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Skip to comments.Mr Obama.....Turn On This Water!.....NOW!
Posted on 09/19/2009 4:39:21 PM PDT by curth
Turning the water off is not just bad politics, its an act of domestic terror.
Former Fresno, California Mayor Alan Autry
Forgive me if I am less than diplomatic here. I am not a fan at all of the radical environmental movement. Im even less of a fan of radical, Big Government.
Lets cut to the chase here. The rabid environmentalists have destroyed the economy in the San Joaquin Valley of California. Not only have they destroyed the economy, they have destroyed the lives of tens of thousands of farmers, as well.
According to the California Farm Water Coalition unemployment in parts of the San Joaquin Valley reached 41 percent in August. Over 400,000 acres of some of the richest farm land on earth are now dormant and unplanted. More than one million acres are in danger of destruction. .
These government stooges have created a modern day dust bowl. They have created something the government actually worked hard to educate people against doing again some 75 years ago!
Poor planting practices and a major drought caused much of the nations center to turn into one big dust bowl back in the 1930's. Nothing would grow. This stretched from the Plains of Texas to the Canadian Prairie Lands. Throw in the Great Depression and it was a disaster. Peoples lives were destroyed. Farms that had been in families for generations just dried up and blew away, literally. Many family farms were lost to foreclosure. American families lost everything they had.
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What the heck is wrong with these people?
And unfortunately there are no Americans left with guts enough to defy a judge and turn the water back on themselves, while they sit and watch their children go hungry.
What has happened to my America?
Welcome to Amerika where you have to beg our leader for water , medical care or fincancial aid and home loans. A sign of things to come for all of us...
not only domestic terror but also heartless, evil and sinful.
President Obama...turn on the water for the people and do it NOW!!!
What exactly would happen if they, the Central Valley farmers, turned out en masse and forced open the water valves themselves? Is it possible? Is it not time to take their very survival into their own hands?
He could really force a 10th Amendment crisis by using all available CA law enforcement and even National Guard (until they were nationalized) to turn the water back on--by force if necessary...
"He could really force a 10th Amendment crisis by using all available CA law enforcement and even National Guard (until they were nationalized) to turn the water back on—by force if necessary... "
And that he should do.. now.
"Welcome to Amerika where you have to beg our leader for water , medical care or fincancial aid and home loans. A sign of things to come for all of us..."
I hate that bastard 0bama. He is NOT my president.
If he was only as tough in real life as he is in the action movies. I would love to see the citizens of Kalifornia go right to the water works and take charge. Make the feds dare to do something about it.
This calls for outright revolt, period.
that said, the guy Hannity had the set to with was behind shutting down the water to the farmers in Oregon a few years ago and would love to shut down dams on the Colorado and other rivers there is something else at play here and it's a decades old battle from Northern California to turn off the water they sent to Southern California.
Today I was at a birthday party for a 10 year old. A had a lot of fun telling them how the Democrats are destroying this country. I did not get ANY push back. This must be our plan. We must turn the non political minions into voting Republicans. People vote for Democrats because they watch and read MSM and don't know any better. I give homework assignments to people I seem to make inroads with to watch FoxNews and research for themselves what the Democrats are doing. I then have them report back to me.
Sorry, but I'm not on the farmer's side, they are getting water subsidies off the tax-payers. Let *them* cover the full cost of irrigation, not the tax-payer. This isn't an environmental issue, it's an economic issue. If this farming would be so good for the economy then private investors would be funding it, including the irrigation.
There is a rule on FR that we do not advocate or encourage violence or other illegal acts.
That is the rule and this is Jim Thompson's house to rule as he sees fit.
Therfor I won't suggest that the people who are being denied water take up arms and take over the facilities that are blocking their water and forcibly turn it back on.
I won't suggest that at all. Even if it is the right thing to do I won't suggest it.
'Why is there an "EXIT" sign over that window?"
wishful thinking...
Had enough yet?
This is simply stealing property and wages. The government has no right to do this. The Constitution protects property rights and says that the government can only take property in limited situations and that it must justly compensate the property owner.
I wish the governor would have the water turned on and that he would place the national guard on the site to keep anyone from turning the water off. What would the judges do them? Andrew Jackson defied the Supreme Court. We need leaders like him right now. What makes the Supreme Court supreme? Does the word supreme mean that they are above the President, legislators, governors and the voters? They are not supreme over everyone, they are only supreme over other courts. They do not have any special rights above everyone else. That would make them dictators.
We don't beg or plead for our rights - we DEMAND them!
"What exactly would happen if they, the Central Valley farmers, turned out en masse and forced open the water valves themselves? Is it possible? Is it not time to take their very survival into their own hands?"
This is exactly what I would try to do, were I out there and in their shoes. Massive civil disobedience. Take the water.
But, but what about all the corn that was supposed to fill our gas tanks!
I'll suggest it, though at this point I don't think firearms are needed. Just a lot of strong minded people. Turn the valve, let the water flow.
WTH? And they are supposed to be the good guys.
A free country is not govt controlled.
Obvious conclusion about the USA is?
Think we are free?
Try buying some raw land and then just building on it without Govt approval$$$$.
Try being retired elderly with little income and unable to pay the annual property tax. And try to keep the Govt from throwing the old folks out of their home.
Free country indeed.
Unfortunately, Gov S's toughness begins with the film's title and ends with the credits. As a Governor, he campaigned as the Terminator and governed as PeeWee Herman (not the tough guy he portrays in the movies).
HUGE disappointment. Will vote for Daffy Duck before vote for Gov Wimponator again.
Could you clarify who you are talking about? I am interested in this issue but don't understand your post.
Guys, this is going to affect the entire nation next year, especially with this ethynol crazy administration. Food shortages are coming.
I had high hopes for Arnie but it wasn't long after he became the guv that disappointment set in.
It's Pelosi and George Miller, they want the farmers to go bankrupt and sell their farms so they can buy them and turn the area into a solar farm from which they will profit handsomely.
I didn't know that. Pelosi is an evil witch.
Sorry, but Im not on the farmers side, they are getting water subsidies off the tax-payers. Let *them* cover the full cost of irrigation, not the tax-payer. This isnt an environmental issue, its an economic issue. If this farming would be so good for the economy then private investors would be funding it, including the irrigation.
I don't think it has anything to do with refusal to pay their fair share. Do you know that they are not paying for their irrigation???
From what I have heard, the EPA is shutting them down due to environmental impact of Delta Smelt. From what I understand, they were guaranteed water rights when farms were established long ago. The state wanted them to farm. I am not sure some of their legit water is not being damned up farther north...some areas are.
So it is about a fish, the delta smelt versus economics. The ag economy is a little different from other sectors of the economy, which may explain the issue of subsidies if in fact they are receiving them. If we have no food, we have a major problem that becomes an issue of national security The food supply needs to be maintained and they are a critical part of that.
In addition to not growing, they are not paying taxes, jobs are lost so welfare is increased. IMHO, it makes no senses to keep the water damned up north of them.
California has a system of dams and canals which captures whatever snowfall or rain we receive. Over the years, the Federal government has decided our God-given water is THEIRS to tinker with, so we were forced to SELL water to Southern California because it never rains there supposedly.
Then the enviro-whacko's took over the Delta and the water supply and now we have to protect a Fairy Shrimp and now this Smelt. When you pay $10 for a head of lettuce and $5 for one tomato, please thank the environmental/Green movement. The sad part, is that these people, the farmers, mostly Hispanic, have NO voice in this. They are the ones standing in line for food, wondering whatever possessed them to come to America in the first place.
California has a system of dams and canals which captures whatever snowfall or rain we receive. Over the years, the Federal government has decided our God-given water is THEIRS to tinker with, so we were forced to SELL water to Southern California because it never rains there supposedly.
Then the enviro-whacko's took over the Delta and the water supply and now we have to protect a Fairy Shrimp and now this Smelt. When you pay $10 for a head of lettuce and $5 for one tomato, please thank the environmental/Green movement. The sad part, is that these people, the farmers, mostly Hispanic, have NO voice in this. They are the ones standing in line for food, wondering whatever possessed them to come to America in the first place.
Should add that if the trees dry up and fields turn to dust, it will not be an immediate re-establishment of food supply from that area any time soon. Part of the reason there are ag subsidies is because of the boom/bust nature of agriculture. Our economy depends on a constant, dependable food supply, which many argue subsdies ensure.
Hannity had the rally at Fresno last week. He interviewed a SF environmentalist who said the water was turned off to protect the salmon runs because all the wild salmon are dying. There is a good deal of evidence that the salmon are dying because of proximity to farmed salmon from which they contract a parasite.
Much of the water is polluted because of raw sewage from cities without sewage treatment plants.
The water situation is very complex and has been dominated by politics for 100 years.
It will take a good bit of research (honest research) and thought to resolve all the deals that have been made and introduce an truly free market to California's water problems. It was absolutely unconscionable to turn off the water for the Delta Smelt.
Of course it is obvious that when the small farmers and landholders have been driven out the land will be bought up by corporations and farms turned into factories.
"... and farms turned into factories."
Sorry don't mean "factories." I mean corporate farms.
Should have previewed better.
the land will be bought up by corporations and farms turned into factories.
I know, I know. I fixed it next post. Be nice.
My grandfather did this when he was alive. The first thing he taught me was that canned biscuits are "Democrat" biscuits. I can't stand canned biscuits.
Well thanks for the elaboration. From what I understand subsidies were established because of the complexity of the agricultural economy and its stragetic importance. If a farmer or farm goes under, it is not an immediate fix. If a farmer loses his crop due to weather or politics (neither of which he has much control over), not only the farmer, but the nation is in peril. Subsidies were established to ensure a more consistent food supply as a matter of national security—sort of like petroleum reserves, purchase of govt. cheese etc. Of course, given the way our governmment has behaved, I am sure we are not meeting the mission reaquirements any more. That said, I believe that the Cali farmers in the San Joaquin Valley are being victimized by the EPA over a 2" fish, the Delta Smelt.
From the articles I have and local Cali radio programs I have heard in addition to Sean Hannity, the EPA that has been putting the kaabosh on the livelihood of the farmers in the San Joaquin Valley. Sorry, but I tend to agree with Hannity & other posters' assessment that water from the area was damned up. They had been promised irrigation. From Hannity's most recent program and google research, it seems like perhaps that the salmon fisherman had an in with the EPA the some Pacific fisherman federation and got them to turn off the water. Since the EPA wants land to return to non-tillable status, they worked with the fisherman. Fisherman seem to want to return the land to delta status, so salmon can be more easily fished up north as their industry has been hurting—some say due to over fishing.
So it seems that this whole issue is ripe with politics—not just economics
That's a good one! Laughed my a#* off!
It is an economic issue through and through, and I'm not debating whether or not water was dammed or wasn't dammed, or what motive the EPA had.
No offense, but it seems like you don't fully understand the economics of the situation. Frankly, the issue is impossible to understand without a solid understanding of prices based on supply and demand and how they coordinate the entire economy. We have farmers growing crops on land that—were the actual cost of the irrigated water passed onto them and not the tax-payers—they wouldn't use. Rather, resources would be put into farming elsewhere. Or, instead of growing those crops domestically, they'd be imported. In the absence of subsidies, farming would be done according to the dictates of market forces, which is to say, they'd be done efficiently.
No single person, and no committee, can say what the "right" amount of food production is or the "right" amount of food storage ought to be. Thanks to the market, we don't have to worry about what would happen if for whatever reason American farming suddenly stopped—we'd just import what we need. Many nations have not produced enough food by themselves to feed themselves for decades if not centuries—they import. If this concerns you, it shouldn't. Importing wheat from Argentina is no different from importing crops from California to whatever state you are in. The economic principles don't change because of lines on a map. Greater scarcity of a good in one area leads to higher prices, which leads to greater importation to that area, which then results in a lowering of prices. Prices guide resources to where they are valued most.
Many famines have been *avoided* because the price system was allowed to work, that is, no direct price controls, tariffs, subsidies, etc. were in place to disrupt the natural workings of the market. By the same token, many crippling shortages of food were created because prices were not allowed to rise. Price freezes after disasters are a popular government policy, they are also catastrophic in the effects they can have. The Siege of Leningrad could have gone better for the Russians had they not frozen the prices of food. Cities under siege that allowed price to rise to stratospheric heights did not suffer massive food shortages.
Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics is an excellent layman's primer for econ, no jargon or graphs or nasty ol' math.
Eh, Sorry, I think I will just have to agree to disagree. Close family member has PhD in agronomy/plant genetics, so I do actually know a little about the agricultural economy and agriculture.
I note that you are not from Cali, but from Ohio, so I am going to take word and side of Hannity, local farmers, and my family agricultural expert say.
Enviromentalists — hard core enviros... I know this from a personal experience with having discussions with a bunch of people from the Backpackers.com site.. quite an eye-opener how they think...
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It's still fashionable in the press to feign horror when an athlete or other celebrity gets busted for marijuana possession. My response always is: 'yeah, so?'.
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You are free to disagree with Mr. Strock, but 'hate-filled'? I don't think so. Thought-provoking, yes.
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The staff was very helpful. The manager was familiar with celiac disease and went through the menu with us to ensure we found safe things to eat. They do keep a gluten free menu behind the counter. The gluten free bread on their sandwiches is the best we've had!
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Their website advertises gluten free bread. When asked about it we were given a matter of fact "No"! Very disappointed by the behavior.
1006 University Drive East, College Station TX 77840
Gluten free bread offered and it's good!! Didn't get sick at all!!!
5886 De Zavala Road, Suite 100, San Antonio TX 78249
Staff were uninformed but directed me to the restaurant website which allowed me to easily pull up a gluten-free menu.
3930 SW 42nd St, Suite 110, Ocala FL 34474
Staff doesn't seems to be very knowledgeable about which things contained gluten. Use caution.
7720 Montgomery Road, Cincinnati OH 45236
They have good gf bread. You can get many of the sandwiches but just be sure to ask! No reaction!!
720 North Aspen, Broken Arrow OK 74012
there's good days and bad days
1715 Pole Line Rd E, Twin Falls, ID 83301
Have eaten at this place before in Wyoming. So when I saw they had one in Idaho as I was traveling through...knew I was in good hands...the staff is knowledgable and the manager is always on hand to make sure there is no cross contamination. Great Prices!!
15600 WC Commons Ways, Midlothian VA 23113
Update-tried the new GF bread club sandwich twice. Got sick both times. Second time I got no condiments on it and not toasted. Can't handle CC. I can only eat the baked potato or a pick two with plain salad and baked potato. I do not feel they are careful in the kitchen at this location. I have been glutened several times but it's a family favorite. Plain potato with butter and sour cream has never hurt me though. If I go pre lunch rush, I risk the club potato and have been fine.
815 Hamric Drive East, Oxford AL 36203
We went today and were pleased with the customer service. As soon as we ordered, we kindly asked the front register to ask for the person who prepared to change their gloves. They gladly did so and we didn't get sick! We ordered a salad and made sure not to have blue cheese since it has gluten.
644-A Long Point Road, Mt. Pleasant SC 29464
Eat here often. They change their gloves and make sure my food is safe - they have a separate celiac menu.
20911 Gulf Freeway Suite D, Webster TX 77598
I eat their Chipotle Chicken sandwich on GF bread once a week. No problems!
4410 W Boy Scout Blvd #150, Tampa, FL 33607
Bread not bad, a little crumbly. Good meat and cheese selection, salads, and baked potato.
1650 Sunset Drive, Grenada, MS 38901
Great service, good food. Staff knowledgeable.
20911 Gulf Freeway Suite D, Webster TX 77598
I was pleasantly surprised to find out that they had a gluten free bread option upon request. My sandwich was quite good. It's not often that I can have a sandwich while dining out. The extra charge for this was less than a dollar.
3450 Wrightsboro Road Suite A120, Augusta GA 30909
While they have a GF menu, they do not keep items separate. GF menu advises that they are not Celiac friendly :( Frustrating when you have to physically go to the establishment to find this out.
4641 Presidential Pkwy, Macon GA 31220
Being new to gluten free, I was excited to see that they have a great list of gluten free options available: https://s3.amazonaws.com/desktop_assets/mcalisters-deli/pdf/Gluten-Sensitive-Menu.pdf
731 South Pear Orchard Road, Suite 49, Ridgeland MS 39157
if I am feeling a baked potato this is my jam. good for meeting up with friends but not a lot of choices.
7385 Siwell Road, Byram MS 39272
Great lunch stop! They actually had a gf menu to show me...ordered taco salad and it was very good, no reaction. Didn't think I would find a gf option passing thru Byram, so I was pleasantly surprised. Nice staff too
2511 Beene Blvd., Bossier City LA 71111
They are good @ there job
7385 Siwell Road, Byram MS 39272
Great service and easy ordering. Several menu options
182 E Peace Street, Canton MS 39046
This McAlister's Deli does not offer gluten free bread.
2317 Grand Ave Ste. A, Laramie WY 82070
The staff is extremely ill informed. No g free menu to speak of.
12515 Olive Boulevard, Creve Coeur MO 63141
They do not have GF bread! I was totally disappointed!
812 South 6th Street, Waco TX 76706
This was actually my first GF meal so I was nervous. They had a separate Gf menu. I got a sandwich on gf bread and it was great.
8121 Pat Booker Rd, Live Oak, TX 78233
Gluten free bread is no extra cost. Staff is knowledgable.
3 South Tunnel Road, Asheville NC 28805
easy cross contamination. very little concern regarding allergies.
2003 N. Eastman Road, Kingsport TN 37660
They have gluten free bread for sandwiches, baked potato options that are GF (I like the chicken baked potato!), and salads that can be prepared GF. I hadn't been here in a long time because last time I had they didn't have GF bread. It's nice to have another option of places to eat while out or traveling!
2747 Legends Parkway, Prattville AL 36066
The staff is friendly and I have never had a gluten contamination problem at McAlister's Deli.
11140 Parkside Drive, Knoxville TN 37923
Great staff and very accommodating to gluten free. Offer a gluten free menu as well as GF bread (Udis).
122 Sheffield Loop, Hattiesburg MS 39402
The best McAlister's Deli location is on Hardy St. They have good gluten free bread and loaded potatoes. The tea is wonderful. Prices are also good.
5801 Saratoga Blvd Bldg A, Corpus Christi TX 78414
If you have celiac, I would not recommend getting gluten free bread here. Stick with a baked potato or safe salad, every time I've ever eaten a gluten free sandwich at a McAlisters deli I've gotten very sick. So please be careful! Go to Jason's Deli instead if you really want a sandwich, they are much more careful.
635 West Prien Lake Road, Lake Charles LA 70601
They have a gluten free options menu at the front register, they don't offer gluten free bread but the chili, several spuds, and salads are choices on there.
421 Tuttle Creek Building B, Ste. 102, Manhattan KS 66502
Yeah! Ask for their gf bread and you can have a pretty good sandwich! The portions seemed a bit small but overall very good.
2108 West 27th Suite A3, Lawrence KS 66047
This is my gluten free go-to place. They have a decent gluten free menu with gf bread (the bread is shipped in and pretty standard for gf bread). I have eaten here dozens of times and have never regretted it later. Not all of the front end people are gf educated, but ask for the manager.
1305 Veterans Parkway, Suite 100, Clarksville IN 47129
No gluten free bread. Only McAlisters I have ever been to that does not have the bread. There seemed shocked that it is offered.
1612 Garth Brooks Blvd, Yukon, OK 73099
Fine print noted in restaurant but eaten here several times and have not had any reaction whatsoever. Good sandwiches!!
4710 TX-183A Toll Rd, Cedar Park, TX 78613
They do have gluten free buns, not sure how they prep it but the girl taking my order did ask me if i had an allergy when I requested it. They do have a list of GF items online
740 East Town Center Ste. A, Waynesboro VA 22980
The manager was very helpful and accommodating!
465 Marilyn Lane, Alcoa TN 37701
Multiple employees said the potato I ordered would be fine. I started eating it and began to get sick. I do not recommend.
7130 W. Maple Street, Ste. 320, Wichita KS 67209
We've been very pleased with our experiences! They make extra efforts when we order to physically and tell the cooks to take extra precautions since our son has celiac
14848 Manchester Road, Ballwin MO 63011
Only safe thing is potatoes. Tried the chicken that was on the GF menu and didn't feel so great :(
e, 2420 E Hwy 50, Clermont, FL 34711
Even though teenagers were in control of my order, I felt so safe because they all knew what gluten free items there were. there was a sign next to the register that said the gluten free options, and there was no rush, and it was dinner time too! very awesome, I will be back!
2445 N. Kansas Expressway, Springfield MO 65803
Went there and asked what they had to order that was gluten free. The employee did not respond and left me. After about 20 minutes, I asked again and then this time they laughed at me. Finally they said they didn't have much and I left there in tears after being humiliated in front of others. I will never go there again.
3784 Parkway, Ste. 103, Pigeon Forge TN 37863
Had gluten free bread club sandwich. Asked that they change gloves. Delicious.
210 West Sunshine, Springfield MO 65802
Now have gluten free bread for sandwiches
25672 NW Freeway, Ste. A, Cypress TX 77429
I'm not Celiac but slightest amount of gluten makes me sick. I have not gotten sick from eating the food. California Turkey Ruben on GF bread was amazing. Told only GF soup is chili and doesn't taste very good.
2525 West Anderson Lane, Suite 130, Austin TX 78757
They have gf bread, but they use the same toaster for all sandwiches. Was told the GM didn't think it was a necessary expense.
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|Melanoma Outcomes in Transplant Recipients With Pretransplant Melanoma.
|Arron ST, Raymond AK, Yanik EL, Castenson D, McCulloch CE, Clarke CA, Paddock LE, Niu X, Engels EA
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|BACKGROUND: There are limited data on outcomes in transplant recipients with a history of pretransplant melanoma. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether pretransplant melanoma is associated with differences in survival or posttransplant melanoma risk. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We evaluated the outcomes of 185,039 US transplant recipients from the Transplant Cancer Match Study. We also evaluated the impact of transplantation on 141,441 patients with melanoma identified in cancer registries. RESULTS: There were 336 transplant recipients (0.18%) with pretransplant melanoma; they had increased risk of melanoma-specific mortality (hazard ratio [HR], 27; 95% confidence interval [CI], 11-64, p < .0001), overall mortality (HR, 1.3; 95% CI, 1.0-1.5, p = .02), and incident melanoma (HR, 5.4; 95% CI, 2.9-9.8, p < .0001) after transplant, compared with recipients without pretransplant melanoma. The 10-year absolute risk difference was 2.97% for melanoma-specific mortality, 3.68% for incident melanoma, and 14.32% for overall mortality. Among the 141,441 patients with melanoma in the general population, 68 (0.05%) subsequently received a transplant. Transplantation increased melanoma-specific mortality, but not significantly (HR, 1.7; 95% CI, 0.61-4.5, p = .32). CONCLUSION: Pretransplant melanoma is associated with increased melanoma-specific mortality, overall mortality, and incident melanoma after transplant. Nonetheless, the rarity of melanoma-related events supports the current practice for listing transplant candidates with a history of melanoma.


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Lieutenant George Gravatt (1815–1843)[1] was an officer in the British Army. In May 1839, he succeeded Sir Sydney Cotton[2] as commander of the Moreton Bay settlement in what is now Brisbane, Australia.[3] He held the position for three months.
Gravatt was born in Woolwich in London in 1815.[4]
A local hill was named Mount Gravatt, and later this name was transferred to the local suburb.
Gravatt was transferred with his regiment, the 28th Foot Regiment, to Karachi India,[5] where he died in 1843.[4]
- ^ http://queenslandplaces.com.au/mount-gravatt-and-mount-gravatt-east
- ^ "Pioneers Dinner. Back to Mt Gravatt Wednesday 26 July 1933". The Brisbane Courier. p. 12. Retrieved 30 December 2011.
- ^ Appleton, Richard and Barbara (1992). The Cambridge Dictionary of Australian Places. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-39506-2.
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Just spending more time outside could help you get used to extreme hot or cold, but there are other factors such as a person's ability to sweat, skin pigmentation, heart strength and even how close blood vessels are to the surface of his skin.
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His eagerness & commitment into changing so as to be worthy of his wife, & a present being in his children's world, makes him incredibly endearing because he has to work against his own impulses or learn 'normal' behaviours without OCD tendencies.
Quite truthfully, this is a funny memoir - meant (it's not ME laughing inappropriately!) to be humorously conveyed...with a Sally meets Harry (Hairy!) or Helen Hunt with Jack Nicholson's character's OCD/Asper type quirks. Except this is reality & will more than likely inspire those with, or without, this condition.
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This is a great story, a memoir of an experiment in which the author, recently diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, works really, really hard on his marriage and his role as a husband and father of two young children. As an engineer, he believes that if he can apply the same dedication and to his marriage that he has historically applied to his job (in which he is very successful), he can achieve success and happiness in his personal life as well. It's written in a tender, honest, and humorous style, and is worth the read not just for those of us who are interested in AS, but for anyone who would enjoy the story of a man overcoming obstacles and prevailing.
It is of note that although the author always knew that he was different from other people, he never knew that he had AS until after he was married and his problems began to destroy his marriage. His wife, who is a speech therapist, helped his to suspect this diagnosis, which was then verified by medical professionals.
We only see his wife through his eyes, but this is her story too, and in many ways, this book is his love letter to her.
I chose this book to read because my husband is quite eccentric with many problems similar to the author's, and although he does not currently have an AS diagnosis (and probably never will), I thought it would be interesting to see how someone who was not neurologically typical and who is very articulate about himself views life. It was indeed a fascinating read.
The author is to be commended for working very hard on his marriage and being so generous to share about it in this memoir; his wife is a delight and a joy to love her husband deeply and with strong boundaries. This couple figured out how to get through life together and be happy. If you'd like to read about how they did that, and you'd like to see the world through the eyes of someone with AS, you will certainly enjoy this book.
Highly recommended.
I was officially diagnosed a few days after that and one of the first things my doc said was, "You're probably kind of hard to be married to. You might need a little help with that." Who knew this book would actually be a powerful tool, too? I only bought it because it was funny. Now I can use it as a reference guide.
I don't think you'd have to be an Aspie to get a kick out of this book. Sensitivity levels seem to be imbalanced between many spouses. I'd think Best Practices could be cathartic and educational for the insensitive types. And I'd have to assume it would be a healing read for the people married to them, because Finch does an excellent job illustrating that he can and does love, regardless of the fact that he has a tendency to bungle the expression of it.
I admire Finch's guts. He bares it all.
One other note: I have decided against purchasing many other AS books because the reviews or description made them sound like a self-help kind of book that was supposed to help me understand my husband, learn to forgive him, suck it up and live with far less expectations, and save my marriage. Hogwash. I did NOT want to save my marriage and was not looking for a book that would help do so. In fact when I purchased this book I purchased several on divorce at the same time. My only purpose in getting this book was to hopefully learn something that might enable me to talk to my husband for more than 10 seconds without being screamed at. We have 2 children together and even divorced we would need to talk to each other. I just wanted to be able to talk constructively occasionally, and perhaps limit a little of the abuse. In honestly my AS husband seems like a real jerk... selfish with no empathy or compassion. He lives in his own world and cares nothing (seemingly anyway) for anyone but himself. His behavior can be incredibly odd, he never lifts a finger to help me but constantly complains that I do to much. Basically he is everything you do not want in a husband...the absolute opposite in every way of hardworking, gentle, affectionate, loving and kind. He is a verbally abusive alcoholic and after 26 years of this our children are grown and I am done. Well... maybe not quite done. The book, even though I didn't want it to, made me see some things I didn't see before, primarily just how difficult life is for those with AS. I thought I understood before that they didn't do things to hurt people but simply didn't know any better (sounds good but difficult to believe when being very personally attacked), but perhaps there is more to it than that. I suppose that the author, by being so forthcoming about his own feelings and struggles, gave me hope that men with AS can adapt themselves to living with NT's if they want to bad enough. Will my husband be willing to work a fraction as hard as the author did? We'll see, but for now at least I know that a man with AS IS capable of caring. That's huge. If they can care, and maybe my husband does care somewhere deep inside his strangely wired brain and seemingly missing heart, there's a glimmer of hope that he will care enough to try. Lord knows I am willing to help... and I do have a little patience left.
No it will not fix your marriage, but to the Aspi, it will show a glimpse of what he/she needs to do and to their partner what the Aspi goes through as well if he/she is willing to work at it.


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Sadly, I have a Blackberry from my company (Fortune 500) but they don't allow to install Apps from the AppWorld.
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All guts, all gory! Entertainment Weekly takes you behind the scenes of the series that lives to shock. In this week's cover story on the pulse-pounding return of The Walking Dead, we'll take a deep dive into the jaw-dropping twists, scripts that made the cast physically ill, and a new villain who's more terrifying than any zombie. To buy all six collectible covers, head here – and subscribe now for the exclusive interviews and photos, only in EW. And for more Walking Dead scoop, follow Dalton on Twitter @DaltonRoss.
The Walking Dead proved it could still ignite passionate debate in its sixth season when it uncorked one of the biggest mysteries of 2015: the fate of Glenn Rhee. The AMC drama gave us an ambiguous shot of Steven Yeun's Glenn on the ground surrounded by zombies feasting on guts — and then made viewers wait a month for the resolution as to whether one of the few remaining characters tracing back all the way to season 1 was, in fact, dead or alive.
Spoiler alert! He was alive (those were Nicholas' guts). But that revelation came only after the show took dramatic measures — including removing Yeun's name from the opening credits — to keep Glenn's fate a mystery. Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman defended that credits-removal, telling EW that "if your enjoyment of the story is dependent on what you read in the credits, well, then you're kind of paying too much attention to all the outside stuff." In fact, Kirkman reveals that at one point "we even discussed the possibility of having Steven come on Talking Dead, act like he had left the show, and actually do, in a sense, a performance on Talking Dead to solidify that story even more."
What led to all these drastic measures is the fact that Walking Dead viewers have simply become too savvy, knowing that unless you see a character take their last breath that they're not really deceased. This forced the producers to attempt such moves in the hopes of maintaining an air of mystery that has become increasingly difficult to achieve. "That is precisely and completely it," confirms showrunner Scott M. Gimple. "This is a smart audience that has been through almost six years of this show now, and it's very difficult. The audience are seasoned survivors now."
And how does the man at the center of the controversy feel about all of this? We chatted with Steven Yeun to get his first extended comments on the quasi-fake death and everything surrounding it. (WARNING: comic book spoilers ahead.)
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So obviously the big buzz over the first half of season 6 was the whole "Is Glenn dead?" thing. Some loved the ride, while others felt strung along. Looking back on it now, what do you make of the ambiguity and the whole plan of letting that cliffhanger play out for so long?
STEVEN YEUN: Well, for me, I always believe in [showunner Scott M. Gimple], and I think Scott has a great vision for the show, is actually the right person for this job, and is maybe one of the more genius minds that I do know. And the thing that he iterated to me when he first pitched the idea, I'd never really balked on it. I was like, "Cool. Let's make sure that we do this right." I was all gung-ho and in for it, and whatever anybody wants to say about the execution — people might be bummed about it or be fine with it, and I have my own personal opinions about it — but the core of it all is really that we went for something, that we tried something, in a time when we're getting drudged-down, safe versions of everything.
We tried for something that could have been dangerous, and to some, it was. And to some, they didn't like it, and things became polarizing to an extent for that move. But I never felt like our heart was at a place where we were trying to deceive the audience. Never were we like, "People are going to go crazy for this!" It was more just like, let's tell this story and make it compelling and make it purposeful. Scott always brought up the point that he was trying to make the audience feel the same way as how people back in Alexandria must have felt not knowing where Glenn was. And whether the audience believes that we executed that well or not, we went for it, and even in the face of victory or failure, when you go for something, that's all you can really hang your hat on.
For me, when I look back on something like that, I always have faith in Scott, and I have more respect for him because he has the balls to go somewhere. You look at the state of where we're sitting right now, in terms of film and TV, and sometimes you are kind of taught, "Hey, don't push it too much, because people won't watch it then, or people won't buy it then." That's not what we're here to do as storytellers and TV-makers and filmmakers and stuff like that. We're here to affect you, and if you saw to the degree that people were affected — I think even if it was negative — it did something. And I can't really ask for much more than that, you know?
The fact that you still are getting this level of reaction in season 6 tells you something about your fan base and how invested they remain in this story and these characters. That's certainly not the case with a lot of other programs.
Yeah, the fan base is very loyal, and they're invested. It's easy to look at something and say, "I didn't like how that was executed," or, "That didn't do what it was intended to do for me." And everybody's entitled to that thought and opinion, but that's not to say that it didn't affect other people, or it's not to say that the intent of it wasn't sound. So, for me, I walk away knowing that we built a character good enough to the point where that it did make an impact when that happened, and when he came back, that people were glad that he was back too. So, I don't know. It's one of those take-it-or-leave-it kind of things, but we're going to do what we do and we're going to do it honestly.
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I had no problem whatsoever with the way it played out in the sense that the way the first half of season 6 was structured you were only checking in on many of the characters every few weeks, so that wait was in step with waiting for updates on other people and stories as well. So the wait didn't bother me. I will say, however, that I personally didn't like it when they took your name out of the opening credits because that felt like a move to purposefully mislead the audience. I understand how tricky it is to keep mysteries alive on this show because spoilers are out there everywhere, but I'm not sure feeding false clues is the way to go. What were your thoughts on that?
Right, right. You know, I think it was one of those things where I guess conflicting ideas maybe brought upon a middle ground, and when you're talking about something that is as extreme as that, sometimes the middle ground isn't the best place to operate from. And so some things that Scott was intending happened, and other things that Scott was intending didn't happen, because other people didn't want that to happen. So, you kind of get into a situation where, you know, I wonder what would've happened if we just went full-tilt on bringing me out there, doing the Talking Dead thing, and going for a full-on — I guess you could call it — deception. But in this day and age, when you have the Internet, and you have that show that follows our show, we're having to deal with things that traditionally you don't have to deal with in a storytelling structure.
You don't have a giant information base for people to ruminate about what's going on in real time, nor do you typically have a show that in some weird way can predict or doesn't predict or has some patterns that you're used to on how things are supposed to operate when someone dies. And so, with those elements in mind, people were thinking of best strategies to effectively tell the story.
That's what the discussions were always about. It was, "How do we effectively tell this story, that it has the maximum weight of what we're intending?" It was never "Let's make them think that he's gone for a second, just to screw with the audience." It was always "What is the best method by which we can achieve this story to be at its purest way of digesting it for the audience?" because they have so many other resources to, in a weird way, taint it. So I understand where you're coming from, but I think the intentions were always to just create the maximum digestion of the story, if that makes sense.
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