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wonderland, glad u r on the mend.
Here's the Olympians I am watching:
John Lillis. On of 3 skiing brothers. All 3 were supposed to be at the Olympics. 16 yo brother died in oct. Middle brother didn't make the cut.
Also a young woman megan (can't remember last name) does skiing moguls
Brian Gionta captain of men's hockey
Emery Lehman long distance skater from Chicago area. Goes to school with DS
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Hello exercise gals - I have a question: I've been going to a restorative yoga class & want to keep going during chemo if I'm feeling up to it. Should I be worried about the class mat & blocks? I'm wondering if they're covered with germs. Should I get my own fabric covers for them that I could slip on & take home to wash or just hope for the best & wash my hands after class? What do you guys think?
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I will have to write all the Olympic names and sports down to remember who to watch. Very cool!
Glad you are feeling better, Wonderland.
Moth, I have my own yoga mat (because I like a thicker mat and am not thrilled about other people's germs either). If I were you, I would bring my own mat or do a cover (which I would recommend even if you weren't doing chemo). The blocks I wouldn't worry that much about, just don't touch your face and wash your hands when you are done.
I subbed today (be very impressed because the subject I taught was BAND!). I went to Zumba and Yoga tonight and am now watching the Olympics. I am going to the dentist tomorrow.......I think I lost part of a filling.
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Good News, ladies!
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watching snow boarding on theOlympics with DH. Some of the athletes are so young!
Two cold walks with DH after work and after dinner. When I left work it was 21 and gray skies. Didn’t see the outside from the time I got to work at 7:30 and left at almost 4 !
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Good to read everyone active and enjoying the Olympics. Had a wonderful time in Venice, walking (in the sun!)
, seeing and eating too much! Now home and back at it but feeling a bit out of it. I like that article Ruth.
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lilac, what a handsome couple you are! I forgot about Carnival. it must have been amazing! ( probably as amazing as ruth teaching band!haha)
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lilac, lovely masks and faces. Love the supportive sculpture!
here's DD after walking up the mountain with snowshoes and poles. Sherpa DH carried her snowboard in his backpack.
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Lovely pictures, Lilac and Heidi.
I just got back from the dentist. The good news is a little piece of a filling came out & I can go back this afternoon and get it patched up (as opposed to a crown or root canal, both of which the hygienist mentioned after her part of the exam). Whew! I will go to Pound at 5:30 and from there dash off to my Book Club.
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Yesterday cross-country skied about 10km. Today was five hours sitting in the car, but I managed to squeeze in 5K steps. Lapland scenery: panorama at the top of Kaunispää Tundra
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OMG Badger that is so funny and so how I feel at the moment Vargadoll that is the cutest fireman. Falconer the retreat sounds wonderful, I had heard about some models where they were having kids who were in detention do yoga and it was helping them. Indahood hope you are enjoying Palm Springs the weather is perfect for your time there. Octogirl thinking of you today, hope your surgery went well. moth I would go to TJ Maxx or Target and buy my own then you can clean it after use as gym equipment doesn't get cleaned so I would really carry my own. Wow beautiful pictures LB, Heidi and tessu.
Last night went to my dance party class, the instructor did some old stuff that was loads of fun, Sunday I did RPM and saturday was my Body Combat with a fabulous sub as our regular girl was in Chicago - LB she was at the LMUS headquarters for Barre bootcamp - it's coming!!!
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So nice to see your beautiful masquerade LB. Tessu and Heidi, I envy your winter sport joy.
I ran on the treadmill today for twenty minutes. Cold cold cold here. And icy.
Tomorrow I have my appt with my MO. I'm so anxious- my usual neck/ shoulder pain often results in self-massage, both conscious and unconscious. Well about three weeks ago I noticed a palpable lymph node while rubbing my neck. More seem to have popped up in those three weeks. I'm hoping that I'm just having the usual three month follow up anxiety, and that's all. Ugh. When do these feelings end? Thanks for understanding; I know you've been here.0 -
Ruth, when I worked with the developmentally disabled, I worked with teenagers and adults. It wasn’t till I went to the public schools that I started to work with Elementary aged. The needs of elementary than secondary are huge. It’s unbelievable what today’s teenagers are dealing with. My youngest will be 20 next month but even since she started middle or high school have been so many changes. Never mind since my 30 something was in mind dale and high school! I love what I do, that keeps me going.
Gorgeous day today. Nice long walk after work. 50s today and 60s tomorrow compared to around 21 yesterday. The sun sure makes a difference.
Need to go to probate court regarding taking care of stuff from Mom. It’s is overwhelming. I will go Friday when I’m off. Hope I can get everything taken care of at probate court so I can deal with everything else. Thursday is 4 weeks since Mom passed away. My DH and I are going to go to the cemetery on Sunday which will be one month. So lucky to have such a great guy for a DH and bff!
Sweet dreams!
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Karen, yea for great guys in our lives!
Falconer, let us know how your appointment goes. Since a bunch of bumps are popping up, I'm thinking they have to do with all the germs going around, they just land someplace, linger, and cause problems. I still have a cough & my sinuses are pressing down on my face, teeth etc. from my cold of a couple weeks ago. Blah! The appointment anxiety does it better, but never entirely goes away. Hugs!!
We had a very fun night at my Book Club. The hostess LOVES to bake fancy and unusual desserts. She'll order special ingredients online if she can't find them in town. For anyone who is cheered up by food, here's what we ate tonight....
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Falconer, in your pocket today. HeidiHill, enjoy Paris and like the DD photo. Ruth, yum! Cheryl, I have a friend who is so eager to get on IMT barre, but not me. It's coming our way for April..been a slow roll-out over here, with Tori Willard as master trainer for over here. Have quarterly to go on for #80 on March 17th. Octo, hope you have as smooth of a recovery as before and all is well. Need to get this day going and have a corporate interview at noon for a gig to teach Pilates once a week in HQ conference room. Then my usual three classes - one at the spa late afternoon and two at the gym this evening. Happy VDay
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Loving all the pictures, especially the ski ones, and finally getting to post ones of my own. I had a good time and got in a fair amount of skiing. My new skis/poles/bindings/boots combination is just fab, giving me much better control on the down hills. Loving it!!!
However, I managed to get the creeping crud, and only wanted to sleep the last 2 days of my trip. To top things off, I hit a deer on my way back to where I was staying the last night damaging my car which fortunately was drivable so I could get home and fixable. But it was the end of the poor deer. Everyone has been wonderful and I should get my car back next week. I went home yesterday after dropping off my car at the auto body shop and will work from home today. I made a pea soup for dinner last night after 3 days of chicken noodle.
I feel so lucky though....as things could have been a lot worse. I was not injured at all, and only superficial damage to the car, other than the headlight that was taken out. Very lucky indeed. - Claire
This is why I find the Methow Valley so special:
Finally, gearing up for my trip the evening before in Seattle. Someone has to do the "heavy lifting" and provide feedback on the new wines/vintages!!
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Nice pictures, Claire. Too bad the trip ended on a bad note!
We just had a few Wednesday Walkers today. Everyone is either gone or sick! It is supposed to be 38 degrees this afternoon (and go back in the tank tomorrow) so I m going to kidnap the grandpuppies and meet a friend for a doggie walk. I'll go to Zumba after that & then DS and his lady friend have invited us over for a dinner.
Happy Valentine's Day to my all exercise Valentines!
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Claire, what kind are your new cross country skis? Standard? Nano? Or the new ”skins”? Husband suspects my almost 30-yr-old standard skis need replacement....
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Rossignol EVO OT 65. These work very well in tracks but also for a bit of "exploring". They are great on downhills. The bindings are adjustable for different types of skiing. They have steel edges. The boots are fab with excellent ankle support. These are standard, not skate skis. That will be in my next lifetime.
You will be shocked and amazed. Your husband is right. You should never look at skins unless extremely hard core.
SPOILER ALERT!!! You will want to upgrade everything else. You need to be fitted for these, so go to a ski shop where they know what they're doing. Yes, it will require telling them your true weight, but that's part of getting the right match. I got a package deal. There is another model without steel edges, but I would go for edges. A lot more control. Get the package as everything is designed to work together.
You will be so thrilled that you will lose weight from all the miles you will be putting in. Plus transform your body along the way.
My skis that were stolen were only one year old, but these represent a vast upgrade in technology. More fun....really fun. - Claire
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Thanks for the encouragement, Ruth. That is quite a plate of food porn you shared!
Wonderland, so sorry to hear bronchitis made its way into your system. Hope you're feeling better now.
Lilac, now that you're back how's the yoga teaching training going?
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Another beautiful day in Denver but tonight is windy so there must be a change coming our way.
The school shooting in Florida today has hit me hard...not sure why the other 17 shootings this year didn't bother me as much. I don't worry about my safety when I go to work and never have over the past 25+ years. But my DH worries for my safety. Its hard to convince him that he doesn't need to worry about me at school. 2018 has been a hard year!! Waiting for life to get a little bit easier.
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Oh Karen, I just feel absolutley sick too, but am tragically never surprised by another mass shooting. Apparently this is acceptable in our society at this moment in time. If this were a political thread, I would go on a long rant........since it's not, I will just say that everyone needs to research, back, and VOTE for candidates who will work for the good of the people, not the special interest groups. (Hopefully that is generic enough to not be deleted by the mods).
I am going to Pound & Bone Builders this morning. We are going to dinner with some out of town friends tonight, so I am making no progress on losing my vacation pounds!
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My daughter and her husband both work in two different schools in Connecticut and I have 4 beautiful granddaughters in school there and in Massachusetts. I worry about them so much.
We need to put the pressure on Congress to get rid of the assault weapons. Nobody needs to have them. Our hearts are so heavy with sadness. This has to end.
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This is from a Facebook post, and something anyone who wants to can do right now:
The (reported) weapon used in today's mass shooting...once again...is the AR 15 "assault-style" rifle manufactured and marketed by Colt. I don't give a rat's a55 how he got it. The root problem is that it is legally and so readily available. 'Feeling helpless, disgusted, and angry tonight? Write Colt a letter, put a stamp on it, and stick it in the mail...and give them a call, flood their mailbox and phone messages: Tel: (860) 236-6311
Colt's Manufacturing Company LLC
545 New Park Ave.
West Hartford, CT 06110
www.colt.com/Contact0 -
We know people in Newtown CT. They didn't work at Sandy Hook Elementary, but their lives will never be the same. I support people's Constitutional rights to keep and bear arms but the Founders didn't envision assault weapons. They should be for law enforcement and the military not Joe Six-Pack. But money talks. If so inclined, ref this article from Oct 2017 in Politico: The gun lobby: See how much your representative gets.
That said, it's been unseasonably warm so got out and walked at lunchtime yesterday and today. No yoga yesterday, instructor out sick. I forget who asked, but I use my own mat. I've managed to stay healthy (touch wood) so far this winter. Must be all the mud pie I ate as a child?
A potentially powerful new antibiotic is discovered in dirt
By Sarah Kaplan, WaPo, February 13, 2018
The modern medical era began when an absent-minded British scientist named Alexander Fleming returned from vacation to find that one of the petri dishes he forgot to put away was covered in a bacteria-killing mold. He had discovered penicillin, the world's first antibiotic.
Ninety years later, the world faces an antibiotic crisis. Superbugs have evolved resistance to dozens of drugs in doctors' arsenals, leading to infections that are increasingly difficult to treat. Global deaths from antibiotic-resistant infections are predicted to hit 10 million a year by 2050. So in labs around the world, scientists are racing against time to cultivate new microbe-destroying molecules — but most of the low-hanging fruit has already been picked.
With due respect to Fleming, microbiologist Sean Brady thinks it's time to shift tactics. Instead of growing antibiotics in a petri dish, he hopes to find them in the ground.
"Every place you step, there's 10,000 bacteria, most of which we've never seen," said Brady, an associate professor at Rockefeller University in New York. Many of these bacteria behave in ways that aren't yet understood and produce molecules that haven't been seen before. "Our idea is, there's this reservoir of antibiotics out in the environment we haven't accessed yet."
That idea is beginning to pay off: In a study published Monday in the journal Nature Microbiology, he and his colleagues report the discovery of a new class of antibiotic extracted from unknown microorganisms living in the soil. This class, which they call malacidins, kills several superbugs — including the dreaded methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) — without engendering resistance.
You won't find this antibiotic at your pharmacy next week, Brady cautioned. It takes years for a novel molecule to be developed, tested and approved for distribution. But its discovery is proof of a powerful principle, he said: A world of potentially useful untapped biodiversity is still waiting to be discovered.
Though antibiotics are prized for their ability to combat the microbes that make humans sick, most of the drugs come from bacteria. For example, streptomycin, which has been used to treat tuberculosis and plague, is produced by the bacterium Streptomyces griseus. (This microbe was originally found in the dirt of a New Jersey farm field, though the antibiotic research was conducted using cell cultures.)
Bacteria have been fighting one another for billions of years — far, far longer than humans have been around — so it's hardly surprising that they have evolved all the best weapons. Yet the vast majority of these microbes don't grow well under controlled laboratory conditions, making them difficult to study. "Maybe, using that simple culture-based approach, we've missed most of the chemistry that are produced by bacteria," Brady said.
It would be better to derive interesting molecules directly from the environment. And with the advent of metagenomics, techniques that allow all the genetic material in a sample to be sequenced en masse, researchers can do just that.
For this study, Brady's team cloned vast quantities of DNA from hundreds of soil samples contributed by citizen scientists across the country and then sorted through the material in search of interesting sequences.
"Most of what's there is completely unknown, and that's the future," Brady said.
Keep reading at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/02/13/a-potentially-powerful-new-antibiotic-is-discovered-in-dirt
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Thank you, Ruth. I was just saying to my DH that there has to be something we can do, something very specific, to lobby against this violence. I will write that letter, for all of our children, so that they can be safe in our schools.0
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Falconer, I'm reading a list of 9 books for the YTT and it's taught in modules of 3, lasting a week, 8 hours a day. First module starts on March 31 - April 6th. Hope I'm not a physical wretched mess on the 6th!
I did pick-up the corporate account that interviewed me a few days ago. Waiting for the contract to be emailed as they want to purchase a block of 8, 45 minute classes to see how it goes. Will be a fusion of pilates, tai chi and yoga with the focus on functional mobility - particularly shoulders, back and hips. The conference room at the HQ is spacious with lots of natural light - the type of space I enjoy most.
Many on this side of the world cannot fathom why there isn't an effective organised civilian lobby for gun control, why there aren't nationwide calls for schools to close until safety can be ensured. I explain to friends there are many for gun control organised, yet with the GOP lead government - in lockstep with NRA, doubtful change will come about anytime soon. Hope I'm wrong on that. There's also a viewpoint here of terrible passivity and helplessness in America right now - to address these now common acts of violence. Can't imagine how awful it is for those families of the 17 who lost their lives..I don't know how I'd carry on.
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We are originally from Connecticut, about an hour away from Newtown. Our Congress absolutely needs to do something about that Second Amendment. Our forefathers only meant to be able to have a gun to either hunt for food or protect ourselves. My DH and brother served in Vietnam and my DH shudders when he hears about the assault guns these guys are using. I'll just say it's not a clean shot. You don't want to know more about what they do.
I urge everyone who reads this to sit down and write your Congressmen right now while it's still so fresh and raw. They are the ones who can change the laws. I agree also with Ruthbru in writing to Colt. We absolutely need to do something. Maybe we should start a mom/dad/parent/grandparent/relative march on Washington. Wish I knew where to begin organizing that!
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In his monologue last night, Jimmy Kimmel urged viewers to check out Everytown.org
I did, am going to donate & I think join. Here is their blurb:
We Are Everytown for Gun Safety
Everytown is a movement of Americans working together to end gun violence and build safer communities. Gun violence touches every town in America. For too long, change has been thwarted by the Washington gun lobby and by leaders who refuse to take common-sense steps that will save lives.
But something is changing. More than 4 million mayors, moms, cops, teachers, survivors, gun owners, and everyday Americans have come together to make their own communities safer. Together, we are fighting for the changes that we know will save lives.
Everytown starts with you, and it starts in your town.
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Claire thanks and I hope you thoroughly enjoy your new skis! They are way above my level LOL
Pic from my ski out on the lake today:
Wishing everybody a great weekend
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