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5 Ways to Warm Up for One-Legged King Pigeon Pose | Yoga Sequence
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Master this deep hip opener and backbend to help stretch and release tension. Use these five poses to safely warm up for One-Legged King Pigeon Pose.

Kincora Therapy Centre’s Facebook Wall 2015-06-08 17:59:14

The Best (and Worst) Foods to Eat When Sick
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Avoid sugar, artificial sweeteners and processed foods if you feel you have a cold or flu, and tweak your diet with foods that strengthen immune response.

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Sri Lanka's President bans glyphosate nationwide to protect the health of the people
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Sri Lanka's President bans glyphosate nationwide to protect the health of the people

The Lakeside Hotel & Leisure Centre’s Facebook Wall 2015-06-08 09:23:55

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We are delighted to announce the return of The Fureys for a live performance on Sunday 5th July at 8pm here at the hotel as part of the Feile Brian Boru. Tickets are €20 each and are available at the hotel, call 061 376122.
We are offering 2 tickets as a prize to one lucky winner who likes and shares this post. Winner will be announced on Wednesday 10th June so get liking and sharing….

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Jodie Niven

In a few weeks it will be 1 year since my 41 yr old husband, and our 4 and 6yr old's Dad had a stroke. While we generally made the choice to deal with this privately, today I have noticed a number of people sharing an article on a 'new sign of stroke'. It is, sadly, very indicative of the lack of public knowledge about strokes that this information is being shared as a 'new' sign. I have done a quick search and noted internet reports of this particular story as far back as 2004. That's 11 years ago! So I feel it's time to put some first hand knowledge out there……(please feel free to share)When my hard working, frequent traveling husband arrived home from work one Friday evening:He didn't mentioned that he was home later than expected because his pinky and ring finger on his left hand just kept hitting the wrong damn keys, and he had to keep re-typing his emails.He didn't mention that he'd stumbled for no apparent reason when walking to the bus stop from work.He didn't mention that the reason he knocked on the door at home to get in was that he had fumbled and dropped the keys a number of times while trying to open the door.He did mention that he felt like he was getting the flu.He did mention that he felt like he was having a hyper sensory experience when walking down the dark nature reserve pathway on his way home from the bus stop, with feelings of a heightened sense of hearing.He didn't have a headache.He initially seemed, to me, to be getting the 'man flu', and nothing more.He almost made the worst decision possible, in suggesting he would go to bed early and sleep, after we had gotten the kids to bed, but thankfully (!) is such a workaholic he decided to send one more email.About 2 hrs after arriving home from work (still *not* having mentioned the 'weird, mis-typing fingers, stumbling on the way to the bus stop, or dropping the keys at the door), he stood up from the dining table where he was working, to go upstairs to bed. His foot turned in an ever so slightly strange way, and he did the slightest stumble, but I saw it out of the corner of my eye. Thankfully:I did stop and ask him 'what was that about, are you ok?' He told me his foot had just gone to sleep. I did stop him and tell him 'wait a minute, that was unusual', and get him to walk across the lounge room. Everything seemed fine. But he had stumbled, when there was nothing to stumble on.I did make him walk over and sit on the lounge. He walked normally. He looked normal. He was speaking normally.I did get him to put both his arms straight out in front of him. He held them perfectly level, and then, ever so slightly, the left hand dropped down lower, only a few centimetres. My subconscious said 'stroke'. My brain said 'couldn't be'. I told him to put his arms down, then lift them and do it again. Again, he initially held his arms level, then the left hand dropped and curled ever so slightly. I did get him to hold his arms up straight above his head. Initially both arms stayed up, then his left arm pulled slightly down, and his hand turned slightly. I did stop him from going to bed. I made him stay put, sitting down.I did fight every part of my no nonsense 'it's nothing, just get on with life' upbringing and attitude and I did call an ambulance. As disbelieving as I was, I realised that it might be (probably was) a stroke, and every second mattered. By the time I had given our details to 000, and was speaking to the operator while waiting for an ambulance, my husband had gone from looking and speaking fine, to not being able to control his fine arm movements very well, or speak as clearly as he normally would. It was only as the ambulance arrived that he started to show the 'classic' signs of a stroke. The drooping face (but nowhere near as pronounced as the stroke awareness literature at this stage), trouble speaking, and significant loss of limb movement.You may have heard that doctors can 'reverse' stroke damage if patients get to hospital soon enough to clear the clot within a few hours. This refers to an Ischaemic stroke, where a blood clot has blocked an artery and cut off blood flow, and can be true, but this comment discounts the extraordinary rehabilitation and effort that can still be required by patients to get back to a 'normal' physical existence. In this instance, my husband had an Intracerebral haemorrhage, which occurs when a blood vessel within the brain bursts, allowing blood to flow into the brain. The only thing that could be done in this instance was to do everything possible to reduce his blood pressure, wait, and hope. Due to the very early intervention, and the extensive knowledge and understanding of neuroplasticity at St Vincent's hospital Sydney (surprisingly, something which has only gained significant and broad medical acceptance within the last 5-10 years), my husband, and we his family, have been some of the 'lucky' ones. After being in Intensive Care, and then the Stroke Ward, my husband worked hard with his amazing rehabilitation team, and he was able to build new neural pathways to compensate for damaged areas of brain. He learnt to walk again. He learnt to use his arm again. He learnt to speak clearly again. He is back at work. Many stroke patients will never live any semblance of the life they led before the stroke. Children, teenagers, and people in their twenties and thirties can also be, and have been, changed forever by stroke. If you notice the slightest 'strange' incident, or physical behaviour in yourself, or in others, including an unusual trip, or slight change in coordination of fingers, stop. Stop for a minute and ask them to smile, to poke their tongue out, to hold their arms out in front of them, and above their head. Ask them to repeat a sentence. Name five things and ask them to repeat them back to you. If everything seems ok DON'T let them go to bed, keep an eye out for small changes. If there are signs of stroke, no matter how minor, CALL AN AMBULANCE. There is a joke in my family that you would literally have to hit me over the head and knock me unconscious to get me into an ambulance, let alone call one, and I realise now that had it been me experiencing the symptoms, I would have ignored them. I would have gone to bed. I would be dead. Be self aware, as well as caring for others. Recognise early signs and save your life or someone else's.My husband has been very, very lucky. But he is still changed forever to those who know and love him.**Thank you to those of you who have cared enough to take the time to share this, and increase awareness. I am stunned that this post has now been shared by over 1,650 people, reaching over 160,000 people around the world. Hopefully our story will help someone, somewhere, recognise what can be early signs of stroke, they will act FAST, and another life will be saved. *In Australia, 1 in 6 people will have a stroke. Stroke is Australia’s second single greatest killer after coronary heart disease and a leading cause of disability. One in five people having a first-ever stroke die within one month and one in three die within a year. (*statistics from the National Stroke Foundation www.strokefoundation.com.au National Stroke Foundation)

It's free to get a culture I can connect u with the milk kefir and I have the su…

It's free to get a culture I can connect u with the milk kefir and I have the sugar kefir if u want it free to a good home


Can you avoid cancer by drinking traditional kefir? Here's the science
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Can you avoid cancer by drinking traditional kefir? Here's the science

Kincora Therapy Centre’s Facebook Wall 2015-06-07 18:18:19

Pesticide commonly used in U.S. homes triples risk of ADHD symptoms in boys
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Pesticide commonly used in U.S. homes triples risk of ADHD symptoms in boys

Féile Brian Ború 2015 is less than one month away. This year's programme of eve…

Féile Brian Ború 2015 is less than one month away.
This year's programme of events is almost finalized and it's going to be a good one! Printed programmes will soon be available in our local shops & businesses.
Details of all events are available on our website so make sure to check it out – www.feilebrianboru.com
You will also find details on our website of how to purchase tickets for the Furey’s Live in Concert in the Lakeside Hotel, along with registration forms for Strut your Mutt Dog Show and the Shannon Swim and also details of how to make a simple costume to be part of our street pageant "Return of the Warriors".

For queries or further information, e-mail: info@feilebrianboru.com
Féile Brian Ború 2015 – Fun for all the family guaranteed!


22nd Annual Féile Brian Ború Festival – Killaloe and Ballina -
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Welcome to the Féile Brian Ború. The Féile celebrates the life and legacy of Brian Ború (founder of the O'Briens) – the most famous son of the historic twin towns of Killaloe and Ballina. Through our annual festival, the Féile Brian Ború committ …