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Major holidays such as Thanksgiving often present a challenge for military personnel who can be stationed far from home and their families on the holidays. For many people in the military community, they will celebrate Thanksgiving in a different manner every year, depending on leave status, and current operations. Traditionally, senior leaders serve dinner to junior personnel on Thanksgiving, when possible. Newly enlisted service-members may be away from home for the first time. Meanwhile, some military spouses and their children will celebrate Thanksgiving stateside, while a loved one is deployed. A military member’s early years might include a traditional Thanksgiving dinner on base, or an invitation to a Thanksgiving dinner hosted by a local family. As servicemembers deploy to support military operations around the world, Thanksgiving recognition shifts to dinners overseas on forward operating bases, and sharing the Thanksgiving custom with locals or Soldier’s from other countries. Married military members assigned to OCONUS bases might also celebrate Thanksgiving overseas with their family members. The possibility always exists of being deployed over the Thanksgiving holiday. If they’re lucky, they are home with their family and pay it forward (or backward) by inviting other younger service members who are away from their family into their home. These are some military Thanksgiving traditions, but to the individual service member, their location and participation may change each year. Members of the military know that the meaning of ‘family’ can take many forms beyond DNA. Today, while the holiday has been expanded to include parades, early Black Friday shopping deals, television specials, football games, and countless individual family traditions, the one thing that remains consistent is the tradition of Americans sitting down to enjoy a Thanksgiving dinner. Days of Thanksgiving were declared during both the Revolutionary and Civil Wars in an effort to unify the nation during times of war. One resolution during the Revolutionary War, asked all people to give thanks for many reasons for so many reasons in our personal lives.
By Jackie Baber Sauerkraut. A neglected food that is so simple and yet so powerful The benefits of sauerkraut are practical and healthful benefits for your life. Sauerkraut is the easiest of all the fermented foods to incorporate into your diet. Sauerkraut will improve your digestion – within a few days – especially if you are one of 70 million people who suffer from digestive diseases in the United States alone.” It can help with Indigestion, bloating, headaches, brain fog, skin issues, constipation, weight gain, fatigue, back pain? When the ecosystem of your gut has the proper balance of stomach acids and bacteria, your body is able to properly break down food for nourishment and cell repair. If it is not able to absorb nutrients from the foods you eat and eliminate wastes, all types of health issues may arise. Fermented foods, of which sauerkraut is one, strengthen the health and balance of your digestive system. Improved digestion, that accompanies a healthier gut, makes for improved health. Eating sauerkraut will help to reseed your gut if you’ve taken a course of antibiotics. Antibiotics are a marvel of modern-day
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We all need to give thanks “…To inspire our Commanders, both by Land and Sea, and all under them, with that Wisdom and Fortitude which may render them fit Instruments, under the Providence of Almighty GOD, to secure for these United States, the greatest of all human Blessings, INDEPENDENCE and PEACE…” Gathering some information on the military history during the Civil War, we find that great preparations were made to ensure that Soldiers had supplies for Thanksgiving. However, it was wartime and not every Soldier was able to stop and celebrate Thanksgiving 1918, by World War I, auxiliary organizations such as the Red Cross and Y.M.C.A. started to aid in providing Thanksgiving dinner to soldiers. Dinners were made, and football games between rival units were organized. In France, right after Armistice Day, French families actually invited Soldiers into their homes, banquet halls were reserved, and theatrical performances were put on. World War II saw the replacement of C- or Krations with turkey and cranberry. Wherever possible, Thanksgiving food was shipped or transported by the military to service-members on the frontlines. In areas where it was not possible, the food was sourced from local farmers, or whatever could be put together for a meal. Excerpt from President Roosevelt’s Thanksgiving speech: “May we on Thanksgiving Day and on every day express our gratitude and zealously devote ourselves to our duties as individuals and as a nation. May each of us dedicate his utmost efforts to speeding the victory which will bring new opportunities for peace and brotherhood among men.” Subsequent wars with American involvement have resulted in similar Thanksgiving dinners where the military and auxiliary organizations did their best to provide a formal Thanksgiving meal. In the U.S., Thanksgiving is most commonly traced to a celebration at Plymouth Rock in 1621 when the Pilgrims joined the Native Americans in a feast to celebrate the first harvest in the New World. This took place more than 200 years before
medicine. Used correctly, they help combat serious life-threatening illnesses. They work by destroying bacteria and interfering with the formation of bacteria, both the good and the bad. Every course of antibiotics tends to wipe out the beneficial bacteria and that gives a window of opportunity for the pathogens to proliferate, to grow uncontrolled, and to occupy new niches in your gut. The beneficial flora recovers, but different species of it take between two weeks to two months to recover in the gut and that’s a window of opportunity for various pathogens to overgrow. Sauerkraut is the perfect “Gateway Ferment.” Eating sauerkraut will not only improve your gut bacteria, but will improve your brain function. Did you know that your digestive system actually produces more neurotransmitters than your brain does? The researchers were surprised to find that the brain effects could be seen in many areas, including those involved in sensory processing and not merely those associated with emotion. Sauerkraut is now easier and easier to find on grocery store shelves. Sauerkraut is a very inexpensive probiotic. A month’s supply of probiotics can easily set you back $20-$40. The cost for a month’s supply of sauerkraut is a head of cabbage and a few jars. What could be more economical? Sauerkraut comes in many flavors, and can
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President George Washington would proclaim a nationwide “day of public thanksgiving” on October 3, 1789. Excerpt from George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation: “I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be– That we may then all unite in rendering On October 3, 1863 and in the midst of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln wrote a Thanksgiving proclamation. While Lincoln is credited for making Thanksgiving a national holiday, much of the effort behind this day is credited to a Sarah J. Hale’s campaigning to create Thanksgiving which would be a “great Union Festival of America.”
be made in even more flavors, to please any palate. Eating sauerkraut can compensate for decreased production of hydrochloric acid as we age. As we age, our stomach’s natural secretions of hydrochloric acid decreases. Hydrochloric acid acts as a barrier to prevent harmful bacteria and parasites from invading your digestive system. Hydrochloric acid also improves digestion in our stomach by breaking down food so it can be more easily absorbed by the small intestine. Sauerkraut contains Vitamins C, E and K already present in the cabbage and are better utilized by your gut by consuming the fermented cabbage made to sauerkraut! Sauerkraut can boost your immune system. 70-80% of our immune system is located in our gut. By eating sauerkraut, and other foods rich in probiotics (kefir, yogurt, kimchi), you are improving your gut flora. Eating sauerkraut can help our pancreas better do its job. Your pancreas produces a variety essential digestive enzyme that break down starches, proteins and fats. Unpasteurized sauerkraut is very high in viable enzymes that work just like the ones from the pancreas. Eating sauerkraut will add years to your life … I hope. Remember great gut health makes for great overall health. Expanding your fermentation repertoire beyond sauerkraut will increase the population in your home. Eating sauerkraut with high -protein foods or foods rich in fat – yumm! – makes the foods easier to digest.
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Yes We Can Newspaper the limbs to regain strength and function. The use of video games and other computerbased therapies involves interacting with a simulated, real -time environment. Occupational therapy and speech therapy can help you with lost cognitive abilities, such as memory, processing, problem-solving, social skills, judgment and safety awareness. Speech therapy can help you regain lost abilities in speaking, listening, writing and comprehension. Psychological evaluation and treatment can help because your emotional adjustment might be tested. You might also have counseling or participate in a support group. Your doctor might recommend an antidepressant or a medication that affects alertness, agitation or movement. The sooner you begin stroke rehabilitation, the more likely you are to regain lost abilities and skills. However, your doctors' immediate priorities are to stabilize your medical condition and control lifethreatening conditions. It's common for stroke rehabilitation to start as soon as 24 to 48 hours after your stroke, while you're in the hospital. The duration of your stroke rehabilitation depends on the severity of your stroke and related complications. Some stroke survivors recover quickly. But most need some form of long-term stroke rehabilitation, lasting possibly months or years after their stroke. Your stroke rehabilitation plan will change during your recovery as you relearn skills and your needs change. With ongoing practice, you can continue to make gains over time. Rehabilitation involves a team of Specialists that help with your physical needs: The team can consist of your primary care doctor; as well as neurologists and specialists in physical medicine and rehabilitation that can guide your care and help prevent complications. These physicians can also help you to gain and maintain healthy lifestyle behaviors to avoid another stroke. There are nurses who specialize in your care due to limitations with activities for daily routines. There are Rehabilitation nurses who offer options for managing bowel and bladder complications of a stroke. The Physical therapists will help you relearn movements such as walking and keeping your balance; Occupational therapists help you relearn hand and arm use for daily skills such as bathing, tying your shoes or buttoning your shirt. Occupational therapists can also address swallowing and cognitive issues, and safety in your home. Specialists who focus on cognitive, emotional and vocational skills include: Speech and language pathologists. These specialists help improve your language skills and ability to swallow. Speech and language pathologists can also work
Veteran Affairs What to expect as you recover
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The goal of stroke rehabilitation is to help you relearn skills you lost when a stroke affected part of your brain. Stroke rehabilitation can help you regain independence and improve your quality of life. The severity of stroke complications and each person's ability to recover vary widely. Participation in a focused stroke rehabilitation program perform better in most cases. There are many approaches to stroke rehabilitation. Your rehabilitation plan will depend on the part of the body or type of ability affected by your stroke. Motor -skill exercises can help improve your muscle strength and coordination. You might have therapy to strengthen your swallowing. One might learn to use mobility aids, such as a walker, canes, wheelchair or ankle brace. The ankle brace can stabilize and strengthen your ankle to help support your body's weight while you relearn to walk. Constraint-induced therapy. An unaffected limb is restrained while you practice moving the affected limb to help improve its function. This therapy is sometimes called forced-use therapy. Range-of-motion therapy is a certain exercise and treatment that ease muscle tension (spasticity) and help you regain range of motion. One might have Functional electrical stimulation where electricity is applied to weakened muscles, causing them to contract. The electrical stimulation may help reeducate your muscles. Robotic devices can assist impaired limbs with performing repetitive motions, helping
with you to develop tools to address memory, thinking and communication problems. Social workers. Social workers help connect you to financial resources, plan for new living arrangements if Stroke recovery varies from person to person. It's hard to predict how many abilities you might recover and how soon. The rate of recovery is generally greatest in the weeks and months after a stroke. However, there is evidence that performance can improve even 12 to 18 months after a stroke. Stroke rehabilitation takes time Recovering from a stroke can be a long and frustrating experience. It's normal to face difficulties along the way. Dedication and willingness to work toward improvement will help you gain the most benefit.
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THE BALDL EAGLE Secretary of Congress Charles Thomson conceived the bald eagle - he called it the "American eagle" - as an emblem on the U.S. seal. The Third Continental Congress adopted the seal displaying a bald eagle on June 20, 1782. The eagle is one of the largest and most powerful birds of prey. Soaring high above the earth, spying its prey with it keen eyes. For blinking, eagles have a translucent inner eyelid. Every 3-4 seconds the membrane slides across the eye side to side, wiping away dirt and dust. The ‘bald eagle,’ one of the most wellknown eagles and the national emblem of the United States, can close its inner eyelid and then, when necessary, can look directly at the sun to spot its prey. An eagle’s nest, or eyrie, is a huge mass of sticks, lined inside with softer material for the benefit of the young. It is repaired every year with additional sticks until it eventually becomes a heavy structure weighing more than a ton! One eyrie in Florida measured 10 feet wide and 20 feet high. Another in Ohio contained two tons of material when a storm knocked down the tree that held it for 35 years. An eagle has a wingspan oif up 7 feet. Its 7,000 feathers weigh about twice as much as it’s skeleton! A pair of eagles are faithful to each other. They stay together year after year and return to the same nest each season. The captivity eagles have lived up to 48 years, but some estimate that in the wild where life is tougher, they live less than 10 years. The eagle is the symbol of mercy (rachamim) in Jewish thought. Even though the eagle is a bird of prey and it needs to eat small animals to survive, it is kind at heart, and the bird will always prefer to feed on dead animals if any can be found. Naturalists are amazed by the delicate and gentle consideration an eagle will show to its children or eaglets. For example, a mother eagle arrives at its nest with a noisy swoosh of wings, but it will land very slowly and gently on the edge of the eyrie with disturbing the sleeping eaglets.
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Don’t Use Gift Cards to Pay for Scams By Mark Hedin
Gift cards, prepaid credit-card-like financial instruments, are for gifts. Just ask the government. Use them, perhaps, to give your style-conscious niece who lives far away the chance to shop for something she’ll actually wear. But DON’T use a gift card to help rescue that niece, or anyone else, from sudden misfortune or a mishap, and especially not because you got an urgent call from someone with surprising news, needs or an offer. You’re only being robbed. That message was reinforced in a media teleconference Oct. 23, 2018 with the Federal Trade Commission representatives Monica Vaca and Lois Greisman organized by Ethnic Media Services. The FTC urges anyone contacted by a person who wants to be paid via a gift card, iTunes and Google Play is the popular way to get robbed, so, put down the phone, take a deep breath and call the law. “Anyone who demands payment by gift card is always a scammer,” the FTC’s website Consumer Sentinel Program (FTC.gov/gift cards) says. Greisman and Vaca urged people to check it out. “There is not a single legitimate merchant, government or agency that will ever ask for a payment in that way,” Greisman said. With people becoming more cautious about sending money via wire transfers, gift-card scams are the latest thing in stealing people’s money. From an annual total of $20 million a few years ago, gift-card scams in the first nine months of this year already total $53.1 million) and those are just the ones reported to the agency. That $53.1 million is the haul from 30,309 different crimes. African American and Latino people are disproportionately victimized, the FTC officers said, and also the least likely to report the crimes. Often, when victims don’t report their losses, they said, it’s either out of shame and embarrassment or the belief that there’s nothing that can be done to help them anyway, so why bother? And it’s true, getting people to buy a gift card is an effective way to steal their money, because currently there is no way to stop the payment, Vaca, associate director of the FTC’s Division of Consumer Response and Operations, said. “Gift cards are for gifts, not payment.” “The money is gone, as soon as that pin number is provided,” Greisman, director of the Division of Marketing Practices, confirmed.
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But it’s still a good idea to reach out to the gift card company for help, or to call the FTC at (877) FTC-HELP (382-4357), if you’ve given a stranger money that way. The agency is trying to work with gift-card sellers on ways to block frauds, and the more they learn about the various ways people are being robbed, the more ability law enforcement may have to stop it, they’re going to continue to work with the issuers, Google Play, Amazon, Apple, Walgreen’s, CVS and others to see what can be done to minimize the harm. Vaca and Greisman steered listeners to the Consumer Sentinel Program on government web sites FTC.gov/gift cards and also FTC.gov/data, where there’s advice, a trove of data on various ways people have been cheated and statistics showing that people of all ages are targeted and fall victim to the scams. Younger people are statistically more likely to pay scammers and older targets are more likely to blow the whistle. The FTC website also lists contact information for some of the biggest card issuers (https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/payingscammers-gift-cards) for people to report suspicious transactions. People can report crimes anonymously, Greisman said, even though the more information someone provides, the more helpful it is to the FTC and the 2,500 law-enforcement staff nationwide who can access the information FTC gets from victims. The government is also working with law enforcement agencies overseas, such as in India, where many of these scams seem to originate. The FTC is not itself an enforcement agency, the speakers pointed out, but nonetheless, it initiated a process by which millions of dollars were eventually returned to people victimized in recent years by wire-transfer rip-offs
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Not all dreaming is the same. Dreams can be funny, frightening, sad or strange. Flying dreams can be euphoric, chasing dreams can be terrifying, forgot-tostudy-for-my-exam dreams can be stressful. Nightmares are broadly defined as frightening dreams that result in some degree of awakening from sleep. "Bad dreams" are less severe form of nightmare. Nightmares can result from triggers, stress, emotional upheaval, and traumatic experiences and medications, abuse of drugs, alcohol, and illness. They can lead to fear of falling asleep again. Nightmares they may contribute to insomnia, daytime fatigue, depression, and anxiety.
dreams. Grieving people report several similar themes to these dreams, including: Recalling past experiences when loved ones were alive; Seeing loved ones happy and at peace; Receiving messages from loved ones. Most data on dream content has been gathered using dream reports and questionnaires. Dream experiences vary widely, but there are well-established themes that occur among many dreamers. Most of us could recall dreams that we have had and can relate to some of the information gathered for this study. Happy Dreams!
Night terrors, or sleep terrors, is another frightening dream-like experience. While both are frightening and disruptive to sleep, night terrors are not the same as nightmares. Night terrors are very intense episodes of fright. They often are accompanied by screaming or yelling, as well as by physical movement such as leaping out of bed or flailing in panic. Research suggests that sleep terrors occur during non-REM sleep dreaming, while nightmares tend to happen during REM sleep. Adults experience them, but its more common in children. There is also evidence of a relationship among night terrors, sleep apnea, and enlarged tonsils and adenoids in children. Lucid dreams are an especially fascinating form of dream. In lucid dreams, the dreamer is aware of the fact that he or she is dreaming, and often can manipulate or control the dream as it unfolds. They elevated levels of brain activity. Lucid dreams displayed significantly higher brain wave frequencies than non-lucid dreamers, as well as increased activity in parts of the frontal lobe. This area of the brain is deeply involved with conscious awareness, a sense of self, as well as language and memory. Dreams appear to be influenced by our waking lives in many ways. Theories about why we dream include those that suggest dreaming is a means by which the brain processes emotions, stimuli, memories, and information that’s been absorbed throughout the waking day. People who appear in dreams are known to the dreamer. One study found more than 48% of dream characters were recognizable by name to dreamers. Another 35% of characters were identifiable to dreamers by their generic social role or relationship—as a friend, doctor, or police officer, for example. Fewer than one fifth of dream characters—16%—were unrecognizable to dreamers.
Other research indicates that a majority of dreams contain content related to autobiographical memories—memories about the self, as opposed to episodic memories, which deal with events and details such as locations and times. There’s a body of study that suggests our waking lives have great influence over the content of our dreams. There’s also fascinating research that shows our capacity to dream beyond our waking experiences, in profound ways. Dream reports of people born paralyzed reveal that they walk, swim, and run in their dreams as often as people without paralysis. Dream reports of people born deaf indicate they often hear in their dreams. These reports may lend credence to the theory that dreams serve as a broad, virtualreality model of waking life. Traumatic events such as Grief, fear, loss, abandonment, even physical pain are all emotions and experiences that often replay themselves in
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