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- Class Level: All levels
- Age Requirements: 18 and older
- Average Class Size: 20
What you'll learn in this healthy cooking class:The Healthy Living menu is a gluten free selection for the healthier you. You will learn to prepare a three-course meal from start to finish.
All recipes are cooked in the studio and eaten in the comfort of your own home. You may choose to complete more then one portion to share with your friends and family.
Appetizer: Roasted eggplant with tomato and goat cheese relish
- A delicate blend of sweet tomatoes, red onion, basil and goat cheese makes the eggplant melt in your mouth.
- A delicious combination of moist chicken breast, apricots, fresh rosemary and a hint of heat served over rice makes this gluten free dish yummy.
- This luscious chocolate cake is made without flour, resulting in a rich truffle-like torte served with a mixed berry coulis and freshly made whipped cream.
- Cut into brunoise
- Learn how to chop and seed a tomato
- Cut into julienne
- Cut into small dice
- Chop an herb
- Cut chicken into julienne
- Prepare a Chantilly cream
- Prepare a coulis
Chefs provide all materials and hands-on instruction, unveiling the entire process from food preparation to plating. Each station is equipped with ingredients, tools, an apron, and a chef on hand to help participants through the recipes. After sessions, participants take their new meals home, heat if necessary, and serve.
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Reviews of Classes at Cook&Go(16 Reviews)
Attended: March Madness
The class was fun. In the beginning, you just dive into making the meals, so it could be a little hard to keep up with, but the instructor made sure we are all on the same page. She was friendly and helpful.
Attended: Comfort Food
It was good and the macaroni was amazing and the dessert. But only thing is the receipe is supposed to be in my cook and go account and if I don't have one they mail the recipe to me which hasn't happened till now and it's been over 24hrs.
Attended: Islands Menu
The course was awesome. Fresh ingredients. My fellow classmates were entertaining. Our instructor was funny, patient and knowledgeable. My food was delish. Highly recommend.
Attended: Valentine's Day Menu
Attended: Belgian Menu
This course was terrific! The instructor was extremely friendly, and made for a fun class! The food was delicious and easy to make! The facilities were clean, and easy to get to.This was my first course and I would definitely recommend it! A week later and still craving more of the chocolate ganache we made!
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Heritage sites Sorde l'Abbaye - abbaye St Jean (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (3km); Bayonne cathédrale St Marie (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (35km); Eglise St Blaise (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (35km); Porte St Jacques - St Jean Pied-de-Port (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (40km); Abbaye de St Sever (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (48km); Eglise, Oloron-Sainte-Marie (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (49km)
Most beautiful villages in France (see also beautiful French villages) La Bastide-Clairence (19km); Ainhoa (43km); Sare (48km)
Remarkable gardens Parc du Sarrat (23km); Jardins de la villa Arnaga (33km)
Protected historical centre (fr: secteur sauvegardé) (see also historical French towns) Bayonne (35km)
Sites of natural beauty Marais d'Orx (30km); Courant de Huchet (49km); Vallée des Aldudes (54km)
Towns of Art and history Oloron-Sainte-Marie (49km)
Villages in bloom 4* (fr: ville fleurie) Anglet (38km); Hagetmau (40km); Mont-de-Marsan (61km)
Commune: Leren
Canton: Salies-de-Béarn
Arrondissement: Pau
Department: Pyrenees-Atlantiques
Region: Aquitaine
Postcode: 64270
from Pau (prefecture): 59 km
from Paris: 650 km
from Calais: 857 km
from Nice: 669 km
from Bordeaux: 153 km
from Strasbourg: 882 km
Leren is in the south-west of France. Most visitors fly into Biarritz airport (Bordeaux is another option). Allow at least 8 hours for the drive from the cross-channel ferries. For driving distances to Leren from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
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Categories > Books > Harry Potter > Magical triplet
Chapter twenty six0 Reviews
It does not go well with Harry Potter. In order to increase Harry's magical power, Dumbledore infects Harry and two girls with a disease. And his power surges.
Inventions (continued)
When dinner was finished, professor Dumbledore waved them over. Harry, Ginny, and Hermione came to the professor. "Ginny, your parents will arrive in several minutes. I want to speak to them first in private, and then I will call for you. I will use one of your charmed telephones to do that."
"Do you want Harry and Hermione to come as well, professor?"
"Yes, I would like to have them as well when we come to that stage. All of you please come when I call."
They went to the room of requirement. Entering the room, they saw red, plush sofas and a large fireplace. They sat down and silently waited for the telephone call.
"What shall we do when your parents start yelling at us?"
"Nothing will change between us."
"Do you want to tell them about the pregnancy, Ginny?" Harry asked.
"Not yet. Let us get them used to the first shock, and then we'll give them the second shock after a few months."
The trio was silent again.
The Ginny's phone rang; she listened and put it back into her robes. "Let's go, the professor wants us in his office."
They went silently to the professor's office. When they entered the room, they saw Mrs. and Mr. Weasley looking at Ginny, then at Harry and Hermione. They looked a bit down, as if they lost something.
"Ginny," Mrs. Weasley began, "I understand from professor Dumbledore that you suffer from the triplet curse ... and Harry and Hermione have the curse as well ... sniff ..."
Tears ran down from Mrs. Weasley's face. She stood up, and stormed to Ginny, embracing her in a warm hug. She looked over Ginny's shoulder to Harry and Hermione. She reached an arm to both of them and embraced them all. "Oh my dears, what has happened to you all? This is this terrible!"
Mr. Weasley stood up as well, tears in his eyes. "The least that we can do for you is embracing you three as our children. Ginny will never marry, and she will always stay with you, Harry and Hermione. Please honor my little girl, because she is my only daughter...."
Mr. Weasley started to cry as well.
Mrs. Weasley tried to hold her tears, but was not successful. Very soon, all of them were crying.
"Mum, dad, it is not as bad as it sounds. At least I do not feel so lonely any more. I am happy now; I never felt so happy in my life ... You know very well that I always felt so sad, but that feeling is gone."
Mrs. Weasley looked at her daughter. "But Ginny, you will never marry; Harry and Hermione are going to marry. You will always stay with Harry, and you need to share him with Hermione?"
"No mum, it's not like that. Hermione needs to share Harry with me as well. And I am as married to Harry as Hermione is. The only difference is that she will wear the ring and I will not."
Ginny swept the tears away with her hand. "If I am not with Harry and Hermione, I would feel terribly unhappy and very depressed. Therefore, in the current circumstance, it is better like this. I am sure that I am going to be very happy. "
Mrs. Weasley tried to smile, but failed. "Dad, mum, I want to go back to our dorm. Professor Dumbledore takes very good care of us. In addition, we have a job now. Harry and Hermione are busy helping me with the N.E.W.T.'s, and I hope that I can get them this year. That means that I will finish Hogwarts as student in June next year or maybe earlier, and I'll have a job at Hogwarts together with Harry and Hermione."
"Harry, Hermione, and Ginny, I want all of you to come to us at Christmas. Do not forget, because we are all expecting you."
They said their farewells to Mrs. and Mr. Weasley, and they left the office of professor Dumbledore.
"What will your brothers say about us?" Harry asked.
"They will probably shoot first, talk later," Ginny answered casually. Hermione smiled. When the trio arrived in their dorm, they all set to working on charming the telephones, which professor Snape had delivered earlier. Just before bedtime, they were finally finished. Hermione finished off the documentation, so that the people in the ministry could charm their own telephones and would not be dependent on them anymore. She also made copies for professors Snape and Dumbledore. They delivered the phones and documentation to the professors and went back to their dorm.
The next day at breakfast, they sat relaxing at the teachers table. Harry asked permission from professor Dumbledore if it was possible for Ginny to sit with them. He did not mind, and Ginny joined them at the table. Everyone in the great hall was watching them; whispers were heard even from the teachers table.
After the breakfast, the trio left the great hall to their research lab. In the afternoon, they had classes, and in the evening they relaxed in front of the fireplace and talked. "Do you mind if I talk with professor Lupin for some minutes alone?"
The girls looked stunned. "Why?"
"It's ... It's something ... you know ... private. Something between men to men ... you know, man talk," Harry stammered.
"Make it fast," Hermione answered with a high voice, looking confused and hurt. Harry ran out of the dorm and went to professor Lupin. He came back within ten minutes. The girls looked at Harry questioningly. "Why Harry? I thought that we don't have secrets anymore for each other!" Hermione said.
Harry looked very guilty. "Well, it is not a secret ... it is more like a surprise. You will find out within an hour what professors Lupin, Dumbledore, and I have discussed."
"What do you mean a surprise, and for whom?"
"The surprise is for you both, and I don't want to say more. You just need to wait until professor Lupin comes."
"And you said an hour?" Ginny asked.
Ginny and Hermione decided to play wizard chess, while Harry was walking back and forth in the dorm with his hands behind his back, staring at the floor. Ginny and Hermione, noticing this, were secretively smiling at each other.
Suddenly somebody was knocking on the door. Harry jumped to the door and there stood professor Lupin. He gave Harry a package and left immediately.
Harry closed and locked the door and turned back to the girls. He summoned a bottle of wine and three glasses, placed them on the coffee table, and invited the girls to sit. He poured wine in their glasses and smiled in anticipation.
Then Harry stood in front of the girls, who were looking amused to Harry. "Are you feeling well, Harry?" asked Ginny, smiling.
Harry said nothing, but instead kneeled down on one knee and opened his hand. In his hand was a small box ... he opened it and three rings were visible.
"Hermione and Ginny, will you marry me?"
Both girls gasped at Harry.
"Marry?" Ginny asked, looking at the rings in astonishment.
"These rings are a bond between the three of us. They symbolize the joining of our hearts and the coming together of our souls, and the rings are a promise of marriage. These are engagement rings."
Harry looked to his girls expectantly. Hermione and Ginny were staring at the box with rings.
"Yes," both said in union.
Harry took the first ring out of the box, and took Hermione's right hand. He placed the ring on Hermione's finger. He did the same with Ginny's right hand, and she got the ring on her finger. Both girls looked at their rings in astonishment. Harry took the last ring, and placed it on his finger of his right hand.
"Hermione and Ginny, please don't say anything yet, but close your eyes for a moment and give me your hands." The girls hesitated a bit, but closed their eyes and offered him their hands. Harry dropped six pairs of earrings in each hand. Three pairs were simple gold studs, but there were also a pair of tiny emerald earrings, a pair of small pearls, and a pair of odd-looking blue metal ones. Their eyes snapped open and looked wide-eyed. Hermione was still admiring her engagement ring, the second already. Ginny was in ecstasy. "Oh, this ring is so beautiful, Harry. This is really a surprise. Oh, what is this beauty, I never saw a more beautiful ring in my life, and those gold studs, and are these really emeralds?"
Harry looked relieved.
"I want to set the wedding date for Saturday over a week. I spoke with Dumbledore, and he agreed to marry us. He also agreed that we would only perform the wizard's marriage. The wizard marriage only consists of the connection charm, which binds us together."
Ginny looked confusedly at Harry. "Why only a wizard marriage?"
Hermione answered with a knowing smile. "In many cases when two people are marrying, they combine the wizard and muggle marriage. The muggle marriage is performed in the church, while the wizard marriage is actually only a connection charm and can be performed anywhere. A wizard marriage is always binding and it cannot be broken. Normally the binding charm is for two people, but it is very possible to perform the binding charm on three people."
Ginny still looked confused.
"That means Ginny, that you will be as much married to me as Hermione is," Harry said happily.
"But I thought that it is not allowed to marry two women, Harry?" Ginny exclaimed.
"That is correct, but only for muggle marriages, and we won't marry the muggle way. For the wizard world, we will be officially married. It is unusual, but not impossible."
Ginny jumped off of the sofa and jumped at Harry. She hugged him tightly and her face was shining with happiness. She turned to Hermione and hugged her as well. "So we will be married to the big, stunning, amazing Harry Potter. We will become Mrs. Potter, Hermione."
"Yes, Mrs. Potter. We will be married to the funny, cute Harry Potter with his nice, tight and sexy ass,' said Hermione, smiling.
"Oh, before I forget, I received and signed the papers for your vault, Ginny. For the weeks until our marriage, you share a vault of gold with me. You simply go the Gringotts bank and tell the manager who you are ... After we are married, you will own one third of all the stuff in all vaults. You will be very rich, and I feel like I am the richest man in the world with the two of you."
"I am going to owl mum with this news. She will be so happy," Ginny said, already searching for parchment and quill.
"Harry, who are we going to invite to the wedding. I assume that we will have a private and small wedding."
"Yes, I think it must be small, private, and romantic. I think about your parents, Ginny's family, the professors at Hogwarts and Sirius."
"I want also have Dean, Seamus, Lavender, Parvati, Neville, Padma, Susan, Katie and Luna at the wedding," Hermione said.
"And I want to have Colin and Helen BearShover at the wedding," Ginny said.
"Monday is Halloween, we can dance again", Ginny, said dreamily. I will be able to dance with my fiancée ... great!"
"Me too ... we only dance with Harry, Ginny. I cannot stand the idea of sharing him with someone else. We do not let Harry out of our eyes, before he comes again with surprises. He might get other ideas!"
"But Hermione, don't tell me that you did not like my surprise?"
"Don't make a habit out of it, Harry," snapped Hermione with a smile on her face.
Hermione looked with sudden renewed interest at Harry. "You two made love this afternoon, didn't you? Now it is my turn. We are already pregnant, so we had better make the best out of it."
The trio entered the great hall at Wednesday morning for breakfast. They sat down on their chairs, and the food appeared as usual on all tables. Professor Snape looked disgustedly at the golden trio and noticed the rings on their fingers. His eyes changed into slits, but said nothing; he looked instead at professor Dumbledore. Professor Dumbledore in the mean time also noticed the rings and smiled secretively. "Albus, this is disgusting. You cannot be letting Potter marry both girls, can you?"
"Well Severus, they are allowed to do that, as long they marry only under wizard law. There is no law which says that it is not allowed. Better, even minister Fudge knows it."
"But Albus look what it will do with the school and the damage it will cause when you allow them to marry. People will think very badly about this."
"I think that the damage can be kept under control. Maybe people need to get used to the idea, but with the right explanation to the public, they will understand and will accept in time."
Professor Snape was reluctant to work with Harry.
"Am I correct, and are you all three engaged to each other?"
"Yes professor, we are all three of us engaged with each other. It is better like this."
"But Potter, that is disgusting. Are you planning to build a harem? How can you marry two women at the same time? It looks unnatural. You are already too young to marry, and then two of them. What are their parents saying?"
"They do not know it yet."
"Well, good luck explaining it. I hope you survive the curses from Ginny's mother."
"I think that Mrs. and Mr. Weasley will go along with it; I even expect that they will be very happy. I am not sure about Hermione's parents, but I am sure they will get used to that."
"But why do you want to marry both of them. Why don't you marry in a conventional way, and let Ginny live with you both if you really have the urge to. At least it will not come out, and when they find out, this is more common and acceptable in the wizard's world."
"No, the triplet curse has doomed us to be together. Our feelings cannot be ignored, it will bring pain and hurt when we try to enforce a distance between each other; we might even die! And because we can not live without each other, then it is my responsibility to take responsibility. The curse is doing more damaging work. The curse is not only increasing the intensity of the feelings we have for each other, but it also increases the urges to make love. On top of that, the curse neutralizes all contraceptive potions and spells. Trying to ignore this is like a living hell. The information we found out several days after you told us about your research for the curse. You failed to mention or to discover the problem about conception spells. We discovered this truth only one day too late; with as result that Hermione and Ginny are both pregnant. The last was the trigger for me to propose to both of them."
The professor Snape's eyes widened a fraction and he stared at Harry. "You managed to get them both pregnant?"
"And they don't want to consider having an abortion?"
"No, they don't want to."
The professor was quiet for a long time, while working on the new spells.
"When do you want to marry?"
"Saturday over a week"
"Professor Snape, we are going to send invitations to all of the guests for the wedding after we have talked to the parents of the girls and I have talked with Sirius. But I would like to ask you personally. Would you like to come to our wedding?"
Professor Snape continued to work for some time.
"Yes, I think I would like that. Where do you plan to hold your wedding?"
"We will have the wedding at the Potter's castle."
Beta reader for this chapter is Rebekah


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"with inflation factored in." thank you, Karen. it's the 1st time I've read spending data reported with that little caveat. By volume measurements (vs price) EcoData rolled over months ago. sales volumes are contracting all over the place.
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LOS ANGELES – Chipper Jones received a cortisone injection in his injured finger and hopes to return to the Braves' lineup as soon as Tuesday at Arizona.
The veteran third baseman missed the four-game series against the Los Angeles Dodgers with swelling in his right ring finger that made it painful to hit or throw. Jones said he got the shot directly into his knuckle after Saturday night's game.
He said the pain was worse than ever Sunday, as the discomfort from the swelling was compounded by soreness from the injection.
"But [the medication] should take hold by tomorrow," Jones said, "and I'll see if I can take batting practice maybe Tuesday. If all goes well Tuesday, we'll go get 'em."
Jones decided to have the shot after getting no relief through hot-cold treatments and a wrap designed to transfer cortisone through the skin to the inflammation.
He thought he might have to wait to get the shot from a hand specialist, and that he might need to go on the disabled list so that the Braves wouldn't be short-handed while he healed.
But the Braves' assistant orthopaedist, Dr. Marvin Royster, was in Los Angeles at Saturday's game and asked Jones if he wanted to get the shot. He got it late Saturday, and Jones said he now has no intention of going on the DL.
"I wouldn't have gotten the shot if I was going on the DL," he said.
Omar Infante has filled in at third base since Jones left Tuesday's game against Philadelphia when pain he'd felt several days worsened.
Infante had a game-winning RBI in that game against the Phillies and another in Saturday's 9-3 win against the Dodgers. Infante's single drove in the second and third runs in a seven-run seventh inning, which sent the Braves to their 10th win in 11 games.
"In years past I probably would have played through it," Jones said of his latest injury, "because we didn't have anybody else, and my presence was sort of missed. Now, Omar is capable of going out and throwing three or four knocks out there any night against anybody, and he's a clutch guy — he's gotten two game-winning hits since I've been out.
"It allows me the chance to sit and get right before I get back in there."
Jones, 38, has been plagued by injuries in recent years. The Braves struggled mightily without him in the lineup until the second half of the 2009 season, when they finally played well in his absences.
Infante missed parts of the past two seasons with a twice-broken hand, but has been healthy this season and provided a dependable backup to Jones and shortstop Yunel Escobar, who had a recent stint on the disabled list.
Brooks Conrad had also come through with big hits when filling in for Jones, who said he's pleased to see the team become less reliant on him as he gets closer to retirement.
"I think it's great," he said. "You've got to have all 25 guys. Omar's gotten a chance to play for a couple of weeks straight when Escobar was on the DL, and he's going to get a chance to play four or five days straight here.
"It's good to get him some reps. You throw him right in the 2-hole behind [Martin] Prado and in front of [Jason] Heyward, and he's responded. He's hitting bullets all over the park, and in big spots. Like I said, two game-winning RBIs in the last four games.
"In [the past] if me and the No. 4 hitter didn't hit, we didn't score any runs. That's not the case now. And trust me, I'm elated."
June 6th, 2010
6:57 pm
you are simply the best in this bloggin/reporing biz DOB. giving us this impt update right in the middle of key innings. MUCH, MUCH appreciated.
June 6th, 2010
7:05 pm
Ummmm…can we hold the Dodger's in the 9th..??
June 6th, 2010
7:21 pm
Oh crap McClouth on deck come on Melky!!!
June 6th, 2010
7:40 pm
DOB, the man
June 6th, 2010
7:49 pm
Thanks for the update on Chipper.
Just as I type this, Chaves surrenders a run in the 11th. Braves lose 5-4 to the Dodgers. Chavez instead of Billy Wagner? Come on!
June 6th, 2010
7:50 pm
Please release chavez.
June 6th, 2010
7:51 pm
It's Chavez and not Chaves, my bad…
June 6th, 2010
7:52 pm
I must be a genius, how did I know when Chavez was put in the 11th by Booby that the game was over? Cox is a moron, what a wasted day because of his stupidity, Chavez sux consistently but he still puts him in, so sad
June 6th, 2010
7:52 pm
This guy is Bobby's newest "boy." When has Chaves pitched when he didn't give up at least 1 run? Anybody?
He is terrible, and we've got Dunn at AAA.
June 6th, 2010
7:52 pm
Jesse Chavez – hell, might as well just get the guys on the bus and get the hell out of Dodge. This guy positively blows!
June 6th, 2010
7:53 pm
Yeah, Chavez
June 6th, 2010
7:55 pm
I hope Chavez is on a flight back to Gwinnett right about now!
June 6th, 2010
7:57 pm
Chavez is the new Greg Norton of the bullpen
June 6th, 2010
7:57 pm
DOB been reading you for years and want to say thanks for all that you do to keep us informed…Next, WHY WHY WHY do you put this guy in…I'm not a Bobby Basher but you can't let this guy decide if you win or lose…I had rather have Nate M. pitch that last inning…AMAZING
June 6th, 2010
8:01 pm
J-Smoove – how unfair to Greg Norton to compare him to Jesse! At least Norton could bunt! On the other hand, I've wracked my brain all season trying to come up with anything – anything – that this guys does right.
June 6th, 2010
8:03 pm
Chavez, go visit your family and friends at home while you are out there and STAY, thank you for your effort but things are not going to work out.
June 6th, 2010
8:08 pm
So we got this guy for Soriano? Puhleeeze!!!! Tell me that we got something else in this trade!
This is a double-whammy. Ditching your best reliever, who is now leading the AL in saves, and getting a game-blowing, team-deflating, rubber-armed pitcher in return. Damn! I say outright release this dude.
June 6th, 2010
8:11 pm
IlliniBrave I think even if we release him he would find a way to lose it for the Braves…
June 6th, 2010
8:23 pm
Chavez and KK are horrible and do nothing but cost us games. I just KNEW the game was over when Chavez came in. How does everyone but Bobby realize how bad these two guys are?
June 6th, 2010
8:26 pm
I could not agree more Eddy
June 6th, 2010
8:28 pm
Chavez and KAWACRUMMY…………………………………AA or AAA pitchers on a MLB roster. We gave up an ALL STAR pitcher and yes he will be for the AL, for this guy who was not good for Pittsburgh nor Tampa. Liberty Media needs there butt kicked for not going over budget to keep Soriano. Chavez must be shipped out and KAWACRUMMY to the pen.
June 6th, 2010
8:28 pm
I can't believe Bobby let Chavez pitch in Chavez Ravine. That's just plain bad mojo.
June 6th, 2010
8:43 pm
Lay that baby right up there like Albert the butler….hot and fresh and served up to you…a gift for you– to lace to left and make a 3-1 series fall to a pedestrian 2-2…Chavez ravine, Chavez gets creamed!
June 6th, 2010
8:44 pm
Ok by the numbers…He has pitched in 17 games and the Braves have lost 12 of them… Of the 5 he pitched in that they won he gave up runs in 3 of those games…Now if I had been at every game and seen this I have to ask myself…Would I put him in the game? In May he gave up more runs than innings pitched… I think the Braves should pay me for watching a game like this… I won't even get started on KK.
June 6th, 2010
8:53 pm
if we relwased him then he would sign somewhere as ann outfielder and bat 1000 against us and never get a hit against anyone else
June 6th, 2010
9:01 pm
Nice research TnBravesFan448… that is unbelievable! Chavez is horrible and I'm still trying to figure out what Bobby sees in him. However, I will admit that I was calling for the Bravos to release Troy Glaus at the beginning of ther season, and now he is an MVP candidate… so what do I know?
June 6th, 2010
9:10 pm
Anyone who thinks Infante should play instead of Chip is nuts. Lineup when Chip returns should be Prado Heyward Chip Troy Yesco Mac Hinske McLouth. Yunel loves hitting fifth. Show a little respect for Chip. He's only the greatest player we ever had aside from Andruw.
June 6th, 2010
9:19 pm
Way to go Bobby, don't you wish you had two or three more pitchers like Chavez, then you would never have to use Wagoner.
June 6th, 2010
10:00 pm
At this point, I could care less about Chipper Jones. If he does come back Tuesday, it will just be a matter of time before something else pops up with him and we all know it, including Chipper himself.
June 6th, 2010
10:16 pm
Stew give it up stop living in the past. Let it go, Chipper is old, decrepit.. is made of potato chips
that's why he is a chip.. and if you call yourself a Braves fan all of sudden you forgot about Aaron being the best we have ever had… oh I see you only know history post 1993…what about #3 and his back to back MVP can Chipper say he has two of those??? no..
so shut your pie hole cause Infante is clutch.. and right now he is way better the that Senior citizen #10 and more durable and dependable. so go drink your bottle of milk and suck you thumb, cause you do not know CRAP….PS If Chipper was a real man he would return the money he took for his contract extension.. So we can use it on someone who plays every day that honors his job…..
June 6th, 2010
10:32 pm
I'm one who really likes Infante. The guy is like one of those multi-purpose tools you take on a camping or fishing trip. He can do everything!
But his play in the field lately has made me rethink my desire to see him take Chipper's place. Chipper's been on ESPN's Web Gems several times this year; although he's not nearly as good as he used to be, he still is solid at 3B. Infante… uh, not so much.
June 6th, 2010
10:52 pm
IIIliniBrave I understand you, holding onto a sentimental memory.. I have never implied Chipper was a horrible player HE WAS GOOD' He was Great in his time.. but everybody has to understand is that
he has to pass the Torch NOW.. not later this year, I mean NOW.. he can't stay healthy, he does not hit like he used to… So what's the point to hold on to a sentiment of the past.. The Good ones retire with Dignity… look at class act Greg Maddux.. Although he could still get people out, but yet
he chose to retire, cause his level of play was not nowhere near it used to be.. So why not Chipper can be a class act and Emulate Greg and move on.. nobody can take away what he has done in the game..But if he keeps being stubborn and think he could still get the job done like he used to..
he is dreaming.. and all he is doing is making the Fans that liked him in the past, hating him for not putting his Ego behind and be a man and admitt he is no longer the player he used to be.. That;s all I ve got.. But fans Across the South and in Braves nation Stop Holding on Chipper He is Done!!!!
June 6th, 2010
11:30 pm
Be warned guys – the longer the game goes the less likely we will win cause Bobby runs through his players like a madman. It is funny too because he won't pull a slumping regular from the lineup (French, Andruw, Chipper) while he is shuffling others on a daily basis and he wears a path changing pitchers.
June 6th, 2010
11:33 pm
Chip… Call Junior now, he has a message for you.. Like its time to go…
June 6th, 2010
11:56 pm
why does everybody bash bobby when the braves lose but when thier wining he is the best ever chipper is not done yet why bash the greatest switch hitter ever to play the game infante and brooks are good players but they aint chipper i have watched the braves since 1993 and have loved them since that time chipper is hands down my fav player and bobby is the best go braves lets win it for bobby and chipper
June 7th, 2010
1:30 am
who cares! Leave him on the DL. Atlanta has been waiting to move on for 2 years. Put us out of our misery and let Heyward be the Franchise. Sure will be great to clip chippers $12 mil or so plus McClouth's $5 mil. With $17 million to spend, the Bravo's could be really tough.
June 7th, 2010
1:39 am
Sorry for the past comment…Chipper was great and could still be a great bench player….but….HOF'ers shouldn't be bench players. Why go through the pain of playing everyday…it's obvious his body has been breaking down….he's made the money he deserved for being the face of a great franchise….is it really worth it to tarnish a legacy, hurt a team that you loved, and be constantly injured? It's better to burn out than fade away!
June 7th, 2010
7:11 am
Chipper, stay on the bench, take over as hitting coach.
June 7th, 2010
7:49 am
Chipper: "How did it happen? Well, Bobby was teachin' me his best nose pickin' move and all of a sudden I felt it give. I should have known I couldn't keep up with a pro like that."
June 7th, 2010
9:40 am
Donny Corleone
June 7th, 2010
7:49 am
Now thats funny
June 7th, 2010
9:54 am
No, Chipper. Stay hurt.
We'll save you for later.
June 7th, 2010
10:02 am
With Chipper getting ready to come back; we don't want to shock Booby – but could someone give him a hint – that it is not in bhe baseball rule book that just because a player has hit 3rd in the batting order for most of his career that you are requied to keep him in that exact spot in the batting order.
June 7th, 2010
10:07 am
With the options that the Braves have, I am not saying that Chipper should not be in the lineup. But the 3rd spot in the batting order is another question. It has now been a full season (last year) and now l/3 of this season without him having production like a 3rd place hitter, and still Booby leaves him there.
Booby has a modification of the old saying "it is not whether you win or lose but how you play the game".
Booby's guideling is "ITS NOW WHETHER YOU WIN OR LOSE – BUT WHETHER OR NOT THE PLAYERS LIKE YOU.
June 7th, 2010
12:34 pm
how bout everbody bashing bobby take over his job now jus let him retire an all the naysayers be the next manager since they think they can be a better manager then a hall of famer go a head take over third for chipper to since everbody thinks it is as easy as it looks to play at a high level day in and day out
June 7th, 2010
12:46 pm
If the shot is going to enable Chipper to play that soon, why didn't he get it several days ago?
June 7th, 2010
1:50 pm
What does everyone thing of this idea?
With Chipper being out every other week, why not move Glaus over to 3rd when he's out. Then move Hinske to 1st. Now trade for Andruw to play in outfield.
June 7th, 2010
2:14 pm
Braves should trade for Alex Rios
June 7th, 2010
2:47 pm
When it comes to Chipper…there seems to be no pleasing "so called" Braves fans. He's criticized when he sit out with an injury….and he's criticized when he trys to play with one…..I think he is at the point in his career when he knows when he can play and be productive and when the ailment keeps him from being the best option for Bobby at third. I think this sure to be first ballot Hall of Famer deserves a lot more respect that he is getting from Braves followers.
June 7th, 2010
3:00 pm
bulldogbyrd: Well said.
June 7th, 2010
3:23 pm
Milky Cornbread and Chavez need to go to AAA!
June 7th, 2010
11:00 pm
@bulldogbyrd- I respectfully disagree with you on Chipper deserving more respect. I have a friend that has known him from being a braves clubhouse insider since 1990, and he is a spoiled premaddonna, making more than he is worth. I have met him once, and he is just how my friend described him- he doesnt care about the fans, only himself. I saw him turn down several small boys who just wanted an autograph to stare at an attractive girl in the stands and tell a joke, real classy. He signed my ball, and when I tried to talk to him he just grunted something and walked off. Anyways, I could go on and on about why he is a failure off the field, I will focus on his on the field failures. First off he cant stay in games from a variety of "ailments" and "injuries", some laughably mild- from sore thumbs, to groin tweaks, his infamous obliques, finger cramps, jammed toes, paper cuts, sprained eyelids, and numerous other things that have kept him out of the lineup. Things that would keep most passionate ballplayers out only a day or two, will land Chipper on the DL for weeks and sometimes months. He is weak and doesnt care to be in there, doesnt want to play through pain, and has no passion for the game. Also, his lack of hustle and desire is cancerous to the team. Leaders lead through example, and his example is to jog after popups, walk after groundballs and bunts that are not directly at him, loaf down the line when he hits the ball, and generally never hustles after anything. He is terrible in the field, booting balls left and right, combined with the fact he never dives for balls- any bunt in front of him, or blooper over his head and the runner will be safe by default as Chipper doesnt even try for these balls. He constantly throws blame away from himself and on to others in his typical sleazy way. And now the one thing he actually did well for many years-hit the ball- he cant even do that anymore, hitting around .230 or so, with 2 homers all year long, and he is making $14 million, more like robbing us of 14 million dollars. So I am not big on giving respect to guys who are premaddonas off the field, and who dont hustle on the field or down the line, make lots of errors, loaf after balls, bunts in front of him, throw teammates under the bus, wimps out with minor injuries, and generally have little passion and desire to play the game…
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Jeffrey Woodward and Marc Naese of Panduit have deployed an innovative UOC at its world headquarters facility
There are three rating scales to the method - Essential, Business Case and Strategy - and each are rated 1 through 10. Panduit established a go/no-go scoring level of 15. If an item's total score for all three scales hit 15 or higher, the item was included in the building plan. If not, it was dropped. Items like physical access control were given an Essential rating of 10. (Additional details on EBS scoring are available online in the expanded version of this article.)
Key Success Points
Woodward and Naese summarized the key points for a successful building project:
1. Start as early as possible.
2. Ensure that all stakeholders are represented on concept teams, so that nothing is forgotten.
3. Revise the conventional construction process - typically, IT comes in last; now, IT and the infrastructure elements must be addressed very early.
4. Account for legacy technologies by envisioning their future migration to IP networks, but including their conventional cable runs in the existing cabling pathways and patch panels. That way, when the business climate dictates the need to migrate, all required physical infrastructure elements are already deployed as part of the common infrastructure.
5. Realize that early design decisions heavily influence success.
6. Be sure to look well past "Day 1" to what you want the building to be 10 or 15 years from now. It can be easier to build some things in the infrastructure up-front, rather than pay for changes done later.
Return on Investment
"The payback for the $615,000 incremental costs for our U-OC2 and EOC capabilities is 2.6 years, which fits our corporate guidelines," Woodward says. "For example, instead of using fencing around the building campus as we have done with all of our other facilities, we're using video analytics with roof-mounted cameras. This is a significant cost savings, as well as a visual enhancement to the property."
Adds Connor: "Unified physical infrastructure allowed for several additional ROI enhancements, which resulted in a positive ROI in both hard equipment and soft operations cost reductions." (Additional details on ROI are available online in the expanded version of this article.)
Driving Interoperability
Networked technologies provide opportunities for systems interaction that expand the ROI for security technologies and other technologies.
For example, a system can push video and alarm messages out to receptionist phones, when appropriate. Visitor management systems can alert a receptionist when an escorted visitor's sponsor has left the building and not returned yet. Conversely, when a receptionist has momentarily stepped away from the reception desk, phone and video displays can instruct a visitor to call the U-OC2, so that staff can respond appropriately.
"This kind of interoperability is driven by how you and the stakeholders want the building to work, and what kind of environment and experience you want for your facilities," Woodward says.
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Ray Bernard, PSP, CHS-III is the principal consultant for Ray Bernard Consulting Services (RBCS), a firm that provides security consulting services for public and private facilities (www.go-rbcs.com). Mr. Bernard is founder and publisher of "The Security Minute" 60-second newsletter (www.TheSecurityMinute.com). He is also active in the education committees of the in the ASIS International Physical Security and IT Security Councils (www.asisonline.org). Mr. Bernard is also a member of the Subject Matter Expert faculty of the Security Executive Council.
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When a multi-story building is under construction, passers-by see steel framework, concrete flooring, air ducts, pipes and cables - all of which eventually disappear when the outer skin goes on and the inside walls go up in the final phases of construction. When the building "comes to life" during occupancy, many building systems - including security systems - become active and start playing a role.
Because building systems are migrating onto a common network infrastructure, and are thus able to connect with one another to exchange information, it helps to envision the copper and fiber cable throughout as the building's nervous system, enabling its various management and control systems to optimize building functions. This is not just a poetic analogy, as can be seen from the two video links below.


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You're O / Honey is A:
Honey expects you to cut back on your red meat and eat more rice and pasta than you'd care to. Honey might even be a vegetarian and thinks Dean Ornish's or macrobiotic dietary guidelines are Best for Everyone. But A's cooking and choices don't work for you; you feel sluggish after one of A's meals, as if you need higher octane fuel.
Honey's stress threshold might be lower than yours. S/he doesn't seem as hardy a specimen, as if there's something more delicate or high-strung about him or her that requires your protection and sensitivity. Your idea of a fun day together includes far more aerobic exertion than A would like. S/he enjoys golf or yoga - these bore the heck out of you. When you try tennis as your happy compromise, you may find yourself trying to work up a serious sweat while A focuses on perfecting strokes and self-competing, perhaps stressfully. If you two decide on a bike ride, you say, "Cool - Let's ride across the bridge, brunch in Sausalito, and come back," while A would be more comfortable with a leisurely ride around the neighborhood.
Sometimes you feel you're carrying all the weight of the household/family/relationship, but you admit your A is responsible, though not necessarily obviously passionate or energetic.
You're A and your Honey is O:
Honey drives you hard - can even seem a nag or taskmaster, but wears it well, and you're often grateful for the challenges and inspiration. O can give you the "kick in the pants" you need, spurring you to greater career engagement and satisfaction -- or can wear you out trying to reach ever higher, even beyond your capacity.
Honey has a temper. It can shatter your peace, and you just might take to occasionally tuning it out. S/he might appreciate your even keel, but you must consciously explore ways to deal with O intensity.
Honey is more naturally, constitutionally competitive out there in the world; it's more important to O self-esteem to make a splash, and s/he loves knowing the ropes and the right names. You're more comfortable in a somewhat more circumscribed domain, wherein you're happy to keep to your schedule/ routine and work out the fine points. You may be more mental where O is physical. You may fancy chess or puzzles or crafts where O has little patience for these.
Sometimes you may wish your O would relax, act more like a yogi or Buddhist. But if you read Dr. Atkins instead of Dr. Ornish, you'll see what works better for Honey than for you. It's not that s/he really despises Veganism or tofu-eaters; it's just that O can't relate to a way of eating that makes him/her feel unwell. Don't take it personally or ply your O with literature and references versus Meat, or with soyfoods. Rather, read Eat Right 4 Your Type ...and Vive la Différence.
Once O and A understand the intrinsic constitutional differences, this is a complementary pairing that runs the gamut of personality, interest and style, modeling a variety of approaches for any children born to it. And, Good News for the O/A couple: Any biological children will be O or A -- no additional types to consider in the household.
O/A relationship guidelines can be applied to parent-child and sibling-sibling relationships, too.
"Sheesh - you're just like your father!" might find some explanatory foundation in blood type.
Some version of the above Diversity Explanation has interested many I've told in the bloodtype work. It brings a practical, real-life solution directly to points of curiosity and even vexation in the actual day-to-day lives of many couples, and individuals. Where the D'Adamo work is thus brought down to earth for someone, s/he is not likely to easily scorn it where it is derided, but might instead say, "There may be something to it."
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A forty-four minute program is long. To find it wholly devoted to an anti-vegan diatribe was, frankly, boring. It led him to scarf down low-quality meat at greasy dives for a third of the program and to pursue a manic meat-mission at unexciting places for much of the rest. When the San Francisco show was over, I wondered why I was so vexed by it and tried to imagine how he could better have used his time here.
Neighborhoods and ethnicities are the essence of this sprawling, diverse city. For a New Yorker, especially, to devote forty-four minutes to culinary San Francisco and not mention Vietnamese cuisine is downright negligence; the foodiest of New Yorkers are often completely unfamiliar with Vietnamese food, so common here, and truly spectacular examples can be had at all price points.
Another interesting difference between New York and San Francisco is in the Italian cuisine department, New York's tradition being rooted in Naples and Sicily, and San Francisco's in more northerly regions such as Tuscany. As North Beach's former Italian predominance disappears, some focus on the Italian history of culinary San Francisco would have been apt if not important, not to mention colorful and fun.
Views – restaurants with views from decks and heights – of the bay, of the ocean, of the city, would have provided visual excitement for the TV audience and acquainted it with a unique neighborhood or two. Countless visitors to our city are drawn by this very feature, and there's just no denying the romance and thrill of al fresco dining here. Many establishments have charming small patios and gardens. Why not show one? As for our local people, the camera was pointed at a variety of homeless street persons and toothless beggars.
One wondered why Bourdain, in his one foray outside the city, drove all the way to Oakland for a $2 taco from a fast-food truck, and ate it sitting on a parking lot ledge. Was this the (Eureka) clue: Program as dig at nearby Berkeley's "Chez Panisse"?
Sante's Rx: One heck of a delightful, self-ridiculing segment deliberately integrating soy foods into his palate, with his characteristic vulgar humor saying something like, "I've come to San Francisco to lose my soy virginity." This town would have obliged him, sending him to the moon with creativity. There are Thai and Chinese chefs who would have incontrovertibly proved that tempeh and tofu are "Not Just For Yogis" but actually components of an exciting meal. But then he would have had to drop his beat attitude and let himself walk around stunned thereafter, muttering, "I stand corrected."
I agree that the Anti-Meat lobbyists can be annoying, and I personally do not fancy meatless meals. But I also recognize that restaurant patrons are often looking for tasty examples of meatless cookery, and Western chefs are not cooperating. Our culinary schools are not demanding that chefs master soy, for instance, in order to graduate. Over a quarter century ago, I was offering tofu and tempeh dishes to the meat-accustomed palate on a meat-dominant menu at a resort attracting its share of vegetarians and vegans, and this my innovation kept guests on the property for dinner. Omnivores on vacation would experiment at such a place, opting for Tempeh Piccata over Roast Chicken on a given night, to discover its possibilities beyond Asian expressions. Many a customer complimented and thanked me for both accommodating their health needs and inspiring their own experimentation. There are chefs far more talented than I who could expand their clientele catering to this market. Not that Anthony Bourdain need ever be one of them, but the guy's act is just crying for a shattering, silencing sexy night with soy, and I hear him.]]>
Whatever it is about eggs that makes their taste so "complete" for me, so satisfying, I haven't figured it out yet. I suspect it nutritionally has to do with the protein in the yolk, and something about the interaction of salt, butter, and egg-white that just sends me over the top taste-wise.
I marvel at the perfectness of the egg. It's a spiritual experience for me, really humbling me as a cook, because for all my learnedness in the culinary arts, there is nothing I can do to rival (though I can sort of imitate) the flawless dovetailing of nutritive need and gustatory delight so elegantly stated by The Egg.
Food for Thought, indeed.]]>
"You know," I said to the technologist, "The picture on the ceiling looks like pulmonary parenchyma, dense with miliary nodules, and there's some patchy infiltrate in the left lower quadrant." Needless to say, he was stunned.
As I lay on that table, throughout the next hour or so, I pondered the analogue, remembering some beautiful Nature photographs I've seen that really play up the theme -- flowers and foliage, meteorological patterns, rock formations, speaking a language strangely similar to that spoken by our own histology and gross anatomy.
On my way out of the hospital, I noticed the artwork in the halls and found it very aptly chosen. The themes were similar: Leaves floating on a rippling pond, or swirling in a whirlpool or windstorm; a single flower, a tendril dangling, encircling...
One can "be sick" and see that, exclusively.
Or one can thus gain entrée into yet another wondrous sphere, where even diseased cells can claim their share of beauty.
What's changed over the years? Why do I, who used to work in Medicine in New York, find it such alien(ating) terrain?
There are those who say my native New York doctors and facilities are notoriously more professional and proficient than those here in California. Others say the whole profession has morphed into one in which patients must, much more than ever, concertedly advocate on their own behalves, doctors being less likely to automatically consider themselves accountable to actual patients, due to all the billing/regulatory intermediaries. Radiologists are more likely to rush-read images, and doctors to settle for mere reports without viewing actual films, etc.
I have been struggling with this, having lost the more aggressive insistence that came with the New York territory. I have always counseled the ill, including friends, to clearly assert themselves with medical professionals, and now I find myself in the position to discover how difficult that is to do when ailing. It is far easier said than done, so I'm humbled about it and smell a wildly fertile field in Patient Advocacy/Relations, for those of you seeking new careers.
I spent almost thirty adult years outside Medicine's crosshairs. Needing to avail myself of its services these days, I must mobilize great stores of energy, relearn old skills, learn new systems, and engage new techniques for navigating this terrain, said not-quite-Pollyanna.
Thanking God for the ol' B spirit, plasticity, resilience, equanimity, and cheer.]]>
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Hi, ___:
Don't know if this would interest you at all, but:
Yesterday, I was at [name of hospital]. And I decided to do something while there that I'd thought many times of doing: I went back to all the wards/units where I had been a patient last winter, to see them from the eyes of health, the rooms I'd lain in, and to perhaps thank some of the really outstanding people who had taken care of me. I had the distinct sense that they very, very rarely see the positive results of their dedication - their former patients IRL, walking around in street clothes, with wind in their sails.
First stop: The ICU. I thought of you as I entered its door, imagined you coming in and passing these places, as I had never seen the door myself; I had never seen that front desk. And there was my little alcove/room, just to the left. The whole ICU looked much, much smaller and more crowded than it had felt/appeared to me from my horizontal position on that bed. I instantly remembered nurses I saw there yesterday ---- remembered their names, which blew their minds. There were even hugs and tears - they couldn't believe I looked so good, and they were genuinely grateful I'd come back: It did a LOT for their morale. I specifically asked for Katy, who had been in touch with you by phone. I wanted to thank her for her hand-holding care of me when I was first admitted there, put on the oscillating ventilation. (I don't think you saw that set-up; for hours I was strapped into a jerking/bouncing/vibrating chest-wrapped thing to jostle my ribcage while the oxygen was blasting in through the mask - Katy explained it was to loosen the "cement"-like "fluid" that had filled my lungs.) It was really hellish, but Katy sat there with me, while I begged her to stop it, and she'd say, "Okay, fine. You want us to intubate you? Because if I turn this off, we have no choice."
You know what came back to me?
And this is really why I'm writing this to you.
She was the one who came in and said, "______ is coming from New York. I've spoken to him. His plane arrives at 2 in the afternoon."
So help me, I looked at that clock every several minutes and calculated where in the American skies you were. It was critical to me, somehow, to hang on to that while the waves of wind smacked me in the throat and the vest jostled me hard. I remembered that yesterday. I remembered a lot of things, and, you know? It was psychologically a very healthy thing to have gone back there. I had read on the Internet that that's the case for many, many who spend extended time in Intensive Care through an Emergency admission.
Anyway, I left a note for Katy yesterday (because she's a Night Nurse and wasn't there), on a special "Recognition" card, which they post in their little staff rest area, and everybody looks. Apparently this is a Major Highlight of their work. These ICU angels of mercy are in the business of saving lives, and while they get monetary rewards, their souls really do crave just this sort of recognition. Many of their patients don't recover. The few who come back and show their/our faces, healthy, REALLY encourage them.
After I left there, I did the same at the TICU and the regular ward. I was remembered, and I remembered the names, too! I recognized-in-writing two more absent nurses in the TICU, and followed up with a couple of nurses on the regular ward. One was a male French nurse with whom I had communicated in French when I was first admitted to the regular Medical ward for observation. "You were just coughing and coughing and coughing," he said yesterday. He didn't know - so I told him - that I later went Critical and was transferred to the ICU and was in the hospital another 12 days after he last saw me.
It was a very rich experience for me and gave me a certain amount of closure. I have very, very warm feelings for those people and was told that the nurses I recognized in writing would be thereby recognized by their departments and supervisors. The least I could do.
And, of course, I have warm feelings and deep gratitude for you. You really gave me something priceless by flying out here when you did. The plane was cramped, the ICU was cramped, it wasn't fun, and you must have been scared until I stabilized.
What more can I say?
Thanks again.
Love and hugs.]]>
No sooner did I recover from February's life-threatening ARDS than I found myself being recalled a couple of weeks ago about a suspicious radiologic finding. Then I was quickly worked up via diagnostic radiology and ultrasound, whose results compounded clinician suspicion. The lesion in question had four classic features of malignancy.
Yesterday's biopsy was under ideal conditions, including its being performed at a top-rated US hospital. Slides were prepared a few feet from my head, where the pathologist sat at her microscope and read them. She then delivered the good news.
Throughout the biopsy and the preceding two weeks' workup, I was serene.
1. I have enough of a medical background to know how advanced the technology is and how much of its use is justified by the need to train the personnel who use it! On the less cynical side, there's a necessarily high ratio of healthy patients who must be rendered anxious or apprehensive to those the technology really saves by finding their cancers early. So: Intellectually, I'm hip.
2. February's acute brush with death and day-to-day personal submission to Emergency and Critical medical care accustomed me to being pricked, probed, medicated, turned, transported, ventilated, and discussed by roving schools of clinicians and their acolytes, as well as nurses, aides, therapists and techs. My attitude is a paradoxic combination of exhausted "Yeah, yeah: Do what you have to do," and firm "Give it to me in straight clinical jargon; no 'lay language' for me, thanks," not to mention a very strong faith in God.
One thing I've always appreciated about Peter D'Adamo is his respect for holistic, as opposed to merely biochemical, individuality. He understands that not only diet but one's attitude toward health is unique to one's personhood. Some of us can tolerate more uncertainty, more sickness, more ignorance, than others. Some are more frightened by or intolerant of dysfunction or disability. Some are more scared of death than others are. And all of these factors must be considered when choosing a "compliance-level", because: Compliance with What? is the operative question.
Compliance with the D'Adamo books' recommendations?
Compliance with one's social situation? With one's workstyle or schedule?
Compliance with one's personal distribution of comfort zones?
I daresay the dadamo web forum community is far more concerned with dietary than these other sorts of compliance, necessarily to promulgate that aspect of the teaching. But dietary compliance as a major life preoccupation isn't for everyone or even for most, even in the wake of catastrophic illness – maybe especially under those circumstances! It's the old story of regretting not having told someone you loved him, say, as opposed to having used too much cinnamon. "Living Right" 4 one's bloodtype is not identical to living right for one's soul or spirit.
Emergency and intensive patient-hood often elicits a clearer expression of essence. There's a distillation, a purification, a consequent clarity. Nothing wrong with that. Having emerged from that crucible, the more recent "cancer scare" tested the substrate, and I'm pleased with the result.]]>
Convalescence has been more challenging than hospitalization was. I have been visited by six different home healthcare professionals, two different unknown maids, three or four outside contractors and my apartment building's maintenance man a few times. I have taken regular pharmacy deliveries. I've had four appointments with three MDs and been to a laboratory to drop off a specimen. I've also shopped at the supermarket a couple of times, had a couple of friends over for dinner, and returned to work here and there.
In my lifetime, my Standard Operating Procedure has involved amassing tons of scholarship on any and every subject I encounter, and during the past 5 and a half weeks that's been my continued and constant practice. I have studied each drug I'm taking, each drug I took in the hospital (after remembering them!) (and there were many), each procedure I underwent in ER, ICU, TICU and on the ward; various hospital practices and protocols; the Hospitalist specialty; the Intensivist specialty; the history of Intensive Care; ICU nursing, and more. I've of course studied my own disease and conditions - their stages, causes, treatments and prognoses.
During my hospitalization I encountered the whole gamut of career-suitability of various practitioners, from shining examples of professionalism, to those with clearly inappropriate motives for being in health care; from the energetic and thorough to the lazy and disinterested, to the exhausted. As an outpatient and in-home consumer of Home Healthcare services, I've observed the same range.
And now? I enter another phase: No Longer Med-Free. While investigating their possible side-effects and interactions, and correcting the various nutrient-depletions they cause, I'm also physically processing new drugs, monitoring their effects in addition to monitoring vital signs and treating symptoms in non-Rx ways. Plus: I'm also having to make dietary and lifestyle adjustments. In the hospital, it was easier: All I had to do was let other people keep me alive.
We natural-types have to be on guard against disdain of the allopathic system's "Magic Pill" answers when a quick improvement is imperative. In the ICU, this was literally and immediately a matter of Life and Death. At home, while the stakes are less immediate, they are just as serious: The "right" medication can immediately restore function to an exhausted patient who is challenged or failing. Yes - under better circumstances, one has months to compare modalities, to experiment with supplements that are less toxic, and their dosages. For my part, I'm discovering that Rx meds are right for me NOW - because I haven't had the luxury of months or years to plan for new conditions and their treatments. I'm cutting myself that slack, knowing I can wean myself from them later, when I'm stronger and have emerged more completely from the convalescent stage. Perhaps I will blog about the process of jettisoning those crutches? We'll see.
Meanwhile, I count myself blessed to be under the oversight and care of a fine MD who is forthcoming, friendly, flexible, considerate and accessible. In his practice, he routinely uses diet, exercise/fitness and nutritional supplementation in addition to Rx meds and allopathic methods. I feel safe letting him share responsibility for my health at this point, because this flurry of self-education (while mentally fascinating) is unable to keep pace with the urgency of my situation and the variety and depth of medical/pharmacological knowledge required.
I'm blogging on a natural health site. I'm pursuing a Complementary Medicine program. Bear with me. Thanks.]]>


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1159-1299 West Clark Avenue has a Walk Score of 86 out of 100. This location is Very Walkable so most errands can be accomplished on foot.
1159-1299 West Clark Avenue is a 15 minute walk from the Antelope Valley Line and the Ventura County Line at the Downtown Burbank Metrolink Station stop.
This location is in Burbank. Nearby parks include George Izay Park / Olive Avenue Recreation Center, Pickwick Recreation Center and Mountain View Park.
Nearby schools include Walt Disney Elementary School, Options for Youth-Burbank Charter School and Burroughs High School.
The closest grocery stores are Village Green Market - Organic Skin Care Store, Fresh & Easy - Burbank and Rancho Market.
Nearby coffee shops include Rafos Cafè, Starbucks and Panera Bread. Nearby restaurants include Tony's Italian Deli, South Street Hot Wings and Norm's Hamburger.
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I'm a Kansas City Chief and it feels amazing! I'm speechless right now but also so blessed! Feels good to be number one!!!
— Eric Fisher (@Big_Fish79) April 26, 2013
At a time when quarterback Geno Smith has faced harsh criticism regarding his ability to handle adversity,Smith isn't handling adversity well.
Specifically, the game that is the NFL draft isn't going the way he expected, so Smith plans to take his bat and ball and go home.
Smith told ESPN's Suzy Kolber after Thursday night's opening round that he won't be back on Friday for rounds two and three.
If Smith doesn't return, he'll be confirming in the minds of many that he can't show grit and resolve under pressure. That he'll sink his head and slump his shoulders when the team is 14 points behind in the third quarter. That he'll pout if he's not the starter or if he gets benched. That he'll complain about the use of too many running plays when he prefers to air it out.
"That's a lot of love for the big boys up front, which we usually don't get," Fisher said.
None of the teams making the first 32 selections went for Te'o, not even Minnesota, which had three first-round picks. The All-America linebacker's poor performance in Notre Dame's loss to Alabama in the national championship game surely was a factor. Still to be determined is how much the fake girlfriend hoax cost him.
Unlike the past few years when bumper crops of quarterbacks reigned, this was pure muscle, and lots of it.
Mitch Holthus, the Chiefs' radio play-by-play announcer and master of ceremonies for the team's draft party, was reporting the Twitter messages and rumors some 30 minutes before the coverage. The day's lean had been toward Fisher instead of Texas A&M's Luke Joeckel, so when the call was made, the 4,000 or so who filled the team's practice facility cheered the selection they mostly had expected.
"I like it," said Danny Lobb, 23, of Kansas City. "It's a strong year for offensive linemen."
Lobb, whose family has held four season tickets for some 35 years, joined friends Stephen Dobler and Matthew Mavec for food, drink and socializing with current and former players and cheerleaders at the Chiefs' indoor practice facility.
"It wasn't a great year to have a bad record," Mavec said. "But it was a good pick."
Chiefs fans, starved for success after a 2-14 season that prompted a front-office and coaching-staff housecleaning, were ready to cheer for anybody not associated with last year.
"With the first pick in the 2013 NFL Draft, the Kansas City Chiefs select Eric Fisher," commissioner Roger Goodell announced.
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