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Wednesday, June 29
in case you haven't heard enough about ombre yet...
49 comments:
- AnonymousJune 29, 2011 at 12:05 AM
I love you blog, and I love your hair!ReplyDelete
I didn't realize this was so easy; it looks great on you! Even though my hair's only 5 inches long right now, you totally have me considering doing this : )ReplyDelete
you are totally beautiful no matter what color your hair is friend! xoxoReplyDelete
ohhhh! Looks GOOD!!! I likey!!ReplyDelete
Your newest follower!
love the way it turned out!ReplyDelete
so pretty.
Love it, friend! It turned out so cute!! :)ReplyDelete
looks fantastic on you!!!!ReplyDelete
i must say, you look mighty fine.ReplyDelete
you make ombre look amayzang.
Nice hair!!salon care is lovely product, I like this, thanks for sharing such a great information...ReplyDelete
Love it! So pretty!ReplyDelete
Haha this is such a great post, and your hair looks beautiful!!! My current hair goal is to grow it as long as yours! Long wait ahead of me...ReplyDelete
Oh I love it! It looks great :)ReplyDelete
Your hair looks great and Jesus, I'm glad you didn't fry it off because once you've bleached your hair and washed it out you are not supposed to re apply bleach to that hair because it can fry it off. Somehow you've managed to keep yours looking healthy - you must have tough hair! But I wouldn't recommend to everyone to go reapplying bleach to previously bleach hair, it can end up a disaster - I saw it happen while I was at Cosmetology school! Yikes! But your's is beautiful!ReplyDelete
wow, you did a great job! you look amazing :)ReplyDelete
@ Alaythea… really!?! all the tutorials i read about and you tube videos i watched said to reapply it as well.ReplyDelete
Pretty neat!ReplyDelete
It is not as drastic as I thought.
What does the hubby think?
I will admit Ive not seen or heard of ombre. In fact, Ive seen the opposite(dark dark hair underneath and on the bottom layers). Your hair is beautiful and you certainly can pull it off. Happy day:)ReplyDelete
i've always thought this was cute on other people, but now i might be willing to try it on myself! too cute. great!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 29, 2011 at 9:12 AM
you are amazing.ReplyDelete
move in with me.
you are beautiful. that is all. :)ReplyDelete
Wow!! I think it turned out really cute!! :)ReplyDelete
It looks adorable!! It suits you and great job on doing it sans salon! :)ReplyDelete
impressive! it looks great!ReplyDelete
I love it! Being a hairstylist I was a little nervous to read this post once I saw you were doing it yourself but you did great! I'm glad you used cream developer and not clear, if you want your blonde to stay blonde or go blonder use purple shampoo.. also if you ever do it again and have questions about developer the levels just determine time more so then lift.. so you can lift with 40vol in say 5 min vs. 20 vol in 10.. get it? =) soooooo cute, lovesya! xoxo heatherReplyDelete
uh-huh i just made that up!
It's fantastic. I love that you are such a DIY girl. It's very summerlish-ish.ReplyDelete
- StephyFostJune 29, 2011 at 11:10 AM
i lovee it !!! :):)ReplyDelete
You are gorgeous! So glad I found your blog on Pleated Poppy!ReplyDelete
Ask the Duplex
Worked out beautifully! Actually looks very natural too!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 29, 2011 at 1:11 PM
Looks great! Good for you!ReplyDelete
It looks soooooooo good! Love it!!!ReplyDelete
you're so brave to do this on your own, I love the look but could never do it myself! true DIY'er you are!ReplyDelete
love it! im a hairstylist and i love the ombre look. i've been waiting until summer is over to do it. but since my hair is hilighted as it is right now, ive gotta do a two step sorta thing... its complex. lol. love yours though, so glad it turned out well!ReplyDelete
Looks really pretty! :) I've thought about this look, too! :)ReplyDelete
dude. i wish i could be sexy and awesome just like you.ReplyDelete
totally meant to be friends. i have been trying to get brave enough to do this to my hair for months. thanks for the DIY, that makes me one step closer to actually doing it...ReplyDelete
you are too cute and it looks hot!! Can't wait to finally hug you at Blog Sugar!ReplyDelete
bold move. so cute. love it.ReplyDelete
this looks AWESOME!! when I have longer hair, I might just have to try it. your curls are amazingly gorgeous as well.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 29, 2011 at 5:13 PM
You are freaking BRAVE...and I love it!!!ReplyDelete
Can't wait to meet you at Blog Sugar!!!
so. adorable.ReplyDelete
you are rockin' the ombre!!! you even make me wanna try this....but I don't think I could pull it off as well as you!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 30, 2011 at 4:18 PM
I must say *TOTALLY* jealous here. I shelled out $200 to have this done at a salon in Louisville. 5hrs. later (longest salon visit EVER), my hair was FRIED. My hair cuticles opened ALL the way up, my hair curled up at the ends & started breaking. I am now 10wks. past having this done. The salon "in order to make it right, vs. refunding my money"... gave me weekly chemistry treatments to repair my hair, and they had to apply a boring FLAT DARK DARK brown hair color to "fix" the problem. The girl who did this was WAY over her head. When she saw me the next day (fried hair and all), she cried and said how sorry she was.ReplyDelete
My hair is slowly repairing... HATE the color right now, so seeing your "DIY" job makes me GREEN with envy. LOVE LOVE LOVE this hair color.
SO, long story short to simply say, "You GO with your bad "gorgouse haired" self!" :)
Every thing you do, you do it well! I love it! And I admire your bravery for doing this on your own.ReplyDelete
darn it! i just typed a whole big long post and it got deleted! BOOO. anyway- to recap- you have some balls to try this yourself! however, it looks awesome!ReplyDelete


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Hey guys, I usually just post on vitalmx but I am doing a drawing to benefit James Marshall and I heard there were some fans of his that post here. I figured I would share what I am trying to auction off with you guys
I came up with this idea when I found my childhood Mcgrath replica helmet in my parent's attic and saw that James Marshall was trying to raise money for equipment that he needs now that he is paralyzed. His story hits close to home because I broke my back when I was younger and almost ended up paralyzed. I also work in healthcare too and see how much of a struggle it is
I contacted Caleb Mireau of CM designs https://www.instagram.com/_cmdesigns_/ because I knew he was a 90's moto fan boy like me. He painted a stabilizer and moto ace visor to match and made the helmet look glorious. I was going to simply do an auction at first but then realized it isn't really fair to just let it go to the person that is willing to spend the most money. (And I think I can raise more money this way)...So now I decided we are doing a raffle, and the money will go directly to James because it will be based on donations to his gofundme page.
For each $20 donation to his page you can have your name placed in the raffle, I will draw a name on March 31st. Or we might push the date back further if everyone agrees to. I originally was going to end it on February 29th but everyone that participated said to push it back just so we could raise more money. Put your name and screen name and and houstonmotocross.com in the message when you donate so I can keep track of everyone that donates. Good luck! I hope it goes viral in someway throughout the moto community.
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Ryuutama character Sheet
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This sheet is designed to provide a simple playing experience for new and veteran Ryuutama players. Its built-in roll functions allow the players to have a hands-off experience from all of the bonuses and penalties that can potentially apply to rolls from sources such as class, type, topography, status conditions, and daily Condition check.
For more information about Ryuutama and links to the official character sheet, please see the Resources at the bottom of this page.
There are three ways to include the this sheet in your game.
- You can start a new game and select it as the character sheet at that time from the Create New Game screen.
- For existing games you can add a character sheet from the Game Details page. On the Game Details page there is a Settings drop down with an option for Game Settings. On the Game Settings page you can select it from the drop-down options. Click save and you're ready to roll.
- For Pro subscribers who want to add their own custom details to the character sheet, there is the option of selecting Custom from the drop-down options on the game settings page. Copy the code here and paste it in the code box underneath the HTML Layout tab. Then, copy the stylesheet found here and paste it in the code box underneath the CSS Styling tab. You are now free to make any custom modifications to the sheet for your campaign.
Once installed the sheet can be accessed on any character added to the Journal. The middle tab on any character will open the sheet.
Skill Checks
There are many buttons on the sheet to assist in rolling skill checks. Most rolls on the sheet consist of two dice representing one or two of the character's base stats (Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, and Spirit), a derived bonus or penalty (from class, type, topography, etc.), and an explicit bonus or penalty. The result will consist of three numbers separated by plus (+) symbols. The first number is the result of the first die. The second number is the result of the second die. The third number is the total sum of all derived and explicit bonuses and penalties. If the result of the roll was a critical success or fumble, the result will display this as well.
- Why doesn't the result show the roll total? At the time of this writing, Roll20 does not support critical calculations with multiple dice. The dice must be treated as separate rolls in order to check their individual values in order to calculate whether a critical success or fumble was attained. Discussions about this can be found here and here.
- Are there any exceptions? There are three rolls that do not fit into the above formula. Characters with the healer class have access to a skill that can be used in combat that only uses one die. Damage rolls also only use one die, though the ability to treat a damage check as a critical hit, which doubles the number of damage dice, is available. Initiative, while it is rolled with two dice, is not capable of resulting in a critical success or fumble. All three of these rolls are totaled in their entirety before the result is displayed in the chat window.
The sheet contains five tabs, each of which serve a distinct function for the player and/or the character. Each of the below subsections will go into greater detail about each individual tab's function.
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This tab is for tracking character statistics including growth attributes: experience and level, attributes that generally remain stable in the long term: base strength, dexterity, intelligence, and spirit, maximum hit points and magic points, terrain modifiers, and weather modifiers, and attributes that change often: current hit points, magic points, and fumble points, current attribute values, condition, and injury, poison, sickness, exhaustion, muddled, and shock ratings.
Growth Attributes
- Experience - Players are encouraged to track their experience points here. Experience points are not automatically tracked.
- Level - It is Roll20 policy not to automatically handle character growth. However, players may manually track their character level here.
Stable Attributes
- Base strength, dexterity, intelligence, and spirit - Each attribute may have a value of d4, d6, d8, d10, and d12, corresponding to the dice used by the Ryuutama system.
- Maximum hit points and magic points - While most attributes on the sheet are automatically calculated, maximum hit points and magic points are not because initial values for these attributes are based on the initial values for the above attributes and are otherwise decided by assigning points each level. Automatically updating these attributes based on level would be both difficult and would be a potential violation of Roll20's policy on automatically leveling up characters.
- Terrain and weather modifiers - Certain conditions allow for characters to apply penalties or bonuses to rolls based on the current topography. These bonuses and penalties are influenced by character level and equipment, though there may be other sources of bonuses and penalties. These bonuses and penalties may be tracked here.
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- Current hit points - Track character hit points here. The value of current hit points may be negative. If the box containing this attribute value is light red, it signifies that the character is unconscious. If it is dark red, then by standard Ryuutama rules the character is dead. There are documented exceptions in the Ryuutama source book describing why a character might not be dead despite having lost enough hit points to die, so remember that the GM has the final say in a character's life or death status.
- Current magic points - Track character magic points here. The value of current magic points cannot go below zero. If the box containing this attribute is light red, it signifies that the character is unconscious.
- Fumble points - Fumble points are earned during play and are tracked here. They may be used to enhance rolls and a function exists to enhance rolls using fumble points, but the fumble points will not automatically be deducted from the total on the sheet so the player must remember to do this whenever a point is used. Similarly, fumble points are not automatically awarded.
- Current strength, dexterity, intelligence, and spirit - The current values for these attributes are usually the same as their base values. They may be affected by condition and/or conditional status effects such as injury or shock.
- Condition - This value usually changes once per day in-game but may shift due to events during play. In addition to tracking the character's current condition score, the player may choose an attribute to temporarily raise if the current condition score is at or above ten. This bonus is automatically applied. If the box containing this attribute value is light red, it signifies that the character may be unconscious. If this attribute value equals two due to a daily Condition check, the player suffers a conditional status effect that is not automatically applied (see the rulebook for details about this penalty). If this attribute value is reduced to two or less due to an in-game event, the character is knocked unconscious. If the box is dark red, it signifies that the character is dead by standard Ryuutama rules.
- Injury, poison, sickness, exhaustion, muddled, and shock - Events throughout play may cause characters to gain points in these conditional status effects. If one or more of these values exceeds the current condition (signified by the box turning red), one or more of the character's current attributes is negatively affected. This penalty is automatically applied.
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The frontrunners in Spain, Germany and England dominate the top three outfits with the highest pass accuracy in Europe's best Leagues this season. However, behind respective League-leaders Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Manchester United hover a struggling Milan. The Rossoneri have slumped to seventh in Serie A this term, but have sustained incredible passing exploits behind underperforming individuals.
Massimiliano Allegri's side have managed to maintain an 86.3 per cent passing accuracy, with the peninsula's perceived imperious passers Juventus, Fiorentina and Lazio further behind. On top of their efficiency in distribution, the San Siro residents have the eighth highest average possession on the continent with 58.1 per cent – while only the Bianconeri can claim a higher medium among Italy clubs.
How have Milan stuttered to such an extent this season compared to the sides around them in these statistical tables then? The middle of the park has been a real sticking point for club, and a genuine lack of clinical assist providers has been evident. The exodus of players in the summer has greatly reduced their ability to create, and the remaining batch have simply not been able to live up to previous standards.
Aside from being the Rossoneri's top scorer, forward Stephan El Shaarawy has also been the team's main provider domestically this season with three setups alongside Urby Emanuelson and Robinho. There are an additional four players on two assists, but of those there are two full-backs in Mattia De Sciglio and Ignazio Abate and two attackers in Bojan Krkic and Giampaolo Pazzini.
Kevin-Prince Boateng, Antonio Nocerino and Riccardo Montolivo have amassed a single setup each in Serie A throughout the current campaign. The trio have been the spine of the starting lineup, and since Nigel De Jong ruptured his left Achilles tendon before the winter break and captain Massimo Ambrosini was recently dealt a month long layoff they have been practically irreplaceable.
Boateng has largely been employed as trequartista to limited success, and was one of the worst firing midfielders in Europe before finally scoring against Catania – later receiving a straight red card in the same game. Nocerino has lost the spark this campaign, after finishing the club's second top scorer last term. His mistakes against Bologna, Lazio and Torino have all directly led to goals. Montolivo has been the brightest of the lot, and has showed unexpected leadership qualities, but has otherwise been blunt.
Milan's headquarters on Via Turati has been rife with activity since the beginning of January. The arrival of Empoli youngster Riccardo Saponara at the end of the season looks to be an excellent move for the future. Speculation surrounding former playmaker Kaka in recent days does not fall in line with the new project, but there is no doubt that something has to be done to spark this team's midfield to life.
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Whistling Marinated Chicken
WHEN I was a girl, I helped my father prepare Sunday dinner. He sparked my interest in cooking, and we often made this dish together. Papa allowed me to do all the chopping. When I did so, he'd tell me to whistle. Why? Because he knew if I whistled, I wouldn't be eating what I chopped! -Harriet Cremeen, Hensley, Arkansas
Total TimePrep: 20 min. + marinating Cook: 25 min.
Makes4 servings
- 1 cup unsweetened apple juice
- 1/2 cup sweetened shredded coconut
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 teaspoons curry powder
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves (4 ounces each)
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1-1/4 cups water, divided
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1/4 to 1/2 cup minced fresh parsley
- In a small bowl, combine the first seven ingredients. Pour half into
- a large resealable plastic bag, combine the first seven ingredients. Add chicken; seal bag and refrigerate for at least 8 hours. Cover and refrigerate remaining marinade.
- Drain marinade from chicken. In a large skillet over medium heat, brown chicken in oil. Add reserved marinade and 1 cup water; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 25-30 minutes or until a thermometer reads 170°.
- Combine cornstarch and remaining water until smooth; gradually stir into pan. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Stir in parsley.
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The prep work is well worth the wonderful taste of this chicken! I made this once for my husband when we were dating, and he remembers when I made it! What a great meal for company too.


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SANTA CRUZ — One of the biggest questions when evaluating whether the city of Santa Cruz and Soquel Creek Water District should build a $123 million desalination plant is whether they need to.
In its 2006 review of desalination, the Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments found, in part, that "Since seawater desalination is an energy intenstive and expensive water source, it should only be pursued when there is a clear and established need for a new water supply."
But has the city demonstrated that the facility, capable of transforming ocean water into 2.5 million gallons of drinking water each day, is really the best way to protect Santa Cruz from severe rationing during droughts? Is desalination really the key to allowing the district to rest its wells and recharge its overdrafted aquifers?
The answers lie beyond the simple notion of whether the two agencies have proven a need for more water. Based on their supply-and-demand scenarios alone, however, it's clear why the neighboring districts are exploring desalination — a common practice in the Middle East and Australia but one mired in controversy in California, where there are 17 plants proposed.
Low rainfall in winter and spring can lead to diminished flows in the San Lorenzo River and North Coast streams that prevent the city from meeting current demand, let alone future growth and mandates to increase flows for fish habitat. The city estimates it will face shortages of 35-40 percent during the summer in severe drought years if projected demand is realized.
It's also widely accepted that Soquel Creek's groundwater basin is nearing exhaustion. In fact, although desalination is more closely identified as a Santa Cruz project because the facility would be built there, it's clear the seriousness of Soquel Creek's problem is fueling the plan's urgency.
Whereas Santa Cruz has a once-in-a-while problem corrected by Mother Nature's rainfall and runoff, Soquel Creek has an ongoing problem that only will get better if the district reduces its groundwater pumping. The overdrafting has led to saltwater intrusion found in highest levels around Seascape and La Selva Beach.
John Ricker, the county's longtime water resources manager, is working on boosting supply through regional water swaps enabled through future connections. In the interim, he supports desalination.
"We have been able to get by because we have been fortunate not to have a severe drought as we did in the '70s," he said. "There has been a long-term need for something."
The city, which would have priority use of the Westside plant from mid-April to mid-December, has proposed running it only during dry periods. Otherwise, Soquel Creek typically will operate the plant year-round at a low capacity, usually producing 1 million to 1.5 million gallons per day.
An environmental impact report is expected in November or December, and if approved by the City Council and district board, the question of building the facility will come before voters, as well as state and federal agencies. The city's water director, Bill Kocher, said he doesn't expect the report to reveal any environmental problems that can't be mitigated with time and money.
But the public who is paying for the plant and the host of regulators charged with permitting it will want a full airing of the supply problems before being convinced.
"If there isn't shown to be a strong need for this, that would be problematic," said Susan Craig, supervising coastal planner with the California Coastal Commission.
Andy Shiffrin, a longtime aide to well-known conservationists and former county supervisors Gary Patton and the late Mardi Wormhoudt, believes a new supply is warranted.
Conservation helped to reduce consumption 25 percent in Santa Cruz from 1997-2010, but there is still no bulwark against drought for a system that has had no new supply since the inflatable Felton diversion dam was put in place on the San Lorenzo River in 1976. However, Shiffrin, who serves on the city's Water Commission, said Soquel Creek's saltwater intrusion is more grave.
"If we were now just talking about drought, it's more questionable whether there is a demonstrated need," he said.
Rick Longinotti, a founder of Santa Cruz Desal Alternatives, agrees Soquel Creek must recharge its aquifers. But he has urged agencies to begin transferring water to each other — there is winter excess in Santa Cruz — and take more a more radical approach to conservation.
"Whatever limit we come up against we always turn to technologies," Longinotti said. "It's extremely myopic because it's not sustainable under any long-term thinking. … We have to live with what we've got."
And what we've got, everyone agrees, is total self-reliance.
Santa Cruz gets the water to serve its 92,000 customers from the San Lorenzo River, North Coast streams and Live Oak wells, supplementing in the summer peak season by drawing down the Loch Lomond Reservoir created by damming Newell Creek. Soquel Creek draws from the Purisima and Aromas Red Sands groundwater aquifers located in the Mid- and South County areas. There is no imported water.
The city's geographic isolation became ever-present in 1976-77 during its worst drought on record, which preceded another dry period from 1987-92. The city severely rationed water and has curtailed use twice in the past three years.
Water managers long ago considered building a dam on Zayante Creek for Santa Cruz and on Soquel Creek for the district. The city also has studied raising the dam on Newell Creek to increase storage in Loch Lomond.
But dams are met with resistance from those bent on limiting growth. And fisheries regulators resist dams because they reduce flows needed to support habitat for the endangered coho and threatened steelhead salmon.
In the Soquel Creek district, coastal groundwater levels began declining in the 1980s and by the late 1990s were in overdraft. The district, which serves about 38,000 people from Capitola to La Selva Beach, formed an advisory committee of environmentalists, business officials, private well owners and others who landed on a regional desalination project.
"The district has always known we would have to have supplement supply," said Laura Brown, the former district director.
Seawater intrusion, promoted by the loss of freshwater buffers, is occurring in the Aromas Red Sands Aquifer, where monitoring wells at the end of Sumner Avenue in Seascape and Playa Boulevard in La Selva Beach are showing signs. The system has 75 monitoring wells in 25 locations watching for intrusion, including in the Purisima Foundation that serves Capitola, Soquel and Aptos.
"Once you have saltwater intrusion, it's virtually there," Brown said. "You can't go back. You have to protect against it constantly."
Patton, the former county supervisor who has influenced regional water issues for four decades, believes groundwater overdraft is the county's most significant resource challenge. But he believes the district and city need to find ways to live within their means rather than pursue desalination.
"It is hidden," he said of overdrafting. "You have the illusion you can continue on forever, like a bank account."
Hydrologists have determined it will take 20 years for the basin to recover but only if the district pumps no more than 2,900 acre feet of water each year, or about 945 million gallons. That level represents a cutback of 28 percent below 2010 use of 4,000 acre feet.
The district anticipates the population of its service area will grow 4.8 percent — from 37,720 in 2010 to 39,550 by 2030 — but expects conservation and curtailment will increase use less than 1 percent over 2010 levels. Even if use returns to higher, pre-recession levels, the district plans to offset the demand.
"(Growth) is a minute fraction of what we have to recover the basin," according to Ron Duncan, the district's conservation director.
Brown said conservation efforts will continue, "but we will always need the (desalination) plant. It becomes for both agencies an insurance policy."
Two-thirds of the city's water customers live in town and the other third live in Capitola, Live Oak or other unincorporated areas up to Davenport. The service area population grew 6 percent from 2000-2010 but use dipped 22 percent, which officials chalk up to conservation and economic factors.
In wet and normal years, the city can draw enough water from the river, streams, wells and reservoir to meet demand, which in recent years has been about 3.1 billion gallons annually. The system is capable of producing at least 4 billion gallons in good years.
But as rainfall and stream discharge from the river decrease, the system becomes vulnerable.
According to the city's 2010 Urban Water Management Plan, rainfall in Santa Cruz has registered below the annual average of 30.7 inches, 21 times from 1974-2010, or nearly 60 percent. The city has classified itself as dry or critically dry 14 times, or nearly 39 percent of the time, during that same period.
In 2009, after several years of dry conditions, the city reduced water use 15 percent for the peak months of May to October. And this year, the city asked customers to cut back 5 percent, prohibiting daytime irrigation, washing down paved surfaces or filling pools until Oct. 31. The Soquel Creek district took similar steps.
After being fined this summer for letting irrigation run off, Previn Patel, owner of the Days Inn on Riverside Avenue and Pacific Inn on Ocean Street, said he understands the problem.
"I am having a whole new approach on how serious the water situation is and how the officials are enforcing it," he said.
As the Sentinel examined supply-and-demand scenarios, what became clear is the desalination plant will be used by the city more than every six to seven years as publicly suggested.
Water Director Bill Kocher has acknowledged his department could run the plant whenever there is even a 5 percent water shortage, though production may not reach the 2.5 million gallon-per-day capacity. If the plant is built and "we just sit on it waiting for shortfalls to reach some arbitrary level, I would think water customers might wonder why," Kocher said.
But in years like this one — when customers have cut back, stream flow is better than predicted and the reservoir is healthy — the city may decide not to use the plant, Kocher said.
In multiple dry years, the city predicts the system will produce 2.6 billion to 2.8 billion gallons annually, which falls 9-15 percent short of current demand of 3.1 billion gallons. Anticipated growth for the entire water service area of 10 percent by 2030 as well as mandated flow restrictions to restore fish habitat will exacerbate the problem.
The Urban Water Management Plan predicts demand could grow 29 percent from current levels to 4 billion gallons annually by 2030, a level that could be reduced by conservation or other measures as in past years. But at that level of growth, the annual shortage would reach 35 percent in the driest years.
Kocher said he believes demand will more realistically reach 3.8 billion gallons by 2030. Under either growth forecast, customer curtailment still would be needed with desalination producing a maximum of just 600 million gallons during the city's priority period.
The Nov. 6 vote on Measure P, the question of whether the city's charter should be changed to secure voters a say on desalination, could be a good bellwether for how engaged citizens are on the issue of water supply.
Until recent years, United Way's annual Community Assessment Project recorded low rankings for the subject of water availability when county residents were surveyed about top environmental concerns. In 2009, when water customers were asked to cut back 15 percent, water availability shot to the top of the list.
Water supply surely will be debated among candidates vying Nov. 6 to fill four open seats — a majority — on the City Council. The council, as seated after the election, is likely to be the one to certify the desalination plant's environmental analysis and vote on whether to proceed.
"Because the desal proposal is essentially a tax increase (via water fees) that faces significant and organized resistance, it is unlikely to be approved in 2014," said candidate Micah Posner. "As a practical matter, the city should immediately prepare and present alternative proposals that provide a modicum of drought security while allowing for water neutral in-fill development at the university and within the city."
Zachary Graham, a university graduate student, understands the need for water but is concerned about the energy requirements associated with desalination, which by the city's own estimates could be 12 times higher than traditional water treatment sources.
"I think there are some hurdles, but where else will Santa Cruz get its water? Loch Lomond's not going to do it, and we're in a drought," said Graham, a doctorate candidate in electrical engineering.
Rama Khalsa of Soquel, who retired in December as the county's public health director, said, "I want to make sure we don't compromise on water quality. I wouldn't want to see standards compromised because we don't have enough. Drinking water is the highest priority."
Khalsa is a member of the Sustainable Water Coalition, a group supportive of pursuing desalination.
"I was seeing that not much of anything is turning around," she said about the local supply problem. "The more we suck out of the major wells in the Soquel water district, the more we tempt fate in terms of saltwater intrusion."
Brent Haddad, who directs the Center for Integrated Water Research at UC Santa Cruz and negotiated the desalination agreement between Santa Cruz and Soquel Creek, said minor cutbacks are barely noticed. But raising curtailment to 30 percent or more rather than approving desalination could have grave consequences.
"We would have our tourism economy that would suffer, we wouldn't be able to serve weekend water demand in summertime, and the kinds of people who would be directly affected would be temporary workers who can be easily dismissed from their jobs," said Haddad, who in July published a seven-year study on the economic and ecological impacts of desalination.
Mike McClellan, a member of the city's Water Commission who serves as facilities manager for the city's largest restaurant employer, the Crow's Nest, likened desalination to "the major medical plan for the economic driver of our city."
He said the restaurant located at the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor would have to consider dropping breakfast or lunch service, possibly laying off 40 to 50 percent of its staff, if water were rationed back 30 percent for businesses in the worst-case drought.
"The trickle down would be huge — first of all employment, then tax dollars and the rent we pay to the Port District," McClellan said. "It's really our worst nightmare."
Follow Sentinel reporter J.M. Brown on Twitter at Twitter.com/jmbrownreports
The city serves a population of about 92,000 — 60,000 living inside the city and 32,000 from outside the city.
42 percent: Single-family residential
23 percent: Multi-family residential
19 percent: Business
7 percent: UC Santa Cruz and small industries
4 percent: Landscape irrigation
2 percent: Commercial agriculture
2 percent: Golf courses and other municipal uses
The district serves about 38,000 from Capitola to La Selva Beach
62 percent: Single-family residential
16 percent: Multi-family residential
18 percent: Commercial, industrial and institutional
4 percent: Irrigation
SOURCE: City of Santa Cruz, Soquel Creek Water District


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AT&T Does Not Manage or Approve Apps for the App Store (Though We May Bitch About the Ones We Dislike)
AT&T has replied to a Federal Communications Commission letter of inquiry into the role it played in the rejection of a number of third-party Google Voice apps and Google's official GV client from Apple's iTunes App Store. The gist of the reply: Don't look at us.
"AT&T does not manage or approve applications for the App Store," the company said in a statement. "We have received the letter and will, of course, respond to it."
A flat denial, and one that would seem to throw Apple (AAPL) under the bus for denying iPhone owners access to Google Voice. Though just why Cupertino would take issue with an an iPhone application that offers free text messaging and allows users to make calls, routed via the Internet, for free in the United States and for a small fee internationally is unclear. After all, it's not Apple's domestic and international calling business the app is potentially encroaching on.
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Vandalism is not an expense you will have accounted for in your business expenditures, but small businesses often become a target for vandals. Coming to your office or shop in the morning, only to find that it has been disfigured during the night is a nightmare no business owner wants to experience. The expense of cleaning up and repairing damage can take up much needed money.
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Vandalism is generally categorized as graffiti, criminal damage, or disfigurement. Most of it will take place at night, when your office is closed. Your office or vehicle will be the most likely targets. While most of this may not be due to any enmity, businesses are most vulnerable to it due to their location. If your vehicle or walls are scratched, painted or maimed, it all counts as vandalism. Sometimes, it will be accompanied by a break in and theft as well.
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If your business has become a victim of a vandalism act, you should file a complaint with the police. If the offender is caught, you could be compensated for the damage. Of course, the expense of correcting the damage caused will be a burden on your business, and the law allows you to seek damages. You can sue the vandal in a tort action to gain reparation. The court may award a jail sentence or a fine as well. .
Preventing Vandalism on Your Property
Vandalism can be prevented by having security cameras on the exterior of your building, and having a well lit area. If your office vehicle must be parked on the street, you should park it under a light where it is in view of a camera. Placing a visible sign warning about your security cameras will deter vandals, as they are more likely to be caught. If you have a boundary wall, you should install barbed wire to deter youngsters from jumping over it and onto your property.
If you want to be compensated for the full damage due to vandalism, inspect your property regularly. It's a good idea to take pictures monthly, so that the insurance company or police has 'before' photos to refer to. Keeping a record of how your property looks will come in handy for insurance claims.
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While repairs to scratched vans can be done by a qualified mechanic, graffiti can be more of a challenge to remove. It is unsightly and bad press for your business. Graffiti is not easy to paint over, and will give you a hefty paint bill. There are many power washing services that will remove graffiti by using solvents that dissolve the paint. This will remove the bulk of the pigment, leaving it easier to paint over. You should consult your insurance company to check if they will cover it under their policy.
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The article is The Application of Dabrowski's Theory to the Gifted by Kevin J. O'Connor and was published in the book Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children: What Do We Know?.
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Dabrowski observed that gifted and creative individuals are often in conflict with the demands and expectations of their environment…
Many in the gifted community believe Dabrowski's overexcitabilites, as they contribute to developmental potential, are a measure and indicator of giftedness.
Overexcitabilities are enhanced modes of being in the world. The word 'over' used in connection with 'excitability' connotes responses to stimuli that are beyond normal and often different in quality. Dabrowski identified "psychic overexcitability" in five forms: psychomotor, sensual, intellectual, imaginational and emotional.
While the concept of developmental potential emphasizes the positive aspects of experiencing life with greater intensity and sensitivity, these same characteristics may also be experienced in negative ways. Individuals with elevated overexcitabilities are more susceptible to being misunderstood and alienated by those who don't share or understand their unique personality traits.
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In 'The Kid', Precious' Son Has Troubles of His Own to Face
On the very first page of The Kid, we learn Precious has died, leaving behind an orphan nine-year-old son, Abdul.
The KidPublisher: Penguin
Length: 384 pages
Author: Sapphire
Format: Hardcover
Publication date: 2011-07
On the very first page of The Kid, we learn Precious has died, leaving behind an orphan nine-year-old son, Abdul. Just like that, Sapphire, whose novel Push was adapted into one of 2009's most acclaimed films, Precious, moves aside her troubled and inspiring creation so that this can be Abdul's story.
Told from his point of view, it is a harrowing, sometimes bewildering tale. He didn't fully grasp the severity of his mother's AIDS; he doesn't understand that he no longer has a home. His temporary place with a friend of his mother's can't last — they share a single bed — and when he is placed in foster care, it is in an environment far more hostile than he is prepared for.
Eventually, he wakes up in a hospital and finds a new placement, in a Catholic boys' home, where he goes by J.J. There, he is well educated by the men in charge, learning science and Shakespeare. He also suffers abuse at their hands, in sexual scenes that play out an inseparable combination of desire, twisted guardianship and self-loathing. Mature for his age and, as he later comes to understand, physically attractive, J.J. routinely performs sexual acts from early adolescence.
If it is little surprise, it is no less devastating when J.J. goes from victim to predator. He slips at night to the beds of younger boys, of weaker boys. In dreamlike language he narrates his sexual conquests: He is "flying", he is "like a king", for him, "it's like ice cream and cake". He doesn't connect these boys' terror and crying with the hatred he feels toward his own rapists; he even befriends one victim, Jaime, an act knitted with loneliness and power. "He's like a little child. I'm like the big father... I hold him in my lap, put my hand on his chest, his heart is beating, beating."
Together he and Jaime have fairly typical teenage adventures — financed by a few perverted adults — exploring the city and getting high. It's on one of their unsanctioned outings that six-foot-tall J.J., often mistaken for older than his 13 years, winds up crashing an African dance class. It's life-changing.
"I listen to the beat, bah dah dah DAH! ... The music rocks, my body turns into an ear hearing it. My body is not a stranger... Here my body is my own, here I am a Crazy Horse dude who never gave up. Here I am like that dude Brother John told us the Schomburg got started by, here I am music, I never been to no police station for lies about little kids, here I got a mother and she ain't no ho die of AIDS. Here in the beat is my life. The flute shrieks and I come again and again and can't nobody stop me."
J.J.'s tribulations may be a grimly realistic scenario for impoverished, unparented youth, but Sapphire realizes them with a highly stylized narrative that portrays his fury, perplexity and passion. His voice rises and skids to its own staccato rhythms. Often dipping into sexual fevers or dream states, it seems to nod to the subjective narrators of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor.
At the boys' home, J.J. remains both victimized and victimizer; although he appears to be on track for a college scholarship, he's too much of a target for the deeply conflicted men who have brought him up. When he's caught perpetrating sexual violence, he's delivered to a relative he didn't know existed; she explains their family's dirt-poor origins in a long passage marked by an extreme sexual and personal frankness. Desperate to find a place of belonging, he moves in with a dance teacher who will train him in exchange for sex.
Divided into four sections, it is the third in which J.J. — now Abdul once again — finds grace, working to become a dancer with promise. He slips between the cracks of the system, avoiding enrolling in school and instead taking dance classes. At 17 and passing for older, he becomes a founding member of an avant-garde dance troupe in Lower Manhattan. He has friends of a sort, and lovers whose encounters are as vividly detailed as his dances: "I continue with my dance, but now I'm not Lord Shiva, I'm King Kong... rising from the jungle with the whole city on my back. King Kong! Columns of glass, concrete, and steel go down with me as I plie, then fly into the sky as I rise."
Though he is an unmistakable physical presence, Abdul's identity is less clear. He keeps people at a remove, his many selves forming an indelible barrier. His growing reputation and new clique put pressure on that cloudy center, and he confronts fears about his parentage, figuring out who his father must be. It's all too much for him.
Sapphire has taken the challenges her Kid faces and distilled them into a devastating voice, demanding and raw. When others speak — a girlfriend narrates her own devastations, and his relative tells the story of their family — the book loses momentum.
It is an accomplished work of art, but it is a grueling story, one whose depictions of brutality and desire may be too challenging for some readers. In its final section, Abdul is institutionalized, swimming into consciousness only intermittently. He's not sure where he is, or what he's done. He's been framed or he's confused or he's guilty. He is not sure of anything. But he is hard to forget.


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If you've ever been to an Accordance training seminar, you know it can feel a little like drinking from a firehose. Rest assured that it's nothing compared to what many of those trainers went through a few years ago. Back then we invited prospective trainers from around the country to come to Orlando for two days of intensive Accordance instruction. Rather than giving them some script to follow in teaching a seminar, we made it our goal to make sure they became real Accordance experts. After all, a big part of leading a training seminar involves answering people's questions, and we wanted our trainers to have that ability in spades.
One of the things I remember about that two days of training is that we spent a lot of time going through every panel of the Accordance Preferences dialog. Now, when I'm teaching a training seminar, I'll open the Preferences and show a few options during the course of the day, but I don't have time to go through the preferences systematically. I'm too busy teaching people how to use Accordance's countless features. Still, if you really want to figure out how to customize Accordance to your specific needs, you would do well to explore the various settings in the preferences.
Maybe take one panel a day and explore its options. If you don't understand what something does, click the Help button for an explanation. You'll be amazed at some of the advanced ways you can tailor Accordance to your own particular needs.
In the next several posts, I'll highlight a few options I think every Accordance user should be aware of. Until then, are there Preference settings you've found particularly indispensible? If so, please let us know in the comments.
Oh, and if you're among the privileged few who experienced that trainers' training seminar in Orlando, feel free to reminisce about what you took away from it.
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Indispensible preference setting? That's got to be the setting to export greek/hebrew text in Unicode.


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I see... one option would be to provide your own FNT file (which is actually a plain text file) to map coordinates within the PNG file to the corresponding characters. If you open it within a text editor, you would see something like this:
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page id=0 file="font_dejavu_sans_0.png"
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char id=32 x=1632 y=0 width=4 height=15 xoffset=0 yoffset=0 xadvance=4 page=0 chnl=15
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(... and so on ...)
An alternative would be to create a custom version of the 'font_conv' utility that would convert the image in a more direct way, though unless you're using some fixed width font, you still would need some way to specify the offsets.
That's weird... perhaps I should have included the DLL in the pngq directory, as I had done with 'libpng13.dll'.
Anyway, until I fix this, one option would be to donload the DLL directly from sourceforge: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/libp ... p?download ; just add the copy of 'zlib1.dll' that comes inside this zip to the 'pngnq-0.5-i386-win' directory.


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Serum globulin electrophoresis is a laboratory test that looks at proteins called globulins in the blood.
See also:
Globulin electrophoresis
A blood sample is needed. For information on how this is done, see: Venipuncture
The blood sample is sent to a lab. The fluid part of blood (serum) is placed on specially treated paper and exposed to an electric current. The proteins move on the paper to form bands that show the amount of each protein fraction in relation to the other protein fractions.
Fast for 4 hours before the test. The health care provider may advise you to stop taking drugs that can interfere with the test. Do NOT stop taking any medications without first telling your health care provider.
Drugs that can affect the measurement of serum proteins include chlorpromazine, corticosteroids, isoniazid, neomycin, phenacemide, salicylates, sulfonamides, and tolbutamide.
When the needle is inserted to draw blood, some people feel moderate pain. Others feel only a prick or stinging sensation. Afterward, there may be some throbbing.
This test is performed to look at globulin proteins in the blood. Identifying the types of globulins can help diagnose certain disorders.
Globulins are roughly divided into three groups: alpha, beta, and gamma globulins. Gamma globulines include various types of antibodies such as immunoglobulins (Ig) M, G, and A.
Certain diseases are associated with overproduction of immunoglobulins. For example, Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia is a cancer of certain white blood cell that is associated with the overproduction IgM antibodies.
The examples above are common measurements for results of these tests. Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Some labs use different measurements or test different samples.Talk to your doctor about the meaning of your specific test results.
Increased gamma globulin proteins may indicate:
There is very little risk involved with having your blood taken. Veins and arteries vary in size from one patient to another and from one side of the body to the other. Taking blood from some people may be more difficult than from others.
Other risks associated with having blood drawn are slight but may include:
McPherson R. Specific proteins. In: McPherson RA, Pincus MR. Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods. 21st ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders; 2006:chap 19.
Tricot G. Multiple Myeloma. In: Hoffman R, Benz EJ, Shattil SS, et al, eds. Hematology: Basic Principles and Practice. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone; 2008:chap 87.
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Not a single strand of carbon fiber. If Jon at Sabrosa or Tony at Pereira were mass producing bikes in Taiwan I imagine they'd look something like the All-City Nature Boy.
Internal cable routing, integrated seat post collar and sexy drop-outs will now be mandatory features on all my future bikes. The lugged fork and head tube badge are unexpected bonus details.
You get a lot of cool stuff for about as much coin as a fancy carbon crankset. And, most importantly, I find myself looking for any excuse to take it out for a ride.
The only niggle to all the swag: it's heavy. I don't really want to know how much it weighs. Admittedly, I only notice the weight when hefting it up and down 3 flights of stairs every time I go for a ride, which, seems like several times a day now.
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Grover Norquist isn't shy about slamming critics of his anti-tax crusade. But in one instance, at least, he says he may have gone too far.
Peter King, the Long Island congressman, said the other day that he considered The Pledge—the vow that most Republican lawmakers have made to Norquist not to support tax hikes—to be binding for only one session of Congress. Whereupon the head of Americans for Tax Reform said of King that he hopes "his wife understands that commitments last a little longer than two years."
"Perhaps I should have cut him some slack on that because he said something stupid" while appearing on television to talk about Libya, Norquist tells me in a video interview. "He knows perfectly well the pledge is for as long as you're in Congress. For him to suggest there's an expiration date is irritating…I consider that a real cheap stunt."
Okay, maybe he's not that sorry.
Norquist is in the midst of an extraordinary media blitz, appearing on one television show after another now that a number of GOP senators are saying they could break the pledge and support a budget deal with the White House that raises revenues as well slashes spending. Norquist dismisses this as "the same six people they interviewed two years ago saying they might raise taxes…This is turning in last year's homework again."
I kept asking why he, a somewhat nerdy numbers guy, was such a media star, but Norquist deflected the questions. First he claimed that Harry Reid, during last year's debt-ceiling fight, said that Republicans were willing to raise taxes "except Grover won't let them. Me?" Then he likened himself to Ralph Nader, "Mr. Consumer," as the public face of a movement. When the members of Congress who actually write the laws are busy, he says, "I'll do."
So how does Norquist keep up with it all? He says he got up at 4 a.m. to read his backlog of e-mails.


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Inflate Image
Converts a BMP into a 3D model.
Image Inflate Tutorial
1) Select Inflate Image from the Model menu.
2) Click Image... and pick a BMP image.
3) Click OK and you are done.
4) You can cancel during the "Prepare Height..." phase - It will still make a mesh, but will skip the rest of the smoothing steps.
The final mesh is made at the origin, with size determined by the two scale values [If Scale(X,Y) is the same as Scale(Z) an image circle should become a 3D sphere].
It is usually best to use a higher resolution image than you want the final mesh to be, Quad Size (pixels) is the width of an output quad represented as a number of incoming image pixels. (Using a Quad size of 1 gives very large (slow) meshes and also bugs in Curvy).
Image Inflate Settings
Inflation Mode:
Relief mode creates a heightmap from the image brightness.
Use a greyscale image with white where you want a higher surface.
Auto mode cuts out the white area of the image and estimates a rounded 3D surface to make a 3D model - this mode can handle very complex input images.
The best images to use are solid black and white pictures (not greyscale), 128-256 pixels wide with patches of solid white where you want your object to appear.
Smooth - Uncheck to get a straight line inflation, a circle becomes a cone, a rectangle becomes tent like. This can be useful along with Clamp Height to make spaceship bumpmaps.
Quality (Steps) - Used to control smoothness of the Auto surface.
Mirror to make back faces - Tick to make a full 3D surface, leave unticked to make a simple heightmap.
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There is an almost constant battle at our pool between the Masters swimmers and the Aqua Fitness/pleasure lap swimmers with whom we share our pool over pool water temperatures. Our Masters group would like to have cooler water for our strenuous workouts. This cooler pool water temperature is between 79 and 81 degrees. The Aqua Fitness group is made up of older men and women, who prefer a warmer pool water temperature. The battle raged for what seemed like forever. Finally, it appeared that management was able to mostly appease everyone. They kept one pool, where we have practice, slightly cooler and the other pool is kept quite warm. Now for the mechanical snafu.
The word came via Twitter and Facebook before practice. It said, basically that the water temperature of the PP (Program Pool, where we practice) is a brisk 76 degrees. You may bring your wetsuit if you so desire. Well, I don't own a wetsuit (yet?). I wasn't sure if I would need one, but I was sure that 76 was about what the projected temperature of Mirror Lake (in Lake Placid) is in August. I am hoping to do the two mile cable swim there at that time. So my first thought was, Yay! I can find out if I'm going to need to rent a wet suit or not for that swim! My second thought was, I wonder if it will be too cold for me to swim. I haven't really had a lot of opportunities to swim in colder or "brisk" water. So, I was looking forward to the challenge. It took me a lot longer than usual to warm up, but I guess I sort of eventually did. We had two people leave to swim in the hot pool, which was an awful 86 degrees. I could not practice in water that warm. My skin felt cool the whole practice, but I liked it, I was comfortable. It was so much better than swimming in warm water. When we got out of the pool, the walk to the locker was so much more pleasant. We are usually freezing, but after the chilly water, we were fine. The same was true of the locker room. I could get used to that temperature, I think
At the very least, now I know that I can swim for 75 minutes in 76 degree water. Good to know. What about you? Are you a cold water or warm water swimmer?
Today was the last of our planned long swim days to prepare for the One Hour Postal Swim. We hope to have one long swim a month down the road (maybe starting in March) to prepare for the Chesapeake Bay Swim, among other open water swims some members of our Masters club are planning for this summer. I had high hopes for myself today after enjoying a really good post practice long swim last week. However, due to a couple of "game-changers," I opted for a different goal. My original plan was to swim for 45 minutes and see how I did. Game Changer number one was that I started to come down with a cold this week, and while I've been diligently taking my Zicam for the past two days, I must admit to not being 100 percent. The great news is that I've been taking Zicam and felt good enough to be able to swim today. Game Changer number two was the killer workout Sue had for us today. Whew! It was a 3900 yard day, with the main set that looked like this: 4X 100 on 1:40 & 200 on 3:30 (Work the 100s); Then do a 100 or 200 easy followed by 4X 100 on 2:00 & 200 on 3:15 (Work the 200s). So, needless to say, I had a lot less left in the tank for the post-practice long swim than I did last week. However, since I am always competing with myself, I had to at least swim the same number of yards as last week's all time (practice) high. So, I set out to swim a 1000 and see how I felt after that. I did it and felt pretty tired. I was able to get the additional yardage in for the 5300 yard grand total, which is great. I didn't know what to expect, but am pretty happy. Not as happy as last week, mind you, but happy. Next week we will be doing the One Hour Postal Swim! Hopefully, I'll be in form for it. Happy Friday! ~AngieKozBlogs
The other day I wasn't feeling it for practice. I didn't feel like I had had anything particularly awesome about the swim itself afterwards, either. But, today. I had awesomeness. Today was the first Friday we were given the chance to do a long swim after our normal Masters practice to prepare for our 1 Hour Postal swim at the end of the month. So, we did 3300 yards for practice. It wasn't too demanding of a practice because we have several swimmers competing in a meet this weekend. But, it was still work. I tried to be very realistic about what I'd be able to do after the practice. I didn't want to completely fall apart, physically. So, I asked our Coach, Sue, to set her watch for 30 minutes. I decided I wanted to see how I'd do at that point. My hopes were that I would be at a mile or a little over. And, I felt really pretty good. I kept a pretty steady pace for the first bunch of 100s. I ended up with 1750 yards in 30 minutes! I'm so happy and proud of myself. I did a 250 yard cool down after for 2000 extra yards, which, added to the 3300 practice yards, is the most I've logged in a single practice in my adult swimming life. I am really excited to see how I do next week. I'm going to have Sue set the clock at 45 minutes for me. Hour Postal, here I come!! ~AngieKozblogs
You know those days when you are tired or sore from the previous day's workout and you get to the pool, and you just aren't feeling it? Well, it seems that a lot of that was going around at our 10:00 AM Masters workout yesterday. I was headed for the pool deck, when I passed my lane mate, Roberta. She looked at me and said, "I'm not feeling it today. And, I just saw Judy (another lane mate) and she isn't feeling it either, so it's up to you. Translation: I am leading the lane today. Perfect. I said, "But, wait! I'm not feeling it either!" Well, I did my workout with as much effort as I could muster. And, we took turns leading the lane. It wasn't a banner workout. However, it was a workout. We did a fly drill set with fins that felt extra tiring. After that, we did a long-ish main set involving sprinting various distances and 200 yard easy/recoverys in between. After practice, several of us were chatting about how exhausted we were to start off the week. So, it wasn't just our lane, we all had a case of the not feeling its. This then led to a short discussion on the toll doing certain fitness regimens can take on our now older bodies and about cross training. Yep. We are all getting older. I was mentioning how I need to lift weights two times a week, even if I'd rather be swimming. And, something along the lines of, Swimming makes me happy. And, one of my swimmer friends, who swims a lane or two away from me, said something like, Oh, yes. I know. You look happy when you're swimming. This comment took me by surprise, especially today when I wasn't feeling particularly happy or accomplished in the water. But, the thing is, even on a bad swimming day, I'm usually happy after, if not during. This made me remember that back in November, I had started a list of how swimming makes me feel at any given moment. Here is my list (in no particular order): Swimming Makes Me Feel
Mentally free
of earthly issues, concerns, people, places, appointments, etc.
Owned by/a slave to the clock
Filled with joy
Stress free
So good afterwards, I want to spend as much time as possible doing it.
I hope to keep adding to this list as I think of new ways swimming makes me feel. It is almost a my Benefits of Swimming List. I'm sure other swimmers (and runners, skaters, skiers, walkers, and etc.) would have similar lists. For example, I don't know any swimmers who would say that swimming doesn't make them hungry. Swimmers are usually always hungry. At least they are after they swim. So, even though I started out not feeling it, I was feeling pretty happy and accomplished after practice. And, I'm grateful to my swimmer friends for reminding me why I swim. Happy Swimming to all of you! AngieKozBlogs
If you are a Masters swimmer, you know there are a lot of swim meets during the winter months that you can choose (or not) to participate in. In our area, we have a series of meets that start in November and go through March. There is one meet per month. Our Coach, Sue, usually trains our group in such a way that those who wish to compete in the meets are prepared to do so. There is an extra boost to this training that starts in January. That means interval speed training, starts of the blocks, IM sets (or stroke sets-doing something other than Freestyle), and general technique work. Meanwhile, back at the U.S. Masters - national level, there is a competition called the 1 Hour Postal Swim that runs from 1-31 January. Yes, that's right. You guessed it. We are training for meets, but we (many of us, anyway) are going to participate in the Hour Postal, as well. We don't often get much in the area of long swims to prepare for the Postal because we are stroking it out and doing shorter distances to prep for meets. This year, thanks to Sue (and the wonderful management at our pool), we are being given the opportunity to train for the Postal. We are getting an extra hour of practice one day a week for the next couple of weeks to do some long swims. Yay! I am so excited! Wish us luck! And, here's hoping the weather doesn't ruin our long swim training time!


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Is Monster Beverage Einhorn's next target?January 18, 2013: 12:38 PM ET
Shares of Monster Beverage (MNST) sank as much as 8% Friday on chatter that hedge fund manager David Einhorn may soon announce a short position in the energy drink maker.
If Einhorn is going to short Monster, it would not be a huge shock. He has made waves in the past few years for successfully shorting other consumer stocks that some believe were fads, such as Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) and Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG).
Einhorn also caused a big sell-off in Herbalife (HLF) last spring when he asked management critical questions on a conference call. Although it appears that he never shorted the controversial nutritional supplement marketer, leaving that battle for fellow hedgie Bill Ackman.
A spokesperson for Einhorn's firm Greenlight Capital has no comment about the Monster speculation. But traders on StockTwits were salivating about the possibility of another prominent Einhorn short target.
Talk emerges that Einhorn is short Monster beverage... stock gets insta-crushed $MNST
Glad to see Einhorn may be short $MNST, nothing good about those drinks, seems like a fad too
Still, even if Einhorn is steering clear of Monster, there are other reasons why the stock could come under pressure. The company has been scrutinized lately due to health concerns about its popular beverages, which include lots of caffeine as well as stimulants such as taurine and guarana.
The FDA is investigating Monster and other energy makers and some deaths have been blamed on excessive consumption of energy drinks. A wrongful death suit has also been filed against Monster. To date though, there has been nothing definitive that links any health problems specifically to energy drinks. Monster has vowed to defend itself in court.
With that in mind, some traders think that the stock, which is down more than 40% from its 52-week high, has been oversold.
Several StockTwits users said the blame lies with consumers for reckless behavior, not Monster and its line of drinks.
#EnergyDrink related emergency room visits skyrocket "Main Cause Mixing With Alcohol"http://t.co/CWUi3TYb $MNST #Redbull $$ #NotTheProducts
One day people are going to realize that $MNST / 5 hr energy etc. hospital cases are a result of stupid people, not the products themselves.
I am not a fan of energy drinks - but the FDA just looked at the data and came back w nothing $MNST
Exactly. No links between deaths and energy drinks has been proven. But lawsuits and regulatory reviews are never good news for stocks. Still, one trader thinks that the Monster sell-off could finally lead to the company getting taken over.
$KO Chance to buy with short sighted sellers fearing energy drink issue. $MNST decline = better market share for KO with diverse mix. $SPY
Rumors that Coca-Cola (KO) would want to buy Monster have been around for a while now. Not sure I buy it. But stranger things have happened. Heck, Dell (DELL) might get taken over by private equity firms ... which leads me to my Reader Comments of the Week.
The talk of Dell potentially going private was one of the big stories on Wall Street this week. I'm still a bit skeptical, and used a quote from my beloved Rush to express said doubts. Hedge fund manager Eric Jackson had a couple more.
Just thought of another one! There is trouble in the forest. There is trouble with the PCs. For shareholders want more sales growth and Michael Dell ignores their pleas. Anyway, all this talk of Rush got another Twitter friend to make this very amusing remark about how Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart foresaw the Great Recession.
Maybe Rush shorted Lehman Brothers just like Einhorn did?


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