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Living with Pain - Health Special: Chronic Pain. Two days after my mother moved a concrete flowerpot from our living room to our patio, her feet went numb. A week later, she discovered that she couldn't straighten her back. She felt bowed, as if contorted into the beginning of a back bend. Then her lower back began to throb. She went to a doctor, who stuck needles in her calves and, perplexed by her lack of sensation, ordered an MRI. I was 13 when this happened. Chronic pain is an umbrella term for any type of persistent pain, from migraines to fibromyalgia, that lasts anywhere from several months to the rest of your life.

But sometimes there isn't an easily identifiable reason for the pain. All the Things Pain Isn'tWithout her wrist brace, Kristi Shaffer doesn't look injured. In October 2007, she was working for a company called Best Bet Products, which repairs and delivers slot machines to nearby casinos. Next Beyond Drugs. Gulf spill sickness wrecking lives - Features. "I have critically high levels of chemicals in my body," 33-year-old Steven Aguinaga of Hazlehurst, Mississippi told Al Jazeera. "Yesterday I went to see another doctor to get my blood test results and the nurse said she didn't know how I even got there. " Aguinaga and his close friend Merrick Vallian went swimming at Fort Walton Beach, Florida, in July 2010. "I swam underwater, then found I had orange slick stuff all over me," Aguinaga said.

"At that time I had no knowledge of what dispersants were, but within a few hours, we were drained of energy and not feeling good. I've been extremely sick ever since. " BP's oil disaster last summer gushed at least 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, causing the largest accidental marine oil spill in history - and the largest environmental disaster in US history. According to chemist Bob Naman, these chemicals create an even more toxic substance when mixed with crude oil. "I'm scared of what I'm finding.

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Antiques Roadshow Stunner on Devour. The Joe Rogan Reddit Interview. A man in Thailand started a religion around The Big Lebowski. It was only a matter of time. We’ve seen Big Lebowski festivals and convenience stores, so someone basing a religion around it was clearly in the cards. What I did not see coming was the religion being centered in Thailand. Don’t be fatuous, CNN: Dubbed “Church of the Latter-Day Dude,” the group also invites “mellow, unflashy chicks who hang around in their bathrobes and take baths with candles and whale sounds,” says the religion’s Dudely Lama, Oliver Benjamin.

“Everyone feels oppressed by society’s pressures,” he says. “Everyone wishes they had more freedom. Everyone wishes they could be more carefree, to worry less about money and status.” Well, there you go. “The reason I embarked on a 10-year backpacking journey was so I could avoid being brainwashed by the machine of industry, and find the space and freedom to indulge my imagination.” That’s ridiculous. People who aren’t cool, ultimately go crazy, Oliver warns. (*spends all 3rd period giving swirlies*) I AM THE SANEST MAN ALIVE!

The leader in online reputation management. “Everyone’s Favorite Felon”: An Interview with Bernie Ellis « Democrats for Progress. “Convicted felon.” What comes to mind when you read those words? Perhaps you immediately visualize a mobster, a Capone, a Gotti. Or maybe a white-collar crook, a Madoff, a Skilling, an Ebbers. Or a murderer, a rapist, a bank robber, a gangbanger. Bernie Ellis is a convicted felon. His crime was growing medical marijuana for his own use and for the use of four terminally-ill neighbors, a service for which he took no payment. While he avoided prison time, he received four years of probation (later reduced by half) and spent 18 months confined in a Bureau of Prisons halfway house in Nashville. He also forfeited 25 acres of his beloved Natchez Trace farm – a parcel that netted the government a paltry $35,000 at auction – and, effectively, his consulting career (he’s a public health epidemiologist).

A piece he contributed last week to the Democrats for Progress Blog fills in more of his astonishing story, and his current efforts to secure a Presidential pardon. Mr. Why indeed… Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board pares down inventory on wine and spirits. Prices on Cabo Uno Tequila, Little Penguin Pinot Noir and one-liter bottles of Bushmills Irish Whiskey will be slashed in Pennsylvania. Dan GleiterThe Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board is reducing its inventory and will sell more than 400 spirits and wine at clearance prices starting March 1. Get them while you can. Before long, these and about 400 other products, will disappear from the state’s liquor and wine store shelves. The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board has pared down its inventory and starting March 1 will sell more than 160 spirits and about 240 wines at clearance prices.

Many say the LCB is acting more like a private enterprise. Does the LCB’s latest move offer yet another argument the state’s liquor system should be privately run? The wine and spirits being yanked from shelves would remain available for shoppers to purchase in a private market, said State Rep. “Now you won’t even be able to get them ... It’s nothing new for the LCB to do periodic inventory reviews. Pallo.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)

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By 17 she was a single mother, Patricia said, and six years later she had another child. When she was 20, she sought out information about her birth mother and then let it go until years later, Patricia said. "We realized that Oprah could be my sister," Patricia said. Winfrey told her audience that it was true that Patricia was her sister. Patricia tracked down Winfrey's niece who is the daughter of Oprah's other half-sister. Facebook Blocker: An Extension for Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Opera, from your friends at /// Webgraph. How did we get here? We’re beginning to feel overwhelmed by the frequency with which Facebook links are starting to appear on many of the sites we visit in our daily routines, so we decided to do something about it. What does it do? This browser extension stops Facebook social plugins—including those within iFrames—from running on sites other than Facebook itself.

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