the diseases are listed below:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">There are numerous prescription medications to treat insomnia. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Generally, it is advised that they should not be used as the only therapy and that treatment is more successful if combined with non-medical therapies. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a study, it was noted that when sedatives were combined with behavioral therapy, more patients were likely to wean off the sedatives than if sedatives were used alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">St. Johns Wort and chamomile have not shown any real benefit in treating insomnia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Valerian is a popular herbal medication used for treating insomnia with possibly some benefit in some patients with chronic insomnia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Tincture<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Most commonly taken as tablets per specifications<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Up to 3 grams of dried plant, equivalent to 700mg of standardized extract<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As tincture, 20 drops in a cup of hot water, four times a day for anxiety, or half an hour before bed time for insomnia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Valerian is an attractive perennial with pretty pink flowers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It grows throughout Europe and is now well established in North America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As far back as the 1<sup>st</sup> century AD, the physician <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dioscorides</i> used it, as did <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hippocrates</i> before him, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Paracelsus</i> after that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In the Middle Ages, valerian was used for many medicinal properties, though proof of its efficiency in the treatment of epilepsy has never been substantiated. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While the ancient Greeks and Romans understood the herb’s value as a gentle sedative, it wasn’t until the middle of the 18th century that it became widely accepted in the treatment of anxiety and insomnia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Valerian contains many active constituents, including volatile oils, iridoids and alkaloids.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Prolonged periods of stress lead to a state of constant heightened arousal, and overproduction of the activity hormone <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">adrenaline.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>This is the hormone that prepares the body for the “fight or flight” – the heart rate increases, blood pressure rises and mental faculties are sharpened so that mind and body are prepared for instant action.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Valerian can break this vicious cycle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Taken in small doses, its action is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">calming</b> without causing drowsiness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Larger doses become mildly sedative and help to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">restore regular sleep</b> patterns in those suffering from insomnia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a bonus, valerian is an effective anti-spasmodic which helps to relieve <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">colic</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">stomach cramps</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">irritable bowel syndrome.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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Sara Hadiarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05516964407492575361noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3234398215319783982.post-90794378687104629592012-10-30T14:29:00.002-07:002012-10-30T14:38:35.529-07:00Prayers for the Victims of Hurricane Sandy<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>“This storm is not yet over," Obama said during a visit to the headquarters of the American Red Cross in Washington, warning that some northern states could still face flooding and high winds. "Do not figure out why we can't do something. I want you to figure out how we do something," Obama said. "I want you to cut through red tape, I want you to cut through bureaucracy, there is no excuse for inaction at this point. I want every agency to lean forward."</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><strong></strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>How Superstorm Sandy unfolded:</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The misery of superstorm Sandy's devastation grew on Tuesday as millions along the US East Coast faced life without power or mass transit for days, and huge swaths of New York City remained eerily quiet. The US death toll climbed to 39, many of the victims killed by falling trees, and rescue work continued. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The storm that made landfall in New Jersey on Monday evening with hurricane force cut power to more than 8.2 million across the East and put the presidential campaign on hold just one week before Election Day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New York was among the hardest hit, with its financial heart closed for a second day. The storm caused the worst damage in the 108-year history of the city's subway system, and there was no indication of when the largest US transit system would be rolling again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"This was a devastating storm, maybe the worst that we have ever experienced," New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the full extent of the damage in New Jersey was being revealed as morning arrived. Emergency crews fanned out to rescue hundreds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A hoarse-voiced New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie gave bleak news at a morning news conference: Seaside rail lines washed away. No safe place on the state's barrier islands for him to land. Parts of the coast still under water. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"It is beyond anything I thought I'd ever see," he said. "It is a devastating sight right now." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The death toll from Sandy in the US included several killed by falling trees. Sandy also killed 69 people in the Caribbean before making its way up the Eastern Seaboard. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Airlines canceled more than 12,000 flights. New York City's three major airports remained closed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most major tunnels and bridges in New York were closed, as were schools and Broadway theaters. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Latest Updates</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Death toll reaches 39 across US and Canada</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Obama tells East Coast: America is with you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Governor Christie: devastation 'unthinkable'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• New York's stock markets to reopen Wednesday </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• More than 8.2 million people without power</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Fire rips through Queens destroying 50 homes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Levee breaks in New Jersey causing evacuations </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Global Prayer and Intention Circle for those Affected by Hurricane Sandy </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Replay of a global prayer for those in the path of the Hurricane at:</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><a href="http://youwealthrevolution.com/asc2012/replay.html#hurricane" target="_blank">You Wealth Revolution</a></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>“The great thing about America is when we go through tough times like this, we all pull together,” Obama said Monday afternoon as the television cameras rolled. “We look out for our friends. We look out for our neighbours. And we set aside whatever issues we may have otherwise to make sure that we respond appropriately and with swiftness.”</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Sara Hadiarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05516964407492575361noreply@blogger.com2