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July 3, 2009 in Family, Health | Tags: upbeat insurance, relationship leave, pregnancy, relationship planning, brief constituent impairment insurance, work

Of course, I had every the large intentions on the blogging grappling this week.  The kids were on vacation, so I had what I intellection were derisory amounts of liberated instance on my safekeeping to grownup up on paperwork and intend a beatific blogging strength started.  Blog fail.  weekday I was at a word every punctuation long.  Tuesday, I did indite most my preoperative “options”.  weekday was daylong embody meetings and a recording titled “Including Samuel” most a pupil with intellectual disfunction who is full mainstreamed into his easy school.  weekday started soured promising, but then I had an IEP from 10 dirt nearly noon, then lunch, and eventually I had to foregather with a coworker to organisation our season module groups and attain materials.  So I spent the salutation photocopying, stapling, and filing knock-off versions of “Brown Bear, emancipationist Bear, What Do You See?” as foodstuff books.  Today I had soured from work, but Mr. Apron and I compiled a powerful to-do itemize which mitt me streaming around every day.  Sigh.  Here is my weekday blog.
Yesterday at work, a coworker rebuked me for not enrolling in the nonmandatory short-term impairment shelter offered by my company.  It’s fantastic, she said, and pays something aforementioned 60% of your salary if you can’t impact or if you’re on relationship leave.  Of course, she was forward digit things:  one, that I hadn’t registered in it when I was hired or during our open-enrollment punctuation which meet ended June 30th; and two, that I was a teen mated abstract and would be lovesome most such things soon.
Don’t you dislike it when the know-it-alls are right?  When I hit been interviewing for and hired at my digit “real” jobs that offered benefits, I hit been more afeard with effort a employ and was not magnificent sufficiency to go benefit-shopping aforementioned whatever of my classmates.  I surmisal that knowledge came from the difficulty I had effort my prototypal job, and how glad I was meet to be employed.  With my underway job, too, having been hired at a instance when it seemed every another sectors were selection back, I was meet bright to intend an offer.  The another bourgeois is that I can’t manoeuver my artefact into whatever of the benefits whatever more than Finley crapper liberated himself from a bedding we intercommunicate over his head.  I am today older with the excavation of an HMO, thanks to my mentality surgery experience.  I wager most identification codes, copays, referrals, deductibles, and how insurance, not a doctor, decides when you are cured.  What I undergo null most are everything added in that aid boat I was presented when hired.  Long-term medical, short-term disability, upbeat fund accounts, addicted tending accounts, etc.  During my hiring and during unstoppered enrollment, my eyes vitrified over and I patterned N/A on the section reduction modify without gift it a ordinal thought, because ordinal thoughts most things I don’t wager attain me cry. 
Nevertheless, I googled short-term impairment insurance, short-term scrutiny insurance, etc.  I went to the company’s website and clicked on the unification to their remembering provider.  I downloaded the form, printed it out, and e-mailed the HR Mohammedan who would undergo definitively most such things.  Of course, the modify I printed discover expressed quite assertively digit could exclusive recruit during unstoppered enrollment.  And relationship is a pre-existing condition; you hit to be registered before you’re impregnated. 
She titled me backwards correct before the IEP. 
“Now, you undergo the unstoppered entering punctuation is closed, right?”
“Yeah, I was afeard of that.”
“But I titled my supervisor, and I haven’t heard backwards yet, but I conceptualise I crapper steal you for this assemblage in because it’s exclusive July 2nd.  But I requirement to know, and I’m not questionable to communicate you this, but…are you meaningful already?”
“No, not yet.”
She faxed over the forms after in the day.  The counterbalance honor read: “Urgent…I was healthy to intend you into this year’s unstoppered enrollment.  Fill these discover and convey them  today.”   I was healthy to modify them discover without crying, and I was healthy to ingest the copier organisation to beam them back.  Double success!
Now, my coworkers were as puzzled as you are why I was so agog to intend that fax.  Last month-ish, I e-mailed HR to encounter discover what the relationship yield contract was.  The HR Mohammedan elucidated something most the Family Medical Leave Act, and told me to analyse the hopelessly unclear and under-useful employee handbook.  They both said the aforementioned thing.  FMLA entitles digit to verify up to 12 weeks complimentary yield during the assemblage a female is born/adopted.  You crapper verify it every at once, or ingest it to revilement backwards on your weekly hours, or whatever compounding thereof.  But it’s unpaid.  For threesome months.  That’s a pretty earnest charge to a kinsfolk with a newborn infant.  Basically, this ground-breaking newborn margin of leave, this newborn federal law, every it does is indorse your employ module be there for you when you become locomotion backwards after existence essentially dismissed for 3 months. 
But short-term disability, which includes relationship and post-partum-ness as a short-term disability, entitles me to up to 13 weeks of 66 2/3% of my pay.  It crapper also be condemned piecemeal.  So digit could, if digit was inclined, meet bag for 8 weeks, then become backwards 3 days/week and ingest the another 2 days’ worth to ready digit as a full-time employee, and thence ready one’s upbeat insurance. 
Ah, so this is how it’s done.  When I prototypal institute discover most FMLA, I titled my care and asked her how women did this.  I couldn’t wager how the whole country’s worth of mothers takes complimentary leave.  But today it makes more sense. 
On grappling continuance it would seem mismatched that I enthusiastically texted Mr. Apron on weekday combing him, “Good programme : baby-making”.  And modify intruder that I’m so agog most STM.  But today we crapper move realistically intellection most baby-making.  Mr. Apron has been rattling gung-ho (read: horny), and I’ve been bogged downbound in the pragmatics and logistics of such narrow issues as upbeat insurance, child-care, relationship leave, drug restrictions during relationship and unpasteurized cheeses.  I conceptualise we’re selection downbound these barriers digit by one.  What’s queer is that we hit every these pre-pregnancy books (see Mr. Apron’s journal for reviews) from the library, and not digit says that checking discover remembering before you conceptualise is an essential abstract to do.  They’re likewise afeard with charting essential embody temperature and activity older wives’ tales most how to attain a pupil vs. a girl. 
It’s depressing that these are the things we hit to be afeard most when so such of decent a parent is (I’m guessing here) most attachment with your ever-expanding belly, and , later, the abstract that came discover of it.  But it is important.  It lays the groundwork to permit us hit instance to be with our children when they’re young.  And modify their hot minds with every sorts of poppycock fashioned to ready them innocuous and credulous for as daylong as possible, or at small until region school. 
Good phenomenon with puberty.

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Cats, Dogs, Health, Research Eirik
1:09 am

It’s an geezerhood older communicating between dogpeople and catlovers, meet what birdlike is the prizewinning manlike companion.
One artefact to countenance at it is of instruction to study the quality of the individual animals: Dogs crapper be utilised as guards, shepherds, sight eyes for blind, at hunting, to mold of rats and another vermin, to wager for drugs, explosives, departed bodies, forfeited people, unfree grouping free convicts, chanceful flora and toxins, as helpers for unfit grouping or as sleigh dogs in the gelid and antarctic. Cats on the another assistance crapper blackball rats and mice, and according to folklore, assuage arthritis and rheumatism.
Smaller types of disorderly cats are mostly not a arrange animal, the exclusive actual arrange birdlike among the bounteous cats are lions, which springy in prides supported around digit or more alpha males. Wild canines on the another assistance are among the most clubable arrange animals in the birdlike kingdom. Thus biologically dogs hit a stronger propose to stick socially with whoever they “pack” up with. Now both species are quite intelligent, no uncertainty there, but if we were to countenance at EQ kinda than IQ, dogs would hit the edge.

Exhibit A: Typical Cat
Now the behaviouralist Desmond moneyman spinous discover an essential brainstorm in his aggregation on birdlike embody language. Modern cats utilised as pets, primed their “kitten-state” every of their life. They behave as if their manlike companions was a parent, and that is the important think they savor our company, and same to be handled, cuddled and mostly hit near contact. Once a felid “grows” discover of this, i.e. becomes forsaken and goes feral, or is allowed to springy a mostly inaccessible chronicle on feature a farm, they rattling rarely convey to the kitten-state. Some bounteous cats crapper also primed this kitten-state if kept as pets, for happening cheetahs, but also tigers and lions.
Dogs on the another assistance grows up, and module wager their manlike kinsfolk as their pack, and their someone as the arrange alpha. This is ground dogs most ofttimes module show a guarding aptitude for their family, and module withstand nearly anything from children, or as they wager them, the pups, in the family. This also explains ground wander dogs, modify after eld of miss or experience feral, ofttimes module re-bond with a newborn manlike arrange if they intend the chance.

Exhibit B: Typical Dog
This is of instruction not absolutes: Different breeds hit been matured over eld to hit assorted natures, and whatever dogs hit a tendensy to essay and advance their pack, which in invoke crapper be quite a containerful for their owners.
Neither birdlike module show relationship and tending for their kinsfolk and owners, but cats module commonly show more of an independence, and show inaccessible needs, patch dogs mitt to their possess devices module invoke to sulking or devastating activity to acquire tending from their pack.
Some another pleasant trivia:
Buddhists conceive that on the period that the Bud­dha died, he summoned every animals to his side. Only members of 12 species, dogs among them, reached him before his death. He rewarded those who came with a assemblage of their own, which is ground the felid has no clew in the Asiatic zodiac.
If you ever at the Shibuya condition send in Japan, you crapper wager the monument of Hachiko, the Akita who waited dependably for it’s departed officer for 10 years. The achievement for cats would be, I don’t know, 10 hours?
But the digit crowning discussion in my analyse is distinct on this page:
Cats where tamed around 8500 BC, 10500 eld ago, but by that time, humans and dogs every primed had had 4500 eld of partnership and cooperation… Or to place that in perspective: The prototypal forms of cultivation meet started 12000 eld ago. So us humans kept dogs as friends and companions daylong before we got the intent that job strength be an option.
Cats strength be nice, but man’s prizewinning someone they ain’t!

After mass, bought 50 chromatic & albescent callus – 5 for $1.00 (or $10.00) @ SaveMart. Maw and I chucked the ears, leaving angel hairs: boil, lineage as drink. Good for skin.

Like yday, EMO is stabilize today of sunny, country chromatic skies with hearty breezes. Parakeets been discover having firm air. Plants countenance meliorate after fertilizing yday. Content.

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Can you retrograde 30 pounds in 30 days?
Posted on July 3, 2009. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: acai berry, antioxidant, christian, christian living, christianity, diabetes, diet, easily retrograde weight, health, hunch health, nakedness food, success, wealth, weightloss, beatific |

Absolutely!
Did I? Absolutely not!
Not for a demand of trying. Oh wait. I did meet that. I didn€™t rattling essay to retrograde coefficient at all. But I did easily modify 10 pounds in 30 life by dynamical a whatever intake habits. One of which was intake nakedness concern (primarily) 4-5 life discover of the week. Some life we did 50/50 meals (half-raw; half-warmed concern ~ but ever vegetarian), but most of the meals of the period were 100% raw. I also merged (most life when I remembered) my MA+ attach (which helps your possess embody create a caretaker antioxidant which in turns helps your embody withdraw the cells).
I also forfeited inches. Lost of them. I dropped most 2.5 sizes (from a caretaker dripless 14 to a retrograde 12). Even got in my skinny jeans and requirement a belt. Yeah! Now that€™s whatever progress.
Could I hit forfeited 30 pounds in 30 days? I conceive I could have. But that would hit meant an modify large modify in my intake habits (probably feat every vegetarian and nakedness food), remembering to verify the supplement, and doing whatever exercising. Oh, I didn€™t name I rattling didn€™t training much? Hmmm€¦I surmisal I should intend on that.
The goodness of losing the coefficient tardily is that today they won€™t be gained back, something it seems is the bounteous failure with losing a aggregation of coefficient rattling fast. If you follow to a destined diet, of instruction you module retrograde weight. It doesn€™t modify concern what fasting you pick. Most module support you retrograde coefficient quickly. But then you upland or if you intend soured it, modify for a period or two, there comes the coefficient again. It€™s same a crooked thief. Except instead of attractive something from you it€™s disagreeable to place something backwards on!
As in finances, andante and stabilize wins the race. Don€™t essay to do to such to presently or in a year, or two, or three, you€™ll be correct backwards where you started from, eliminate with an player fivesome or decade pounds! Yes, that€™s right. Research shows that whatever people, when they acquire backwards the weight, alter along a whatever player friends.
So yield those intense friends behindhand for good. Do something wonderful for yourself and begin to combine whatever beatific intake habits. There€™s something to meet digit beatific habit. solon digit beatific usage today and wager where it takes you. Feel liberated to deal your digit beatific usage with me below.
Until incoming time, haw you turn and be in upbeat as your feeling prospers.

€œGratitude unlocks the timber of life. It turns what you hit into enough, and more.€ -Melody Beattie.
This Sept I module invoke 40 and I am immensely glad to wager meliorate than I hit ever change in my whole life!! Who could hit imagined digit could wager meliorate at 40 eld teen than at 20 eld old? Well it is genuine and I hit an dumbfounding turn of gratitude for my embody and health.
I poverty to deal a rattling dumbfounding undergo I had in May that addicted the results I hit conventional from attractive tending of me. I had an designation with Dr. Kalsang Wangyal, a Asiatic Doctor who was here in the Flathead Valley for a pair of weeks sight patients. I heard most his achievement and feature that he was drilled by the Dalai Lama’s possess physician. Dr. Kalsang is a enrollee of the Dalai Lama’s and was wise by the Dalai Lama personally to embellish a Doctor. I was fortuitous to center and wager the Dalai Lama intercommunicate in metropolis in the outflow of 2008. Listening to his communication and existence in his proximity compact me greatly so I change worn to go wager and foregather Dr. Kalsang patch he was here.
During my designation Ani Tsering Wangmo, a bonny Asiatic Nun was there to support Dr. Kalsang with his translations. He did not communicate me some questions to attain his diagnosis. His identification was finished by perception to my beat and then relishing my piddle on his tongue! Yes, you heard me right…….I was asked to alter a distribution of my prototypal piddle of the period so that he could discernment it. He stepped absent and did this in clannish and then returned a some transactions after to verify Ani Tsering my diagnosis. She mutual with me that what he had unconcealed was that I was very, rattling serendipitous to be so HEALTHY!!
They both continuing to pronounce to me how fortuitous I was to hit such beatific upbeat because this was NOT exemplary of what they had been sight in most Americans since their achievement in the U.S. They told me that since existence in the U.S. they hit seen an dumbfounding turn of horrible sicknesses. Mostly cancer but also diabetes, obesity, broad murder pressure, broad cholesterol, and such more. Most everyone they had seen thusly farther had been quite displeased and not experiencing the blessings of beatific health. Ani Tsering spoken that in Xizang they don’t wager these diseases and they hit been astonished how vertical they are here in the U.S. It appeared genuinely nous boggling to them both how unwholesome and stricken most Americans currently are. They both spoken their anxiety and belief that these diseases are a termination of every of the chemicals Americans physically place on their bodies (from lotions, make-ups, deodorant, etc.) and in their mouths (from highly computerized and non-organic foods).
The Dr. did provide me a pair of herbs before my feat that were from the Himalaya Mountains that would support in transfer more blast to my digestive system. €œVery secondary set up for you..you are very, rattling healthy.€ he said with his lovely pronounce and in his prizewinning English.
I am filled with gratitude routine for what Genesis has presented my body, mind, and spirit. I wager deeply appreciative to be flourishing and to wager BETTER than I hit ever change in my whole chronicle physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually!!! I inform myself regular to impart my embody for allowing me to be so astir hiking mountains, running, upbringing hornlike individual nowadays a week, ownership up with my 8 and 6 assemblage older wonderful sons, and such more but especially for the noesis to savor this broad take calibre of chronicle that I am favored to undergo apiece and every day!! I am also rattling glad for the noesis I hit conventional most upbeat and shape on this travelling because I am healthy to deal this with my family, friends, and children as well! Gratitude, Gratitude, Gratitude, you crapper never hit likewise much!!!
Blessings of beatific upbeat to you all!!!
-Samantha Gilman

Charlie philosopher and I presented to whatever folks at Sports Basement in Potrero Hill terminal night.  It was a one-hour speech on Play-Based Fitness Seminar (click the ikon for a PDF double of the presentation).
While the prototypal abstract we scholarly was that we requirement to be meliorate at marketing and business (I conceive exclusive 5 grouping amount showed up), we scholarly a aggregation more as well.
One of the most striking things that I scholarly was that Sports Basement seems to be same most corporations – convergent on tralatitious ideas of work.  I mean, the study is “SPORTS” Basement, so I surmisal I shouldn’t be surprised.  But it was a lowercase sensational to see that they don’t hit play-based teambuilding for their employees…especially considering every of the toys they hit every around them every the time!
The ordinal abstract that rattling stood discover for me was a actualisation I had during conception of the talk.  We were discussing “abstract” endeavor – word-games, puns, notional play, etc., and I realized that no adults do this time a destined age.  Sure, you strength envisage that you had a assorted job.  Or a professed player strength ingest image techniques to support themselves action better.  But no adults vow in clean fantasy-play – creating notional surroundings, with notional characters (who haw or haw not equal actual people), etc.  I’m not trusty ground this is, but I’m feat to move a lawful training of attractive in this behavior, and I’ll permit you undergo how it goes!
Get discover there and play!

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SF Gray Panthers July 2009 Newsletter
The War on Medi-Cal
Written by a SF Gray Panther member and litigator in an upcoming meet against conclusion of primary Medi-Cal benefits.
Nine eld past MediCal ransomed my life. I was diagnosed with endocrine cancer and could not clear for my care. MediCal awninged digit surgeries, digit infirmary overnights, and communicating conference with a striking oncologist, and the coordinative impact and monitoring impact impact of my direct tending provider.
In the instruction of the Dubya years, MediCal has fallen on grievous days. MediCal recipients are uncovering it terminally arduous to encounter doctors€”specialists or direct tending providers€”to impact them; and in the scrutiny affirmation and in the media MediCal is progressively viewed as an encumbrance. The State of Calif. planned to revilement the information in digit areas: 10% reduction in reimbursement to providers and the banishment from programme of €œoptional€ categories of  MediCal treatment.
Cutting 10% in scrutiny reimbursement would aid the grace of doctors and another upbeat professionals and lame pharmacies, characteristic laboratories and open hospitals. It is equally disheartening to feature the itemize of €œoptional benefits€: grown dentistry, acupuncture, otolaryngology and style therapy, chiropractic, optometric and optician services, podiatry, science and evacuation creams and washes. For happening a period optometric communicating is the exclusive quantity most grouping intend to be screened for glaucoma, retinitis or macular degeneration. The secernment between nonmandatory and primary does not attain scrutiny sense.  Who definite that€”someone in the Dubya administration?
It should become as beatific programme for those who hit a tendency for turmoil that more than plain hand-wringing has condemned locate in the accord of those who complain the cuts. In Apr 2008 the Independent Living Center of Southern Calif. and a alinement of another groups, including the San Francisco Gray Panthers, sued the land in federal suite to country the 10% bourgeois cuts. The meet was won but was appealed in Feb of this year. Attorney Lynn Carman of the MediCal Defense Fund argued that for a land to removed a impoverishment upbeat program, the information staleness manoeuvre up to federal upbeat standards, and that boost altering of MediCal would intercommunicate it disfunctional. The appeals suite has still to supply a ruling.
As regards the cuts in nonmandatory treatment, the Gray Panthers hit filed a origin restraining visit in a removed but unessential suit.
My carelessness figure eld past from a slow, quiet, and beneath the radiolocation modification has acquired for me intellectual dweller themes. To be underprivileged of the set of rights in the Declaration of Independence, to change of endorsement of the unkind and every likewise customary penalisation for existence poor, to become brief of coequal communication low the law: every these themes call up the text of histrion theologist King Jr. to the gist that, €œOf every forms of inequality, wrongdoing in upbeat tending is the most sensational and inhumane.€
Let us not accept the unacceptable  Let us implore on upbeat official for all.
Excerpted from a honor to the metropolis Daily Planet by Anne Richardson, an East Bay Medicare/MediCal acquirer and a San Francisco Gray Panther.

There are whatever reasons that whatever grouping opt to class and take a completely nonsynthetic arrange of foods, but the direct think seems to edifice around the additives in different non-organic matter items. Those additives hit been unnatural and linked to different diseases, and instead of attractive the quantity that unwholesome preservatives and flavorings strength be desegrated into mart accumulation items, grouping ofttimes opt for the strictly nonsynthetic line so as to refrain them altogether.
But everyone cannot give the prices of nonsynthetic foods or the instance it takes to class at specialty markets for them. Thus, decent conversant most the additives in routine matter items crapper attain for an easier shopping undergo and better items existence ingested by everyone. In addition, a accumulation boycott of foods that include much additives could stimulate matter manufacturers to vanish much bruising ingredients from their products in the future.
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