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Monday, September 3, 2012
How to Build Up Low Self Esteem - The Self Improvement Blog
Though it is difficult to give a definition of self esteem, the psychological term denotes an individual?s evaluation about their own self. Though many give their own definition of self esteem, widely accepted definition is that of Nathaniel Branden. According to him, self esteem is ?the experience of being competent to cope with the basic challenges of life and being worthy of happiness?.
It is important to understand, when born, most of us will have high self esteem. This is influenced as we grow, by teachers, parents and other friends or relatives. Many have low self esteem due to one of these influencing personalities. With low esteem, we can never live life to their fullest, or enjoy life. Even doing our daily routine, relationships, or achieving goals can become a problem with reduced self esteem.
Here are few tips to improve self esteem.
Stay positive and upbeat: Thinking you are not capable, or you are not worthy are signs of having low self esteem. Have a positive outlook and believe yourself.
Cherish your every achievement and reward yourself for them.
Much like how you shouldn?t brag about yourself, you shouldn?t decline appreciation and honor. You are honored and appreciated, because you are worth it! Accept it gracefully.
Never think about your problems and brood over your past. Move on and have a positive outlook, so you can change your future.
Understand your powers and limitations. It is good to be positive, but you should know where you stand in life. Never be over ambitious or think about things that aren?t viable and be depressed over it. Use your powers and win over your limitations!
Challenge yourself every now and then. Change is one thing that?s constant and when you adapt yourself to different situations, you can become a better person. This way, you can also know your hidden potentials.
Don?t compare yourself with anyone, who above or below you! You are what you are! There?s no photocopy of you. Remember, you are unique and special. By comparing, you can undermine yourself. You might not be the best rapper, but you will probably be good at something else. So don?t compare yourself with others.
Stay motivated at all times. Reading inspirational thoughts, affirmations, quotes on self esteem and everything related, can keep you upbeat and motivated.
Socialize and never restrict yourself to a cage! You need to mingle with others, get out of your room or home and talk to people you know and know those you don?t! Socializing, is one way to improve your self esteem.
Set realistic goals and strive to achieve them. By setting goals and working towards achieving them, you improve your self esteem.
Forgive your mistakes and work towards being a better person. No one is perfect! Instead, learn from your mistakes.
Be confident, never over confident. Believe in yourself and strive to better yourself every moment. Never put yourself down, for anything or anyone!
Remember to have fun! Life is short, so make the most of it when you can. It is never wrong to have fun! Enjoy life and be happy!
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Current in Noblesville ? Tour of Homes
Noblesville Preservation Alliance presents its 26th annual tour of historic homes
Judge Stone House
Life will soon return to a more leisurely pace as it does once every year during the Noblesville Tour of Historic Homes. This year?s tour takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 15 and marks its 26th year supporting the Noblesville Preservation Alliance.
During this year?s event, eight private residences and cultural sites will open their doors to visitors, including six on Noblesville?s main thoroughfare,Conner Street. The sites are primarily in theJohnstown,Midlandand Plum Prairie historical zones of significance and are within walking or biking distance from one another.
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The historical research of this Vernacular style home has been challenging. Census records show Anne Dunn as one of the original residents (circa late 1800s). The home was divided into two apartments from the late 1930?s until the late 1970?s ? when it was returned to a single family home.
While he has only lived in the house for two and a half years, Fogelsong has done a lot of work in a short amount of time. He added new sunroom windows and a back deck, converted the garage into a ?garage bar,? added plantation shutters and remodeled the closets. He and his fianc? plan to remodel the master bath, screen in the back deck, construct a new garage and add/replace hardwood floors. The Fogelsongs love living in a historic neighborhood and are excited about all the restoration improvements being done to the older homes.
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Built around 1892 by William E. and Alice Lowther (at a cost of $1,400), the Lowther/Wofford home is a Queen Anne style beauty. The stained glass features and decorative exterior trim make up some of the essential elements of this style. Although not original, the Craftsman style front porch is an alteration frequently found on homes of this age. It was considered and easy way to ?update? its look in the early 20th century.
The home was occupied by the Lowthers until 1919 and the Wofford family has lived in the home since January 2011. Although Debbie and Richard don?t currently have children as permanent residents, they enjoy entertaining their four children and six grandchildren when they come to visit. They are most fond of the leaded glass front entry, high ceilings and large French doors throughout the home.
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The Wilson/Norton home is aCape Codstyle, circa 1948, first owned by David Wilson. In the early 1960?s the home was sold to the Caca family who maintained ownership for at least the next 30 years.
In October 2010, the Norton family purchased the home and has been hard at work since. Some of the work completed thus far includes moving the kitchen and removing walls to improve layout, a master bedroom and bath addition, a full bath added to the basement and many exterior projects; namely the pergola, shed, landscaping, paint and driveway. John and Laura Norton have two children in college. They most enjoy the open kitchen area, their neighbors and being able to walk to downtown.
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The Neal/Nickels home was built circa 1924 by Judge Noel Neal. It is a great example of theFour-SquareCraftsman style. Neal lived in the home until about 1949 with his three daughters and his wife, who taught ballet lessons in the basement. The ballet bars are still on the walls.
In the late 1940s/early ?50s, the home was sold to the McMahon Family. It remained in their possession until the Mike and Beth Nickels happily purchased it in 2005. The Nickels family has done some major exterior improvements including removing the screens and replacing the bead board ceiling on the front porch, replacing about 30 windows, adding a fresh coat of paint and a new fence and patio. Interior improvements range from repairing original wood floors, new tile around the fireplace, all new second floor bath, ceiling tiles in the foyer and much more. The second floor bath remodel began as a floor replacement project, but led to a complete demo and exposure of a deserted 3-by-5-foot bee hive in the wall.
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Dr. Dittbrenner, the home?s original resident with his wife, was a prominent local dentist and was also a founder of the Noblesville Boys Club in 1951. The late 1930s home was converted and moved from a Victorian home, which facedMaple Avenue, to Cape Cod-style home that faces16th Street. Evidence in the basement only hints at the older home?s history.
The Webster?s, who have lived in the house for the past nine years, are very proud of many of the original features and all the hard work they have done on their home. They enjoy the living room mantel, the glass door knobs, the original paned windows, the red oak hardwood floors and the 1950s Chambers kitchen stove. The Webster?s gutted and enlarged the kitchen, converted the garage into a master suite, built a new garage, adapted a breezeway into a sunroom/office and added a ?secret garden.?
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The Orcutt/Ferraro home was built circa 1896 with William H. Orcutt as the original occupant. It is a great example of theFour-SquareCraftsman style. This Vernacular style with Italianate Styling home was a rental for many years throughout its history, and was divided into two apartments in the late 1920s. By the 1990s it had fallen into bad disrepair. Its previous owner rescued it luckily and completely renovated it, turning it back into a one family home. The home even won the Noblesville Preservation Alliance ?Exterior Rehabilitation Award.?
William Ferraro has lived in this home for a year and a half and enjoys the close proximity to downtown. He has added the backyard studio and made many improvements to the landscaping and patio. His favorite feature of the home is the woodwork.
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The 1899 home was originally owned by Asa and Hannah Williamson, but has been in family of current homeowners Ray and Sherry Faust since1940. The Fausts enjoy the front hallway with its staircase and leaded glass and also like the sliding doors and the oak woodwork. The house has some Queen Anne elements, but also has Arts & Crafts features, so the Fausts think it is best called eclectic.
The house is currently under renovation. The Fausts have completed new plumbing and wiring, installed a new furnace and air conditioning system, painted and done considerable structural work to the floors. While making improvements to the house, notes from the woodworkers were found on the back of the boards and an empty Piedmont Cigarette box in the floor boards had a coupon for a Gillette Safety Razor with an expiration date of June 26, 1915.
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Advance tickets are $10 each (free for children under 12) and are available at Noble Coffee and Tea (933 Logan St.), the Sheriff?s Residence/Hamilton County Historical Society (810 Conner St.), A Corner Cottage (895 Conner St.), Logan Village Mall (977 Logan St.) and Mr. G?s Liquors (2209 E. Conner St.) or online at http://noblesvilletourofhistorichomes.eventbrite.com). Tickets may be purchased on the day of the tour on the grounds of the Sheriff?s Residence/Hamilton County Historical Society for $12 each.
*Information on the homes was provided by NPA.
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In addition to the Tour of Homes, several special events taking place include:
? Henry Flagler Train and 521 Fire Engine visit
? See the recently renovated Judge Stone House and Stephenson House during the Nickel Plate Arts Campus Open House (107 S. Eighth St.).
? Noblesville Presbyterian Church (1207 Conner St.) will host a fundraiser selling refreshments from the church?s women?s group. Luncheon and two pipe organ concerts from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
? See the newly restored women?s cells in the Old Jail (810 Conner St.)
? The Noblesville Rotary will provide a historical bike tour around Noblesville.
? Historical Scavenger Hunt ? Perfect for kids and adults alike! Pick up a scavenger hunt flyer at Sheriff?s Residence/Hamilton County Historical Society and see if you can identify the architectural details from each home. Turn it in at your last tour stop and get a prize.
Source: http://currentnoblesville.com/tour-of-homes
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Sunday, September 2, 2012
The best marriage advice from a pop song | The Wardrobe Drawer
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Saturday, September 1, 2012
Antibody prevents hepatitis C in animal model
Friday, August 31, 2012
A monoclonal antibody developed by MassBiologics of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) and tested in an animal model at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, prevents infection by the hepatitis C virus (HCV).
Researchers found that the human monoclonal antibody targeting the virus protected chimpanzees from HCV infection in a dose-dependent manner in a study conducted at Texas Biomed's Southwest National Primate Research Center. Chimpanzees are the only species other than humans that can be infected by HCV and therefore the results from this study were critical in the development of the monoclonal antibody.
The new report by scientists from MassBiologics; Texas Biomed; the National Institutes of Health (NIH); and Merck Research Laboratories, and funded by MassBiologics and NIH, appears in the August 30th issue of PLoS Pathogens. Researchers had previously demonstrated that the monoclonal antibody, called HCV1, blocks HCV from infecting liver cells in laboratory tissue culture.
"This is an important preclinical proof-of-concept study demonstrating a high dose of neutralizing antibody can protect the liver from HCV infection using monoclonal antibodies in a study that was designed to mimic the transplantation setting," said study co-author Robert E. Lanford, Ph.D., of Texas Biomed.
"One can envision improving on these results with a cocktail of antibodies or by using this antibody with some of the newer antivirals currently in clinical trials. Infection of the new donor liver by residual virus in the patient is one of the major obstacles preventing a full recovery in these patients," Lanford added.
MassBiologics has been pursuing the development of HCV1 as a therapy for patients with end-stage liver disease undergoing liver transplantation as a result of HCV infection. HCV1 is a monoclonal antibody that binds to the surface of the HCV virus and blocks the ability of the virus to enter liver cells.
HCV damages the liver and is the leading indication for liver transplantation, diagnosed in about half of the 6,000 patients who receive liver transplants each year in the United States. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 3.2 million Americans are chronically infected with HCV and approximately 10,000 die annually of the disease. Globally, as many as 170 million people are estimated to suffer from HCV infection. The CDC recently recommended that everyone born from 1945 to 1965 should be screened for HCV regardless of whether they have known risk factors.
For patients with end-stage liver disease from HCV infection, liver transplantation is the only option. While it can be a life-saving treatment, transplantation does not cure the disease. In nearly all cases, the patient's new liver is eventually infected by HCV because the virus remains in the patient's bloodstream during surgery. The course of recurrent HCV disease is accelerated after transplantation and up to 20 percent of transplant patients develop cirrhosis within five years. Unfortunately, the standard antiviral drugs currently used to treat HCV prior to the onset of end-stage liver disease are poorly tolerated after liver transplantation, leaving these patients with few options.
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Touts target Indian students in London
Desperate South Asian students are being hunted out by immigration and education touts after the UK Border Agency gave students of the London Metropolitan University 60 days to enrol for courses elsewhere or face deportation.
The LMU was stripped of its Highly Trusted Sponsor status on
Wednesday night by the UKBA, which said some of its non-European students did not possess "decent English," or had overstayed their visa or were skipping classes. The university rejected the accusation and the methodology used by the UKBA, which randomly sampled student records.
The LMU was stripped of its Highly Trusted Sponsor status on
Wednesday night by the UKBA, which said some of its non-European students did not possess "decent English," or had overstayed their visa or were skipping classes. The university rejected the accusation and the methodology used by the UKBA, which randomly sampled student records.
There was panic among the students, who demonstrated outside Prime Minister David Cameron's office. But just a few feet outside the north London campus building where the vice chancellor defended his position, HT spoke to an Indian immigration tout who targeted distressed Indian students.
Smartly dressed and describing himself as a "legal and educational services consultant" from Mumbai, the man wrote down the cellphone numbers of a teenaged Pakistani girl, two Nepali men and a man from Andhra Pradesh.
"We can enlist these students in other universities that we are working for," he said, claiming that "thousands of colleges" are being investigated by the UKBA.
In the city of Birmingham, 200 miles away, Bright Learning Academy - run by Indians - is also helping local students enrolled at LMU. "We are a student extension service, and deal with student visas and immigration issues," a woman who gave her name as Meghna Mittal told HT on the phone. "We got an email update this (Friday) morning that some LMU students might be approaching us for getting into other universities."
Questioned, she revealed that some students, although living in the "Birmingham area" were enrolled in LMU, adding: "It's only a 2.5 hour train journey to London."
Such private companies have been able to move in swiftly because students are desperate. Despite repeated offers of help by the university and the UKBA, the fact is that September is the start of the academic year in Britain. Having paid more than 10,000 pounds in fees, no one wants to go back.
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Penn St.'s new start under O'Brien a loss
The new era at Penn State is off to a disappointing start. The Nittany Lions let an 11-point halftime lead slip away and Ohio quarterback Tyler Tettleton accounted for three second-half touchdowns to hand Bill O'Brien a 24-14 loss in his debut as Penn State head coach.
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