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dbt1949 wrote:

When falling asleep I often wake up startled to find that my heart and breathing have stopped. Doesn't affect me after I get to sleep so it's probably panic attacks.

My armchair diagnosis is sleep apnea. I have it and it's the reason I'm on a CPAP machine in stead of pills. With sleep apnea and pills you can go to sleep and not wake up in time.

Max Peck wrote:

dbt1949 wrote:

When falling asleep I often wake up startled to find that my heart and breathing have stopped. Doesn't affect me after I get to sleep so it's probably panic attacks.

My armchair diagnosis is sleep apnea. I have it and it's the reason I'm on a CPAP machine in stead of pills. With sleep apnea and pills you can go to sleep and not wake up in time.

If it's happening just as he's falling asleep, it might be a form of hypnic jerk.

Skinypupy wrote:I don't know if it's something I've been eating or that I have some sort of hidden fear that only manifests in dreams, but my subconscious has apparently been working overtime these days. For the last two weeks, I have had the most insane, bizarre dreams. They feature a cast of thousands with some truly crazy plots (I've been a train conductor, a secret agent, a professional soccer player, a card shark, a freedom fighter, any combination of the above, etc.). Oddly there is a consistency that they all take place in my college town.

I've been waking up every morning trying to shake off that "WTF was that?" feeling.

El Guapo wrote:

Skinypupy wrote:I don't know if it's something I've been eating or that I have some sort of hidden fear that only manifests in dreams, but my subconscious has apparently been working overtime these days. For the last two weeks, I have had the most insane, bizarre dreams. They feature a cast of thousands with some truly crazy plots (I've been a train conductor, a secret agent, a professional soccer player, a card shark, a freedom fighter, any combination of the above, etc.). Oddly there is a consistency that they all take place in my college town.

I've been waking up every morning trying to shake off that "WTF was that?" feeling.

Most likely you are in fact some type of deep cover agent who has been programmed with what you believe to be your current identity in order to make your cover more believable (since you, in fact, believe it yourself). The dreams represent your true sublimated consciousness trying to assert itself against the programmed identity.

Obviously.

Skinypupy wrote:

El Guapo wrote:

Skinypupy wrote:I don't know if it's something I've been eating or that I have some sort of hidden fear that only manifests in dreams, but my subconscious has apparently been working overtime these days. For the last two weeks, I have had the most insane, bizarre dreams. They feature a cast of thousands with some truly crazy plots (I've been a train conductor, a secret agent, a professional soccer player, a card shark, a freedom fighter, any combination of the above, etc.). Oddly there is a consistency that they all take place in my college town.

I've been waking up every morning trying to shake off that "WTF was that?" feeling.

Most likely you are in fact some type of deep cover agent who has been programmed with what you believe to be your current identity in order to make your cover more believable (since you, in fact, believe it yourself). The dreams represent your true sublimated consciousness trying to assert itself against the programmed identity.

Obviously.

Sigh...fine. I'll GET MAH ASS TO MAHS.

Kraken wrote:

Max Peck wrote:

dbt1949 wrote:

When falling asleep I often wake up startled to find that my heart and breathing have stopped. Doesn't affect me after I get to sleep so it's probably panic attacks.

My armchair diagnosis is sleep apnea. I have it and it's the reason I'm on a CPAP machine in stead of pills. With sleep apnea and pills you can go to sleep and not wake up in time.

If it's happening just as he's falling asleep, it might be a form of hypnic jerk.

That fits better than apnea, because once I surrender to sleep I'm good for the night. But my body tries to fight it off, and that's where the panic attacks come from.

Malificent wrote:

Kraken wrote:

Max Peck wrote:

dbt1949 wrote:

When falling asleep I often wake up startled to find that my heart and breathing have stopped. Doesn't affect me after I get to sleep so it's probably panic attacks.

My armchair diagnosis is sleep apnea. I have it and it's the reason I'm on a CPAP machine in stead of pills. With sleep apnea and pills you can go to sleep and not wake up in time.

If it's happening just as he's falling asleep, it might be a form of hypnic jerk.

That fits better than apnea, because once I surrender to sleep I'm good for the night. But my body tries to fight it off, and that's where the panic attacks come from.

Although...

I have apnea and I thought I was sleeping fine before I was diagnosed. Turns out I was stopping breathing over 100 times per hour.

GreenGoo wrote:I just don't get the impression that it's a good movie, or interesting in any way. If it's huge, then it might be despite the marketing, not because of it.

GreenGoo wrote:As a parent of 3, Zootopia, while not the worst advertised kids movie, offers almost nothing for people to latch onto, other than cute animals (which has been more than done to death). That said, my kids will watching literally anything if it's new, so there you go.

Based on my presumably adult impressions, it was/is my opinion that Zootopia is going to be an "also ran". I'm surprised to hear you think it's going to be big, although there are factors I can see that might work for it. March break, no competition in this area, hasn't been anything kid centric in awhile.

I just don't get the impression that it's a good movie, or interesting in any way. If it's huge, then it might be despite the marketing, not because of it.

Isgrimnur wrote:Hopefully it will make up for the lackluster traction of The Good Dinosaur.

LawBeefaroni wrote: It will top big hero 6's opening weekend, IMO.

LordMortis wrote:I've seen three different extended previews that all eventually centered on the fast hurried rabbit going to the DMV and being forced to listen to a sloth telling a joke.

It didn't do it for me but I'm also not 5.

I remember wanting to see Big Hero 6... And still haven't, so I'm not much of a gauge for what's good neither, either.

NPI analysis indicates that approximately $6.0 million of hair donations are not accounted for by the charity Locks of Love ("LoL") annually. Each year, Locks of Love makes approximately 300 wigs with the 100,000 hair donations it receives.
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Locks of Love receives an estimated 104,000 hair donations per year (1). LoL indicates that up to 80% of this hair is unusable (2) and that 6-10 hair donations are necessary to make one hairpiece (3). Based on these numbers sourced from Locks of Love, the charity should produce a minimum of 2,080 hairpieces per year (104,000 hair donations * 20% usable hair donations / 10 hair donations per hairpiece). However, NPI has confirmed with they charity's staff that the organization produced only 317 natural hairpieces in 2011 (IRS Form 990 figure of "430 wigs" includes synthetic wigs) (4).

The 1,763 hairpieces that are unaccounted for are worth $6.6 million (LoL states that the retail value of a natural hair wig is between $3,500 to $6,000 and costs $1,000 to manufacture) (5)(6). While Locks of Love discloses that it sold $572,997 of hair in 2011, this leaves $6.0 million of hair unaccounted for by the organization.

Comparisons to other organizations illustrate the significant difference in utilization of hair donations:

Locks of Love. 104,000 hair donations per year divided by 317 hairpieces produced in 2011 = 328 hair donations accepted to produce 1 wig.

Pantene Beautiful Lengths. 65,000 hair donations per year divided by 3,500 hairpieces produced per year = 19 hair donations accepted to produce 1 wig (8).

In other words, it takes Locks of Love 17x as many hair donations to make each hairpiece. Additional organizations that accept donated hair include Ohio-based Wigs for Kids, Children with Hair Loss, and Michigan-based Wigs 4 Kids.
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Locks of Love indicated that "LOL does not count, catalogue nor maintain lists of hair donations" (7).

NPI asked LoL how many hair donations are sold each year ($573,997 in 2011 reported on IRS Form 990). LoL responded: "As we do not catalogue hair donations, you might imagine that we also do not count unusable hair that is sold..." (7). It is unclear to NPI how it is possible for Locks of Love to sell more than half a million dollars worth of hair without knowing the quantity of hair sold.

In regards to the figure of 2,000 donations per week cited by USA Today and the New York Times, LoL responded: "We are unaware of this "publicly available data" nor do we endorse it" (7). As a result of LoL's inability to provide updated information, NPI relied upon the statements of LoL's executive director as cited in USA Today to estimate the amount of hair donated each year only after reasonable and diligent efforts to obtain updated data.

GreenGoo wrote:Big Hero 6 is pretty good. You should see it LM. It also felt a lot different than other generic, cookie cutter kids movies.

Daehawk wrote:Looks like I wont ever donate hair to LoL again. Seems there should be a law requiring them to keep detailed records. Seems they are making money on a scam.

Isgrimnur wrote:She should be proud of herself. Don't let it dissuade you or her from doing something to help. As noted, there are other organizations that seem to be doing more better work in this space.

Enough wrote:I had no idea that Willy Wonka has gotten into food research. Researchers have developed a new strain of seaweed that tastes like bacon and is twice as healthy as kale. Sign me up!

Isgrimnur wrote:1 pm on Friday is the perfect time to ask me for a detailed report with multiple layers and an executive rush attached. Really beginning to regret not taking today off.