NCAA Final Four: It’s a great day to be a Mountaineer wherever you may be!

April 5, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
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Today a WVU Mountaineers take upon a Duke Blue Devils in a NCAA Final Four. Good fitness to a Mountaineers as they try to pierce upon to a Championship Game upon Monday night opposite a leader of a Bulter vs. Michigan State contest.

West Virginians everywhere have been vehement about a diversion as well as unapproachable of a tough work as well as loyalty put in by a Mountaineer players, coaches as well as staff. It is a good day to be a Mountaineer!

All week it has been sparkling to watch a hum as well as fad grow via a state. we desired this design of a little Mountaineers withdrawal Morgantown headed to Indianapolis with their cooler as well as cot strapped to back. we had to share it with everyone. Thanks to Lisa Simmons for a photo. You have to be a Mountaineer to assimilate a couch burning convention (some history upon a tradition as well as a single of my the one preferred videos below).

Go Mountaineers!

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It’s About Time!

March 27, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
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Cripes! It’s about time you did a blog, huh?!

The Healing Patch got a small during a behind of these final couple of weeks as you moved, as well as afterwards you went to see a little family in Florida final week. But you have been behind in business, baby! Time to bust out a little blogs, a little newsletters, as well as a little air wave shows!!!
Okay, so a subject during palm strike me when you was in Florida. you was staying in Miami Beach with my hermit as well as his wife. It was similar to being in an additional land. you am used to hippie-old farming California, finish with hiking trails as well as still streets everywhere. Miami is a hustling, bustling, enchanting mix of cultures as well as events. There have been no trails, no hippies (okay, may be a few!), as well as positively no still streets. But you adore it all!
I satisfied which most tender foodists, or people in general, dont consider about which they can have fun as well as be gentle in places they have been not in all used to. We mostly tumble in to patterns of comfort, where you usually go places which have tender food, you usually speak to people who eat tender food, as well as you usually knowledge enlightenment associated to illness as well as tender food.
There is so most sorcery out there! Miami Beach is a pleasing place. It has a own stroke as well as melody. What could be bad about warm, clean, pleasant immature waters? What could be bad about a smells as well as sounds entrance from old-fashioned Brazilian cafes as well as Cuban diners?
We need to sense to relax sometimes, as well as conclude alternative places as well as energies. Too mostly you say, “I do not similar to this place or which place…and you can’t eat there…and it’s as well bustling or swarming there.”
I consider a loyal hint of a complacency as well as gratification is a capability to conclude as well as duty in any environment. Can you lay somewhere as well as see a beauty, in any case of how you similar to to live a own lives during home? Well, it’s about time you conclude a things outward of a own range as well as spectrum.
Stay open, peeps. Always.
Magical days,
Julie

(c) Photo as well as sandart copyright Julie Hoffenberg

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Health: Yup, it’s a Social Thing. Especially if You’ve Got a Chronic Condition…

March 26, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
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“People have good as well as bad days, as well as they don’t know the good day’s starting to come Wednesday during 5 o’clock when the live await organisation is meeting,” Ms. Connell said. “The Internet is the good opening for people to be honest.”

Not surprisingly, according to Pew, Internet users with ongoing illnesses have been some-more expected than full of illness people to make use of the Web to demeanour for report upon specific diseases, drugs, health insurance, pick or initial treatments as well as depression, anxiety or stress.

But for them, the amicable aspects of the Web take upon heightened importance. Particularly if they have been homebound, they additionally demeanour to the Web for their amicable lives, deliberating topics separate to their illnesses. Some report times to eat cooking or watch the film whilst chatting online.

From: “Online Social Networks Bridge Gaps for Chronically Ill – NYTimes.com.”

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Fatty Liver: It’s not Just for Grown-ups Anymore

March 21, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
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The widespread of non-alcoholic greasy liver mildew (NAFLD) is a single of my a one preferred topics upon this blog, due to a liver’s purpose as a body’s metabolic “grand executive station”, as Dr. Philip Wood puts it. The liver plays a vicious partial in a law of sugar, insulin, as good as lipid levels in a blood. Many of a slight red red red blood tests administered in a doctor’s bureau (blood glucose, cholesterol, etc.) to some extent simulate liver function.

NAFLD is an extreme accumulation of fat in a liver that impairs a duty as good as can lead to serious liver inflammation (NASH), as good as in a tiny commission of people, liver cancer. An estimated 20-30% of people in industrial nations humour from NAFLD, a shockingly tall superiority (1).

I formerly posted upon dietary factors we hold have been concerned in NAFLD. In rodents, stuff oneself a vast volume of sugarine or industrial seed oils (corn oil, etc.) promotes NAFLD, given fats such as butter as good as coconut oil do not (2). In tellurian infants, enteric stuff oneself with industrial seed oils causes serious liver damage, given a same volume of fat from fish oil doesn’t, as good as can even retreat a repairs finished by seed oils (3).

So basically, we consider sugarine as good as industrial oils have been vital contributors to NAFLD, as good as if we demeanour during diet trends in a US over a final 40 years, they’re unchanging with a idea. Industrial oils have been damaging due (at slightest in part) to their tall omega-6 content, that is cryptic to some extent given it disturbs normal omega-3 metabolism. A intensity resolution to greasy liver is to revoke sugar, reinstate industrial oils with healthy fats, as good as safeguard a unchanging source of omega-3. I’ve posted dual anecdotes of people fast recovering their greasy livers regulating diet changes* (4, 5).

I not long ago came opposite a investigate that carefully thought about a diet of Canadian young kids with NAFLD (6). The young kids had a tall sugarine intake, a standard (i.e., high) omega-6 intake, as good as a low omega-3 intake. The authors claimed that a young kids additionally had a tall jam-packed fat intake, though during 10.5% of calories, they were roughly eating to a American Heart Association’s “Step I” diet recommendations**. Busted! Total fat money coming in was additionally low.

High sugarine expenditure was compared with a incomparable waist circumference, insulin resistance, reduce adiponectin as good as towering markers of inflammation. High omega-6 money coming in was compared with markers of inflammation. Low omega-3 money coming in was compared with insulin insurgency as good as towering liver enzymes. Saturated fat money coming in as if had no propinquity to any of these markers, given they didn’t discuss it in a text.

These young kids with NAFLD, who were all insulin resistant as good as often obese, had diets tall in omega-6, tall in sugar, as good as low in omega-3. This is unchanging with a thought that these 3 factors, that have all been relocating in a wrong citation in a final 40 years, minister to NAFLD.

* Fatty liver was assessed by liver enzymes, admittedly not a undiluted test. However, towering liver enzymes do relate sincerely good with NAFLD.

** Steps we as good as II were transposed by brand brand new diet recommendation in 2000. The AHA right away recommends gripping jam-packed fat next 7% of calories. Stock up upon those skinless duck breasts! Make certain there isn’t any residual fat adhering to a meat, it competence kill you. we do have to give a AHA credit however, given their brand brand new recommendations concentration often upon eating genuine food rsther than than avoiding jam-packed fat as good as cholesterol.

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Being a Woman in Tech Sucks, Yes. But Seriously. Stop Bit&^*%^. If You Choose the Startup, It’s Still Your Choice.

February 15, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
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Brad, we consider the vast partial of the complaint is flattering easy to understand. My mother as great as we both work during opposite startups; final night we were both during work flattering late. She didn’t finish up until around 10:30; we got finished an hour or so prior to her nonetheless kept operative for the while. We don’t have kids, nonetheless this lifestyle is not starting to be probable when we do. Our top behaving women lend towards to wed tall behaving group (in my box we got propitious with my wife…). Since the weight of receiving caring of kids tends to tumble upon the woman, as great as given the many appropriate as great as brightest women have been marrying group who have identical tough operative lifestyles, something has to give. And it is customarily the women’s careers.

I instruct this didn’t strike so tighten to home.

To date, I’ve incited my at the back of (willingly) upon the single matrimony as great as the single attribute (so new it still burns) to try as great as set up the things we consider need to be built for health.

The time constraints with startups have been customarily the single partial of the complaint though, possibly you’re masculine or female.

The romantic as great as mental rollercoaster which leads to Provigil use, drug as great as ethanol abuse, as great as miss of caretaking (of oneself, of one’s relationship) is wholly another.

Even if we have been stable, self-confident, smart, as great as great upheld (financially, socially), these peaks as great as valleys can eat we (and everybody around you) for lunch.

My many new attribute was with an additional rarely intelligent, rarely driven, rarely successful Silicon Valley tech founder, so maybe which tall behaving to tall behaving partial bears closer examination.

Ironically, when asked to ‘put the attribute first’ (and this is waaay prior to carrying kids) we consider the complaint is which many masculine entrepreneurs won’t, as great as many womanlike startup founders WILL (unless the man is additionally your cofounder).

Except, we will not – during slightest not nonetheless – as great as which equates to my attribute ended.

We women fold. We consider “what the ruin am we we do this for?” or “what the ruin (and who the hell) will we have if we fail?”

I’m guilty of this too. This sunrise we outlayed an hour upon the phone with my sister, who has the single child underneath 2 in the residence as great as an additional upon the way.

I’m wondering if we will have time for which after we do the startup so late. I’m wondering if I’m not creation the protected preference here. Guys can regularly imitate later, nonetheless my time ticks down earlier.

The nauseous law is we customarily can’t have it all – solely in the VERY rarest of resources as great as relationships.

I should know how this feels. I’m staring during this preference RIGHT NOW.

And it’s not great timing, let me discuss it you.

In the surrounded by of requesting to YCombinator, assembly VCs each week, office building out getupandmove.me for alternative illness as great as wellness uses, as great as practically seeking during my options if Andrey as great as we DO NOT get in to YC.

He’ll be excellent – as the engineering side of the group he can go work during Google.

I, however, would substantially need the entertain brewing coffee somewhere to redeem as great as figure out what to do next.

I’ve got waay some-more than the ‘qualified nonetheless female’ owner strikes referred to by many of these well-intentioned nonetheless nearby clueless writers opposite me. I’m not from ‘here.’ we grew up upon the easterly coast.

I didn’t go to Stanford. we went to the tiny magnanimous humanities college as great as have the grade in English as great as the teenager in Gender Studies.

Not customarily am we an unpedigreed, initial time (at 30, Jesus) womanlike owner of the tech company, we am the non-tech, non-CS owner who doesn’t code.

What I’m perplexing to share, we guess, is which it’s customarily never the damn available time for the lady to turn an entrepreneur. And there have been regularly some-more disadvantages than advantages.

But isn’t which loyal of entrepreneurs in general?

If you’re starting to begin something, as great as take the risk, timing doesn’t have the difference which many any way – alternative than your capability to decider the market, opportunities, as great as squeeze during the shift in the wind.

But we will determine all around which with both relatives intent in startup hold up it seems nearby unfit to me to anticipate things operative out in the healthy, well-balanced home.

Startup founders have been by inlet self-engaged to the indicate of alienation, as great as infrequently even injury, to those around them.

We’re spooky with the code, with the concepts. We’re spooky with enormous the closest benchmark of success (traffic, funding, etc) as great as afterwards relocating right along to the subsequent one.

Unless you’re in the relationship, where instead of the Venn blueprint with 3 sections (you, me, the attribute which overlaps in the middle), you’ve got 5 (you, your startup, me, my startup, the relationship).

Needless to say, things get, ah, rsther than complicated. There’s customarily so many emotional, spiritual, as great as mental appetite in the person, as great as I’d contend these energies have been considerably decreased by startup life.

In my final relationship, I’d arise up, leave bed, do an early sunrise scrum call for hands2gether, the stirring mobile app built in partnership with the vast US illness insurer, have coffee, purify the kitchen, do the little some-more work, as great as afterwards go at the back of in as great as hug with my beloved until he was ready to arise up as great as go get something to eat.

We’d blow about 3 hours of eating as great as articulate time prior to I’d customarily begin an additional afternoon work session.

Because he was mostly up til 2 am coding or we do his night-owl schedule, I’d onslaught to stay up, mostly descending defunct in the sitting upon all sides perplexing to compensate courtesy to the little film we were examination upon iTunes.

Why am we pity this? Because it sucked. Hard core. It is not full of illness nor sustainable.

And what sucks worse is which this will many expected occur again, during slightest if we wish to be in the attribute rsther than than customarily we do the little infrequent dating which satisfies certain, ah, shameful needs.

The tradeoffs we select to have as the outcome of we do this NOW being so ruthlessly non-traditionally rebuilt have been legion. And I’ll many expected select to keep creation them.

Why? Because we adore this. When we attempted to anticipate we do something else progressing this year, we was positively miserable, as great as horribly under-productive. Healthcare, as great as regulating cold things similar to amicable games to have this better, is it for me.

Oh, if this goes south, I’ll survive. Somehow we regularly do. Those ‘adaptable’ characteristics we have to have to be an early theatre owner can be reapplied as ’survival techniques’ flattering easily, nonetheless it certain doesn’t feel good.

For all the reasons we was constrained to begin Contagion, startup hold up draws me. But we do the startup in the Valley competence additionally “break” me.

To tarry the Valley as woman, we have to tarry being abandoned by the entertainment of founders not since we can’t cling to in the conversation, or since you’re wearing something delicate (I wasn’t-boots, blazer, boyfriend’s Polo rugby, jacket).

You have to tarry meaningful which the guys here will possibly be undetermined by you, ashamed by your really essence, being as great as presence, be not often captivated as great as preoccupied (luckily the minority), or not give the rat’s donkey about we until you’re successful.

And which final one, during least, ladies, is where we have the good of being treated with colour customarily similar to the guys.

It doesn’t have the difference possibly you’re XX or XY. If we caring about startups, afterwards we caring about success. And we know others will decider we upon it.

And when we get to which cloudy area of ’success,’ we can confirm if it was ‘all value it’ or not. The odds is which we might finish up there alone.

The guys face this too, when the income doesn’t move them love, or happiness, or wellbeing, customarily the fatter bank comment and, whoo hoo! An simpler time removing VC meetings the second time around!

Can we have this the some-more gender offset area? Sure. Can women get by in the stream dogs-circling-a-fire-hydrant atmosphere? Sure.

But for gods’ sakes guys, utterly articulate about this as great as begin articulate WITH us so we can sense how to do the startup jobs better.

If you’re not mentoring during slightest 3 females meddlesome in first startups, I’d contend you’re the ones descending at the back of as great as unwell to innovate.

But do not worry. I’d be happy to brazen we the fat list of names. Competitive, intelligent women have been out there. Don’t be concerned so many which we won’t find what you’re seeking for in us…

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