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It's been almost a week since the publication of Michael L. Mann's new climate study and everyone has missed the only notable part of it.
Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study blames the last 10 years of no-warming on Chinese coal burning. While we don't know whether that claim has any merit, it is notable that Michael L. Mann and his co-authors began the study's conclusion as follows:
The finding that the recent hiatus in warming is driven largely by natural factors does not contradict the hypothesis: "most of the observed increase in global average temperature since the mid 20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations (14)."
Note that Michael L. Mann et al. downgraded anthropogenic global warming to a mere "hypothesis." Further, the footnote for Michael L. Mann's assertion is as follows:
Houghton J-T, Jenkins G-J, Ephraums J-J, eds. (1990) Climate Change—The IPCC Scientific Assessment. WG1 (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge).
If you don't recall the IPCC's First Assessment Report (FAR), it's the one that presented the below graphs of historical climate showing that any ongoing climate change is not out of the range of natural variability:
Not only did Michael L. Mann opt to cite a document with the graphs above, as opposed to Michael E. Mann's infamous "hockey stick" study/graph, Michael L. Mann's downgrading of climate alarmism to a "hypothesis" contrasts sharply with Michael E. Mann's views as expressed in the Washington Post in October 2010:
Overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels is heating the planet, shrinking the Arctic ice cap, melting glaciers and raising sea levels. It is leading to more widespread drought, more frequent heat waves and more powerful hurricanes. Even without my work, or that of the entire sub-field of studying past climates, scientists are in broad agreement on the reality of these changes and their near-certain link to human activity.
That paragraph is, shall we say, inconsistent with "hypothesis."
No, Boston University's Michael L. Mann is not the same person as Climategate's Michael E. Mann. But as long as some "Michael Mann" has taken the debate back to its 1990 status, have another look at those graphs from the FAR. What exactly are we debating anyway?


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Radisson Blu Alcron Hotel Prague
Radisson Blu Alcron Hotel Prague Rates and Deals
Radisson Blu Alcron Hotel Prague Reviews
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Luxury hotel located in Prague's city center Oct 31, 2009
Touted as one of Prague's leading luxury properties, the Alcorn is conveniently located within walking distance to most tourist spots. It's important when traveling to keep in mind the word 'luxury' may have different meanings in different cities. Was there anything wrong with it... no. Was it a good value... yes. Is it a four seasons... no. Prague is a great city and if you're traveling there, the Radission Alcron will be an excellent hotel pick.
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Guests who stay at this Prague hotel will find that they are just a short walk from Wenceslas Square. Visitors will be able to visit museums and historical attractions in the city. Those with rooms at the Radisson Blu Alcron Hotel Prague will also be able to find many places in the area to dine. Guests will find that many attractions are only a short walk from the conveniently located hotel. To reach areas that are not as close to the Radisson Blu Alcron Hotel Prague, guests can use public transportation.
The rooms at the Radisson Blu Alcron Hotel Prague feature art deco style décor as well as en suite bathrooms. The rooms also contain large LCD TVs, heated bathroom floors, and a makeup mirror.
The art deco hotel first opened in 1932 and underwent a recent renovation. The Radisson Blu Alcron Hotel Prague offers onsite dining options in the restaurants Alcron and La Rotonde. Guests will be able to have a drink at the Be Bop Bar as well. Visitors that want to keep in shape will be able to use the onsite fitness center, and they can relax in the sauna.
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Ways to Preserve Food
You have found our passion! There are at least 7 ways to preserve food that are reliable, safe, easy and fun. Most of these techniques are hundreds of years old and the possibilities range from making bacon, drying beans, fermenting hot sauce, pressure canning stock, freezing surplus ingredients and more.
Waterbath Canning
Mason jars, boiling water and high-acid ingredients such as jam, jelly and pickles are common types of canning. When many people think about 'preserving' they often think that these are the only possibilities. Canning is easier than people think and is a great activity to do on your own or with a group of people.
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Salt and Smoke
Bacon, cured meats, charcuterie, preserved lemons (cured in salt) and chili salt are some of the possibilities. Some of these recipes, such as chipotle peppers are smoked before being preserved by another method (such as dehydrating).
Preserving food by removing the moisture from it via dehydration. Sun-dried tomatoes, fruit leather, salmon jerky, banana chips, dried apple slices, raisins and dried herbs are examples of home-dried foods.
Adding flavour to liquids (alcohol and vinegar are the most common though, with special care you can impart flavor into honey and oils as well) is one of the easiest ways to preserved food. We often infuse food while making other preserves.
Articles about Infusing Vinegar, Alcohol and more || Infusing Recipes
Pressure Canning
Using special equipment (a pressure canner) makes it possible to preserve low-acid foods in jars. Soups, stews, stock, canned fish and meat can all be pressure canned.
Kimchi, sauerkraut, kombucha, wine, mead, beer, hot sauce, cheese, kosher pickles and more can all be made by fermenting. It's fantastically simple once you learn some basic knowledge.
Most of us use a fridge or freezer to preserve food but few of us have been taught how to use this equipment to get the most from it. Additional cellaring techniques are possible if you have a drafty windowsill, garage or shed!
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So it turns out spring training might be overrated. The Nationals spent $28 million over two years to sign closer Rafael Soriano during the offseason, a surprise move meant to bolster an already-strong bullpen. But he was delayed arriving to Viera, Fla., by visa issues in his native Dominican Republic. He appeared in just seven games in March, giving up six runs on 10 hits with three walks. This certainly didn't look like the guy who effectively replaced Mariano Rivera with the Yankees last summer and finished with 42 saves.
No need to worry. Soriano was apparently just bored. While pitching coach Steve McCatty would have liked a few more games for his new closer, Soriano shook off his rough spring and made the Miami Marlins look silly in a three-out save on Opening Day at Nationals Park on Monday.
"[Soriano] was always a guy, watching him on other teams, [who] shined when the lights came on," fellow reliever Tyler Clippard said. "I think we all realized that in spring training. He's a veteran guy. He knows what he needed to do to get ready and he was ready."
Certainly slugger Giancarlo Stanton couldn't figure him out. Soriano struck him out looking with a cut fastball that froze Stanton, who earlier had taken a regular four-seam fastball and swung through a slider. He didn't know what to expect. And that's Soriano's game. He won't blow fastballs past hitters at 95 mph anymore. But he doesn't have to, either.
"The best thing about [Soriano] ... is most closers just come in and try to overpower you. He's really, really smart," Nats third baseman Ryan Zimmerman said. "He knows how to get people out. Stanton is not an easy guy to make look foolish like that."
Don't expect his new teammates to adopt Soriano's patented "untuck the jersey" move after the final out, though. Even if he is telling them the good karma leads to home runs.
"I said 'Sorry, Papi, I wasn't expecting that,'?" shortstop Ian Desmond joked. "I think he wants me to. But I don't know how I feel about that. It's gonna take a little warming up."
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I write books to earn my living.
What gets published reflects on me, and my skills as a writer.
Therefore, proper use of the English language is very important to me for everything I have written, especially any material to be offered for sale.
Poor grammar and misspelled words absolutely drive me crazy no matter where I find the errors, even in the work of another writer.
My primary editor, as well as small army of proof readers, repeatedly goes over any material intended for widespread distribution with a fine-toothed comb.
Even when I have written a shorter opinion piece like this one for my blog, or an article for American Thinker, every last word was carefully scrutinized by me personally before I eventually clicked the "Publish" button or sent it off for review.
That's why I don't publish more frequently. Good writing takes time.
I care passionately about the crafting of any message I have decided is worth trying to convey to the reader, no matter how relatively insignificant the point, or how large or small the audience interested in that particular topic may be.
Because I truly care so much about proper use of the English language, it really troubles me about the way universal health care is being marketed in Colorado.
Earlier this morning I stumbled across the healthcare exchange website for the state of Colorado, a poorly named abomination called "doyougotinsurance.com."
At first I thought the whole thing was intended to be a joke, sort of like the Onion.
But it's real.
Do you got insurance? Seriously?
Every English teacher in the Rocky Mountain state must be mortified. Of course, the proper question to ask would be: do you have insurance?
Making matters even worse, one of the pages on the website described a plan it called "Brosurance." The page pictured two "friends" holding the legs of a third man over his head, while he performed something called a "keg stand", complete with beer tap hanging from his mouth.
The caption read:
Keg Stands are crazy. Not having health insurance is crazier. Don't tap into your beer money to cover those medical bills. We got it covered.
The ad copy should have promised that we've got it covered, not "we got it covered."
At least we can probably all agree on this one thought: keg stands are crazy.
But so is forcing responsible taxpayers to subsidize the healthcare of drunken bums.


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"I am going to be on the street corners," he said. "We will be out across the city."
If only we could get John Edwards, Gary Hart or Bill Clinton to run for some kind of office in New York, the trifecta would be complete. Call it the "Character Doesn't Matter" ticket.
Eliot Spitzer, who resigned as governor of New York five years ago amid a prostitution scandal, is re-entering political life, with a run for the citywide office of comptroller and a hope that voters are ready to look past his previous misconduct.
Mr. Spitzer, a Democrat, said he was eager to plunge back into politics and believed he could revolutionize the often-overlooked city office into a new model for government accountability and shareholder activism.
"I'm hopeful there will be forgiveness, I am asking for it," he said in a telephone interview on Sunday night.
Spitzer is actually a good deal worse than Weiner, who aside from the Huma connection is an ordinary urban political hack. Spitzer on the other hand is a leftist sociopath with serious anger management issues who even managed to alienate most of his own party leaving him vulnerable to a scandal.
Spitzer's antics included using the State Police to conduct surveillance on his political opponents. Giving him the Comptroller's office would be really bad news.
With Mr. Spitzer's name recognition and three million Democrats in the city, this should not be a difficult task to complete, but he plans to flood the streets and supermarkets with some 100 signature gatherers starting Monday.
"I am going to be on the street corners," he said. "We will be out across the city."
I guess the recession has even hit Spitzer.
Mr. Spitzer, an aggressive watchdog over Wall Street when he served as attorney general of New York, imagines transforming the comptroller's office into a robust agency that would not merely monitor and account for city spending, as it does now, but conduct regular inquiries into the effectiveness of government policies, in areas like education.
So basically Spitzer doesn't want to just be a comptroller, he wants to be the Mayor. That should make for a fun relationship with Weiner.
"The metaphor is what I did with the attorney general's office," he said. "It is ripe for greater and more exciting use of the office's jurisdiction."
Exciting only to a powermad maniac.
Mr. Spitzer's entry promises to shake a comptroller's contest that, until now, had been viewed as an all-but-certain victory for Scott M. Stringer, the Manhattan borough president who has been embraced by the city's unions and Democratic establishment. Mr. Stringer's campaign released a statement on Sunday night.
"Scott Stringer has a proven record of results and integrity and entered this race to help New York's middle class regain its footing," said the statement, from Sascha Owen, Mr. Stringer's campaign manager. "By contrast, Eliot Spitzer is going to spurn the campaign finance program to try and buy personal redemption with his family fortune. The voters will decide."
I never thought I would find myself supporting Scott Stringer, but if he kills Spitzer's comeback...


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About Us
Cabela's bringing wilderness survival to a console near you.
Sean Cahill
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Cabela's Alaskan Adventure
If you have ever wanted to take on the Arctic Wilderness in person, but have a dreaded fear of hypothermia, then
have the solution for you.
Cabela's Survival: Shadows of Katmai
will be coming this fall to the three major consoles. The game will come with the
Top Shot Elite Controller
, which is supposed to be quite precise, coming with a scope attached to the unit instead of just the standard rifle/shotgun. We've seen games like this before, but usually in just the simple form of deer, elk, bison, and small animal hunting. This game will change things up as you will need to survive and not just go on a standard game hunting trip. I like the change up with the genre, as hunting games can get dull after a short period of time. If survival is at stake, that certainly changes the game.
– Encounter the Arctic's deadliest creatures in an epic struggle for survival in
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coming this fall tothe Xbox 360
video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the PlayStation
3 computer entertainment system and the Wii™ from Nintendo. Packed with the game-changing TOP SHOT ELITE controller, gamers will face non-stop challenges and the ride of a lifetime through the daunting Alaskan wilderness in an effort to complete a mysterious mission.
"Every human shares the purest of instincts: survival," said David Oxford, Activision Publishing. "When those instincts kick in, its equal parts terrifying and exhilarating, and we've combined all those visceral reactions into a brand new 3
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Survival: Shadows of Katmai
the most exciting Cabela's game ever!"
Witness the drama unfold as players take the role of bush pilot Logan James after he survives a horrific plane crash that leaves him in a remote corner of the Alaskan high country. Injured, isolated and in the middle of a hostile wilderness, Logan is cut off from all hope of rescue and it's up to players to guide him to safety in his epic battle against deadly predators and the frigid elements of nature.
With nothing but firearms and gear scavenged along the way, players will trek through a variety of hostile environments that include mountain peaks, icy cliff side trails, dense forests, frozen rivers and huge uncharted caverns. In order to stay alive in such harsh terrain, players will have to keep their wits about them and use all their survival skills. Every step might be their last as avalanches and snowstorms are compounded with dangerous predators that want nothing more than to eat them for dinner. As if that isn't enough to worry about, starvation is an ever looming problem. Survive, evade, and hunt through one of the most remarkable adventures ever to be released under the Cabela's brand.
Cabela's Survival: Shadows of Katmai
will be available on the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment systemand Wii™ from Nintendo on November 1, 2011. The game will be bundled with the innovative TOP SHOT ELITE peripheral on Wii and wireless controller on Xbox 360®and PlayStation®3 and can also be purchased separately. For more information, please follow on Twitter and Facebook - @ActivisionHunts and Facebook.com/ActivisionHunts.
Cabela's Incorporated, headquartered in Sidney, Nebraska, is a leading specialty retailer, and the world's largest direct marketer, of hunting, fishing, camping and related outdoor merchandise. Since the Company's founding in 1961, Cabela'sâ has grown to become one of the most well-known outdoor recreation brands in the world, and has long been recognized as the World's Foremost Outfitterâ. Through Cabela's growing number of retail stores and its well-established direct business, it offers a wide and distinctive selection of high-quality outdoor products at competitive prices while providing superior customer service. Cabela's also issues the Cabela's CLUBâ Visa credit card, which serves as its primary customer loyalty rewards program. Cabela's stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "CAB."
About Activision Publishing, Inc.
Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Activision Publishing, Inc. is a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and leisure products. Activision maintains operations in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Australia, South Korea, China and the region of Taiwan. More information about Activision and its products can be found on the company's website,
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Digital Guitarbook
The Complete Guitar Transcription for Pomegranate Tiger's 2013 album "Entities".
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Print-Ready PDF - 240 pages
It would be hard to find a modern guitar technique which isn't explored and mastered on PT's banger of a first full length album "Entities". We imagine one could spend ages mastering one of these songs, let alone the entire album.
That said, if you have the time - it's all here! Every note from the album transcribed and explained beautifully.
The band's lead guitarist, Martin, really took the time to note both right and left hand fingerings. He also made performance notes and marked the tricky sections with picking techniques.
We are proud to say this book has our highest page count for a reason - it's PACKED with information for guitarists to exploit. All skill levels are welcome. There really is something here for everyone!
This wonderful album has finally been transcribed.
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Hatching Turkey Eggs After They Get Cold
ArticleThursday 09 December 2010
Turkey eggs are not often used in the same ways as chicken eggs due to turkeys only laying approximately 100 eggs per year in comparison to a chicken's 300 eggs. When turkey eggs are laid they are usually hatched but this is not as easy as it might initially seem. Turkeys space out laying eggs which can make it difficult to monitor, incubate and raise the turkeys once they have hatched. It is common for farmers to halt embryonic development by storing the eggs in cold temperatures while they collect a decent batch of eggs. Once they have enough eggs to make it worth while then they will hatch them. This article will teach you more about keeping turkey eggs cool then hatching them in batches.
Turkey Eggs – Hatching
- After storing for approximately a week you should gather the eggs you want to hatch.
- Remember that the hatchability of the turkey eggs will decrease over time.
- If you are cooling eggs then you should keep them at a temperature of around 14 degrees centigrade. If you keep the turkey eggs any cooler than this you will find that they die.
- You should then candle the eggs by holding them up to a bright light and examining the contents through the shell.
- Discard the unusable eggs at this point.
- Use a pencil to draw a large X and O on opposite sides of the egg and place into an incubator. You should make sure that all the eggs are pointing in the same direction to begin with.
- For the first 25 days of incubation you will need to turn the eggs 180 degrees five times a day.
- The temperature should stay around 37.5 degrees centigrade with a humidity level of approximately 55%.
- Once you have reached 26 days you should stop turning the eggs and increase the humidity to 75%. You should also decrease the temperature to 37 degrees centigrade.
- The turkey eggs should begin to hatch at around day 28.


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A Jack Nicklaus signature course…
Northern Bear Golf Club is a Jack Nicklaus Signature Course located in Sherwood Park, Alberta, just 30 minutes from downtown Edmonton. Built on Jack Nicklaus' legendary tradition of designing prestigious and spectacular courses. Northern Bear is Jack's third Canadian Signature daily fee course, preceded by Toronto's Glen Abbey and Whistler's Nicklaus North.
The "Bear" is a perfect blend of tree lined fairways, strategic bunker placements, five lakes and USGA standard greens all designed to offer the ultimate in playability to every golf enthusiast. Despite his stature as a player – Nicklaus designs his courses for players of all skill levels. "Golf is a game of precision not strength" explains Nicklaus. That's why the course offers five sets of tees ranging from 5,800 to 7,400 yards and is designed to entice novices and experts alike.
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I had previously mounted a Tripp-Lite APS 3636VR, 36-volt, 3600-watt modified sine-wave inverter-charger on our E-16 and it worked fine for about 5 years. I was mostly running a Makita UC4030A 120-volt chainsaw to roll out to the fields electrically, saw quietly and without fumes, then haul the load of logs back home again with an attached trailer. But the "cheap" ($755) Chinese inverter finally failed dramatically, melting solder from three pins on three separate power transistors (out of dozens of them). Working on the surface-mount PC board required unsoldering every transistor on the central heat sink, a truly daunting task, just to get to the bad transistors. I contacted Tripp-Lite's "customer service" and they wouldn't sell me a new board, wouldn't sell any parts, wouldn't tell me who would, and, in short, fell greatly short of being of ANY service. I figured there had to be a better way of proceeding that didn't involve buying another $800 Tripp-Lite, another $500 Chinese, modified sine-wave, 5000-watt inverter, or jumping whole-hog into a $1800, 2500-watt, sine-wave, Outback inverter. I decided to try straight 36-volt DC from the batteries.
So I purchased the Greenworks 40-volt, 16-inch electric saw (they briefly ran a sale on it for $115) and battery charger from Amazon and bought a 40-volt Greenworks battery from Northern Tools, saving about $50 from the cost of buying the whole kit from Amazon. I figured that if the connection to the tractor didn't work I'd at least have a usable battery saw. After building a 50-foot power cord from some 10-4 (10 gauge, 4 wires) outdoor cable, and connecting a PTO-compatible jack on one end and a 120-volt, 20-amp, 3-pin, locking jack on the other, I was almost ready to test the concept. Yesterday I built an adapter for the saw that approximates the dimensions and main DC pin spacing of the battery. It plugs into the saw and has a 120-volt, 3-pin, locking receptacle on its face. This morning I tried it out. It works for about 5 seconds, then beeps an error code indicating "abnormal communication" with the battery. So once I figure out what voltage it likes to see on the other two skinny communication pins I may be in business. The saw itself runs great on the battery, which is warranted for 2 years. The saw has a two year warranty and the brushless motor 10 years. I'll post more when I figure out what the saw's power board wants to see on those other two pins. Has anyone else tried the high-speed, Greenworks, 16-inch saw (not the cheap, low-speed 12-inch or the 24-volt models) on their tractor?
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I also wonder what the extra pins are for on battery packs. I suspect there is a temperature sensor or voltage sensor in there somwhere. That could be causing the alarm. Maybe someone else here on the forums have an answer. I have searched other places but have not gotten any answers.
I have a Bosch 36v chainsaw that works awesome. I have a 500w inverter on the tractor that I plug the battery charger into, so I can recharge the battery there. I have two batteries, and can go almost continuously. If I had a 3rd battery and two chargers I'd be all set. Cost is an issue there. I had their 36v push mower with one battery first, and later bought the chainsaw with one battery. Both tools are great. I sold my Elec-Trak chainsaw last year. It worked great and was more powerful than the Bosch saw, but I was concerned with safety issues on the saw (or lack thereof).-1970 (ish) Elec-Trak charged by a 200w solar array 99% of the time, gas free lawn care since 2007
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Yep, gotta love the chain brake, roller nose, automatic oiler, easy tool-less chain adjustment, high chain speed, and lack of vibration, not to mention the light weight. I contacted Greenworks to see if I could pry the pin voltages out of them and reminded them that as big as their 146 Watt-hour battery might be, the 8 kilowatt-hours in the Elec-Trak battery is a bunch bigger. Also told them that getting this conversion to cord working might lead to more sales for their other "40-volt" equipment if we can use it all direct from the tractor.
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Next year, I plan to cut up wood from an orchard to burn in our wood stove. Gas powered chainsaws have a horrible reputation for maintenance. I'm thinking that a commercial grade 16" electric chainsaw in combination with a portable generator may provide me with a light-weight chainsaw that starts every time and requires very little repair time in the shop.
Do you agree that a portable generator and electric chainsaw may be a good combination for this purpose?
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I had thought about using a 2000-watt Honda generator at one time. It's pretty quiet for its size, has "eco-throttle" to cut unnecessary RPMs, and I had thought about using propane and a conversion kit to help cut emissions and lengthen engine life. It penciled out to be better than running a gasoline generator, but not as easy on gas as a properly tuned 2-cycle chainsaw (although much better regarding emissions). The battery chainsaw is far quieter, far less costly, far less complex, and way less polluting than either fuel option, especially since our home (and electric tractor) runs on solar photovoltaic panels to charge everything. The 36-volt inverter on the tractor was pretty slick too, but I wish that Chinese inverters were built better.
I guess we'll see whether their battery's BMS needs to communicate with the saw. No word from Greenworks yet on their battery terminals, although I've taken measurements of all the DC potentials between each of the four on theirs.
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I had posted some time ago that I use a harbor freight inverter[less than 200 bucks] running on two large 6 volts [also a little over 200 bucks] and any 120 volt chainsaw that strikes my fancy, and leaf blower and bug mister and and and. The generic inverters are so cheap I cannot see why I would bother with any other way. Also serves as my counterweight for the snowthrower and mini bucket loader
Wow, that's a lot of accessories! Yeah, cheap Chinese inverters are great, until they aren't. Then they're just more electronic scrap to deal with and more $$ down the drain. And having to charge another set of large batteries, racking them so they don't fall out, dealing with watering more cells, etc. isn't my idea of fun. But if I can't get the info I need from Greenworks on how to make their saw work with the Elec-Trak battery bank, and if I can't make it work on my own, then I may just buy a second lithium battery and use the saw with that, charging it at home, not from the tractor. I don't do spraying, snowblowing sounds good in theory (but not running a battery tractor in really low temps), and how much more than a shovel-load can you scoop with the loader? I've had a Cub Cadet 5254 25 HP gas tractor for the past 8 years with 4WD, wheel weights, ag tires, hydrostatic tranny, differential lock, power steering, a 4-foot, 2-stage snowblower, and a 1000 lb. capacity loader. I'm selling it this spring (after 175 hours) and giving up on blowing a 550-foot driveway or moving loads of driveway gravel. As well as petroleum works, especially in the winter, it's just not the future (at least not mine). Snowshoeing to the car (soon to be an 84 mpg Elio Motors trike, which I'm converting to electric hybrid drive when we get it in about a year) is a heck of a lot cheaper and easier than blowing snow for an hour!
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SNowblower has no problems in the cold, just with it was a 2 stage
the point is I have gotten over 2 full seasons out of a very cheap inverter, and when it dies another one will bolt into its place. It allows any variety of attachments that are cheap to buy and replace. My little loader does what I need and runs on a 12v winch, now wired to my rear battery set so it does not imbalance my 36v pack
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Medicine from Scratch
To enhance turmeric's medicinal wallop, ferment it. In five minutes of your time (plus two days to ferment), you can create a base for a month's supply of tasty and healing fermented turmeric tea.
Best known for its characteristic bright orange-yellow color and as a signature ingredient in curry, turmeric is the small rhizome (root) of a ginger relative. It has a musky aroma and a flavor that is both slightly astringent and bitter. The active ingredient in turmeric, curcumin, quells inflammation, supports digestion, deactivates carcinogens and prevents the release of histamines in the stomach, which counteracts food allergies. Turmeric also has antiseptic, antifungal and antibacterial properties.
Studies show that turmeric isn't always easily absorbed and that people with compromised health aren't able to fully utilize its active ingredients (curcumin and other curcuminoids). So here's the great news: fermenting turmeric makes it easier for you to assimilate its medicinal properties. A study published in the International Journal of Food Science and Technology found that the antioxidant power of turmeric increases when it is fermented. Fermentation not only concentrates the curcuminoids but also mitigates its bitter flavor.
You can ferment either fresh or dried turmeric to make a turmeric concentrate (pictured below) that can be stirred into tea. Dried turmeric, which has been cooked and cured, has a milder flavor and aroma than fresh. (Other ways I enjoy turmeric fresh are shredded and added to sauerkraut, kimchi and beet kvass. Here's a great turmeric-kraut recipe for Masala Kraut from Leda Scheintaub.)
Fresh turmeric is pricy, but a little goes a long way, and it is becoming increasingly available in markets. Look for rhizomes that are crisp and evenly colored; at home, they will hold for several weeks in the refrigerator. When using dried turmeric, purchase organic turmeric from a reputable source, as nonorganic turmeric may be adulterated.
Fermented Turmeric Tea Base
Makes about 2/3 cup (or ½ cup when made with ground turmeric)
4 ounces fresh turmeric or 1/3 cup ground turmeric
2 tablespoons raw honey
2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon lemon zest
1 ounce fresh ginger, grated (optional)
If using fresh turmeric, finely grate it (there's no need to remove its soft skin). Place the fresh or dried turmeric in a pint jar. Add the honey, lemon juice, lemon zest and ginger, if using, and stir. Note: Initially the honey will not easily mix in, but in an hour or so it readily softens and dissolves on its own. Cover and let rest for a few hours. Stir to blend the ingredients and taste just a little to get a sense of its intense, pre-fermented flavor.
Cover loosely and leave on the counter for 48 hours to ferment. When ready, the flavors will be tangy and bitter; the fresh turmeric tea base will also be lively and sprightly. The consistency of the fresh will be like marmalade and the dried will be like peanut butter. Refrigerated, the base will hold for several months.
To make a tea or a tonic from the fresh turmeric base, place a rounded teaspoon into a tea ball or in a strainer and steep for several minutes. If using the base made from dried turmeric, stir a scant teaspoon into hot water or a tea of your choice and drink. By using hot, rather than boiling water, the living enzymes will remain vital.
I also enjoy a dollop of the fresh base straight from the jar; it has a punch and tastes so vital. The odds are you'll find a number of ways to use fermented turmeric such as adding it to a salad dressing or smoothie.
To learn more about the healing powers of turmeric, I recommend Turmeric for Health, a web page dedicated only to the rhizome.
Thanks to my awesome physical therapist, Mary Gorman, for this recipe idea. Mary favors using Meyer lemons in her base.


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1. Oil and the Global Economy
Last week, the oil markets were mixed with NY oil finishing the week up a bit to a close of $103.88 and London closing down a couple of dollars at $118.64. With the Iranian nuclear negotiations underway the level of bellicose rhetoric has dropped considerably. However the Syrian situation, which continues to deteriorate, and the sanctions on Iran's oil exports, which continue to tighten, serve as reminders to the markets that the Middle Eastern situation could get worse before it gets better.
There is growing concern that the US and global economic situation is not looking as good as it did earlier this year. Some believe the unusually warm winter moved some of the spring's usual economic activity ahead giving the impression that the economy was starting to move. Some are opining that $4 gasoline in the US and $9 gasoline in Europe might be slowing things down a bit. Interest rates on European debt are beginning to rise and US employment, home sales, and industrial production numbers are not looking as good.
Warm weather continues to drive down US natural gas prices with new 10-year lows being set last week. As prices continue to trend downwards analysts are expecting to see $1.85 per million BTU's shortly. No end to the warm weather is in sight and it will be a while before air conditioning demand kicks in. Rigs drilling for natural gas climbed by seven last week to 631 after slipping to the lowest level in 10 years from a recent peak of 936 in mid-October. It is likely that the increase in rigs drilling for gas are doing so in liquids-rich areas. The EIA now expects that US gas output for 2012 will reach 69.3 billion cu ft. per day – up 4.5 percent for the year. Rigs drilling for oil reached a 25-year high of 1,337 last week.
NY gasoline futures continue to fall and are now down 25 cents per gallon since early April. Retail prices have not followed as rapidly with the AAA saying that gasoline fell only 4 cents a gallon in the past week and only 2 cents in the past month. Many states are still above or close to $4 a gallon. Some observers are predicting that we have already seen the peak in gasoline prices for the year and that they will continue to fall in the months ahead. According to MasterCard, gasoline consumption the week before last was down 6.8 percent from the same week in 2011.
The Philadelphia refinery situation is still an open question. The larger of the two Sunoco refineries is still scheduled to be closed in July and the reports that Delta Airlines is negotiating for the other are considered ludicrous by most observers. The price jump that comes with the transition to summer gasoline blends is still a few weeks away and sanctions on Iranian oil exports are still tightening. All this suggests that predictions we have seen a peak in gasoline prices may be premature.
Iraq's second single point mooring system went online last week, adding another 450,000 b/d of export capacity. Baghdad hopes to increase exports from Basra from the current 2.15 million b/d to 2.75 million b/d by the end of the year. Another round of bombings occurred in Iraq last week with 35 killed and 100 injured across 10 cities. Most of the attacks were against security installations in Shia areas and were intended to show that the government cannot provide for public safety.
2. The Iranian Confrontation
By recent standards, it was a relatively quiet week in the confrontation. Both sides say that the meeting on April 14th was generally satisfactory with Tehran willing to discuss their nuclear program rather than simply airing a list of grievances. The meetings are scheduled to resume on May 23rd in Baghdad.
The five week delay in the meetings brought forth protests from Israeli Defense Minister Barak that the talks were simply a stalling operation on the part of Tehran and that participating in talks does not exempt Tehran from Israeli attacks on their nuclear facilities. Barak again denied that there is a deal with Washington to not launch attacks as long as Tehran is willing to talk. To back up this threat, Israeli television broadcast a detailed and unprecedented account of Israeli Air Force preparations for strikes on Tehran's nuclear facilities.
In the meantime, preparations for the embargo that is due to start in about two months continue. Many observers are saying that inability to get insurance on shipping to and from Iran may be more effective than direct sanctions on oil exports. Some 90 percent of shipping insurance is written by Western firms, leaving only China, India, Japan, and Tehran itself to offer coverage to foreign ships. Foreign shipping companies, however, say they have no faith in Tehran's willingness to pay claims. The Indian, Chinese, and Japanese governments are considering whether to write insurance on Iranian oil cargoes coming to their countries.
Tehran accused the Saudis of attempting to replace Iran's oil exports by increasing production to more than 10 million b/d. Iran's Oil Minister expressed doubts that the Saudi's will be able to maintain the current rate of production for long. The IEA continues to say officially that the Saudis can increase production to 12 million b/d, but some outside observers have doubts that such a rate can be sustained.
3. The EU's debt crisis
After a month or so out of the headlines, the EU's economic problems are once again moving oil prices. Last week started with Spain's bond yields breaking above 6 percent raising fears that a bailout of Madrid is not far away. Although the bond crisis subsided by week's end, the debate over the euro zone's future continues. Most observers agree that the EU is headed back into another recession that will be amplified by the wave of austerity measures sweeping Europe. With government spending being slashed everywhere, many are wondering just how economic growth will ever be restored to the continent.
The situation currently is being exacerbated by the French Presidential election which seems likely to result in policy changes affecting euro zone bailouts, oil embargoes, Syria, immigration, and other key issues. The role of the European Central Bank continues to be debated. Both French President Sarkozy and his main challenger would like the bank to take the lead in relieving fiscal pressure on hard pressed governments in the manner the US Federal Reserve has been doing. By law the European Bank's job in to contain inflation and not to help stimulate economic growth, however. Few expect that any important changes to the bank's mandate will come soon.
Last week the IMF announced that it had added $430 billion in extra lending capacity to used if the euro zone crisis deteriorates. This money will be added to a $200 billion commitment previously made by the euro zone countries themselves. Oil consumption in EU has been falling for several years and high oil prices and taxes have pushed gasoline into the $8-9 a gallon range putting additional pressures on fragile economies. In two months the EU's oil embargo on Iran will be in force. While governments hope that offsetting oil flows will come from other countries, the situation is far from clear and further deterioration of the EU's financial situation this summer is possible. For the oil markets the concern remains that we could be entering another period of recession or worse.
4. Argentina nationalizes YPF
The nationalization of Spanish oil company Repsol's 51 percent interest in Argentina's largest oil company, YPF, has set off a wave of protest in Europe. The company which used to belong to the Argentine government was sold off in wave of privatization in 1989. Buenos Aires says the company was not reinvesting its profits in Argentina, but was transferring them back to Spain. Repsol, which has demanded $10 billion in compensation, suggests the move really was aimed at getting control of Argentina's recently discovered Vaca Muerta shale gas formation which some say could be the third largest such formation in the world.
After Argentina rejected Repsol's demand for $10 billion in compensation, Spain announced that it would retaliate against what it deems an illegal act. Madrid has already announced that it would stop importing $900 million a year worth of Argentine biofuels and warned there would be other retaliatory measures. In support of Spain, the EU parliament condemned Argentina's move and called on the EU to look at partial suspension of Argentina's tariff preferences.
Repsol had been in negotiations with China's Sinopec to sell its 57 percent share in YPF – a deal which presumably has been killed by the nationalization. Spain recently has been Argentina's top foreign investor with some $23 billion going to the country in 2010. Some analysts are already noting that outright expropriation sets a very bad precedent that will likely stifle foreign investment in the country. Argentina is already involved in a trade war with the UK over ownership of the Falkland Islands and its recently discovered oil.
Quote of the week
"Our massive economic growth over the past 150 years has been closely associated with, and dependent upon, a similar growth in energy use, especially oil. But we're not growing economically much anymore... And all of our economic theories are built on the principle that economies grow. We're entering the second half of the age of oil, a time during which the production of oil can no longer increase year after year. It will eventually decline and it's going to be very different."
- Charles Hall
The Briefs (clips from recent Peak Oil News dailies are indicated by date and item #)
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Doctors using 'law of biology' to forecast patient-specific health events
HOUSTON -- Bioengineers from Rice University and physicians from Emory University are going to test whether a new "law of biology" can predict when a critically ill patient is about to worsen, and more importantly, which treatment is likely to prevent it.
"We want to arm doctors with a forecasting tool," said Rice's Michael Deem, the principal investigator on a new $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). "To forecast the weather, meteorologists use the laws of physics and observed data from the atmosphere. Our idea is similar. We plan to use a law of biology and observed data from a patient -- like an electrocardiogram (EKG) -- to predict what's about to happen to that patient."
The new study stems from research Deem began in 2005 as part of a 20-investigator team funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's FunBio program. The goal of that project was to find fundamental laws of biology -- similar to the physical laws of motion that were discovered by Isaac Newton in the 1600s.
Deem, the John W. Cox Professor of Biochemical and Genetic Engineering and professor of physics and astronomy, found a likely candidate for a biological law of nature in 2007. Like Newton's second law and Einstein's law of relativity, Deem's 2007 law is represented as an equation with just three variables. Written PE=M'/R, Deem's equation describes the relationship between a system's structural complexity, or modularity (M'), and its ability to thrive (R) in the face of environmental stress (PE).
"Modularity is a selected trait because it allows a system -- be it a gene, a cell, an organ or a whole ecosystem -- to adapt to a changing environment," said Deem, an investigator at Rice's BioScience Research Collaborative. "The more modular a system, the greater its ability to withstand environmental stress."
The idea of developing individualized health forecasts -- like those planned for patients in the upcoming NIH study -- arose while Deem and colleagues searched for proof that the new law could explain what was observed in biological systems. They found the equation could explain observations from genomics, microbiology, physiology and ecology. It even explained some patterns of activity in the global trade network.
The evidence for one of their physiological tests was based on a study by critical-care physician Tim Buchman of Emory University's Center for Critical Care. Buchman and colleagues used EKGs to monitor the heart activity of subjects undergoing treadmill stress tests. During the tests, the speed and inclination of the treadmill was increased in increments, with each increase representing a new stress on the subjects' hearts.
Using Deem's mathematical theory, Buchman found a pattern of modularity -- a kind of hidden signal within the EKG data. This pattern showed how the heart was going to react several minutes later.
"The NIH was intrigued by these results," Deem said. "With its support, we are attempting to take this further and come up with a powerful mathematical tool, a piece of software that can provide clinicians with a patient-specific 'forecast.'"
Deem said the approach is feasible, in part, because emergency departments already capture a great deal of data about patients. In some cities, a patient's heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory pattern and other vital signs are relayed in real-time from the ambulance before the patient even arrives at the hospital. Critical-care units collect even more data that could be used to predict a patient's immediate future.
Emory intensive care unit teams focus on providing the "right care, right now, every time," said Buchman. "Today's best critical care aims to mitigate critical illness. With predictive tools based on Michael Deem's biological law, it's our hope to forecast and pre-empt life-threatening events. That's important for patients and their families, but it's also important for our nation since critical care accounts for such a large fraction of the nation's health care expenditure."
Deem said, "This goes beyond making guesses. We'll be looking for clear, mathematically rigorous methods for finding signals that are embedded inside the data that hospitals are already collecting. We want to provide the patient-specific information that critical-care physicians need to optimize treatment outcomes for individual patients."
Photo: Michael Deem. Photo credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University.
Located on a 300-acre forested campus in Houston, Rice University is consistently ranked among the nation's top 20 universities by U.S. News & World Report. Rice has highly respected schools of Architecture, Business, Continuing Studies, Engineering, Humanities, Music, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences and is known for its "unconventional wisdom." With 3,485 undergraduates and 2,275 graduate students, Rice's undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio is less than 6-to-1. Its residential college system builds close-knit communities and lifelong friendships, just one reason why Rice has been ranked No. 1 for best quality of life multiple times by the Princeton Review and No. 4 for "best value" among private universities by Kiplinger's Personal Finance. To read "What they're saying about Rice," go to http://futureowls.rice.edu/images/futureowls/Rice_Brag_Sheet.pdf.


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Emma's bandages are off, staples and stitches are out, and she's sporting her new socks from Sox For Horses! These socks are a great alternative to bandaging and they're easy to use and maintain!
I have no feeling or sensation in my hands so leg wraps/bandages are difficult for me to put on the horses. I don't have to stress anymore! Silver Whinny's are easy to put on and take off! They are a breathing antimicrobial knit that allow airs in, permits free motion of the joint, and inhibits the growth of bacteria, fungi and mold – they create a great environment for wounds to heal! They protect the legs from flies and you can even bathe your horse while they're wearing these incredible socks.
Many thanks to Sox for Horses for helping Emma! This isn't the first time we've used this amazing product (Silver Whinny's) and it won't be the last! Learn more about them at this link – your horse will thank you! http://www.soxforhorses.com/faq_summerwhinnys.html
Emma totally enjoyed a brief walk outside today. It helped her mental state of mind, I'm sure.
We had to call Dr. Lugo today as Emma experienced a choke. Thankfully, it was cleared. Dr. Porter will be out on Tuesday to examine and likely scope her. The issue could be due to facial nerve paralysis as per the following quote from Dr. Lugo: "The facial nerve might get better with time but it is unknown. I removed a bullet fragment close to the nerve in the hope that it will help. The nerve paralysis is secondary to damage done to the nerve by the bullet."
We are very appreciative of Deputy Wells' (Levy County Sheriff's Office) support in Emma's case. He checked on her again today. It's encouraging to have someone at LCSO assigned to AG cases who cares about the animals and is committed to doing a good job. We want to raise awareness in the community – if you see or experience an animal in distress, call on Deputy Wells and he will respond! If anyone has a minute – please visit the LCSO's page, look for Emma's picture, and leave a "Thank you" comment regarding Emma.
Emma was really good for Dr. Porter (PHD Veterinary Services) today. He came out to determine why she was coughing. She'd been treated for a mild choke a few days before. Learn more about Dr. Porter and his services at his website.
Dr. Porter ultra-sounded Emma's lungs – she has pneumonia. She also has facial nerve paralysis (caused by the bullet) causing upward displacement of the soft palate. He said the paralysis may resolve – to give it six months.
Emma still has moments when she's reactive when someone approaches her or she hears a loud sound – almost in a panic. But once she has a moment or two to process what is going on, she calms. However, I ask humans that go into her stall to visit with her to go slow and, if Emma retreats or turns her head away, to stop and let Emma give thought to the moment – she will come around in a minute or so. It saddens me to think about what happened to her and how she must have felt – it had to have been terrifying. It's very sad that any human would hurt any animal.
Hopefully, Emma will overcome her reservations and her unpleasant memories will fade. She is certainly loved, very much. It's easy for this little filly to grow on you. She makes me laugh when she nuzzles up to my cheek or wraps her neck around me as if to give a hug. We are holding our annual Celebration of Life in April in conjunction with the ASPCA Help a Horse Day – we invite you to come meet Emma and the other members of our beautiful herd!
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The late free improvising Japanese guiatarist Takayanagi Masayuki's free jazz trio with an Albert Ayler intent, formed in 1982 with Nobuyoshi Ino on bass and Hiroshi Yamazaki on drums, a pre-cursor to Takayanaki's Action Direct.
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"ANGRY WAVES" is Takayanagi Masayuki's free jazz trio, formed in December, 1982 with Nobuyoshi Ino(bass) and Hiroshi Yamazaki(drums). The trio disslove in December, 1985 as in transition to Takayanagi's new solo musical performance called "Action Direct", kind of noise music. Only one vinyl was recorded and released independently as "ANGRY WAVES" called "850113" - in after years re-released as CD by Aketa's Disk. The new two discs ( ANGRY WAVES vol.1 and vol.2 ) are both unpublished materials, taken and mastered from Takayanagi's private stereo cassette tapes. So Takayanagi's music lover must view those performance as very valuable. Takayanagi's musical conception at "ANGRY WAVES" was an analysis of Albert Ayler music form. You probably understand Takayanagi's conception when you listen those CDs!"-Jinya DiscSee also Volume 2.
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Christians have always used prayers to aid in recovery from sickness, both mental and physical, using healing prayers. Jesus showed compassion by healing diseases, including leprosy, a withered hand, and internal bleeding. Jesus repeatedly emphasized the importance of having faith for healing. While everyone will die some day, and there is no guarantee of physical healing with prayer, Christians understand the value of petitioning God for recovery from illness.
Prayer to Jesus For Healing
O Jesus,
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I waited patiently for the Lord;
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After spending several months trying to hide their relationship from the press, it seems that all Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber want to do nowadays is show how madly in love they are in public.
The young power couple was spotted holding hands and making out at the Vanity Fair Oscars party at the Sunset Tower Hotel on Sunday night. It was their first red carpet appearance together.
And on Saturday night, Selena and Bieb's reportedly stayed at a penthouse suite in the posh five-star resort, St. Regis Monarch Beach in Dana Point, California. A source told UsMagazine.com that the young couple were "affectionate, cuddling and holding hands," while strolling on a beach. That sounds like them!


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Chattacon is a volunteer-run event and couldn't exist without countless hours of work from its dedicated fans. That's true from the Executive Board and Department Heads to the at-con volunteers.
Volunteers are the back bone of this whole convention. Without volunteers there would not be anyone to give you a badge when you arrive, there would be no one to help you find out what room the programming panel is in and there would be no one to help serve the delicious food that is in the Consuite. And that is only a few examples of what volunteers do at Chattacon.
There are ways to help out for all interests and ability levels! We're also always looking for convention committee (ConCom) members to staff departments for the convention year-round.
If you have any questions or would like to volunteer in any area of the convention, please contact the Volunteer department.


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Whats your daily schedule?
What is your schedule like?
6:00 - 6:30: Wake up, Drink Coffee, Get kids up.
6:30 - 7:15 Get them dressed. Take kids to school (we like 25 minutes from the school)
8:00 - 12:00 Do whatever i want (no kids)
12:00 - 1:00 Spend time with fiance (lunch break)
1:00 - 3:00 Do whatever i want (no kids)
3:00 Get Daughter off bus, and help her with homework
4:00 Get Sons off bus, Help them with homework
5:00 - 5:30 Help kids with their rooms
5:30 Make dinner
6:00 Dinner time
6:30 Kids baths
7:00 - 9:00 Kids free time
9:00 Bed time for kiddos - I strighten up
12:00 Bed time for me! :)
I know its kind of a wierd schedule but I like it, how do yall do things at your house?
This is a typical stay-at-home weekday for us. This is all fairly fluid and changes daily, but a pretty good representation of what goes on.
- Wake up whenever the first child does, usually between 6am and 7am.
- Make breakfast for the kids. Drink coffee. Check internet things.
- Start laundry. Make sure the kids are dressed, have brushed their teeth, and done their morning jobs.
- Have a shower. Housework.
- 9am-12pm - Homeschool the 5 kids.
- 12pm Make lunch for the kids. Laundry. Housework.
- 1pm-3:30pm - Homeschool the 5 kids.
- 3:30pm Housework. Laundry. Study. Make dinner.
- 6pm Dinner. Get the kids through the shower and help with their evening jobs. Chill out together.
- 7:45pm Kids bed-time routine. Tidy kitchen.
- 8:30pm Relax with partner, usually watching something together.
- 1am Sleep.
6:45: get dh up, make bed and gather a load of wash
7am: make breakfast, iron kids clothes feed kids
8:30 take kids to school
9 -12: clean, run errands if need be
12:30-1 get a start on dinner
1-2:45- fiddle on the computer
3: get kids, help with homework
4:30- dinner
5:30- clean up kitchen, board game with kids and dh
7: snack and baths
8: kids bedtime and clean up a bit more
11 my bedtime lol
alarm goes off at 630. get kids up, give 3 girls baths and fix their hair while 2 boys get dressed. the boys walk the dogs in the morning. 4 oldest get on the bus at 810 so from 630 till 810 I'm trying to get everyone ready and make sure everything is done that needs to be done before school.
810 i start laundry and unload dishwasher while my 5 year old gets herself some cereal and fruit.
Sometimes I lay back down for an hour and let her watch tv. Sometimes I print her out some worksheets (she honestly loves them, makes her feel big!)
5 year old goes to school at 1215, until then we might go grocery shopping, she colors, she helps with laundry, I clean, we walk the dogs for a while...
MY time from 1230 till 330 when the 4 oldest get home. I work on laundry (7 people in the home full time and 2 more kids part time, I feel like all I ever do is laundry), I might do a couple miles on the treadmill, sometimes I pick my nephew up for my sister (her husband works, they only have 1 car, and she has 5 babies and toddlers at home!) at 240.
330 is when the real craziness begins. My 4 oldest get home. Girls walk dogs. Kids put their laundry away, have a small snack, and work on homework while I cook and help with homework in between dinner tasks.
SO gets up at 4 (he works 3rd shift and sleeps about 830am till 4)
5 year old gets home about 415.
Kids play outside or upstairs until dinner is ready, usually about 530
dinner clean up, everyone has jobs to do to help clean up
boys get baths at 630, I help everyone brush teeth and lotion my eczema riddled child, and kids go to bed at 7/715.
I try to make myself do at least a mile on the treadmill every night, sometimes I do 2, sometimes I can't make myself do it at all! (trying to lose weight!), I finally get a shower
SO and I watch TV or a movie together until 9 when he gets ready for work and leaves at 945
I head to bed about 10 and go to sleep around midnight if I'm lucky, I have horrible insomnia.
7:00am: get up with ds. Change, get milk, feed the dog and make coffee.
7:45am: get dd up and dressed for preschool then make breakfast.
8:45: take dd to school (15min drive)
9:00-11:15- activity/alone time with ds. We go to library, or a kids cafe, maybe run a couple errands.. Stuff like that
11:30: pick dd up
12:00 make lunch
12:00-1:30ish, lunch, t.v. Time for kids and clean up time for me.
2-4:30 : play, errands if needed. Playdates with cousins who live close by.
4:30-6: quiet time for kids, clean and dinner prep for me
6:30- dh comes home and we have dinner
7:30- dh gives bathes while i clean up dinner, laundry and prep for next day.
8:30 - bed time for kids
9:30- dh goes to bed and i have my own quiet time to do whatever after i make sure everything is cleaned up.
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Two tanks of gas, 20,000 calories and countless wet wipes – all in the name of getting to the meat of the matter.
By LAURA REILEY, Times Food Critic
Published June 28, 2007
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Kojak's House of Ribs
2808 Gandy Blvd., Tampa
(813) 837-3774; www.kojaksbbq.com
Hours: 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Tuesday to Thursday; until 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday; noon to 9 p.m. Sunday
Details: Amex, V, MC; reservations for six or more; beer and wine
Prices: $5.25-$19.50
Eli's Bar-B-Que
360 Skinner Blvd., Dunedin
(727) 738-4856
Hours: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday
Details: No credit; no reservations; no liquor
Prices: $4.25-$20
The Butlers Barbecue
1100 94th Ave. N, St Petersburg
(727) 577-3294
Hours: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday to Thursday and Saturday; until 9 p.m. Friday; noon to 7 p.m. Sunday
Details: Amex, V, MC; reservations not necessary; beer and wine
Prices: $6.95-$13.95
Alan's N.C. Bar-B-Que
7305 State Road 54, New Port Richey
(727) 376-4408; www.alansncbbq.com
Hours: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday to Thursday; until 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday; noon to 8 p.m. Sunday
Details: Amex, V, MC; no reservations; no liquor
Prices: $5.99-$14.99
Boo's BBQ
13855 W Hillsborough Ave., Tampa
(813) 854-3999
Hours: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday to Saturday; noon to 8 p.m. Sunday
Details: Amex, V, MC; no reservations; no liquor
Prices: $4.99-$15.99
Big Tim's
530 34th St. S, St. Petersburg
(727) 327-7388
Hours: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday to Thursday; until 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday
Details: No credit; no reservations; no liquor
Prices: $5.90-$19.99
Jimbo's Pit Bar-B-Q
4103 W Kennedy Blvd., Tampa
(813) 289-9724; www.jimbospitbarbq.com
Hours: 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday to Saturday; 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday
Details: Amex, V, MC; no reservations; beer only
Prices: $5.25-$19.50
First Choice Southern Barbecue
10113 Adamo Drive, Brandon
(813) 621-7434; www.firstchoicebbq.com
Hours: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday
Details: Amex, MC, V; no reservations; no liquor
Prices: $5.25-$18.95
Brisket Basket
2500 Fifth Ave. N, St. Petersburg
(727) 327-9712
Hours: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday to Friday; 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday
Details: V, MC; no reservations; no liquor
Prices: $5.95-$6.95
Shane's Rib Shack
17501 Preserve Walk Lane, New Tampa, (813) 971-3153; 2081 Collier Parkway, Land O'Lakes, (813) 949-6790; and 6022 Winthrop Town Centre, Riverview, (813) 661-6500; www.shanesribshack.com.
Hours: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday to Saturday; until 9 p.m. Sunday
Details: Amex, V, MC; no reservations; beer only
Prices: $5.49-$17.99
"Barbecuing is primarily a North American phenomenon, but it's also found in Mexico and the Caribbean. It refers to a specific cooking technique that's slow, indirect and heavy on wood smoke."- Barbecue! Bible, by Steven Raichlen
"Barbecuing is primarily a North American phenomenon, but it's also found in Mexico and the Caribbean. It refers to a specific cooking technique that's slow, indirect and heavy on wood smoke."
- Barbecue! Bible, by Steven Raichlen
I always thought that, technically speaking, there were only four schools of American barbecue. Sure, there are splinter groups, regional anomalies and isolated barbecue malcontents, but I figured it really came down to this: Texas-style barbecue is brisket and beef ribs shellacked with a sweet, sticky, tomatoey sauce; 'cue from the Carolinas means pork smoked and then bathed in a more vinegary, sometimes even mustardy sauce; Memphis is all about pork ribs, mostly served "wet"; and then there's Kansas City, more of a melting pot, sauce sweet and thick, where they talk about barbecue in terms of cuts "snoots, " "brownies, " "short ends, " "long ends".
Ah, how naive I once was.
Just in North Carolina, east side means vinegar, where west side gets the sweeter, more tomatoey sauce.
People in rural west Tennessee swear "big city" Memphis barbecue pales compared to their pulled pork shoulder. Then there's soul food barbecue that knows no geographical boundaries, usually marinated pork, smoked and generously ladled with soupy and somewhat incendiary brownish sauce.
And what about North Alabama?
In the name of education - and dinner - I scoured the Tampa Bay area in search of good barbecue. What follows may not be a definitive "best of" list, but it's a "pretty darn good" list, reflecting geographical diversity and a range of barbecue styles.
"I love barbecue in all its incarnations. I can find enjoyment in any sauce, any style and just about any barbecue meal I can find. The diversity and uniqueness of each style aren't really that different. Kind of like a Ford and a Chevy - the difference makes for good conversation, but they both seem to be pretty good."- Dr. BBQ's Big-Time Barbecue Cookbook, by Ray Lampe
"I love barbecue in all its incarnations. I can find enjoyment in any sauce, any style and just about any barbecue meal I can find. The diversity and uniqueness of each style aren't really that different. Kind of like a Ford and a Chevy - the difference makes for good conversation, but they both seem to be pretty good."
- Dr. BBQ's Big-Time Barbecue Cookbook, by Ray Lampe
Note: This is the first in an occasional series by Laura Reiley highlighting 10 spots that have something in common. Next, coming in August, 10 spots on the Gulf of Mexico.
Kojak's House of Ribs, Tampa
The third generation of the Forney family oversees the proceedings in the white house with the barbecue sauce-colored trim, its wide front porch and knotty pine dining room as comfy as a '70s rec room. Indeed, it has been around since 1978 with its all-natural pork spareribs ($10.50 dinner), dry-rubbed overnight, smoked for two to three hours, then served in the buff. They don't need embellishment, but there's a hot barbecue sauce (red bottle) and a mild sauce (clear bottle) on the table.
Chicken ($8.25 half ) gets the same treatment; results are moist, flavorful, with thin burnished skin you'll have a hard time passing up.
The rib recipe hails from Midwest City, Okla., but the sausage links are straight out of South Georgia ($5.25 sandwich) - smoky, flecked with crushed red pepper and bouncy as a SuperBall.
Kojak's also gets top honors for its coleslaw and potato salad (both $1.50 a la carte), mayo-intensive, mustard-tinged for the taters. Pace yourself, because the chocolate cake ($3.50 a la mode) brings a square of sweet nostalgia struggling under the weight of molten fudge and a softly melting ball of vanilla ice cream.
"(Barbecue) is simply the most delectable of all traditional American foods. It is the gaudiest jewel in the crown of the American South, where most of the finest traditional American cooking originated."- Peace, Love and Barbecue, by Mike Mills and Amy Mills Tunnicliffe
"(Barbecue) is simply the most delectable of all traditional American foods. It is the gaudiest jewel in the crown of the American South, where most of the finest traditional American cooking originated."
- Peace, Love and Barbecue, by Mike Mills and Amy Mills Tunnicliffe
Eli's Bar-B-Que, Dunedin
Elijah Crawford is a local legend. Hailing from Valdosta, the epicenter of Georgia barbecue country, he only gives a couple days a week to his passion, which may account for a bit of the fervor - it's perceived scarcity coupled with excellent barbecue. Sometimes he runs out.
The small dirt parking lot alongside the Pinellas Trail is crowded. A line forms in front of the little concrete shack (a repurposed ice cream stand); the smoker rig is out back.
Choose from full and half racks of pork ribs ($11 half, $22 whole), pulled pork ($4.25 sandwich), boneless chuck ($12 a pound, a little like brisket), sausages (spicy pork made by Eli and the first to sell out at $8 a pound) and chicken, with a supporting cast of simple baked beans, coleslaw and corn bread.
You can eat at a picnic table, but Eli's wares travel well: Ribs come unsauced, offered with a mild (nice balance, not too sweet) or spicy sauce (noticeable heat, but not enough to cause injury). Meat is heavy on smoke, ineffably tender and juicy. It's a crime against humanity if you eschew the heavenly skin on the chicken.
"Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue."- Carmen Electra
"Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue."
- Carmen Electra
The Butlers Barbecue, St. Petersburg
Butlers is nothing if not specific. This is barbecue from eastern North Carolina, along U.S. 301 and I-95. The results are indisputably delicious: pork roasted over an open grill, chopped and then settled into a tangy bath of vinegar and red pepper sauce. You can add more vinegar or a dollop from the tabletop squirt bottle of sauce, but the balance of acidity, smokiness and spice is already nigh perfect. The dinner ($7.95) comes with a quartet of crunchy hush puppies and a choice of two sides, the top honors going to pork-smoky collards and little lengths of battered and fried okra.
Order at the counter for lunch (at dinnertime it's sit-down), but be sure to linger for a handful of sweet-hot pickle discs that prep the palate for good things to come.
A few years back, Butlers added a seafood menu, heavy on the fried catfish ($6.95 sandwich, $8.95 dinner) and steamed oysters and clams ($5.95-$13.95), but don't be deterred in your barbecue focus: The ribs and chicken are also good, and the last Thursday of each month brings the all-you-can-eat pig pickin'.
Alan's N.C. Bar-B-Que, New Port Richey
There may be more tenured, mind-boggling barbecue elsewhere in these parts (the nearby Hungry Harry's Bar-b-que in Land O'Lakes has fierce devotees), but Alan's has hush puppies of splendor. The archetypal pups ($1.99 a dozen) are greaseless, crisp, fluffy on the inside, with the sweet taste of cornmeal. They won't sit in your gut like lead shot if you overindulge, which you will.
Alan's is a newcomer, only six months old, in a strip mall next to a Dollar General. Lots of windows and a spotlessly clean interior make it comfortable to eat in, but most folks seem to do takeout. The best bet is the pulled pork ($5.99 for a small platter), straight-up North Carolina-style, gussied up with a sauce that's mostly boiled cider vinegar with crushed red pepper and brown sugar.
House ribs ($7.99 platter) are unadorned, no dry rub, no sauce, no smoker: They get an Italian dressing marinade. The huge pork spareribs are gas-grilled slowly, then slow-roasted. A little fatty, they get a squirt of hickory smoke sauce (it tasted commercial); opt for the tasty baked beans over the limp corn on the cob. Owner Alan Ginn also cooks whole hogs; call to find out when.
Boo's BBQ, Tampa
Practically in Oldsmar, Boo's sits in the shadow of a Lowe's. Order at the counter, eat in (only if you're in the mood for a little loud Dark Side of the Moon or More Than a Feeling) or do takeout. Fat spareribs ($7.49) are seriously caked with a spicy/salty dry rub, with a tabletop squeeze bottle of straightforward, sweet, tomatoey sauce (for chipotle sauce, North Carolina mustard, vinegar or Buffalo, you've got to ask).
They say it's North Carolina-style, but I'm not so convinced. It's kind of its own invention. There's no smoke, and the baby backs ($8.99) are a little more tender and less fatty than the spareribs.
Get this: barbecued tofu ($5.99).
Of the side dishes, Boo's gets points for its stewed green beans and tomatoes, and for its blue cheesy coleslaw (both $1.49 for a small). A little lighter on the dressing and the coleslaw would be world class. Pair it all up with buttered Texas toast, and owner Trey Taylor has a good thing going on.
Big Tim's, St. Petersburg
Big John's Alabama BBQ in Tampa and Big Tim's in St. Petersburg are the contenders for top Alabama 'cue. I hear Big Tim's a tough guy and that Big John was a preacher, but intimidation has nothing to do with why Big Tim's gets the nod from me. First, there's its decades-old reputation for bringing together people of all races over plates of ribs.
Second, there's the sauce. A little hotter than Big John's, it's got that not-too-sweet, slightly peppery, a little bit vinegary balance that Alabama barbecue is known for. The orangy sauce is haphazardly brushed on smoky spareribs ($11.75 half, $19.99 whole slab) - it's a strategy, not laziness. A crisp "naked" bite contrasts with a saucy, spicy bite. Gorgeous.
I could do without the deep-fried corn on the cob brushed with butter (a textural oddity), but the tomatoey baked beans ($1.50) and fried okra ($1.50) make agreeable sides; finish with an individual sweet potato pie ($2.68).
A few plastic-wrapped tables accommodate diners, but takeout seems to reign supreme here.
Jimbo's Pit Bar-B-Q, Tampa
The M.O. at this tin-roofed old standby is serious smoke. St. Louis-style pork spareribs ($8.35 for third of a slab) get a dry rub before they spend up to eight hours in the oak smoker. The sauce is tomato-based (that's the Tennessee part) with a little vinegar kick (Carolina) and not a lot of heat. Tasty, a little tooth-resistant, with that interior pink that smoke imparts.
The sliced pork butt ($3.75 small sandwich) gets the same styling, a pile of pale slices mounded on a serviceable bun to which you can add a big ladle of warm sauce. Sides didn't knock my socks off, but the baked beans ($1.60) at least made one sock bunch up in my shoe: Great northern beans are simmered for hours and come in a balanced sauce of molasses, mustard, Worcestershire, soy, ketchup, tomato paste and some other stuff. Very nice flavor; the award-winning hush puppies ($1 for six), however, might be used for ballast in a submarine.
Jimbo's has a drive-through, which makes takeout easy.
First Choice Southern Barbecue, Brandon
For some reason, Brandon is impressive barbecue country. There's the very laudable Down to the Bone (110 S Kings Ave., (813) 653-9903) that slings its alluring aromas for blocks. But still, the top dog in the area is First Choice, putting spring in people's step even when there's a line out the door. Maybe it's the curls of fragrant smoke, or the rat-tat-tat of the meat being chopped inside.
They're not real specific about the provenance of the recipe. When pressed, Florida barbecue sums it up just fine: no dry rub, a lot of smoky flavor and a sauce that is ketchup-based with a kick of vinegar. Ribs ($5.25 quarter slab) are tender, deeply smoky and delicious eaten sauced or au naturel. The novelty item, smoked turkey ($5.25 sandwich), comes pale pink and moist.
Spicy macaroni salad has proponents, but the fries (crisp, skin on, fresh cut) are hard to overlook in favor of the chili powder-tinged macaroni/mayo melange.
Brisket Basket, St. Petersburg
Owner Linda Bernard says the tradition of slow-roasted beef brisket isn't just from Texas, but hails from all over. So, fine. Maybe we should call this "freestyle."
Brisket Basket is a newcomer, opened in May at the site of the old Triplett's drive-in across from St. Petersburg High. It's where brisket takes center stage in the barbecue drama. There are no ribs.
To get a quick tour, opt for the triple slider basket ($6.95), in which a ground brisket burger, carved brisket and a barbecue-sauced "sloppy" chopped brisket are tucked onto pillowy rolls with a dab of gorgeous chipotle mayo. The meat is cooked all night, with smoky sweet and smoky hot paprika the central spice note of its dry rub. Defatted while the brisket is still hot, it doesn't have that uber-fatty texture that turns some folks off to brisket.
BB is blessed, or cursed, with side dishes that threaten to steal the brisket's thunder. Potatoes are hand-cut, washed, blanched quickly, then fried in clean oil. The results? Mind-blowing fries ($2.99). The tangy hot German potato salad ($2.99) is nearly as good, bacony and with balsamic vinegar; and the green chili hominy ($1.99) will win people over to the textural challenges of baked, dried field corn kernels with its combination of mild chilies, sour cream and sharp cheddar.
You order inside and await your food at one of a handful of picnic tables under the overhang.
Shane's Rib Shack, New Tampa, Land O'Lakes and Riverview
The obvious choice would be Sonny's Real Pit Bar-B-Q, the biggest barbecue chain in the country, dating to the first store in Gainesville opened in 1968 with its St. Louis-style ribs and fixings.
But who wants to be obvious?
Shane's is giving Sonny's a run for its money, with franchises popping up all over the country. A concept of Raving Brands, which also has Moe's, Planet Smoothie and Boneheads, Shane's has outposts in New Tampa, Land O'Lakes and Riverview. The vibe is a corporate reconception of the Southern screened-in porch. The dining room is pleasant, but there seems to be a brisker takeout business.
Fat, buttered Texas toast provides the medium for most sandwiches, but the best offering is the smothered pork sandwich ($5.69): chopped barbecue pork deluged with a scoop of crunchy slaw, served on a burgerlike bun. Good, because the pork itself needs a little more oomph to it.
Baby back ribs look good, glazed with a nice sheen of fairly sweet sauce, and they're meaty and tender, but the flavor of the meat itself was timid. The biggest up-side of Shane's: Portions are mondo.
"Barbecue is a guy thing, a throwback to the spit-roasted woolly mammoth perhaps. It tends to be written about today (and debated in endless detail) like a sporting event, which in fact it has become: thousands of tiny local competitions are rapidly giving way to several major barbecue leagues, with their own playoffs, World Series - and six-figure purses."- Molly O'Neill in American Food Writing
"Barbecue is a guy thing, a throwback to the spit-roasted woolly mammoth perhaps. It tends to be written about today (and debated in endless detail) like a sporting event, which in fact it has become: thousands of tiny local competitions are rapidly giving way to several major barbecue leagues, with their own playoffs, World Series - and six-figure purses."
- Molly O'Neill in American Food Writing
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What I learned:
1. Though regional barbecue styles have staunch devotees, there's little consensus on their defining features.
2. Because there is little consensus and passions run hot on the subject of ribs, an unspecified but impressive number of readers will have a bone to pick with me.
3. Dental floss can be a business expense.
Laura Reiley dines anonymously and unannounced. The St. Petersburg Times pays all expenses. A restaurant's advertising has nothing to do with selection for review or the assessment. Reiley can be reached at (727) 892-2293 or email@example.com
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What is PCOS or Polycystic Ovary Syndrome?
PCOS is also known as "Stein-Leventhal Syndrome". It is an endocrine disorder characterized by increased androgens, ovulatory dysfunction and polycystic ovaries. In patients with PCOS there is an increased risk of insulin resistance, diabetes, lipid abnormalities, obstructive sleep apnea, cardiovascular disease and endometrial carcinoma1.
Who gets it?
PCOS is the most common endocrine abnormality in this population, producing symptoms in 5%- 10% of women of reproductive age and 3. Symptoms can consist of menstrual irregularities, excess body hair on chin, upper lip, nipples and lower abdomen, acne, weight gain and sleep apnea4. In most cases, patients have no symptoms, however PCOS is the most common cause of decreased fertility2.
What happens if I have it?
While the course is typically benign, getting pregnant may be problematic (usually fertility must be drug induced). Miscarriage rates are higher among women with PCOS. Pregnant women with PCOS experience a higher incidence of perinatal morbidity from gestational diabetes, pregnancy induced hypertension and preeclampsia. Babies of women with PCOS are at an increased risk of neonatal complications like preterm birth and admission to intensive care unit 2.
How do we diagnose it?
1. The Rotterdam criteria – presence of 2 of the following: androgen excess, ovulatory dysfunction and polycystic ovaries. In adolescents with PCOS androgen excess is central to the presentation while postmenopausal women do not have the consistent PCOS presentation 4. 2. Pelvic ultrasound can confirm the presence of cystic ovaries
Will I need to be tested?
To make sure we know if you have PCOS or not, we will run some lab tests. The tests that are ordered depend on each person's individual case. Here is a complete of what could be ordered: 1. Hormone panel- FSH, LH, total testosterone, DHEA + cortisol 2. Thyroid panel- r/o thyroid disorder 3. Serum prolactin- r/o hyperprolactinemia 4. Pregnancy test- r/o pregnancy in women with oligo or amenorrhea 5. Fasting insulin and glucose, HgA1c
How is PCOS conventionally treated?
First line treatment includes weight loss, increased exercise and diet change to reduce the risk of diabetes. It has been shown to work better than treatment with pharmaceuticals. Drug treatment consists of inducing regular menses by lowering androgens and increasing sex-hormone binding globulin using low-dose estrogen birth control pills and Metformin to improve insulin sensitivity. Low dose prednisone or dexamethasone is used in patients with concomitant adrenal hyperandrogenism4.
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4) Foods high in omega 3 and 6 fatty acids: vegetable, nut and seed oils
5) Drink lemon juice in water first thing in the morning- to promote good gall bladder and liver function necessary to remove excess hormones
6) Avoid estrogenic foods: animal products, apples, cherries, clover, olives, plums, yam, nightshade family, peanuts, soy products, rice, barley, oats, and wheat. For a full list visit the University of Minnesota's website: http://enhs.umn.edu/current/5200/estrogen/estrofood.html
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1. University of Chicago Medicine http://www.uchospitals.edu/specialties/pcos/pcos.html
2. Boomsma CM, Fauser BC, Macklon NS (2008). "Pregnancy complications in women with polycystic ovary syndrome". Semin. Reprod. Med. 26 (1): 72–84
3. Azziz R, Woods KS, Reyna R, Key TJ, Knochenhauer ES, Yildiz BO (June 2004). "The Prevalence and Features of the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in an Unselected Population". Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 89 (6): 2745–9. doi:10.1210/jc.2003-032046. PMID 15181052
4. Emedicine: PCOS http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/256806-overview#a0101
5. Portfolio diet- http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/portfolio-beats-low-fat-diet-for-lowering-cholesterol-201108263248


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I'm using kernel26archck 2.6.15.archck7-3, ati-fglrx-archck 8.22.5-2, and xorg 11R7.0-1.
When I start X and use any window manager, the machine hangs and acts weirdly. I try to maximize a terminal window, the machine freezes. It seems as though if I dhcp first I can ssh into the machine remotely, but if I kill X the machine hangs.
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