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The cool fall weather has triggered something in my brain so I can only think about soups, stews, and chowders. I love this time of year with the crisp, cool air, the beautiful colours of the leaves, and fall produce like pumpkins and squash. Although I know it means that many months of cold and snow are coming, I still love autumn. This dish marries together a modification of my biscuit recipe with a modification of my Creamy Kale and Potato Stew. Result: maximum deliciousness.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Vegetable Stew with Savory Biscuit Topping
The cool fall weather has triggered something in my brain so I can only think about soups, stews, and chowders. I love this time of year with the crisp, cool air, the beautiful colours of the leaves, and fall produce like pumpkins and squash. Although I know it means that many months of cold and snow are coming, I still love autumn. This dish marries together a modification of my biscuit recipe with a modification of my Creamy Kale and Potato Stew. Result: maximum deliciousness.
21 comments:
- Bex said...
This looks sooo warm and cozy!
- October 2, 2008 at 9:27 PM
- Eesh said...
Why oh why did I not see this before attempting dinner tonight?! I was like, hmm all this kale and all these potatoes and nothing to do with them. Argh! This will definitely be printed out and made tout de suite!
- October 2, 2008 at 11:35 PM
- kindkitchen said...
This HAS to be my Thanksgiving dinner! YUM.
- October 2, 2008 at 11:49 PM
- michelle said...
Super-yummy! It just so happens that I have been craving savory biscuity things lately also, so I shall try this soon!
- October 2, 2008 at 11:53 PM
- Tara said...
This looks so lovely and comforting!
- October 3, 2008 at 12:25 AM
- Karyn said...
I am obsessed with pies in general, and yours looks like a terrific, comforting winter meal. Temperatures are just getting cold enough here for me to try it!
- October 3, 2008 at 12:36 AM
- Tofu Mom (AKA Tofu-n-Sprouts) said...
My kids JUST asked tonight for potpies... which would be basically the same thing... I need to try this biscuit dough, it looks yummy.
- October 3, 2008 at 1:26 AM
- tofuparty said...
Another Vegan dad recipe that's on my list to give it a try one of these days.
- October 3, 2008 at 4:30 AM
- Level 20 Bard said...
The last picture brought me to my knees for this meal, and it's 6:00 am in the morning too and I would start eating this if it was presented to me.
That meal looks to damn tasty.
- October 3, 2008 at 6:03 AM
- Lisa -- Cravin' Veggies said...
Wow. That looks amazing.
- October 3, 2008 at 7:28 AM
- Joanna said...
This looks mighty tasty! It kind of reminds me of a pot pie, only heartier and healthier.
- October 3, 2008 at 9:06 AM
- Kelly said...
OMG that looks so good. I may have to try that for VeganMofo. Yum yum.
- October 3, 2008 at 4:44 PM
- Al said...
Oh sweet Jebus!
I am totally copy and pasting that recipe into my "recipes I need to make some day" Word file. Yum.
- October 3, 2008 at 5:59 PM
- Reni said...
What a great idea and one that the family will probably eat. Thanks for sharing!
- October 4, 2008 at 10:32 AM
- fwpotluck said...
This is yummy! I made it for supper tonight, and really loved your biscuit topping. I made the lumpen version, though, dropping spoonfuls of dough, instead of rolling it out.
- October 4, 2008 at 8:04 PM
- Lebkuchen said...
Another great recipe! And very adaptable - I didn't have leeks so I subbed red onion, I didn't have kale so I used turnip greens, I didn't have chicken-style broth powder so I used veggie powder...for the 2 cups mixed veggies I used 1 cup frozen peas and 2 chopped carrots & 2 chopped celery. This was absolutely delicious and even MORE delicious reheated the next day! I think it allowed the stew part to become thicker and the crust benefitted from a second baking in the oven. Keep 'em coming, VeganDad! :)
- October 7, 2008 at 8:54 AM
- Heather said...
I made this for dinner last night and it was awesome. Thanks!
- October 7, 2008 at 5:33 PM
- Jan said...
I made this tonight since the weather has turned chilly and it looked so delicious. It did not disappoint; husband loved it, and I did as well. Bravo, Dad!
- October 11, 2008 at 8:29 PM
- Joelie said...
I have this thing (well, my own version of it--I used the veggies I already had in my fridge from yesterday's organic market since I have the fortune of living in France *grin*) bubbling in my oven RIGHT NOW. If it turns out well (and the taste test preview gave it a thumbs up), I'm taking it to my mother-in-law's birthday party to 1) show them that just because I became vegan, I don't eat only JUNK, and 2) show them the dish that is competing with all their butter and French cheese! Thanks Vegan Dad!!!!
- March 1, 2009 at 6:40 AM
- sortacrunchymom said...
Hello Vegan Dad! I made this as the main dish for our Thanksgiving dinner this year. It was AWESOME! Thanks for the recipe!!
- November 27, 2011 at 8:43 PM
- phirelyte said...
I just made this for my vegan housing co-op of 24 people by quadrupling the recipe, and everyone loved it! I got so many compliments :)
P.S. I was nervous to try a new vegan blog after being completely dedicated to Vegan Yum-Yum, but this blog is fabulous! I will now be a dedicated follow of yours, too, Vegan Dad.
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6 Insane Holidays You'll Wish You Celebrated
#3. Monkey Buffet Festival -- The World's Most Adorable Thanksgiving
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Every year in in the Lopburi province of Thailand, around 10,000 locals gather to indulge in a huge feast prepared by the country's top chefs. After the guests have eaten their fill, they traditionally engage in wholesome group activities such as climbing trees, humping in the grass and flinging feces at one another. Oh, and did we mention that the guests are all monkeys?
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And that Coke is made out of monkey blood?
While the Lopburi Monkey Buffet Festival might have a name that conjures up images of the childhood-ruining dinner scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the monkeys in question are actually the guests of honor, not the main course. See, the long-tailed macaques in the area are considered to be the descendants of Hanuman, a Hindu monkey god.
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Pictured, with ceremonial bong.
It stands to reason for Hindus that feeding their deity's progeny will bring about success and prosperity. This is especially true for the local monkey shit-cleaner who's putting a kid through college off this festival alone.
The monkey food is probably better than the shit you eat, too. This two-ton banquet can cost upward of $15,000 -- no surprise, given that it's prepared by 20 of the top chefs in Bangkok and includes sausage, ice cream, fruit, milk, jelly and all sorts of other stuff that might be better off going to starving children. Fuck it -- monkeys are way more fun than them, anyways.
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Even the psychotic ones. Especially the psychotic ones.
Though it might seem a bit odd to blow so much cash on gourmet dining for animals who are just as content to eat the bugs that live in their sister's back hair as anything else, the superstition about them bringing prosperity is actually kinda true. The festival attracts thousands of tourists to the Lopburi area, increasing the revenue of the cities that have the most monkeys. And if that's not enough of a reason to love the scruffy little disease balls, we don't know what is.
#2. Day of Conception -- The Induced Labor Day
For the past decade or so, Russia has been having a little trouble getting it up -- the national birthrate, that is. It's become such an issue that the government now even offers money for couples willing to churn out multiple lil' Ruskies. After all, there needs to be a new generation to take over the country someday.
Thankfully, every problem has a solution. In fact, some problems have multiple solutions, ranging from sensible and well-planned to over-the-top and probably sort of unnecessary. Enter Sergey Ivanovich Morozov, a man who preferred the latter. As Governor of Ulyanovsk, he declared a new holiday on September 12 called the Day of Conception, in which citizens are given the day off work to get down to a very different kind of business.
Dick business.
Why September 12? Because it falls exactly nine months prior to the equally bluntly named Russia Day. Not only is the purpose of the Day of Conception to eventually litter the ground with Tolstoy toddlers, but it's also intended to ensure their birthdays line up with Russia's biggest national holiday, in order to breed a race of super-soldiers, we assume.
While some extra free time and an excuse to fuck like Tribbles sounds pretty rad in and of itself, this celebration doesn't merely end five seconds after climax. The party picks back up in June when Russia Day rolls around, and the big patriotic boning contest becomes the big patriotic showcase showdown.
And if someone forgets your birthday, it means they just don't like you.
As the fun-size Yuri Gagarin's get popped out, moms get fabulous prizes, including cash, appliances and in one lucky case, a brand new car. Really though, the best part about a fucking contest is that there are no losers. Except, of course, the babies born on June 13.
Worthless piece of shit.
#1. Up Helly Aa -- The Drunken, Flaming Viking Parade
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Given that the good people of Scotland tend to celebrate by drinking whiskey, tossing giant logs and eating a sheep's heart, liver and lungs wrapped in its own stomach, it might come as little surprise that those crazy Bravehearts know how to throw one hell of a shindig. While some holidays are observed with eating, and others with gifts, Up Helly Aa, an annual festival celebrated all throughout Shetland, is celebrated in one simple way: fire.
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Think of how much more meaningful Christmas would be if everything was on fire.
In each town in the region, large groups of sweaty, presumably drunken Scotsmen gather together and play Viking for a day, swearing their allegiance to their squad's "Guizer Jarl," a grand marshal of sorts. Participants wear badass armor, carry Viking weapons and even design unique coats-of-arms to honor their leader.
They stumble down streets with gasoline-soaked torches belting out slurred Norse anthems about Thor or the Midgard Serpent or some shit, as the procession symbolically brings the replica boat toward the mythic afterlife of Valhalla, because ... why the hell not? It's better than staying home on a Tuesday night.
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Like a Renaissance fair, but not embarrassing to be seen at.
Upon arriving at the end of the parade route, they wind that thing down in the style any self-respecting Viking would: burning the ship to the motherfucking ground.
Via Uphellyaa.org
And putting it out with a long, beer-fueled, unified piss.
The especially odd thing is that even though this booze-fueled burn-ward-waiting-to-happen march is all about Vikings, Up Helly Aa isn't actually an ancient Norse holiday at all. Its origin dates back only to the late 1800s, and it's widely believed the holiday was created as an excuse for bored soldiers to party and riot after coming home from the Napoleonic Wars. So remember, the next time you and your buddies have an extra-wild costume party, you very well could be starting a tradition that will carry on for centuries.
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And to our hard-partying forefathers, we simply say, "Thank you."
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In the first episode of The Signal, Thomas Lewis and Mike Swanson talk briefly about the upcoming PHP and JavaScript development features in the next version of Expression Web. Then, they interview Jennifer Ritzinger, the MIX08 Conference Owner, and Denise Begley, the MIX08 Marketing Manager about: the "volunteer army," when we start thinking about the next event, what it takes to pull off something like MIX08, why the event is in Las Vegas, who should attend MIX08, and how registering early can save you some bucks.
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A gripping and moving new collection of stories that reimagines the meaning of lossthrough often unexpected and violent means.
Joyce Carol Oates is not only one of our most important novelists and literary critics, she is also an unparalleled master of the short story. Sourlandsixteen previously uncollected stories that explore how the power of violence, loss, and grief shape both the psyche and the soulshows us an author work-ing at the height of her powers.
With lapidary precision and an unflinching eye, Oates maps the surprising contours of ordinary life. From a desperate man who dons a jack-o-lantern head as a prelude to a most curious sort of courtship, to a story of a stabbing many times recounted in the life of a lonely girl; from a beguiling young woman librarian whose amputee state attracts a married man and father, to a girl hopelessly in love with her renegade, incarcerated cousin; from a professors wife who finds herself tragically isolated at a party in her own house, to the concluding title story of an unexpectedly redemptive love rooted in radical aloneness and isolation, each story in Sourland resonates beautifully with Oatess trademark fascination for the unpredictable amid the prosaicthe comming-ling of sexual love and violence, the tumult of family lifeand shines with her predilection for dark humor and her gift for voice.
About the Author
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the bestsellers Blonde, a finalist for the National Book Award, and The Falls, winner of the 2005 Prix Femina. She is a professor of humanities at Princeton University.
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"Oates's fiction has the curious, morbid draw of a flaming car wreck. It's a testament to Oates's talent that she can nearly always force the reader to look."
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"Oates is just a fearless writer. . . with her brave heart and her impossibly lush and dead-on imaginative powers."
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"...Vivid...the work reflects a delicious boundary-crossing mix of literary artistry and genre-writing skill...This famously prolific writer continues to surprise us, and that in itself is something to celebrate."
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"Oates remains . . . a living master of the short story-far more virtuosic in manner than the ecstatic realist she is usually taken to be and far more at home in the form, too."
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"A master class in the art of pure, suspenseful storytelling...Oates is a dangerous writer in the best sense of the word, one who takes risks almost obsessively with energy and relish… [a] dazzling collection."
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Dick listened to Michael's story, rapt, afraid to believe, and afraid to disbelieve, but Michael stood in front of him, talking, calm, alive, and apparently, well.
"Dick, listen: you can't make a life and death decision based on experience from fifteen years ago. New data, research and protocols are coming out all the time. Look at me, just look at me! Maybe I should be dead, or at best paralyzed in a wheel chair. But I'm healthy with no medical restrictions--none."
Dick looked, and he listened. The words, "it's not like it used to be" ran through his mind again and again. Dick learned about Neupogen, a drug to increase the white cell count after chemotherapy. He asked again about Zofran, the medication that buffered the effects of chemo. Slowly, the dark vision of chemotherapy as demon, dragging its victims into a torment worse than the disease itself lessened its grip on him. Hope started crowding into the vacuum left by the departing darkness, and he had talked about it with someone else, someone that understood. Like a man carrying a heavy sack of sand that develops a leak, Dick felt his burden lighten.
That night he told Nancy what he had learned from his meeting with Michael: maybe they were living in the dark ages; maybe chemotherapy wasn't the ogre they thought it was. Nancy listened, watching Dick while he spoke, seeing a flicker of light in his eye that hadn't been there since the day she met him at his office after receiving her diagnosis. It was good to see the light again, and she wanted to keep seeing it, needed to keep seeing it. She couldn't bear to put it out; it would be like throwing water on hot embers in a cold house. Nancy agreed to see an oncologist that week.
After listening closely to her oncologist, weighing what she heard, and stating how she felt every step of the way, Nancy chose treatment. Due in part to her insistence, her entire treatment regimen was outpatient. Nancy approached her therapy as more than a passive participant--she helped plan it. After all, it was her life.
Less than two weeks passed between her diagnosis and her surgery: a lumpectomy. The initial chemotherapy treatment began ten days later. She took six chemo treatments over five months, injecting the chemo herself with a pump she wore to work. Every three weeks she took another treatment, and each treatment spanned a forty eight hour period. When she finished the chemotherapy, she had a break for four weeks until the radiation treatments began. Then, from August 30 to Oct. 30, 1996, she had radiation five days a week. Nancy arranged her radiation treatments so she could have them on her way to work--and didn't miss a day on the job. That wouldn't have been like Nancy.
Nancy credits the nurses and her oncologist for their honesty; no one sugarcoated anything. She knew what was coming every step of the way.
Dick accompanied her for her check-ups, her instruction sessions, and blood tests. He learned to accept responsibility for new roles in his life. Nancy had made one request--that Dick handle the insurance. She knew she didn't need the stress, and Dick went to it with a will, handling the bills, filling out the forms, and learning a new "language" pertaining to diagnosis, treatments, and allowable charges. Dick used his computer to chart every day of Nancy's treatment: her good days, her bad days, her reactions to medication, her rest periods. Keeping a journal was one of Dick's methods of involving himself as much as he could, and Nancy knew she wasn't alone, just as Dick found out he wasn't alone when he met Michael.
Dick learned other things, too. Nancy needed protein, energy. Dick made her a rich drink spiked with raw egg. But someone told him about a disease that was possible among people whose immune systems were depleted and who ate raw eggs. Dick scrubbed the eggshells before cracking them into her drink. Today they both chuckle at Dick's tender juggling of a fresh egg over the sink.
Less than one week after meeting Dick for the first time, Michael heard another tapping at his cubicle. Once again Dick stood there to speak with Michael about Nancy's treatment
"You won't believe what they're doing Mike! You won't believe what happened!" Dick swallowed and took a short breath and went on, "We did just like you said. We found other breast cancer patients who have been through treatment and talked with them. Then we went back to the surgeon and learned even more. Nancy is wearing this little pump on her belt, so she gets treatment automatically all the time. She won't even need to miss any work. She was so afraid she was going to lose her job--but she is able to work!"
When Dick stopped to catch his breath, Michael grinned. He was looking at a new man--a man filled with hope and happiness. Then he said, "I bet your doctor never even knew you two were contemplating not accepting treatment."
Dick's face became stone, then a puzzled look appeared. "You don't understand," he replied, "when the surgeon began describing treatment options, we walked out. We left. We were done."
Stunned and amazed, Michael softly asked, "You walked out? The doctor knew what you were thinking? You just walked out?"
With a strange smile Dick answered, "Yep. That's why we were so upset. We knew she was going to die."
Through a meeting arranged by an acquaintance, a word of mouth association, one friend thinking maybe another friend could help someone by talking, by sharing their story, Dick's perspective changed; Nancy's life took a completely new path, and Michael had a new outlook--one he was soon to need.
Soon after his second meeting with Dick, Michael got his ten-minute meeting with the company president to pitch the peer support proposal to sponsor a consortium. His meetings with Dick had inspired him to speak with life and death passion. He knew this was truly important, and that the opportunity to do something important rarely comes in life.
The ten minutes allocated for Michael's meeting with the president stretched to one hour and ten minutes, with seed finding for Peer Perspectives being allocated. Michael had the opportunity to state that peer support is more than warm and fuzzy encounter--it's about education and ultimately life and death decision making. This aspect of peer support was about to be reinforced in Michael's life.
Within weeks of sharing his story with Dick, Michael was re-diagnosed as having not one kind of lymphoma--but two. He flew to Houston for two kinds of chemotherapy and was at even greater risk than he had been before, because these treatments were in preparation for bone marrow transplants. But again, the combination of spectacular advancements in cancer medicine--changing by the hour--the evolving mystery of the disease itself, and Michael's newly recharged faith in himself--sparked by his meeting Dick and Nancy, yielded results: Michael entered full remission again. And now the prognosis is positive that he will not have to endure a bone marrow transplant. A new treatment has just emerged that may insure Michael's continued well-being without the pain and danger of bone marrow transplant. His encounter with Dick and Nancy, and their ensuing closeness, couldn't have come at a better time.
Nancy has been in complete remission since October 30, 1996. Today Dick and Nancy live in a different house. It's smaller than the one the lived in when Nancy went through her treatment. They wanted less maintenance work, and more time for the things they enjoy--like each other. They are selling their "hot-peach" colored hot rod, a classic beauty lovingly restored, because Nancy says she always wanted a convertible street rod, and they are both looking forward to riding in it, attending hot rod meets with their friends.
Nancy and Dick still hold their same jobs, and they travel more now. But Dick is proudest of a conversation he recently had with a woman whose husband had just been diagnosed with cancer. When he heard of the situation, he called her, just to let her know someone else understood--another spouse of a recently diagnosed person. Her overwhelming gratitude for that phone call and her immediate relief that someone else understood instilled Dick with the fervor and commitment to help anyone he can by sharing his and Nancy's story.
There are two days now in Dick's life that he will never forget, the day Nancy told him she had cancer, and the day he met Michael.
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Envisioning the Body You Want
We're well into the new year, and the expectations of a better year — and a better you — are still high! We all keep in our mind's eye what kind of shape we would like to be in, but it needn't stop there. You can make it happen!


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Voters Weigh Social Issues
Voters weighed changes to state laws governing drug policy, immigration and other contentious social issues in ballot measures Tuesday, while Californians considered a proposal to increase taxes temporarily as the state emerges from a fiscal crisis.
Washington and Colorado voters legalized marijuana for general use, becoming the first states in the U.S. to do so. Oregon voters rejected a similar pot-legalization measure Tuesday.
The measures present a direct conflict with federal law, which continues to outlaw marijuana as a dangerous drug on the same level as heroin and LSD under the Controlled Substances Act. The Obama administration has signaled that federal law enforcement officials will continue to pursue trafficking and other offenses in the state.
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The Democratic governors of all three states had come out in opposition, with Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper declaring in October that marijuana legalization "sends the wrong message to kids that drugs are OK."
In Massachusetts, voters legalized the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. Some 17 states and the District of Columbia have enacted such laws. Voters in Arkansas rejected a similar measure, while voters in Montana, where medical marijuana is already legal, approved a measure keeping more stringent restrictions in place.
Maryland voters backed a measure that would let some undocumented immigrants get in-state tuition rates at the state's universities.
Eleven other states already have similar provisions. Maryland was the first to vote on the issue following an announcement from the White House this summer that it would revise deportation enforcement to allow many young illegal immigrants to legally live and work in the United States.
Massachusetts voters narrowly defeated an initiative to allow doctors to prescribe medicine to end the life of a terminally ill patient who requested it.
Voters in Florida rejected by a slim margin a proposal to amend the state's constitution to try to block the federal health law's requirement that people purchase insurance or pay a penalty. But voters in Alabama, Wyoming and Montana backed similar provisions.
Such measures would generally be void following the Supreme Court's decision in June that the individual mandate was valid under Congress's constitutional authority to levy taxes.
Missouri voted to bar Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon from setting up a state-run exchange as part of the law. State lawmakers could still vote to do this, but if they don't, the federal government is set to step in and run the exchange for the state.
In Michigan, voters appeared headed toward rejecting an effort to amend the state constitution to include guarantees that public-sector workers retain collective-bargaining rights and a ban against future state right-to-work laws, which bar labor contracts that require workers to pay dues and fees to a union. The vote came after a multimillion-dollar campaign by organized labor, which issued statements Tuesday night conceding defeat.
California voters rejected a measure to repeal the state's death penalty, but upheld a measure that softens the state's "three-strikes" law, which attaches stiff prison sentences to repeat criminal offenders.
California approved a measure to increase state taxes for a time amid a fiscal crisis. If the proposal had failed, it would have triggered billions of dollars in cuts to education and other areas. Proposition 30 increases the sales tax by a quarter of a percentage point, while boosting the income tax by one to three percentage points for individuals with annual income of more than $250,000 or couples with more than $500,000.
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Can some square of side length greater than $n$ be covered by $n^2+1$ unit squares? (The unit squares may be rotated. The large square and its interior must be covered.)
This reference is certainly pertinent, being the second Google hit for "covering a square with squares" (after your question). Just reading it now...
UPDATE: so far as I can tell from looking at this article, the author regards your question as an unsolved problem. There is a further article by him and Karabash, apparently in (his) journal Geombinatorics, vol. 18, which I cannot access online and which has not been reviewed on MathSciNet.
To supplement Ben Green's key reference (to "Covering a square of side n + ε with unit squares") , there is some follow-on work: Karabash & Soifer, "A sharp upper bound for cover-up squares," Geombinatorics, v16, 219-226, 2006; "Note on covering square with equal squares," Geombinatorics, v18, 13-17, 2008; Chung & Graham, "Note: Packing equal squares into a large square," Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A, Volume 116, Issue 6 (August 2009), 1167-1175.
Addendum in response to Ben Green's remark: I do have the 2008 Geombinatorics paper (but not the 2006 one). They define $\Pi(n)$ as the number of unit squares that can cover a square of side length $n+\epsilon$. It appears that the status as of this 2008 paper was that $\Pi(n)=n^2+O(n^{2/3})$ has been established, and they conjecture that $\Pi(n)=n^2+ \Omega(n^{1/2})$.


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The Festival You Can Watch on Your Couch
The Secret Theatre in Long Island City seats fewer than 100 people, but the capacity is virtually unlimited during its 12-day WiredArts Fest, which is running through March 2: Every show is broadcast via live-stream as it is performed for the in-theater audience.
Presented by the Manhattan-based start-up VisualArtsTV, WiredArts is billed as the first live-streamed performing-arts festival—a claim that's bound to be disputed by some graduate student somewhere researching the paleolithic era of Internet history. Anyway, founders Kathryn Jones and Joey Brenneman can certainly claim to be at the forefront of an evolution in how audiences consume performing-arts content.
As Ms. Jones put it recently: "The audience isn't in decline. It's online." In her view, moving the arts to platforms where the audience already exists is a starting point to answer the bigger question: "How do we continue to create demand for the arts in this country? We think it's through the technology that they love."
Ms. Jones and Ms. Brenneman, longtime friends and actresses, arrived at that conclusion after they produced an interactive live-streamed play in 2011 called "Better Left Unsaid," which drew some 50,000 unique online viewers for three performances. Seeing the potential, they launched VirtualArtsTV, which currently operates from Lower Manhattan, with the goal of making the performing arts broadly accessible through technology.
Each day of the WiredArts Fest features two programs that may contain multiple acts—an assortment of dance, theater, comedy and music. Tickets to each online program cost $2.50, and an all-access festival pass is $35. (Tickets to one of the live shows is $18.) The pricing model was based on information gathered from live-streaming "Better Left Unsaid." Viewers were given a choice of how much to pay, starting at $2.50; most watched for free, but the average self-selected price was $10. As important, many people came back to see the show on successive nights. Through comments on social media, the creators began to learn their viewers' habits: Some had to stop watching when they were interrupted at home or simply didn't have time to finish. In some cases, viewers liked a certain performer or the play, so they returned to see it again.
This time around, the goal was to set a ticket price that would encourage people to watch, communicate on various social-media platforms and come back. "People do pay for theater," said Ms. Jones. "They are used to paying for theater."
The difficulty, of course, is that live shows can appear excruciatingly dull when transferred to television or video. And if you're watching online, as opposed to sitting in a room with the performers, your attention span is about two clicks away from evaporating.
VirtualArtsTV's solution was to shoot with four cameras and cut quickly from one to another—more quickly than a TV show would. "You can't just put one camera in the back of the audience and call it live-streamed," said Ms. Jones. "We cut super fast."
That might sound like overkill. The live-streamed programs at the Guggenheim Museum's Works & Process series aren't shot like extreme sports. And the Berlin Philharmonic's Digital Concert Hall, which provides a virtual seat at live concerts performed there, is a relaxed, smooth affair. Those programs, though, frequently offer world-renowned artists. (And with classical music, you don't expect much movement, anyway.) At the WiredArts Fest, with its new, unusual, or low-budget work, and without big stars, the speed does help keep your eye engaged, especially for dance. From my seat, in the snowy wilds of western Pennsylvania, where I happened to be when this festival began, the experience of logging in and watching was by no means perfect, but that wasn't the show's fault.
When I logged into the festival site, my computer showed a big black hole where the show was supposed to be—and an active chat room beside the blank window. I learned there that others were having the same problem and had moved over to watch on Ustream.com. When I got there, Ustream demanded a password, which of course I could not find.
After 10 minutes of searching, guessing and changing it to something I instantly forgot, I watched a good portion of choreographer Roman Baca's Exit 12 Dance Company performing work that related to his time in Iraq. I stayed logged in to watch "Die: Roll to Proceed," a comedy about a slacker who makes decisions by the roll of a die. I was comfortably settled in when "Die" began—until I got an important phone call from a friend, the sort you can't really ignore.
Yes, practical stuff gets in the way of watching performances at home. But then again, I didn't have to brave the 10-degree weather outside. And at $2.50, I'd pay again on another night to see what I missed. As for the technical issue, VisualArtsTV's chief marketing officer, David B. Cohen, said most paying viewers were automatically redirected to Ustream, where they could see the show without commercial interruption. He said more than 22,000 visitors, from the U.S. and several other countries, watched the first six days of the festival.
Going forward, almost every part of this online experiment is up for grabs—the online chat feature during the performance, the interactivity between the online audience and performers (during a Q&A session), and the taking of photographs during the show, which was encouraged by the hosts. Said Ms. Jones, "There is no blueprint."
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Location and SurroundingsConcepción is a modern, walkable city with an extensive transportation system, eight universities and many international restaurants. Points of interest include Plaza Independencia (main square), University of Concepción, city parks and the naval base.
TourismCountry Wine and Traditions
From the city of Concepción we'll make our way towards the historical city of Chillán, known as the "Nation's Cradle". We'll visit the Main Square, the Cathedral, the Siqueiros' Murals considered as a cultural heritage; the Claudio Arrau Museum, the Arauco Pedestrian Walkway, the traditional Market and the Art and Crafts Fair. To continue with our trip, we'll make our way to the small town of Quinchamalí, which is famous for its black pieces of pottery. Then, we'll visit "Los Hornos de Ginito" Restaurant, located in the "Cerro Negro's" Valley. Here, we'll tour over the liqueur cellar, the wine tasting room and the traditional Straw Craft Exposition. To finish this amused morning, we'll enjoy a delicious typical Chilean lunch. In the afternoon, we'll return to Concepción.
Lota Chiflon del Diablo Park and Museum
Early in the morning we'll leave Concepción on the way to the Mining City of Lota, of which history, customs and traditions were built on the richness of coal. First, we'll visit the Isidora Cousiño Park, touring over its beautiful gardens with galleries of mythological statues and paths of native and exotic vegetation. During the whole visit we'll be accompanied by the "Isidoras", tour guides dress up in old style costumes, who will tell us about the history of the Park and the Cousiño family. Finishing this tour, we'll visit the Coal Historical Museum. Here, the "Isidoras" will tell us more about the richness that coal brought to this city. Leaving the park, we'll get into an exciting underground adventure. By going down 40 meters under the sea level into "The Chiflón del Diablo" coal mine. During this underground journey we'll be accompanied by former coal miners who will tell us several stories and legends about this famous place. In the afternoon, we'll return to Concepción.
Laja Falls
Early in the morning we'll leave Concepción on the way to The Laja Falls, located 25km from the city of Los Angeles. These falls are formed by the water of the Laja River that falls from a height of 50 meters in four extraordinary waterfalls. From the viewpoints we'll have the possibility of seeing and enjoying this natural environment of incomparable beauty that has been the icon of the region for many years. We'll finish the morning having a delicious lunch. Once the lunch is over, we'll make our way to Concepción.
Concepcion-Talcahuano Historical
We'll begin our trip starting from the hotel early in the morning to make a full trip through Concepción to visit the city's main tourist attractions such as the Independence Square, The Gallery of History and the University of Concepción among others. We'll continue the journey to visit The Huáscar, located in the Talcahuano Bay, and the Pedro del Río Zañartu Park, located in Hualpén going until we get into the mouth of the Bío Bío River and its beautiful environment. Finishing this visit, we'll return to the hotel.


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5 Must-Ask Questions
The Parent-Teacher Conference: 5 Must-Ask Questionsby Cindy Bond
In order to help your child have a successful school year, you need to know what is expected of her, academically, from now until June. You can find out by asking some questions. Take this list with you to your next parent-teacher conference. And don't forget to take notes!
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What skills and knowledge will my child be expected to master this year?
- What will my child learn this year in key subjects like math, science, history, and English?
- Are there challenging academic standards in place at this school, and how do they compare with those at other school districts? May I see them?
- How do you inform students about the academic standards they're expected to meet? What kind of projects and assignments have you planned that will help my child meet higher academic standards?
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Is there an easy way to tell if a graph can be embedded on a Möbius strip (with no edges crossing)?
A specific version of this: if a simple graph with an odd number of vertices has all vertices of degree 4, can it be embedded on a Möbius strip?
Answer summary:
- There are 103 forbidden subgraphs for the Möbius strip that are explicitly known and drawn on page 212ff of Dan Archdeacon's thesis.
- There are 35 forbidden minors for the Möbius strip, they are explicitly known, and even better there are only 6 cubic forbidden minors, each with an intuitive explanation.
I have not yet answered the second question, but Jim Belk's excellent explanation has given me good ideas.


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We are cooking a vegetarian friendly dish with Chef Josh Aaron from the Island Bar and Grill.
Vegetarian Pasta Primavera
Serves 4
Olive Oil
1 Cup diced red onion
1 cup sliced bell pepper
1 cup sliced zucchini
1 cup sliced squash (can add extra zucchini if squash is not available)
2 cups sliced mushroom
2 cups halved grape tomatoes
1/2 cup chopped fresh basil
1 tbsp fresh chopped parsley
1 tbsp kosher salt
1 tbsp black pepper
1 tsp crushed red pepper
1 tsp dried italian seasoning
1 can Diced Fire Roasted Tomatoes
1 lb Rigatoni or pasta of choice
Cover the bottom of a large frying pan with olive oil and heat over
,medium high until oil begins to smoke. Add onion, zucchini, bell pepper,
squash, half of all the seasoning and saute for 5 to 6 min or until onion
are translucent and bell pepper and zucchini are starting to get soft. Add
mushrooms, tomatoes, basil and saute for 4 to 5 more minutes, then add
Fire Roasted Tomatoes and remainder of seasoning and bring to a boil.
After coming to a boil, reduce heat to medium low and simmer for 10
minutes. While sauce simmers cook pasta and drain pasta, if you choose you
can toss the pasta with the sauce of pour sauce of hot pasta and garnish
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What could be the relation between a bicycle's inner tube getting punctured and the pressure of the tube.
Are they directly proportional? I.e, if the pressure of Bicycle tube is higher then it has higher chance of getting punctured.
It's not going to be directly proportional. Leaving aside the quality of the tyre and what it will be rated for, the shape of the graph is likely to be a U shape:
It's not going to be as simple as that, but might work as a general rule.
The pressure has little effect on flats caused by sharp objects. Tire construction prevails here.
Pressure does have effect a big effect on pinch flats. The more pressure in your tire, the less it will deform when you hit a bump (or the very evil train tracks). If if can't deform enough to pinch the tube, no flat. As the pressure decreases, the amount of force required to pinch also decreases. I'll drop some pressure for rainy wet roads, but I'll be more careful about things that go bump when I do.
That said, don't exceed the manufacture's (both tire and rim) max or min pressure. Worth keeping in mind that 110 lbs put in during the cool morning will be quite a bit higher as the sun beats halfway through a four hour ride.
Conversely, your tube can lose pressure for many reasons as well. Fill it during a flat change with CO2 during a hot day and you may notice it being really low the next morning.
Tire pressure, should be checked prior to each ride.
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A Hole Is to Dig [With Hardcover Book] (Compact Disc)
This Book Is Not Sold Online - In Store Special Order Only
Out of Print
About the Author
Ruth Krauss (1901-1993), a member of the experimental Writer's Laboratory at the Bank Street School in New York City in the 1940s, imaginatively used humor and invented words to create some of the very first books for children that highlighted a child's inner life. She collaborated with some of the greatest illustrators in children's literature, including Maurice Sendak and her husband, Crockett Johnson.
Marc Simont (1915- ) was born in Paris. When he was 19, Mr. Simont moved to America. His first illustrations for a children's book appeared in 1939. Since then, he has illustrated nearly a hundred books, working with authors as diverse as Margaret Wise Brown and James Thurber. He won a Caldecott Honor in 1950 for illustrating Ruth Krauss's "The Happy Day," and in in 1957 he was awarded the Caldecott Medal for his pictures in "A Tree is Nice," by Janice May Udry. Mr. Simont and his wife have one grown son, two dogs and a cat. They live in West Cornwall, Connecticut.
In addition to Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak's books include Kenny's Window, Very Far Away, The Sign on Rosie's Door, Nutshell Library (consisting of Chicken Soup with Rice, Alligators All Around, One Was Johnny, and Pierre), Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life, In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy, and Bumble-Ardy.
He received the 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are; the 1970 Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration; the 1983 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, given by the American Library Association in recognition of his entire body of work; and a 1996 National Medal of Arts in recognition of his contribution to the arts in America. In 2003, he received the first Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, an international prize for children's literature established by the Swedish government.


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If I buy some vegetables and take them home, is there any way to determine if the vegetables contain dangerous levels of pesticides?
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No, there is no (reasonable) way to check it for yourself.
There are thousands of toxins in the world, and any of them could land on your vegetables. Some of them might be easily discovered, but most of them would require a complicated lab test. Even if you had the knowledge required to conduct such a test, and the equipment needed, you would have to run hundreds of tests on each batch of veggies. There are attempts to develop easy tests (full text behind paywall) for consumer use, which cover a few common pesticides, but I don't think they have been turned to a commercial product yet.
This is why there are regulations, and government organs which enforce these regulations. Sure, they don't have the capacity to test each tomato field for pesticides. Their control is based on levels of risk - for example, each slaughtered pig should be tested for parasites dangerous for humans, but for organic vegetables, they are only taking random samples. It is expected that the risk of fines and other financial loss will deter farmers from using pesticides on vegetables labelled as organic. Additionally, independent eco organisations run their own tests and expose producers who sell contaminated vegetables. This results in a functioning system, where only a small fraction of organic food is actually contaminated.
If you have reasons to suspect the vegetables you aren't in fact organic, you could always pay a lab to run tests for you. It would probably cost a lot more than the price of the vegetables, so I can't imagine a situation where this would make sense.


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I am intending to purchase some source code for my Delphi program. It is not too big an algorithm, but it is not available in Delphi and I'll have to translate it to Delphi.
However, I have not worked in any of the languages it is offered in and I don't know which I should buy. I want the one that will translate to Delphi most easily and accurately.
The three languages are: C++, Java, and C#.
Which one would be easiest to convert?


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Public Broadcasting: Should Congress Cut Off Funding?
President Barack Obama's fiscal 2012 budget includes $451 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which oversees PBS and National Public Radio.
But congressional Republicans want to cut the CPB's funding entirely, which could mean "Sesame Street" and other programs would be forced to find another network.
Republicans say taxpayers shouldn't be footing the bill for the same sort of programming that the History Channel, A&E, and National Geographic offer commercially.
Democrats are pushing back announcing plans Wednesday to restore funding for Sesame Street and other kids' shows.
Are the cuts to public broadcasting a case of Republican spending hawks gone too far? Or is it time for Elmo and Big Bird to get real jobs?
Ben Boychuk and Joel Mathis, the RedBlueAmerica columnists, weigh in.
The numbers of the day, as "Sesame Street's" Count von Count might say, are "20" and "33."
Sesame Workshop (formerly Children's Television Workshop, Sesame Street's producer) counts on government subsidies for 20 percent of its annual operating budget. That works out to about $37 million from various federal agencies.
But Sesame Street earns 33 percent of its annual revenue, about $48.3 million, from licensing fees on products ranging from Grover reusable tote bags and "Big Bird Sings!" CDs to the ever-popular Tickle-Me Elmo.
Another 33 percent of revenue comes from distribution fees and royalties. Not bad for a nonprofit organization.
Sesame Street, in other words, isn't just a popular TV program that has educated and entertained millions of children for more than 40 years. It's also a successful business built on taxpayers' generosity.
Cutting federal subsidies for PBS, NPR -- and, by extension, such TV and radio shows as "Sesame Street," "Frontline" and "All Things Considered" -- would not necessarily mean their disappearance. Instead, those programs would find other outlets and other revenue.
All of those programs currently receive heavy corporate and foundation support. And it isn't hard to imagine most NPR and PBS programming finding a second life on satellite, cable and the Internet.
Whenever Congress cuts a beloved program, the standard retort is usually "This is a small price to pay for a public good."
CPB's current $420 million appropriation is akin to an accounting error in the federal government's $3 trillion budget. But that's the problem.
Government cannot and should not do everything "good."
The economic crisis has forced everyone to sacrifice. Instead of increasing Big Bird's allowance, it's time he left his tax-funded nest.
The real face of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting isn't attached to a Muppet. Instead, it belongs to a wind-burned rancher out in Western Kansas, a man who listens to "All Things Considered" on High Plains Public Radio in his truck while checking his herd.
This is the part of the world usually revered by Republicans as "real America," and it is, perversely, the place that would suffer most if the GOP gets its way.
High Plains Public Radio -- which provides NPR's news programming, along with programs from the BBC World Service -- gets roughly 35 percent of its budget from state and federal sources. And it would be devastated if that money went away.
Does the United States government face a fiscal crisis? Sure. But the CPB's federal budget -- $420 million in 2010 -- isn't even a drop in the budgetary bucket.
And the money spent on public broadcasting creates a public good far more valuable than those dollars would indicate: It creates a better-informed citizenry, the kind needed for a well-functioning democracy.
Republicans assert that the media landscape has grown so diverse there is no longer a need (if there ever was one) for the CPB. They are wrong.
In Western Kansas -- and in rural areas around the country -- NPR affiliates represent the one place on the dial where in-depth news and analysis can be found.
Take that away, leave all those Americans at the mercy of whatever lowest-common-denominator pap that for-profit radio stations serve them, and Republicans will have done a great job of making more consumers -- but a lousy, unconscionable job at helping those folks be citizens. We owe each other better than that.
Elmo will survive; he's got the royalties from toy sales after all.
But the CPB is more than Muppets; it's a vital contributor to American life. It must be saved.


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2 Dec 2011 9:25 AM #1
Example of syncing an ajax store to localStorage
Can some please provide an example of syncing an ajax store to localStorage. I can't seem to get it to work, thanks!
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2 Dec 2011 9:41 AM #3
Been there
I've been there multiple times, I'm looking for a working example someone may have, thanks.
5 Dec 2011 3:37 AM #4
This would really be of benefit to me too.
In particular when it comes to storing a user's settings for later use.
5 Dec 2011 10:04 AM #5
This is really as simple as looping through each record in an Ajax store and adding them into a localStorage store, and vice versa. The problem is, that right now in PR2, localStorage is broken.Sencha Inc.
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5 Dec 2011 11:24 PM #6
That's a shame. I'm busy developing an app using Sencha Touch (1.10) but as I'm still busy coding away I've migrated to PR2. Does anyone know the ETA on the localStorage solution for PR2. When is PR2 due for official release?
13 Sep 2012 12:48 AM #7
In this blog you will find an example:
It is more a "move it all" to localstorage than a record sync.


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Dear Editor, The idea of an RV park for out-of-state workers sounds good. The residents will have close access to business establishments, retail stores and the like....
You are right, Mr. Patsche, when you say they have NEVER enforced zoning laws. They arent real good about litter laws or property upkeep, either. In fact, many parts of this valley could use an RV Park. It would hide the ugly eye sores they call their homes and neighborhoods.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (August 25, 2010) -- Arkansas Children's Hospital (ACH) is in the midst of the largest construction project in the hospital's history. Construction of the four-story, 258,000 square-foot patient tower, the South Wing, began in September 2008 and is targeted for completion in the summer of 2012. Today representatives from ACH, Cromwell Architects Engineers, and Nabholz Construction gathered for a traditional topping out ceremony to celebrate the placement of the final steel beam atop the building's frame. Cromwell designed the new wing and Nabholz is constructing the expansion.
"What a great day in the history of Arkansas Children's Hospital. We can hardly wait to make more space and more services available to our patients and families," said Jonathan Bates, MD, president and CEO of Arkansas Children's Hospital. "We've had our challenges in recent years to be able to meet the demand for bed space. Soon, we hope to be able to meet that need and provide more space and enhanced services that will get our children out of the hospital and back to being kids."
Hundreds of supporters that included staff, donors and families, attended the topping out ceremony that marked a milestone in the hospital's growth. The event gave participants the opportunity to sign one of two final construction beams, each covered in thousands of signatures and well-wishes, and be a part of the hospital's history. ACH Board of Directors Chairman Dorsey Jackson made a surprise announcement of a significant philanthropic gift of $5 million from Arkansas-based J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. The gift is designated specifically for the second floor of the new South Wing, which will house clinics for neurology, audiology, ENT and dental. Kirk Thompson, president and CEO of J.B. Hunt, was on hand to sign the beam following the announcement.
"We are delighted to be able to provide a contribution to Arkansas Children's Hospital toward the construction of this much-needed addition," said Thompson. "The hospital does such a wonderful job and plays an important role in the lives of J.B. Hunt employees and their families. We are pleased to be a part of helping expand their world-class facilities and making their services available to a larger number of people across all of Arkansas."
One child who repeatedly has needed the services of Arkansas' only pediatric hospital is 3-year-old John Hardin Bale, IV, who uses multiple services at ACH and has since birth. Bale comes from a family who has served Arkansas Children's Hospital for four generations and he had a very important role during today's event. Assisted by Charles Nabholz of Nabholz Construction, Bale instructed the operator of the yellow, multi-story construction crane to "lift that beam!" With that command, the giant "I" beam decorated with thousands of signatures and well wishes was lifted high into the air to be permanently positioned in its appropriate place on the southwest corner of the new patient tower. Cheers roared as the giant crane hoisted the beam into place, giving a lift to a toy replica of the hospital's wayfinding dog, Scout, and a ceremonial evergreen sapling. Traditionally, a sapling - often an evergreen - is placed atop the building's frame during a topping out ceremony to celebrate the milestone of reaching the highest point in construction and to represent good luck for the remainder of the project.
"This is an exciting day for us," said Charles Nabholz, chairman of the board of Nabholz Construction. "We are proud to share a role in this monumental project that will allow Arkansas' only children's hospital to provide care to even more patients in our state."
The South Wing will create an additional 54 inpatient beds, expanding the hospital's pediatric Heart Center and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), and increasing the total bed availability to 370. Also included in the new $115 million wing are new and relocated Hematology/ Oncology and Infant-Toddler units, as well as a new Emergency Department with an orthopedics suite, decontamination unit and dedicated trauma rooms. Expanded clinic space will include 56 new exam rooms and 19 additional procedural or diagnostic rooms. The South Wing was funded through cash reserves, philanthropic donations and bonds.
Children's Hospital is the only pediatric medical center in Arkansas and one of the largest in the United States serving children. The campus spans 29 city blocks and houses 316 beds, a staff of approximately 500 physicians, 80 residents in pediatrics and pediatric specialties and more than 4,200 employees. The private, nonprofit healthcare facility boasts an internationally renowned reputation for medical breakthroughs and intensive treatments, unique surgical procedures and forward-thinking medical research - all dedicated to fulfilling our mission of enhancing, sustaining and restoring children's health and development.ACH is ranked 85th on the 2010 FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For®. For more information, visit
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Read part 1 of this story about launching a weekend course to teach college students how to get involved in open source projects. After Saturday's classroom-style work, we used Sunday for an open projects day, where students could drop in and get help contributing to a project. Perhaps because we... Read more
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Sunday, May 16, 2010
Giveaway #3, from CSN!
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1. I would probably choose a bento set for John to take to work. He's been using tupperware and putting it into a huge cooler.ReplyDelete
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I would choose a bento set for my hubby. We reuse our plastic grocery bags (on the rare occasion we forget our reusable ones) and cheap plastic tubs for his lunches. I think if he had a nice Mr. Bento set he would actually like taking his lunch! Thank you for the giveaway!ReplyDelete
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I'm a facebook fan, that's how I found how about the giveaway this time!ReplyDelete
I shared your giveaway on my facebook page!ReplyDelete
I also follow your blog, I LOVE your lunch ideas! My kids are loving the ideas you give me too :)ReplyDelete
The Ms. Bento set would be neat to have!ReplyDelete
Mr. Bento set (black) would be great for my husbadn, who has a new job where he has to eat on the road. This would be great for him and get him eating healthier...no more fast food!!ReplyDelete
Which ONE would I pick..?? I would pick all of them! Especially the ones for the kiddos!ReplyDelete
i'd take the monkey lunch bag, and the mrs. bento. wait, could i have it all?ReplyDelete
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You know this will be hard for me. I like to shop too much! I could probably use some new bento stuff and the lunchboxes are adorable. I'd probably pick the doggy, but Mac would want the monkey ;)ReplyDelete
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I'd chose he set for John (I think it's pretty stylish!)...ReplyDelete
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That penguin lunch bag is just too cute. I would have to get that one!ReplyDelete
I would definitely be getting one of those lunch bags for my baby girl for her first day of kindergarden.ReplyDelete
Oh I love it! I would get the Ms Bento and something in the kids lunch line products.ReplyDelete
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I would probably order one of the fun play tents that they have listed on their site. Super cute stuff!ReplyDelete
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I totally would get one of the Zojurushi bento sets.ReplyDelete
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I'd pick the penguin bag!ReplyDelete
I would definitely get the lunch boxes! My oldest is a monkey fan, my second oldest loves dinosaurs and penguins and frogs, so she'd get the penguin, my son loves dogs, and that would leave the cute pink mouse for the baby :-)ReplyDelete
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skip hop lunchbox!ReplyDelete
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Fun stuff- I'd go with the kid sets :)ReplyDelete
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I am too sleepy to check out the site, but those skip hop animals are really cute! Lucy and baby Beau could use one. I like the Ms set, too!ReplyDelete
I am a long time blog follower! ;)ReplyDelete
I'd love to get a waffle iron.ReplyDelete
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and I was your FIRST "liker" on facebook!ReplyDelete
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I love the Ms.Bento set! I never realized they had it on CSN :P Love the company but I get a little overwhelmed by the sheer amount of items available! lolReplyDelete
I would most definitely take one of those mouse Skip Hop lunch bags! So cute!! :)ReplyDelete
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I would def pick the monkey bag, then have to go buy one for my other kid LOLReplyDelete
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I follow you on facebook too.ReplyDelete
Hi! Thanks for doing these giveaways! =+) I'd love the Ms. Bento setReplyDelete
I have been following your blog for about a month nowReplyDelete
AND I am reading you on facebook. =+) Have a GREAT week!!!ReplyDelete
I already follow your blog.ReplyDelete
I would love a Ms. Bento set.ReplyDelete
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I would probably put it toward a slipcover for my couch. I was just looking at them on CSN yesterday. Not sure what I was thinking getting a cream colored couch with 2 kids, a dog, and a husband who loves to work on cars.ReplyDelete
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I would buy a bento set for my girls and myself.ReplyDelete
I would choose the Skip Hop Zoo Lunchbags, probably have to buy all 4 as well!ReplyDelete
I would search for a mini muffin pan and maybe a nice lunch box for dh who just uses tupperware in a grocery bag.ReplyDelete
I follow your blog!!!ReplyDelete
I follow your blog.ReplyDelete
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I think I'd get either the Ms or Mr Bento ... they look pretty awesome :)ReplyDelete
I "like" you on Facebook.ReplyDelete
I love the Mr. Bento.ReplyDelete
I am a follower.ReplyDelete
I've had my eye on the Fisher Price Loving Family Grand Dollhouse for my daughter's upcoming birthday.ReplyDelete
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I "like" you on Facebook under the name Mary Happymommy.ReplyDelete
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I'm following you on Twitter @mami2jcn.ReplyDelete
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The zoo ones are adorable!ReplyDelete
Oh my husband could use a bento box. Fingers crossed!ReplyDelete
I follow you!ReplyDelete
I am following your blog.ReplyDelete
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I retweeted from thepinkbandanaReplyDelete
I would get the Mrs Bento set.ReplyDelete
I am a follower of the blog!ReplyDelete
Totally Like you on Facebook!ReplyDelete
my husband has been desperate for a pizza stone and i saw that they have one... not sure what else I would get though.... what a fun giveaway!ReplyDelete
...here's hoping!
i follow your blogReplyDelete
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Ooooooooh fun! I think I would get the bento box that you showed... LOVE that! Or - maybe three for each of the kids when they return to CDA!ReplyDelete
I follow your blog... but only when you link it to your facebook :-) I can't keep track of everything nowadays and when I see your link on your page it reminds me to check!ReplyDelete
I think I "liked" you on facebook... gotta go back and check. Will do it if I haven't.ReplyDelete
I think I would choose a kid's lunch bag/box!ReplyDelete
I am now a follower of your blog!!ReplyDelete
I just hit "like" on FB!ReplyDelete
I just added you on Twitter!ReplyDelete
Ok... shared it with all of my facebook friends... and was already on my "like" list :-)ReplyDelete
I like the Ms Bento set. I also need a new desk... hmmm tough decisions.ReplyDelete
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1. I would choose an adult Bento set (probably the Mr. Bento)for my husband and I to share.ReplyDelete
I follow your blog.ReplyDelete
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And I'm about to facebook this since I don't tweet!ReplyDelete
I would choose a kitty post.ReplyDelete
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I would choose some sort of food chopper/slicer!ReplyDelete
i would really LOVE the ms. bento set!ReplyDelete
I follow your blog...ReplyDelete
is it wrong that i'd choose the ms bento set for myself? everyone needs a treat now and then, right?ReplyDelete
i became a fan on facebook.ReplyDelete
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- Toni TMay 17, 2010 at 5:50 PM
I would chose a booster chair for my son for the table.ReplyDelete
- Toni TMay 17, 2010 at 5:51 PM
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I would get the skip hop zoo monkey bag that is too cute and my son would love it!ReplyDelete
I like you on facebook :)ReplyDelete
I am a follower of your blog!ReplyDelete
I need a lunch box! Probably that cut dog one. My kiddo starts preschool in the fall and I can't wait to start making her lunches.ReplyDelete
I'd use it toward a pressure cooker. I'm in the process of collecting food prep gadgets to make my daughter's new meal plan more fun for us (lots of cooking in our future!)ReplyDelete
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Following on Google Friend Connect.ReplyDelete
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1. A mr bento for sure. I never knwo when I am gonna eat lunch and at times my warm stuff is just not good cold.ReplyDelete
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- Kathleen McDonaghMay 18, 2010 at 12:07 PM
Dang, those lunch bags are cute! But if I put a bento box in one, won't everything slosh to one side?ReplyDelete
I might choose a new, nicer backpack (a.k.a. diaper bag) for myself. They had a slimline leather model on sale -- sounds like destiny to me. ;-)
I'd pick the Mr Bento set for myself!ReplyDelete
I'd love to get the Mr Bento set too or the P'kolino Soft Iggy Seat. Very cute!ReplyDelete
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I follow on Twitter @MommaStaciA. Thanks!ReplyDelete
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If I won, I would pick up one of the many Daddy Diaper bags that they have on the site (over 100!!!!). I figure that my bro can chip in with the duties when niece #2 shows up later this summer!ReplyDelete
Love the zoo lunch boxes but it's hard to pick which one!ReplyDelete
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I too LOVE the Skip Hop Zoo Lunchbags!!!ReplyDelete
I already follow your awesome blog!!!ReplyDelete
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My kids have been begging me for bento's since hubby got one so I'd probably get them bentos =)ReplyDelete
i would love the Bento set for me and the monkey lunchbox for my lil' guy! oh choosing would be difficult but i guess i could do it. : )ReplyDelete
your blog is bookmarked and i check it everyday for great ideas! thanks.
i already like you on facebook too! : )ReplyDelete
I would choose the puppy dog lunch bag for my sweet boy!ReplyDelete
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Love the Bento boxes!ReplyDelete
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I just found your blog from Fed Up w/School Lunches, and decided to follow because your lunches made my jaw drop! I do the homemade lunchables on occasion, but my son is sooo tired of the same lunches (but also very picky). I'm using this summer to experiment w/new lunch options to prepare for the fall. I plan on trying some of your lunches!ReplyDelete
So, I would love the Mr. Bento. That would be perfect for DS... Thnanks!
I'm pretty sure I want to get an early start on Christmas for my toddler this year so I'd prolly go for something nice for him or I'd get the Wildon Home Kabini Cre'me 8 piece comforter set!ReplyDelete
I would love the Mr. Bento for my husband who packs lunch every day. Great site!ReplyDelete
I'm a blog follower :)ReplyDelete
I now follow your blog. It's so cute!ReplyDelete
And I liked you on FB.ReplyDelete
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tried to follow you but blogger error message where your google friend connect should be. Err message I could see:ReplyDelete
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liked you on facebook as terri satterlee AND was now able to use google friend connect as tsue1136ReplyDelete
(last time I had similar issue w/ blogger, lasted nearly a week)
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following you on twitter as tsue1136ReplyDelete
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I am in LOVE with Mr. Bento!ReplyDelete
Following your blog.ReplyDelete
Can't wait to see what you'll make next! :)
I already own the Mr. Bento, but I'd love to have the Ms. Bento and give the Mr. to my husband!ReplyDelete
the Heys USA XCASE carry-on in orange would be my first choice!!ReplyDelete
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that monkey lunchbag would be perfect for my little monkey!ReplyDelete
I like the pink mouse lunchbox!ReplyDelete
I follow your blog.ReplyDelete
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Blogged about your giveaway too!ReplyDelete
I would *love* to carry a Mr. Bento!ReplyDelete
I'm intrigued. I've never seen anything like this before. I came over from Mrs. Q's and have been jumping around your blog for a little while. I think the kids' lunches look fantastic and my daughters would get such a kick out of them. I would choose one of the kid's bentos.ReplyDelete
I added you to my Google reader so I will be back to go through more of your archives.
I'm following your blog.ReplyDelete
I've had my eye on the Ferm LIVING Coat Tree Wall Sticker for awhile now - that this is NEAT! (http://www.csnstores.com/ferm-LIVING-2024-01-FRM1078.html)ReplyDelete
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I re-tweeted your giveaway tweet...but I don't know how to prove it by posting a link here...my username on Twitter is Aleksija though if that helps :)ReplyDelete
Your bentos are an inspiration! I'd have to pick the Mr. Bento for my hubby -- he works 12 hour shifts and his lunches are easy-to-pack foods crammed into a small lunch box.ReplyDelete
I am following your blog and love to see your posts!ReplyDelete
Added you on Twitter too.ReplyDelete
And now I've facebooked you as well. :)ReplyDelete
I would buy the Little Tikes Wagon for my daughter.ReplyDelete
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The lunchboxes are so cute!ReplyDelete
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I would choose the Gerber Baby Care warm or cool relief packs.ReplyDelete
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Does Your Audience Hate You?
Rhyne Armstrong
Speaking in front of a group of people is very hard to do. Don't make it worse by making your audience feel like you are boring them, confusing them, or wasting their time. In this webinar, we will discuss presentation skills, software demonstrations, and tips to make sure the people you are talking to actually want to listen!
This webinar will cover:
- Presentation and Demonstration Styles
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It always seemed to me that gaming itself was counterproductive, and I've always struggled to spend less time on it, but really never managed to. That is, until now. The only way I found to keep the games from consuming more of my time than they should was quitting them completely.
The thing now is that I can't profit from all the free time I earned by doing this, and often I just feel too anxious to do something productive at times in which I'd likely be playing games, so...
What can I do to overcome the anxiety left by my gaming addiction?
Or even,
What can I do to make good use of the free time I earned by quitting games?
At first I thought that by quitting playing games the productivity would come to me naturally, but here I am, a month in without games, and still I find that I'm not doing anything productive with my spare time.
I do know what I wanted to be doing right now, like having a blog or contributing to some open source project, but there seems to be something blocking me. I can't manage to put my time in things I'm not obligated to do. Has anyone gone through anything like this before?


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It has been a terrific first two months at Pentaho; the excitement from our employees, customers and partners for helping Pentaho build the future of analytics has been profound.
We believe the future of analytics is all about building a modern platform that allows business users and technologists the ability to interact with their data in an easy, visual way. The consumerization of IT requires the traditional analytics functions regarding data extraction and transformation, metrics creation, ad hoc analysis and reporting to be done in a "point and click" and "drag and drop" fashion. The latest Pentaho Business Analytics release delivers on such a premise and provides "Power to the user."
We've had great feedback on how IT professionals love the visual, non-programmatic way Pentaho integrates any data source from traditional relational sources such as Oracle, SAP and MySQL, to SaaS applications like Salesforce, to non-relational sources including Hadoop, NoSQL and MPP, to analytic platforms including EMC, Teradata and IBM. Plus, the ease of all ETL functions are accomplished with a simple point and click.
Business users are free to create measures, metrics and on-the-fly reports. Deep ad hoc analysis and predictive analytical features are a drag and drop away.
Another design tenant Pentaho has built for the modern analytics platform is an open architecture and plug-in framework. We understand that our customers require freedom of choice selecting databases, plug-in end user components and web services. Pentaho's open source heritage and extensible plug-in framework allows business users and IT professionals to easily integrate preferred components to fulfill their analytical needs.
The future of analytics is ensuring that our customers can easily gain insight from emerging technology trends including big data, Cloud computing and mobility.
Pentaho has released robust big data analytics solutions, which allow customers to truly "operationalize" big data applications. Pentaho is focused on helping customers address the biggest pain points around big data as well as the challenges of getting non-relational data in and out of Hadoop and into the hands of business users who can gain insight from reporting and ad hoc analysis. We already have several customers in the media and retail verticals who have tapped into big data for market analysis, customer sentiment and website analytics using Pentaho solutions.
Our modern technology platform was designed with Cloud computing in mind. Pentaho's service oriented architecture allows SaaS and Cloud companies to easily embed rich analytics into their applications. Customers like Marketo, ExactTarget and Cipal have enhanced their service offerings with advanced analytics for their customers. Additionally, the Pentaho suite is integrated with common platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offerings, including Amazon Web Services and RackSpace for customers who would prefer to run their analytic applications in the Cloud.
We constantly strive to make our products more relevant. As our customers look to empower remote employees with better insight and analytics, Pentaho has released a rich mobile solution for tablets including the iPad.
The big idea for the future of analytics is allowing customers to freely move and easily integrate analytical applications between the traditional world of transactional, relational data and the new world of web, social and device data. The ultimate goal is to provide deep business insight by enabling users to easily mash-up data from traditional relational applications, such as Oracle, SAP and Microsoft, with web and social data sitting in Hadoop and NoSQL data stores.
I would be remiss not to mention that a major business design goal for the future of analytics is price performance and value. Building on our foundation of being easy to do business with from evaluation to renewal, Pentaho is continually improving its support and services. In the past year, we have added the Customer Success Team to provide additional customer service to our direct and OEM customers worldwide, created a specialized OEM services team and enhanced our support platform by migrating to Zendesk. All of this while still delivering the future of analytics at 20 percent of the cost of traditional analytics solutions from the mega vendors!
The future of analytics is here and now with Pentaho. I look forward to the journey!


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Preoperative Chemoradiation using Capecitabine in Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer
Heather Jones, MD
University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center
Last Modified: November 4, 2001
Presenter: J.S. Kim
Affiliation: Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Chungnam National University, Taejon, South Korea
Studies indicate that preoperative chemoradiation can result in tumor downstaging with increase resectability and sphincter preservation in locally advanced rectal lesions. Capecitabine is a new fluoropyrimidine carbamate with antineoplastic activity. It is an orally administered systemic prodrug consisting of 5'-deoxy-5-fluorouridine (5'-dFUrd), which is converted to 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) by thymidine phosphorylase (dThdPase). dThdPase activity is from 3 to10 times higher in tumor tissue than in normal tissue and is up-regulated in human cancer xenografts after irradiation. Capecitabine orally also mimics the continuous infusion of 5 FU, the preferred administration of the drug. This study, evaluated the efficacy and toxicity of preoperative chemoradiation using capecitabine in locally advanced adenocarcinoma of the rectum.
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Author's Conclusions
Preoperative chemoradiation with capecitabine seems to be a safe, well-tolerated, effective neoadjuvant treatment modality. It does not increase perioperative complications. This preoperative treatment produces a considerable down-staging effect, and increases the possibility of sphincter-preserving surgery in distal rectal cancer.
Clinical/Scientific Implications
In IV infusion studies there is a good record of how much drug is administrated and the compliance with administration schedule and dose intensity of the drug in question. The ability to record the amount of drug administered when using oral agents is more challenging. It would have been interesting to include in the presentation how compliance was assessed (ie pill count, pill diary or monitored administration). Nonetheless, these new oral chemotherapy agents continue to show promise in both the adjuvant setting and in the treatment of metastatic rectal disease.


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MCALESTER, OK - The Oklahoma State Department of Health said the number of West Nile cases across the state are leveling out but one West Nile victim from McAlester is warning people not to forget just how dangerous the virus can be.
Statistics show over the past week there have only been four new cases of the virus in Oklahoma, bringing the total number of cases to sixty-five so far in 2012.
78-year-old Hal Dalton of McAlester said he was the first confirmed case of West Nile virus in state.
Dalton said he until now he had always considered himself to be a very active 78-year-old.
"I went to bed that night and the next morning I woke up and I was blind," Dalton said.
Dalton didn't know it then but he was bitten by a mosquito infected with West Nile.
"They thought I had tick fever," Dalton said. "Pneumonia…everything."
"We went through a whole gamut before they finally decided what it really was," Dalton's wife Debbie said.
Dalton used to enjoy golf and gardening.
"It's changed our life," Dalton said. "We had a good life."
The state health department said active adults fifty and over have the highest risk of becoming infected with West Nile.
Doctors said Dalton will be lucky if he ever walks again but Dalton and his wife have a more positive outlook.
"She's a pusher," Dalton said of his wife. "I call her my drill sergeant."
Dalton said he came down with West Nile virus in June.
OSDH said their number one recommendation is wear mosquito repellant everyday now through the end of October.


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Bill's Story
Bonnie Schuman
Last Modified: May 25, 1997
I know how important the well-being of cancer patients is to you, and I want you to know how important The Wellness Community is to me.
After my diagnosis of testicular cancer, major surgery and chemotherapy, I knew I needed a support group. When I finally got to The Wellness Community I found the place where I could unburden myself and finally move on to, "What now?"
I loved The Wellness Community immediately. The orientation meeting was the first opportunity I had to be with cancer patients outside of a hospital. Sure, I was bald and had cancer but, at The Wellness Community, I felt normal. In this safe and comfortable home environment, where people understood and cared about me, I could let it all out. And believe me, I did. From day one I realized the members of my support group and I had a shared hope -- RECOVERY. Each week as we talked about these tough issues TOGETHER we laughed, cried, expressed our worst fears and joined forces to face our mutual enemy -- cancer. After every meeting I found that my life was better. Much better!
I am thrilled to tell you that I am now CANCER FREE! Having faced death, I now enjoy being alive more than ever. I decided I want to help others too -- I've become an orientation leader. What a privilege to be here for cancer patients coming to The Wellness Community for the first time. Welcoming them and serving as an example that THERE IS HOPE. I always tell them, "Yes, it's true, your life is never the same after cancer. But that doesn't mean it can't be better." I know it can, because my life is. For one thing, the quality of my relationships has improved because of what I've learned at The Wellness Community. I am also making a career change. In September I begin the UCLA graduate school of Social Work. This is a direct result of my experiences at The Wellness Community.
The Wellness Community played an integral part in my picking up the pieces, facing the challenges and creating an ever improved life. Now, when people express how marvelous it is that The Wellness Community does not charge for any of its services I am compelled to reply, "The Wellness Community is not only free -- it's priceless!"
What a Great Cancer Support Team Looks Likeby Marlys Johnson
July 05, 2016
3 Great Reasons To Have Gratitude On Your Cancer Teamby Marlys Johnson
July 25, 2016