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In studying Megan’s case history and symptoms, key moments and events stand out in her time line of pain and dysfunction. Nine years ago, after the birth of her second child, was the first time that Megan noticed that her left foot was slightly wider and longer than her right foot. The timing of this is relevant as during the course of her pregnancy a hormone called relaxin would have been released into her system to loosen the ligaments of her pelvis in anticipation of childbirth. However, relaxin can also loosen ligaments elsewhere in the body and a longer and wider left foot would indicate the collapse of the main arches of the foot due to ligament laxity. This is one of the turning points in Megan’s history that has had a detrimental effect on her health ever since. The relaxed ligaments may never have fully recovered their full stabilizing strength and when she developed a tired aching sensation in her left medial arch a few years later it was probably as a result of this. A fallen arch will lead to over pronation and this will in turn put the tibialis anterior and possibly tibialis posterior muscles under undue stress as they try to stabilize and counteract over pronation. Stressed or overwhelmed muscles will form trigger points (TPs) within them and for tibialis anterior this can refer pain anteromedially as it passes the retinaculum. TPs in the tibialis posterior will refer pain into the sole/arch of the foot. Over pronation will lead to shortened peroneus longus which will further inhibit the tibialis muscles which will further exacerbate the problem in a continuous vicious circle.

The whiplash injury experienced last year would also add to Megan’s problems and since then she has experienced occasional headaches and neck stiffness. The whiplash injury almost certainly would have affected her sub occipital muscles, sternocleidomastoids (SCM), scalene and other stabilizers of the neck and spine. This whiplash would lead to improper neck movement which in turn would lead to TPs in the SCM and possibly the longus colli on one side (left) possibly due to the leg length discrepancy. TPs here would leave these muscles in a shortened state resulting in rotation of the head to the right hand side. If the longus colli is involved it result in kinetic chain problems and affect the peroneals on the lateral aspect of the lower limb further exacerbating the fallen arch. With the peroneus longus muscles in such an unhealthy state it is possible that it could have an effect on the sacrotuberous ligament of the pelvis and its ability to hold the sacrum in position. Megan states that one day last year she felt a twinge in her right sacroiliac joint while assisting an obese client up from a supine position. She experienced locking/jamming and diffuse soft tissue pain in QLs, multifidis and shooting pain into her hip. The fact that she was locked into torso flexion to the right suggests that the QLs went into spasm on the right side after insult and as we find out later her sacral base is an inch high on the right and there is posterior rotation of the right ilium with resultant postural imbalance whereby 2/3rd of Megan’s weight is pressing down on her right side. This extra load and postural imbalance has led to shooting pain in the trochanteric region and referred pain on the lateral aspect of the thigh due to TPs in the weakened gluteus medius and iliotibial band issues due to the over worked tensor fasciae latae.

With all this pain getting to unbearable levels, Megan turned to prescription drugs, codeine based painkillers, antidepressants, Zoloft, anti inflammatory tablets all of which would have exacerbated her problems through time by building up toxins in her system. She was also whilst under the influence of painkillers probably injuring tissue by doing activities that she would not have done if she had her natural alarm system of pain stopping her. The elastic support belt and the taping would have made the situation worse by encouraging atrophy of supporting muscle tissue.

Megan’s right shoulder is lower than the left possibly due to shortened latissimus dorsi pulling on the humerus and inhibiting upper trapezius and hypertrophy of the pectoralis minor muscle pulling the scapula forward and down.

As we consider Megan’s problems, symptoms, and case history, we can appreciate that she is suffering abject pain and dysfunction up and down her functional kinetic chain. From the pain in the plantar fasciae, spastic peroneus longus, inhibited tibialis, medially rotated tibia, medial knee pain, lateral thigh pain, trochanteric pain, lumbo – sacral pelvic pain and dysfunction, posteriorally rotated right ilium, lower left anterior superior iliac spine, 2/3rd weight imbalance to right hand side, lower back pain with QLs and multifidis in a shortened state, latissimus dorsi, neck extensors and flexors all giving problems we have to ask the question as to which functional kinetic chain we are dealing with. In my opinion, considering all areas involved, it would be the spiral oblique chain.

Megan would have to be informed that her treatment will be extensive and prolonged because some issues have been there for a while and would involve neural retraining for the dysfunction and imbalances present.

• Medical screening.
• Case history.
• Postural assessment.
• ROM testing / neural testing.
• All shortened and restricted muscles would have to be relaxed / lengthened with TP therapy, METs, positional release / strain- counterstrain.
• Inhibited muscles would have to be fired and strengthened with tapotement, METs and strengthening exercises.
• Any areas of bind would need STR, cross fiber friction etc.
• A consideration would be referral for PCIs to address the pronating left foot initially with a plan to strengthen that area long term.
• Megan’s nutrition was not mentioned but I would be referring her to a specialist in that field to ensure that she has no nutritional deficiencies that would hinder the healing process.

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Source by Charlie J Molloy

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As each domino fell, beginning with the summer of 2007, it became increasingly clear that the economy was in serious trouble. But the surprising truth was that almost everyone from economists, investors, politicians to consumers played along until the very end. They played along until the evidence was so overwhelming, they were forced to capitulate and acknowledge the mistakes of the past and the consequences that these mistakes had for the global economy.

How did it happen? Why didn’t our leaders in the financial and political communities see it coming? And why were these leaders so quick to dismiss the few who did see it coming?

One explanation is that the financial tsunami started slowly. Some have suggested that it was started by the easy money from 2001 to the middle of 2008 that kept mortgage interest rates low (30 year fixed-rate mortgages went from more than 8 percent in 2000 to a low of 5 ¾ percent in 2004 and then increased to 6 percent in 2008). Then the tsunami started to gain momentum when prospective buyers rushed to buy homes at attractive interest rates, many of them with little down payment. Feeding the frenzy were mortgage brokers, motivated by high commissions, who arranged low down-payment loans and often looked the other way when it was clear that the buyer could scarcely meet the monthly payments. But few critical voices were raised, no one listened, and the financial tsunami continued.

Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs) were created to help financial institutions who were eager to participate in the good times by earning high yields. These CDOs simply bundled mortgages, some of which were marginal, and sold them to banks and insurance companies as high yield investments. Then Credit Default swaps (CDSs) were created to insure the CDOs. As a result, any investment bank that purchased a CDO together with a CDS to insure the CDO would be reassured that its investment was secured. Not one to spoil a good party, blue chip rating agencies including Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s gave the CDOs top ratings? Again, few critical voices were raised, no one listened, and the financial tsunami continued.

When house prices stopped increasing, the housing bubble collapsed. Prices fell and an increasing number of homeowners owed more that the market value of their homes. More homes were then placed on the market leading to lower prices and the spiral continued. Defaults began rising. But since there were many disconnects in this complex network, the financial institutions continued to maintain CDOs on their balance sheets at prices that no longer reflected the fact that many of the mortgages bundled into the CDOs were at risk. With a weakened balance sheet, financial institutions, such as Lehman Brothers, either failed or shut shut down their lending operations for fear that they would never be repaid. Now, however, a few critical voices did surface, a few people did listen, but we were assured the damage could be contained.

Then the recession hit. Credit dried up, companies furloughed workers, and consumers tightened their belts. The damage was so great – with no end in sight – that the silence abruptly ended. Now the finger pointing began. Everyone was listening.

But it was too late.

What was unprecedented was that the conspiracy of silence lasted so long. Yes, some economists and politicians warned that we were on a collision course and that the economy could not sustain the pace and level of debt for long. In 2005, Robert J. Shiller, Professor of Economics at Yale, warned of a real estate bubble. Then in September of 2007, he told congress that the downturn in the real estate market could spiral into the most severe recession since the depression. Shortly thereafter, in November 2007, at an international conference in Dubai, he warned that a global crash was imminent. Indeed, Shiller, as well as others including Paul Krugman, 2008 Nobel Prize winner in economics, spoke out, but few listened.

And the silence wasn’t limited to Wall Street. Management at the Big Three auto companies remained silent. Even if a few questioned a corporate strategy focusing on the design of cars that would run head on into the world’s growing fuel and environmental crises, most remained silent. And investors as well as regulators where suspicious of Bernard L.Madoff’s alleged Ponzi scheme but said nothing. In 2001, Erin Arvedlund, a reporter for Barrons, wrote an article that raised questions about Modoff’s strategy that produced consistent returns far better than the returns of other funds. Yet nothing came of the article. Apparently everyone “went along to get along” and in the process reaped the short-term financial benefits or in the case of the Big Three, ensured their personal short-term future.

One way to make sense of this process is to borrow the term Group Think from the management literature.

Group Think is often used to describe situations where people “go along to get along.” It occurs when social pressures within a group prevent people from expressing their concerns. It occurs when conflict is minimized, and as a result, group processes and group decisions face few difficult tests.

Group Think during this financial crisis was widespread. No one wanted to raise questions about what was happening. The few who did were ignored. Indeed, this may have been the most vivid example of group think since Irving Janus wrote extensively about the topic in 1977.

Unfortunately, Group Think may be inescapable. It may be a systematic bias that we all share across a wide range of human social behavior whenever we collaborate with others to reach common goals. It is prevalent in modern organizations, both business and government. Only the most open, externally focused, and agile organizations can guard against it. Established bureaucracies, like General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, are at the most risk.

If there is a lesson for organizations, one that has been underscored by this financial crisis, it is this: Group Think sacrifices critical analysis and conflict for immediate comfort.

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Source by Barry Shore, Ph.D.

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Soil removal in a modern washing machine is a combination of chemical and mechanical processes.

1. Chemical action. The detergent or soap solution dissolves and loosens the soil in the fabric.

2. Mechanical action. Flexing the clothes and forcing the detergent or soap through removes the soil. The functioning of the washer is aided by the heat and softness of the water, which increases the chemical action of the detergent or soap used.

Almost all modern automatic washers employ one of two types of mechanical action, tumbler or agitator. The latter is by far the more popular and more commonly used. But all automatic washers, regardless of type, model, or make, have only four basic functions of operation: (1) fill, (2) wash, (3) pump out, and (4) extraction (spin).

The heart of the agitator-type washing machine is the agitator, which usually consists of vanes or blades on a cone that fits over a central shaft in the washer tub. As the agitator turns back and forth, the blades or vanes catches clothes and move them about. This movement also creates currents in the water, which contribute to the cleaning action.

There are almost as many agitator designs as there are washers that use agitators. Agitators have vanes or blades of various numbers, designs, and sizes, which are arranged in a vertical or spiral position. Agitators may be of solid or perforated plastic or metal (usually aluminum).

Most agitator-type washing machines employ an oscillating (back-and-forth) action during the wash cycle. To produce this oscillating action, the arm is generally connected off-center to a low-speed gear wheel. As this gear wheel turns, it imparts a back-and-forth motion to the arm. This motion, in turn, is transmitted to a pinion gear which drives the agitator.

There are also other methods of driving the agitator. For instance, a few models provide a slow-speed, off center, wobbling motion to the agitator, while some others impart an up-and-down, pulsating motion to it. While the oscillating action is the one most commonly used for the washing operation, some machines of this type employ a rotating or revolving motion to spin the tub or basket for the extraction operation. To accomplish this, a clutch action of some type is used to disengage one set of gears and engage the other. One such clutch used in washers consists of a pin dropping in place in a hole in the drive gear to engage it or it may be a friction type, as is frequently found in automobiles. Incidentally, agitator-type washing machines are top loading, meaning that the clothes are placed in the washer through a door or lid that opens on the top of the unit.

The front-load type of automatic washer has gained in popularity in recent years. The tumbler mechanism is a perforated cylinder, usually aluminum or porcelain-enameled steel, which holds the clothes; it revolves in a larger tub that holds the water. Within the cylinder are baffles, which are projections designed to carry the clothes along, through, and out of the water, until the position of the clothes causes them to fall downward again, and the process is repeated.

The axis of rotation of the washing cylinder usually is either parallel to the floor or inclined upward from the floor at approximately a 30 degree angle. A few have a vertical cylinder. Most tumbler-type washers are loaded from the front, but some can be loaded from the top or at an angle. During the washing cycle, the cylinder revolves slowly, tumbling the clothes about in soapy water. During the damp-dry cycle, the cylinder revolves rapidly, and centrifugal action helps to throw the water out of the clothes. The low speed for washing and the high speed for damp-drying are provided by the gears in a transmission as in an automobile. In a similar manner, there is a gear-shifting arrangement and a clutch to engage the gears.

The needs and components of both tumbler and agitator washers are about the same. For example, both require hot and cold water. This water is fed into valves in the washer which turn on and off the hot and cold water and mix them at appropriate times. While a few washers control water temperature with a thermostat, most operate on a simple on-off principle. When the hot water is on and cold is off, the water in the washer is hot-whatever temperature the water-heater tank provides. When the cold water is on and whatever temperature the cold-water tap provides. When both hot and cold are on, they are evenly mixed to provide warm water; with average cold water temperatures out of the tap (about 50F), the mixture comes out at about 100F.

All automatic washers have an electric motor as well as a pump. The motor on most models, in driving the washer through the wash and rinse cycles, operates in both the counterclockwise and clockwise directions when viewed from the top of the machine. It operates counterclockwise during the wash cycles and agitate-rinse operation and clockwise during the pump out and spin operations. The motor turns the pump and drive pulleys through a belt or motor-coupler arrangement. After the completion of the agitation or rinse, the water is pumped from the washer before the start of the rinse cycle. In this operation the motor is operating in the clockwise direction as it is in the spin; however, and overriding clutch disengages the transmission spin tube so the basket will not spin. At the end of the pump out period a solenoid releases the clutch spring and the spin basket rotates to extract the water from the clothes. The pump is usually in operation continuously. When the agitator is in operation, power is transferred directly into the transmission from the drive pulley through the transmission drive shat and clutch spring located inside the transmission case. During the pump out and spin periods the clockwise rotation of the motor releases the clutch.

Solenoids play a very important part in the operation of an automatic washer. In addition to operating the clutch and gearshift arrangements, they control water flow, detergent application and the like. Of course, the overall control of the automatic washer is left to the timer or the electronic control. While part of the control is selected by the user – for instance, washing time and water temperature-most of the automatic action is performed at certain preselected time intervals by the timer/control.

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Source by Rich Caldwell

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I am a proud, self-proclaimed nomad, always looking for fresh pasture. I can pack my essentials and be on the road in under five minutes. A relative once said that it’s easy for me to be nomadic because I don’t actually own anything. But in my eyes, I possess everything that any modern-day nomad could possibly need. A St. Croix 9 1/2 foot, 6-weight fly rod, a brand-new laptop, an automobile and a GPS. Oh yea, some clothing and a few personal hygiene products. But while me and my Buick camel can easily travel to anywhere in a moment’s notice, I do have a menagerie of memories stored in the basements of my happily-divorced parents. I’ve never watched the television shows “Hoarders” or “Intervention”, but one of my family members just might, one day soon, nominate me to star on an upcoming episode of both.

Now remember, after reading this, that you’ll think to yourself, “he couldn’t have possibly made that stuff up.”

I gave away my Taiwanese, woman’s boobs-shaped, wooden massage tool and the replica Iranian battle axe and chain mail helmet. It certainly would be silly to have things like that just lying around for no reason. I only horde important crap, things worthy of precious storage space.

While looking for a hammer the other day, I stumbled upon my copy of an “acknowledgement of registration” from the Selective Service System. You never know, 35 years later, when your military draft status might come up during an employment interview. Along with this document, are the test results that revealed what career in which I might succeed in the near future. “You should consider ‘Truck Driver’. ” Dammit, that’s where I went wrong in life! Stupid restaurants. The results from my DAT test (Differential Aptitude Test) actually seem a little bit more on-target. Abstract Reasoning and Verbal Reasoning-in the 95 percentile. Space Relations-30%. I can figure it out myself, just don’t stand so close. That’s how I read it.

In one box of treasures are my stuffed bears that I palled around with as a child. Smokey and Jo Jo. Don’t tell ’em if you see ’em, but they look worse-off than I do after all of these years. Now the name “Smokey”, I understand. Smokey the Bear. Belt, hat, badge and everything. But Jo Jo? Inspired by Jo Jo White/ point guard for the Boston Celtics? He hadn’t even been drafted into the NBA at this point. Who knows.

There are piles and piles of Valentines Day cards from elementary school. There were no transgender cards available back then. Everyone gave everyone a card. “Be my Valentine, signed Ralph”. Not to be a homophobe there Ralph, but I’ve still got a leery eye on you, even after 45 years. As I matured, so did the cards. I kept stacks of letters and cards from the very first love of my life. And the second one. And a couple from a younger girl who kept promising me all sorts of immoral acts. Didn’t really like her, but it made for good reading. And what a romantic little shit I was as a teenager. I wrote a poem for my first love that dreamed about living in a cave in Bolivia. “Give me a blonde and a bottle of rum and everything will be alright”. Good try, but it didn’t work.

For some reason, I have several of my Mother’s grade school report cards. It was probably a leveraging/bartering tool on days that I brought home my own less-than-stellar grades from high school. A quick analysis of my college transcripts shows amazing success in chemistry and biology classes (thanks Mrs. Bauserman), but a total disinterest in elective courses such as 16th century music. Heck, in my defense, you had to WALK to the library in order to listen to the rockin’ Hans Neusidler and his no-electric-guitar orchestra.

Grandfather Knode was a Free Mason. Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Grandad. Along with his embossed certificate of membership in the secretive District of Columbia chapter, I’ve kept forever his masonic apron and book of by-laws.

Grandmother Knode worked as a secretary for Senator Millard Tydings. A monogrammed wooden box that sat on his desk was given to her by the Senator as a sign of appreciation, after he left office in 1950. That wooden box now sits in my Mom’s basement and contains a recipe typed by my Aunt B. The recipe is from Grandmother Knode for “24-hour Salad”, which is now a traditional dish served annually at our family’s Thanksgiving Day meals.

Grandad Lambert worked during a period of time when a man’s word and a hand-shake meant more than any written contract ever did. A receipt that I have, hand-written in the 1940’s, was probably given to him as a monthly reminder by a local filling station; bagged ice and gasoline for the outrageous grand total of $3.10. Obvious price gouging. There are a few birthday cards from Grandad and Grandma Lambert. And several birthday cards from my Aunt Dot. On her way to family sainthood status, religiously every year, Aunt Dot would send birthday cards, each containing a five dollar bill, to me, my two sisters and our 23 cousins. Each and every year, no matter where you were living. “How did she even know that I was in Savannah for three months this year?” Even if you didn’t remember that it was your birthday, you did after you had checked your mailbox.

There’s an issue of The Weekly World News, the now defunct, mostly fictional news tabloid publication which I always found so humorous. My live-in girlfriend at the time had out-nomad-ed me by moving out of our home while I was away at work. She later dropped off this edition as some sort of strange peace offering, knowing that I found the sarcasm very funny. “Redneck Aliens Takeover Trailer Park” The picture of a husband and wife, who had witnessed the invasion, was stoically captioned as saying “There goes the neighborhood”. I think the giving of this gift had a double-sarcastic message behind it. She was good at that.

Fishing was always a big part of my life and the basements are speckled with all sorts of fishing relics. A 40 year-old automatic fly reel that came mounted on my very first fly rod is still armed with the original fly line, forever cured with water from the Shenandoah. There’s an antique wicker creel basket given to me by Neil Armstrong. Not the astronaut, silly. The UPS delivery driver who was a bar buddy of mine years ago up at The Boston Beanery. His uncle had passed away and literally gave him the farm. Discovered out in the barn were three antique bamboo fly rods. “Well Neil, those are all Montague rods, ya might want to check on their value.” A couple of weeks and a couple of thousands of dollars later, I received that creel basket as referral commission. Safely secured in a ceiling rack built by my Dad are another half dozen or so fly rods. Because, you know, you can never have too many fishing rods.

If your phone number was (704) 637-4293 and you’re missing the rotary dial off of your telephone, I have it. Give me a call.

I once was almost a father, but he died in womb. Tucked away in a box in the corner of the basement is a picture of Andrew, that was suppose to help with the grieving process. It doesn’t work. The picture lies atop a couple of self-help books given as gifts, one of which is titled “The Expectant Father”. Wish I had, but I never took the time to read those books.

My one younger sister had some serious home-sickness during her first summer camp experience. A letter that she had sent from camp, addressed to me and my other sister, was written on the second day at Camp Strawderman. The now empty letter once contained a single stick of chewing gum. The letter read, “The gum is for Robin and Mary”.

I wonder if I ever paid this parking ticket from Dulles airport. I had left my car unattended for two minutes near the airport’s front doors, as I helped my Bulgarian buddy Lucy with her luggage, in a hurried attempt to catch her 6 A.M. flight back home. I guess that since I’m holding the ticket, that’s not a good sign. Wasn’t my car no how.

So an ex-wife came yapping around my house one day, accusing my of possessing a set of fine china that we had received as a wedding present. I whole-heartedly denied any knowledge of the flowered pattern of plates and coffee cups, knowing dammed well the definition of a fifty/fifty split. She gets a hundred percent and I get zero. One afternoon, years later, I’m looking for something ‘really’ important in my small mountain of memorabilia, when I came across box after box stuffed with old newspapers. The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star to be exact. Well, thanks funny, I used to live in Fredericksburg back when I was married. Whoops. I’d give that china set away for free, but it seems to make the food taste sour. (But a little revenge tastes sweet) So in the basement it sits.

Before the days that OCD and ADD were invented, my childhood friend Stan and myself would spend hours playing with my electric football game. For the unknowledgeable, electric football sets were a small, metal playing field caused to vibrate by an electric motor, which created movement of the little, plastic figurines of football players. It was very loud and a lot of fun for a young boy. But being overly competitive, even at a young age, Stan and I took it to a whole new level of intensity. I have the spiral notebooks, filled with the plays and formations, that we hand-wrote and developed over time; we even kept detailed statistics of the games. The spiral notebooks, the still-functioning playing field and six plastic bags full of little players wearing their official NFL team colors, are resting comfortably in the basement, next to Coach Lee’s new football playbook handouts that we received once a week before math class in my Senior year of high school.

There’s the yellow lucky rabbit’s foot that I wore on my Little League uniform’s belt loop. Several engraved leather bracelets and a St. Christopher’s necklace. A Happy Turkey Day card, the turkey picture created with the tiny, water-color stained left hand of my Goddaughter Rachel. An 8mm copy of “I am a Teenage Werewolf”. I must have misplaced the one with Mr. Magoo.

Wait a minute, is that Zeppelin on the radio? Good Times, Bad Times… You know I had my share…

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Source by Robin Lambert

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The word “Christ” has been used for many centuries by Christian religions to refer to the historical Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus did in actuality attain full Christ consciousness while on Earth and subsequently ascended to the spiritual heavens, becoming an Ascended Master in the process.

Yet as Jesus stated in the Bible, “what I can do, you can do also”. And as elsewhere stated in the Bible: “Let this mind be in you [the Christ mind] that was also in Christ Jesus”. So we can see from these two statements that Jesus came to set an example that the state of Christ consciousness was not only achievable and attainable for Jesus of Nazareth, but for all souls embodying on Earth.

The essence of the information I will impart to you now has been channeled by Ascended Masters of the Great White Brotherhood of Light, including the Ascended Masters Jesus, Mother Mary, and Maitreya.

There are two types of consciousness that presently exist on Earth. One is the Christ consciousness and the other is the anti-christ consciousness. The Christ consciousness is a state of mind of knowing you are one with all others – and that each soul is part of the One Body of God. From this Christ mind state, you see no separation between yourself and any other part of God – any other soul. You recognize the Divine God Light in each soul – regardless of their own limited state of mind and way of behaving – and you show love and compassion and tolerance to each and every part of God. Many people on Earth have attained some degree of Christhood and treat others with respect and kindness and compassion and tolerance.

The anti-christ consciousness is a state of mind of “believing” you are separate from all others and / or God; it is a belief that we are not parts of the One Body of God, and acting in a separatist way, that includes being arrogant to others, prejudiced to others, violence and disrespectful to others, feeling superior and elitist towards others, and judging and condemning others in thought, word, and action. The anti-christ consciousness is rife on planet Earth and is strongly present to some degree in most people on Earth.

To help you understand the relationship between the Christ mind and the mind of anti-christ, visualize an empty glass in front of you. The glass being empty represents full Christ consciousness. If you add water into the glass – which occurs each time you act from the mind of anti-christ – then your state of Christ consciousness becomes less, and your state of anti-christ consciousness becomes more. If you stop acting from the mind of anti-christ, and begin acting “only” from the Christ mind, gradually the water will evaporate from the glass and you will gradually achieve full Christ consciousness. Yet in order to stop acting from the mind of anti-christ, you must first uncover and release all “hidden” anti-Christ feelings and thoughts within your subconscious mind to achieve this full Christ mind state, which requires a great deal of inner work. It is not enough just to “act” Christ-like on the surface, you must remove the beam in your own eye – the beam being all impure thoughts and feelings of anger, hate, jealousy, prejudice, violence, superiority, inferiority, intolerance and condemnation.

This is no mean feat, when you consider the anti-christ consciousness has infiltrated society at all levels, including religions – where separatism and elitism are commonplace, in schools – where you are rated as better than or less than your peers, and in the media – where competition, pride, and intolerance are encouraged. For this reason, you see souls with a wide variance of either Christ or anti-christ consciousness within their make-up. Consider it is like a spiral staircase. At the top of the spiral staircase is full Christ awareness, and at the bottom is full anti-christ living. Which step of the spiral staircase are you on?

Earth is currently going through an ascension process and it is linked to the number of souls on Earth achieving Christ awareness. For the Earth to ascend, 144,000 souls on Earth need to have achieved a very high degree of personal Christhood. This is happening and the Earth ascension process will begin from the year 2013 and will mark the beginning of the New Age of the Golden Age of Christ Consciousness. Souls who choose to “remain” in the mind of anti-christ and not embrace the Christ mind will choose to leave the Earth through natural disasters, chronic illnesses, and suicide. This process has been happening since 1982, as a result of a concentrated mass of Christ energy sent into the Earth’s atmosphere by the Ascended Masters – called the Photon Belt Christ Energy.

From the year 2013, only souls who are of the Christ mind will be allowed to reincarnate on Earth and there will be a 1000 year grace period of peace on Earth to enable souls to achieve full Christ consciousness. Souls choosing to remain in the mind of anti-christ will not be permitted to return to Earth and there only option will be to reincarnate onto another planet that still allows for this state of separatism – this state of anti-christ consciousness – to exist.

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Source by Glen Russell

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Only as recently as 2010, did the F.D.A give the approval of its first Penis Extension Device to be sold over the counter in the U.S. So for men wanting to get a bigger penis, this may be the only alternative to surgery.

Developed and designed in Germany more than 10 years ago now, The Phallosan is quite different the usual type of extension device.

These are normally frames which sit at the base of the penis, stretching along the shaft and gripping the head softly.

Designed to increase penis size by slow traction, manufacturers of these devices state that it’s through this slow pull on the shaft that instructs tissue cell expansion, hence growth.

These claims however are in truth a little sketchy. Urinological evidence does exist on their websites but always check the “Disclaimer” part of the website to read about testimonial evidence from the men who wanted to get a bigger penis, if you consider buying such a device.

The Phallosan however is in fact a Vacuum Protector. It is based on simple automatic stretching of the penis shaft and the cavernous bodies within it. According to European health authorities it is a Class 1 Medical Device,designed to also enlarge the glans, as the vacuum tension also acts on the tip of the glans.

In 2005 a clinical study was conducted, where Phallosan state on their websitee: “These results are authentic, true and reproducible at any time“. The results yielded an average 1.5 inch increase over the course of 6 months, where the men who participated in the trial, wore the device for approximately 8 hours a day.

Unlike a frame which sits on the shaft and can potentially be noticeable through clothing and completely impractical on certain occasions, the Phallosan works on the principle of a stretch belt which is worn comfortably and invisibly beneath the clothing.

Currently the world’s only vacuum protector, if your simply looking to get a bigger penis, or you suffer from spiral shaped calluses, incurvative penile syndrome, a retracto penis, penile deficiency or erectile dysfunction this which Phallosan review states it can treat – If you really do want to attempt to gain a bigger penis, having F.D.A approval might suggest that this New Vacuum Device is the closest and only alternative successful method to surgery, which will in the thousands of dollars, and can result in some serious treatment effects – terminally.

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Source by Rob R Carmichael

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Each person has at their core a center of spiritual energy that radiates from their body. For most of us the aura, or that cocoon of energy around our body, is invisible. But psychics report that they can see the aura and identify a person’s overall condition by the strength and color of the aura. For our purposes, we’ll call that combination of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual energies that make you who you are your psychic self.

Our aura reflects our combined physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. People who are healthy, well-balanced, content, and spiritually-connected have strong bright auras, while people who are ill, distressed, depressed, or spiritually poor have weak dark auras. When people interact, their auras sometimes connect. And people with negative auras can actually drain positive people of their spiritual energy.

Our bodies have feedback mechanisms that govern our psychic and spiritual energies and determine the size, strength, and colors of our aura. The idea is simple. When you are ill, you don’t think as clearly. When you don’t think clearly, your emotions are likely to get out of balance, and you’ll feel stressed. When you feel stressed, you’re less likely to be able to maintain a spiritual connection with the people and positive energies around you. And the weaker your spiritual energies are, the sicker you’ll feel physically. You can get caught in a downward spiral of feedback where your energies continue to degrade, your feel worse, and your aura gets weaker and darker.

On the other hand, when you feel good physically, when you are strong and healthy, your will be more mentally clear and alert. When you’re thinking more clearly, your emotionals are more likely to be balanced and positive. And when these energies are positive, you can maintain and improve your spiritual connection. Then you feel better. You can also get in an upward spiral, constantly improving in general condition. Your aura will reflect this upward spiral, growing stronger and brighter as your condition improves.

External forces affect you as well. Society teaches you how and what to think about many things, and this can shape your mental and emotional condition. If you practice regular exercise and eat a balanced diet, your physical condition will be strong and stable. Economic factors can influence your psychic health. If you are under financial stress, it will have the same effect as any other stress and degrade your energies. When you are stable and secure financially, you are less likely to be affected by financial stresses. If you disagree strongly with the political decisions and actions your government is taking, you introduce another stress. Thus, externalities have a role in your feedback mechanisms and can change your level of energy.

Individuals in your life can affect your energies and change the condition of your psychic self. Positive individuals are likely to make you feel positive. Conversely, negative individuals are likely to “bring you down” by draining your psychic self of its energy and vitality.

Clearly, under this construction, stress of any kind can be very damaging, making your psychic health as important as your physical health. You use seat belts to protect your physical health when you’re in a car. You lock your house to protect yourself from burglars and intruders. You do what you can to protect yourself from criminals and people who would abuse or use you. So why not protect yourself from the negative energies and influences that can drain your psychic energies?

The way to practice psychic self-defense is to maintain as healthy a balance of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual energy as possible. You do this by keeping physically healthy through exercise and proper eating habits, by remaining intellectually active and challenged, by achieving a positive emotional outlook, and by constantly improving your spiritual connections to other people and the world around you.

Introspection is a valuable tool. In order to begin this process of healing, you must review your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to weed out pessimism, resentment, anger, envy, and discontent. You must replace those negative energies with positive energies like optimism, compassion, joy, contentment, and peace. At the same time, you should take a good look at your relationships. Where are they negative and destructive? Where are they healthy and positive? You may need to let go of some relationships when you realize that they are really draining your psychic self and weakening your aura. And you should cultivate those relationships that are positive and healthy, for they can only make you stronger.

Book store shelves, and Amazon.com, are full of self-help books that will help you in your internal cleansing process. The world’s great sacred texts (the Bible, Qur’an, and Bagavhad Gita) can help you find your spiritual center and direction. Twelve step groups, where appropriate, can be very helpful guiding you through this process, as it’s exactly what they were designed to do. And therapy and support groups are available that can give you further insight.

Meditation is the single most important tool available to you that integrates your basic energies and cleanses you of negative energies. You can also try other “New Age” techniques like becoming a vegetarian, using crystals and amulets, and drinking healing herbal teas. But the point is working on your psychic self to clear negative thinking and destructive feelings from your being.

In the end, your own self-discipline and will to improve are your greatest strengths. Making a personal commitment to psychic self-defense necessitates a program of self-examination and self-improvement. Once on that path, your rewards will be so great that continuing will be automatic and desirable.

When you become experienced in this area, you will literally feel those moments when you are under “psychic attack,” when negative energies and influences are draining you. You will know how to protect yourself and how to make yourself stronger.

This may all sound “out there” and silly. But it is fact. There is nothing on this page that mankind hasn’t known for thousands of years. Modern societies seem to want to forget these truths, to their peril.

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Source by Abhishek Agarwal

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Centrifugal air movers are ideal for drying applications and are regularly utilized by experts in the water damage restoration industry. They can be utilized to blow away dust during demolition or accelerate drying times for drywall and paint jobs – expediting all of those procedures that consistently take up your time.

This sort of air mover makes an exceptionally focused airflow by routing the air through a series of ducts, dampers and different segments. The Inside of these units appears as a hamster wheel, which is the reason these fans are known as squirrel cages. Read on to know more.

Why should you choose a centrifugal fan?

Centrifugal fans (or spiral fans) are comprised of a fan wheel (impeller) driven by a motor that pivots in a stator appended to the wheel. This stator has two openings: the first one supplies the focal piece of the impeller with liquid, which penetrates by vacuum and is blown by centrifugal effect through the second orifice towards the edge.

There are two types of outward fans: forward bended fans and reverse bended fans. Forward bended radial fans have a “squirrel cage” and a number of sharp blades extending from 32 to 42 units. Their productivity is 60 to 75%. Reverse bended centrifugal fans have a proficiency of 75 to 85%, with various units running from 6 to 16.

The overpressure is higher than that provided by a propeller fan; these fans are a lot more suitable for long circuits. Apart from this, they offer an advantage regarding noise level: they are much quieter.

Things to consider

Environment

The environment where the machine works should be considered to pick the correct blower-motor combination.

Outdoors

Consider a Totally Enclosed Fan Cooled (TEFC) electric motor on direct drive units, or a belt driven unit with an included climate spread.

Grimy or Dusty Environment

A TEFC engine is best for longer life and ideal productivity.

Corrosive Environment

In wet, damp conditions, a stainless-steel blower is suggested, ideally with a stainless wash-duty motor.

Hazardous Environment

Consider a non-sparking blower, for example. This is a radial or high-pressure blower.

Airflow (CFM)

CFM or cubic feet per minute is the estimation of how much air is moved by the machine in 1 minute. Remember: a higher torque doesn’t mean a higher CFM. For the most part, you can expect that axial air movers should have a CFM rating of at least 3000. Centrifugal air movers regularly run 2400-2700 CFM.

Motor power and speed

While picking an air blower, you can consider the engine that will control it which could extend from a ¼ HP engine to 1 HP engine. To begin with, you’ll have to consider where you’ll be utilizing the air mover.

The Takeaway

Unlike your standard fan, centrifugal air movers work by giving a consistent blast of air that you can direct on a particular spot. As a result, you can use them for a variety tasks, including drying wet surfaces, improving the airflow and preventing different types of machines from overheating.

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Source by Shalini M

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OK! It happened. In spite of your best intentions you wore buttons or belt loops into your hammock, and broke one or more of the strings. What do you do now? In this article we will cover the repairs of three of the most common mishaps that can befall the Mayan hammock.

• Mishap number one, and the most common, is the breaking of one or two string because they snagged something on your clothing. The repair is pretty simple. Take both ends of the string and tie a single weaver’s knot. What is that? Make a U shape in one of the strings. Then bring the end of the other string up through the back of the U, around the back, and then under itself. Pull tight. Trim the edge; and work the string back into the weave. Repeat for any other broken strings.
• Mishap number two starts out like mishap number one except you have nylon or mercerized cotton strings that don’t break easily. In this case you end up with a long loop pulled out of the weave. In this case you will carefully pull the string from each side of the loop so the loop almost disappears, and you have two smaller loops, one on each side. Then pull the string from the far side of each loop making further smaller loops. Keep doing this, tracing the string through the length of the hammock until you have only a series of small loops along the hammock. Then take the end of the hammock and shake it vigorously. If necessary, you can gently tug and spread the weave around the subject string until the weave looks good.
• Mishap number three is the bad one. It can happen when your teenagers have their friends over; and no one quite knows how almost a third of the hammock was sliced open! Trying to retie and weave this mess together would make a grown man cry. So don’t try. Get some fishing line or other thin but strong string. Go just past one end of the wound and tie the weave tightly shut with a strong knot. Then evenly and carefully spiral stitch along the full length of the wound, making sure to get at least a couple of strands of good hammock cord on either side of the tear. Continue past the end of the tear and tie another tight knot. You can trim off all the string beards hanging down, and you are done. This is not a beautiful repair, but it will last for years.

The beauty of these repairs is that even when they don’t look so great, the comfort of the hammock is generally not affected at all.

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Source by Tom Sloane

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Planers can be used for a variety of tasks including milling glued-up hardwood panels, thicknessing and surfacing lumber and making mouldings. Some of these tasks can be duplicated by other machines such as a wide-belt sanding machine or a drum sander. When you have digested the contents of this article, you should have enough information to make and informed purchasing decision.

In the “old days” (whenever that was) lumber was simply sawn out of logs and left to air dry. If you wanted to be able to see the grain so that it could be matched with other boards, it had to be planed. If you wanted it planed, you needed a long bed hand plane and a lot of skill. With the invention of the planer, no one needed to plane boards by hand any more and the practice stopped in the name of “progress.” Today, most boards are delivered already thickness planed and some are even straight line ripped on one edge, making things very easy for the woodworker. So, why own a planer?

Thickness planing does not end at the lumber yard. Lumber, once edge glued into panels is still uneven and the boards are never in perfect alignment with each other. Something must take this rough panel from, say, 1 7/8″ down to its final thickness of, say, 1 ½”, smooth both sides. There are two ways of doing this that I know of: an abrasive planer (wide-belt sander or drum sander) or a planer that uses knives in a cutterhead.

A combination of a knife planer and an abrasive planer would be ideal but not always affordable. This is because planers have a way of tearing chips out of loose grain. They are, however, much faster in removing material than a sanding machine. A sanding machine will never tear out chips but it may use up a lot of valuable production time. So, in an ideal world, where money didn’t matter, you could do most of the thicknessing with the planer and then finish up to the final thickness dimension with the sanding machine.

In fact, if you have the money and need to do your woodworking on an industrial scale, there are machines with a planer head followed by two or more sanding heads. I had the chance to use such a machine for several years. A friendly competitor bought it for his woodworking firm in Hawaii and had it shipped in by ocean freight from the mainland.

This giant machine, made by Cemco, used 880 volt, 3 phase motors. A ten HP motor ran the conveyor belt and the one planing and two sanding heads each had 60 HP electric motors. It could plane and sand panels 52 inches wide. In size, it looked like a large, industrial printing press. My friend bought into a sawmill and had Hawaiian Koa wood shipped by barge from the Big Island to Oahu where he had constructed a dehumidification kiln next to the Cemco machine. Eventually, he over-extended himself financially and had to close his business. He found a buyer for the planer/sander but he had to ship the huge machine all the way back to the mainland because no one in Hawaii had a use for such a machine. Of course, I don’t know what your plans are for a planer but I’m pretty sure you won’t be buying a Cemco any time soon. That still leaves a lot of sizes and types of planers to discuss.

A planer/jointer uses the same cutterhead for planing as it does for jointing. It looks like a jointer but it also has a space underneath the jointer table where you insert boards for planing. You feed the boards in one direction on the jointer table, above the cutterhead, and in the opposite direction through the planer underneath the cutterhead. This is because the cutterhead only spins in one rotational direction. A planer, if it has molding capability becomes a molder simply by removing the straight knives and replacing them with profile cutters.

Most planers are constructed with the cutterhead mounted in the top part of the machine and a metal table with rollers underneath the lumber being planed. The thickness is adjusted by raising and lowering the table with relationship to the cutterhead above. The lumber is driven through the machine by the front roller or rollers which are usually serrated for better grip. The outfeed rollers are at the same height as the infeed rollers but they are usually not powered and are shiny and smooth. There are some large, expensive planers in which all rollers are powered.

There are three types of cutterheads: straight knife, spiral and helical. The terms “spiral” and helical are often used interchangeably although this is inaccurate. There are strong similarities between the spiral and helical types but there IS a difference as I will explain. Straight knives are used on most planers in the less expensive range. For the most part, straight knives are fine but they do have two drawbacks: they are difficult to align with each other after changing and they tend to tear out loose grain more easily.

Helical and spiral heads get around both problems to a large degree. It has been found that a bunch of small cutter blades arrayed in a spiral wrap around the cutterhead will minimize splintering. Helical knives are usually square or rectangular in shape and sharpened on either 2 or 4 sides. They are mounted directly onto the face of the cutterhead and, thus, require no adjustment to align them with each other. To change a cutter in a helical head, you simply remove the screw that holds it in place. If there are unused edges on the cutter, you can rotate that cutter to exposed the new edge to the wood and then replace the screw. You buy cutters by the box and replace them as needed: Sometime you replace just a few that have become nicked. At other times, all cutters have been dulled on all sides and it is time to replace them all.

The spiral cutterhead is different from the helical head in that Spiral Planer Cutterhead, a whole row of cutters, connected together in a flexible strip are attached to the spiral head, One row at a time. There are spiral tracks or indentations in the heads that locate the cutter strips. There may be three or so tracks on a spiral cutterhead. Helical cutterheads are much more common than spiral heads.

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Source by Bob Gillespie