He asked me to think of something that made me feel at ease; made me feel calm. I immediately thought of my black Lab Oboe.  When I’m with him I’m peaceful, I’m relaxed, and I feel safe.  “Great!” he said.  He then asked me to close my eyes, think of Oboe, and to see if I could imagine how he felt or how he smelled; could I conjure up those sensory images in my mind as if they were real?  I laughed and timidly told him that Oboe smells like Fritos.  Like the corn chips.  He doesn’t always smell that way, just occasionally, but enough that one of his many nicknames is ‘Frito Puppy’.  “Um, ok, let’s work with that then.  Oboe, the Frito Puppy.”  I was hoping the shrink had bumped into other patients that week who were much more nuts than me.

We practiced using the image of Oboe in my mind’s eye, combined with my conjuring up the smell of Fritos, and mixed it all together with deep breathing and progressions of muscle tightening and loosening.  It was interesting.  I wasn’t sure how helpful it would be in times of extremely anxiety though.  I just couldn’t picture myself walking along somewhere with my eyes closed and my nose pushed into a bag of corn chips while inhaling and exhaling.  I did understand the practice to be beneficial if I were to do regular relaxation techniques outside of scary anxiety situations.

During the inaugural meeting of the Ty-Ty Sisterhood last month, when we perused the menu of food options, both Brenda and I selected – of all things – bags of Fritos to go along with our beverages.  I didn’t really think of my previous therapy experience until yesterday, during Ty-Ty Gathering number two.  Everything was just a little ‘off’ yesterday at the infusion center.  First, the clerical nurse was on vacation and it was day seven of her non-clerical colleagues covering for her.  They were tired and frustrated.  A computer glitch modified our appointment times, so the nurses expected us more than 30 minutes later than when we arrived.  Then my Ty-Ty sister had a long and drawn out battle with a needle or two, as the IV nurse struggle to get Brenda’s line in safely and painlessly.  So, we were behind schedule before we even started.

When we arrived in our private “wing” of the center, we noticed that the all-important and exciting menu was missing from our table.  We didn’t push the issue though, recognizing the insignificance of a lack of menus when compared with all the Murphy’s Law moments going on around us.  One nurse was scrambling around looking for her saline drip.  The pharmacy was running behind with their delivery of my Tysabri.  (Interesting observation this time around – the nurses won’t call over to the hospital pharmacy to retrieve our IV bags until they see not only that we have arrived for treatment, but have also walked us through all the Touch Protocol questions.  Apparently they need to mix and dilute the drug and if they do it beforehand and one of us doesn’t show up or we fail the series of questions, they have to throw the meds away.  With what we now know about the cost of Ty, I certainly understand their reasoning, but it can sometimes take quite awhile for the drugs to arrive).

Within the first hour or so, two other patients (non-Tysabri users) had to be picked up by ambulances and taken across the street to the hospital.  One had respiratory complications and another had an issue that needed hospital admission for treatment.   With the nurses scurrying around, caring for patients, it would have been ridiculous to ask for a menu.  But, when one of the nurses asked if we wanted anything, I blurted out, “Fritos, please!”  “Me, too,” said Brenda.  Moments later we were contentedly munching on chips, drinking our sodas, watching a volume-less television, and fidgeting our way through two hours of treatment in our medical Lazy-Boys.  It was only then that I recalled that therapy session some time ago.  I didn’t share that little story with Brenda at the time though.  I didn’t want her asking one of the nurses to call the ambulance back for a third time with an express trip to the psych ward. 

The last time we were at the center, we were the only two Tysabri patients.  This time two others joined us.  One came in right after the two exoduses to the ER and the other just as I was wrapping up treatment.  More sisters?  At one point Brenda and I thought about sliding the one curtain open to engage with the first ‘other’ gal to arrive, perhaps offering her the opportunity to join the sisterhood, but we didn’t want to be intrusive or to scare the daylights out of her.  Instead we giggled about expanding our little sorority, musing about orientation rituals and rules.  There would certainly have to be some initiation into the clan, no?

We left both patients alone this time, but perhaps if they remain on the same 28-day schedule as the two of us, we’ll extend an opportunity to hop on the Ty-Train with the sisterhood.  Of course at minimum they will have to at least love Fritos!

Why does this occur? Well the thinking is that as the temperature of the body increases, it promotes cross-talk among the demyelinated axons and also leads to conduction blocks (block in the conduction of impulses in the neurons). This exacerbates preexisting neurological deficits.

So it follows that MS patients do better in colder environments as compared to warmer places.  Better in winter as compared to the heat of summer. Keeping the ambient temperature of your house a few degrees below “normal” may be worthwhile though there is no scientific data to back this claim.

Nitin Sethi, MD

I got the email below from one of our Greater Liberty Riders this morning about the not guilty verdict for the motorist who hit and killed two bicycle riders, a grandfather and his grand daughter.

“Ed, while I believe that there is way too much hate in the world and I do my best not to add anymore, the truly personal nature of the Gaunt's case and the seemingly obvious fault on the drivers behalf leaves me stunned with a verdict such as this. I know that Mr. Johnson has probably suffered plenty and is probably a good person. But I'm left feeling angry and yes a little hateful toward the jury members and court system. I guess this too will pass but in the mean time my thoughts turn toward you and I wonder if you could help me understand how to turn the other cheek.”

My Response

I was angry and sad at the verdict. How the jury could render a not guilty verdict baffles me. I feel less safe out on my bike now. I ask myself what I should do. The one thing I cannot do is quit riding. Another thing I cannot do is let myself become bitter and hateful. One of my dear friends, Bronia Roslowowski, survived the Holocaust. She was beaten and starved and almost killed. All in her family were killed. For years I have taken my students to visit her. We always ask, “Bronia, do you hate anyone?” “No.” She says. “Not even Nazis?” We ask. “No.” She says. “Why not?” We ask. “Hate kills you first,” she says.

Victor Frankl survived the Holocaust and felt guilty. Why had he survived when his friends and family had not? Out of his struggle to understand this, he wrote a book, Man’s Search for Meaning. Frankl was a psychiatrist. Because of his experiences in the Holocaust, he contends that the purpose of life is to make it have meaning. Meaning is not out there somewhere waiting to be discovered. Meaning comes from within us. We live in an unjust and capricious world over which we have little control. The only control we have is how we respond. The world that lies behind our eyes, beneath our skull, above our chin and between our ears is really the only world there is. How we let the outside world inside and what we make of that raw material determines what kind of life we lead and how others respond to us.

Gandhi is one of my life models. In his book, My Experiments with Truth, he says, “In so far as possible, I try to agree with my adversaries.” As I read the morning paper about the not guilty verdict, I thought of Gandhi and found myself trying to imagine how those jurors could find the driver who killed two people not guilty. These were12 ordinary people, struggling to do what was right as they understood the law. They must have been conflicted and confused. But our system of justice demanded that that make a decision. How will that decision impact the rest of their lives? They will be questioned by friends and family, the curious and the angry. I feel sympathy for them. And I wonder what I would have decided had I heard what they heard inside that courtroom.

I feel sympathy for the family of those who were killed. I can understand their anger. What meaning can be made out of two senseless deaths, I do not know. How long it will take I do not know. As I’m writing these words, my mind turns to Nelson Mandela. For 27 years he was a political prisoner in South Africa. When he was finally released, he was elected President of South Africa. He then selected some of those who had imprisoned him to help him govern the country. Long Road To Freedom is the title of Mandela’s book. No one thought Mandela could forgive his jailers and give them a place in his government. But because he did, he avoided civil war and brought to himself a moral authority greater than any living person in our world.

All of us who love biking and want to be taken seriously and treated fairly have a long road ahead as we try to help our fellow citizens understand us and accept us as equals on the road and in a court of law. Knowing Bronia, Frankl, Mandela and Gandhi help me find my way. Perhaps they might help you. I hope so.

Only when terrible things happen to us and around us do we have opportunity to discover what kinds of persons we truly are. Now is such a time. Who will we be? What meaning can we make? Will we draw people to us and our cause by the way we respond?

Cerejeira coberta de flores se destaca na praça Antônio João, no centro de Dourados

Maria Lucia Tolouei

DOURADOS – O projeto de revitalização da Praça Antônio João tem como aliado uma proposta de paisagismo que prevê a manutenção da maioria das espécies vegetais no interior e entorno do espaço público que hoje está bastante deteriorado pela ação humana e do tempo. Segundo a engenheira agrônoma Rosilene Bertiopaglia Ferreira a idéia é preservar quase tudo, à exceção de duas palmeiras em processo deterioração, que cresceram ao lado da fonte luminosa desativada há anos.
A praça central de Dourados abriga uma variedade de espécies, como ipês brancos e as cerejeiras, símbolo do Japão. De olho na preservação das árvores, hoje sufocadas pelo concreto e a iluminação artificial noturna, o novo paisagismo prevê a ampliação da área de vegetação rasteira para arejar o local.
O viveiro municipal disponibiliza espécies como calêndulas, margaridas, flocos e as perpétuas, para preencher os canteiros ao longo da nova praça, prevista para ser entregue no próximo ano, e que pretende garantir o acesso a pessoas deficientes.
De acordo com o secretário de Habitação e Serviços Urbanos, Jorge Hamilton Torraca, o projeto está orçado em R$ 1,5 milhão, dos quais R$ 400 mil são contrapartida do município à verba federal. A primeira etapa da obra reconstruiu o calçadão da Catedral, que começa a apresentar rachaduras por conta do tráfego não autorizado de veículos nos finais de semana. Inclui também o novo calçamento do entorno da praça. Torraca diz que a obra agora parou, por conta do momento eleitoral, mas garante que deverá ser retomada depois de outubro e entregue ano que vem.
A diversidade da vegetação presente nas praças e nos canteiros centrais competem com as milhares de árvores plantadas nas ruas e quintais, cerca de 270 mil, calcula a agrônoma.
Rosilene Bertiopaglia Ferreira diz que, seguramente, Dourados é uma das cidades mais arborizadas do país. "A professora da Unesp de Jaboticabal e doutora em arborização, Maria Esmeralda Dematê, esteve na cidade para ministrar palestra durante a Semana do Meio Ambiente e disse que, neste setor, Dourados está à frente de grandes centros urbanos", comemora a agrônoma.
Apesar disto, a cidade enfrenta inúmeros problemas ainda, com a "desertificação" de alguns bairros nobres onde as árvores estão desaparecendo por conta da deterioração ou ainda para dar lugar ao concreto das novas calçadas.
O plano de arborização intensificado na década de 70, e que fazia parte do Projeto Cura, do Governo Federal, não levou em conta a diversidade. Plantou milhares de sibipirunas que cresceram rapidamente, avançando sobre a rede de distribuição de energia elétrica. Elas vêm sofrendo podas radicais e atraindo cupins que facilmente invadem o madeiramento das casas e causam prejuízos. Por conta da predominância desta espécie, caso a cidade fosse atacada por uma praga, perderia rapidamente grande parte da cobertura vegetal, lembra a agrônoma.
Outro problema, em Dourados, é o vandalismo. Só a Enersul, que compensa as podas das árvores plantando outras, colocou nas ruas cerca de 25 mil mudas, das quais hoje só restam em torno de cinco mil. "Quebram, furtam, queimam... No prolongamento da Coronel Ponciano até a BR 163 não sobrou nenhuma", lamenta a agrônoma. ]]> http://scamparoo.wordpress.com/?p=441 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:12:29 +0000 Bonnie http://scamparoo.wordpress.com/?p=441  

 The Awful Neurological Diagnosis

After years of experiencing those illusive symptoms I started to feel like a hypochondriac.  After all, my doctor knew I was only seeking attention, so why shouldn’t I start to realize that my symptoms were mere phantoms.  I had completely stopped mentioning any health difficulty that could not be quantified by myself first.

Then came a time when everything changed.  I had an appointment to see my regular general practitioner when an intern was doing preliminary examinations for my own doctor.  As I was talking to the intern she actually witnessed me experiencing the lighting bolts of pain.  There was no ignoring or disguising the pain I felt at that time.  It was so sudden and so very, very intense.  She explained to me that this was called trigeminal neuralgia which involves a malfunction of one of the major facial nerves.

The intern had taken a class on MS the day before and was eager to practice what she had learned.  After a thorough examination she reported what she had observed to my doctor.  I was then referred to a neurologist.  Just like that, I was finally seeing a neurologist.  I did not realize until years later that I could have requested an appointment with a neurologist and my GP would have had to refer me.  (At least in Canada, I am not sure how things are done in other countries.  In Canada we cannot see a specialist unless we are referred by our GPs.)

On the first visit with the neurologist he calmly said, “Yes, you probably have MS, but I want to do some simple tests first.”  One of these tests was a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), the other test is a Spinal Tap.

The Day of Discovery

The day I found out that I had MS was a gray, dismal day.   The neurologist walked into the examination room, perched on the edge of his desk, slapped my chart down, and said, “You have MS”. 

After a lengthy stunned pause he continued, “There is nothing I can do for you unless you have $17,000 a year to spend on medicine!”  He allowed a short pause before he asked, “Do you have that amount of money?”  I numbly answered in the negative.  He stood up and walked out; flippantly and callously, saying, “Have a good day.”

I was numb with shock.  I made my way to the waiting room and my daughter was. We left.  To her question of the diagnosis, I numbly replied, “Yes, I have MS”. 

When we got to the street the sky had opened up and the rain was pouring down.  We had several blocks to walk.  I started  crying.  We were both very quiet, with our own private thoughts. 

Nature plastered us with drenching water, running down our faces.  No one on the street, even noticed that I was crying.  After a few block I started to pray.  I gave myself, and my MS, completely over to the care of God. 

By the time we got to the car I knew that God was in control and my life could be very good, even with MS.  I wasn’t relieved.  I wasn’t accepting.  I wasn’t understanding.  But, I did know that I didn’t have to do this alone.

To many, I may appear to be healthy.  I may appear to have no difficulty with balance, vision, speech, muscle spasms, tremors, cognitive abilities, or fatigue.  Many do not see the emotional and physical pains that I experience because of MS.  MS is not always a visible disease. 

For most MS patients, MS is a:  silent, invisible, chronic, progressive, sometimes devastating disease.  MS can attack any part of the central nervous system, including: the brain, spinal cord, and optic nerve.  It is believed that our body’s immune system is attacking itself.

Bonnie

The first MS symptom that I experienced was double vision.  In the early 80’s I saw a shadowy outline of all distant objects.  Sometimes the object separated into two distinct items, one lighter than the other.  The shadowy outline seemed to float to the left and up a little.  I mentioned this to my doctor and my optometrist off and on, for a few years and then I stopped.  I realized that they were not as concerned about this as I was. 

In the mid 1980’s I was diagnosed with a mood disorder.  (I have discovered that mood disorders can also a symptom of MS.)  I went to a new optometrist and mentioned my vision difficulty.  She tested me with a special instrument and verified that I did indeed see double.  She prescribed prisms for my glasses.  It was nice to see single objects again. 

I started to experience strange, disappearing symptoms.  These symptoms were well and active at home but hid themselves from my doctor.  I did not experience all of the symptoms all of the time.

Some of these ever, changing symptoms were: 

• fatigue
• blurred or double vision
• eye pain (quick stabbing pains that disappear soon after they arrive)
• muscle weakness
• muscle spasms
• restless leg syndrome
• foot drop (one foot drags along the floor when walking causing one to trip, stumble, or fall
• numbness and tingling in my left arm
• itching in one spot for no reason
• the feeling of bugs crawling along my arms
• uncoordinated
• imbalance
• tremors of my left arm and leg
• urinary incontinence
• slow word recall
• forgetfulness
• short-term memory loss
• other cognitive problems
• impaired speech production
• sensitivity to environmental heat 

In the summer of 1992 the symptoms were more intense and stayed longer.  I started to have times where I experienced greater imbalance difficulty.  My right foot started to drag as I walked, this is called toe-drop.  My left hand and arm developed a tremor. Fatigue started to debilitate me.  That summer seemed to be particularly hot.  Up to that point in time I had always enjoyed the heat.  I had loved hot baths, showers, sauna etc.  Not any more!

From 1992 on the heat made me extremely fatigued and dizzy, and also brought on these awful symptoms.  I mentioned these problems to my doctor.  She had me do the touching my nose thing, hold both my hands out and close my eyes, and she looked into my eyes as I followed her hand up, down, right, left.  (I will explain the purpose of these tests in greater detail at another time.)  The day of that appointment it was a good day for me, and I had few symptoms.  I received the figurative pat on the head.  I mentioned these problems to her off and on for another year or so.  I felt ignored.  I felt that my concerns were not validated.  I felt that she was saying, “This is all in your head, my dear.” 

In the spring of 1995 I started to experience intense, sharp, shooting pains in my cheek.  These pains always brought unbidden tears to my eyes. These pains moved like lightening bolts from my right temple into an area of my cheek and chin, repeatedly.  Soon I had greater problems with imbalance. I started to veer to the right when walking. When I walked with someone I usually bumped into them if they were on my right.  If I was walking alone on a sidewalk I would lose my balance when I suddenly found myself teetering on the edge of the sidewalk.  I was always able to catch myself before I fell outside.  I fall in the house, though, and I actually broke a toe twice.  I could no longer stand up in the shower. 

Then during the heat of that summer many of those old symptoms started to bother me again, plus a few more new ones.  My jaw was tingly, the tip of tongue tingled, and I had tremors in both feet and my left arm.  I started to know, without a doubt, that I had MS.  (Years before I had worked for the MS Society.)  I was determined not to tell anyone about my suspicions.  I did not want my self-diagnosis verified in any way.

Next, the neurological assesment, it was awful.

Jag vill framförallt byta ut mitt nuvarande grafikkort (något i stil med 256MB ATI Radeon X1800). Men jag har också tänkt mig att fräscha upp datorns minne en aning.

Dustin Home
Kingston 2048MB memory kity 425:-
Asus Geforce 8800GT 1 GB 2XDVI PCI-E 2095:-
Microsoft Windows Vista Home SVE DVD 1695:-

MS Vista följer med, även om jag själv inte har så mycket till övers för Microsoft. Råkade visst köpa ett finskt operativsystem vilket jag är beskedligt trött på, återgår således till svenska efter 2 år av käynnistä, ohjelmat och sammuta.

Nu återstår bara att jämföra lite priser, jag tror att detta är långt ifrån det billigaste jag kan få, men det är lite att räkna på. Speciellt om man ska dela upp frakten och så. Kanske värt det ändå?

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They don't just do own label wines like a lot of people think.  As well as some lovely exclisives you can also get well know brands.  I like the look of the Villa Maria Seddon Vineyard Pinot Noir 2006 for £107.96, that's a saving of £36 on the normal case price!

If you try them out or pop into your local M&S and try a really nice wine let us know!

Good news for people with relapsing-remitting MS: a small clinical trial has shown that a drug used to fight cancer may reduce disease activity and disability in people with aggressive forms of the disease. According to our article about the potential new MS treatment, when the nine study patients took the cancer fighting immunosuppressant drug cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan or Neosar) intravenously for four consecutive days, they experienced long stretches of symptom-free remission. At the 23-month follow-up exam, study participants experienced on average a 39.4 percent reduction in disability, 87 percent improvement on physical and mental function tests and a decrease in the average number of brain lesions from 6.5 to 1.2. Read on to find out how long these periods of remission lasted and to learn more about how cyclophosphamide works.

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My how time flies – today is the second gathering of the Ty-Ty Sisterhood on the shores of Lake Erie!

Neuropathy is not just confined to those sweet souls with Diabetes among us.  Many sufferers of CFS/ME and Fibromyalgia will relate to this annoying condition too.  Your body buzzes, tingles, vibrates, shakes inside, twitches, tremours, jerks and keeps you in more pins & needles than Granny's Haberdashery. It drives you nuts with little or no respite for years...especially if your Doc is not hearing you!

Perhaps you were once very ticklish and now you barely notice.  Do you crank the hot water up in the shower? Do you feel like your feet are constantly plugged into a low wattage electric fence? Do you ever feel like you've been proded with an invisible tazor gun by an angry ghost?

There is a progressive change in sensation, or lack of it, creating hot spots as well as dead zones and this can affect ALL your parts...yes folks, even down there, so perhaps your lover is not just totally hopeless after all!  Diseases affecting the Endocrine and CNS (central nervous system) can fry the nerves throughout the entire body with devastating results, sometimes with NO symptoms at all. 

Here are a couple of links to fairly comprehensive sites on the subject of neuropathies...feel free to browse!  This can apply to non-diabetics also, so ignore the blurb if it doesn't apply to you and you're certain you are not diabetic or insulin resistant...

http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/neuropathies/#what

and also:

http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/sup/index.htm

Joe uses cannabis to treat his MS

    Joe suffers from a type of Multiple Sclerosis.  At the time of our first recording, he still did not have a firm diagnoses.   He suffers from muscle spasms, general weakness, loss of muscle control and balance - all of which make it virtually impossible to walk.  Joe has a power wheelchair.

    Joe finds that cannabis is the only medicine that adequately treats his symptoms without the debilitating side affects of prescription drugs.  It relaxes his limbs and back far more adequately than pharmaceuticals.  Also, cannabis allows him to avoid anti-depressants for treating his anxiety. 
    Unfortunately, the high cost of black market cannabis often forces him to choose between food and relief from his symptoms.

Joe's only relief is from Cannabis

    Cannabis continues to be his oasis from pain and atrophy -- when he can get it, of course.  And that is increasingly becoming more difficult.  The only outlet for Joe's medicine is the street.  His age and medical condition make this a difficult prospect since cannabis is illegal in North Carolina.  Joe can only expect an occasional taste of the freedom and relief it can provide.  For now, he must suffer silently knowing his government favors the fat pocket books of big business lobbiests to the wellbeing of the chronically ill. 

    Please visit my Blog at www.cannabispatient.net.  To view all our Medical Cannabis Testimonies, please visit www.youtube.com/cannabispatientnet.  North Carolina residents, please contact Americans for Safe Access of Western North Carolina.  Their websites are www.asawnc.org and www.youtube.com/asawnc. 

SPMS is characterised by a steady progression of clinical neurological damage with or without superimposed relapses and minor remissions and plateaux. People who develop SPMS will have previously experienced a period of Relapsing/Remitting Multiple Sclerosis (RRMS) which may have lasted anything from two to forty years or more. Any superimposed relapses and remissions there are, tend to tail off over time.

The following graph, showing level of disability over time, demonstrates two typical courses of SPMS.

From the onset of the Secondary Progressive phase of the disease, disability starts advancing much quicker than it did during RRMS though the progress can still be quite slow in some individuals. Despite the fact that the majority of people with RRMS will develop SPMS, only 25% of people with MS will need to use a wheelchair.

In the piece on the Expanded Disability Status Scale, the average amount of time spent at each disability score is detailed.

The majority of people with the RRMS, but not all, will eventually develop SPMS, but the time taken varies enormously. After 10 years, 50% of people with RRMS will have developed SPMS. By 25 to 30 years, that figure will have risen to 90%.

Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis tends to be associated with lower levels of inflammatory lesion formation than in RRMS but the total burden of disease continues to progress. This is thought to be caused by higher levels of axonal loss.

At any one time, the Secondary Progressive form of the disease accounts around 30% of all people with multiple sclerosis.

Other forms of Multiple Sclerosis are:

Relapsing/Remitting Multiple Sclerosis                  RRMS
Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis                  PPMS
Progressive Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis                PRMS

17.Jul.2008 |

Marcelo Humberto

DOURADOS – Manter a liderança da Copa MS Sub-18 e os bons resultados, são as pretensões do 7 de Setembro neste sábado, às 15h, no Estádio da Leda contra o Naviraiense. Jogar em casa, é apontado como ponto forte para os garotos buscarem se manter no topo da classificação. Outro atrativo, é o fato de valer vaga para a Taça São Paulo do próximo ano.
O otimismo no elenco é geral. As duas vitórias, uma contra o Mundo Novo por 1 a 0 e depois em Rio Brilhante contra o Águia Negra, deixou o time mais confiante, mas nem por isso relaxado. O treinador tem mantido um ritmo de treinos fortes. E a carga tem sido tão intensa que ontem no período da tarde o grupo foi dispensado.
Contra o Naviraiense neste sábado, que vem de uma derrota e um empate, passa a ser uma partida de risco para o time douradense. Jogar com certa folga, pode deixar os garotos mais soltos.
Mas as conversas frequentes que tem sido realizada, dá a entender que a intenção do treinador é manter o ritmo forte em campo, mesmo porque está valendo vaga para a Taça São Paulo, uma das maiores vitrines do futebol nacional.
E o técnico Alaércio foi contratado pelo Sete para tentar levar de volta o time douradense a competição Paulista que já disputou. E esse começo de temporada ele já deu mostra que esse caminho está sendo trilhado com competência. Mas ainda falta muito e manter os pés no chão e conquistar ponto-a-ponto é a sua meta.

She’s a multi-tasker.  She revels in her ability to juggle ten different balls in the air without one dropping to the ground.

Now fast forward seven months later…the mop-top gal can’t seem to engage in a spirited conversation at the same time she’s stirring the proverbial sauce.  She used to be able to read while watching Lifetime movies, text message while enjoying the evening news, type/talk/answer the phone/open snail mail all in unison.  Multi-tasking is now a mirage.

Sure she was disappointed at first.  She would pride herself on getting the work of two employees completed solo in an eight hour day.  She thrived at the thought of being everything for everyone simultaneously.  Now she must fully concentrate on the task at hand, and depending on the task often without the scent of interruption, if she wants the task completed accurately and on time.   

Not everyone sees this as a negative though.  In fact her boss proclaimed that it was a good thing she was slowing down a little these days; perhaps her co-workers could finally keep up with the old gal.  Mop tops aren’t easily convinced though.  She wondered: Is multi-tasking really a good thing? She began an Internet search to answer her question and her initial results provided this stunning statement:

For years we have somehow swallowed the myth that multi-tasking makes us more productive. But research has been telling us for some time that the negative is really true: multi-tasking is harmful and counterproductive. – Bruce Keener

This piqued her interest and she continued on.  There’s actual scientific research about the topic.  Researchers at Vanderbilt University have set out to change the mindset about the necessity of multi-tasking as noted in this New York Times article.  She read about how shifting mental gears can actually cost folks important time on the job and in life in general.   She also learned that she hasn’t been alone.  We’re actually all part of a very new, multi-tasking generation.  She read about how mistakes can and will happen when the brain (even a non-damaged one) is overloaded.

If what the latter article suggests is true, that 45 percent of people in one study feel they're expected to do too much at once, maybe we all have set ourselves up for unrealistic expectations.  If our mop-topped gal wouldn’t have been a thriving and productive multi-tasker before her life changed, would anyone have expected her to be able to juggle the work of three people at once? Likely not.

Yet another challenge for Persons with M.S.: Getting colleagues, family, and friends to recognize changes not as negatives or indications of poor performance, but rather just what they are – changes – and nothing more.

The game visually from what I have seen looks terriffic.I think there are some questions about the physics and vehicle control and repair though.My question is this.Is Banjo more vehicle based platforming than actual standard platforming or is the vehicle building part just a small component in the overall game.

I'm thinking that vehicle construction is a very large part of the game and that it's a requirement to get the game completed and that running,jumping and other Banjo trickery is just the small component to the game.I hope more will be revealed closer to their launch and that a demo will be made available.

I think trying something new is a good idea and I can see a good mix of both ideas working,but do people want a Banjo game where constructing vehicles is the major theme? I don't think so.

The UK's most famous retailer has earmarked £450 million for IT spending over the next three years in a bid to push into international and online markets and ease its reliance on the ailing UK retail environment.

"We’re planning to take more control of our logistics from source to store, allowing us to monitor our stock more efficiently and improve margins,” the report said.

The report also revealed the company’s motivation for this IT focus - it’s online business, M&S Direct, grew 70% over the year (making £300 million in sales), while international sales grew 16% bringing in £713 million.

While heat can drain most people, those that have MS are very sensitive to the warmth.  Any symptoms that had been present, are worsened or magnified when the body temperature rises.  July weather, baths and even a fever can  cause this to happen.  Long before diagnostic technologic advances were around, MS was diagnosed by placing a person in  a warm bath to see if symptoms would increase.  Honestly, sounds more comfortable than being crammed into the shaft of the MRI tunnel!

While the heat can raise the feelings of weakness, being removed from the heat source will let the symptoms recede.  So to combat the heat I have in my arsenal the following:  Several cooling scarves in which absorb and retain cool water for a couple of hours (think running around in a wet swimsuit feeling), Cooling sandals that are kept in the fridge until ready to wear.  As nice as these sandals sounded, they only stay cool for about 30 minutes.  I also have a pillow cover that can be soaked in cool water and should work similar to my scarves.  As for how well the pillow cover works, it is new and I have yet to try it.

There are also vests available to keep MSers cool during the summer.  Some contain cool ice packs and other more advanced models actually pump and circulate cold water through channels in the vest.  These vests are more expensive than the items I already own, however if my heat sensitivity ever increases, I definitely will look into getting one.  Then again...Dad, you have an extra pond water pump?

Neste dia 14, durante a conferência da MS na E3, foram tratados assuntos como o co-op de Fable 2 na Live, co-op de 5 pessoas em Gears of Wars 2 e a campanha modo Horda, Guitar Hero: World Tour com oito jogadores e instrumentos reformulados (além de um estúdio criador de música), Rock Band 2 com músicas exclusivas para o 360, microfones com motion-sensitive, novo sistema de avatares e o game Portal: Still Alive vindo em 2008.

Só peço que esperem um pouco por mais detalhes de cada assunto.

è on-line e liberamente scaricabile il numero 14 di Inutile. dodici pagine piene piene: bei racconti e belle fotografie; con la chicca dell'ultimo racconto, già apparso qui, su Milano-Roma-Trani - a firma del nostro MS, Matteo Scandolin.

per gli aficionados di MRT, un'altra sorpresa - ma non anticipiamo nulla.

Die drei Caller (von links): Joe Kromer, Stefan Rohrbach und Klaus Andrzejczak

boten ein vielfältiges Programm mit MS, PLUS, Workshops und Funsquares.

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