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They write: "By Aquafish, manufactured for use in fish tanks at one capsule/tablet for every 10 gallons of water." If this disturbs you, see Ragnar Benson below.
Lactoferrin reduces inflammatory over-reactions of the immune system.Get the Life Extension Brand of lactoferrin.
Get Prepared! The Life you save will be your own! Don't depend on others....and this means wives and husbands. Everybody has to carry part of the load.
When we emerge from this, my, what we will have learned. Common decency, respect, and care for others will return; we will become good stewards of the Earth again.
People just can not store enough liquid chlorine bleach for what is coming. Also, it weakens over time. I have investigated this matter and have found that swimming pool water purifications have the bleach in dry form. But, beware, you don't want something that has all sorts of other chemicals listed. It may not list them, but will say it has clarifiers, anti-foamers, etc. in the dry bleach---stay away from this type.
One brand we recommend is Granular Dry Chlorinator by PoolTime. You can get it at Home Depot for $44.00. It comes in 25 pound plastic buckets and consists primarily of Calcium Hypochlorite. We like this brand because Calcium Hypochlorite [Ca(OCl)2] is not hygroscopic (does not attract water); practically clear in water solution; and, which is very important, a stable chlorine carrier. A strong oxidizing material (read our book, Chemical/Biological WarFare ... How You Can Survive for more information on oxidizing material for chemical and biological agents.
Calcium Hypochlorite is an algicide; bactercide; deodorant; potable water purification; disinfectant for swimming pools; fungicide; and a strong bleaching agent
You can literally make 625 gallons of super-chlorinating (shocking) bleach using just 1 ounce in 625 gallons of water! Thus, to make just a gallon of strong bleach, use a very small amount. Add the dry chlorine bleach to the water and you've just made bleach! Follow all the instructions and precautions on the side panel for safety. You can use this for storage, sell, or trade--you are gonna need it!
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When food and fuel become extremely scarce, and if you have food and fuel but did not learn how to defend yourself (see other documents, "Survival," and "Refugees, Vagrants, & Hoboes" on this Web Site), there will be those who have infrared heat seeking devices that will track to your home. Many hunters have these where they can see in the dark because of the light and heat gathering ability of these scopes.
If the scopes show heat, then they will accurately assess you have not only the fuel, but food too! Oh .... these are desperate men, they will be looking for not only fuel and food, but FEMALES too.
As destestable as this crime is (the victim(s) more often than not feel as if they are about to be killed) with the physical injury, the psychological pain is unimaginable---now, they have to cope with another worry. The contraction of AIDS. We can help you with the latter, but not the former.
There are a number of O-T-C, over-the-counter medications that can stop the aids virus if they are used quick enough. Also, if some semblence of law and order is still about, you can save the wash solution to incriminate the criminal in a court of law and receive justice. The substances we recommend will not destroy the genetic material in the rapist's sperm cells and allow him to be identified.
The substance you want to douche with immediately after the rape that will kill the AIDS virus is Nonoxynol 9. It must be used as soon as possible. It not only kills the AIDS virus, but other Sexually Transmitted Diseases also. In fact, douche wash in recent studies have shown that sperm cells can be isolated up to five (5) days when using Nonoxynol 9.
Nonoxynol 9 is the spermicidal agent found in many birth control agents. It is found in Ortho-Creme Contraceptive foam; Semicid Vaginal Contraceptive Inserts; Encare; Emko Because Contraceptive foam; Intercept Contraceptive Inserts; and Gynol II Contraceptive Jelly. Get some, have it on hand, advise your friends to, also.
Another thing you can use is vinegar that is diluted with water in the ratio of 1 part vinegar to 10 parts water. Example: 3 ounces vinegar in 30 ounces water. But the Nonoxynol does do all we said according to the research; the vinegar, it did not say, other than it will kill the AIDS virus.
Ginger Root capsules or ginger tea made from bags would be good for nausea, motion sickness, morning sickness, and upset stomach in general when you feel like you want to wretch. A good hot cup of ginger is soothing to the psyche.
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For application of medicines and more, see, Where There Is No Doctor, a Village Health Care Handbook by David Werner. Read the Green pages carefully.
Ragnar Benson; Do - It Yourself Medicine-- How to Find and Use The Most Effective Antibiotics, Painkillers, Anesthetics, and Other Miracle Drugs ... Without Costly Doctors' Prescriptions or Hospitals. Call (303) 443-7250, Paladin Press for book. He points that veternary medicines are no different from the same medicines you take, except the price.
For veterinary medicines, call 1- 800 - Jeffers; ask for Cattle, Swine, etc. catalog. Or, visit you local Farm and Ranch store.
We strongly suggest you get a current edition of The Merck Manual for consultation. Remember, it is not a matter of if, but when this all goes down, you may not be able to see a physician, much less get to a hospital, to say the least.
Albert Schweitzer, 1876 - 1965, Alsatian writer, musician, missionary, and great humanitarian doctor in Africa, claimed only two books. One, from which he got his medicine for the outbacks of Africa, The Merck Manual, and the other, The Holy Bible.
Remember! You are not trying to play doctor, just stay alive. What is coming is going to be unimaginable! Get prepared now.
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We have given common household chemicals that you can use in the event of a chemical warfare attack, and much of the same everyday household items can also be used in germ warfare decontamination.
This book tells you how you can make your own passable protective chemical and biological warfare suit; also where to get protective masks and the antibiotics you can secure without prescription. We also instruct the readers where professional protective suits and chemicals (used by U.S Government Military) for decontamination can be found, if so desired.
It is no longer a matter of if, but when America will be attacked with chemical/biological weapons of mass destruction.
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They're starting to come in—this from Time Magazine:
". . . imprisoned by a monstrous man (Jason Isaacs) who appears to have motives beyond sadism;"
"Marling and Isaacs are both strong, as is Emory Cohen . . . . The scenes in which she is acting with either actor are the series' best,"
Unfortunately, the subtitle of this review is "Strong performances by Brit Marling and Jason Isaacs get lost in an overly complicated mythology"
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Netflix series, premiering Friday December 16th 2016. Jason plays Dr. Hunter (Hap), who researches near death experiences (NDE). I don't know how to explain this, watch it yourselves.
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Sounds like shades of Awake - and a little of DIG. I can't wait to see it. I'm not afraid of a complicated plot!
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A San Francisco man fatally shot on Oct. 10 has been identified as Phillip Gaston, 23.
Gaston was shot around 7:30 p.m. in the 500 block of Head Street, in the Ingleside Heights neighborhood, according to police.
The killing was the 44th this year in San Francisco. It followed two weekends in which five people were slain in the city.
Those fatally shot on Oct. 7 and 8 were:
- Keron Lamotte, 22; shot on Oct. 7, Plymouth and Broad.
- Alfredo Dixon, 33; shot on Oct. 8, Sixth and Natoma.
In addition, the police reported that Fidel Amezcua died on Oct. 1 of injuries suffered three months previous. Amezcua, 29, was shot in the abdomen on June 26 at 24th and Shotwell.


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Just popping in for a sec to say "Hi!"
I'm still working on getting things reorganized at home and with all the online business stuff (I've now added a Twitter account on top of the blog and 3 websites to update/maintain) and we just had a major scramble over trying to get the taxes done. Long story short, our tax guy (that we've used for the last 15 years or so) wound up in the hospital and we didn't find out until April 4th that he'd not gotten to our returns yet. Yeah, not real happy about that … especially with this being the first return for the new business! At least we managed to find a guy who seems really good and he was willing to take us on last minute. Got it all signed and submitted today. Crisis averted … Whew!
Amongst all the chaos here, we've managed to squeeze a few more things in. First, I finally found some time to tweak a recipe for a Lavender Pound Cake. I got the recipe from the Mt Shasta Lavender Farm and tried it out but it was a little too dense for me. After a few small tweaks, I came up with a combination that is really yummy. And yes, I'll share. 🙂
Lavender Pound Cake 1/4 Cup Milk 4 Eggs 2 Cups sifted Cake or Pastry Flour 1 Cup Sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder 2 Sticks (half pound) Butter 1 1/2 teaspoons Vanilla 2 teaspoons crushed Lavender buds Heat oven to 350° F. Grease and flour a loaf pan (8 x 4 x 2 1/2) and line the bottom with parchment paper. Mix the flour, sugar, baking powder and lavender in a large mixing bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk the eggs, milk and vanilla until well blended. Slice the butter into tablespoon sized chunks and add to dry mixture. Add about 1/2 the egg mixture and mix with a hand mixer on low speed until all the dry ingredients are moist. Mix on high speed for one minute. Scrape the bowl and add half the remaining egg mixture. Mix on high for 30 seconds. Scrape the bowl again, add the rest of the egg mixture, and mix on high for an additional 30 seconds. Pour into prepared loaf pan. Bake at 350° F for about an hour. Cake is done when a toothpick inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean.
We also put together a window seat for our kitty Samira. She kept standing on hubby's dresser trying to see out the bedroom window so we took some plywood, 2 inch foam bedding, an old pillow case, and a couple shelf brackets and built her a padded seat so she can watch the birds in our Magnolia tree out front. I think she likes it.
That's pretty much it for the moment. I'm still trying to get to reading blogs but really want to get the house finished before summer vacation so that's taking priority right now. If we have cell service this year (we switched carriers in January so we'll see if it's any better this year) maybe I can use the phone to create my own little network and read them while I'm in Shasta.
One last thing … I promised Kathy that I'd post pics of the ornaments I made for the holidays this past December (I used her instructions/pattern) and I'm late getting to that. I do have pictures of all those that I made and will post more (all?) of them later, but for now here are a few of them.
OK … time for bed since it's almost 3 am here. Hopefully I can do some real catch up soon! *smooches*


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After the Nuggets kick-started the Mavs' summer vacation, George Karl still had the series in his mind. Namely, the fans in Dallas. According to Denver's head coach, his players had to deal with racial epithets when the games were played at American Airlines Arena (something Carmelo Anthony's wife also alleges that similar things happened to her in the stands.)
From SI.com:
"I felt it crossed the line," Karl said. "There was a racist mentality to it. There was a fighting mentality to it. It was to the point where blows I think could have happened. There wasn't enough security. There wasn't enough comfort for the fan who didn't want any part of it."
Karl said he heard the "N-word" from people in the crowd directed at his players. Karl plans to address the situation with the NBA after the playoffs.
Those are obviously very serious charges to make, which is why it shouldn't surprise anyone that Mark Cuban (who Karl said didn't help matters much during the series) came rushing to his customers' defense. The Dallas Morning News has Mark's side of the story:
"The better team won the series. However, the mischaracterization of Mavs fans and the suggestion that there was a continuous racial or other type of onslaught by Mavs fans in the area toward the Nuggets bench and their fans is absolutely incorrect."
In his response, Cuban said security reports indicated that a bodyguard trying to "proactively protect" friends and family members of Nuggets' players escalated tensions. Cuban said no video evidence reveals Mavericks fans acting in an abusive manner. He invited Karl and Denver security to review the Mavericks' documentation. "May I also politely suggest to Coach Karl that they increase security in their traveling party and near their bench," Cuban wrote.
George Karl added that he plans to talk to the League office about the Mavs fans sometime after the season.


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Remnants of you around the house
Your stubble speckled over the sink
And the cat's incessant whining
I curl myself into a cold ball
And pray for unconsciousness
You vanished
Like you never happened
Like a memory of a memory
Like a banal dream
You erased yourself
Off my consciousness
And I became
In my vacancy
The only remnant of you
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Remnant of You
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Pleasant. Stop dwelling on memories of memories and memories of you and shadows of memories and remains of memories and shattered pieces of memories and leftovers of memories and memories of quasidust and memories of hallucinations and hallucinations of memories and memories visiting Dr. A because they cannot sleep tight due to someone's aftereffect as all of that grows redundant over time (No, I am proud of being a bitch. To2 moot). "I curl. pray for unconsciousness" is the only astounding part here. The rest is pleasant.
Ton frère Ahmad
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Why are European and South American soccer teams so much better than the USMNT and what are the most important elements of success lacking in the US Team?
The European and South American soccer teams are better than the USMNT for 3 reasons:
1. Diversity (or lack thereof): You can also call this fact the limiting pool of players available to the USMNT. Imagine you are a baby boy born in say, Argentina or the Netherlands and your parents are going to give you a gift. If it's going to be a sporting gift, 99% of the time you are going to get a soccer ball. If you are a baby boy born in America chances are you are going to get a basketball, a football, a baseball or even a hockey stick and a puck before you get a soccer ball (these days you might even get whatever they use to play lacrosse before you get a soccer ball). The diversity in America makes it very difficult or almost impossible to recruit the best athletes for soccer. I'm sure America has tons of great athletes that, with proper instruction, could be equal or better than Drogba, Sterling, Ronaldo, Robben, etc. I'm equally sure there is an American kid right now that could be a big soccer start in Europe in 2105 , maybe not at the same level as Messi or Ronaldo but right below them but guess what? He has never touched a soccer ball in his life! He's playing wide receiver in the NFL or is an outfielder in MLB or is a winger in the NHL. Not much you can do around this other that give it time: the soccer culture is starting to take hold in America and I can see it more and more when I travel. I've been here for 20 years as an expat and when I arrived in America I would be the only one in say, an airport with an Arsenal shirt or a Maradona shirt. These days I literally cannot go through an airport and not run into kids that are wearing Barca shirts, Messi shirts, Manchester United shirts, Brazil shirts and so on. It's happening, you just need to give it time. As more kids play soccer the USMNT pool of players will get better. Right now it has to go outside its borders to find players as Klinsmann has done with so many German Americans (Jermaine Jones, John Brooks, etc.) and Mexican Americans (Ventura Alvarado, Michael Orozco, etc.)
2. Creativity: This one is totally an education issue or, in this case, over education and is totally in US Soccer hands to fix. If you are a boy growing up in South America, Europe or Mexico you just go play on the street or the park and there is where you can run wild, try to do crazy things with the ball and do it over and over. It is all unsupervised from the coaching point of view; it's just kids playing soccer. America takes the opposite approach: everything is scripted. Leagues like AYSO are great for introducing kids to soccer but they are so heavy on instructions and drills that the kids' creativity has no place to develop. American soccer needs to get away from being so rigid on formal training. I can guarantee you Ronaldinho did not come up with his awesome tricks (a small sample below) during drills or conditioning. He came up with them just playing with his buddies on the street. America should encourage that and it is not doing it enough of it. American soccer players will never be outrun (they have great conditioning, not a problem there) but they are not creative. The USMNT needs a maestro like Ronaldinho or Xavi who is creative. Michael Bradley is probably the best we have right now and, as good as he is, he's not a maestro or an orchestrator; he's a defensive midfielder trying to be one and Klinsmann knows this. If Jurgen had a choice he would not have deployed Bradley as a creator, he just does not have enough creative players to have an alternative.
3. Coaching: Most coaches in South America and Europe (not only at the pro level but pretty much every level below it) have spent their whole life either playing or coaching soccer. The elite ones have gone abroad to study and learn from the best soccer academies of the world. Tell me how many American coaches have had a similar life, not many. Who's the best American coach right now? Most people would not disagree that Bruce Arena is the one or one of the top ones and he has never coached outside the United States. He and his brethren should have had experiences at Manchester United, Real Madrid, Ajax and so on. If you want to improve you have to learn from the best and it starts with the coaches. I don't see it happening right now but I hope I'm wrong. The other alternative is you bring coaches from abroad which is why Jurgen Klinsmann is the national team coach. I highly doubt there is an American coach as qualified as him.
– Icaro Vazquez
How do people make/steal money using credit card skimmers?
First and foremost, a credit card skimmer is just an easy way to collect a pool of credit card numbers. The pool will keep getting fresh new data as long as the skimmer is well placed/hidden (ie. a gas station pump). Also, the magnetic strip on your credit card contains a ton of information including but not limited to the name on the card, the credit card number, and expiration. The first 6 digits of the card even identify where the card came from (such as bank, issuer, etc.)
Let's call the guy who made/placed the skimmer the "fraudster". The fraudster collects the credit card data that the skimmer has read and can do multiple things with it.
1) As mentioned, he/she can sell large swaths of these CC numbers online in auctions (usually anonymously on TOR). Since they know the first 6 digits, they can even bucket them into high value cards. For example, Amex cards typically have higher credit limits than a regular debit card. They might organize the Amex cards into one list and earn more on that list than they would from say, Bank of America debit cards.
2) Another thing they can do is transfer the stolen card info onto a new card (someone mentioned this) BUT it is actually not as common to do this onto an existing card with the fraudster's name on it. Instead, these fraudsters usually buy blank hotel keys in bulk (very easy to purchase, common item for hotels/motels). They now have 500 physical cards that they can transfer the stolen credit card info onto. Now these cards are just blank white plastic cards, so going to a store and using them is pointless and too risky. Instead, they sign up to get their own credit card machine. Some are pretty cheap or even free (such as PayPal Here or Square). They can pretend to be some store using fake information and then start physically swiping the cards with the stolen data. The advantage of physically swiping them is the transaction will appear to the processing company and bank/card issuer as done "in-person" since the card was swiped. These are seen as lower risk transactions since most fraud is committed via just "keyed-in transactions" (such as online purchases, over the phone purchases, etc.). The machine that reads the cards only reads the magnetic strip, so it doesn't recognize that these are just generic hotel keys or crappy plastic cards someone bought online. So to the machine/reader, and to the credit card company and the credit card processor, it is just a normal physically swiped transaction.
There are more nuances and ways this can get more lucrative but that's the basics of it. Luckily most cardholders are protected from this kind of fraud by their bank/card issuer. If you recognize bad transactions they will cancel the card, refund your money, and send you a new one. The bummer is the people who get hosed are the businesses that might unknowingly accept your stolen card information and sell something. When you get a refund from your bank after "disputing" a transaction – that money typically comes from the business it was used at, not the bank. So if a business is tricked into selling a $2,000 painting over the phone to a guy who gave them a stolen credit card number – that business is going to lose the painting and the money and there's nothing they can do about it since the responsibility to investigate was theirs (according to most processors).
– CleanAxe
What exactly is a surveyor doing when he's looking through that thing on a tripod? What does he do with the information afterwards?
There are a few different things that may be on that tripod, but traditional surveying is "rod and level surveying". He is looking through whatt is essentially a magnified scope which is made to be level with the ground. When he looks at what the other guy is holding, the rod, it has heights marked on it. So the guy with the rod puts it on top of a benchmark, or a spot with a known elevation, and once the surveyer reads the marking on the rod he can add it to what he knows that points elevation is to find out the exact elevation of his level.
Once he knows the elevation of his level, the rod guy can go pretty much anywhere within sight distance of the level, and do the same thing again. Only this time, the level man subtracts the reading on the rod from the elevation of his level. By doing this, he can find the elevation of any point around, and create a ground profile, find the high and low spots and where water will want to flow.
Typically this information is used to determine placement of any structure or the layout of projects
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What is the Wells Fargo Scam all about?
Bankers get a commission (extra money,) for certain actions. These usually invoice opening accounts. The more accounts you open, the more money you get. Commission is a bonus. It's not a requirement for your base salary. Many banks create a quota of sales that they expect their bankers to hit. When accounts are opened with certain products(direct deposit, online banking, etc) is profitable for the bank.
Wells Fargo had an environment, where if your bankers were not making enough commission, they were reprimanded. Every location has a limited amount of customers. The quotas at Wells Fargo were much higher than achievable. This is a tactic for any sales force to raise the bar higher to get your team to perform harder. Unfortunately the quotas were so high, and the pressure on the employees was equally high, many resorts to illegal actions to achieve those goals.
Bankers opened accounts without the owners permission. Credit cards, checking, savings, online banking, bill pay. They would transfer money around to these accounts, simulate the activity that would get them paid, and transfer it back. The banker hits their numbers, three bank looks profitable, no one thinks about it. This goes on for years, and customers are asking about credit cards/accounts they never applied for.
Keep in mind, when we say bankers, we mean regular employees who make 25k-35k a year before commission.
This type of stuff isn't uncommon, but such a drastic beach across the board showes that when you create a highly pressured incentive based system, and punish those who perform poorly, you'll create a corrupt system. There was no one looking to see if these dates were legitimate, they only cared that numbers were met.
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How can an airline justify me not being able to update a plane ticket to someone else's name? It's paid for, who cares who uses it as long as they're notified?
"Updating" a ticket to someone else's name is not really "updating" — you are trying to transfer your ticket to someone else. Some tickets are non-transferable and non-refundable. Others can be transferred to another person, if you pay a fee. Changing the name due to a spelling error or even a name change is usually allowed, as long as it's the same person.
Why do they sell non-transferable tickets, and why are they so picky about charging fees for transferable tickets? For one thing it helps them control reselling of tickets. If it was as easy as you'd like it to be, you could potentially scalp airline tickets the same way people scalp concert tickets.
Also the airline makes more money if they force you to buy a new ticket for someone else if your original ticket is non-transferable.
Why don't college football offenses work in the NFL?
- NFL players are better – less than 10% of Div I players every play a down in the pros
- College talent is thinner – there are 32 NFL teams, but over 200 Div I-A and Div I-AA college teams, so the average talent level on each team is lower
- NFL players are more experienced – a typically college player might get 1 or 2 seasons as a starter, compared to a 10 year pro in the NFL
- NFL players are bigger – a typical male does not stop growing until his early twenties…NFL players aren't getting used to changing bodies
- NFL players are pros – they don't have to worry about passing grades or how their parents are going to make rent…they can dedicate themselves completely to learning a complex playbook
- NFL teams have tighter competition – a top college program is designed to beat up on creampuffs and maybe have 2 or 3 competitive games each year…most games are competitive in the NFL
- College is a different game – it has different rules and is officiated in a different manor…different games need different strategies
Take the QB position. The worst starting QB in the NFL is around the 32nd best QB in the league…he might be worse the a few backups, but probably at least mid 30's. The same is true with other positions, every NFL team can assume that worse case, they'll have at least the 30th some odd worst player in the league.
In college, there are 119 Div I-A football teams last time I counted. That means the worst QB is at best in the 100's, and because top teams horde prospects, possibly in the 200 or 300's. And the same is true with other positions. Plus there is a lot more uncertainty with athletes coming out of high school. So even a top team might have the best QB, but only the 70th best receiver. You have to design an offense that works for a broader range of skill levels, and that means dumbing things down.
Why don't we see this in soccer? Well, soccer, especially in Europe, is not tied to universities. In England alone, there are 140 leagues with nearly 500 divisions, arranged in 24 levels of amateurs, semi-pros, youth, B-team, regionals, all the way up to 5 levels of premiere leagues. This ensure that players are well stratified based on ability level. Compare this to the American football, which basically has 4 or 5 levels, most of which are artificially attached to colleges.
How do modern infantry soldiers get "good" at war?
Yes a bullet from an amateur kills just the same as a Spec Ops would but war isn't about killing. War is, and always has been, about morale. Morale is and always has been the key component of winning battles. It's why our Ancient brethren bunched up in phalanxes to mutually support each other. It's why early muskets, despite all their issues, were still used en masse and were wildly successful; they go boom really loudly and scare the piss out of the other group of people. It's why line tactics were used and it's why, to this day, some armies are inherently more professional and well performing than others.
I mean just look at your assertion and compare it to the real world. If you were correct then two groups of roughly equal (materially) groups of men would perform equally as well no matter the situation. This flat out isn't true; look at the ISIS conflict for the perfect example. The Peshmerga and other professionalized forces, using almost precisely the same equipment as their counterparts, absolutely dump on the rabble that is ISIS. It's why the Iraqi army, with all their tanks and jets and modern weaponry got manhandled; they had no morale and just did not stand up to a fight. This has to do, mostly, with training. It's why countries recruit mercenaries with years, if not decades, of fighting experience instead of just picking up Joe Schmoe on the side of the road.
Training is nothing more than rote memorization and mindless repitition over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. Doing something so many times and getting so familiar with it you do not have to think to do it. You shouldn't have to consciously think about pulling a magazine out of your pouch and reloading your gun. You shouldn't have to consciously think to keep your hand steady when being racked with gunfire and think about dropping that grenade on accident. It's so that when you're thrown into real deep shit and you're freaking out, whether visibly or not, your combat efficacy is not affected. You can still follow orders, you can still provide covering fire and clear a jam, you can still stay aware of what your unit is doing even if your entire being is shaking from fear. This extends, even further, with combat experience. It's why veterans are preferred over "green" conscripts; the veterans have "trained" in combat so to say and are used to it. They know how to act in it. Being able to function under threat of death, more than anything else, is the admirable quality in every single war in every single period of history.
That is what truly separates soldiers which are "good" at war and those who are not. It's why irregulars near-universally get routed by professional soldiers; the former are not a cohesive unit while the latter are. The latter are groups of men who have, in general, spent months and usually years training together. They have been in stress together and know how eachother function. They are a unit who has spent months/years running through scenarios hundreds of times so that when it actually happens they just…do it. They don't freeze like a deer in the headlights because they always got themselves under control. They don't panic. They do their job and hold the line.
It's a common (and true) historical fact that, in the age before armored warfare (technically 1916 onward but, truly, the 1930's onward) the most men died when one side routed. That is when the two phalanxes met or the two lines of musketeers met the poking of spears, swords, and musket fire did not kill all that many actually. The actual battle itself was surprisingly non-lethal. Why? Because as a unit you are strong and have mutual protection. However when that unit is shattered and turn and run that is when the cavalry and everyone else swarms in and cuts everyone down as individuals. That is what training prevents; it prevents units from breaking down into a bunch of self-serving individuals.
War today is in the same vein and wants the same goals. Except instead of lines of men in a grouped spear formation or lines of muskets meeting with cavalry support we got a lot more firepower packing and a lot more distance between us; fights happen at 600m not at 3 feet. In this day in age this truism only gets truer; modern war on the infantry level, at its core, is not about killing the other people. It is about suppressing them to allow your side to maneuver around them and continue to suppress with. As you gain superior firing position you put even more fire on them as they can put less fire on all of your men (either from just lack of firing position and just being overwhelmed) and are forced to withdraw. Being able to do that better than the other guys is not luck but a unit being able to act as a cohesive unit under pressure and to not freak the fuck out more than anything else.
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How to pair sushi and wines?
You can pair sushi made from the white meat of the fish with wine such Pinot Blanc, Merlot and Pinot Gridzhio.
You can pair sushi from sweet and white fish or other seafood with Champagne or sparkling wine. Chardonnay wines are also perfect for such kind of sushi.
Sushi made from dried fish with a strong character and taste will pair best with wines from the Sauvignon Blanc variety (there is such a large selection of wines from Bulgaria, France, New Zealand, Chile, etc.).
Sushi which is made from fish with dark meat should be combined with representatives of the lightest, fresh red wines - those made from varieties of Pinot Noir and Gamey.
Do not try to use too much spicy sauces, because you will not be able to enjoy the perfect combination between sushi and fine wine. As you see pairing sushi and fine wine is not so difficult. Try to follow the short guide and you will enjoy your sushi and wine in the best possible manner. Then you will have the answer of the question "How to pair sushi and wine?".
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Rose wine - Tips and Facts
The finest rose wine is light, slightly tannic wine that is produced from different red varieties of grape, but using technology for making white wine. After separating the grains from clusters, the grapes must remain with the skin, depending on their variety and maturity, between 2 and 6 hours. After the pressing process the skin of the grape must be separated and the fermentation of these fine rose wine is can begin. There are several tips on how to produce your homemade wine. The most important wine making process for fine rose wine is the pressing . If you press the grapes very intensive and prolonged , the color of your fine rose wine will be darker, but the wine will be crystal clear
The color of the finest rose wines, as you can quest their name is pink. But you should know that the color is ranging from pale, barely noticed shades to a dark, close to the bright red, color. So, do not be surprised if you find on the market rose wines which color is almost red. The greatest benefits of the rose wine are that they combine the taste and fruitfulness of the white wines and the density of the finest red wines in the world.
There are many wine regions in the world that produce fine rose wine. The main reasons for its production in these regions are several. The climate is perfect for the production of wine and wine makers, who have only red type of grapes prefer to make good and fresh rose wine, instead of pale and sour red wine.
There is huge production of fine rose wine in the hot wine regions of Spain and France. French and Spaniards love it It is maybe the best option during the hot summer days. It is far better than the heavy red types of wine. The production of fine rose wine in Italy is not so big. But there are many great Italian brands, especially made for export. Italians do not like it too much, because they do not have any problem to switch from red to white wine during the year.
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"Secretary of Defense James Mattis made it very clear recently that "aid groups and others" had provided the U.S. with evidence that was insufficient to conclude that President Bashar Assad had recently used the chemical weapon Sarin against Syrian civilians. In other words, the Pentagon does not believe what has been presented to it as evidence, chiefly because of the dubious provenance of the providers."
This is read as including at the time of the "recent" Khyan Sheikhoun attack in April of last year. That would be a strange admission I wouldn't expect, even from a Trump appointee and especially after Trump ordered missil strikes in response to that incident. It turns out he didn't make any such admission. In the full statements, he was asked to clarify the point and did - he says the Syrian government used sarin in 2013 ("in the previous administration, when they were caught using it") and then despite apparently giving up their CW program, "they used (sarin) again during our administration." (CNN report, Defense transcript) He also said "groups on the ground, NGOs, fighters on the ground have said that Sarin has been used ... We are looking for evidence. I don't have evidence credible or uncredible." That was referring to newer allegations of sarin use since Khan Sheikhoun, branching off of a discussion of recent reports of chlorine attacks in the last weeks. It does show that reports of sarin attacks - which have been lodged recently - aren't always borne out by the evidence to the military's liking, for what that's worth.
Mattis should have said there's no good evidence for any use, but - little surprise - the functionary of the US military-industrial complex did not say that. But strangely, Wilkie uses the same characterization in both versions, despite Higgins' explanation intervening. And many have recycled the reading as true - Mattis has leaked the truth of no evidence (for example here). So we have a bad launch point for this review and some people led astray, but there are some valid points still worth considering...
"Chemical weapons are abhorrent and illegal, and no one knows this more than Carla Del Ponte. She, however, was unable to fulfill her U.N. Joint Investigative Mechanism mandate in Syria and withdrew in protest over the United States refusing to fully investigate allegations of chemical weapons use by "rebels" (jihadis) allied with the American effort to oust President Assad (including the use of Sarin by anti-Assad rebels)."
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Now onto some of the wheat buried in the chaff:
"MilSpec Sarin is clear, odorless and invisible. The "Sarin events" in Ghouta and Khan Sheikhoun did not employ military-grade Sarin munitions. They produced dirty yellow, chlorine-smelling clouds, which suggest either: (a) manufacture by other than scientists of the Syrian Scientific Research Council or (b) an "accidental" bomb drop that hit stored chemicals on the ground, but not (c) delivery of military grade munitions against rebel military targets."
<add later on 2/25>This was reported in the JIM final report that I didn't notice or forgot about (thanks to Andrew, via comment):
"70.... In addition, open sources reported that chlorine might also have been released, as indicated by the smell of bleach. While the Mechanism could not rule out the possibility of the use of chlorine, it focused its investigative efforts on the use of sarin"
This is strange - there are some claims (see here) that the bombs (4 chemical ones) contained sarin and chlorine - which should not mix well, and basically cancel each other out. How else chlorine was also released would be a hard question to answer. But still, this is a smell reported in addition to other smells, not instead of them.</end 2/25>
From what I've seen, in this attack especially and in general, the smell is more often reported as (in order of frequency) foul, strange/hard to place, like some organic decay. It tends to be described as pale yellow to white in color as Wilkie notes, which is a another problem. It's also reported as caustic and irritating to eyes, lungs, and skin., as he didn't note So it's similar to chlorine in description, except for the smell, and for the sarin-like symptoms that are inconsistent with chlorine: paralysis/seizures, miosis, loss of consciousness, frequent death, and secondary contamination.
Some cases that seem to be sarin -
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Other General Points Higgins Didn't Address
Is this a record of the first few dozen admitted in the first hour AFTER the planned false-flag incident? Did someone just mess up the times on a batch of hospital records, shifting the time back? That could be accidental, but reasons aren't clear (little reason for DST confusion so late, no time conflict with Turkey at the time) ... and it could be purposeful, to give us a false lead and distract us from better leads. Or maybe they screwed up very badly, and gassed about half or more of their victims an hour before the jet ever passed nearby, left the records of that and handed them to the CoI who mentioned it.
I know they screwed up some things very badly, but still ... not everything, I should think. I propose caution with that point, and don't put any of my own weight on it, even as I refuse to rule it out entirely.
Mixed Points and Higgins Fails
Volcano rockets: The rockets used in the 2013 Ghouta attack, Wilkie feels, are a "type favored by insurgents. Higgins is partly right to say this is "totally untrue." The type of rocket used, known as the "Volcano rocket" has been well-documented, and is known to come in two types, explosive and chemical. The chemical variant of the munition has been documented at not only the impact sites of the August 21st 2013 Sarin attacks, but in previous attacks against opposition areas and positions as well."
Interestingly, the Islamist opposition people documenting a prior use of the Volcano rocket in Adra seem capable of applying fresh nerve agent to a dog just for the sickening visual effect. (see here)
No KS Visit: "Likewise, Khan Sheikhoun was deemed too dangerous to inspect, even though American and English "experts" were in regular contact with the White Helmets on the ground, one of whom, Dr. Shajul Islam, is an accused kidnapper of Westerners." Suggestive juxtaposition, but worthwhile. Maybe it's a fear of kidnapping or dying themselves in a false-flag chemical or "regime sniper" attack (ie a tacit admission that terrorists move freely in the western-sponsored "liberated" areas). I would be. Either that, or they don't want to investigate and this is the excuse...
But they say it's ... "yeah kidnapping and stuff in part, but mainly because anywhere rebel-held is dangerous, barrel bombed by Assad, shelled, snipered, gas-attacked, Shabiha-masacred, etc. on a daily basis." (paraphrase) It is unsafe, and it's hard to prove this is not their real worry. And further, an on-site visit is no magic key to getting the true story anyway. Sites can be tampered with and witnesses can lies. Investigators can consider this or not as they decide what to frame as fact. It can be very helpful in the right hands, but the hands here may not be so right.
Still, Higgins' 7 degrees is better than the CoI's call; "Data based on historical weather forecasts" (the less reliable method) suggested to them "the wind speed was just over three kilometres per hour from the southeast, that there was no rain and practically no cloud cover, and that the temperature was around 13 degree Celsius." Duh.
At the Al-Rahma cave "hospital," (Islamist death center) people exposed are hosed off some, but then handled with bare hands by people standing in the rinse in sandals, all seeming to suffer no ill-effects. This is from minutes to about an hour after the attack. I have this scene at right of apparent faker Abdelhamid al-Youself being helped up timed to around 7:30 am (see here - this photo is probably 7:33 or so) Yousef says he ran through three different sarin-affected area across town to find nearly everyone else in his extended family dead, before he... passed out. Here we can see he (almost certainly, by visual details) was getting up again about 45 minutes after the attack, safe to handle. A few hours later, he finally checked on his own wife and kids...
Less troubling are the appearances of unprotected people at and even in the crater with no protection. These are seen starting around 9 am, and mainly around mid-day and later. I'm rusty on the exact details of that. Most such footage is from hours later after the temperature warmed, or even from the following day. And further, I see suggestions of wetness in a spray pattern to the south and a wiggle to the north, like from a dripping hose moving back and forth as a truck slowly moved down the road. This suggests the crater area was hosed down after the event, which would disrupt the evidence, and spread the contamination. But it would also lessen the danger in any one spot, and speed up the evaporation by spreading it out.
By and large and long before these articles by Wilkie, these appearances of unprotected people are cited as if they should be dead, but that's not true or at least not certain. The fancy hazmat suits professionals wear would be precautionary overkill, not necessary for survival to anyone with common sense and the luck to avoid a surprise encounter with the initial deadly fog.
To make such an argument more solid, get specific: For example, identify a time-stamped and/or solar-timed too-early image of someone sticking their unprotected hands into shaded soil that seems splashed by the blue-black-seeming fluid around the crater taken as the sarin. Depending on the time and exact science, that could come close to disproving sarin. Sandaled feet with no socks inside the crater would remain dangerous ... not sure how long. I'd stay out all day to be sure, or get socks and watch my toes... Someone walking on the surface up to the crater and breathing the air even with no mask is probably no issue even just an hour later. Unless they're completely barefoot.
I haven't tried much to pin down such points of proof. I couldn't well call just where on the troubling spectrum each scene would fall. How early is too early? Does this oily-looking blue-black stuff evaporate slower than water? Most others can't do this either, so you can't just see a lack of hazmat gear or even sandals entering a sarin area ever as a clear basis to cry foul.
Soviet CW Bomb: Higgins says analysis by Porter and Wilkie "ignores that objects recovered from the Khan Sheikhoun craters matched filling caps from Syrian airdropped chemical bombs:" Higgins still pushes this? They looked at the cap inside out to make this dubious call of an easily identifiable CW-specific bomb the USSR apparently never exported. Here's his Bellingcat associate Timmi Allen showing that finding, having it rebutted, and having no answer.


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In biology and medical science areas, Weixiong Zhang is interested in developing computational methods for complex problems appeared in molecular biology, genetics, systems biology and genomics. He is particularly interested in applying computational methods to the understanding of complex human diseases, including Alzheimer's disease and psoriasis, and environmental stress response in agri-economically important plants, such as rice and cassava. In recent years, he has been focusing on three lines of biological research: gene regulation through small noncoding RNAs, transcriptome analysis and genotype-phenotype association.

In Artificial Intelligence, his main focuses are heuristic search, combinatorial optimization and planning. He has made several important contributions to these areas, documented in many papers in top journals (e.g. 11 in Artificial Intelligence) and conferences. Among these important results are two worthwhile to mention. First, he showed that linear-space heuristic search algorithms, including depth-first search and iterative deepening, are asymptotically optimal, so that they are the algorithms of choice for large problems. Moreover, this result also resolved an anomaly of look-ahead search, which has been widely adopted as a model of real-time problem solving. Second, he analyzed phase transitions in combinatorial optimization problems, e.g., the Traveling Salesman Problem and the maximum Satisifiability, showing their easy-difficulty phase transitions, which are in sharp contrast to the easy-hard-easy phase transitions in decision problems. Furthermore, he also developed effective approximation algorithms that exploit phase transitions. In recent years, Professor Zhang has been focusing on Satisifiability-based planning. His joint work with Ruoyun Huang and Yixin Chen on planning won the Outstanding Paper Award of the 2010 National Conference on AI.
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After spending several years at Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Professor Zhang joined the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis in 2000. He currently has a joint appointment in the Genetics Department, School of Medicine.

Professor Zhang is currently Deputy Editor of PLoS Computational Biology, a leading journal in the field of computational biology, Associate Editor of Artificial Intelligence, the premier journal of the field of artificial intelligence, and Associate Editor of AI Communication: The European Journal on Artificial Intelligence.

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Today we celebrated Heidi's life, commemorating 2 years since her passing. It was s special day wherein we remembered such a special and remarkable woman. How blessed our lives continue to be because of her touch and influence on them.
Here are a few fun pictures we reviewed today that reminded us of her and her wonderful life. We miss you Heidi.
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April 2014 - Cam B-Day & Conference
Over conference weekend we celebrated Cam's 13th birthday. Oh no, another teenager. He had a fun day at Get Air with his friends. We also had our "adopted daughter" from a Disney cruise several years ago (who lives in CA) Emma come visit. While playing at the park it started to hail really hard, it was Emma's first experience with hail. Saturday, Cam, Kenyan (Vera Lyn's son) and I went to Priesthood session, what a great meeting. We then grabbed some frozen yogurt. Sunday, all 9 of us went to WY and watched conference with Vera Lyn's family. It was fun to get to know many of them better and for them to meet my kids. Kaylie and some of the girls had fun dressing up in Grandma's older clothing. I told Kaylie she should wear that dress to her Senior Prom but she did not seem very excited about that prospect. Also, my home went up for sale this past week, yes a close on a fun chapter in our family's history.
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March 2014 - Schelles
Vera Lyn and I got all seven kids together and did announcement photos for our wedding (coming soon). After taking the pictures, the kids and I headed to Schelles sporting goods. Wow what a store. It is huge and has so many neat things, much like Cabella's. They had a great time seeing all the guns and stuffed animals, playing at the shooting range and taking fun photos.
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March 2014 - Dallyn's Bear
We ran in our elementary schools annual Shamrock shuffle. Dallyn and I ran the 5k while, Kaylie, Cam and Kyler did the 1k. Dallyn tied for 1st place for 4th graders with his good friend Colby.
Dallyn received his Bear award and 1 Gold arrow and 6 Silver Arrows. I asked him how many arrows he thought he'd earned and he guessed right at 1 gold and 6 silver, he was quite proud of his guess. It happened to be the Blue and Gold dinner that night as well. This upcoming month is pinewood derby and Dallyn and I are busy prepping the car.
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March 2014 - Park City Skiing
We were able to spend a Friday night in Park City with Vera Lyn and her kids at some family member's condo. It was a fun night full of swimming, Pizza and movies. The next day the kids and I skied at Park City Mountain Resort. What a beautiful day, sunny and getting a little warm. The kids skied so well. We ate lunch at 9,250 feet, the top of the resorts mountain.
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March 2014 - Cam's Swim & Concerts
Cameron was able to qualify for the State Championship Swim Meet in the last chance of the year, swimming an event he never swam before, the 50 Butterfly. He came super close to qualifying in 4 other events, and dropped tons of seconds off his personal best times, but qualified just in the Fly. He did great at the meet and was excited to get to miss school once again.
Kaylie and Cameron also had Choir and Band concerts in March. They and their groups performed very well. Kaylie's choir went to a District competition and was told they did they best sight reading performance the judges had seen in years.
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Rowing with the gears of an 2015 Volkswagen Jetta S TDI's six-speed manual transmission as we roll across the scenic two-laners of Virginia's horse country, we marvel at the fact that we're actually enjoy the fun. Yep, fun. On a Jetta.
Never would we've got expected this when Volkswagen first introduced the present Jetta for the 2011 type year. Though it boasted improved space, son-of-Audi styling, along with a more competitive price, the Jetta was soundly criticized for the utter dearth of character, relentlessly cheap-feeling cabin, gruff five-cylinder basic engine, and chassis which had regressed into the Ancient with back drum brakes along with a torsion-beam back suspension.
After that, VW has produced incremental and substantial improvements to the North American bread-butterer, and by 2014, all U.S.-market Jettas featured four-wheel disc brakes and an independent rear suspension. Furthermore 2014, the latest EA888 1.8-liter turbocharged base four-cylinder engine forced the cantankerous 2.5-liter five-cylinder into retirement. Enter the 2015 Jetta, featuring its midcycle update which brings new front and rear styling, upgraded interior components (including-at last-a soft-touch dash top), and a new EA288 diesel engine in TDI models. Alas, it appears that the Jetta has now become the car Volkswagen must have been building since the beginning.
Typically, the most important elements of the vehicle's midcycle renew are modified lumination and fascia factors, but in the 2015 Jetta's case, these are arguably the least fascinating of the upgrades. A brand new grille emphasizes the car's size, along with the latest rear bumper, as new head lights give extensively obtainable LED daytime running lamps plus the taillamps evoke its Audi-brand cousins. But for the first time, even the least expensive Jetta drives on aluminum tires. To what extent the adjustments help the Jetta's looks is up to the viewer, yet arguably it has become ever harder to see the gap regarding the Jetta and the one-size-up Passat.
The cabin, when one of the Jetta's worst attributes, has turned into a convincingly nice place to spend time for 2015. It's still Teutonically austere and also the door panels are hard plastic, though the dashboard looks much classy, dressed as it is with tunneled gauges and reflective piano-black trim sections. High-end content like navigation has trickled down from higher trims to low- and mid-grade ranges, and interestingly, an available touch-screen infotainment system without navigation is in fact larger than that of the navigation-equipped cars. Plus the seats in the S, SE, and SEL types we drove were firm and supportive.
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Is a 55 Plus Community For You?
Here's our take. A 55+ community is an ideal option for active adults who want to surround themselves with like-minded people in a similar stage of life.
Here are a few of the perks:
• Most 55 plus communities include lawn and garden maintenance in monthly dues.
• All include luxury amenities, e.g.: pool, clubhouse, fitness center, golf course(s), restaurant and bar.
• Homeowners enjoy security and peace of mind.
• Residents have access to ample social opportunities.
• Modern homes are energy efficient and ensure maximum savings.
Where to Next
So, you're ready to explore your options. Start in the southeast, if you're so inclined. As you probably guessed, the south is an uber-popular 55 plus destination, so options are plentiful. First, you'll want to identify the climate and region that's right for you to help narrow your search.
As we all know, retirees flock to the Sunshine State every year to escape chilly winters. And, to bask, permanently, in the sun. Subsequently, 55 plus communities are abundant in Florida. As a result of the high level of competition, amenities in most communities are exceedingly stellar, and consistently being upgraded.
Looking for somewhere a little less populated? Can't live without four distinct seasons? Then, explore the mountain and lake communities of North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Georgia.
Or, head West! Arkansas, Arizona, Texas, and Nevada are all 55 plus havens for those seeking natural beauty, outdoor adventure, and golf and luxury options.
Venture Out!
Now, for the fun part. Scroll through the lists of community options in your preferred region. Then, sign up for a few discovery tours. After all, you can't know until you go!


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Alcohol and Your Health
Alcohol or ethyl alcohol is the intoxicating ingredient that you will find in wine, beer and hard liquor. Alcohol is made naturally from carbohydrates when certain micro-organisms metabolize them in the absence of oxygen. This process of making alcohol is called fermentation.
When alcohol is consumed it is metabolized fairly quickly. Unlike the food you eat that takes time to digest, alcohol does not have to be digested and can be quickly absorbed. About 20% of alcohol is absorbed directly through the walls of the stomach and can reach the brain within one minute. About 10% of alcohol is let out through breath and urine. After the stomach absorbs the alcohol it then moves onto the small intestine and travels to the liver. The liver cells are the only cells in your body that can produce enough of the enzymes needed to oxidize alcohol at a decent rate. Alcohol affects every organ in the body but its biggest impact is on the liver. The liver is able to metabolize about ½ ounce of alcohol an hour. If more alcohol arrives than the liver can handle then the alcohol travels to all parts of the body until the liver is able to process it.
Because of the fact that alcohol affects the liver and every other organ, and cell in your body it can cause a multitude of issues with your health.
For instance it can cause health effects such as:
- Arthritis – alcohol affects your health but increasing the risk of gouty arthritis
- Cancer – alcohol affects your health by increasing the risks of cancer in the liver, pancreas, rectum, breast, mouth, pharynx, larynx and esophagus.
- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is a huge effect of alcohol and your health if you are pregnant. FAS can lead to physical and behavioral problems in the fetus.
- Heart disease – Alcohol affects your health by raising your blood pressure, blood lipids, and your risk of stroke.
- Hyperglycemia -Raises blood glucose
- Hypoglycemia – Alcohol affects your health by lowering blood glucose especially in those with diabetes
- Kidney disease – Alcohol affects your health by enlarging the kidneys, can alter hormone functions and increase the risk of total kidney failure.
- Liver disease – Alcohol affects your health by causing a fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis and cirrhosis or scarring of the liver.
- Malnutrition – Alcohol affects your health directly by increasing the risks of protein-energy malnutrition, low protein, calcium, iron, vitamin A, Vitamin C, thiamine, and vitamin B6.
- Nervous Disorders – Alcohol can affect your health by causing neuropathy and dementia and it also impairs balance and memory.
- Obesity – Alcohol affects your health by increasing the amount of energy you need.
- Psychological – Alcohol affects your health by causing psychological problems such as depression, anxiety and insomnia.
The truth about alcohol and your health is that if it consumed in small amounts on varying occasions it is not really a health hazard but when copious amounts of alcohol are consumed, regularly, or when you get drunk than you are doing damage to your body. Alcohol affects all aspects of your health not just one part of it. Alcohol can affect your mental, emotional and physical well-being. So if you are going to drink do it consciously.
Sources: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/alcohol/SC00024


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It all began while we were waiting for the ticket office to open in Penzance for our crossing over to the Scilly Isles for the Great Blue Heron. As we sat there, news started filtering out of a possible HUDSONIAN GODWIT in Somerset. It was the first news of the day, and we all thought that maybe nothing would come of it. I think it was RBA who mega'd it first, and then it started to dawn on us all, there was a HUDSONIAN GODWIT in Somerset, and we were all going off to sea.
We had other things to concentrate on while we were on Bryher, but at the backs of our minds, we knew all the mainland birders were ticking their very own mega. We decided that if it was still present at dusk, we would pretend the Scillonian had landed even later than planned, then drive up to Somerset, kip in the car and wait for first light. We would be home, hopefully, at about 09:00hrs. We were all agreed on the plan
Then as we were wandering to Lower Moors, we caught up with Mick Hurst and crew again, and he told us that the HUDWIT had flown off. Slightly gutted by this, we then had to make the decision as to whether we still went or not, hoping that it would fly in again. As CJW had seen the 1983 bird at Blacktoft, he left the decision to me. On the crossing back over to Penzance, I checked all my options, did my research, listened to the other birders on board (including Somerset birders who said the Godwits always return to that scrape) and decided I risk it and head for home.
Following just over three hours sleep, I did my usual walk around Westport. Only this time, everytime my phone beeped I was dreading what I was about to read. But, as the visit went on, there was still no sign of the HUDWIT. There were mixed feelings I suppose. Firstly I made the correct decision not to go, but on the otherhand, it looked like we'd missed out on a very good tick.
And that was the end of that.
Until Wednesday 29th April when news started filtering through that it had returned mid morning. Eventually it was confirmed and I started making plans. I knew I had to move quickly before it flew off again. However, Wednesday was a work day and I was busy after work. It flew off again at 20:05hrs, but it returned again on Thursday morning. I managed to leave work at 14:45hrs, arriving in Somerset at 18:00hrs. It was a cracking drive down; full of tension with periods of no updates and then stuck in traffic with less than 20 miles to go.
I parked up and walked briskly to the scrape, meeting Hughie King walking back to his car. He reassured me that it wasn't going anywhere but I didn't slow down; not even for Hughie (sorry if I appeared abrupt hughie!).
And there is was, feeding away. The Hudsonian Godwit showed well for most of the evening, feeding away, and later on it flew even closer to us. It was a beautiful sunny evening. Cetti's Warblers were singing all around and a drake Garganey on the same pit was a nice addition. It had been a busy few days and two ticks in April was my first time in ten years.
|Drake Garganey - a must on a Spring evening
|Meare Heath NR
|Nice pic with a possible confusion sp - a fem Gadwall
|Hudsonian Godwit showing well late evening
|Nice to see young Chris there tonight
Post Script
The reason I was unable to go down on the Wednesday evening to see the Hudwit was that I was picking GAS up from hospital, having spent a few weeks or three having his meals cooked for him in a nice ensuite room. We had a practise walk around Westport on the Friday, and once news came through on Saturday I picked him up and we headed back down to Somerset (my 3rd time down the M5 in 8 days). It was quite an easy twitch, and the Hudwit was asleep with the flock on our arrival. Pop's 2nd tick of the year and his first trip out since the Laughing Gull at the beginning of February.


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By Hussain Abdul Hussain
The writer is Washington-based political analyst. He has written for the New York Times, The Washington Post, and Kuwaiti daily Al-Rai, among others.
WASHINGTON (AA) - It is mind-boggling how a government that is willing to move heaven and earth to avenge the killing of any one of its citizens, anywhere around the globe, sits back and "prays" that domestic massacres would one day stop.
The same American leaders who promise to launch a crusade against terrorism and to smoke out terrorists, the same American leaders who use exclusive military technology to strike terrorists anywhere on earth, the same American leaders who have "secret plans" to defeat Daesh and want to "take out all the oil" in Iraq, these same American leaders stand speechless as American schoolchildren are gunned down like paper targets at a shooting range.
The discrepancy in American bravado between fighting terrorism and doing nothing about domestic massacres explains all you need to know about the moral and ethical failure of a number of American presidents, lawmakers, and opinion leaders.
By now, this discrepancy and ethical failure has a name: The National Rifle Association (NRA). So powerful is the NRA's lobbying arm that politicians do not even pretend to denounce gun violence. They simply pray and shut down gun regulation debate after each massacre committed by a white boy, saying that grievance is no time for debate.
But when the murderer is not white enough, or when the murderer hails from a Muslim-American or African-American family, all hell breaks loose, as many American politicians quickly overcome grief, and immediately promise all kinds of violence to avenge the attack, from bombing a foreign country into oblivion, to banning travel from other countries, or even demanding that the holy texts of Islam be changed and made more peaceful.
The results of the NRA's unethical policies have been clear. Between 2005 and 2015, the number of Americans killed by gun violence stood at over 280,000, according to PolitiFact, a non-partisan fact-checking site. The number of Americans killed by terrorism, in the same period, was 24.
Another similar factoid suggests something wrong in the American political ethos. Between Sept. 12, 2001 and Dec. 31, 2016, 47 percent of terrorist attacks on American soil took place at the hands of far-right white extremists, with 53 percent of the attacks committed by radical Islamic terrorists. During the same period, the number of attacks by far-right white American extremists was 62, dwarfing the number of attacks by Islamic radicals, which stood at 23.
-Intelligence failure
Washington spends billions of dollars monitoring Muslim-Americans. President Donald Trump promised the creation of a database for Muslims in the U.S., saying that Muslims "know each other" well, and that the good ones can tell on the bad ones. Problem solved.
In fact, the U.S. monitoring of Muslim-Americans has been enhanced, compared to its monitoring of other groups of the population, since before September 2011. In his book Intelligence Matters, former Senator Bob Graham said that the FBI had received tips about Arab students who were preparing for the 9/11 attacks. The FBI got a tip from a mosque's imam, apparently an FBI asset who hosted two of the 9/11 terrorists. The failure to act on that piece of intelligence was one of U.S. security agencies' biggest failures that led to 9/11.
Almost all of the perpetrators of violence at American schools displayed signs that foretold their intentions to commit massacres. Yet, U.S. security agencies rarely seem interested in — or maybe never get the political command to — monitoring white communities in order to preempt such attacks.
The U.S. vigilance on terrorism is commendable and has saved American lives. Yet it remains inexplicable why U.S. security agencies cannot show similar prowess in monitoring and preempting violence by non-Muslim Americans.
It is true that non-Muslim Americans do not have names that raise red flags, such as Nidal Hassan or Omar Mateen, of the Texas and Florida attacks respectively, but that does not mean that the massacres of Adam Lanza and Nikolas Cruz, of Connecticut and Florida, were less atrocious. And whereas the crimes of Nidal and Omar were attributed to their community and its religion, Adam and Nikolas were not connected to their native communities or its faith.
As such, Nidal and Omar were labeled terrorists, on whom America spends trillions of dollars in fighting, while Adam and Nikolas were classified as mentally ill, for whom America only offers prayers.
Violence is violence, and whether it is committed by Americans of Muslim heritage or of white stock, they should be perceived in similar ways. The U.S. government should dedicate similar attention and resources to fighting both.
America has shown commendable resolve in protecting its citizens from terrorism. Yet this same America has shown inexplicable laxity in confronting killers, if they prove to hail from white communities.
Such disparity not only affects Muslim Americans, but also Americans of other non-white backgrounds, so much so that one American suggested that — in order to force Congress to regulate the massive ownership of guns among white Americans — anti-gun organizations should fund the arming of every African-American. Only when blacks are armed to the teeth, like whites, might Congress find it necessary to step up and regulate, according to some.
Such thinking springs from the way whites seem to throw their full support behind law enforcement when it comes to policing African-American communities. Yet these same white Americans suddenly lose all trust in law enforcement if security agencies are ever tasked with policing white communities. Suddenly, white Americans cry foul if the government seems to be intercepting any emails or snooping on any phone calls that might have a white American on one side of the conversation.
Congressional regulation of different aspects of violence has crossed all lines of hypocrisy. Congress seems keen to police non-white America, while refusing to police gun ownership in white America. This has created two Americas: one policed, and the other not so much. Unfortunately, however, the victims come from both Americas, the policed and the un-policed.
* Opinions expressed in this piece are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Anadolu Agency's editorial policy.


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Camp Charis stays unified in its teaching by having all workers adhere to these basic scriptural views. Camp Charis beliefs are shared openly to help you consider your participation at Camp Charis. All children are welcome as campers, regardless of background, teaching, race or economic status. We believe:
- That "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God" by which we understand the whole Bible is inerrant and its teaching and authority are final.
- That the Godhead eternally exists in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- In the personality and deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, begotten of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, truly God and truly man.
- In the Personality and deity of the Holy Spirit, source and power of true worship and service, who indwells all believers.
- In the unique nature of man as a moral and rational being created in the image of God, after His likeness, as stated in the Word of God; however the whole human race fell into sin in the fall of the first Adam, thereby bringing all men under divine condemnation.
- That the Lord Jesus Christ became the sinner's substitute and died for the sins of the whole world.
- In the bodily resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into heaven, and in His present life as our High Priest and Advocate.
- That Christ, in the fullness of the blessings He has secured by His death and resurrection, is received by faith alone and that the moment we receive Him we pass from death into everlasting life.
- That the church is composed of all those who truly believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior.
- That all believers in the Lord Jesus Christ are called into a life of separation from worldly and sinful practices.
- In the evangelization of the world.
- In the personal return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.That the souls of those who have trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation do at death immediately pass into His presence.
- That the souls of the lost remain after death in misery until the final judgment of the great white throne.
- In the reality and personality of Satan.


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The beautiful Jessa Duggar Seewald is just settling into the lovely fact that she and husband Ben are going to have their first baby -- she's absolutely glowing. With a baby on the way comes those pregnancy cravings that can sometimes be a bit wacky. Ice cream? Chocolate? Not even close. Jessa's pregnancy craving is quite voracious and a bit unhealthy. Is this another sign she's having twins?!
Jessa is craving roast beef and a milkshake. I'm not even pregnant and that sounds delicious. It's not just any roast beef that Jessa is craving -- she and husband Ben hit up the Arby's drive-through to get their food on. The mama-to-be wrote on Instagram with this photo:
Lunch date with my man. Yeah…because 'the baby' was craving Arby's. I love being able to use that excuse.
Okay, okay. So fast food isn't the healthiest option, but a craving is a craving. And sometimes we just have to eat on the go.
More From The Stir: Another Sign Jessa Duggar Is Carrying Twins
When I was pregnant with my twins (which many suspect Jessa is too), I wanted burritos all the time. There was a Mexican restaurant not too far from my house that I would get take-out from at least once (okay maybe three times) a week. I loved their carnitas burrito with guacamole, rice, and tons of sour cream. And now I'm hungry for a burrito! These were huge burritos and might have weighed more than an newborn. (Kidding, sort of.)
We can expect many more pregnancy cravings from Jessa along the way. Jessa and Ben's baby is due on November 1st, which is also their wedding anniversary. Such sweetness for the Seewalds! Now we just have to get Ben to smile more in pictures!
What do you think of Jessa's pregnancy craving? What did you crave when pregnant?
Image via Jessa Seewald/Instagram


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What to eat for breakfast as a vegan? Here's an example:
Fabulous Vegan Diet – Breakfast
A grapefruit & orange juice followed by porridge oats with bananas & dates poured onto a mixed fruit salad.
This is a quite rich breakfast of about 1000 calories, that combines simple & complex carbohydrates together with a good hydration from fruits rich in water content and fruit juice.
For an active day outdoors it's also recommended to take dried fruits, bananas & lots of water to make sure you'll never run out of energy and hydration.
As a vegan athlete you don't want to restrict your daily intake of calories. It's a way of eating where you don't have to make the mistake of eating less like other diets.
Fruits and vegetables fill you up pretty quickly, but at the same time they're low in calories per quantity, therefore they have to be eaten in abundance.
To make sure that you eat enough, make smoothies, juices, salads and soups, this way you'll be able to get all the calories and the variety.
There are websites that help you quantify how many calories you're eating, the nutritional facts of each fruit & vegetable and the recommended carbs/proteins/fats ratio.
The ratio I personally follow and recommend is the 80/10/10, being 80% of carbohydrates, 10% of proteins and 10% from natural fat.
At first it's helpful, but after a while you realise that you can eat as much as you want, including a variety of all the nutrients needed.
If you want to find out more about the vegan diet, write in the comment section below and follow the blog to receive future articles and videos about it.


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Words By Shad Powers, The Desert Sun
April 23, 2016
You might not know Moreno Valley based DJ Gabe Real, but if you collect Coachella lineup T-shirts or posters, you've seen his name almost as much as anyone.
He was the first act out on the main stage Friday during Weekend Two at Coachella and that marked his ninth appearance at the famous festival. That's right, he's played here nine times from the Yuma Tent to the ultimate stage.
His first time was back in 2001 as a DJ for Supernatural also on the main stage. Last year he opened the Sunday afternoon set on the Outdoor Stage. He's had different names throughout the years. DJ Lesto, DJ Wiens and now DJ Gabe Real.
On Friday he kicked out his usual mix of reggae jams and late 1980s, early 1990s hip-hop to a late-arriving crowd under the hot early-afternoon sun on the main stage where LCD Soundsystem would headline later.
He made sure to mix in some tributes. The year 2016 has been particularly rough on the world of musical influencers, but DJ Gabe Real pinpointed three to give a thumping shoutout to at Coachella. He played snippets of "Kiss" and "I Wanna Be Your Lover" in memory of Prince. The crowd cheered and pointed solemnly to the sky. He also played "Scenario" by Tribe Called Quest to honor Phife Dawg who also recently passed away. And finally he played David Bowie's pop hit "Let's Dance."
He weaved them into his set seamlessly with "Kiss" rolling right into the drum beat opening of Bel Biv Devoe's "Poison" for example.
Wearing a Wiens Brewing Company T-shirt (Temecula Brewery) and sun glasses, DJ Gabe Real didn't do much in the way of showmanship. He let his sound speak for itself.
A lot of your favorite hip-hop jams were part of the set, "Me, Myself and I," "Now That We Found Love" etc.
He was followed on the stage by Joey Bada$$, so by the time DJ Gabe Real's set end he was playing for quite a nice size crowd.
If you missed his set, don't worry. There's about an 80 percent chance he'll be back in some capacity next year if history is any indication.


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Mad Hatter's Contest
Sponsored by Crochet Crowd, Red Heart and Creativ Festival
This is not my contest, I am only passing along the information.
I am planning to take part in this contest. It is a big one! I will be using this as my dissertation for Nerd Wars T10! I hope you follow along and take part in this contest with me! Good Luck all!
This contest is running from now until April 1st. Instead of sending in a photograph, we will need to mail the physical finished project to Mikey! So, submissions need to be postmarked by March 31st.
There are going to be 5 top prizes of $500 worth of awesome goodies from the sponsors! Also, the top 5 will get to be displayed at the next show in October! WOW!
There will be a panel of judges to pick the top 10 before the Creativ Festival starts. Then, all those in attendance will be able to view all the hats and vote on their favorite from the top 10.
Let me stop rambling on and let Mikey tell you more about it!
Here is a link to the pattern.
So know that you have an idea of what this contest is all about here is a link to the contest details.
Wait a minute... For those of you who would rather watch a tutorial than read a pattern we've got you covered too! Check out this sweet tutorial by Mikey!
Click here for all of the details you need to get started on this awesome project!


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Here is the other item for the MNBeerActivists event at Dangerous Man Brewing Co this Saturday. Four pint glasses, a embroidered beanie, our new logo shirt and a vinyl sticker. Just in time so support a helpful organization and gift giving for the holidays.
Posted by The 16oz Society on 12 December, 2013