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A Storm Too Soon
A True Story
of Disaster, Survival,
and an Incredible Rescue
by Michael J. Tougias
In May 2007, three men lay on a wildly thrashing overturned life raft in the middle of the Gulf Stream, ensnared in a massive storm, holding on for dear life.
Rudy Snel, 62, tries to estimate the height of the encompassing waves, and never gets a figure below 70 feet. One member of their party, 57-year-old boat captain Jean Pierre de Lutz, is curled in a fetal position, his lips blue, his grip on reality tenuous at best. He has already suffered several broken ribs and is approaching hypothermia.
Suddenly, a tremendous wave sends the raft hurling through the air. Snel and 31-year-old Ben Tye manage, in the turbulence of the wind and water, to crawl back atop it, dragging de Lutz with them. The men continue to marvel at the churn of the exploding sea as they conclude that, even if authorities did receive one of their several seemingly doomed attempts at signaling for help, no helicopter could possibly make it through the whirlwind to save them.
In their minds, there is only one possible end to this adventure. "I've had a good run," Snel thinks. "I'll just have to accept that this is it."
The riveting, meticulously researched "A Storm Too Soon" tells the true-life tale of a rescue that shouldn't have been, as the three men aboard de Lutz's boat, the Sean Seamour II, faced conditions that should have left them dead.
The initial plan called for the sailors, who met when Snel and Tye answered de Lutz's online ad for crew members for a transatlantic voyage, to travel from "Florida to the Azores, then on to Gibraltar and Saint-Tropez."
The three had varying degrees of experience: De Lutz had been sailing since his teens, while Snel, a recently retired schoolteacher, was fulfilling a lifelong dream by undertaking a sail of this magnitude.
De Lutz chose May for the trip in order to avoid hurricane season, which traditionally begins in June. Departure was scheduled for May 1, but was delayed by one day due to a wait for extra batteries. "This one-day delay," Tougias writes, "will have significant consequences."
The trio took off on May 2, and at the beginning it seemed like a voyage of dreams for three men so deeply in love with the sea.
"Just before midnight, with a half-moon illuminating the water, Rudy has his first thrill of the trip," Tougias writes. Snel is "startled" by a splashing dolphin and soon sees "perhaps 20 dolphins swimming along either side of Sean Seamour II."
A few days later, though, there are suddenly reasons to worry. The night of May 5, de Lutz sees several low-pressure systems approaching and decides to change course farther east to get the boat out of the Gulf Stream. They are about 240 miles off Cape Hatteras, NC, and 400 miles from Bermuda.
By midday on the 6th, those systems gain strength as another system encroaches on them. The three notice "wispy, yellow-brown clouds off to the north," and Snel comments, "I don't think I've ever seen clouds that color. They're so menacing."
Later that day, the sky turns suddenly and ominously dark as winds approach 45 knots (around 52 miles per hour). "This is not good," thinks de Lutz. "Nothing is going as planned. The weather is not as predicted."
Waves soon grow to 10-15 feet as rain, propelled by wind, lashes horizontally at their faces. While the forecast had called for maximum winds of 35 knots, they quickly reach 60 knots and beyond. It is the beginning of what will be called subtropical storm Andrea.
"More than one wave smacks so hard that Rudy likens it to being hit by a truck," Tougias writes. "Good God, he thinks, that felt more like a solid object than liquid."
Soon, the boat's instrument panel informs Snel that winds have reached 85 knots. De Lutz wasn't even aware the boat could measure winds that intense.
As waves top off at around 50 feet high by midnight, the experience for the sailors becomes akin to a massive roller-coaster ride that never ends, sending them soaring up and down gut-churning inclines for hours on end.
The situation gets even worse when the morning of May 7 brings a "thunderous boom" that sends Snel from "resting in his bed to being airborne, hurled across his cabin into the bulkhead." Tye is thrown so violently that he smashes into de Lutz, who deflects him, sending him flying "so that his back and buttocks hit the bulkhead where the TV is mounted; it shatters in a spray of glass and plastic."
The Sean Seamour II is sent "careening over its starboard side. Objects not bolted down are hurled through the boat like missiles, and canned soft drinks burst like rockets, spraying in all directions."
The boat finally rights itself, parts of it having been stripped away by the ferocious sea, and de Lutz, seeing a rapidly decreasing chance of surviving on their own, activates an emergency signal to alert the Coast Guard to their distress. Unbeknownst to them, the device fails to send the alert. Luckily, an older device they had on board was activated without their knowledge, alerting authorities to a ship in trouble.
The situation aboard the Sean Seamour II grows even more perilous when the boat rolls upside down, a "surreal, sickening feeling" that is "happening slowly, giving them time to realize the pure horror of it all."
In the chaos, a table slams into de Lutz's torso, breaking seven ribs and leaving him gasping for breath as it pins him beneath rising water.
"He feels the water climb up the backside of his neck and head, followed by silence as his ears submerge," Tougias writes. "He frantically fights to free himself, but he's pinned by the tabletop. I'm going to drown inside my own boat!"
Viewing only the bobbing top of the captain's head, Snel and Tye manage to lift the table off him and pull his head up. With the water in the cabin now 2 feet deep and rising, de Lutz ignores the pain from his ribs. His only concern at that moment is the boat's life raft, which, if the boat were to sink, would be necessary to keep them alive.
At this point, Tougias offers a cinematic six-page depiction of de Lutz's next unnerving ordeal, when he swims out the boat's companionway hatch to the outside to ensure that the raft is secure. As he thrashes around the deck with hurricane-force winds and water swirling around him, he finds the raft trapped beneath the boat's broken mast.
"Every movement of the boat causes agony that can't be ignored," Tougias writes. "Piercing pain radiates from his broken ribs" as he maneuvers the raft free. At one point, "an especially large wave breaks directly on him, and the mast is pushed down on the left side of his back, crushing him against the deck. He moans in agony. Another three ribs are broken."
He manages to secure the raft just in time for the boat to begin sinking, requiring the men to abandon it. As they prepare to leave, Snel puts his wallet and passport inside of a ziploc bag. "'What the heck are you doing?' says Ben. 'We're probably going to die, and we won't be needing those.'"
With this, the men tether themselves together and brave "shrieking winds and crashing seas" in order to board the raft.
As they do, Tye "cannot believe the size of the white-capped mountains of water surrounding him. One minute a wave towers above the boat; the next minute the vessel rises to the top, where Ben surveys foam-streaked waves in all directions. He has never seen such raw power, the absolute height of nature's fury, and he is awestruck." The men make their way onto the raft just as the Sean Seamore II plunges into the deep, taking with it any supplies they needed to survive.
The raft, pelted by hurricane-force winds and rain and swirling at speeds of up to 9 knots, is filled with a half-foot of water. After 20 minutes in the ocean, an enormous wave lifts the raft, then sends it careening back down. "[The wave] slams into the men with the impact of a train," Tougias writes. "The raft is flipped like a pancake, and the men go flying and tumbling."
They eventually get the raft right side up, but tragic challenges of this sort test them for six hours as they struggle to survive in the midst of Mother Nature's chaos.
At one point, Snel, marking the waves 10 feet at a time in his mind, realizes that they are reaching around 70 feet tall at minimum. From here on out, Snel alternates between marveling at this natural wonder, aware that "he is witnessing something only a handful of people on earth have ever seen," and waiting as calmly as he can for death to take hold.
The rarity they are experiencing is what meteorologists call a "bombogenesis" because of "how abruptly it forms and explodes."
The rescue mission, prompted by the signal sent by the older device, involved a C-130 plane to find them, and an accompanying helicopter to perform the rescue. In addition to having to notice a small black raft from airplane height through hurricane conditions, the rescue required that a swimmer, Drew Dazzo, be lowered into the turbulent waters; find, and swim toward, the raft; and personally tow each man through the waves and into a waiting basket so they could be lifted up to the copter.
As he was repeatedly lowered into the ocean, Dazzo found himself in 80 knot winds, bounced around the sky like a cat toy. At one point, Scott Higgins, the man charged with lowering him into the water, feared that he had broken Dazzo's back by dropping him too quickly.
Four boats were caught in Andrea that night. The Coast Guard managed to rescue the passengers of three; the people on the fourth were lost.
The rescue team later calculated that the raft had been bouncing through the ocean so furiously that within one 28-minute period of tracking it from directly above where they thought it was, they traveled 1.8 miles.
Tougias tells how afterward, Tye, while flying home from the roughest ordeal of his life, stares out at the ocean, thinking of all the seemingly minor, coincidental things that helped save their lives, like an extra knife he just happened to have that allowed him to cut the raft free, or Snel just happening to grab an extra flare that helped the rescuers find them.
"There are just too many what-ifs," Tougias writes. "The things that kept them alive were the result of good decisions, luck and maybe fate."


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Each month, librarians across the U.S. nominate their favorite forthcoming books for Library Reads. The top ten books make the official list then shared with readers everywhere. Stick with us for ten great recommendations each month!
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
At turns funny, sweet, smart, and sad, Fangirl traces Cath's journey to independence as she begins college, struggles to have an identity separate from her twin sister, find her voice and passion as a writer and fall in love, maybe, for the first time. As sharp and emotionally resonant as Rowell's previous novel, Eleanor & Park. — Stephanie Chase, Seattle Public Library, Seattle, WA
How the Light Gets In: An Inspector Armand Gamache mystery by Louise Penny
The latest novel featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec is as amazing as ever. The internal conflict within the Québec police force that has been building in the series comes to a head, prompting Gamache to retreat to the small town of Three Pines. The combination of fascinating mystery puzzles, exquisitely crafted characters, and gorgeous, gorgeous writing is irresistible. — Megan McArdle, Berkeley Public Library, Berkeley, CA
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Scott McGrath has it all — a successful career in journalism, a beautiful wife, and an adorable daughter — until his impulsive, possibly libelous comment about the mysterious film director Stanislav Cordova causes everything to fall apart. Five years later, Cordova's talented daughter, Ashley, dies from an apparent suicide — or is it? A giant, delicious, juicy read in the noir tradition that cuts across genres. — Elizabeth Olesh, Nassau Library System, Uniondale, NY
Help for the Haunted by John Searles
Fourteen-year-old Sylvia slowly unravels deep family secrets after her demonologist parents are gunned down in a deserted church. Creepy, disturbing, and compelling, with gothic overtones and well-drawn characters, Help for the Haunted is definitely one of my favorite suspense novels of the year. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this to older teens, and it would also make a terrific movie. — Robin Beerbower, Salem Public Library, Salem, OR
The Returned by Jason Mott
Around the world, people are coming back from the dead and trying to reunite with their loved ones. In a tiny Southern town, Harold and Lucille Hargrave are astonished to have their son Jacob come back to them fifty years after he died. A global government agency at first works to reunite "The Returned" with their families, then later confines them as more and more people come back from the dead. A beautifully written exploration of love and family, community and responsibility, and a perfect book group selection. — Vicki Nesting, St. Charles Parish Library, Paradis, LA
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
Kent has created a first-rate debut novel with beautiful, lyrical passages and characters true to their historical counterparts. The unforgettable story finds convicted killer Agnes Magnúsdóttir awaiting execution and seeking both a reprieve from her dreadful sentence and the possibility of redemption. Burial Rites is an excellent choice for reading groups, especially those who have enjoyed Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace. — Margaret Donovan, Cary Memorial Library, Lexington, MA
Margot by Jillian Cantor
"Can you hide from your past and change who you are? If you try, what do you risk losing? This delicately written novel proposes an alternate fate for Anne Frank's sister: Margot Frank survives the war, moves to Philadelphia, finds work as a law secretary and assumes the identity 'Margie Franklin.' But when the movie version of The Diary of a Young Girl is released and the law firm takes on the case of a Holocaust survivor, Margot's past and Margie's carefully constructed present collide. This great book will appeal to reading groups and fans of alternative history, what-if novels and character-centered fiction." — Janet Lockhart, Wake County Public Libraries, Raleigh, NC
Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford
Fans of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet have been eagerly anticipating Ford's new book. Set in 1920s Seattle, this is the moving story of a young Chinese-American woman who becomes pregnant by her stepfather. With her stunning good looks and lovely voice, Liu supports herself through singing, but difficult circumstances force her to give up her son William for adoption. Flash forward several years: William spots a movie ad featuring the glamorous actress, Willow Frost. Convinced that Willow is his ah-ma, he escapes the orphanage, determined to find her. A memorable journey, and one well worth taking." — Anne Lee, Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-damaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
Through exhaustive interviews and extensive research, Fink offers a spellbinding account of Hurricane Katrina, a disaster which held the staff, patients and families of a New Orleans hospital captive and left thousands of others marooned by rising flood waters in the heart of city. Filled with unforgettable life and death stories, Fink's fine work of investigative journalism reads like a novel. The book causes you to rethink your opinions about end of life, do-not-resuscitate orders and medical ethics." — Marilyn Sieb, L.D. Fargo Public Library, Lake Mills, WI
A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout (memoir)
Absolutely gripping, harrowing and unforgettable! This well-written memoir is a true testament to the strength of one woman's spirit and her will to survive in unimaginable circumstances. The family issues that led Amanda Lindhout from her home in Canada to a life of world travel and a career in journalism are as richly detailed and compelling as the brutal account of her fifteen month-long captivity by Somali Islamist rebels in 2008. She tells her story with such vulnerability and honesty that it is a privilege to read it." — Mary Coe, Fairfield Woods Branch Library, Fairfield, CT


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For those of you who are chomping for some WoW insights, today is not that day. However, I will let you know that I do have a few drafts sitting in my folder that have to do with WoW. I'm hoping that I will have at least one of them up sometime this week. Maybe. I do still have things to say about WoW, I just haven't put my thoughts together completely on them. That coupled with the fact that I haven't played the beta since Diablo released, and I've only been raiding one or two nights a week, just means that I have less to say about WoW and a little more to say about Diablo. I won't apologize for this, because, well, it's my blog and I can pretty much write about whatever I want! But for those of you who are sick of listening to me talk about Diablo, rest assured that there is a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel.
Continued Progression
Over the course of the weekend Brade and I continued our push through Inferno. At some point early Saturday Evening we managed to knock down both Cydea and Azmodan, without too much effort. Getting to them, on the other hand, is another story. I don't really feel that I need to reiterate my feelings on Soul Lashers again, but let's just say that depending on what you roll when you enter the spire, your journey through it will be relatively painless, or you will be more emo than a 14 year old Justin Beiber fan by the time you are finished.
We went through the spire in a group of four (2 DH, 1 Wizard and myself). I will say that I found Azmodan to be rather tame for having been the dude that taunted us for three full acts. But Cydea, at least in co-op, was slightly more challenging. Those little spiders can be rather beastly! I believe that I died once on each encounter – but I can also state that I was able to pull off some miracle rezzes of my own, so felt less terrible as a result. I believe that we had 5 stacks of NV when we pulled each boss – and if my memory serves me correctly, I don't think that any of them were and upgrade for me, or particularly good for anyone else. This isn't overly surprising, considering that it is Diablo, but I will admit to having a twinge of disapointment when I collected up my loot from Azmodan and realized that I had a bag full of vendor trash.
Once we finished Azmodan we headed up and started Act 4. We hit the gate keeper guy with all of the shades and we quickly realized that it was imperative for everyone to move in the same direction, and relatively together. Once we figured that out, it was fairly easy to navigate the shades and then the boss. Once we passed him, the elite packs we hit were fairly managable and we soon found ourselves facing Rakanoth. Who, in an of himself wasn't too terrible…until he spawned his adds. Our team of four ranged did not fair well with the encounter. We threw ourselves at him for an hour or so before the other members of the group stated that we could farm the same loot, with less pain, at the end of act three. And they were right. So off we went to hit Cydea and Azmodan again.
But, because Brade and I are stubborn, the next chance we got we decided to hit Rakanoth again. But after our ranged x4 experience last time, we decided to go at it with just the two of us. With the added benefit being that with just us we could throw ourselves at it as long as we wanted.
Vision Quest, Zombie Bears and Rakanoth
Before we took another look at Rakanoth, Brade and I did a little bit of independent research on the best way to defeat him. It turns out that the best answer to that is apparently "alone and as fast as you can" – but we weren't interested in splitting off and winning independently; we'd gotten this far together, by golly we'd finish together. And so we each took a mishmash of the specs recommended for solo play, and went in to get repeatedly punched in the face. In fact, I became so delirious after dying so much that I made a joke about dying the "true death" (you see, because once every two minutes I can cheat death with Spirit Vessel, so even though I die, I don't really die…I totally crack myself up!).
Anyhow….we tried to overcome part of the troubles we had with four ranged players (the teleport) by keeping me largely "in melee range" of the boss – with brief moments of panic when the adds spawned. And for the first time ever I ran a zombie bears spec. Basically our strategy was that I would go in, drop Big Bad Voodoo in the range of both Brade and I, hit spirit walk and stand in his face mashing down my zombie bears button. He would stun the boss after the first wave of discs, I would dodge the next wave (hopefully….) and spirit walk the remaining damage until the adds came out. The whole time using all the skill that holding down my right mouse button afforded me.
Assuming that the adds didn't eat our face (a massive assumption), we'd basically rinse and repeat. Usually the "repeat" part meant we'd die and start over. But, you see, it wasn't that simple because I was running this really fucked up spec with zombie bears and high damage, which meant that I was utilizing abilities with some significant cooldowns. Which in turn meant that if one of us ate it to the face early in the fight, we'd have to wait two minutes to make another attempt. So most of my night last night was spent smashing my right mouse button, screaming "FUCK!", and subsequently running in circles around Brade while we waited for my cooldowns to come back up.
We did finally get him (I died at the end, got melee'd to the face 😦 ), and honestly, if it weren't for our stubbornness we each would have been able to solo him in a fraction of the time it took us to achieve a kill co-op, but we both picked up special specs for the fight, and I'm not going to lie, it felt really cheesy.
Now, I'd never run Zombie Bears before, but I'd used vision quest regularly in my spec for some time up until last week when I started testing out a build with Haunt (which is really nice for kiting), so I could more easily support grasp of the dead in the later levels. I'd often read about how unengaging people thought vision quest was, and I'd never really felt that way. I used it with Dire Bats, but I'd also had Pierce the Veil and splinters in my spec and didn't live on my dire bats alone. I didn't find the spec boring or uninteresting, and didn't mind trying to navigate through it. Until last night.
Lord, if I never have to look at Rakanoth again I'd be a happy camper. But last night I can tell you that I abused the hell out of both bears and vision quest, and it took all the skill of making sure not to be in the bosses face when he was about to attack and making sure that I hit the right four buttons at the start of the fight. Last night I realized that Vision Quest really was fairly boring game play. I realized that there really wasn't anything engaging about mashing one button and making sure everything was on cooldown (I guess I never really "maximized" VQ before). And, honestly, it kind of pisses me off that I had to resort to this kind of game play to get past a boss who could have been fun and engaging if the adds were anywhere near manageable.
Sure, it was my choice to go in this direction. I could have continued to be frustrated with the boss in my usual spec – but seeing the boss go from ~55% health before adds to sub 30% before adds says a lot about the power of the changes that Brade and I made to our specs specifically for this encounter. And, you know, even strategizing to make sure I was in melee of the boss and timing stuns and invulnerabilities was kind of fun…until we got owned by the adds if they spawned in a terrible place or we stood a half an inch too close and their stupidly long tongues lashed out and smacked us. I really wish that the adds were more manageable so the strategy for the boss wasn't "kill him as fast as possible to avoid as many add waves as possible".
Anyhow, my experiences last night illustrated the complaints I'd been reading about with VQ, but that I'd not experienced myself. It also illustrated that Brade and I are both obscenely stubborn and that our pride gets bruised, and that things like having our asses handed to us by a boss get personal. I strongly suspect that Brade would like to kill Diablo before the nerfs – but I just don't know if we are going to have time (there is speculation that the nerfs will be as early as tomorrow). I'm of two minds on this – say what you want, but the tuning on certain things in Inferno is broken, and considering that just as recently as today I was describing my latter Inferno experience as "pretty much un-fun", I think that the retuning will be a good thing and will increase the enjoyment of my experience. But part of me also wants to be able to say that I suffered through that shit when it was broken and stupid hard.
Oh, and as for what I did after we finally killed Rakanoth? I hopped onto my barbarian, who is still working through normal, cleared Cydea and Azmodan and told Brade "I'm not going to bed until I have the opportunity to smash that asshole (Rakanoth) in the face". Small, but so very important, things.


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Timing is all part of a great story.
Movies need it to work. Real life benefits, too. And it is so satisfying that, just hours -- about 12 or 13, in fact -- ahead of the nomination announcements for the 82nd Academy Awards, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released its official poster.
Both Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin are on there, looking as wry as wry can be. Excitement building for March 7.
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After a flawless launch last Thursday and a textbook docking on Saturday, the Space Shuttle today delivered the European-built Leonardo Permanent Multipurpose Module to the International Space Station.
This final flight of Discovery marks the eighth and final trip of Leonardo to the orbiting complex. This visit will be longer: the module will be left attached to the Station as a permanent extension. Originally built to ferry cargo to and from the Station in the Shuttle cargo bay, Leonardo's modifications include improved debris shielding and easier access by the crew to its internal equipment.
Leonardo flew into space for the first time in 2001, also on Discovery, as the first of three Multipurpose Logistics Modules built by the Italian space agency, ASI, under an agreement with NASA.
Its final cargo for the Station includes an experiment rack and a range of stowage facilities. Leonardo can also support microgravity research into fluid physics, materials science, biology and biotechnology.
Leonardo was removed from the Shuttle's cargo bay using the Station's robotic arm and mated to the Earth-facing port of the Unity node. Attachment was called complete at 16:05 CET.
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5K for Kaylee rescheduled for March 8
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[March 02, 2014]
The 5K benefit run for Kaylee Helton
that was scheduled to take place in December had to be canceled due
to severe weather. That run has now been rescheduled for March 8 at
9 a.m. at Kickapoo Creek Park.
There will also be a virtual runner option. Signing up as a
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All proceeds from the race will go to benefit Kaylee Helton
and her family. Kaylee is a 14-year-old student at Lincoln
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My car battery died at the coffee shop on the way to Wauconda Saturday. At first I was bummed that I would miss my 8:45 start, which I did, but the prospect of lining up in a totally different race category quickly got me over my bummedoutedness.
Race start would now be 11:45, plenty of time for AAA to rescue me and still make it to the race. I've never had so much time to set-up, get ready and warm-up – loved it. Maybe a permanent category change is in order.
Being new to a category has at least one disadvantage – lining up DFL. Game face time!
Photo by Amy Velogrrl.
Game face worked pretty well for me, moved up from DFL to finish 16th. Or, maybe it was the new bike.
Next stop: Carpentersville. Jeff and the gang from Main Street Bicycles and North Branch Cycling put on a fantastic day-long race alongside Carpentersville's Oktoberfest. Polka music, brats, brews, mud, cross = damn fine day.
Muddy woop-de-doos through cornfields are like straw bales, they should be mandatory course features.
I dug as deep as I could and managed to pull out an 8th place finish. Two days in a row of cross racing hurts. Bad. New CX goal for the year (down from podium finish) crack the top 5.


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29 comments:
- shopgirl said...
wow! i can't get over the wigs and make-up. Did you see the movie by Sofia Coppola?
p.s. thanks for your sweet words Shawna! it put a smile on my face :-)
- April 11, 2011 at 6:12 AM
- Marie said...
These are fab photos! I like the pool shots the best:D
Happy Monday!:D
***** Marie *****
- April 11, 2011 at 8:56 AM
- About Last Weekend said...
What great images and how very decadent it all is - fabulous!
- April 11, 2011 at 8:57 AM
- Unknown said...
i LOVE the pool pics! THey're all so great.
- April 11, 2011 at 10:56 AM
- Alicia@ eco friendly homemaking said...
Wow great pictures! It is always so fun to read your posts!!
- April 11, 2011 at 11:35 AM
- Annie said...
sooo many great shots!!
- April 11, 2011 at 12:35 PM
- k said...
i looooove the colors of these pictures :)
- April 11, 2011 at 12:58 PM
Rich sweetness indeed!
I love all the pictures, and the video is lovely!
I hope your week is going well.
All my love.
- April 11, 2011 at 3:02 PM
- THE ALTERNATIVE WIFE said...
So cute!!! I just love Wildfox :)
Hope your week is off to a great start! xoxo
- April 11, 2011 at 3:08 PM
- georgia ~ gi gi said...
Oh, Poppie Girl, how cool is this?!!! I love the video! I love the big pink glasses, what fun!
You should check out Anita's blog, I think you would really like it! Here blog is like a fairy tale!
I forgot to tell you the other day, you should so do tumblr! It makes it so easy to store pics!
Hope you are having a great day!
Love ya lots
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- April 11, 2011 at 4:48 PM
- Diana said...
Beautiful photo shoot, love how the LOVE shirts are spilt up! :) I hope you had a wonderful weekend! :)
- April 11, 2011 at 5:04 PM
- A Casa da Vá said...
Ohhh I want to immerse myself inside those photos... is there anything more fabulous? Listen I just gave you an award, come check it out, hope you like it!
I am happy we just celebrated 1 year together - funny thing march 2010 there must have been something in the air...
hugs and kisses from Rio!
- April 11, 2011 at 7:20 PM
- amy said...
I seriously want her hair. The color is stunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnning
great post
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- April 11, 2011 at 7:58 PM
- Rosie said...
Oh my dear,
I love the "LO VE" friends T shirts...too cute!
Well, so great to hear from you Shauna dear. I have missed chit chatting so very much. Am STILL hobbling about...with a cane no less. I have no time for this...I have things to do, chandies to hang and rooms to decorate! I am almost finished my studio...am waiting on the wallpaper, but not sure now, if I will use it, as there is a lot on that wall and unsure if you would see much of it. It is a very contemporary anaglypta with kind of a circle motif. I do LOVE it, and it is paintable, so although I swoon for white, maybe a punch of turquoise may be in order :)
Thank you for a perfect cuppa my dear...hugs...Rosie
- April 11, 2011 at 8:27 PM
- Joyti said...
Gorgeous. AND they're playing Bat for Lashes on their homepage...*hearts*
- April 11, 2011 at 8:46 PM
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- April 11, 2011 at 9:39 PM
- Cornflakes and Honey said...
Great tees. I think I'd love to wear the 'My boyfriend's a prince' tee hee! :)
- April 12, 2011 at 2:02 AM
- Castles Crowns and Cottages said...
THESE ARE FABULOUS PHOTOS!!!! I love Marie Antoinette, and I was sent over by GIGI; she is awesome, and she was right, I LOVE THIS POST!!!! Anita
- April 12, 2011 at 2:49 AM
- Signe said...
Amazing! I always find that I love their images more than the clothes though :)
- April 12, 2011 at 2:52 AM
- photohogger said...
Ooh how darling and daring! Love this. I want a yellow skirt so badly :)
- April 12, 2011 at 5:59 AM
- classiq said...
Photos 2 and 3 and the ones by the pool are my favourites: a laidback Marie Antoinette style.
- April 12, 2011 at 6:30 AM
- Martina said...
Whew, i'd like to be a part of that party! So fun dressing p like that. Um peu Marie - porquoi pas? Bises!
- April 12, 2011 at 6:41 AM
- Stacey said...
Quite beautiful with a touch of whimsy:-)
- April 12, 2011 at 3:52 PM
- bron @ baby space said...
Sweet! Kind of Gwen Stefani luxe grunge...do you think?
- April 12, 2011 at 7:21 PM
- Thelma Frayne said...
Love these photos- especially the hair!!
- April 13, 2011 at 4:28 AM
- Carrie said...
Love these pics! Kind of an old hollywood feel to them in a way.
- April 13, 2011 at 1:01 PM
- Alicia@ eco friendly homemaking said...
These are all such cute pictures. Love reading your posts!!
- April 13, 2011 at 2:10 PM
- Miles Of Style said...
i love every single one of these images!
p.s. please check your mail box. there's a surprise for you there :)
love, persis.
- April 13, 2011 at 9:45 PM
- Kelly Frances Dunn said...
How cool and what fun they must have had. I don't think I'd look quite that chic if I tried the same ;) I love a great photo!! XO, Kelly
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Talk:1273: Tall Infographics
I'm not really sure how to transcribe an infographic... Sorry. Saibot84 04:17, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
- I tried to expand on it a bit, sorry if it's not the best. ollien 04:20, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
For anyone wondering if the "FORMAT" frequency graph is self-referential to the entire comic... no, or at least not on actual explicit instances of the letters (certainly nowhere near 26 Ts, and even proportionally the As are vastly the most frequent and Fs the actual least, the rest almost identical), but I wouldn't put it past Randall having taken into account cummulative font-size, or something like that. 220.127.116.11 07:23, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
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- Gah, I'm an idiot. The "26" should have clued me in. 220.127.116.11 17:20, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
It's a reference to cellphone screen aspect ratios!18.104.22.168 10:48, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
I think this comic might be inspired by that infographic which was recently published regarding an attack against a botnet. (At least that was my first association - and I, too, found that graphic a little unsuitable when I saw it in the news) -- Xorg (talk) 12:42, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
- Search for "infographics" at google images and you will find thousands other examples.--Dgbrt (talk) 12:50, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
I think there is more to the explanation: Big Data mostly will be analyzed statistically, so we will get diverse diagrams and infographics as result. The trend will be an increase in the number of cases where informationen is presented in this way. Sebastian --220.127.116.11 14:23, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
- Note that Big Data is used nowadays as a buzzword, even if you don't have that much data. Remember: if your data cannot be processed by Excel, it isn't big. --JakubNarebski (talk) 14:47, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
- More accurately: Just because your data cannot be processed by Excel, that doesn't make it big.--126.96.36.199 13:16, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
I read the Venn diagram to mean that data would be either clear OR concise, if you took it literally.188.8.131.52 08:38, 6 October 2013 (UTC)gonzo
- I don't think that's quite right. The Venn diagram is intended to be just as superfluously self evident as the other graphics. The set of all things "Clear" intersects with the set of all things "Concise" in the region "And".
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- I think you mean "if your data can be processed by Excel, it isn't big". 188.8.131.52 00:07, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
- Or maybe "if your data cannot be processed by Excel, it isn't necessarily big." Because it might really be big - you wouldn't know. 220.127.116.11 00:21, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
Another take on infographics: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/05/how-to-make-a-shitty-infographic/ --JakubNarebski (talk) 15:40, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
"In the pie chart, the areas represent the proportion of letters in each word." - this isn't right; the area for "will" is three times the size of the area for "be". It could be comparing the number of consonants in each word. 126.96.36.199 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- "will" and "be" are both forms of the verb "to be". "Be" is therefore merely the infinitive, while "will" is both a conjugated form (3rd person singular) and in the future tense. Therefore "will" has three levels of meaning to "be"'s one... ;) 22.214.171.124 12:49, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
Could the part where Megan is saying "Communicated" to Hairy and Hairy responds with an enthusiastic "Yes!" possibly be a reference to some other infographics about preventing sexual assault by making sure to have consent first? I remember seeing a lot of those around my high school and college, so I could just be assuming this based off my surroundings and whatnot. 188.8.131.52 07:14, 5 February 2016 (UTC)


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I often ponder the wonder of "God with us," but especially so at Christmas time. I am in awe of the fact that the God of the Universe, the Creator of all things, He who is omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent, would desire to be with me. It is an amazing thing that Christ has seen fit to dwell in me, and the hearts of all believers, because of His great love for us. Of all the wonders of the world and the blessings in my life to be thankful for, it is this truth of God with us that I am most thankful for.
From a logical perspective, it all seems quite preposterous. If you were God, would you do such a thing? I'm not sure I would. I think I might leave sinful man to his own devices. But thankfully, I am not God; and God is faithful, merciful, and loving in a way I can scarcely comprehend. It is only when I seek Him with all my heart that I can even begin to fathom what He has done, and find hope in what He will do when He returns.
Do you know the Holy One, who longs to be with you? Are you in awe of His majesty? Do you ponder His great love? He is not some distant deity who desires to judge and punish you. He is "God with us." He is God with you. He alone is the greatest gift you will ever receive.
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Karen Mahmud
Karen Mahmud, 43, of Long Island, N.Y., holds her long-haired Chihuahua, Lola, who barks in a squeaky whisper after surgeons cut the dog's vocal cords.
When Porter, a 123-pound black Newfoundland, attempts to bark, it comes out as a raspy cough. When Lola, a 6-pound long-haired Chihuahua, tries, she emits only a whispery squeak.
Both dogs have been "devocalized," or surgically muffled, using a controversial procedure regarded as either barbaric mutilation by lazy pet owners -- or as the last resort of animal lovers desperate to keep their furry companions.
Porter's owner, Sue Perry, a 58-year-old Connecticut bookkeeper, and Lola's owner, Karen Mahmud, a 43-year-old New York nutrition blogger, fall squarely into the first camp. They're part of the Coalition to Protect and Rescue Pets, an activist group that helped get the practice known as "debarking" or "devoicing" outlawed in Massachusetts two years ago. Now they have set their sights on the American Veterinary Medical Association.
"I was just horrified by this," said Perry, who adopted Porter from a rescue agency five years ago. "When he tried to bark, I was, like, 'What the heck?'"
Though they've never met in person, the two women have joined to launch an online petition demanding that the AVMA, the nation's leading group of veterinarians, condemn devocalization when the organization reviews its policy on the procedure later this year. So far, more than 125,000 people have signed onto their cause.
"It's very, very upsetting," said Mahmud, who also got Lola from a rescue group and says she watches the tiny dog suffer with constant coughing and acting like there's something stuck in her throat. "I would never think that it's OK to put a dog under needless torture. If a dog barks, a dog barks."
But that point of view is vigorously opposed by groups such as the National Animal Interest Alliance, an animal welfare organization in Portland, Ore., and by dog experts such as Charlotte McGowan, a Boston-area dog breeder and noted American Kennel Club honoree who has judged at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.
To advocates, the procedure is a rarely performed, simple operation that can allow an owner to quiet incessant barking that may lead to eviction, friction with neighbors or stress so intense it makes them want to get rid of the pet -- or worse.
"It's giving a tool to someone who really loves their animal and is at the end of their rope," said McGowan, who refers to the procedure as "bark softening" and says it doesn't totally eliminate a dog's ability to make noise.
McGowan, 68, said she has had dogs debarked herself during more than 40 years of breeding and believes the procedure is both safe and effective, with no lasting damage to the animals. Though there are behavioral interventions and techniques to stop problem barking, some dogs are resistant to training, McGowan said.
"You hate to take a dog out of a home where it's loved just because it barks," she said.
On the surface, the new petition, posted by Change.org, is aimed at influencing the AVMA's policy on debarking. The group currently opposes the practice in general, but says devocalization may be used when other efforts have failed as a "final alternative" to relinquishing or euthanizing an animal.
Perry and Mahmud believe the AVMA's reach is so broad, representing more than 82,500 veterinarians in the U.S., that the group should take the lead in opposing devocalization in the U.S. In Europe, they note, debarking is illegal.
Sue Porter
Sue Perry, 58, of Hartford, Conn., relaxes with Porter, her 7 1/2-year-old Newfoundland dog. He was debarked by previous owners and has had to have surgery to remove scar tissue in his throat. Still, he has trouble with breathing and eating.
"Until the AVMA changes their position, they're condoning it, saying it's OK as a last resort," Perry said.
But Sheilah Robertson, a veterinarian and assistant director of the AVMA's Animal Welfare Division, notes that the AVMA may have influence, but it has no ability to set laws or enforce bans.
"We just make strong recommendations," Robertson said.
Other animal groups in the U.S., such as the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, or ASPCA, do oppose the practice outright. That group "does not support the use of surgical procedures that attempt to circumvent the behavior issue while exposing pets to unnecessary discomfort and risk," the agency said in a statement.
At issue is the procedure known as venticulocordectomy, which involves removal of an animal's vocal cords either by going through the mouth or through an incision in the throat, according to the AVMA.
It's used to quiet dogs -- and cats, some say -- who are too loud or incessantly noisy. Experts say dogs bark excessively for many reasons: poor training, boredom, social isolation, in response to external stimulation, to protect territory and because of anxiety or compulsive disorder.
Though debarking is regarded as a simple, fairly inexpensive procedure -- about $400 to $500 -- critics say it deprives animals of their natural ability to communicate and poses physical problems from scar tissue that can impair breathing, eating and other normal activities.
Many veterinarians refuse to perform the procedure and Robertson said it's no longer taught in veterinary schools. That's because although there are other surgical procedures performed in that area, devocalization is never a medically necessary procedure, said Joel Woolfson, a board-certified veterinary surgeon in private practice in Medway, Mass.
"My feeling is very strong that this procedure is done strictly for the convenience of people who don't want to hear or are annoyed by their pet's vocalizations," said Woolfson. "It has nothing to do with the health of the animal."
Rather, Woolfson added, the procedure is performed by pet owners seeking a "quick fix" who don't want to spend the time and energy to address the actual cause of the problem.
"It's the ones that are just too lazy to try other approaches," he said. "Or they are just insensitive to the fact that it's a procedure that can cause some suffering."
No one knows for certain how many devocalization surgeries are performed in the U.S. each year. It may be less than one-tenth of all dogs seen for office visits, according to background material for Ohio legislation aimed at banning debarking of vicious dogs.
Four states -- Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio -- have laws banning debarking under certain circumstances.
In Massachusetts, the law passed in 2010 was championed by the Coalition to Protect and Rescue Pets, the volunteer group that includes Perry and Mahmud.
In McGowan's view, such groups are often made up of activists who hold extreme views and rely on scare tactics to advance their goals.
"I found that the emotion and irrationality of the people opposing this was really hard to fathom," she said. "I got people who called me up and said 'We know where you live.' It was quite frightening."
McGowan notes that many of the same people are ardent supporters of spaying and neutering pets, both invasive surgical procedures that could be viewed as being performed because they benefit humans.
"Talk about what's cruel here," she said. "A convenient surgery is neutering your dog."
Robertson, of the AVMA, said the group's Animal Welfare Committee will consider many points of view, from scientific evidence to public opinion, when members review the debarking policy.
Until then, although the heated discussion will continue, people who actually want to find a surgeon to debark a dog might have trouble, Robertson said.
"It's not commonly done," she said. "They'd have to look around pretty widely to find one."
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On Sept. 14, when I had lunch with Westboro-based SimpliVity CEO, Doron Kempel – his company makes a box that boosts the efficiency of corporate data storage – he flashed me the business card of John Doerr, a partner of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, and the most prominent venture capitalist in Silicon Valley during the 1990s.
That card was his signal to me that Kleiner Perkins – whose early stage investments include Amazon, Electronic Arts, Genentech, Google, Intuit, Juniper Networks, Netscape, Symantec and VeriSign – was the big-name investor whose name he did not want me to publish until the embargo was lifted on the news at 6 a.m. today.
But now the news is out that SimpliVity raised $25 million in a so-called Series B round of venture capital – after seed and Series A rounds – from Kleiner Perkins, as well as existing investors Accel Partners and Charles River Ventures. This investment brings to $43 million the amount of capital invested in SimpliVity, a mere month after the company emerged from so-called stealth mode.
In a Sept. 21 interview with Matt Murphy, the Kleiner Perkins partner and Stanford Business School graduate who will serve on SimpliVity's board, I was on the receiving end of a firehose of words attempting to explain why his firm invested in SimpliVity. My interpretation is that Mr. Murphy invested for three reasons: He believes that SimpliVity is attacking a large market; that its technology provides uniquely valuable performance improvements for customers; and that Mr. Kempel is a leader who is good at making a plan and motivating his team to execute it.
Mr. Murphy started off by describing two kinds of corporate computing: Vertical and horizontal. As I understood him, vertical refers to the idea that when companies need more computing power, they add stacks of boxes from different vendors – including EMC, Hewlett Packard, and many others that perform specific computing functions – such as data storage and retrieval and routing of Internet traffic.
Mr. Murphy notes that horizontal approach is different because it lets companies "scale out instead of scaling up." SimpliVity's OmniCube product uses the horizontal approach, which Mr. Murphy believes is very valuable to companies because it means that they can expand their computing capacity at a lower cost. More specifically, the OmniCube combines all the functions of the different vertical boxes in a way that makes it cheaper for companies to buy and to operate each day.
Mr. Murphy echoed what Mr. Kempel said about the operating cost advantages of the horizontal approach that SimpliVity uses. Specifically, in order to manage the expansion of a company's computing capability, its IT department needs people "with PhDs" in each of the functional disciplines – such as data storage and routing – because the technical problems of expanding are so complex.
While Mr. Murphy has concluded that large companies can afford to pay such experts, small and medium-sized companies cannot. Therefore, the value of horizontal approaches such as the one that SimplVity provides becomes clearer – those SMBs can expand their computing capacity without paying those PhDs, since the OmniCube is technically easier to operate.
Mr. Murphy believes that SimpliVity is targeting the $100 billion market for so-called cloud-based computing. The cloud refers to renting computing capacity from another firm – Amazon has an entire business dedicated to this, for example. And Mr. Murphy expects horizontal computing to take a huge amount of vertical computing's share in the cloud. Specifically, he expects horizontal's share to grow "from between 10 percent to 20 percent to 80 percent by 2022."
And Mr. Murphy does not see any meaningful competition. "SimpliVity has a massive lead," he said.
He notes that one other vendor has developed a "converged appliance" – meaning its hardware performs many of the functions of all the different boxes I mentioned before. However, that converged appliance lacks specific capabilities that SimpliVity provides.
Among the most important of those is that SimpliVity reduces the volume of data that companies need to store and retrieve through de-deduplication and compression. And that means lower costs and less complexity for corporate customers.
Finally, Mr. Murphy notes that Mr. Kempel is "an execution machine." By that, Murphy means that the former Major in the Israel Defense Forces excels at developing a detailed battle plan and getting everyone on his team to agree to the plan and to complete their assigned tasks on time.
Mr. Kempel started and sold companies to Dell and IBM, which said of Mr. Kempel's Diligent Technologies "it's the biggest little company we've ever acquired" – earning attractive returns for their investors.
Mr. Murphy expects that Mr. Kempel will use that execution machine to give Kleiner Perkins and the other SimpliVity investors another big investment win.


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Morning Joe Tonic
your coffee alternative
This Morning Joe is a simple tonic that will give you a good morning on the go buzz without the "jitters" or the crash.
Morning Joe
5 cups filtered water
2 tablespoons raw almond butter or coconut butter
1 tablespoon coconut oil
1 teaspoon raw vanilla
2 teaspoons maca powder
2 tablespoons raw cacao
1 teaspoon ashwaganda
1/2 teaspoon of roasted chicory root or roasted dandelion root
1/2 teaspoon of shilajit
dash of Himalayan sea salt
dash cayenne pepper
dash saigon cinnamon
raw honey or choice of sweetner to desired sweetness
Blend in the Vita-mix for 2 minutes. The mixture will be warm, creamy, and
have a frothy latte foam on top.
Here is a lighter drink. The Morning Joe Tonic is pretty think and filling. This is a great coffee alternative with the same texture as having it black.
Have it Black
2 cups hot water
2 tsp shilajit
1 tsp ho shu wu
1/2 tsp ashwaganda
1/4 tribulus
(sweetner of choice)
The study, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health, appears in the July/August 2002 issue of Psychosomatic Medicine.
"The effects of coffee drinking are long-lasting and exaggerate the stress response both in terms of the body's physiological response in blood pressure elevations and stress hormone levels, but it also magnifies a person's perception of stress," said James D. Lane, Ph.D., associate research professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke and lead author of the study. "People haven't really accepted the fact that there could be a
health downside to caffeine consumption, but our evidence – and that of other studies – shows that this downside exists and people should be aware of it in order to make the best possible health choices." To determine the effects of caffeine on people as they go about their normal activities, the researchers enrolled 47 healthy, habitual coffee
drinkers in a double blind, placebo-controlled study. That is, neither the participants nor the researchers knew when the participants were receiving caffeine or the placebo. To qualify for the study, the coffee drinkers were asked to fill out a daily diary of caffeine intake for a period of one week. They kept the diary in order to determine the average amount of caffeine they consumed on a daily basis, the type of caffeinated beverages they drank, and the variation from day to day, all of which helped verify the participants as habitual coffee drinkers.
Once the coffee drinkers qualified for the study, their responses to caffeine were measured on two different, randomly chosen days. On one day, the coffee drinkers were given a 250-milligram dose of caffeine in the morning and again at lunchtime. On the other day, they were given identical capsules containing a placebo at the same time interval. The doses of caffeine -- equal to four cups of coffee -- and the dosage times were chosen to reflect normal patterns of coffee drinking in adults. Half of the study participants received caffeine on the first day of study and the others received it on the second day. The coffee drinkers were given, on average, two to three days off between study days during which they could consume as many caffeinated beverages as they normally desired. On both study days, coffee drinkers wore a portable monitor that measured blood pressure and heart rate four times an hour from early morning until bedtime, while they went about their normal daily activities. They were asked to collect urine samples so that the researchers could measure the amount of stress hormones they had produced that day. They were also asked to keep a diary to record their perceived stress levels as well as their physical position – standing, sitting or lying down – each time the monitor was activated. When the researchers compared the caffeine days to the placebo days they discovered that caffeine consumption significantly raised systolic and diastolic blood pressure consistently throughout the day and night, and adrenaline levels rose by 32 percent. The researchers found that the elevated levels persisted as the evening progressed to bedtime. The study also showed that while caffeine increases blood pressure and heart rate, it also amplifies those effects at the times when participants report higher levels of stress during their day, said Lane. The caffeine appears to compound the effects of stress both psychologically in terms of perceived stress levels and physiologically in terms of elevated blood pressures and stress hormone levels -- as if the stressor is actually of
greater magnitude, he said. "The caffeine we drink enhances the effects of the stresses we experience, so if we have a stressful job, drinking coffee makes our body respond more to the ordinary stresses we experience," he said. "The combination of stress and caffeine has a multiplying, or synergistically negative effect. "Everyone accepts that stress can be unhealthy. Our results suggest that drinking coffee or other caffeinated drinks can make stress even more unhealthy." The researchers noted that while habitual coffee drinkers might be expected to demonstrate tolerance to the effects of caffeine, they still showed significant responses to the drug."Our findings indicate that eliminating coffee and other caffeinated beverages from the diet could be a helpful way to decrease blood pressure and other stress reactions," said Lane. "I think that people who feel 'stressed out' should at least consider quitting caffeine to see if they feel better. Quitting caffeine could be particularly beneficial for people suffering from high blood pressure, just as diet and exercise can help keep blood pressure under control." The researchers said that despite the perceived safety of overwhelmingly popular caffeinated beverages such as coffee, the drug does show short-term negative health effects that, if continued over a period of years, could increase risk of heart attack and stroke. While today's cup of coffee might not, by itself, cause you much harm, the cumulative effects of drinking it day after day over a lifetime could really be unhealthy.
Other authors on the study are Carl Pieper, DrPH, Barbara Phillips-Bute, Ph.D., John Bryant, Ph.D., and Cynthia Kuhn, Ph.D., all of Duke.


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A farmer and his wife in Washington State try to figure out why their wheat field was targeted as the site of a mysterious crop circle. KHQ's Mike Perry reports.
A set of crop circles appeared in an eastern Washington wheat field last week, much to the amusement of the field's owners.
"You can't do anything other than laugh about it," Cindy Geib, who owns the field along with her husband, Greg, told the Associated Press. "You just kind of roll with the theory it's aliens and you're special because aliens chose your spot."
The crop circles were first spotted July 24, when friends of the Geibs noticed the flattened wheat about five miles north of the town of Wilbur, Wash. The field is 10 miles south of the Grand Coulee dam, which the Bureau of Reclamation says is the largest hydropower producer in the U.S.
The circles resemble a four-leaf clover. Cindy said they remind her of Mickey Mouse ears. The design knocked down about an acre of their wheat.
Greg, a fifth-generation wheat farmer, is set to begin harvest next week, and he said some of the crop will be lost, but there hasn't been much harm done. Rather, it's more of an inconvenience when he comes to that particular section of wheat.
"You just kind of brush it off, you don't think too much about it," Greg told NBC affiliate KHQ in Spokane, Wash. "There's not really a whole lot that can be done about it."
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These aren't the first crop circles that have appeared in Lincoln County. Every year or so, a new set has appeared in one of the wheat fields, KHQ reported.
Crop circles in a wheat field owned by Greg and Cindy Geib near Wilbur, Wash., on July 30.
Lynne Brougher, a public affairs officer for the Grand Coulee dam, hadn't heard about the latest crop circles but said the previous one was no cause for alarm.
"It seemed to be highly unusual," Brougher told the Associated Press. "As I recall from a couple of years ago, there was no good explanation of how they got there."
Cindy said those responsible for the crop circles near her home remain a mystery.
"We're trying to figure out how they got there without breaking any of the wheat," she said. "It's hard to walk through the crunchy wheat and not knock it down. They had to be fairly young in my estimation because it's a long ways out, and they had to pack a lot of stuff out there to smash it down."
Both Cindy and Greg said their family is choosing to remain lighthearted about the crop circles and all of the attention they're bringing.
"I think it would be kind of cool if it really were aliens," Cindy said. "I think it'd be pretty cool."
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Quick trip
I was getting so restless sitting around waiting for my throat to improve that I decided to jump in the car and go to the Cities for a couple of days. My main goal was to take in a Twins game. I ended up attending two. The first, on Thursday evening, was a good Twins win. The second, Friday evening, was a long, drawn out affair with rain delays which the Twins lost.
My attempt to run from the post-surgical discomfort and pain by driving five hours and attending a game could have back-fired. In the end, it worked very well. The drive and the game distracted me. It also tired me out so I slept better than I had for two weeks. During the day, I walked and walked and walked around downtown Minneapolis.
The best part: I didn't talk. Talking hurts. So, I thought by traveling alone I would shut myself up. It worked. I came home today almost feeling normal. On the trip, I ate solid foods like normal. So, pretty soon I may be normal!


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On Tuesday night, the Board of Directors voted 6-0-1 (Aye, Nay, Present) in favor of the following changes to the Membership Rates:
- Starving Hacker: $40/month (from $30)
- Full Member: $70/month (from $50)
- Annual Full Member: $700 (from $500)
- Pay what you will membership: completely new
These rates take effect immediately. There is a grandfather clause: any current members who choose to remain at their current rates are free to do so indefinitely. However, if that member misses payments, changes membership class, or makes any other changes to their membership status, they will be obliged to pay the new rates. Additionally, the grandfather clause does not apply to annual rates – all members paying the annual rate will make their next payment at the new membership rate.
The pay what you will membership is intended for persons who either wish to pay more to support our organization or simply cannot afford to pay our full rates. Note: access to the mailing lists, space, and tools is still determined by membership rates as published on the Becoming a Member page – we aren't offering full access for discounts via this option.
Explanations of why we made this difficult decision after the break. Continue reading Membership Rate Changes


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This video shows you how to jump start a dead battery in your 2010 Hyundai Elantra. If you get into your Elantra, turn the key, and your car doesn't start (you may hear nothing or a clicking sound from the engine bay), you have a dead battery and need a jump-start. Check to see if you left your headlights or an interior light on and turn the switch off. Assuming that you have a pair of jumper cables, a pair of safety glasses and a friend to give you a jumpstart, the video above will show you where to connect the cables (and in what order!) for your Elantra. Once you are finished reviving a dead car battery in your Elantra, make sure you drive it for at least 5 minutes before turning it off so your battery isn't dead the next time.
So what's up with the safety glasses? There is a small possibility of a battery exploding during the charging process if you don't connect the cables properly (causing a spark) and there is a bunch of hydrogen gas around the battery (car batteries emit hydrogen gas when they discharge) - this is much more of an issue with cars that haven't been driven for a long time than if you drive your Elantra regularly and simply forgot to turn your lights off.
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Someday I would love to open a place like Huckleberry, a bakery/breakfast/lunch venue in Santa Monica, CA. I first became aware of Huckleberry when they were featured in Bon Appetit several years ago with a recipe for a delicious cornmeal blueberry cake. Now Chef Zoe Nathan has chronicled many recipes in the Huckleberry cookbook, and I have thoroughly enjoyed baking from the book for the past few months.
The book is divided into several sections including muffins, cakes, scones, breads, fried pastries, sandwiches, and grain bowls. What is immediately noticeable is the use of various different kinds of flours. All-purpose flour is still the mainstay, but other flours are incorporated including whole wheat, rye, bread flour, wheat germ, and nut flours like pistachio and almond. These different flours result in a more complex crumb and flavor and hopefully healthier recipes as well with the use of whole grains.
Healthy does not mean lack of flavor. So far the recipes have been outstanding, with excellent versions of chocolate-chip muffins, chocolate walnut banana bread, carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, and whole-wheat raisin scones. The most impressive were the pistachio-lemon cake, the cara cara orange galette, and the pear whole-wheat crumb cake, all of which drew raves.
The one recipe I tried that failed was the cover recipe for blueberry brioche. This recipe called for double the flour that was required, so there was not enough egg to bind the dough. I saved it by adding two additional eggs, but the ratio of other ingredients like butter and sugar was then off. Chronicle Books sent me the following list of corrections:
Huckleberry ingredient and measurement corrections:
Page 43: In the ingredient list, MUFFINS, 5th entry (1 tbsp cracked) "wheat, chai seeds," should be "wheat, chia seeds,"
Page 105: In the ingredient list, 4th line (bread flour), "1 3/4 cups/185 g" should be "1 3/4 cups/215 g"
Page 108: In the ingredient list, 4th line (all-purpose flour), "+ 2 tbsp/280 g" should be "+ 2 tbsp/140 g"; 5th line (bread flour): "+ 2 tbsp/280 g" should be "+ 2 tbsp/140 g"
The corrected version made an excellent brioche punctuated by a ribbon of fresh blueberries that was delicious hot out of the oven. Overall, this is a great book for impressive breakfast pastries and brunch recipes, introduces a unique use of different flours, and contains a bunch of keepers. Huckleberry takes a place among my favorite baking cookbooks including Momofuku Milk Bar, Tartine, Flour, and Bouchon Bakery.
Link to Huckleberry cookbook here.


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