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Review: could Bactrim cause Exhaustion, fatigue, lethargy, tiredness, weariness (Fatigue)?
Summary: Exhaustion, fatigue, lethargy, tiredness, weariness is found among people who take Bactrim, especially for people who are male, 60+ old, have been taking the drug for < 1 month, also take medication Bactrim ds, and have Multiple myeloma.
We study 28,170 people who have side effects while taking Bactrim from FDA and social media. Among them, 1,472 have Exhaustion, fatigue, lethargy, tiredness, weariness. Find out below who they are, when they have Exhaustion, fatigue, lethargy, tiredness, weariness and more.
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Bactrim has active ingredients of sulfamethoxazole; trimethoprim. It is often used in urinary tract infection. (latest outcomes from 29,495 Bactrim users)
Exhaustion, fatigue, lethargy, tiredness, weariness
Exhaustion, fatigue, lethargy, tiredness, weariness (feeling of tiredness) has been reported by people with multiple sclerosis, high blood pressure, depression, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis. (latest reports from 200,643 Exhaustion, fatigue, lethargy, tiredness, weariness patients)
On Feb, 28, 2015: 28,160 people reported to have side effects when taking Bactrim. Among them, 1,471 people (5.22%) have Exhaustion, Fatigue, Lethargy, Tiredness, Weariness.
Time on Bactrim when people have Exhaustion, fatigue, lethargy, tiredness, weariness * :
|< 1 month||1 - 6 months||6 - 12 months||1 - 2 years||2 - 5 years||5 - 10 years||10+ years |
|Exhaustion, fatigue, lethargy, tiredness, weariness||68.85%||20.49%||4.10%||4.10%||0.00%||0.00%||2.46% |
Age of people who have Exhaustion, fatigue, lethargy, tiredness, weariness when taking Bactrim * :
|Exhaustion, fatigue, lethargy, tiredness, weariness||0.29%||1.90%||6.07%||6.21%||11.62%||20.83%||18.27%||34.80% |
Severity of Exhaustion, fatigue, lethargy, tiredness, weariness when taking Bactrim ** :
|least||moderate||severe||most severe |
|Exhaustion, fatigue, lethargy, tiredness, weariness||0.00%||52.94%||47.06%||0.00% |
How people recovered from Exhaustion, fatigue, lethargy, tiredness, weariness ** :
|while on the drug||after off the drug||not yet |
|Exhaustion, fatigue, lethargy, tiredness, weariness||0.00%||0.00%||100.00% |
Top conditions involved for these people * :
- Multiple myeloma (126 people, 8.57%)
- Hiv infection (114 people, 7.75%)
- Pain (73 people, 4.96%)
- Depression (64 people, 4.35%)
- Prophylaxis (54 people, 3.67%)
Top co-used drugs for these people * :
- Bactrim ds (470 people, 31.95%)
- Prednisone (237 people, 16.11%)
- Aspirin (230 people, 15.64%)
- Zometa (209 people, 14.21%)
- Levaquin (197 people, 13.39%)
* Approximation only. Some reports may have incomplete information.
** Reports from social media are used.
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If corporations and industry groups "decided to actually get together and stop contributing to these people, it will have an effect,” said Mike Tanglis, Public Citizen's research director, who co-authored the report. Tanglis said, however, that he's “very skeptical that they will stop contributing to these people forever.”
The top corporate and industry givers to the 147 Republicans detailed in the report include:
— $2 million by the National Association of Realtors. In an email, the group said it is “temporarily pausing” all federal contributions and will “closely monitor events in Washington in the days and weeks ahead in order to ensure our political participation most closely represents the will of our REALTOR members.”
— $2 million by the National Bankers Association. The group says it's reviewing its practices, but has not made any decisions on how it will move forward.
— $1.8 million by the National Beer Wholesalers Association. “We are evaluating our contribution strategy,” the group said in a statement.
Others prolific givers featured in the report include AT&T, Comcast, Exxon Mobil, Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
AT&T and Comcast both suspended contributions to those who voted to overturn the election. Exxon Mobil says it's reviewing its political giving. Boeing said Wednesday that it is “not making political contributions at this time” and will “carefully evaluate” who receives future donations. A spokesmen for Lockheed Martin declined to comment.
Nineteen of the PACs listed in the report each contributed at least $1 million over the past three cycles to congressional Republicans who voted to overturn the election. Meanwhile, 46 of the PACs gave to at least half of the Republican objectors, the report found.
Tanglis and other campaign finance experts say the big question about donations is whether companies and trade groups will stick by their pledges.
“You have to wonder if in three months they will start to back up,” Tanglis said. “For the most part, we're not really into the next election cycle. They could very easily take six months or the whole year off and start up again in 2022.”
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Sonoma Valley Hospital has reached an important milestone in fundraising efforts for the Capital Campaign for Emergency Care by meeting the Vadasz family’s $2-million challenge match.
Combined with other recent community gifts, the hospital has now raised $8.9 million toward the $11 million needed to complete expansion of the new hospital and its state-of-the art emergency care center, currently under construction.
Last November, Les and Judy Vadasz challenged Sonoma Valley Hospital to raise $2 million for the Capital Campaign for Emergency Care by this September. By spring, the hospital had raised the first $1 million toward that challenge which was then matched by the Vadasz family. This week, the hospital’s Campaign Cabinet completed raising the second $1 million to complete the challenge grant from the Vadasz Family Fund, an advised fund of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Speaking about the successful match, Les and Judy Vadasz said, “We are proud to be a part of such a generous and giving community. We knew our community would join us in supporting this important campaign and we are thrilled that the challenge was met so quickly.”
The Campaign Cabinet, a committee of volunteers tasked with completing the Vadasz challenge, was launched in April. David Good, who co-chairs the cabinet with Simon Blattner, said, “This is a giant step forward toward the completion of our campaign to provide superior health care to all Somomans. It could not have happened without the generosity and dedication of so many.”
Cabinet members include Bill Brinton, Gerry Brinton, Bill Lynch, Bob Kweller, Joe Aaron, John Gurney, Mollie Collins, Randy Derwingson, Rose Mary Schmidt, Tom Culligan and Valerie Pistole.
An advisory council has also been formed to assist with community outreach efforts, which includes Mike Benziger, Bill Blum, Karen Collins, Tamara Ferguson, James Hahn, Manuel Merjil, Vickie Mulas, Joshua Rymer, Diana Tolpegin and Jennifer Yankovich.
Among the leadership donors who contributed to the second half of the challenge are Scott Smith and Marcelo Defreitas, Carolyn and Richard Fogg, Grieve Family Charitable Trust, James and Donna Halow family, John and Sandra Leland, Mary’s Pizza Shack – Mary Fazio, Kenneth and Patricia McTaggart, Carlene Mendieta and Walter Bowe, the merchants of Sonoma Marketplace Shopping Center, Niles family and Sangiacomo family.
Proceeds from the Sonoma Valley Newcomers Club’s fundraising event in May, which raised more than $8,000 toward the challenge, and generous contributions from hundreds of other community members also helped to raise the second $1 million in three months.
Sonoma Valley Hospital CEO Kelly Mather said, “Thanks to the leadership of Marcia and Gary Nelson, Les and Judy Vadasz and everyone else who has contributed so far, we are just over $2 million away from our ambitious goal. This is a true testament to the dedication and generosity of the community as well as a demonstration of just how important our hospital is to the residents of Sonoma Valley. We hope all Sonomans will contribute at some level to help us reach our goal.”
The Sonoma Valley Hospital Capital Campaign for Emergency Care is raising funds to close the gap between the $35 million general obligation bond (GOB) approved by Sonoma voters in 2008, to meet the state of California seismic standards, and the cost of the new construction and equipment. New seismic standards require most California hospitals to retrofit, rebuild or close by 2013. Thanks to the GOB, plus $11 million in philanthropic support from the community, Sonoma Valley Hospital will meet this deadline.


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Israel Accuses U.N. Child Rights Envoy of Ignoring Its Side
Israel has accused a senior U.N. official of misconduct in preparing a report that harshly criticized the Israeli army over the 2014 Gaza war while leaving it off a blacklist of states and armed groups that violate children’s rights in conflict.
In his latest report on children and armed conflict, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said “the unprecedented and unacceptable scale of the impact on children in 2014 raises grave concerns about Israel’s compliance with international humanitarian law … (and) excessive use of force.”
Although formally presented in Ban’s name, the report was prepared by his envoy on children and armed conflict, Leila Zerrougui of Algeria.
Israeli U.N. Ambassador Ron Prosor accused her of “biased conduct against Israel.” He also denied Israel had violated international law during the war.
In a letter to Ban, seen by Reuters, Prosor voiced “deep concerns regarding the improper conduct – at every working level – of the office of … Zerrougui in the process of drafting and producing the report.”
More than 2,100 Palestinians, mostly civilians and including 540 children, were killed during last year’s 50-day Gaza Strip war between Hamas and Israel, while 67 Israeli soldiers and six civilians in Israel were killed.
A U.N. inquiry found that Israel fired on seven U.N. schools and killed 44 Palestinians seeking shelter, while Palestinian militants hid weapons and launched attacks from U.N. schools.
Prosor said Zerrougui’s office “repeatedly refused attempts on our part to provide official evidence and facts.”
Zerrougui rejected Israel’s accusations.
“Israel has been in this report since 2005, every year it’s the same process that we apply,” Zerrougui told reporters. “Last year I was here, I was not accused of misconduct. The year before I was here, I was not accused of misconduct.”
Zerrougui said Israel had the standard two weeks and three additional days to respond.
According to U.N. officials, Zerrougui included Israel on a draft blacklist of violators of children’s rights, although Ban decided not to include Israel’s army on the final blacklist, which names groups like the Taliban and Boko Haram.
Prosor said the report disproportionately focused on Israel, even though Iraq, where Islamic State militants control significant territory, had the highest number of child casualties.
The report includes 32 paragraphs on Israel, compared with eight on Iraq, 15 on Afghanistan, 18 on Syria and 11 on Darfur.
Zerrougui’s report did not explicitly accuse Hamas of any crimes against children. Several Israeli officials said on condition of anonymity that Israel told Zerrougui’s office how Hamas rockets severely damaged Israeli medical centers and schools – details that were not mentioned.
The officials also accused the human rights groups that helped draft the report of bias.


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It makes us feel good to look nice, doesn’t it? C’mon, it’s true for guys as much as gals. In fact, in the past decade or so, it seems as if the men have outrun the women on being fashion conscious.
Wearing nice clothes isn’t always practical. I live in Montana and we’re rather plain folks. Whenever I see a woman dressed up and wearing makeup, I think, You’re not from around here. It’s like an attention-grabbing siren alerting others that you’re not in-step with the flow of life in Montana. For one thing, your feet are going to get cold, wet, and muddy in those shoes because of all the melting snow.
You really need to wear the right shoes for the job, don’t you? One such time is when you’re running a race.
Do you see what this means—all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we’d better get on with it. Strip down, start running—and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins. Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God—he could put up with anything along the way: Cross, shame, whatever. And now he’s there, in the place of honor, right alongside God. When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls!
Hebrews 12: 1-3, The Message
I have never been a runner so the racing metaphors in the Bible don’t really do much for me. For me, racing metaphors conjure up images of asthma and shin splints.
Beth Redman tells a story about a time when she wasn’t wearing the right shoes. I may not be a runner, but racing through an airport carrying too much baggage? That I can relate to.
One year we returned to the UK for a Christmas visit. . . .
On the return journey, . . . we all had much more luggage, because of all the Christmas presents we had received and all the extras we’d bought. Matt and I each now had a rucksack as well as a carry-on suitcase, plus a baby, a toddler, and the older two. Rocco got the best seat of all: the stroller. I pushed him and carried six-week-old Jackson in a sling. As I had the babies, Matt divided the remaining bags between him and the older two kids. As we got off the plane we turned the corner and saw the longest line I have ever seen at immigration! We got ourselves in line, and poor Matt had to endure moving forward every fifteen seconds with all the carry-on handbags as the children complained of exhaustion every few steps. Rocco fussed constantly, and poor sweet Jackson cried as he overheated against my chest (did I mention I was wearing three layers, a winter coat, and holding the baby?).
It was freezing outside, so we’d layered up, but the kind people in the airport had turned the heating up to keep everyone snug. And there was no way we could take our coats off as we were already carrying so much.
. . . We stood in that line for nearly two hours. Just to add to my self-inflicted misery, I had chosen to wear my stiletto boots, as they were too big to fit into my carry-on bag. I had self-sabotaged my journey. I was inappropriately dressed for the situation, and as the line moved toward the finish I could barely stand.
When we finally got to the booth I totally lost it! Normally the immigration officers are pretty scary, but I know for sure I scared this guy!
I started telling him about our ordeal and declared my disgust at the circumstances—then to top it off I insisted somewhat loudly: “Get me a wheelchair—I’m going to pass out!”
Matt and the children laughed!
When we finally arrived home and the children were safely tucked in bed, I took off all my cumbersome layers, peeled off my evil stiletto boots, and fell into bed defeated.
Looking at Hebrews 12 the next day, my arduous airport experience reminded me of how I have sometimes lived as a Christian. I was so burdened in that line that I struggled to take even a few steps and did not feel at all victorious as I reached the end.
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Some of you are trying to run your race of faith in your heels, carrying big suitcases and covered in bags. It’s time to get free! Draw a line, forgive, move on, breathe truth, accept the past, and whatever your hindrance is, throw it off today! Live in the truth. Consider Jesus. Think about Him. Fix your eyes upon Jesus, who carried His cross all the way to the finish line.
–Beth Redman, God Knows My Name, excerpt from Chapter 4: God Sees My Choices.
The scenario she describes in the airport is similar to our Christian race as we try to take on too much without preparing properly for the journey ahead. Then we get all hot, frustrated, and demanding. We take it out on others but we really need to lighten our load and make practical preparations for our journey with Jesus through life.
Close your eyes for a moment on the screen of your mind (the back of your eyelids) imagine yourself in a race. What image appears? What kind of shoes are you wearing? What are you carrying? Could your subconscious be projecting how it really feels? If you are trying to run the race of the Christian life in silly shoes while carrying back-breaking burdens, then talk to God about it. Give your baggage to Him. Resolve to do things differently.
What shoes are you wearing for the race and what are you carrying with you?
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Powerful and deeply vulnerable, Redman’s writing passes along a message that changed her life—that the God who made us also understands us intimately. Drawing on Scripture and her own experience, she invites you to explore the revolutionary implications of being loved by a God who knows your name. Includes end-of-chapter study guides. 192 pages, softcover from Cook.
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Powerful and deeply vulnerable, Redman’s writing passes along a message that changed her life—that the God who made us also understands us intimately. Drawing on Scripture and her own experience, she invites you to explore the revolutionary implications of being loved by a God who knows your name. Includes end-of-chapter study guides. 192 pages. eBook.
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A dramatic reading of excerpts as part of a discussion and showcasing of the book by Raihana Hasan.
Prior to 1971 “Tea” was a world of its own, exotic and bizarre. Located in a remote corner of East Pakistan it existed in a time warp, inhabited by people of many races and religions whose isolated lives amid the hazards of the wild nurtured ties of friendship and camaraderie. But already ominous indications, unnoticed or ignored, threatened this world and foreshadowed an inevitable catastrophe.
An autobiographical account, this book describes the remote, pre-1971 world of the tea-plantations and the events that brought that era and that world to an abrupt end during the mindless bloodlust that tore Pakistan apart.
Discussion moderated by Dr. Ishrat Lindblad, retd. professor of English Literature at Stockholm University and currently Co-Principal, The Lyceum School.
Raihana A. Hasan
As a tea planter’s wife she experienced life on the tea estates, surviving the turmoil following the 1970 general elections and the violence unleashed by the 1971 Civil War. After escaping to West Pakistan, she worked first as a lecturer in English at Karachi College and as a copywriter until she joined PIA, from which she retired as a General Manager. She is now a freelance editor, columnist and writer, having translated several works of Urdu into English, including the autobiography of her mother (Dr. Fatima Shah, the late Founder-President of the Pakistan Association of the Blind).
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WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A man facing trial in the slayings of three people, including a 15-year-old girl, during what northeastern Pennsylvania authorities call a botched drug deal is asking that the proceedings be moved to another county.
Luzerne County prosecutors have said they plan to seek the death penalty against 19-year-old Shawn Hamilton of Nanticoke in the July shootings in Plymouth. Defense attorneys are seeking a venue change and want the death penalty taken off the table.
Attorneys for Hamilton’s 16-year-old half brother asked Friday that his case be moved to juvenile court.
Authorities allege that the two killed 21-year-old Bradley Swartwood, 17-year-old Nicholas Maldonado and 15-year-old Lisa Abaunza in a July robbery. Another man was wounded.
Hamilton told reporters in October that his brother was innocent and that he acted in self-defense.


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TELEVISION REVIEW; Searching for War Heroes in Iraq's Electronic Trenches
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN
Published: March 13, 2004
Heroism in the Iraq war is surprisingly accessible, even when presented with the History Channel's awe for all things military. Many of us who have used Xerox machines, in fact, will be able to sympathize with the plight -- if not the consequences -- faced by Lt. Col. David Toomey on March 16, 2003, as he confronted his plane's controls on the first sortie of the war.
''O.K., an orange light is on. I know the orange light is bad. How do I make the orange light go away? It was just a series of, 'O.K., I'm going to go through the steps.' Went through the steps. Waited the appropriate amount of time. Light went out. Light's out. I probably checked it 700 times in the next 30 seconds to make sure the light stayed out. And the light did stay out. And I was able to press on.''
With this soliloquy, the officer gets straight to the point of ''The Iraq War: One Year Later,'' a five-part series whose first two installments will have their premiere tomorrow. (The next two will appear on Monday; the finale will be on Tuesday.) The coalition forces, the program demonstrates, have extremely precise weapons and satellite technology. So much of the most suspenseful work of executing Pentagon strategy consists not of flexing muscle but of pressing buttons and supervising lights of various colors.
Many images in ''The Iraq War'' have the lime tint of night film, and the ones that don't -- the daytime material -- are mousy, in dismal desert shades. Largely the work of civilian photographers traveling with the troops, the film's faded appearance, along with the deliberately nonlinear action that it documents, costs these on-the-ground sequences some of their immediacy.
''The Iraq War'' is a captivating series. If the Vietnam War confounded the linear battle-by-battle story of individual heroism in the wars that preceded it, this Iraq war -- with its instantaneous communication, its desert landscape, its nonsmoking volunteer soldiers and its comparatively easy victories -- has made less relevant the nihilistic stories of officer-hating platoons in Vietnam.
Hunts by journalists for disillusioned, soul-sick Vietnam-style soldiers have come to little. Such journalists ought to look to archetypes or invent new ones.
And that's why this account of the war landed in the right place. The History Channel does not have Vietnam or even the first Iraq war in mind. Instead, this documentary, like many on the channel, recalls a past era of American military glory, with theme music that is part John Williams, part marching band. A drumroll sounds regularly.
''The Iraq War'' particularly recalls a World War II newsreel when less than halfway through the series the steely narrator, Frank Sesno, tries to create suspense: ''In the end air support would prove decisive. Even if winning the war would take a little longer than the first heady days of combat had promised.''
And World War II is present in this series in more than just tone. Maj. John Altman, in the documentary's third episode, says: ''Watching them counterattack us at Objective Peach takes us back to World War II, their tactics. It was literally, armored vehicle, 50 guys behind it with AK's walking up. Another armored vehicle with 50 guys beside it walking up. Very, very basic, and just-asking-to-get-your-butt-whupped tactics.''
The excitement at fighting a comparatively clear-cut war is what this documentary shows: the ingenuity of new inventions, the mistakes of the other side and -- of course -- the bravery and commitment of individual soldiers. According to the film, the chaos of this war, unlike the one in Vietnam, is a deliberate calculation. Gen. Tommy R. Franks planned, above all, to ''create chaos and uncertainty on the part of the opponent.''
For a model of war talk, then, no one interviewed for ''The Iraq War'' seems to have ''Apocalypse Now'' in mind. But that does not mean that they are immune to movie precedents. ''I have a 'Black Hawk Down'-style scenario,'' Will Grimsley, an Army colonel, says at a crucial moment in the charge on Baghdad. ''I have American soldiers with their equipment and what ammunition and gas they have on the other side of the Euphrates, and the bridge is down.''
Another interesting component of the war, as it is freshly told, is a reverse Greek tragedy. We now know that the soldiers didn't face chemical weapons, but they fear it constantly, often expending energy and always expending money to try to prepare for mass destruction that never comes.
In fact Iraqi soldiers don't have much. AK-47's and rocket-powered grenades are about the size of it. Moreover, the Iraqis are not good shots and are undisciplined. They also take cigarette breaks, which leaves them open to ambush. Several times officers express gleeful astonishment at the meagerness of the Iraqi Army.
Is anyone surprised? The History Channel is the only channel broadcasting five hours of war review, supplemented by long interviews with military personnel involved. An antiwar account of the past year in Iraq would be unlikely to get such access.
As usual, only the militaristic will step up to tell the story of the military in any detail.
THE IRAQ WAR
One Year Later
History Channel, tomorrow and Monday nights at 9 and 10, Eastern and Pacific times; 8 and 9, Central time. Tuesday night at 9, Eastern and Pacific times; 8, Central time.
Terrence L. Martin, executive producer; Emily M. Bernstein and Linda Martin, producers; Margery Baker-Riker, executive in charge of production; Susan Werbe, executive producer for the History Channel; Steve Olswang and Kendrick Simmons, editors; Rebecca Donahue, Emily Johnson, Daria Hirsch and Rebecca Donahue, associate producers; Frank Sesno, narrator. Produced by CBS News Productions for the History Channel.


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5 New Poems
August 23, 2014
a mix of thanks and unease follows me
like a hunter who doesn’t know his rifle’s empty.
Everything’s coming up Marcus. Find new work in Canadian magazines, including a poem about dick pics in THIS Magazine, a poem about a nude beach in Matrix, and a poem about farts in Riddlefence. No joke:
“Shores of One Island” in Matrix Magazine;
“The Jeweller’s Made Uncountable Examples” in THIS Magazine;
“Easy Living While Everything Else Moves”,
“To Whomever Checks The Office’s General Email Account”,
& “Funk from the Man-Man Cave” in Riddlefence.
Thanks to the editors (especially Dani Couture, Billeh Nickerson and James Langer) for their encouragement and support, especially given the potentially risque subject matter. Fortune favours the brave?

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Thank you so much for the wonderful recipes on your site. I have visited in the past and have happened upon it again. I noticed you put in the post that if anyone had questions that we could ask and so I have a big one that I need advice on if you don’t mind. I have been living low carb for about 2 years now. My weight has fluctuated from 130 to about 118. I am 5’4″ and female, 45 years old and mom to 5 children. My weight went up to 134 which is very uncomfortable to me because I have struggled with an eating disorder and so I really went low carb in an attempt to drop some weight. Well I have, but the problem is that I am restricting too many calories now. I have gotten down to 108 but know that 800 calories Is not enough. My question is about balance. I would not mind gaining some back but have a fear of gaining too much again. I don’t want to go back there. I hiit train most days for about 25 mins. I use to do way too much. Do you have a plan that would balance my calories out so I can incorporate more Low carb options/keto and start eating normal again. I like your ideas and thought process behind all you post so I would appreciate any feed back you could give to me. Thank ML
A lot of people take their macros as a “set in stone” type of thing. You shouldn’t worry about hitting the mark every single day to the dot. If you’re a few calories over some days, a few calories under on others – it’s fine. Everything will even itself out in the end. It’s all about a long term plan that can work for you, and not the other way around.
I have the same calories limit and macro. I easily stay within the limit but I completely stopped eating any type of bread, pasta, rice, potatoes and starchy food. I started using butter or coconut oil to cook and put mayo EVERYWHERE. It’s my new favourite topping for lettuce even XD. Then I eat plenty of eggs/meat/fatty fish and cheese. Olives are great as a snack. I cut out completely milk and use whipping cream instead. If you get into this completely counter intuitive way of thinking of food it’s super easy to get enough fat within the calorie limit.
By cutting carb intake significantly, we can drastically reduce insulin resistance, the precursor to type 2 diabetes. In addition, low carb diets, along with exercise, can be very effective at helping alleviate the symptoms and progression of type 2 diabetes. Beyond that, ketosis itself is appetite-suppressing, meaning your hunger will naturally check itself, increasing your caloric deficit and making you lose fat even faster. Read more about ketosis: What Is Ketosis, and How Long Does It Take to Get into Ketosis?
How often you eat is also up to your personal preference. "For most people, I recommend three to four meals per day with a few healthy keto snacks in between," says Dr. Axe. "This ensures that you're getting a good mix of protein and fat all day long to keep you feeling energized and satisfied." That being said, he encourages people to listen to their bodies and tune in to when they're truly hungry. "If you find that you feel better eating five to six smaller meals spread throughout the day, do what works best for you."

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Readers ask great questions about the process of writing and about my books. Here are some of your most frequently asked questions.
Q: Is starting a new book difficult for you?
A: No, that's the best part. Nothing is more exciting and challenging than bringing to life for the first time a new story and characters. It's like exploring a new world each time.
Q: Can you describe your typical writing day?
A: I do have certain code that I attempt to stick to: write every day, read every day. I am fairly regimented in my writing: I get up and go immediately to the computer. I will write for two hours, then I take a two-hour break, then back again for two hours. Then I print up what I wrote and hand-edit it in the evening, giving it a polish, then enter those edits, so I can start fresh the next day. I’ll do this 5-6 days a weeks.
Q: How do you handle a writer's block?
A: The wry answer: With two books a year to complete, I don't have time for writer's block. But more seriously, when a story begins to bog down and I feel blocked, something is intrinsically wrong with the scene or character or point of view I'm working on. Sometimes I have to backtrack and search for where the story had gone astray and edit things back into proper alignment. Once I correct that error, the story flows with more vigor again and we're off and running.
Q: Why is the price of the Kindle editions of your books so high?
A: The price of ebooks is one of the most controversial matters to hit publishing in years. Recently the Department of Justice sued the nation's top publishers, including mine -- HarperCollins -- over this very issue. The publishers were accused of collaborating with each other, and with Apple, to set prices artificially high. As you can imagine, with the Federal Government suing my publisher over ebook prices, the author is the last guy to have any say. I could only be a spectator as these two elephants fought with each other.
The lawsuit was recently settled but it could be a long time before we see what its effects will be. What's true today may not be true tomorrow, so I will come back to this space from time to time to keep my answer accurate and up to date.
As I understand this new settlement, ebook retailers like Amazon will soon be free to set the selling price on ebooks. The publisher will set the retail price, but it's up to the retailer to decide what kind of discount to offer. It'll be like hardcover books, where the list price might be, say, $24.95, but it might sell for various lower prices depending on which store you visit, how recent the book is, how well it's selling, and whether there are any special sales or promotions that week.
The good news is that the Federal suit is expected to bring lower ebook prices. The bad news is that with the ink barely dry on the settlement, no one knows precisely how it's all going to work. Prices may change from day to day or hour to hour. If you think the price is too high, try again tomorrow -- it might be different.
Authors have very little influence in this area. However, I believe in low ebook prices and I have always urged my publisher to keep prices low. An author wants to be read more than anything else. Any obstacle to that, like prices that are higher than they need to be, is something I will always be opposed to. My publisher has heard this from me loud and clear.
Q: How would you describe your larger philosophy of writing?
A: My goal when I set out to write is not to examine the human condition or explore the trials and tribulations of modern society. When I set out to write, I aim for pure balls-to-the-wall adventure, pure escape and entertainment. I follow the three M’s of storytelling: murder, magic, and mayhem. But with that said, I don’t think any adventure story will work unless you do indeed engage the reader on a level deeper than pure popcorn-entertainment. He must care about the characters, or why join you on this journey? She must be invested in the characters to care about their fate. So though entertainment is the goal, it is equally important to craft characters who will live, breathe, and bleed in your reader’s heart and mind. As such, the human condition of your characters must be addressed and examined. They must be brought to life with all the frailties and quirks and problems and nuisances that the reader brings to the books. For the reader to relate, he must find something in which to relate. This must not be neglected. I strongly believe that character and plot must be tightly interwoven, especially in adventure fiction. One will not work without the other.
Q: Do you have a recurring detail that appears in your books?
A: One of the recurring themes in my novels is the exploration of how advancing technology affects us. Technology is not all cogs and wheels. There is a human cost to every bit of technology. It regularly tests society’s moral compass. Is human cloning good or bad? What about stem cell research on aborted fetal tissue? What about the escalating realism of the violence in video games? Can and should we engineer our children in the womb? At every turn, in every facet, technology tests a society — morally, spiritually, and economically. And at the pace in which technology is leaping and bounding, we are quickly outstripping our abilities to rein in our advancements or to adequately judge where these technologies will take us.
So what do we do? Where are we heading?
Such questions are wonderful fodder in the modern scientific adventure. Through the vehicle of the adventure story, I can explore not only the physical threat of unchecked advancements but also the spiritual and moral dangers. Because fundamentally, the true terror of technology is not the cogs and the wheels, but how it will change us.
And even more frightening…will we even have a voice in this evolution?
Q: How do you use Sympathy Builders?
A: (1) Have the character demonstrate exceptional skill at his/her profession or some other task.
(2) Have the character be funny/humorous.
(3) Have character treat others well.
(4) Have the character demonstrate kindness to pets/kids/elderly.
(5) Have the character afflicted or suffering from undeserved misfortune.
(6) Show other people demonstrating affection for the character.
(7) Give the character some physical/mental/educational handicap, or make them a massive underdog.
Q: How do you approach a new novel?
A: I start with the three main tent poles to the story: the historical mystery, the science behind the story, and the exotic locales. I research those elements while constructing the skeleton of the plot. After that, I’m ready to write, to put the flesh on that skeleton.
Q: How much research do you do for a novel?
A: I love to research — love it to a fault! So I try to restrict my research to a set period of time both before I begin a book and while writing it. I do the bulk of my research before I set the first word to paper.
I usually have four to five books that are my research bibles for a particular novel. Then I branch off onto the Internet or libraris for additional tidbits and also do phone interviews with experts in their respective fields of study.
It is surprising how open and helpful people are in this endeavor. While researching details on the space shuttle for Deep Fathom, I was lost among the volumes of information on NASA’s web site. Finally frustrated with labyrinthine layout of the site, I contacted the webmaster of the site and asked for information. Two days later, I found on my doorstep the entire technical manual for the shuttle, hand-delivered and dropped off. That's just one of countless examples of folks who have gone out of their way to help an author. It's also a great way to create new fans!
Q: Do you need a set level of comfort from your research before you begin to write, or do you do research as you go?
A: When I do my initial research — and this all applies mostly to the thrillers — I’ll research until I have a good feeling of place, and I have the dynamics of the scientific mystery established. Then I’ll construct the plot. Once this is accomplished, I’ll begin to write, and what I’ll find is that I’ll have a score of niggling details to research during each writing shift. This is minor stuff: street names, a bit of detail on a gun, some snatch of foreign language. If the needed detail will set some tone that I want to establish in the scene, then I’ll pop on the Internet right then and grab what I need. If not, then I’ll wait until the day’s end when I’m polishing and line-editing.
Q: There are a lot of scientific facts in your books. How much are you interested in those topics? How do you research all of that?
A: As a veterinarian, my schooling concentrated on the sciences. I’m fascinated by all aspects and all fields. I continue to subscribe to many scientific magazines: Discover, National Geographic, Scientific American, New Scientist, Archaeology. I get many great ideas from these magazines.
Q: How on earth did you - a vet - start writing thrillers?
A: I blame my mother. She read while I was growing up, so I read. And that’s where all the insanity started. Sure, I was interested in animals and science and knew since third grade that I would be a veterinarian — but I also loved to read. Reading was like throwing gasoline on the fire of an overactive imagination. Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family. (What my mother called The Liar.)
So fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald. So instead, I turned to my other passion for a career: veterinary medicine. But I made one mistake. I continued to read – and that little twisted corner of my imagination never fully died away. Eventually I began to write.
My clients would ask me all the time, “So, Dr. Jim, why aren’t you writing something like James Herriott, something like All Creatures Great and Small?” My answer was simple: not enough people die in those James Herriott novels. I wanted adventures and thrills. I was working 14 hours a day as a vet. I didn’t want to go home and write about a vet. So instead I wrote about historical mysteries, scientific intrigue, and adventures set in exotic locales. I basically let that twisted corner of my imagination loose on the world. Sorry about that.
Q: Have you had any special adventures when researching your books?
A: I went to Cambodia to research the ruins of Angkor Wat and tried fried tarantula. I’m not sure that classifies as adventure, but it was an experience that I’m not looking to repeat.
Q: How do you view the element of suspense in your work? As a practical question, how do you structure it and manage it in your plot?
A: Suspense is the true heart of all good adventures, the proverbial cliff hanger. You take your character (and reader) to the edge of disaster, have him peer over, then push him from behind when he least expects it. And the crux of a good thriller is to make those cliffs higher and higher throughout the novel. Strive for tightening that noose notch by notch. Each level of suspense should build upon the previous one. Each situation must be unique, each outcome more inventive. Lester Dent (author of most Doc Savage novels) once suggested: “Never kill characters the same way twice.” He was right — always strive to be unique. Finally, let the reader rest between events, then just as they think they’ve caught their breath, hit ‘em again and again and again. And one last note on the practical side, always end a chapter with a note of peril, whether physical or emotional. Make that reader want to turn that next page to see what happens.
Q: How do you choose the names of your characters?
A: It does take some thought. I often take half a book before I even discover my main character's real name. I don't know if I have any specific process. I look through phone books, or if I hear of any unusual name, I note it. Then it's a matter of mixing and matching, trying a name on for size, playing with it, then finally settling on one that fits best.
Q: What character from your writing stays with you the most?
A: Depends on the day. But most often it is not past characters that influence me, but the current ones in the work-in-progress. I so get under these folks' skins that it can take me up to an hour to shake loose of them and return to reality. I'm often dazed and incoherent for a bit while coming up for air after writing for a spell.
Q: Has a character from your writing ever influenced your real life in a surprising way?
A: I can't say any specific character changed my life, but by exploring the human condition of various characters and living in their skins over the course of a book, I think my own appreciation and patience for the quirks, foibles, and eccentricities of my fellow man has grown.
Q: Have you ever put yourself into a story?
A: I think there is a part of me in every character I create — good and bad. That’s one of the best parts of writing: to explore those dark corners of your own psyche, to fathom the depths of your own character, and to challenge yourself. What could be more fun?
Q: Have you ever put a friend or real person in your books?
A: Anyone who has heard the stories about what I did to my brothers and sisters should know better than to ask to be in one of my novels. But they ask anyway! The deal is: If I put you in a book, I get to kill you in some horrible, horrible way.
Q: How do you go about the writing process?
A: The actual writing process — the routine – is very left brain. Perhaps this goes back to my background in medicine and science. But the birthing process of the story, developing plot and character, that is all right brain. I accumulate tidbits of facts — intriguing pieces of science, interesting threads of historical mysteries, colorful scraps of exotic lore — and at some point in my mind, all these fragments begin to connect in unusual ways and a story forms. Like many authors, perhaps it’s best if we don’t explore this method too closely. That’s territory even an adventure writer fears to travel.
Q: Where do you write? Do you have an "inner sanctum" or cabin in the woods, or do you write anywhere and everywhere? Do you have any rituals involved in the writing process?
A: I do about 70 percent of my writing in my office, but sometimes I get a bit stir-crazy being cooped up there, so I’ll grab my laptop and write somewhere else: another room in the house, out on the patio, or even Heaven forbid: a trip to Starbucks. I also write on the road. Oh yes, and in that cabin in the woods...
I’m pretty disciplined in order to keep the momentum of a story going by writing every day, even if it’s only a couple paragraphs or a page or two. I stress the importance of writing regularly in the Hawaii Writer’s Retreat. To practice what I preach, I get up at 5:00 every morning in Hawaii — both to watch the sunrise and to get some writing done.
Q: What about procrastination?
A: The worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I’ll be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I’ve wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written. It can be a trap for writers: thinking they’re working, when really they are just entertaining themselves with research. I also have to watch the amount of time I spend reading e-mail or surfing the Internet. Both are insidious time traps.
Q: How long does it take to write a novel?
A: I spend 90 days researching and constructing the story. This is a very intense, immersive period. Then on Day 91, I must start writing. I set this goal because I truly enjoy researching and could keep researching and actually never start the book.
Q: Some authors say that the plot tends to free itself and that they are sometimes astonished by this. Does that ring a bell?
A: Definitely. Some authors outline to a great degree. I know where my story starts, I know where it ends, I know several stopping points along the way. But that’s about it. I know the skeleton, but what I enjoy most about writing is the discovery along the way: new characters, new plot twists, etc. Characters are always surprising me, taking stories into unexpected territories or ideas. I swear sometimes my characters have come up with elements all on their own and I'm just the chronicler.
Q: Is there a difference in the way you approach the novel writing now as opposed to your earlier books?
A: Definitely. My first novel was Subterranean. The first draft was 640 pages long. Once we were done editing it, the novel was 480 pages. Since that book, I’ve learned to write tighter. But I also challenge myself with each novel to push my craft to a higher level.
Q: You use two pseudonyms - James Rollins for your adventure/scientific thrillers and James Clemens for fantasy. Why did you choose to publish under pseudonyms, and why two different names?
A: The pennames came about because my real last name is too hard to pronounce. Since word-of-mouth sells books, you want those mouths to be able to pronounce your name. The different names came about because I sold my first thriller and my first fantasy within a week of each other to two different publishing houses. Both publishing houses preferred that I have a unique name for each genre to not confuse readers.
Q: What happened to the James Clemens fantasies - the Banned and the Banished series and the Godslayer Chronicles. Will there be a follow-up to Shadowfall and Hinterland?
A: I have more plans for the Godslayer books. The working title for Book Three is God-Sword. Besides continuing the storyline, we’ll be discovering much more about Laurelle, her past, and her perilous journey to a god hidden in the heart of a volcano. God-Sword will finish the first trilogy. And there may be a second trilogy with many of the same characters.
Q: How do you write thrillers AND fantasies?
A: I tried writing both simultaneously, but it was a disaster. I basically switch from thriller to fantasy and back again. The thrillers sell strongly in the United States, but the fantasies are very successful abroad.
Q: You've written some astonishing, adventurous, and extremely fast-paced thrillers. They have ingredients of mystery-thrillers, action-thrillers, adventure-books, and spy fiction. What do you call it?
A: I generally classify the books as scientific thrillers or adventure thrillers. I’m always looking to blend a bit of historical mystery and a bit of scientific speculation, and setting up a large adventure story to wrap all around it.
Q: "Sigma Force" is a covert operation unit. Have you ever thought of writing spy fiction?
A: I’d love to write spy fiction one day. But presently my plate is very full. There are a score of genres that I’d like to tackle some day, including a book about a veterinarian.
Q: Does writing a series get easier with each new novel, or harder?
A: I find writing a series to be harder. Sure, you have a cast of characters that you don’t have to create out of thin air, but it also is a challenge to have those characters change and grow, to keep each book self-contained enough to be read in any sequence, and to adhere to a world-view that is consistent between the books. It’s tough.
Q: Sometimes I feel like I know these characters.
A: I firmly believe it’s important that the characters be real and the subject matter be relevant. That’s one of the reasons I set my thrillers in the real world and embroil them in threats and dangers that could truly arise.
Q: What was the idea behind your books when you started writing? What was your goal and your influences?
A: My main goal is to entertain, but I think the best entertainment also strives to make us think and to challenge our view of history or the world around us. It’s important to leave readers with something to contemplate after they turn that last page. When I hear a reader say that a certain novel intrigued them enough to explore a detail raised in a book, I know I’ve done my job well: to entertain, to intrigue, but also to leave something to explore afterward.
Q: What prompted you to select the type of fiction that you did as you became a novelist?
A: I think most novelists write what interests them ... which was a quandary for me, as my reading interests were wide and varied. Though I’m an avid reader of all the current thriller writers, I also love horror, scifi/fantasy, and mysteries. When I first began writing, I dabbled in short fiction, trying various voices, styles, and genres. It was all terrible, stuff now buried deep in the backyard. But it did serve to find the voice that most spoke to me and allowed me to tackle my first novel-length project, Subterranean. This first book, like Excavation, is really a cross-genre novel, a mix of ALL the tropes of my favorite genres: a mainstream thriller at heart, but with a bit of mystery and a dark current of scifi/fantasy coursing throughout it.
Q: Do you deliberately construct some of your stories within the narrative tradition of the lost world adventure?
A: I did indeed construction Excavation in the tradition of lost world/lost race adventure as found in H. Rider Haggard and Edgar Rice Burroughs (with a wild ride at the end thrown in for good measure). My editor even classified my early books as “lost race” novels. The germ of this specific novel came from two ideas that merged together:
(1) A lost Incan tribe still surviving up in the Andes, and
(2) The possibilities of nanotechnology being used to evolve the human species.
I love merging the ancient and the modern, then stirring that pot and seeing what develops. You’ll see this blend in each of my books.
I also like to peel back ancient myths and search for the hidden truths behind these stories. In Subterranean, it was Aboriginal mythology. In Excavation, it was Incan mythology. In Deep Fathom, it was Polynesian mythology.
Q: You explore isolated parts of the earth - desert, Amazon, ocean, etc. Why set your adventures there?
A: From a practical standpoint, these remote locations are perfect places to stage some pretty wild adventures and plant some ancient mysteries. They are hidden corners of the world. In such places, anything can happen! Another reason I venture to these exotic locales is that I get to live in them, at least in my imagination, for the length of a novel — plus I can skip the immunizations and avoid anti-malarial medications.
Q: I'm not going to ask you where you get your ideas, but where do you get your inspiration?
A: I don’t actually have one wellspring of inspiration. Though I’m most often inspired while reading — both fiction and nonfiction. While reading articles for pleasure and interest an interesting “What If?” will pop into my head. I’m also an avid movie buff. (Often when I’m stymied by a part of my writing day, you’ll find me at the matinee with a bucket of popcorn in my lap.) For some reason, some of my best solutions and ideas are triggered in those dark theaters, usually totally unrelated to what’s going on onscreen. I also enjoy hiking in the foothills and mountains in Northern California. I always have to bring a pen and paper to jot down sudden thoughts and ideas. So inspiration arises from countless sources.
Q: How do you come with new ideas for a new book? What's giving you the "kick in the head" to say: that will be the general topic?
A: Ideas come from various sources. Sometimes they arise from a bit of history that ends in a question mark, something unknown or unexplained. Other times it arises out of a bit of science that makes me go: “What if…?” And I also have started books because of interesting locations that have intrigued me, like the Amazon rain forest. So inspiration comes from many different directions.
Q: You are an adventurous guy yourself. You love spelunking deep into caves and you are diving enthusiast. How much of your own personality goes into your books?
A: Oh, I wager that there’s a bit of me in all my characters: good and bad. It’s hard to breathe life into characters without a little of you flowing into them.
Q: Do you base some of the adventures on own experiences and research right at the location?
A: Many times. I’m often out having fun and something strange will happen or a great idea will pop into my head. Often they’ll end up in the books. This past New Year I went diving with sharks, and I suspect something from that adventure will end up in a book one day.
Q: Who inspired you - and why?
A: All writers start out as readers. My inspiration to read came from my parents. They loved to read and instilled the same passion in me.
Q: What writers and/or novels and films influenced the direction of your work?
A: I have been asked this question many times at signings, conferences, etc. And initially I would shrug. I read so avidly that it was difficult to say who most influenced my work. It actually took a reader to expose the heart of my deepest influence. After reading Subterranean and Excavation, he emailed me to tell me I was ripping off Doc Savage. After reading this, I glanced to my library’s bookshelves: sitting there were all 182 Doc Savage novels (Bantam reprints, not the actual pulps). He was right! I read these from adolescence through high school and was absolutely in love with these scientific adventure books. Sitting next to them were smaller collections of other pulp reprints: The Shadow, The Spider, The Avenger.
So at the heart, my deepest influence is the old pulps. On some unconscious level, I’ve been trying to bring back those old dime adventure stories, recast into the present, adapted to modern technologies, and given a polish.
Other early influences on a more conscious level are Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and H. Rider Haggard (as of course Subterranean was clearly a modern adaptation of Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth).
Q: Do you have any favorite authors?
A: I always hate this question even though I ask it of fellow authors. My reading habits are wide and free-ranging. So it’s hard to say I have a particular favorite, but I’ll list a few. In the classics department, I’m all about Dickens and Twain. In modern literature, I read every word of Annie Proulx. In thrillers, I love the three K’s: Koontz, King, and Crichton (okay the last does not start with a “K” but it sounds like it does). And Clive Cussler, too. In mysteries, I really love Janet Evanovich, Nevada Barr, and the new writer, P.J. Tracy. In adventure fiction, I read everything by the writing team of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. In science fiction and horror, I love the cross-genre writer, Dan Simmons, and brilliant space opera of Lois McMaster Bujold. In fantasy, I am enamored and envious of the talents of George R.R. Martin and Stephen Donaldson. And I’m sure as soon as I turn around and look at my wall of books in my library that I’ve forgotten a thousand-and-one other absolute favorites. So let me stop here.
Q: What did you do to celebrate your first book being published?
A: I had a huge party with friends and family. But you'll have to ask them about it. For some reason, after countless bottles of champagne, I can't seem to remember the details.
Q: I've read that you are an avid scuba diver and enjoy spelunking. Do any of your experiences find their way into your novels?
A: Oh, I think each and every one of my novels has some character either heading underwater or underground. It allows me to live vicariously through my characters as I’m landlocked in my office.
Q: We know you have retired from full-time veterinary work. When did you decide that you were successful enough as a writer to safely move from one career to the other?
A: It was a gradual process. I sold my veterinary practice after selling my first two thrillers, but I continued to work as an employed veterinarian at the same facility. This allowed me to shed the business responsibilities and wear one less hat to work. Over three more years, I graduated down to part-time, then weekend work, and then I stepped away completely. Now all I do is a monthly spay-and-neuter clinic at the local animal shelter here in Sacramento.
Ultimately, the question most people want to know when to step away from their “regular” job? I read somewhere about the Rule of Five: You need to have five books out on the shelves, all earning royalties, before you can safely give up the day job. And oddly enough, this is about what happened to me. By the time five books were on the shelves, I had stepped away.
Q: What's your favorite curse word?
A: Please! This is a G-rated Q&A! How about this: I was once stuck down in a cave for several hours, jammed in a vertical crack, hanging from my rappelling gear. If you’d been with me, you would have heard a lot of “interesting” words.
Q: Where are the Hardcover Editions?
A: All of my books have been released as a hardcover edition. Most are still in print, thought increasingly more difficult to locate. If you are look for a long out of print edition such as Amazonia, Ice Hunt and Sandstorm. You can find these editions both new and used through a variety of online stores: eBay and Amazon as well as your independant book collector stores: VJ Books and The Poisoned Pen.
Q: Your books read like movies. Are any of your novels going to be made into blockbuster movies or TV series?
A: I wish! Hollywood has optioned many of the books, both for film and a television miniseries. But nothing has gone into full production. So at this time there are no splashy plans for Deep Fathom (which came close) or any of the other novels. Keep your fingers crossed.
Q: What book would make the best movie?
A: You wily readers — you always ask me that! That's a tough question. I live and breathe my characters' lives. Their story rolls through my head like a movie each time I write, so in my mind, they’d all make great summer blockbusters. I'd be hard pressed to pick a novel that I'd most like to see made into a movie. Each book has moments that I'd love to see on the big screen — some are heart-pounding chases or Industrial Light and Magic-worthy special effects, some are moments when characters have a flash of clarity, revelation, or understanding, and some are intensely personal, emotional exchanges between the characters (including those with fur and paws). I just hope that should any of my novels be brought to the big screen, it’s done by a team that is enthusiastic about the story and characters.
Q: What do YOU want to see made into a movie and would you want to be involved with adaptation, casting, etc.?
A: I would love to see Amazonia made into a movie, mostly just because of all the strange animals in that book. Like the piranha-frog (a mutated cross between a flesh-eating piranha and the poisonous dart frog). I’d love to see the McDonald’s tie-in for that movie: “Buy a Happy Meal, get a plushy piranha-frog!”
As to dream actors or screenplay writers, I’d leave that to the experts. For me, the characters in my head ARE the characters, so it’s hard for me to pick actors to fill the various roles. But I’d love to do a cameo in the movie…perhaps even being chased by a piranha-frog.
Q: Can I request an appearance?
A: Much as I'd love to visit every city and town in the country and beyond, I usually only tour when I have a new book out — the rest of the time I'm busy writing and researching my next book.
Because my publisher determines where to send me — based mostly on requests they receive from bookstores, libraries and other venues where books can be sold — the best way to get me to come to you area is to have your local bookstore, library, or other venue contact my agent, Russ Gallen here and make a case for me to visit.
Q: Why are you not coming to my city?
A: Tours are planned by my publicist at HarperCollins, who considers many factors in deciding which cities to include each year. These factors include whether I've visited that city before; whether there's a great local bookstore interested in hosting an event; which section of the country we've decided to target for a particular year; and whether we can plug a city into a route that will minimize travel time. We always try to mix together cities of different sizes. I try to visit new cities and regions of the country each year, but it's a big continent and there are some cities I've yet to reach. They are on my list for the future. I love all of America and Canada and I hope to keep writing and touring until I've been everywhere. And then I'll start all over again.
Q: Jake Ransom's Fate
A: Jake's fate (ie., publication date) is still up in the air. Whenever I get some concrete details--one way or the other--I'll get them posted immediately.


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Most NFL teams haven't finalized their rosters. Why, just today, the Arizona Cardinals decided on a starting quarterback for the season. I don't know that much about football, having only started really watching last season, but I'm pretty sure that no one in their right mind should even consider making picks on next week's games, let alone who's going to make it into the playoffs.
Having said that, here are my picks for every game in the upcoming NFL season and my playoff predictions, all the way to the Super Bowl.
These are the picks I'm going to use on the ESPN Pigskin Pick'em game, and I won't stray from them, I promise. I'm going to keep tabs on the season as it progresses on this page, filling up the lovely blank grid you see below.
How do I know this is a silly endeavor? I've got Denver in the Super Bowl.

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The art of arranging music first came to prominence in the 1930's and 1940's during the era of the large dance orchestras 7 something was needed to help the public to distinguish one band. The system of musical composition that involves the arranging of twelve chromatic tones into a new order & basing the composition on this new order is called in the 19th century composers came to use ever more dissonant chords. Every intersection point on this diagram is a ratio that represents the frequency of a simple tone, and music can be made out of it by choosing a tuning (abstract scale of sounds) from the descending series and by constructing the compound tones of this tuning from the ascending series.
(music, other) an art form consisting of sequences of sounds in time, esp tones of definite pitch organized melodically, harmonically, rhythmically and according to tone colour 2 (music, other) such an art form characteristic of a particular people, culture, or tradition: indian music rock music baroque music. Barbershop arranging is the art of creating arrangements of barbershop musicthe barbershop harmony society (bhs) and sweet adelines international (sai) have prescribed rules that dictate what is an acceptable arrangement, particularly with regard to singing in competition. Tetrachord: tetrachord,, musical scale of four notes, bounded by the interval of a perfect fourth (an interval the size of two and one-half steps, eg, c-f) in ancient greek music the descending tetrachord was the basic unit of analysis, and scale systems (called the greater perfect system and the lesser. According to the dictionary, music is the art of arranging tones in an orderly sequence so as to produce a unified and continuous composition in reality though, does the word music really have any significant meaning.
Masters and bachelors of music in jazz studies from the university of north texas where he directed jazz ensembles and taught big band arranging under his direction. Quotations art is a jealous mistress [ralph waldo emerson conduct of life] all art constantly aspires towards the condition of music [walter pater studies in the history of the renaissance. The art of music essay 1253 words | 6 pages the art of music next to the word of god, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world ~ martin luther renaissance music, as in many arts, was widely spread by the innovation of the printing press, causing many commons to learn about music themselves.


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Pokémon, sword & shield. 1 / story, Hidenori Kusaka ; art, Satoshi Yamamoto ; translation, Tetsuichiro Miyaki ; English adaptation, Molly Tanzer ; touch-up & lettering, Annaliese "Ace" Christman.
- ISBN: 9781974724185
- ISBN: 1974724182
- Physical Description: 99 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm.
- Edition: Pokémon adventures special edition.
- Publisher: San Francisco, CA : Viz Media, LLC,
Reads from right to left.
Awesome adventures inspired by the best-selling Pokémon Sword & Shield video games set in the wild Galar region! Casey Shield, a hacker who invented the Dynamax Simulator, and Henry Sword, a boy who repairs gear for Pokémon, both dream of entering the Galar region's gym battles. For Casey, it's a chance to reunite with her lost Pokémon. For Henry, it's an opportunity to search for the legendary Rusted Sword and Rusted Shield. Casey and Henry can't enter Galar region tournaments without the support of the local champion, Leon! But with train disruptions, Team Yell and wild Dynamax Pokémon getting in their way, will they ever get a chance to impress him?! Who's going to get these wandering Wooloo off the train tracks?
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Rated A for all ages.
Translated from the Japanese.
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Earlier today, we had reported that Ekta Kapoor‘s much-celebrated show Naagin‘s protagonists Mouni Roy and Adaa Khan will not be featuring in the third installment of the franchise. Ekta took to Instagram to confirm the news that she is back with Naagin season 3 but the show will not have Mouni or Adaa but a new face and wrote, “A new naagin arrives! As we bid Adieu to @imouniroy and @adaakhann from NAAGIN🐉🐉🐉🐉we welcome the NEW! Will soon reveal my new ‘naagin’ or should I say ‘NAAGINS’ #waitfornaagin3” Now, the speculation runs rife as Krystle D’Souza to be roped in to play the lead in the third installment of the franchise.
We know that auditions are on for past one month for Shivani and Taksha’s roles. According to a report in Bollywood Life, Krystle, who shot to fame with her character Jeevika Chaudhary in Star Plus’ much-celebrated show Ek Hazaaron Mein Meri Behna Hai, may step into Mouni Roy’s shoes for Naagin 3, while Vindya Tiwari and Tanya Sharma are being considered for Taksha’s role. While Ekta is keen that Krystle plays Naagin on the show, the actress has already been roped in to play the lead in Colors’ show Belan Bahu and has shot the pilot too. Well, a final call is yet to be taken by Ekta and the Colors’ team whether or not Krystle will replace Mouni in Naagin 3.
On the other hand, for Adaa Khan’s role, Tanya and Vindhya’s names are doing the rounds. Both Tanya and Vindhya (who has already played a supernatural character Chandramani on Sasural Simar Ka), have auditioned for the role, but it is yet to be revealed who will step into Adaa’s shoes. Also, Ekta Kapoor wants someone like Priyank Sharma to be one of the leads on the show. ALSO READ: (Shraddha Kapoor Roped To Star Opposite Rajkummar Rao In Dinesh Vijan’s Next)
Colors’ much-awaited show Naagin, which made its grand premiere in November 2015 and had always topped the TRPs charts since its inception, is slated to go on air during Diwali. On the professional front, Mouni is gearing up for her upcoming film, while Adaa Khan is busy with reality shows.


The Electron Emission Characteristics of Aluminum, Molybdenum and Carbon Nanotubes Studied by Field Emission and Photoemission.
Description: The electron emission characteristics of aluminum, molybdenum and carbon nanotubes were studied. The experiments were setup to study the emission behavior as a function of temperature and exposure to oxygen. Changes in the surface work function as a result of thermal annealing were monitored with low energy ultra-violet photoelectron spectroscopy for flat samples while field emission energy distributions were used on tip samples. The change in the field emission from fabricated single tips exposed to oxygen while in operation was measured using simultaneous Fowler-Nordheim plots and electron energy distributions. From the results a mechanism for the degradation in the emission was concluded. Thermal experiments on molybdenum and aluminum showed that these two materials can be reduced at elevated temperatures, while carbon nanotubes on the other hand show effects of oxidation. To purely reduce molybdenum a temperature in excess of 750 ºC is required. This temperature exceeds that allowed by current display device technology. Aluminum on the other hand shows reduction at a much lower temperature of at least 125 ºC; however, its extreme reactivity towards oxygen containing species produces re-oxidation. It is believed that this reduction is due to the outward diffusion of aluminum atoms through the oxide. Carbon nanotubes on the other hand show signs of oxidation as they are heated above 700 ºC. In this case the elevated temperatures cause the opening of the end caps allowing the uptake of water. Oxygen exposure experiments indicate that degradation in field emission is two-fold and is ultimately dependent on the emission current at which the tip is operated. At low emission currents the degradation is exclusively due to oxidation. At high emission currents ion bombardment results in the degradation of the emitter. In between the two extremes, molybdenum tips are capable of stable emission.
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Eighty Years War (Dutch War of Independence) (1568-1648)
Contemporary prints and maps of the battles and sieges of the Eighty Years War
At this time the Netherlands (most of modern Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and the French provinces of Flanders and Artois) were ruled by the Spanish Hapsburgs. Their misrule, together with religious differences, combined to provoke the Dutch into rebellion. The war was persecuted by both sides over a period of 80 years, ending in the Treaty of Münster in 1648, which formally recognised the Dutch Republic.
With the exception of one item, all the maps and views covering this war were acquired, in the first instance, by the Italian collector, Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588–1657) and his brother, Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo (1606–89). After Carlo Antonio’s death in 1689, the collection was eventually sold by his grandson to Pope Clement XI (reg. 1700–21) in 1703. In 1714, it passed to the Pope’s nephew, Cardinal Alessandro Albani (1692–1779), from whom it was purchased in 1762 by George III.
These prints formed part of the celebrated ‘Paper Museum’ which was built up by the dal Pozzos from purchases made from the flourishing printmaking industry, primarily in Italy, but also in France, the Netherlands and Germany. Many of the items are rare or are early impressions from the copperplates. They document the conflicts of the day and, in the seventeenth century, were often accompanied by letterpress text giving up to date information about, for example, the progress of a siege.
The dal Pozzos took care to arrange and present their prints and drawings in logical subject divisions such as costumes, architecture, portraits, natural history and military conflicts. The items were mounted on paper, sometimes with ink framing lines drawn around the print (mount type A) and sometimes without (mount type B). These two types of paper mount can be seen on the prints of the military engagements in this section.
When Cassiano was born, in 1588, the Eighty Years War had been underway for twenty years. Cassiano and his brother did not begin collecting until just after 1626 by which time prints of the first decade of the war may have been in short supply or even unavailable from printsellers. This may explain why there is no coverage of the earliest battles and sieges which were fought between 1568 and 1579. The maps and prints cover most of the major battles and sieges from the Siege of Maastricht in 1579 to the Siege of Gennep in 1641.


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Norfolk, Va. – The former president and CEO of Monarch Mortgage pleaded guilty Wednesday to concealing approximately $350,000 in bankruptcy assets.
According to a plea agreement, Edward Yoder, 50, filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in July 11, 2011. One month later, Yoder listed that he owned 153,000 shares of Sirius stock valued at $350,000.
In October 2012, Yoder sold the Sirius stock for approximately $339,000. He transferred $330,000 to the Monarch Bank account of his co-defendant, Susan Spearman.
The plea agreement also states that on December 5, 2012, Yoder filed another chapter seven bankruptcy petition and a chapter seven trustee was appointed.
During the bankruptcy case, Yoder failed to mention his sale of the Sirius stock and the transfer of the money into Spearman’s account.
Spearman transferred $350,000 on December 19, 2012 from her Monarch Bank account to her account with Infinex Financial Group, Virginia Asset Group, brokerage account.
From Dec. 5, 2012, and Jan. 24, 2014, Yoder paid out over $310,000 from Spearman’s Infinex Financial Group, Virginia Asset Group, brokerage account for his own benefit.
Yoder is set to be sentenced on February 8. He faces up to five years in prison.

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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),
Young people usually have their first-time ever tobacco use before they graduate from high school. This suggests that if kept tobacco-free during those critical years, most young people will never start using tobacco at all.
So how can we keep adolescents away from tobacco use during those impressionable years? One the most popular initiatives that seem to work are through tobacco-free sports.
The CDC goes on to say that:
Youth sports continue to be popular in the United States. Sports activities, therefore, present great opportunities to reach young people. Young athletes learn to make important health decisions related to tobacco use, physical activity, and good nutrition while on a sports team.
Indeed, the tobacco-free sports movement has gained momentum as prominent athletes and sports organizations declared their support. Some of these organizations are the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA).
Some of the most important sports and athletics events that highlighted the need for tobacco-free sports are:
- In 2001, the Smoke-Free Soccer program went global when CDC teamed up with WHO and FIFA to promote worldwide tobacco-free messages. Women and men soccer stars and other athletes from the United States, Australia, Brazil, China, and Canada appeared in posters to show their support for the program.
- The tobacco-free Olympic tradition continued in Torino, Italy (2006) and the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. The 2010 Vancouver Games also will be tobacco-free!
However, it shouldn’t stop there. The CDC, together with the World Health Organization and the National SAFE KIDS Campaign, are continuously creating educational campaigns and programs to convince young people to engage in tobacoo-free sports. In a language that they would understand. Take for example this In The Mix video clip Soccer: Kickin’ Butts. The CDC also used spokespersons with whom kids can identify with and this included baseball star Torii Hunter, martial arts star Jackie Chan, and professional skateboarder Tony Hawk. Also available are TV spots by anti-smoking celebrities such Esai Morales and Christy Turlington. These TV spots actually carry a message not only for young people, but for their parents as well.
To keep your child tobacco-free, now is the time to act. Point them to the right direction. Download and print out for them the tobacco-free sports poster. Encourage to watch the TV spots. Check out sports activities in your area. Make sports their only addiction.
Photo credit: CDC poster

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If you’re investing in a family member’shealth and future, you should make sure you’re making the best possible choice for your Delanson alcohol and drug addiction recovery clinic. While the smartest way to go may still be to talk to our hotline advisors so they can discuss your individual needs, checking out the ratings and reviews on some of the addiction rehabilitation programs in or around your area is another great way to get started.
If you've made a decision on what amenities you're looking for, you can find Delanson residential addiction treatment clinics that meet just about any requirement. From professional treatment for businessmen and women to celebrity recovery programs, your city offers many options, both budget-conscious and upscale.
Depending on the substance, abuse duration and intensity, you or a relative may be looking at anything from a thirty day inpatient alcohol or drug recovery program all the way up to a 120-day or longer one. Other drug types may allow for outpatient programs while severe cases may necessitate long-term recovery services. Fortunately, you can find a Delanson treatment clinic to fit just about any budget.
To estimate the cost of recovery services in Delanson, NY, you first have to consider the amenities the program provides and its geographic location in relation to your own preferences. There's quite a wide range in cost for rehabilitation clinics. Many will take private insurance, so either check with your provider to see if some coverage is available through your PPO or HMO, or contact our no-cost help line for a discreet insurance check.
Whether you need help getting clean from a drug or alcohol addiction or live with a husband or wife who does, our hotline is ready to take your call, anytime, and is staffed by friendly advisors, there to discuss the top inpatient alcohol and drug addiction treatment clinics Delanson, New York offers. You can review the costs and benefits of thirty-day addiction treatment clinics versus 2 or 3-month ones and make sure the treatment program you decide on is going to give you everything you'll need to succeed in recovery.
There is no obligation to enter treatment and you can opt out at any time.

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Is T.O.P taking a break from Instagram?
After treating fans with his constant updates since making his personal Instagram account, BIGBANG’s T.O.P announced a possible halt of his explosive posts.
On April 23rd, it seems like T.O.P decided to keep it on the down low as he prepares for the group’s upcoming concert stops over the weekend. Updating his Instagram account, he posted a photo from his previous pictorial and left a message for his fans saying, “This is the end of my explosive updates after four days. See you all at the concert the day after tomorrow. Goodbye. Enjoy your day.”
Since joining the photo sharing platform on April 19th, T.O.P made at least 124 posts as he continously updated fans of his previous work, his thoughts on arts, selcas and more.
Meanwhile, T.O.P will join the rest of BIGBANG as they make their first big return after three years, starting with their concert tour MADE kickstarting in Seoul on April 25th and 26th.

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