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	light therapy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Light therapy is the use of natural or artificial light to treat various ailments, but primarily depressive and sleep disorders.
		This type of light therapy has been proven to be particularly useful in treating seasonal affective disorder (SAD), also known as the "winter blues," a form of depression that occurs as the amount of daylight wanes with the change of seasons.
		Those who received the red light therapy reported that their pain was significantly reduced as compared to the group that had placebo light therapy (in which the same machine was used, but unknown to the patient, no light emitted was from it).
	www.wholehealthmd.com /refshelf/substances_view/1,1525,713,00.html (1359 words)

	Winter Light
		During these winter months, when the Park¹s gates close for the early sunset and the sky darkens in the afternoon, Socrates will continue to have a presence brightening the sky and illuminating the Western Queens waterfront.
		Winter Light presents works that will become a part of the landscape viewable from points in the immediate area around the Park and across the East River on Roosevelt Island and the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
		Winter Light has been made possible through the generous support of the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Commission of The Greenwall Foundation.
	www.socratessculpturepark.org /Archives/Winterlight/Winterlight.htm (291 words)

	How to help houseplants thrive in low winter light
		The distance the plant is from the light source and the direction the windows in a home face determine the light intensity a houseplant receives.
		Other factors influencing light intensity besides season include the presence and type of curtains, the weather, shade from buildings or vegetation, the cleanliness of the window and the reflectiveness of the surroundings.
		Day length or duration of light is also of some importance to only those plants that are sensitive to day length, including poinsettia, kalanchoe and Christmas cactus.
	extension.oregonstate.edu /news/story.php?S_No=511&storyType=garden (638 words)

	The Seattle Times: Pacific Northwest Magazine
		Even the winter birds are darker here: Many species, from song sparrows to woodpeckers, look dusted with soot compared with their kin east of the mountains, the better to blend in with our winter gloom.
		WINTER LIGHT is more than weather here; it is part of an annual balance of bright and dim, active and contemplative, outdoor and in.
		Winter is the time of the sacred winter dances, the healing ceremonies, "the time for miracles," says Lummi elder Pauline Hillaire, 74.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /pacificnw/2003/1221/cover.html (2055 words)

	Theater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Winter Light plays through February 25 at 10 Mayo Street in Portland.
		In the film, doubt is religious, not political: the grim hero is a pastor, Tomas Ericsson (portrayed by David Blair in the play), whose faith is cracking during a few hours on a frigid Scandinavian Sunday.
		The minor figures form a chorus to paint in words what cannot be staged: the rush of a passing train, the bounding of a dog, the surge of a river.
	www.portlandphoenix.com /archive/theater/01/02/23/light.html (1065 words)

	Bergmanorama - Ingmar Bergman: Films: Winter Light (1963) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Winter Light focuses on a small group of parishioners found at the beginning of the film attending Holy Communion.
		Winter Light is the kind of film that proves the motion picture is an art.
		"Winter Light must inevitably be appraised as a contemplation of the state of Christianity today—or of the efficacy of the clerical function.
	www.bergmanorama.com /films/winter_light.htm (2002 words)

	Winter.
		The lake is a brilliant field of unsullied white; for a light fall of snow covered it as it froze, greatly to the disappointment of the skaters.
		In winter, these animals herd together in the hilly woods, and they are said to show great sagacity in treading down the snow to form their moose-yards.
		Dead and shrivelled leaves are still hanging on some trees, here and there; not all the storms of winter have been able to loosen their hold on the lower limbs of the beeches; they cling, also, at this late day to some oaks, and hickories, and maples.
	digital.library.upenn.edu /women/cooper/hours/winter.html (14497 words)

	Light Therapy for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Winter Depression: Light Boxes and Dawn Simulators About Enviro-Med
		Her knowledge and appreciation of light therapy is your guarantee of scientific integrity and consumer protection.
		Light boxes made it possible for me to enjoy winter and I have had 18 years of seasonal depression free northwest winters.
		We advise that light therapy for seasonal affective disorder, winter depression or other conditions be prescribed by a physician or other qualified health care professional and duration and timing supervised by the same.
	www.bio-light.com /about.html (398 words)

	Depression Issues
		In their study involving 140 women observed over five successive winters, the Roanoke researchers compared the effectiveness of two non-pharmaceutical treatments: 30 minutes per day of home exposure to light-emitting boxes, and air-cleaning devices that also produce negative ionization of airborne particles.
		Light boxes were the clear winner, Flory said, although the air ionizers were also somewhat effective.
		New variations on light boxes are giving patients more choices, he said, including devices called "dawn simulators." These devices -- hooked up to a bright light in the bedroom -- cause light to slowly grow in intensity during the early morning hours, much as it would on a spring day.
	www.depressionissues.com /ms/news/522896/main.html (941 words)

	CNNfyi.com - Winter Light - January 10, 2001
		Light is such a central component of human life that it is probably no coincidence that many religious and mythological texts try to explain it.
		Many ancient cultures instinctively felt the need to bring light into their lives during the winter months, close to the winter solstice when days are short.
		Light is the part of the spectrum that stimulates the eye's retina, resulting in sight.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/fyi/news/01/05/light.story (1871 words)

	Gardening : Winter : Light Gardening : Home & Garden Television
		The lighting you choose depends on what types of plants you want to grow and the amount of space your garden will occupy.
		Florescent lights are good; they offer a broad spectrum of light, but they don't have a lot of depth.
		Light gardening is a good way to have flowers and homegrown food all year-round.
	www.hgtv.com /hgtv/gl_seasonal_winter/article/0,1785,HGTV_3630_1384427,00.html (361 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Winter Light
		Beautifully photographed by Sven Nykvist, Winter Light is an unsettling look at the human craving for personal validation in a world seemingly abandoned by God.
		Winter Light is presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1.
		The Dolby Digital 1.0 signal will be directed to the center channel on 5.1-channel sound systems, but some viewers may prefer to switch to two-channel playback for a wider dispersal of the mono sound.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=210 (232 words)

	See The Light... On Winter Depression
		Light therapy evens out the mood swings, decreases the need for sleep, and lessens the cravings for carbohydrates.
		The light from a lightbox may range between 2500 to 10,000 lux, (a lux is a standard unit of measurement for light brightness).
		If your doctor has prescribed light treatment to help relieve symptoms of SAD or winter depression contact Essentials Of Life at 1-800-800-6193.
	www.tanplusforhealth.com /lighting2.htm (514 words)

	Nattvardsgästerna (1963) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Plot Summary: On a cold winter's Sunday, the pastor of a small rural church (Tomas Ericsson) performs service for...
		Brutally bleak, "Winter Light" may be about losing religious faith, but I don't think you have to have a religious faith to identity with Gunnar Bjornstrand's character, the pastor of a small town.
		Not a film to watch in the dead of winter if you suffer from SAD, unless you're like me and get a perverse type of therapy from confronting the hopelessness head first.
	imdb.com /title/tt0057358 (363 words)

	Winter Light
		Winter Light, the second film in Ingmar Bergman's early-1960s trilogy on the theme of faith in contemporary society, opens in a cold, stone church in a provincial town north of Stockholm.
		Winter Light, like much of Bergman, is a slow ride, but it rewards your close attention.
		This winter light lays bare the suffering and isolation of its characters.
	www.absolutely.net /movie/1963_Winter_Light.html (739 words)

	Seasonal affective disorder
		One variation on this idea is that, during winter, people's internal clocks may become out of sync with the light-dark cycle, leading to a long-term disruption in melatonin release.
		The first-line treatment for seasonal affective disorder is light therapy, exposing the patient to bright artificial light to compensate for the gloominess of winter.
		Light therapy uses a device called a light box, which contains a set of fluorescent or incandescent lights in front of a reflector.
	www.lifesteps.com /gm/Atoz/ency/seasonal_affective_disorder.jsp (895 words)

	Winter Light
		In Swedish, Winter Light is known as Nattvardsgasterna (The Communicants).
		Winter Light was the second part of what became known as a trilogy of “chamber films”, along with Through a Glass Darkly (1961) and The Silence (1963).
		Vernon Young summed up the film succinctly: “Winter Light concerns the faith problem of a visibly human and fully dimensional pastor in north Sweden involved in a despairing struggle not only with his belief but with a woman he can't love who loves him” (3).
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/05/34/winter_light.html (986 words)

	Light Therapy Lite Boxes Winter Depression SAD Seasonal Affective Disorder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Light controls our biological rhythms and is known to regulate the delicate balance of melatonin and seratonin in our brain chemistry.
		While some of the claims for the health benefits of light therapy are as yet unproved, it is known that adequate light is vital to many aspects of healthy living and shows help for a variety of problems.
		If it is related to the effectiveness of their light therapy light box with patients they will be able to give you the independent scientific proof that shows that THEIR light box was tested and showed scientifically that it was 99% effective light therapy with patients.
	www.naturalsolutions1.com /bioligh1.htm (1472 words)

	The Winter Light of Tucson
		There is a quality to the light here in the winter in Tucson that is incredibly beautiful and hard to photograph or even describe.
		In the winter it comes in bright and low from the south and brings out the shape of the mountains so you can see their depth.
		When a winter storm rolls in from the Pacific, the light shines on both the tops of the mountains and the bottoms of the clouds, making the entire horizon gleam like an unsheathed sword.
	homepage.mac.com /dtj/iblog/C1293728500/E1825102100 (304 words)

	KATU 2 - Portland, Oregon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Light encourages anglers on the Middle Deschutes to fish during weeklong periods when the Deschutes Basin watermaster drops the water level to two-thirds of the normal flow.
		Light says the best time of day for winter fishing is from about 11 a.m.
		Light said that synthetic fabrics such as wool or silk are more suitable in inclement weather than cotton.
	www.katu.com /stories/73768.html (1095 words)

	winterlights
		The seed of the idea to write a book celebrating the lights of winter came to me when my daughter Sarah shared her experience of her very long, very dark winter in Sweden as an exchange student in 1986-87.
		Even natural lights have a special quality in winter: the morning sun glinting on icicles, early sunsets, stars glittering in the cold, moonlight on fresh snowfall.
		The movement of the Northern Lights is suggested by using the bargello technique.
	www.aghines.com /winterlights/winterlights.htm (1354 words)

	Ingmar Bergman
		Using chiaroscuro imagery that interplays light and shadows, Ingmar Bergman reflects the process of spiritual illumination in the transitional era of the Middle Ages where mysticism, amorality, and paganism coexisted with the period of intellectual, artistic, and religious enlightenment: the opening image of Ingeri performing her chores that transitions into an illuminated crucifix as
		As Ingeri (the allusional fallen sinner, Mary Magdalene) becomes a witness to the manifestation of secular discord and divine grace, she follows her own figurative path from religious darkness and moral bankruptcy to a state of spiritual baptism and enlightenment.
		As Winter Light explored spiritual bankruptcy, The Silence is an examination of emotional isolation in a world without God - where salvation lies in human connection.
	www.filmref.com /directors/dirpages/bergman.html (3068 words)

	Winter Verse
		I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure in the landscape.
		Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
		And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/winterquotes1.html (185 words)

	Wings Of Desire - Cinema: Ingmar Bergman - "Winter Light"
		But i was not so stupid to believe that Winter Light would be a public favorite.
		It is perhaps interesting to read the director's words, first: "Through a glass darkly and Winter light belong together only when one sees the first as the starting point for the second.
		The winter, the silence, their loneliness and a mutual hunger drive them into each other's arms.
	www.geocities.com /SunsetStrip/Venue/3825/winterlight.html (2449 words)

	Amazon.com: A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman - Criterion Collection (Through a Glass Darkly/Winter Light/The Silence): ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Synopsis On a cold winter's Sunday, the pastor of a small rural church (Tomas Ericsson) performs service for a tiny congregation; though he is suffering from a cold and a severe crisis of faith.
		Winter Light reunites Björnstrand, this time playing a pastor suffering a crisis of faith while ministering to a shrinking congregation, and Von Sydow as a parishioner lost to acute anxiety over the possibility of a nuclear holocaust.
		Winter Light is the core, the film that I believe is not only the heart of the trilogy but also a film that one can use to translate any of Bergman's films and ideas.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000A02TX?v=glance (5266 words)

	The influence of light on winter stomatal conductance
		The role of stomatal conductance in winter desiccation was examined by observing the effects of light exposure on leaf conductance of excised shoots of Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii (Parry) Engelm.) and bristlecone pine (Pinus aristata Engelm.) collected during the winter.
		The cause of winter desiccation appears to be a combination of limited water uptake due to frozen soil and stems as well as excessive water loss to cold, dry air above winter snowpack (Tranquillini 1979).
		The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of light and temperature on the possible stomatal opening of excised shoots of Engelmann spruce and bristlecone pine collected throughout the winter season.
	www.western.edu /faculty/jsowell/research/stomata.html (1765 words)

	TheStar.com - Winter's golden light (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		There is the tilt of the earth, the angle of incidence, as the sun just skims the earth in the northern hemisphere.
		In the U.K. there's a movement to help the "victims of high hedges and the resulting loss of winter sunlight." There is even a high hedges bill being drafted.
		Even in deepest winter, the garden is still there, the roots slumbering underground, trees breaking up the blue sky with patterns, berries hiding from birds and ice storms.
	www.thestar.com /NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1135077486161&call_pageid=970599119419 (656 words)

	The Ithaca Journal - www.theithacajournal.com - Ithaca, NY
		The Light in Winter-related art shows at downtown galleries and the Johnson Art Museum are stronger than ever, and we're pleased to bring back Late Night in Winter, featuring music downtown after the Friday and Saturday night performances.
		Light in Winter 2006 will be the last American performance of “The End of the Moon,” the second in a series of intentionally low-tech solo works featuring her remarkable music for violin and electronics.
		We hope that Light in Winter stretches your thought and imagination as it both educates and entertains.
	www.theithacajournal.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051209/OPINION02/512090315/1014 (770 words)

	Wizards Of Winter Video on Metacafe
		The lights are actually moving, since if it were stop-motion, the lights wouldn't be transitioning as smoothly.
		The lights are ran from a computer program and it is impressive the time and effort he has put into them to make them work.
		It was on the local Cincinnati news today that the Williams family has decided to turn OFF their light display because of too much traffic in the neighborhood.
	www.metacafe.com /watch/45390/wizards_of_winter (4983 words)

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