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Another Sci-Fi show which I watched was Babylon 5, a space opera crated by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski (who has also written for Murder, She Wrote's Season 8 episodes "Night Fears," "Lines of Excellence," "The Committee," "Incident in Lot 7," "To the Last Will I Grapple with Thee," and Season 9 episodes "The Wind Around the Tower," and "Final Curtain," as well as the story for Thor). The plot, as according to Geek.com's article, "Babylon 5 condensed: How to watch sci-fi's most intimidating masterpiece":
Babylon 5 is the Gravity's Rainbow of sci-fi television: it's really long, some of it is widely acknowledged to suck, and way more people claim to have finished it than actually have. Why would anyone claim to have invested 110 hours (minus commercials!) in a show about the United Nations in space, if they didn't actually do it? Because Babylon 5 is amazing, and has rightly earned a reputation for excellence. It was wildly ahead of its time and, depending on who you believe, was actually quite influential in kickstarting serialized television.
So, why then would anyone pretend to have seen this amazing show, rather than simply watching it? Because Babylon 5 is long, dense, and honestly a bit painful at times. We're going to try to fix that though.
The thing is, Babylon 5 is an oddity in television history in that it was written almost exclusively by a single person — JMS, or J. Michael Straczynski to the uninitiated. What this means is that its vision is unadulterated; its goals are pursued and achieved without compromise, but its faults are equally exaggerated with limited outside perspective. Its ultra-serialized story spans almost the entire series run, and with the power of the auteur JMS was able to keep plots and mysteries simmering in the background for three seasons or more. It can have some seriously cheesy dialogue, acting, and set design, but also some of the genre's most triumphant moments of plotting, intrigue, and introspection.
Babylon 5 is about the fifth of the Babylon stations, the historically ill-fated diplomatic space-cities meant to unite the species of the galaxy. Earth has taken the initiative in building this last best hope for peace, along with a recent enemy species called the Minbari. The UN metaphor is not subtle — a small council of the most powerful species preside semi-democratically over a more "general assembly" of smaller worlds. It challenges our ideas about democracy and tolerance in the face of existential threats, and asks its characters to choose between multiple, flawed moral paths. It has the confidence and skill to simultaneously depict wars, civil wars, coups, genocidal conflicts, legal battles, romances, political campaigns, and ethical debates, and to keep it all coherent and interesting.
I could go on. Due to its incredible focus over multiple seasons, the show tends to get better as it goes along. Season 1, while plot critical in many ways, is replete with questionably athletic 42-year-olds doing somersaults and foiling silly one-off villains. As the stories progress and the characters accrue more complex motivations, the pablum starts to fall away. More to the point, moments that would previously have been way too corny to be taken seriously become genuinely dramatic under the weight of several years' buildup; this is one of the reasons Babylon 5 is so hard to jump into, since not only will you not know what's going on, you also really, really won't care.
Boiling this series down was hard. Even seemingly self-contained episodes often have single moments that, if missed, will make understanding difficult; this is where recaps come in handy. I can't offer you the genuine chill you'll get after watching a seemingly isolated episode that suddenly ends with just theslightest implication that it was connected to Larger Ongoing Events. You won't get 100% of the enjoyment out of the show by watching it this way, but I'd wager you'll get a whole lot, and for about half the investment of time. And if you want to, there's nothing stopping you from going back to watch the rest later.
According to the A.V. Club review of Midnight On The Firing Line:
Why should you watch Babylon 5?
There's a partial answer in the first season première, "Midnight On The Firing Line." The Centauri ambassador to the station, Londo Mollari, relates a prophetic dream where he dies alongside Ambassador G'Kar of the Narn, their hands around each others' throats. These are two major characters. They're both in the main credits. And they're treated as deathly enemies, not just now, in this introductory episode, but in the future. That's impressive for any TV show, let alone a pre-2000 series.
The prophetic nature of the dream also serves as a promise. It says "This will pay off. Keep watching." Even though "Midnight On The Firing Line" isn't the greatest episode—it's fine, with some good and a few bad moments—that promise, that conflict, suggests that Babylon 5 is far more ambitious than it seems.
It's also easy to note, in retrospect, how relevant the Londo/G'Kar prophecy is. I'll try not to go into even thematic spoilers too much over the course of my reviews, but in this case, trying to demonstrate the appeal of the show, it's important to let first-timers know that yes, this ends up working. The prophecy pays off, but not always how you might envision it. It's roughly equivalent to the Opera House vision from Battlestar Galactica, but where that prophecy petered out, Londo's vision of death just gets better and more integrated into Babylon 5's whole. The Londo/G'Kar relationship has complexity and dynamism, and is the best part of the show for most of its run. The rough parts of "Midnight" will be smoothed away, while the good parts will be accented. Eventually.
According to the A.V. Club review of War Without End:
"He is the closed circle."
This is how Jeffrey Sinclair, the returning hero of Babylon 5, is described by the only character to know what his destiny is at the start of "War Without End." It's a reference to his place in time, as the character from the present who goes back to change time, which always happens, no deviations.
The "closed circle" also applies to the episode as a whole, however. Back in the first season, Babylon 5 suddenly and amazingly increased its stakes with "Babylon Squared," an episode that screamed "THIS SHOW IS GOING PLACES! PAY ATTENTION!" At some point, the huge amounts of time-travel-based foreshadowing used in the season-one episode had to have a payoff. That's what "War Without End" is for—resolving what came before.
Part of that payoff is the mystery of Commander Sinclair, which was most expressly detailed in "Babylon Squared," when he was told "you have… a destiny!"—a destiny in which he is referred to as "The One." But, as a closing montage makes clear, there were several other moments where this was foreshadowed in the first season. We needed a resolution for Sinclair at a grand plot level, but also in terms of smaller plot bits. Of course, it was good for him at a character level as well—perhaps my favorite moment in the two-parter is when Sheridan is zapped away from the crew, and Sinclair immediately moves into the leadership role in the most literal possible fashion, by sitting in the captain's chair of the White Star.
There's just one slight problem: All of these resolutions aren't terribly interesting. "Babylon Squared" was the middle part of an epic story we had no idea was headed in that direction. "War Without End" fills that part of the story in, with a lot of explanation at the start, the flip side of the middle, which shows how Babylon 4 got to be in its crisis mode, and then more explanation at the end. In other words, "War Without End" falls victim to what The A.V. Club's Todd Vanderwerff recently described as "the clockwork universe" problem. Almost everything in "War Without End" exists to resolve what came before in "Babylon Squared," which itself exists, at a literal level, to create the mysteries that needed resolution.
To be fair, part of the issue is the way we watch television now. When "War Without End" first aired, it was a ridiculously exciting and momentous moment for the show. Finally Sinclair was back! Finally we'd find out what happened to Babylon 4! Two of the show's greatest mysteries, the sources of years of anticipatory speculation, a rare two-part episode—it had to be good and important (and it was).
But time has been unkind to that kind of anticipation. If this is your first time, you're probably watching at a quicker pace than a season per year, so the amount of anticipation is much lower. Or if you, like me, are re-watching, you know what's going to happen, and the big surprise, that Sinclair travels back in time to become the Minbari prophet Valen, is a huge part of the point of the episode.
This is a large part of the reason why I have an aversion to time travel and certain kinds of alternate-dimension plotlines. The focus on causality, on why different events lead to certain outcomes, means that the events themselves—the plot—is heightened to the point of taking over the narrative as a whole. And if that time-travel story is serialized over multiple installments of a story, then it demands constant consideration for the plot. That time-travel plot itself then becomes its own motive—the characters steal Babylon 4 because they know they have to do that, because they'd already done it. Thus only the action matters, not who's doing it or why they're doing it. So if, instead of watching the episode, you were to tell someone "Sinclair guest stars, and joins the B5 crew as they steal Babylon 4 and send it back in time to win the last Shadow War, with Sinclair becoming Valen" you'd have almost the entire episode covered.
But then there's Londo.
"Almost" is the key word in my criticisms of how "War Without End" fits together too nicely, how it lacks characterization, how it's too much of a closed circle. That "almost" exists entirely because of the episode's flash-forward scenes, where an aged Londo, as the Centauri Emperor, has captured Sheridan and lambasts him for not winning the peace after the Shadow War ("But you did not think to clean up your mess!"). That failure has led to some kind of fiery tragedy on Centauri Prime. But then there's a twist: Londo is under the control of a creature he calls a "Keeper," and, after he drinks enough to put it to sleep, he frees Delenn and Sheridan, then calls a one-eyed G'Kar ("old friend") for some unfinished business, as the two fulfill the prophecy from the show's first episode and strangle each other to death.
On the surface, this seems like a fantastic move for the series. First, it resolves another great mystery of Babylon 5, that of how and why G'Kar and Londo killed one another. We never had any context beyond that the two were representatives of races that hated one another, and built a personal animosity as well. So the reveal that it was actually a mercy killing serves as a perfect twist—it shows that there's still more information to come, and it doesn't contradict anything we've been told before. Second, by adding new mysteries about what happens after the war, it makes it clear that Babylon 5 isn't just the story of an epic war between good and evil, but a constant process of trying to make the universe a better place (an interview with A Song Of Ice And Fire author George R.R. Martin indicates his interest in "what happens after the war" as well.) Thus the flash-forward also introduces a level of dynamism to the episode that was otherwise lacking; it's an interesting open circle instead of a dull closed circle Third, it's also really fun to see an exotic alternate timeline.
But beyond the fun foray into "What if?"—with the characters getting aging makeup and different costumes—there's a definite element of attachment to the real characters. John and Delenn, in a long relationship with a son; Londo and G'Kar, meeting their sympathetic ends; Vir, taking the crown because he's the last man standing. And the last thing that makes this part of the episode great? It's about Londo. Of course it's more interesting than what the Humans and Minbari are doing.
I don't want to say that "War Without End" is a bad episode. It's not, at all. It is, for the most part, a fine and necessary episode. It's only when it aims for more that "War Without End" gets great.
According to the A.V. Club review of Z'ha'dum:
I never loved Captain Sheridan before this.
Being the hero of a pre-Sopranos show is a thankless job. You have to be perfect. Anything less than perfection is failure. But not being allowed to fail makes you inhuman. I'm not sure how many fans of Babylon 5 identify with Sheridan, or fans of other shows with their traditional heroes. They were rocks to be relied on, every other character was fire, or water, or air—something mutable. And who believes they're the rock? Who doesn't believe that they're in a constant state of anxiety or crisis, or at least ready for a change? I don't know about you all, but I would have serious misgivings about anyone who didn't consider their life at some kind of crossroads, even if it was a rather long and apparently uneventful crossroads. We're the heroes of our own stories, yes, but we're also protagonists, and protagonists without internal dilemmas are boring.
Sheridan has an internal struggle. Even since his arrival on the show and the station, he has sought meaning. This hasn't always been apparent—he has to be the apparent rock, after all—but it has been there. This may have been part of the show, but often, neither that search nor that meaning has been apparent. In the first few episodes when he joined, the search was a superficial matter of location. He believed he was a starship captain, but he was close-to-grounded on a space station. He also had to come to terms with his wife's death, that his idea of a personal life was gone. He was forced to be his job again, and his job as leader of the station was, well, unexpected.
So Sheridan searched for meaning. In "A Spider In The Web" he tells Garibaldi that he "collects secrets." But Sheridan rarely seems like a man who collects secrets for their own sake. He may not have wanted something out of those secrets at the time. But they always had the potential to be used, for good, as Sheridan was of course a hero. And that time came quickly, as he was recruited into a conspiracy against his own government, which occasionally called upon him to take certain actions. It wasn't quite a life filled with meaning—too much reaction, very little action—but it was something.
The turning point for John Sheridan was the episode "In The Shadow Of Z'Ha'Dum." Here, Sheridan's lack of meaning turns poisonous. His need to know what happened to his wife, to his personal life, to his existence apart from his uniform, became toxic and destructive. His meaning became Mr. Morden, in ways that threatened to twist into something nasty. Delenn and Kosh, recognizing this, did not merely give him information that would lead to Morden's release. They gave him, the Starkiller, the war hero, a genius in times of crisis, a new meaning. His life was no longer reaction after "In The Shadow Of Z'Ha'Dum." It was action, which escalated with his connection to the Rangers a few episodes later, and the acquisition of the White Star in the third season premiere.
Sheridan having meaning is one of the dominant, under-spoken aspects of season three. He's willing to duck his own government to take on the Shadows on theWhite Star, even when that becomes everything short of treachery. Then he takes that step in "Severed Dreams." At that point, Sheridan has so fully embraced his new meaning that it literally changes how he looks. Yes, he gets a new uniform, but everyone else does as well. Sheridan changes his hair. That long, getting-close-to-a-mullet 'do? That's a sign of freedom. That's a sign that Sheridan's meaning has started to dominate his own life, but also that Sheridan has started to dominate the meaning. He doesn't need to have a military haircut to be a military leader.
Then his ex-wife shows up, and shatters that meaning.
Here's why I have come to love Sheridan: Because he is me. Well, our personalities are different, and of course our circumstances are very different. But who hasn't sought out meaning? After I graduated from college, like many people, I floated around from job to job. Some were good, some weren't, but none were permanent careers to gain stability from, let alone meaning. In my least meaningful period—Chicago, in the winter, with seasonal affective disorder and an inane job I can barely even describe—I did anything I could to find meaning. Initially this was throwing myself into World Of Warcraft, where effort led invariably to success, and teamwork, no matter how difficult, was rewarded.
Still, as meaning goes, being a raider in WOW is difficult to maintain if you're presented with anything else. I was, and shifted my priorities. In the summer of 2007, as I was interning for The A.V. Club, I received news that my alma mater, Antioch College, was being closed by its corporate owners. Initially I did little more than react—reminisce, feel bad, try to move on. But then a friend of mine gave me a gentle shove to go the annual reunion, wisely timed for the week after the closure announcement. I went. I got information as to why the closure happened, and managed to put it together with everything else that had gone on and create an analysis of what had gone wrong and why. Then I started acting on that knowledge. I even became a bit of a leader. And suddenly my life had meaning.
It remains difficult to describe just how activated I was during that year of meaning. I was always thinking about Antioch, planning about Antioch, leading, following, brainstorming, arguing, writing. Like Sheridan, I found love along the way. But also like Sheridan, I found exhaustion, crankiness, grouchiness. There comes a point, after months of being so suffused with meaning, being so much the embodiment of ideals, that something breaks. Something has to break. How it breaks may be unpredictable, it may be nasty, or it may even be relatively imperceptible. Had something gone differently, maybe I would have stayed, become increasingly exhausted, and simply become a bitter shell. But I left, theoretically at the height of my influence, yet believing that I couldn't have done anything more to prepare for the future. All I had was a single gesture of ending, and the hope that an ending for me wasn't an ending of what I'd worked for.
This may sounds self-aggrandizing. It possibly is, but that may not make it false. That's what makes it appealing. That sort of personal appeal is also part of Sheridan's story in "Z'ha'dum." The Shadow agent called Justin tells Sheridan "You're what they call a nexus." He appeals to Sheridan's sense of heroism, telling him that whichever way he goes he will be followed. Justin appeals to my sense of heroism, that I've been the hero of the story, and he can recognize it. He's attempting to convert Sheridan's sense of meaning, change it from Team Vorlon to Team Shadow, while leaving it intact.
Where's he's mistaken is in believing that meaning is still there. Sheridan is no longer defined by the meaning that drove him. He's burned out. John's disdain for the proceedings during Justin's pitch is apparent. Yes, he knows that it's a trap, but he feels he has to go anyway, to create an ending with a gesture. A few button-presses on his link is the physical gesture, followed by a massive nuclear strike in the apparent heart of evil. Sheridan leaves a goodbye message demonstrating that he has every expectation of death. He avoids the burnout of excessive meaning by literally burning everything out, including perhaps himself. Captain Sheridan embodies the dream of meaning through the third season, and in finishing it, he maintains the perception of himself as a hero both to the universe and perhaps to himself. That's the dream. It's not always easy to achieve.
There isn't much to "Z'ha'dum" outside of Sheridan's characterization and his decisions, but that's not a bad thing. After the grand scale of "Shadow Dancing," keeping the finale intensely personal makes sense, both in terms of general episodic pacing as well as ensuring the finale has a scope that makes it feel worthy of ending such a momentous season.
Two scenes in particular stand out. The first is the big confrontation, where Sheridan meets the representatives of the Shadows and hears their case. Structurally, Justin's a little odd—out of nowhere, suddenly there's an apparently major character delivering the response to arguably the show's biggest remaining mystery, what the Shadows want: "It's really simple. You bring two sides together, they fight. A lot of them die. But those who survive are stronger. Smarter. And better." (turns out it's shitty Social Darwinism, like many cartoon villains and also Republicans).
While Justin's pitch may not be terribly strong on the merits, the way he makes the pitch is. His slightly off, wild gesticulation gives him a vague inhumanity. But that's nothing compared to Anna Sheridan's lines, in which she shows straight-up cruelty. It's not so much that she's inhuman at that point (though that certainly comes later), but that she doesn't seem like the kind of person that John Sheridan could ever fall in love with. Just look at the sneer on her face.
And then there's Morden, who, in explaining the Shadows' philosophy, finally becomes animated. He breaks his facade for once, revealing that he, perhaps, is the only of the three who is still human—he's just horrible. In a sense, this is the only scene in "Z'ha'dum" that matters. As long as everything leading up to it is competent, then the episode will succeed or fail based on the Shadow pitch, and Sheridan's reaction. It doesn't fail.
According to Den of Geek's article, "Babylon 5's greatest episodes" on Into the Fire:
This is it: The final moment of the Shadow War. Sheridan's alliance faces both the Vorlon and the Shadows in the showdown of all showdowns. This episode delivers on everything that the series promised. Sheridan's understanding of both the Shadows and the Vorlon comes full circle: whether they stand for good versus evil, or more accurately order versus chaos, the races no longer need either the Vorlon or the Shadows. The battle takes place both on the physical and mental levels. The outcome ends up being somewhat anticlimactic, but it is much more satisfying than a simple nuke fight in space. This is, after all, more than just space opera. The two elder races, along with Lorien (the first sentient being to have been born to the universe) and the remaining First Ones leave for 'beyond the rim' in order to allow the younger races to grow into their own destiny.
"Did we just win?" Marcus asks. "Don't jinx it," Ivanova answers. Fair enough.
Removed from the main conflict, Mollari and the entire Centauri race face their own war at home, removing all Shadow influence from their world. Mollari's cycle also comes full circle, but there will be a terrible price to pay in the future. The story isn't over yet.
According to Den of Geek's article, "Babylon 5's greatest episodes" on Between The Darkness And The Light and Endgame:
You would think that defeating both the Vorlon and the Shadows would be enough, but the series still had a lot of loose ends to tie up, including the conflict with Earthgov. The Shadows were gone, but President Clark still held the Earth Alliance under Orwellian rule. The rest of the season would be devoted to Sheridan's fight to reclaim Earth. The series had not run out of steam, and it served up quite a number of other outstanding episodes.
Between The Darkness And The Light made the list because it leads up to the final confrontation with Earthforce, but mostly because it features Ivanova's shining moment. While Sheridan is still being held by Earthgov, Ivanova takes command of the fleet for the Alliance's next engagement. When the fleet faces overwhelming odds from Earthforce warships equipped with Shadow technology, Ivanova's answer to the order to stand down or be destroyed is worthy of Inigo Montoya's famous challenge to Count Rugen in Princess Bride:
"I am Susan Ivanova. Commander. Daughter of Andrei and Sophie Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance and the boot that is gonna kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart. I am death incarnate. And the last living thing that you are ever going to see. God sent me."
She had me at "sweetheart."
Endgame brings the series full circle. The final battle is epic with the fate of the entire Earth population in the balance. In many ways, this lesser conflict brings even more closure and emotional satisfaction than the conclusion of the Shadow War did, maybe because it hit closer to home.


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Last Saturday, our church hosted a one-day conference for ladies. The theme was the tabernacle. We learned about Noah, Abraham, Moses, Christ. We learned about the tabernacle and the symbolic meaning of the furniture–the ark of the covenant, the incense … how it all pictures Christ.
My topic to speak on was how can we practically enter the Holy of Holies—meaning, how can we become that close to God.
Now, literally, the presence of God is in heaven–His glory shines there, but He does share His presence with us through the Spirit. So how we can become closer to Him is a valid question.
My talk had an introduction and 3 points. The second point was the largest, and the one I will write about here.
In order to draw close to God we have to accept God the way He is (the way He explains Himself to be in the Bible). This may seem a bit obvious, but it's surprisingly hard to do and requires maturity that comes from the Holy Spirit.
Let me start with a far-off example. We know that catastrophes happen. Or we know that innocent children suffer terrible things.
Let's bring it closer. Something terrible happens to someone we know.
Or to me. I am in pain. I am crying. I am hurt. Terribly disappointed. I am wrestling with a long-term, unfulfilled desire. … A "normal" desire even.
And God is in control.
He's just so very sovereign and in control.
Maybe He's not directly hurting me, but … He is in control.
And I'm in pain.
And it's easy, even for a long-time Christian, to entertain towards God a wrong understanding of all this. (Look at Job and his friends, for example. Did any of them get it right?)
It's subtle. We don't verbally or mentally accuse God, but in our response can be this hurt toward God, that You did me wrong. You hurt me. I did nothing to deserve this.
You've offended me.
You sinned against me.
We don't actually think those words, but if you think it out to the logical ends, that's what we're doing. It comes as anger toward Him, as accusations toward Him, but bottom line. We're accusing God of sinning against us.
When Jesus walked on the earth, He fulfilled every single command of God every single moment. And did anyone notice? … No. They accused Him of sin. So accusing God of sin is not such a far off thing.
So, here comes the question. When I'm in pain and God is in control, am I ready to accept God the way He is?
And I want to add: We can't just shrug and say grudgingly, "OK God, You don't sin, but I still don't have to like You or gratefully accept what You're doing."
Woe to us if we remain there!
We have to grow into accepting that 1) He never sins–that in fact, sin is so very far away from Him in His every act and dealing with us and all mankind–and that 2) everything He does in my life is a personal, deeply intimate, loving, compassionate, merciful, good act.
Is that true? is that really the way God is?
How is He? Who is He? And can I accept such a God, rather than remake Him in my own image?
He is:
- "full of compassion and merciful" (Jam 5:11)
- "righteous" (2 Chron 12:6)
- never-ceasing lovingkindness, unfailing compassion, of great faithfulness (Lam 3:22-23)
- Good to the person who seeks Him (Lam 3:25)
- compassionate, gracious, slow to anger, full of lovingkindness and truth (Ex. 34:6, Jonah 4:2, Joel 2:13, Ps 103:8, Neh 9:17)
This list could go on and on.
But the point is, that to enter into intimate closeness to God, we have to humble ourselves to accept Him for who He is. Even when we're in pain.
Especially when we're in pain.
And then, may the day come in my life, that I trust His character enough that during deep pain, Whys don't even come. And offense and petty hurt are not my friends. Just … who He really is and "Thank You, God, I trust You."


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This graph from Agora Energiewende demonstrates how little renewable energy contributed to the overall energy mix of Germany in December 2016 – and the intermittency of supplies.
This is the primary problem for renewables – the sun does not shine 24/7, neither does the wind blow round the clock. Electricity from renewables has been extremely low for several weeks in Germany.
Lessons from Germany's 2017 winter situation teaches us in the most profound way that we need base-load power to support reliable, stable electricity grids. This means power that can run 24/7. Coal is the backbone of many power systems today and currently provides 41% of global electricity generation.


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So you have been feeling excessively tired for some time now and you just can't place your hand on why you feel that way all the time. Such an experience can be quite frustrating. You will find in this piece possible reasons you are always feeling tired – a few may surprise you.
It is advised that people should take adequate amount of water daily. This offers several benefits, including flushing out toxins from the body. Adequate water intake can help keep tiredness at bay as well. Inadequate water intake leads to dehydration which reduces blood volume, causing the heart to work harder than normal. This results in tiredness. Sufficient water intake can also be useful in maintaining a youthful appearance.
Described as a "relaxation mineral," magnesium helps to enhance the quality of sleep thereby ensuring you wake up bustling with energy the day after. One of the symptoms of low magnesium levels is fatigue. The deficiency can be worsened by heavy drinking and the use of oral contraceptives. Adults need an average of about 375mg per day.
Constant tiredness may be the sign of a liver that is not working optimally. The organ is responsible for eliminating toxins from the body and if its ability to do this is inhibited this could lead to feeling of fatigue and aches. Garlic, broccoli and beet root are some of the great foods for maintaining liver health.
Stress has been described as a time bomb of sort which could lead to severe health implications when it is not tackled in a timely manner. It starts by exerting negative influence on sleep quality – it is a major cause of insomnia. This leads to exhaustion and opens the door to other serious health problems. Make every effort to cool the stress.
If a high level of stress is problematic, who could have thought that low stress levels would be an issue as well? Being too laid back may cause you to feel tired, according to research. Stress, occurring in short bursts, stimulates your body and helps to improve the immune system. Do something that challenges you every now and then.
The setting of your bedroom impacts on sleep quality, which in turn has effect on your energy level. If your bedroom looks like the scene of a riot with items scattered about, you have some work to do to keep tiredness away.
Are you the type that reaches for the snooze button every time your alarm sounds? Well, that may explain why you are always feeling tired to an extent. Waking early gives you enough time to de-stress before stepping out of your home for the tasks of the day. Research shows people who wake early are more successful in that they better anticipate challenges and are more practical. More info on sleep can be found here!
With the very busy schedules many people operate on these days, processed foods have become the most convenient hunger fix. What you may not know is that this sort of foods could cause you to become tired easily and exposed to some not-so-nice health conditions. We are talking about high-carb foods such as burgers, bread, pasta and fries. You should aim to eliminate these and eat more fruits, vegetables, lean protein and whole grains which supply high amount of antioxidants and other essential vitamins and minerals needed for good health.
How many times have you heard it said that regular exercises can save your life? But if you have not been working out as regularly as you should, that may be the reason you are always feeling tired. Regular physical exercise has been shown to be helpful in getting restful sleep and reducing the risk for depression. Even if all you can manage a week is just two and half hours of moderate exercise, this can be helpful in reducing tiredness by about 65 percent. Exercise can also help you maintain a healthy and youthful look, among other anti-aging benefits. But take care not to exercise too much as this may also worsen the problem by raising the level of the stress hormone cortisol.
The above reasons may the reason why you are feeling tired all the time. It should be noted that some conditions, including chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, sleep apnea, thyroid imbalance, anemia and diabetes, may contribute to the problem of you feeling tired always. Discussing the problem with your doctor will be beneficial, if it persists.
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BEIJING, June 13, 2016 -- In response to the recent groundless reports, claiming that "AccorHotels attempts to join forces with HNA to counter Jin Jiang Hotels", HNA International Hotels & Resorts Management Co., Ltd. ("HNA Hospitality Group") issued the following statement:
As of now, HNA Hospitality Group neither has discussed with French AccorHotels Group on the equity acquisition, nor plans to have such discussion. Relating reports are false.
As a global leading hotels group, HNA Hospitality Group is on the mission to establish a Chinese hotel brand. At the same time, HNA Hospitality Group actively fulfills a company's responsibilities in the society, with the dedication in creating a healthy market environment for the hotel industry with stakeholders, including the government, investors, industry peers, and customers.
HNA Hospitality Group has always been cautious with investments, following industry standard business codes and company work rules strictly, and will not participate in hostile bidding with any projects.
HNA Hospitality Group reserves the rights to pursue any legal rights available should any individual or company discuss project acquisition in the name of HNA Hospitality Group without authorization.
HNA Hospitality Group declares the statement hereby.
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|Mt. Hood from Sheepshead Rock
The hike to Sheepshead Rock from Road 4810 is only 1.4 miles, so the lack of views until the Rock is reached is quite bearable for even the most avid, view seeking hiker. The view from Sheepshead Rock, located inside the Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness, is worth the relatively easy and short hike. The question is whether the drive to the trailhead is worth it. A little over 18 miles off of Highway 224, the road (4610), is a few miles of pavement and several miles of gravel. Actually, there are much worse roads leading to trailheads; it is the length of this one that might cause one to turnaround before the trailhead is reached.
South Fork of Salmon River Canyon
For a road heading so deep into the sticks, 4610 is actually in decent shape. It seems to drain well, except for one stretch, and has few potholes. The road is mostly up and down, but where the road does level, look for potholes. Drainage in one stretch is along the road, which has left small ravines to straddle or dodge. Washboarding on the road is not a concern.
The sign at the trailhead is for Old Baldy. Only a few feet from the trailhead it splits, with a right hand turn leading to Sheepshead Rock. Most of the hike to Sheepshead Rock is uphill, but it is gradual. A few short sections of the trail resemble more a creek bed than a trail, with loose rocks scattered about. Another short section of the well-worn trail looks like a deep ditch, where years of travel have worn a deep groove in the forest floor.
Sheepshead RockSheepshead Rock is within view of the trail, but an unmarked side trail must be taken to scramble up the rock. Ridges of the Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness make up much of the view from the Rock, with the South Fork of the Salmon River's canyon below. In the distance is Mt. Hood. I could see Mt. Adams and Mt. St. Helens, but haze from fires left me wondering if I could see further on a clearer day. Something else I couldn't make out was any likeness between the rock and a sheep's head.
View West into Eagle Creek canyonWith plenty of life left in my legs, I decided to hike on to the junction with the Salmon Mt. Trail. This section of the Plaza Trail follows a ridge, but is well below the ridge's crest, so again, views are limited. It is well graded and mostly downhill from Sheepshead Rock. Unfortunately, the trail had recently been used by horses, which did a lot of damage to the narrow trail. I am all for horses accessing trails; however, some trails are not made for the weight and hooves of a horse.
Old saw blade along the trailThe quiet of this section of trail was suddenly interupted by a grouse flying noisily from some brush. There is nothing like the flight of a grouse to get your attention. Another interesting find on this stretch of trail was what appeared to be an old sawblade hanging from a tree that someone had place there. On the return trip, I stopped to look at an old fireplace from what was once an old guard station. On the return trip, look to your right when you come to an old dirt road to see the fireplace through the brush.
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I have installed 2 -3 times a 2 node active/passive cluster in both version of sql server 2005 & 2008.
Per the new requirements i have to install Active/Active clusters on both 2005 and 2008.
I have a few challenges in this regard.
1. Do i need to create independent sql groups, cluster groups and msdtc group based on the no of nodes.
2. Can i use default instance names on both the nodes.
3. Can i have multiple instances per node .(If possible means can i map all the data drives on one node to a single sql group)
3. Any considerations need to be taken care from the memory perspective ? (failover considerations)
4. In an (N+1) multi instance cluster environment is there any possibility to choose the failover between the specified nodes.
It would be great if any one can point me in the right direction by providing any docs or any links or video links for the Active/active cluster installation.
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Hi all,
I came again with couple question on SQL Server 2008 R2 side by side installation in Cluster(Active/passive on Windows 2003 SP2).
1.I have already have SQL Server 2000 SP4 Installation.
2.Can I start Installation(Side by Side) from Passive node ?
3.you want me give New SQL Server Netwrok name (Instance Configuration Screen)?.
4.you want me give New Instance ID name (Instance Configuration Screen)?
5.Can I chose Excixting Clustore resource group or I need to Create New group which is the best ?
Thanks in advance
Hi all
Storage engineers are planning to Upgrade storage Drive and that storage using for SQL Server 2005 Active /Passive cluster.
as DBA what action I have to take.
I am planning
1.Backup all Databases.(Inluding system)
2.Takning all Databases OFFLINE(make sure no body using Databases)
3.Stopping Instance and Agent .
which is the best way.
any advise is helpful for me.
Hi All,
Another question...
I am new to SQL Clustering.
Can we create Active-Active cluster on SQL Server 2008 R2 Server, which will be having facility to loadbalancing Databases on Clustered Hardware, i.e. some Databases will be on SQL_Cluster_Host_A and Some will be on SQL_Cluster_Host_B.
Or is there any way to configure the above thing?
SQL_Cluster_Host_A will host Database 1,22.214.171.124 and SQL_Cluster_Host_B will host Database 6,7,8,9,10.
When Host A will fail all DBs will goto Host B, and vise versa.
We have a SQL cluster server running with SQL 2005 Enterprise Edition SP2 on Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition.
Currently the cluster has 2 nodes with Active/Active. Now I need to add a new node as a Passive node. So after I have done it, the cluster will be a Active/Active/Passive cluster.
Because the cluster is a production server, I need to know exactly how I add a new node onto the current cluster without breaking anything. Also this is my first time to install a passive node, so it is difficult for me to understand how to install and configure it.
I have already added the physical node onto the cluster group so I can see the new node 'paused' from the Cluster Administrator. ÃÂ Now I need to install the SQL but I am too nervous to run the installation p
I upgraded the 1st node of a SQL2008 Cluster on Windows 2003 sp2, and this was after correcting a SQL2008 Cluster install by uninstalling and removing a node. It was stable when I began the R2 install. The first node went as planned, but
it will not move past the setup phase where it does the install of the setup files, and the log shows this:
Running Action: PostMsiTimingConfigAction
2010-11-04 09:52:52 Slp: The object state property 'workflow' is null/empty.
2010-11-04 09:52:52 Slp: Error: Action "PostMsiTimingConfigAction" failed during execution.
2010-11-04 09:52:52 Slp: Completed Action: PostMsiTimingConfigAction, returned False
I had previously tried to install R2 which led to some corruption and required me to correct the 2008 install. Following the instructions here :
In the past (SS 2005), I was able to apply patches to to the virtual cluster host and it automatically detected both nodes and applied the patch. This incurred downtime due to a reboot, but i did not care since this was a new cluster build.
Now, in 2008, the information I am finding implies that you should apply on passive node, perform a failover and then apply on other node.
I am curious if it is still possible to apply the patch like i did for SS 2005, where I just run the install a single time from the virtual cluster host, thereby letting the installer figure out it is a cluster and apply to both nodes?
Hi all experts,
I pretty new in SQL database along with WinServ clustering, so please mind my knowledge level in the overall process.
Base on the screenshot above, we have currently a single cluster created base in which that is controlling DB1 and DB2. Primarily DB1 would be our Active node whereas DB2 would be our Passive, both have it's own designated Public and Private IP. After a
small issue previously in which our cluster service failed, it seems that the failover has taken place in which at the moment is running on DB2, which bears the question now is would it be possible to have DB1 being the Active node without downtime? and what
is the process flow to change reactivate it back?
Servers Details:
- Win2k3 Ent Application Server
- Win2k3 Ent DB1&2
- IBM DS5020 SAN Storage
On the disk management on each DB servers, we are not able to see the LUNs in DB1 (shown as Unreadable) whereas on DB2 it is shown as normal, in which we would assume that this is normal since DB2 is the active node.
Thanks for reading & most of my search base on this question ended up in this forum, which I would assume that this is the correct place to ask.
Can any one point me to a microsoft paper that cleary highlights the memory requirements of the passive node. I want to confirm that it needs to have the same memoery avaliable in the machine as the active node. I have been told that I doesn't.
The current active node has 16gb of ram with 4gb allocated to the os and the other split across 3 sql instances. The passive node currently only has 8gb of RAM, wouldn't it need 16gb if that is what has been allocated.
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So far this week, most of my thoughts and energy have been focused on the IVF. With acupuncture appointments Monday and Wednesday, an RE appointment Tuesday, and making sure I remembered to take the pill (started on Sunday), and twice daily antibiotics (starting on Monday), it's no wonder I had IVF (and pregnancy) on the brain!
Our appointment on Tuesday went well overall. I had my sonohysterogram (SHG), an ultrasound where saline is injected into the uterus to check for any structural abnormalities, and an endometrial biopsy (this was the reason for taking antibiotics for 5 days, to stave off any potential infection). My uterus passed with flying colours, and we were told that the biopsy results would take a week and we would only be contacted if there was an issue.
After the procedures were over, we met with one of the nurses to go over our protocol, learn about the different medications, and discuss what would happen at each stage of the process.
The first thing that happened is we found out that my protocol was updated from what I'd received on Friday when I got my period. Apparently during the ultrasound I'd just had, my ovaries looked "more prominent" than the Dr. was expecting, so I would be starting off on a lower dose of stimulation drugs (I think this can only be a good thing).
The other change was that most of my timing got pushed back a week, so retrieval and transfer were now projected to happen first week of May, instead of last week of April, as the nurse who sent me the protocol on Friday had made an error in updating all of the start times. So, suppression (and injections!) would only start next Tuesday.
As I'd mentioned in a previous post (and here too!), trying to make a baby is not the only life changing event we're going through right now. Basically, every aspect of our life is going through an upheaval due to our pending move this summer. To summarize briefly, in six months, I will be:
1. Living in a different city
2. Working at a new (as yet undetermined) job
3. Living in a new (as yet undetermined) house
4. (Crossing my fingers about this one!) pregnant
Yesterday morning the focus shifted from IVF and pregnancy to housing, or specifically the final steps to listing our house for sale. Our tenants are moving out, and we'll be getting new carpet into the suite early next week, and listing the house a few days after that.
In the meantime, we had someone who would be a potential private purchaser through the house that morning (he owns the triplex next door to us, and we thought he might be interested in our house as an investment). My husband showed him the house, and he had some initial interest! We couldn't show him the suite though, as it was too early for our tenants, and he wanted some more information about our costs, so he'll be coming back early next week for another run through.
In any case, once that was over, all of our attention shifted to the house, and what we would be comfortable selling for privately vs. what we could get if we listed it. It's such a gamble either way, because you don't want to sell for too little, but also don't want to list and then have it sit for too long and have to drop the price later anyways. The market where we are seems okay, but not hot right now. So, of course we're hoping that if we list at what we think is a fair price, we'll get interest from several different people and could sell for a bit over list price, but you never know.
Then in the afternoon, attention shifted from the house here, to my husband's job. As I've explained, the driving force for this upcoming move is that my husband was offered a great position in another city. However, even though he's known for about six weeks now that he has this job (and everyone there knows he's coming), and we're proceeding along like it's a sure deal, even this job is not 100% in the bag yet as he does not yet have the written offer.
I realize that for most people this sounds like a huge red flag, and like we should not be making any plans until he has a signed written offer, but I should explain that he is an academic, and academia plays by its own rules. So even though the Chair of the department who he'll be working for has worked out all the details of the offer with him, and drafted up the terms, the hire still had to be approved by the Dean, and then finally the Provost of the university.
The Dean's approval has now gone through, however we still needed approval from the Provost before we could have the offer in our hands. Originally, the delay with the Provost was because the department had offers out for two positions, and the Provost wanted to approve both offers at the same time. The person who was offered the second position was on the fence and had until the middle of March to decide. Mid March came and went, and he turned down the offer. So, we heard that everything should be approved by the end of last week. Early this week, my husband even got a reassuring email from the Chair that the offer was almost ready.
I felt pretty sure the offer would come yesterday, but instead my husband got an update from the Chair that in order to approve the hire, the Provost wants to see the CV of the best female candidate! My husband is in a male dominated faculty, so I know that a strong female candidate will always get the job over a strong male candidate, and that the university will do what it can to hire females wherever possible. The Chair (who is female, I may add, as is the Dean) did not seem too worried about this and felt that it was a mere formality. However, my husband started freaking out, especially when he saw that the Provost was also female!
So, we're hoping that at this point it's just a matter of having the CV on file, and everything can proceed as planned, but there's always that small chance that the Provost will insist that the female candidate be brought in for an interview before everything is finalized. I figure that if they had any sort of half decent female apply, she would have already been one of the three people interviewed (I know for a fact all three were men), but who knows? So, limbo on the one thing that should be definite at this point continues.
Then, I got home from work to a message from my RE's office to call them back, and just like that, my thoughts swung back to the IVF cycle! It was too late to call them back, so I had to leave a message and spend the rest of the evening wondering what they could be possibly calling about. Here were the only things I could think of:
1. Change in the protocol/timing – seems unlikely as we had nailed everything down just on Tuesday
2. Update that they got my results of the varicella titre (chicken pox immunity testing) – seems unlikely as I'd already told the nurse I knew that I wasn't immune and was not going to have the vaccine before doing IVF
3. (The one that really scared me!) Abnormal results of the endometrial biopsy meaning that we'd have to postpone or cancel our cycle – seems unlikely because it's only been two days instead of a week, but at the same time I couldn't help keep coming back to this as it also seemed more likely than the other two options. It doesn't help that we have unexplained infertility and have passed any other tests with flying colours – maybe this is the smoking gun as to why we can't conceive?
I started the day imagining our completely changed life in six months. And then, in one day, every single one of those assumptions got questioned.


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Happy First Birthday to Isaac Raymond Wang! He turned 1 yesterday and we had a little party for him. It was so much fun and he was such a good sport, despite being tired, sick, and cranky. So many people came and loved on my little man. He (we) are so blessed. Here are some pictures.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011
A project
I read a lot of design and crafting blogs. This leads to obsessions over things like reupholstering an old chair, which I wouldn't necessarily call healthy. Anyway, after reading about a lot of before/after chair projects on Design Sponge, I was inspired to find an old chair and reupholster it. Since I hadn't done this before, I went in search of an "easy" side chair for my living room, to replace my husband's (broken) college futon, which we rarely sit on.
I found my chair at the Salvation Army in Moscow for $16. It had black legs and navy velour fabric. It had been recovered once, and really not well. Here is the before. As you can see, the back was falling off. Sorry for the low-quality pictures, our camera battery died, and we have a new one on order. These are phone pics.
Underneath the velour I found a layer of 60's upholstry fabric, probably the original, cream and faded red. Note all the staples on the ground!
Under the red fabric was the original padding, which was in fairly good shape, so I decided to re-use it, and just add some fresh foam and batting to provide additional padding. I also added foam and batting to the back. Sorry, I didn't take photos after I added padding.
I learned a lot in this process! Primarily, I learned that I really enjoy reupholstering chairs. This is good news, because I have a lot of leftover materials (foam, batting, tack tape, staples, etc.). So if I find another chair with good bones, I can do another one, and maybe sell it?
Here is the after. I painted the legs white, found the fabric on sale at Joann's, and tufted fabric-covered buttons, and everything! I even did a "real" upholstry job on the bottom (no pic) and the back. I'm very pleased with the outcome, and Jeremy says it passes the living-room test.
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I love this couple session in Morcote Switzerland and I'm so grateful to have met Johanna and Andrea!
At first I was going to Italy to photograph an engagement session with a couple from Sweden but it was canceled and so I started looking for couples to shoot while I was in Como and got in touch with Johanna. She has a mother who is from Sweden so she talks a little swedish (quite well I think!) and she met Andrea while living in France. They live together in Switzerland now and suggested that we could photograph in Morcote near the Italian border. I have been in Lugano before and know how beautiful it is there, but Morcote was way more beautiful!
We met up at the church up the hill/mountain (Oh my god what a workout it was climbing all the stairs while 32 weeks pregnant even though I had my assistant and childhood friend carrying the heavy camera bag haha) and the view was just wow! Continued photographing in the Parco Scherrer which is the perfect place for a wedding by the way!
Johanna and Andrea was so warm and welcoming and we had a great time exploring the surroundings. Ended the evening with drinks by the water and then me and my assistant drove back to Como.
Love my job when I get to do the the things I love the most, travel and capturing love!
I'm so happy to have met this beautiful couple and hope to see them again in the future!
(and sorry for this extremely long blog post with a little to much pictures)


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Mansion for 16 guestsName/Address: Manoir de la Baronie 16P
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This impressive, fully renovated country house is situated on a well-kept, enclosed estate with, among others, a large field, trees providing sufficient shade and several terraces. The estate with guest rooms is provided with all luxuries, such as an enclosed private swimming pool (12 x 6 m), a tennis court, a basketball net, a ping-pong table, several swings, a badminton field, andbikes. There is lots of garden furniture and a barbecue. There is plenty of space for children to play in, so they neednt be bored during the holiday. The 17th century country house is just 2 km from the picturesque village of Sourzac and 5 km from the small town of Mussidan. The town of Bergerac, also known as the mirror of the Dordogne because of the rivers charm, is 25 km away. 35 km north of the country house lays the capital of the Dordogne, Périgueux. Just a little further on, in the Périgord Noir, you can find the town of Les Eyzies, where you can find some of the best-known prehistoric caves of Europe. You can also go hiking, cycling or canoeing here.
LayoutGround floor: (Livingroom(TV(satellite), DVD player, CD player), Livingroom(fireplace), dining room(fireplace), dining room, Kitchen(cooker, 2x coffee maker(cups, filter), oven, microwave, dishwasher, freezer, fridge freezer), Bedroom with bathroom(Double bed(140 x 200 cm), TV(satellite), shower, washbasin, toilet), Bedroom with bathroom(Double bed or 2 single beds, TV(satellite), bath, shower, 2x washbasin, toilet), WC, utility room(tumble dryer, washing machine)) On 1st floor: (bedroom(Single bed(90 x 200 cm), Double bed(140 x 200 cm)), bedroom(2x Single bed(90 x 200 cm)), bedroom(2x Single bed(90 x 200 cm)), bedroom(Single bed(90 x 200 cm), Cot), Bedroom with bathroom(Double bed or 2 single beds, TV(satellite), bath, 2x washbasin, toilet), bathroom(bath, 2x washbasin), bathroom(shower, 2x washbasin), toilet) Basement: (Bedroom with bathroom(Double bed, TV(satellite), shower, washbasin, terrace), WC, recreation room(terrace, table football, billiards)) fitness room(reachable from the outside), meetings(on request), receptions, projector screen(on request), beamer(on request), heating(central), terrace(private, roofed), terrace(private), garden(fenced), garden furniture, BBQ, parking, swimming pool(private, heatable, fenced, 12 x 6 m.), tennis court(private), play area, table tennis, bicycle(s) available, high chair
RemarksBeds made on arrival For reasons of tranquillity, this holiday home will not be rented to groups of youngsters Reservations for groups of persons under 25 years of age are not permitted It is strictly forbidden to organise any student party, bachelor party or drinking party in this house
- Deposit: € 500 (To be paid in advance, not on site, refunded 7 days after departure)
- Cleaning: Mandatory: € 200
- Pets: Max. 1; free of charge
- Bed linen: Included
- Bath towels: Included
- Kitchen linen: Bring your own
- Gas/Oil: Not present
- Wifi: Free
- Tourist tax: Mandatory, € 0,40 /person/night
- Catering: Lunch possible; Dinner possible
- Breakfast: Possibility
- Cleaning: Extra cleaning € 20 EURO /hour
- Heating the pool: € 30/night
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Sorry for the lack of posts around here. Been a busy bee on the editing front. Also remember that cold I told you about? Took me a solid 3 weeks to get over it. Seriously, this horrible cold has been an epidemic in Chapel Hill. Seems like everyone I meet has "just" gotten over it.
Despite feeling less than 100%, my husband and I managed to take a quick visit up to D.C. to see my parents and squeeze in a sail. Fall sailing is the best. The wind was pretty strong out on the bay (gusting up to 24 knots!), but once we got the sails double-reefed it wasn't too bad. Here's a picture of my dad. Doesn't he look happy?
I think sailing is his favorite thing to do in the world. It's one of my favorite things to do for sure. We sailed to Rock Hall on the Eastern Shore and had the most amazing crabs at Waterman's Crab House. They were so big and sweet (crabs get huge in the fall). Lately, I've had an itch to move out West, but I'd definitely be sad to be even more land-locked than we already are in Chapel Hill. Maryland is a pretty nice state if you know how to take advantage of what it has to offer (the water, mostly).
On the editing front, business has been good. Maybe too good. I'm getting loads of jobs, but then I feel like I'm always scrambling to keep up. I definitely need to start charging more. I have about 5-10 professors who have been giving me great repeat business, so I think they see the value I add to their research, so maybe it's almost time to start inching up my rates. I spend way too many hours on their manuscripts for how much I charge. This has been a reoccurring problem for a while now.
I don't mind working that hard, but it kind of defeats some of the purpose of starting this business, which was to free up more time for me to write. I'm sure some of you more experienced readers out there could have seen this coming. Starting a business is really, really hard work, and I feel so much more motivated to succeed than I ever did when I was working for somebody else. But that also means I haven't had nearly as much time to write as I had hoped I would. There were some quiet weeks over the summer when I had few editing jobs and could write all day long, but I haven't had a single day of that kind of "free time" in weeks. Part of the problem is I'm just not making time for myself to write, but then again, I'm also pretty exhausted trying to meet editing deadlines.
But all of that kind of pales in comparison with the other issue we've been dealing with at home, which is Lyme's disease. A few weeks ago, my husband was collecting fire wood out the woods and then a few days later he found a strange rash on his leg that itched like crazy. It looked like this:
In this neck of the country, we are very Lyme's disease aware. Deer ticks hang out in leaf litter, so my guess he got bit while he was collecting fire wood. He went to the doctor and came back with a 3 week course of antibiotics. Good thing he did, because even after taking the antibiotics, he started to develop symptoms: painfully sore/stiff joints, especially his knees, a serious fever, chills, congestion, etc. They say that the early-stages of lyme's disease is like a really bad flu, but I think the pain goes beyond any flu I've ever had or seen. It's like every immune response in his body suddenly turned on, and all his nerves are on fire. He describes it as a constant, deep aching or shooting pain. My husband is one of those people who hates taking time off work, but even he's very willingly stayed home these last 3 days and pretty much hasn't gotten out of bed. It just hurts too much to move around. It's really hard to watch him suffer like this (he's in serious, serious pain) when all I can do is try and make him as comfortable as I can, and ensure he's drinking lots of fluids and taking his medication. Poor guy, especially since he just got over his own horrible cold a few weeks ago. He just can't catch a break.
Way too much sickness going around here, lately. Just a lot of bad luck, I guess.
Anyway, I think we might go back to the doctor and see if they can't prescribe any stronger antibiotics. I know a lot of people who have had Lyme's disease (friends and family members) and all of them say to takes at least 3 weeks of antibiotics, and maybe another round to really get rid of all the symptoms. Fortunately, the doctors around here don't seem to be that resistant to treating it.
Wish us luck.
Sailing on the Chesapeake Bay
Good morning everyone. Just came back from a fantastic weekend at home in Maryland. My parents recently bought a new boat to share with a few other families and this was T's and my first chance to go sailing with them.
My parents have always owned "half" a boat. They and another family would split the docking fees and maintenance costs etc. and pretty much get to sail as much as they want as no one could possibly sail every decent weekend of the year. It's a smart way to enjoy the hobby without having to pay a fortune for it. Here are a few pictures of my brother and I on our old boat, which we kept at Breezy Point, a marina on the Western shore of the Chesapeake Bay (and one of the best places to find sharks teeth on the beach).
That boat was 23 feet long, which is fairly small for a sail boat. It was built some time in the 70's. There was just enough room for a cabin, but you had to duck your head to fit inside. My parents bought the boat from my grandparents and then sold half of it to a co-worker of my Father's. We sailed that thing for years and years, and the whole time, it was sort of falling apart. The centerboard wouldn't go down. The fiberglass hull was turning to dust. The outboard motor (for getting in and out of the marina) would only start about half the time. It was a great boat for my brother and I to learn to sail on and it was very comfortable for a day out with the family, but it was also getting more and more difficult to sail without something breaking. We stopped going a few years ago because it just was too much for my Dad, the real sailor of our family, to handle along with his chronic pain issues. Last year we finally sold the boat outright to someone who was looking for an older, cheaper boat to fix up.
That was really sad. It meant saying goodbye to a major part of my childhood and all those good memories on the water. A few years went by without any sailing and we all missed it. Then a friend of my Mother's suggested we buy a 1/3 share of their sailboat. My parents didn't even hesitate. They made an offer right away, so now we have access to a sailboat again!
The new boat is probably ten feet longer, has a full size cabin, and all sorts of extra equipment that makes sailing so much easier (the gennaker sailing sock - wow, what a great idea). Sailing is one of those things where you don't even realize how much you've missed it until you get back onto the boat. You just feel so alive and happy. Unlike motorboating, it's a very quiet experience; just the sounds of the boat cutting through the water and the breeze in the sails. We always pack a picnic and just putter around with no real goal other than to enjoy being outside in each other's company.
I know how to sail pretty decently in fair weather so I took over for a while. God, it felt great to feel that wind in my hands again.
...But there was a bit of a learning curve. I've only sailed boats that have a tiller, which you use to steer the boat. You push the tiller in the opposite direction that you want to go. The new boat is large enough to have a helm, which you steer just as if you were driving a car. This meant I was all flipped around and kept turning the helm the wrong way, especially when the weather helm kept wanting to turn the boat into the wind. I'd correct the wrong way before realizing my mistake.
The wind died in the middle of the day, as it does, so we took a little swim to cool off.
We saw ospreys everywhere. These are such a symbol of home to me. They eat fish and build nests on the channel markers (and highway lights and telephone poles and pretty much anything that's up high near the water). It's no exaggeration to say we saw at least twenty or more while we were out.
There were two osprey mates on this nest right before I took the picture, which reminded me of this children's book I grew up with. I found it again at home. It was called, Sid and Sal's Famous Channel Marker Diner by Priscilla Cummings. I loved this book. It was such a cute idea. Basically, two ospreys move into a channel marker on the Chesapeake Bay and open a little seafood diner, which other birds patronize. They go through the same problems most small business owners do: no customers, obnoxious location, spousal arguments. When you see real ospreys hanging out on their nests, it's not hard to imagine them as an old married couple in the neighborhood, so this book always rang true to me.
Unfortunately, I think Sid and Sal's is out of print, which isn't too surprising. Ospreys are very familiar to me, but I can imagine they don't mean much to other people outside of the Chesapeake Bay region and other watery parts of the world (Louisiana maybe).
Priscilla Cummings also wrote the Chadwick the Crab books, but those weren't nearly my favorite. Still, she also came up with perhaps the greatest title ever for her other book, Toulouse the Canada Goose. Cummings actually visited my school around 1991 and my copy of Sid and Sal's is signed by her (although dedicated to my brother). My school was really great about hosting local authors and my mother always bought the book for us. Anyway, I don't remember Cummings's visit, but I read this book many times as child. Great illustrations. Great story.
I wish we lived closer to Maryland so we could go sailing more often. I'd like to teach T to sail too. I may look into dingy rentals on Jordan Lake. Little boats, like Lasers and Flying Juniors, are a great way to learn.
Anyway, I certainly feel rejuvenated for the upcoming week. Work doesn't seem so bad when your weekends are fun! Next weekend we're going camping.
Do any of you sail or boat? Do you have another hobby that makes you feel alive? Please share!
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When you complete your new web, you are taken to the Navigation view of the web, which shows all the pages that were created for your new site and their relationship to other pages in the site. The site consists of a home page and several other pages that branch from the home page (and are subordinate to it). Figure 3.3 shows the Navigation view of a web created using the Personal Web Wizard. Each wizard creates a different number of pages for the site and arranges them in a manner that depends on the purpose of the web.
Some Wizards Dump You into the Task Viewv The Corporate Presence Wizard provides an option on the second-to-last wizard screen to take you to the Task view rather than to the Navigation view. If you do not deselect the check box for Task view, you will end up there on completion of the web. The different views available to you in FrontPage are covered in the remainder of this lesson.
The key to completing a web that has been created using a web wizard is understanding how the various views on the FrontPage Views bar are used as you edit and enhance the new web. Each view provides a different information set that shows you how the overall construction of the web is progressing. These views are defined in the sections that follow. You also use these views in the subsequent lessons that discuss FrontPage.
The Navigation view (refer to Figure 3.3) enables you to see all the pages in the web in a flowchart format, which gives you the hierarchy for the site. (This view is usually the default view for a site created using one of the wizards.) The home page for the site is at the top of the hierarchy, and all pages that branch from the home page are shown below the home page with a connecting line. FrontPage calls the pages that are below the home page in the web child pages.
Child pages are not limited to the home page, however, and any page in the Web site can have child pages. A page that has child pages is called a parent page.
You can drag and drop pages in the Navigation view to change their location in the web structure. New pages created for a site are inserted into the web in this manner (see Lesson 11 for more about inserting new pages into a Web site in the Navigation view).
To move to the Navigation view from any other FrontPage view, click the Navigation icon on the Views bar.
The Page view is used to view and edit a particular page in your web. You use the Page view when you add text, pictures, or other objects to the individual Web pages in the site. The Page view is similar to an Excel worksheet window or a Word document window. It provides a workspace.
To enter the Page view for a specific page in the Web, follow these steps:
Go to the Navigation view by clicking the Navigation icon on the Views bar (refer to Figure 3.3).
Double-click a particular page in the Navigation view. The page opens in the Page view (as shown in Figure 3.4). The look of the page depends on the theme that you chose.
When you are in the Page view, you can edit the current page as needed (see details in Lesson 4).
Quickly Return to the Previously Opened Page If you open a particular page in the Page view by double- clicking it in the Navigation view (or Folders view) and then move to a different view (such as returning to the Navigation view), you can quickly return to the previously opened page by clicking the Page View icon on the Views bar.
The Folders view shows the folders and files in the current web. When you create a web using one of the wizards, several folders and files are created (the files created depend on the wizard that you used).
Click the Folders icon in the Views bar to view the folders and files in the web. Figure 3.5 shows the folders and files that are created when you use the Personal Web Wizard to create a new web.
The folders created for any of your new webs (no matter which wizard you use) consist of the following
Web Folder— This is designated by the name that you provided for the web's location in the Specify the Location of the New Web box in the New dialog box.
Private Folder— This folder is created to hold any data that is input into special forms or other data input objects that you place on a page or pages in your Web site. Because the folder is private, a visitor to your Web site cannot gain access to the information that it holds.
Images Folder— This folder provides a place to save pictures and clip art that are part of the Web site. Any images placed in the web by the wizard are contained in this folder.
Files that are contained in the web can also be seen in the Folders view. Each web typically contains an index.htm file that serves as the home page for the web; the other pages in the web depend on the wizard that was used (each with the .htm extension, which means the page is an HTML document).
You can delete files from the web in the Folders view (select the file and press Delete). You can also open pages in the Folders view by double-clicking them. They open in the Page view.
The Reports view enables you to view statistics and other information related to your web. These statistical reports are created automatically when you create the web, and they are updated as you work on the web. To view the statistics for your site, click the Reports View icon on the Views bar.
Figure 3.6 shows the Reports view for a personal web. Statistics such as the number of files and pictures in the web are reported as mini-reports. Other data provided include unverified links in the web (these usually consist of links to other Web sites on the World Wide Web that have not yet been verified by going online with your web).
The Reporting toolbar enables you to change the statistics displayed in the Reports window (it appears directly below the other FrontPage toolbars). The default list for the Reports view is the Site Summary (refer to Figure 3.6), which shows all the statistics. If you want to view a certain statistic, such as unlinked files (in the web), click the drop-down box on the Reports toolbar and select the statistic—in this example, Unlinked Files—from the Problems list. These files are listed. Any views found in the Site Summary view can be viewed alone by selecting the appropriate report title from the toolbar drop-down list.
The Hyperlinks view enables you to view the hyperlinks from a particular page in the site to other pages in the site and to other Web sites on the World Wide Web. Figure 3.7 shows the Hyperlinks view for the Favorites page in a Personal Web site. The page has internal links to the other pages in the web (so that you can quickly go to those pages). It also contains external links that enable you to jump to other sites found on the World Wide Web.
To go to the Hyperlinks view for a page in your web, be sure that you first select the page in the Folders view or the Navigation view. Then click the Hyperlinks View icon on the Views bar. The page and its hyperlinks are displayed. Creating and managing hyperlinks is dis cussed in Lesson 9, "Working with Hyperlinks."
The Tasks view enables you to see tasks that are used to help you complete various aspects of your Web site. You can create tasks related to specific pages in the web or items on a Web page, such as a picture or other item. When you start a task that appears on your Tasks list, the task automatically opens the page or goes to the item on the page for which the task was created. Some of the wizards, such as the Corporate Presence Wizard, automatically create a list of tasks that is used to make sure all aspects of the new web are addressed before the web is placed on the World Wide Web for viewing. Tasks are covered in more detail in Lesson 18, "Completing and Publishing Your Web Site."
To go to the Tasks view, click the Tasks View icon on the Views bar. Figure 3.8 shows the tasks that were created when the Corporate Presence Wizard was used to create a new web.
You might find that you use different views provided by the Views bar as you create or fine-tune your webs. These views are visited and revisited in the other lessons found in this book.
In this lesson, you learned how to create a web using the FrontPage web wizards. You also learned how to navigate the views provided on the FrontPage Views bar and how each view gives you different information about your Web site. In the next lesson, you learn how to create new pages for your web and insert them into the Web site hierarchy.


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So the marathon is in 3 days. Wish me luck!! At this point it doesn't really matter if I'm ready or not, it's here. I'll just have to give it my best shot. My foot is pretty sore, but I think it will be fine for the race. Afterwards though I will need some time to let the thing heal.
Last week was Bloomsday. I had a less than stellar performance 54:43 to be exact. That is about 3:20 slower than last year. And I can only attribute about 1 min to my starting position in the yellow section. From back there the amount of zigging and zagging does slow you up and probably does take its toll but no excuses. I just was not as fast this year. I have been consistanly slower in all races this year.
Ben Greenfield had an interesting post on his page asking the question "Why do you do Triathlon" his article was thought provoking and the comments posted were interesting. This was what I came up with.
To me life is all about experiences. The anticipation leading upto an experience and the memories of experiences past. Triathlon offers physical and mental challenges that are unique yet also transend all other aspects of life. Like Al, I'm often humbled by these endurance activities. kind of like standing at the edge of the ocean or at the foot of a mountain. The precipice of an Ironman, while overwhelming, can put things into perspective.There is order even in the most chaotic but there is no easy way, ever, at anything.
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- Spokane Al said...
Good luck this weekend. You have done the work and are ready to rock and roll!
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Militants march to US embassy, slam WTO
MEMBERS of the militant Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) and Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) today marched to the embassy of the United States in Manila to call for the junking of the US-dominated World Trade Organization (WTO).
The protest action was launched a day before the so-called "special treatment for rice" enjoyed by the Philippines in the world trading system expires on June 30.
The special treatment or quantitative restrictions (QRs) on rice under the WTO allows the Philippines to limit the volume of rice that can be imported by the government every year, preventing a possible deluge of rice imports. However, the current QR on rice, approved by WTO in 2006, is scheduled to end this June. The Aquino government sought the extension but apparently failed to secure an extension due to United States opposition.
KMP spokesperson Antonio Flores said "the Aquino government's failure to secure an extension of the QRs underscores the political necessity for the country to pull-out from the WTO."
"With the full-scale rice trade liberalization, the Filipino peasantry and the rice industry are now up against the killing impacts of the WTO," Flores said.
He said "the removal of the QRs on rice is tantamount to the WTO undermining the sovereignty of the Philippine government and its powers to regulate and control the influx of imported rice in the local market."
"Despite the boasts of the Aquino government of a bountiful harvest, another rice crisis is in the offing," the KMP leader warned stressing that "with a zero-tariff regime, monopoly pricing, rice price manipulation and speculation will be the name of the game. We anticipate the worsening of land-grabbing, land-use conversion, rice import dependency, hunger and poverty."
The Philippine government wants the protectionist policy extended for three years or until 2015. It filed the request with the WTO on Nov. 18, 2011. During the negotiations for extending the QR on to 2012, the Philippines agreed to increase its minimum access volume (MAV) for rice to 350,000 metric tons (MT) as a concession.
However, the United States' opposed the Philippines' petition to the WTO if the Department of Agriculture's Administrative Order 22 (AO 22) is not rescinded. The DA's AO 22 set rules and regulations on the handling of frozen and chilled meat and meat products in order to better ensure quality and safety.
"The US' opposition on our bid to extend the QRs on rice betrays US arrogance and underscores the need for the Philippines to withdraw from the WTO," the KMP said.
The KMP called on the Department of Agriculture (DA) and the National Food Authority (NFA) to increase the farm-gate prices of palay (unhusked rice) to P20 per kilo from the current NFA buying price of P17 per kilo.
"In light of this barefaced arrogance by the US, we challenge the DA and the NFA to use taxpayers' money for the procurement of our local produce and immediately stop the importation of rice," Ramos said.
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On the afternoon of Friday, March 10th, the LHS administration received a concerning report. The
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Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle visited the station Thursday as part of their celebration. He issued a proclamation calling today 'WLRH Day.'
WLRH is currently holding its annual Fall Fund Drive to raise money to keep free public radio on the airwaves. It depends solely on listener and community support. You can make a donation by calling (256) 895-9574 or online at aptv.org/wlrhsupport. You can also drop by the station in person, on the campus of UAH. The pledge goal is $100,000.
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By the way, WLRH also invites you to "An Evening With Sarah Vowell" on Sunday, Oct. 23 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Mark C. Smith Concert Hall. Here are more details on Facebook, and tickets are available at Ticketmaster.com and 1-800-745-3000.
Enjoy an evening of history, humor and discussion with best-selling author, actor and This American Life contributor Sarah Vowell. Sarah will read selections from her books and take questions from the audience. A book sale and signing will be held afterwards.


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So I got another call today from Dr. B's - the second biopsy came back andonce again there is good news and bad news.
Bad news is that the second biopsy came back as Melanoma
Good news is that it is stage 0
Bad news is that she doesn't feel comfortable doing the surgery herselfsince it will be a bigger incision and more invasive procedure.
Good news is that I probably won't have surgery on our anniversary
Bad news is I don't know timing and things are up in the air.
I go back tomorrow so she can re-check other moles - as she thought this wasjust a precautionary one...and it came back not good. So now that the incisionwill be bigger she wants to check to see if there are others in the path.
I think this is the first time my heart started to feel fluttery in my chest- for lack of a better metaphor.
I started to think about how we will tell the kids - and then I started to write a letter to their teachers...I think that helped calm me a bit and re-group. Tomorrow is another day. We still don't know anything - one step at a time.
In the meantime I got a text from my friend JSM whowas diagnosed a year ago with Stage 4 Breast Cancer – that is already in herliver and bones. She is now 33 and has 17 month old twins (she was diagnosed at32 with 5 month old twins). She asked if we could take the boys overnight soshe and her husband could go to a B&B. I didn't want to tell her about me.I am trying to put things in perspective, this is so nothing compared to her,but I needed her to know I wouldn't be able to lift the boys…though we haveenough people in the house that could help. I probably shouldn't have told her.But I did – casually. But then I felt really selfish. One of those things I will play over again and again in my head. Time to move on....
one step at a time.