Do we really have a vetting system for investigating suspicious people?

As candidate Clinton said, "If you're being investigated by the FBI you shouldn't be able to buy guns." I certainly agree, but millions plan to vote for her. And doesn't it make you wonder about the thousands of refugees (no Christians, please, only Muslims says Obama) from the Middle East if vetting Hillary and Mateen by some of our best investigators get us nowhere? She has accepted millions from foreign countries to line her own pockets and her campaign for power; he accepted the lies of ISIS to satisfy whatever troubled mind he already had.

We need something like . . . a free press than does investigative journalism.

Changing The Conversation From Dieting To Mindful Eating….

Jean Fain is the author of  http://www.jeanfain.com/newsletters.html.  She had an opportunity to interview neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt about her ideas on the downside of dieting. Ms. Aamodt has a Ted Talk and a NYT editorial piece about mindful eating.

Q. As a therapist specializing in eating issues, I’m well aware of mindful eating’s many benefits. But for those who’ve never stopped and savored a raisin, how do you define mindful eating and what advantages does it have over dieting? 

A. I define it as eating with attention and joy, without judgment. That includes attention to hunger and fullness, to the experience of eating and to its effects on our bodies. As we learn to clearly observe how food tastes and how it makes us feel, we naturally start making more satisfying choices. Mindful eating views food as an ally, while dieting treats it as an enemy, leading to constant struggles between willpower and temptation. That's one reason that the results of mindful eating look better in the long-term than in the short-term, while dieting shows the opposite pattern.

Q. After three decades of trying and failing to lose the same 10-15 pounds, you resolved to stop dieting and start eating mindfully. What prompted that resolution?

A. I didn't exactly fail to lose those pounds. Instead I succeeded one time too many. The main trouble with diets is that they work in the short term, but they fail in the long term. As I started to look into the research showing that almost all dieting is yo-yo dieting in practice, I realized that my story was typical, a result of my brain working as it should to protect me from starvation. Knowing that, it didn't make sense to keep doing the same thing and expect different results. The resolution, which I made for New Year's in 2010, was an experiment. I didn't know how well it would work, but I knew that I needed to try something new because the old way was costing a lot of energy and delivering little payoff.

Q. Judging from the firestorm your recent NY Times op-ed incited, not everyone is ready to ditch dieting and their big weight-loss dreams. In fact, if Reddit commenters are any indication, dieting is as popular as ever. So, I’m curious, who are your ideal readers and how do you hope your book impacts them?

A. My strongest hope is that parents will read the book and realize that expressing anxiety about children's bodies is not going to make them thinner. Instead, it's likely to lead to weight gain and increase the risk of eating disorders. The easiest place to break the cycle of diet obsession, I think, is at that parent-child relationship, before a lifetime of weight cycling has gotten started. The other class of readers I hope to reach is people like me, who are tired of repeated dieting that isn't getting them anywhere and looking for a better way.

Q. While you couldn’t be more clear that mindful eating doesn’t guarantee weight loss, you can be sure that a good number of readers will expect to lose weight doing as you’ve done -- eat mindfully without restriction for six months to a year. What do you have to say to them?

A. Whether or not you hope to lose weight, the process of learning to eat mindfully will go better if you don't make that a goal. Part of the point of mindful eating is to loosen the grip of cognitive controls on your food choices, so you can let the brain regulate hunger as it's done successfully for hundreds of thousands of years. Try mindful eating for the benefits you can count on, such as developing a good relationship with food or being able to apply your willpower to being a better partner, parent, or worker instead of using it up in repeated attempts to fit into smaller pants.

Q. As of your 2013 Ted Talk, you’d lost 10 pounds. How goes the weight maintenance?

A. I'm still wearing the blue dress I chose for that talk. As long as my lifestyle is stable, my weight stays the same. Last year I had an injury that stopped me from exercising for several months, and I gained five or 10 pounds. When I became active again, my weight dropped back to normal within a month, without any particular effort.

Q. You say you can’t learn mindful eating from a book, and I couldn’t agree with you more. How did you learn to eat mindfully and how do you suggest readers do the same?

A. I learned on my own, without any previous training in mindfulness. I started by deciding to pay attention to how my body felt before and after eating for an entire year. It ended up taking me about six months to learn how to eat mindfully. Early on, I had trouble figuring out whether I was hungry, I think partly because I was invested in getting the "right" answer -- the one that agreed with my preconceptions about whether I should be hungry at the moment. I also had trouble detecting fullness before I'd overeaten. With time and attention, both hunger and fullness signals became stronger. Now I automatically notice when it's time to stop eating, even if I'm deep in conversation. Shaking off the guilt and learning to fully enjoy food was a slower process, which has greatly enhanced my quality of life.

For people who don't feel comfortable learning on their own, there are a variety of books and workshops that provide mindful eating exercises. But no matter how you approach the experience, you can't skip the exercises and expect to learn anything just by reading or listening. Mindful eating requires experimenting -- "playing with your food," as Jean Kristeller says -- until you learn what works for you and how it feels to eat according to hunger. 

Q. How do you understand why mindful eating helped you stop eating donuts, but not ice cream?

A. The simple answer is that I learned to taste my food. When I was dieting, there was so much chatter in my head about "should" and "must" and "don't" around food that it often drowned out the basic experience of eating. Once I learned to pay less attention to those voices and more attention to the physical sensations, I discovered that I didn't like some of the foods I'd been using to cheat on my diet, like donuts or Doritos. But I still love other treats, like ice cream and strawberry shortcake.

Closing Thoughts….

Yes, even the most mindful eater can gain weight as Aamodt did when she got sidelined from exercise. Fortunately, mindful eating has taught her to trust that, even if life throws her a curve ball and she gains a few pounds, her weight generally takes care of itself. In my professional opinion, that’s as good as it gets. 

Why you can't lose weight on a diet

Politicizing the Orlando tragedy

If President Obama wants to politicize a gun tragedy in Florida, let him go instead to a Democrat city for 50 years, Chicago, his home town where he got his start, to give his speeches. About 75% of the victims are black and black lives matter.

"Chicago has been criticized for comparatively light sentencing guidelines for those found illegally in possession of a firearm. Most people convicted of illegal gun possession receive the minimum sentence, one year, a Chicago Sun-Tim...es analysis found, and serve less than half of the sentence because of time for good behavior and pre-trial confinement. The minimum sentence for felons found in possession of a firearm is 2 years. Those charged with simple gun possession had an average of four prior arrests. Those charged with gun possession by a felon had an average of 10 prior arrests. Mayor Rahm Emanuel has unsuccessfully pushed the Illinois General Assembly for tougher sentencing guidelines for gun possession." (Wikipedia.) 

After a 20 year decrease in crime, by about 40% after the 1994 omnibus crime bill, crime is on the upswing again in Chicago.
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When it was first revealed yesterday morning that a gay night club had been attacked by a radical, gay-hating Muslim, the left had a terrible conundrum. Two protected classes for Democrats (and he was a registered Democrat and abusive husband, but I think that doesn't mean much). No problem. Just attack Christians as the true perps. Works every time. The left is really that blind.

Pamela Geller, Jew, closed down on Facebook

I have heard that Facebook took down Pamela Geller's page. I've tried to look, but it just bumps me out. So I checked Google and found that her "Stop Islamization of America" page had been taken down by FB and her personal page has a 30 day suspension. She is a Jew on the kill list of ISIS and they attacked her speech in Texas, where 2 were killed by a security guard when they attacked. Meanwhile, the father of the killer of Orlando, Saddique Mateen, continues to post! He has visited Congress and the State Department and is an apologist for the Taliban, even ran for president of Afghanistan (while believing in killing gays). He was apparently welcome in D.C.

Why is Facebook supporting this killing in Orlando by shutting down the very people who have been warning us and accurately reporting on their activities?

Why does our President who barely batted an eyelash over the Ft. Hood shootings and the victims had to sue to get benefits, refuse to call this what it is, but someone who does gets closed down by Facebook?

Most victims of radical Islam in the 21st century are Christians through out the world, about a million in the first decade. In the 20th century, probably 70 million Christians were killed by their own governments--all based on Marx--the philosophy Bernie Sanders admires and he is being welcomed by Democrats as a Presidential candidate. Where are the President's tears for the dead Christians? He won't even take Christians in as refugees--accepts only Muslims.

When will our President stand up to our enemies abroad and at home who are infiltrating the highest offices?

http://pamelageller.com/2016/06/breitbart-news-pamela-geller-facebooks-assurances-of-neutrality-utterly-hollow.html/

Condoms. No one calls it safe sex anymore

Even with 100% condom use, your teen-agers aren't safe. That's one of the lies kids are told. Oral sex--no evidence it reduces chance of an STD; anal sex, no evidence; vaginal sex a condom can reduce HPV about 70%, herpes about the same; chlamydia and gonorrhea consistent and correct condom use reduce the chance to about 50%, HIV reduce about 85%. Who would fly with crash statistics like this? As males get older, they are even less likely to use condoms than male teens. These diseases can cause permanent infertility in women and cancer in both men and women. There's only one true protection, but society says that's too difficult. The same group telling you that biology doesn't matter and can be changed with surgery and hormones or just by saying its true, says it's too painful to control that sexuality in your natural state.

  

Why Christianity was revolutionary from the beginning

 The first century vision is breathtaking, given our divisions today.

 

"After his death and resurrection a fellowship of followers of Jesus came into being which was called The Church. Beliefs about it arose almost immediately and it took a variety of visible forms.

 

The ideal of the Church appears again and again in the early Christian documents which compose the New Testament and which reflect the convictions of leaders in the primitive Christian fellowship. To these leaders the church was to be inclusive and one. They shared the purpose of Jesus which was transmitted through The Gospel according to John that all believers in him should be as united as were he and the Father. More than once, carrying out this same conception, Paul spoke of the Church as the body of Christ. Obviously, as he saw it, it was to be one, knit together, each member contributing to the whole. The Epistle to the Ephesians declares that Christ is the head of the Church and dreams of the Church as ultimately being without spot, wrinkle, or blemish. The Christian fellowship, so the New Testament held, was to be a new Israel, a chosen people, but it was to be drawn from all mankind. In Christ both Jews and Gentiles were to be members of "the household of God," growing into "an holy temple." Not only was the Church to embrace both Jews and Gentiles, but in it there was also to be no distinction on the basis of race, national, cultural status, servitude, freedom or sex. It was to be gathered from every nation, and from all tribes, peoples, and tongues." (A history of Christianity, vol. 1, beginnings to A.D. 1500, rev. ed., 1975 by Kenneth Scott LaTourette

Milkweed Balm

After asking my 400+ FaceBook Friends what they knew about milkweed balm, and got ZIP, Nada, Zilch, I did a little research and found that there are two very different plants using that name, plus another used in alternative medicine called milk thistle. The one used by the company I knew about grows "in the United States and Canada, the Common Milkweed (Ascelpias Syriaca), also known as silkweed and butterfly flower, and Showy Milkweed (Ascelpias speciosa). Both varieties provide food and protection for migratin.g Monarch butterflies." The company also uses volunteer pickers because the window for harvesting is very small. The company also makes other products from the fiber of the milkweed plant (the N. American variety) like pillows. The cream is used for pain. The company is in Ogallala, Nebraska.

It seems I have a memory of my mother and her sister picking the flowers in the spring and cooking them. Sort of tasted like broccoli as I recall, but I was a kid and probably said, "Yuk." Milkweed grew along all the country roads we would travel to the farm in Franklin Grove.
 
So far, I've found no definitive research on this product.  Health food and natural healing sites often refer to it, but since there is actual research on milk thistle, it would be nice to see come controlled studies.

 "Know someone going through treatment who needs relief from achy bones, joints and muscles or neuropathy? Milkweed Balm helps ease the pain. Topical, easy to apply and a money back guarantee on our smallest sizes." 

 "All natural Milkweed Balm is made with organic ingredients of jojoba oil, soybean oil, and milkweed seed oil. Cold-pressed milkweed seed oil contains antioxidants, magnesium, calcium, zinc, manganese, and high concentrations of Omega-3 and Omega-7 fatty acids. Milkweed Balm helps alleviate pain topically -- so roll it on where it hurts.

Milkweed Balm has a cumulative effect, so the more consistent you are about application, the less you need for relief. We recommend applying at least twice a day to start, before bed, and in the morning. You can use it whenever you need a boost to keep pain under control."

 http://monarchflyway.com/milkweed-balm-products.html

Other sites and testimonials:  http://www.comforthouse.com/milkweed-balm.html
http://articles.milkweedbalm.com/article/-neuropathy-know-how
http://articles.milkweedbalm.com/article/gentle-safe-effective-milkweed-balm-works-for-more-than-just-cancer-pain
http://lizzysmilez.blogspot.com/2015/05/milkweed-balm-my-answer-for-intense-leg.htm

Should young people have a "life script?"

Although I can't be positive that this was the article being discussed on the radio yesterday as I drove the church mail run, it sounds like it. The three millennials, all from California (one was Huntington Beach) were discussing the errors of a "life script." And it made sense. Women, they said, often are ready for marriage and family by age 25, having finished college and had a taste or distaste of a career. The 20s is still the safest and healthiest time for mother and child for birth. However, men of that age are still being encouraged to be adolescents, going to bars with the guys, doing extreme sports, taking stupid risks, etc. Some times they still live with mama, and so why give all that up for responsibility?

 http://thefederalist.com/2016/06/08/10-top-reasons-you-should-have-kids-before-30/

  Mothers who are age 35 and older are at significantly higher risk for, among other maladies, giving birth prematurely, which gives rise to more health problems for the child, and for having babies with Downs Syndrome. Father age is also a crucial risk factor: “By starting families in their thirties, forties and beyond, men could be increasing the chances that their children will develop autism, schizophrenia and other diseases often linked to new [genetic] mutations.”

If you want to be a hero, leader, or celebrity, the number-one way to get there is by having children. You are their world—truly. Almost none of us will be able to say the same professionally.

The National Cathedral to remove Confederate flag from stain glass windows

Imagine a Christian church (Episcopal) that condones the murder of 55 million unborn, yet wants to remove art that it considers political from its catheldral. For shame. Let's remove the word "national" from its name if it can't tolerate that painful time in our history.

 " The Episcopal Church does indeed think in terms of doctrine: doctrines of litigation, abortion, divorce, sexual behavior outside of marriage and all kinds of current politically correct doctrines, as well as teachings that Jesus is reduced from the Son of God to a “subversive sage.” (p. 119, Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time)

The Presiding Bishop [ Katherine Schori-now retired ] of the Episcopal Church personifies this sad reduction, this shrunken Jesus, this betrayal of Christian faith. Her claim that “salvation is attained by many ways – Jesus Christ is a way, and God has many other ways as well. . .” (Interview, Time Magazine, July 10, 2006) is a violation of her ordination and consecration vows regarding the church’s creed (p. 519, Book of Common Prayer, , 1979).

It is also sadly bereft of the Good News that salvation is never attained but freely given to those who believe. As to her belief in eternal life, she is unsure it exists and she contends that Jesus was more concerned with heavenly existence in this life. (Arkansas Democratic Gazette, Jan. 7, 2007)

This sad result reduces Christian faith to the secular assumptions of this age while this age is in desperate need of the very faith that has made it great. Dean William Inge’s famous warning has never been more apt than today: “The Church that marries the spirit of the age will find herself a widow in the next.” -Rt Rev (ret) C. FitzSimons Allison -2010

 http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/national-cathedral-to-remove-confederate-flags-from-stained-glass-windows/article/2593486#.

 http://www.patheos.com/blogs/getreligion/2014/01/wheres-the-religion-at-washingtons-national-cathedral/

Does Trump or Hillary disrepect the disabled more?

One of the new PAC ads I see against Trump has the parents of a disabled child criticizing Trump's mocking of a journalist at one of his events. They say it shows his soul to mock the disabled. And Hillary supports and advocates the killing of the disabled, mentally challenged and inconveniently conceived. What does that say about her soul? 

"A husband and wife tell their story, side by side, of learning through an ultrasound that their daughter, Grace, would be born with spina bifida, a spinal condition. Images of young Grace flicker by — as a newborn in the hospital, sleeping near a cross, smiling and offering a hug from her wheelchair — while her parents tell of her loving personality: “She brings out the goodness in each person.”

Twenty seconds in, the mother shifts to Mr. Trump, saying, “When I saw Donald Trump mock a disabled person, I was just shocked.” New York Times

What the NYT doesn't say in the article, is what Mrs. Clinton, a mother and grandmother, would do about a spina bifida child diagnosed with an ultrasound.

How does mocking compare with death by dismemberment or chemical burning? During an interview on The View this spring Hillary Clinton said an unborn child just hours before delivery should have no Constitutional rights. Her comments came just days after Clinton said unborn children simply do not have any Constitutional rights, which would include the right to life. 

UN tries to push "sexual rights" on member states

On 8 June, at the ‘High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS’ the Member States of the United Nations adopted the ‘Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast-Track to Accelerate the Fight against HIV and to End the AIDS Epidemic by 2030.’ The meeting is one of the most influential gatherings of the international community on the issue of HIV/AIDS and occurs every five years.

“ADF International fully endorses the underlying aim of the Political Declaration adopted this year, namely to end the AIDS epidemic,” said Elyssa Koren, Director of UN Advocacy for ADF International. “Unfortunately, UNAIDS and some Member States took the opportunity to try and advance so-called ‘sexual rights’ and other agendas in direct contravention to the will and sovereignty of the majority of countries. It is unacceptable to pursue controversial ideologies at the expense of the millions who suffer as a result of HIV/AIDS.”

"Although certain [UN] Member States fought tirelessly for the inclusion of a reference to “reproductive rights” tied to “human rights,” this ultimately was rejected. “Reproductive rights are in no way part of the internationally recognized body of human rights,” said Koren.

“Member States were clear on the fact that responsible sexual behaviour affirming the innate dignity of every person has proven most successful in ending AIDS in their respective national contexts. Regrettably, so-called ‘UN-experts’ took the liberty of warning Member States against the inclusion of any language on abstinence or fidelity in the document, incorrectly asserting that  these terms are representative of a ‘failed social experiment.’”

The battle of the outsider egos and outsider voters

"Two stories in the past 48 hours cement my view that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the vanquished Democratic candidate for president, and Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, share the same DNA. These two stubborn outsiders believe they are their campaign’s best political mind. And the damage that outsized and misplaced view of their capabilities has done on their respective quests for the White House is plainly apparent. . .  Reading about Sanders’s maladroit micromanagement of his campaign immediately brought to mind that of Trump’s, which has been on full display the past two days. "

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/06/08/this-is-how-bernie-sanders-and-donald-trump-are-the-same-person/?

Bernie isn't a Democrat and Trump isn't a Republican. Both are dragging people in who have never voted, and seriously and sadly, I have to say are know-nothings. We live in strange times.
 

Sauerkraut memories

When I was a child we lived in Forreston, IL which had an annual Sauerkraut Day and people would come miles for free kraut and hot dogs. The town smelled awful for days. I didn't care much for the dish, and still only occasionally have it on a Rueben sandwich or hot dog. Lots of health benefits, so maybe I'll give it another try, even without the Merry-Go-Round and gypsies.

Did Obama ask?

Isn't it illegal to inquire about a potential appointee's or employee's sex life and behavior?  How else would Obama know the practices of his peeps? This is from 2 years ago from his Office of Personnel management (OPM);

 "President Obama has appointed more than 300 openly LGBT professionals to serve in his administration -- more openly LGBT presidential appointees than all previous administrations combined. They include: John Berry, Ambassador to Australia and formerly Director of OPM; Rufus Gifford, Ambassador to Denmark; Fred P. Hochberg, Chairman and President of the Import-Export Bank of the United States; and Kathy Martinez, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Disability Employment Policy at DOL.

The President has also appointed more than a dozen openly gay Federal judges. They include Elaine Kaplan, a judge of the U.S. Court of Claims and a former Acting Director and General Counsel of OPM."  

And then there was that ambassador to Libya. The one Hillary lied about.

Victoria Woodhull for President

Listening to CBS rerun Hillary's gushing announcement about the historic moment in history, my husband looked really puzzled. Reaching back to deep history (he was in high school in the 1950s, Arsenal Technical High School, Indianapolis), he said, "Wasn't there a woman many years ago who ran for president?" "Yes," I said, "Her name was Victoria Woodhull." She was born in Licking County, Ohio, and had a rather interesting, chaotic life which included Wall Street brokerage, free love movement, legalization of prostitution, going through several fortunes, journalism, and numerous husbands.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Woodhull

  http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/victoria-woodhull-first-woman-presidential-candidate-116828

Why does Obama want to destroy women's sports?

Women athletes, including lesbians, need to start speaking out against transgender, fluid gender, two spirit nonsense LGBTQ radical agenda. It's not transphobic to point out men naturally have testosterone and the equipment to produce it. A lot of it. Women have a little, but we have a lot of estrogen, and that allows us to have more fat, which allows us to be healthy mothers. We have wider pelvises which allows us to give birth, but makes us run a little lopsided and "throw like a girl."

Testosterone enables men to develop larger skeletal muscles as well as larger hearts. Men also have a larger proportion of Type 2 muscle fibers, which generate power, strength and speed. Testosterone also increases the production of red blood cells, which absorb oxygen, giving men an even greater aerobic advantage. (Livestrong.com) This doesn't change just because some group in wigs and mascara starts yelling about their rights.

In some sports, it might not make a lot of difference, like tiddly winks and gymnastics (we're more flexible), but if you've got an athletically talented daughter, speak up now, write your Congress person and demand justice for girls and women, before this administration destroys women's sports.

http://www.livestrong.com/article/347443-athletic-differences-between-men-women/

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/06/06/biological-male-allowed-compete-female-high-schoolers-alaska/

 http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/obama-transgender-rights-schools-222922
 

He claims capitalism hasn't helped the poor, we need socialism

Why do you think capitalism has so poorly served the lower income and poor? Have you ever seen a list of the consumer goods that even low income people can afford in the U.S.? The typical poor household (in 2011), as defined by the government, has a car and air conditioning, two color televisions, cable or satellite TV, a DVD player, and a VCR. If there are children, especially boys, the family has a game system, such as an Xbox or PlayStation. The household has a refrigerator, an oven and stove, and a microwave, also a clothes washer, clothes dryer, ceiling fans, a cordless phone, and a coffee maker. Do you know any low income people who don’t have a smart phone? (We don’t.)

 

I don’t know about you, but in 1960 when we set up our first apartment, we had a 10 year old car, b&w TV (gift from my in-laws), a refrigerator and stove (bought used) from this list, and we didn’t think we were poor, just newlyweds. Now we’re retired on pensions, and we have everything on this list, except the gaming systems.  We bought our first color TV in 1967, at $375, which would be about $2700 today’s money, and you can buy an HDTV set for $200 today. Same with computers and printers. I now have a desk top computer, a wireless printer, a laptop, an i-pad, a nook and an i-pod for less than my first computer in the 1990s.

The poor in U.S. also have larger houses than socialist countries and even before Obamacare, the poor reported not having a problem with healthcare, since we already had 5 systems to take care of them, plus ERs in hospitals were required to take them.

 

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/07/what-is-poverty

 

The poor have less than the top 20%, true, no trips to China or Mongolia, no celebrity parties like the Obamas go to, no BMWs or Lexus in the drive-way, instead they probably go to Disney or 6 Flags or Cedar Point, but compared to poor or even socialist countries, U.S. people living at the poverty level (government standard) have a lot, and it's because of competition and capitalism, and that is increasingly being done overseas because of the enormous number of regulations and hostile business environment in the U.S., and the hostility of our government toward our golden goose—capitalism.We've become consumers instead of workers who consume. 

 

During the Obama years, only the top 20% have made any gains in wealth, everyone else has been flat, so those socialist and regulatory burdens are working well for the wealthy, and not so good for the rest of us.

UTIs and the elderly

A friend of ours has recently had a long siege in the hospital then a nursing because of a simple infection--urinary tract infection.

"Elderly people with serious urinary tract infection don't exhibit the hallmark sign of fever because their immune system is unable to mount a response to infection due to the effects of aging. In fact, elders often don't exhibit any of the common symptoms – or don't express them to their caregivers.

UTIs in the elderly are often mistaken as the early stages of dementia or Alzheimer's, according to NIH, because symptoms include:

• Confusion, or delirium-like state
• Agitation
• Hallucinations
• Other behavioral changes
• Poor motor skills or dizziness
• Falling"

 https://www.agingcare.com/Articles/urinary-tract-infections-elderly-146026.htm

My mother always recommended cranberry juice or cherry juice.  And mothers, at least mine, are always right.

 http://www.aplaceformom.com/senior-care-resources/articles/elderly-urinary-tract-infection

When cleaning up in the yard . . .

look out for these plants.  I recognize the one on the far left--that's poison ivy--and I've seen it around our cottage, and sprayed it.  The other two I'm not so sure.  I think I've seen the poison oak too, and probably thought they were "volunteers" from an oak tree.

Cohabitation is not good for children

Cohabitation is not marriage. Children do about as well as they do in single parent households even adjusting for income and education. Access to two adults is not the same as parents.  If you remove sex from the justification for cohabitation, it will not happen, regardless of what the couple (usually the woman) uses.  Some countries have institutionalized cohabitation--don't live with your girlfriend in Canada--the state will come after you after you've moved back to the U.S. unless you've agreed to a contract that denies your commitment.

"For most of the latter-half of the twentieth century, divorce posed the greatest threat to child well-being and the institution of marriage. Today, that is not the case. New research—made available for the first time in Why Marriage Matters—shows that the rise of cohabiting households with children is the largest unrecognized threat to the quality and stability of children's lives in today's families."

"Cohabitation is playing a growing role in children's lives. Children are now more likely to be exposed to a cohabiting union than to a parental divorce. The report indicates that 24% of kids born to married parents will see their parents divorce or separate by age 12, while 42% of kids will experience a parental cohabitation by age 12."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc3cox_GsIk

http://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2011/08/16/453980/229607/en/New-Report-Cohabitation-Not-Divorce-is-Now-Driving-Rising-Rates-of-Family-Instability-in-America.html