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I'm very aware of what pneumonia can do to folks over 70. At 82, it's a very risky situation. I tried to call several times but they said she was sleeping. This woman never, ever sleeps during the day. She also has narcolepsy and takes meds specifically to stay awake for a certain number of hours a day. So, having tried calling 4 different times, and each time being told she was sleeping, worries me.
I have watched several loved ones deal with pneumonia in my lifetime so I do realize that it does tire the body and rest is good. I just hope she is making good progress. Not being a relative, I cannot get information. Her brother said he would try to call me tonight and update me on her condition. I will not call him. He's got a job with a responsible position and odd hours, and pets, and other obligations. So, I must be patient. And I must pray.
Meanwhile, this now has me concerned about another friend who is having symptoms that worry me. I pray that if she needs to see a doctor soon, God will whisper in her ear. Waiting just a shade too long can be fatal in pneumonia cases. Lots of folks have made the serious mistake of thinking that's not what is wrong with them.
Anyhow, I am truly worried about the first woman. I suspect that I will need to re-schedule my cataract surgery which currently sits at 1/28. Even if all goes well, I suspect that she will be too weak to drive me over there and hang out in the lobby for several hours and then drive me home. Re-scheduling doesn't bother me. The thought of losing another friend bothers me.
Sweet Lord Jesus, people came to you while you walked the earth, constantly. You helped them all. You continued to help even after you went back to the Father. This woman needs your help, your attention. All we need is for you to glance in her direction, see the need, and if it does not interfere with the Father's plan, help her. Meanwhile, send the grace needed by those who care about her, any that we need, to deal with our concern and worry and fears during her illness.


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Travel with us as we journey through life while driving truck across the United States. Follow our lives and struggles living in tight quarters and being together 24/7.
Friday, November 26, 2010
Our Christmas tree
3 comments:
- eaglespointe said...
tree looks really nice; is that Lucy? did you put lights down in the dashboard?
- November 26, 2010 at 2:52 PM
- fiege2002 said...
you're tree is prett.
- November 30, 2010 at 5:00 PM
- crabtree4194 said...
cute! Mine is a 3' purple pre-lit one! :D
- December 6, 2010 at 1:26 AM
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- Company: Strategic BCP®
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area
- Position Type: Full-Time
- Job Pay Rate: DOE
- Travel Required: Minimum
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As a Senior Business Continuity Consultant at Strategic BCP, we are looking for a motivated professional with a passion and interest in BC, disaster recovery, and related disciplines to join our consulting team in the San Francisco Bay area. You will manage a client in the Retail/Distribution industry and play a leadership role that greatly impacts our growing organization. Strategic BCP was named "leaders" by Gartner three consecutive years for our BCM software and professional services excellence.
Primary duties include:
- Conduct Business Continuity and Crisis Management reviews/audits; develop plans
- Conduct Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and Risk Assessments
- Develop Business Continuity frameworks/strategies
- Manage Disaster Recovery projects
- Build/facilitate/coordinate scenario testing programs
- Coordinate client maintenance programs
- Provide general Risk Management and Business Continuity advice/assistance
- Develop/deliver Business Continuity and Crisis Management training programs
Ideal requirements:
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North American Society for Sport ManagementCall for Papers2011 NASSM ConferenceJune 1-4, 2010 – London, Ontario
NASSM invites individuals to submit a variety of abstract types, including empirical, methodological, conceptual, and teaching related abstracts. Submissions will begin to be accepted on October 1, 2010. Completed research or research in progress is acceptable.
Submission Guidelines: Presentations may be proposed as either:
- A 20-minute oral presentation (including questions)
- A poster
- A 60-minute full session symposium, roundtable, forum, or workshop
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Abstract Format and Submission: All abstracts must be submitted online. Specific instructions for the submission process are posted athttp://www.nassm.com/InfoAbout/Conference/AbstractSubmission. Abstracts must include the following information and conform to the following requirements:
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Cover Shot
I'm not sure if I'm supposed to put this up, (and I will gladly take it down if not, Ms. Nickell) but here is my cover so far. I personally really like it. When I doodle, I always make curlicues and circles, so it fits with my subconscious mind very well. I like how one curlicue becomes a flower--represents a growing, living thing, which any narrative is, and one below looks more like paint splatter--representing (to me), the messy footprint of creativity.
I was told that this image is a bit darker than the colors are actually intended to be in print, but I'm jazzed :)
As my friend Robin Slick said, "Black and white and read all over!" Hope she's right. The book comes out in November, 2007.
Yesterday was a day of feeling very "writerly." I had just secured the second of two very cool interviews with interesting authors for a Writer's Digest feature I'm doing (more to come), when lo, the fellow I'd just set the interview date with, a best-selling author who lives in San Francisco, emailed me to say "Hey, nice review in the Chronicle." I had been waiting for that review to run, and to learn about it in that fashion made me feel ever so credible.
Then I saw my book cover.
Some days it just feels good to be legit.


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This with regard to plant genetic engineering. Creativity fuelled by the developments and discoveries of worldwide scientific research coupled with the easy availability of material and knowledge, when indulged in at 'garage' level, is bound to spawn complex problems in future.
We continue to ignore the fact that plantlife being an easy human target continues to be treated as something abstract. It's time we began to treat and understand plants as a living thing. So much noise about humanity and animals rights by activists, but apart from deforestation vis a vis the environment plants are not understood as much else.
Take note that we are playing, in genetic engineering, with that most important lifeform that feeds humanity and all life on this planet- indirectly if not directly- almost singlehandedly, maintains the balance of the soil- in its natural existence, and helps in maintaining the environmental and ecological balance (and relate this to land, air and water and all living things on this planet). The culture of seeds and plants to increase yield to meet the needs of a growing world population or the fancy of creativity without too many checks and controls, is playing dangerously and callously with the laws of nature, which – accept it you brains out there, look at your daily weather forecasts and rate yourselves honestly for a change- we dare not pretend to know too much about and especially with regard to plantlife since THAT is one form of life which despite it's cardinal importance does not draw too much attention as plants do not bleed or scream their pain.
All seeds and plants are in their current state of being through eons of development and change in their genes, in their shape and form and nature. Nature has its way of doing away with those that would interfere or go against it's laws or against the very existence of its vast system. That the plants and seeds of today have undergone that ruthless test and survived/ been allowed to survive speaks volumes of their value to the this good earth. To change them with the limited knowledge we have for experiments' sake or the needs of today or to engineer new breeds must be done only if need be and that with caution. A new drive is the need of the day to make aware the world of the importance of plantlife and need also of renewed endevour to learn more of plants and their importance in this our system.


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I dreamed I was visiting my mother, and she was complaining about something while she cooked toast in a skillet. It looked nasty because she was using so much cooking oil. I kind of got tired of listening to her and decided to go for a walk. About that same time I saw a young girl seated on one of the other kitchen stools, and she rose from a stool and followed me. I was very happy to see her and said something to that effect, that I 'd always wanted to know something about her. She never spoke, but suddenly she changed into a large yellow and black butterfly. When I say large, I mean about a foot long wingspan or more. Then the sky turned to night, and she, the butterfly, turned into a bluish white orb of light. She flew into the sky, and the orb of light grew bigger and brighter until nearly all I could see before me was the almost-blinding orb. In the far right corner of my field of vision, I saw my guardian angel run to my right. She was a child once again. But the big orb of bluish-white light remained in the night sky.
I don't believe that she, the small orb of light, grew bigger. I believe that the arrival of Michael the Archangel was the reason for the larger glowing orb.
I haven't received full enlightenment regarding this dream from the Holy Spirit yet. That is my interpretation, but I'll have to wait for affirmation.
I think God is also trying to say my mother should be eating healthier. ;)


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Dec 12 2015
Climate change, the fiction truth forgot
Paris could well be seen as a redistribution centre for the wealth of the developed world that is if there is any wealth left….. Is it politically incorrect to deal a spade with a spade?
Saturday, 12 December 2015
The developing world claiming the current global climate change debate is all as a result of the west due to the allegation they have polluted the entire globe – and in that act created climate change.
The fact the earth is a planet that rotates on an axis and moves around the sun at revolutions that are not strictly circular and that the sun has other object rotating around it at irregular orbits speeds and distances and the Solar Systems as it is called revolves inside the Milky Way galaxy and the Milky Way galaxy revolves around millions of other galaxies in the universe and our universe possible revolves around and side by side many other universes……..and so on.
This proves we never had a time when the earth is ever in the same place with the same gravitational forces bearing down on its surface at all….
In addition with a few volcanoes erupting every year and the sun heat transmitted at never the same temperature we are probably at the short and of the straw as to whether anything at all little old man does ever is big enough to impact in a powerful enough way to affect the earth's temperature. Or does this mean man affected the earth so much that even the dinosaurs were sent off to extinction? We know that was all of its own doing as the fact is man was not even around YET. But we would have been blamed if we were around.
Ideology have turned the climate and animal extinction and the earth's garden of Eden image a vehicle for wealth distribution and socialistic ideology under a green cloak of fear mongering of the ignorant.
Whatever happened to Darwin's theory where animals died out when they no longer adapted to change or their evolutionary road was culdesacked? Now it the species or sub species that does not remain robust and perpetual is immediately due to mans unreasonable activity.
If on the other hand it is determined s species can be assisted the people are not asked if they are prepared to allocate the vast human and financial resources to be dedicated to the saving of one species verses another or that the survival of that species is turned down by the people. It is not even placed before people, the allocation is done without any reference to the choice or decision of the people who owns the resources.
The green fanatics spend more money and resources on animal care than human needs. Whale harvesting is an example. Millions of lambs are eaten each year, but whales – even those not endangered are for some reason not permitted to be plated.
The fact is just like the dinosaurs and millions of other species they pass with time into history and failure to accept that will doom man own survival.
Further mans domination of the planet is a marvel and his survival needs should always receive priority over the other species not with abuse and not without regard for sustainability but with commonsense.
Man could never have become the incredibly impressive species he has, if he, mankind, had not made amazing decision down through history, in hindsight. With political correctness prevailing today, man would have avoided those difficult decisions, and in so doing, destroyed mans potential.
Mans very survival and his many contributions far out way any damage on the sojourn…… As man prepares for the next move not across the Nation or the ocean but the entire solar system it is all due to his incredible journey to date and his initial decision to stop swinging through the trees and dare to take up the challenge – the ongoing mystery of being different.
It would be an advantage to think if the planet is entering a crises period in regard o temperature changes then all of mankind should pull together not one group exploit another.
It is a well known fact in a disaster all mankind moves to assist one another, except the Arab nations for some reason the wealthy Arab nations refuse to open their arms to generosity and remain aloof from that aspect of humanity especially in their own region. This subject requires being addressed.
Even if involvement is difficult for whatever reason then why not financial assistance of equitable amounts.
Why is it the far reaches of the world must come to resolve issues on the Arab door step….Shape up you Middle Eastern Nations you understand these problems more than anyone else – then do something. The world looks on shocked at the silence in the midst of the ongoing savagery across the entire region….and it just goes on.
If the Arab world wants to be recognised as being civilised then show the world you can act civilised and clean up the mess…….to have others have to do it for you is shameful.
Finally, from Afghanistan right through to Morocco, it is a human cess pool of blood and misery – why?
That has been an historic problem right back to the British Empire methods of problem solving – not the best solutions at all. Usually ending up in a mess.
Cannot the Arab nations sit down and in an adult manner do something to fix it. If not it just leaves a huge advertisement of those Nations inability to be civilised and manage their problems accordingly.
It is hanging your dirty linen out for all to see……and quite frankly that is not a good sight. The end result, outsiders have to come and clean up the mess. They unfortunately do not know it as well as you and subsequently will mess the solution up.
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Life expectancies have risen in many countries around the world thanks to breakthroughs in medical treatment and sanitation in the last century.The maximum age of death has also increased. But as these numbers continue to rise, it raises the question as to how long can people live?
ABC News reports: The record for the world's oldest person is 122 years and the odds of shattering that record are slim, according to an analysis published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
In the new study, researchers [at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York] analyzed mortality data from a global database.
They found that while there have been strides in reducing deaths among certain groups -- children, women during childbirth and the elderly -- the rate of improvement was slower for the very old, those over 100 years old.
Next they examined how old centenarians were when they died.
The record holder is Jeanne Calment, of France, who lived until 122 years old. Since her death in 1997, no one has broken her record.
The researchers calculated the odds of someone reaching 125 years in a given year are less than 1 in 10,000.
They think the human life span more likely maxes out at 115 years.
Some aging specialists said the study doesn't take into account advances that have been made in extending the life span -- and health -- of certain laboratory animals including mice, worms and flies through genetic manipulation and other techniques.
The goal is to eventually find treatments that might slow the aging process in humans and keep them healthier longer.
The person in the Bible who lived the longest was Methuselah who in Genesis 5:27 is said to have lived to an astounding 969 years old, although, that was still only a few more years than Jared who lived to 962 (Genesis 5:20).
In Genesis 6:1-3 the Bible says that mankind's life is (without godly intervention) 120 years, but Psalm 90:10 says that Human life proceeds to 70 years old, or "even" through strength to 80.
The Bible, especially in Genesis, describes many people living for hundreds and hundreds of years, although, rarely is there any detail to flesh out what those people done for all that time - their lists of wives and children are comparable to other people who lived normally long lives.
Later books of the Bible make some assertions as to what allows people to live longer; Proverbs 9:10-11 and 10:27 say that fearing God prolongs life, and Exodus 20:12 says the same of honouring your father and mother.
It is worth noting that Adam, who was the first human being, according to Genesis, lived for 930 years (Gen. 5:5) even though God said anyone who ate the apple would die the same day (Gen. 2:17).
Some argue that this means die spiritually, but it seems that to make this argument you have to believe that Adam and Eve are in hell, or at least, not in heaven.
If they are in heaven, and, they lived for hundreds of years after eating the apple, it is quite untrue to say that they died on the day of their scrumping adventure.
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In Genesis 6:3 God limits man's life span to 120
And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Some see this as evidence that indeed men had lived much longer lives prior to God saying how long men would live after His statement in Genesis 6:3.
Here are just a few links to some reported agenarians:
Now anyone and everyone can live eternally after they die.
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
2 Peter 3:9
John 11:25
And having brought them out, he was saying, "Sirs, what is necessary of me to do, that I may be saved?"
Acts 16:30
They answered, "Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you and your family will be saved."
Acts 16:31
If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Romans 10:9
Believe means to think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in; of the thing believed, to credit, have confidence in.
"Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me." Matthew 16:24
"Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me." Matthew 19:21
"My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:" John 10:27
"If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour." John 12:26
"Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works." James 2:18
"And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." John 3:14-15, 18
"Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture." John 10:7, 9
"Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him." Romans 5:9
"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." Ephesians 2:8-10
"That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory." Ephesians 1:12-13
When we really believe in something or someone we will commit to that person or thing whether it is our spouse, our job, our hobby, etc.
Believing on Jesus is more than acknowledgment. If we really believe, we will commit. Once we have shown Him true belief, He does the rest as shown here:
"…Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." Acts 16:31
We truly believe. He saves.
"In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise," Ephesians 1:13
We heard and trusted. Jesus saved. The Holy Spirit sealed.
"Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:" Philippians 1:6
From the point of our salvation, the Holy Spirit will continue His work in us until the day we with are with Jesus in Glory.
"And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption." Ephesians 4:30
When we sin, we grieve the Holy Spirit because we are now a child of God.
We have been bought with a price and belong to Him.
We have the seal of God upon us and will always be His, but He will now discipline us when we disobey to restore our fellowship … not "salvation," but "fellowship."
"So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." Isaiah 55:11
Once we have proclaimed true faith in Jesus, we have the promise that we are His, and we are His forever.


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(I write this for your birthday, its kind of a present from me, so....don't get angry , OK....)
1.He is an Exercise Junkie : meaning if he doesn't exercise he get EMOTIONAL. Exercise got the same effect for him like girls with shopping.and don't try to stop him from exercising...its not a pretty idea, and yes it WILL get personal
Mr.Bf exercising
2.He LOVES frowning. When he thinks, he frowns, when he angry he frowns, when he confuse, he frowns.
3.He hates karaoke. actually i think i know why, deep down he wants to be a singer but maybe being a singer is not manly enough so he rather be a wrestler.
4.He likes vibrant colors, concern about his looks, wants people to think he's cool and likes to be popular especially with girls.
5.He get bored easily but enjoy good conversation. Appreciates art, hates pollution and loves dancing.
6. He has these weird looking feet that always give him back ache when he wear wrong shoes.
With all his kind of attitudes, he is extremely charming guy that is fun to be with, and with him I always feel special. i am not done with my discovery on him, but i'm not worried because I decided to have my rather whole life finding out!


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BBC News comes off the rails
I'm a little sad to see that BBC News won't be on those giant screens at railway stations any more. I created the little widget and process the online newsroom uses to snatch the video and insert it into the wysiwyg Flash publishing application created by the marvellous John Kossman.
Now what would be smart is for the Transvision people to team up with whoever it is which does those gimmicky bluetooth posters. Don't just advertise Sky News, beam the news to your mobile device so you can read it, or watch it on your way home!


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Family Day: Food Science Spectacular
You all asked for it, so here it is! We are very excited to be hosting our first every drop-in day at Action Potential Lab. This Family Day (Monday, February 16th) come by the Lab between 10 AM and 3 PM for a Food Science Spectacular! We will have stations set-up with amazing experiments and activities that will spark your imagination no matter your age—make your own "gushers" candy, turn on a light with a lemon, and more! Whether you're a familiar face or new to the lab, we can't wait to have the most awesome Family Day ever with you.
To make the day even more special, we will be partnering with our neighbourhood food bank, The Stop and accepting non-perishable donations.
Bonus: As a special treat to all Food Science Spectacular attendees, we will be offering a discount on that day only for our March Break Camp registrations.
Food Science activities include:
- Make-Your-Own Gushers
- Fruit and Veggie powered batteries
- Glow-in-the-Dark Jell-O
- + lots more!
$5 per child
material fee
Monday, February 16, 2015
10 am - 3 pm
Age Groups
all ages
Parents must accompany their children to this event. It is not a drop-off event.
Feel free to email us with any questions. We'll be in touch within 1-2 business days with a confirmation and a response.


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Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Paper and Such Inspiration
Today's card is for the Paper and Such Inspiration challenge. I couldn't sleep last night so I finally got up and stamped. So, this is one of those 1 am creations. I also used the CAS sketch this week as inspiration. As usual with my inspiration type cards, the card is very literal to the picture. I used the colors and the subject of the picture (ribbon and buttons). You can see the picture below. This is an easy peasy card, but I like it's simplicuty. I stamped off the flower before stampin on the main panel. I stamped the sentiment in Tangelo, which ended up being a bit too orange, but I was afraid it wouldn't show up if I stamped it off as well. I'm hoping to get another card made for this challenge just as soon as I get my order with the brand new stamps from the Paper and Such stamp line!!.. I can't wait.
Thanks for stopping by today.
Stamps: Whimisical Wishes (Gina K Designs)
Paper: Pure Luxury Moonlit Fog and Ivory
Ink: Memento London Fog and Tangelo
Accessories: Ribbon, twine, buttons
5 comments:
- MindyYoung said...
Looks good for a 1am card :)
- July 12, 2011 at 7:10 PM
- inkstazonme said...
Love it! I couldn't sleep last night either. Should have called you and we could have stamped together! : )
- July 12, 2011 at 7:33 PM
- Julie said...
Best time to make cards!!! Love this Alison! Thanks for playing along with us!
- July 12, 2011 at 7:44 PM
- Janice M said...
Seems I'm most creative late at night. Great CAS card Alison! Thanks for playing along.
- July 13, 2011 at 2:04 PM
- Kim O'Connell said...
Night owl stamping - LOVE IT! Nice done! Such a delicate looking card! Thanks for joining us for the Paper and Such challenge!
- July 14, 2011 at 6:46 PM
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About Us
Weaving the textile success story
            From a small wholesale textile shop in 1955 to a textile empire in 2010, Seemas has come a long way over the years. It was a journey extra-ordinary. Unlike the other textile majors that built their business out of big cities, Seemas had always identified smalller cities as there stronghole. It is the same audacity that lead to the opening of the 1.5 lacs Sq. Ft showroom in Thodupuzha in March 2010.
Seemas Wedding Collections was established by Mr. KA Pareeth as a wholesale textile showroom on A.M. Road, Perumbavoor in 1955. Counting on the expertise gained for wholesale, Seemas ventured into retail in 1975 by opening a showroom near Juma Masjid, Perumbavoor. In 1980,the showroom was shifted to their own shopping complex in Grand Estate Bulding on AM. Road
Seemas embarked on a expansion drive in 1985 by opening a showroom in Angamaly. In 2004, the alwaye showroom was unveiled, making Seemas one of the leading textile chains. A 1.5lac Sq. Ft showroom in 5 floors was opened in 2010 in the high-range town of Thodupuzha. Seemas is planning to open new showrooms in Calicut and Alleppey in near future.
Core Values
1. Commitment to Quality
We are committed to setting new standards in quality. We uphold the fine values of custimer satifaction by strictly adhering to quality
2. Exceeding Expectation
We Strice to exceed our customers expecations in whatever we do
3. Growing on Trust
It's The trust of millions of customers that made us what we are today. We will strive to ensure that the mutual trust is never broken
4. Leading By Innovation
We have always adapted ourselfs to the market changes and bought in innovative concepts to make the customers life more exciting
Tales of success in Retail
Seemas Perumbavoor
Spread over 50,000 Sq.Ft of shopping space, the showroom in Perumbavoor is where the success journey started off.
Seemas Aluva
The showroom features as exquisit collection of gents wear, ladies wear, kids wear and had frown to become the favourate shopping destination of wedding silks.
Seemas, Angamaly
The second showroom in Seemas Chain opened in 1985, Seemas - Angamaly is spread over 50,000 Sq.Ft of retail space and caters to the discerning customers od Angamali and its neighbouring places.
Seemas, Thodupuzha
The biggest and the latest showroom in the Seemas Chain, Seemas-Thodupuzha has a retail space of whopping 1.5 lacs, in 5 floors. Each floors feature unique collections. catering to gents, ladies, kids and an enthralling wedding range.
The Trendsetters
Innovation has been a watchword at Seemas. The showroom chain consistently adapts themselves to the latest trends and introduces new retail concepts. Every three months, the showrooms conduct a unique festival of special colelctions. Promotions like KArkidaka Kizhivu, Mangalya Melam, Jaipur Mela and exclusive collections like Jahanara, Mix n' Match, Catalogue Collections etc. were well-accepted by customres. We always see to it that our customers get to enjoy the best selection.


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Monday, July 27, 2009
Something is wrong with me....
After I had my daughter in 2006 I immediately began having a series of neurological problems that I had never previously experienced in my life. It began literally two days after the birth- the first symptom was a case of bells palsy, which causes temporary partial paralysis of the face. Thankfully that went away after about a week and a half. Some say that pregnancy can be a cause, so we never looked into it that much as it went away on its own.
A few months later I started noticing little sensations...it first began with my back. I'd always notice, especially in the morning, that it felt like a little piece of tape was stuck to my back when I'd lean over. It would go away in a few minutes. Then, I noticed that my toes would start to tingle (both feet) at random times of the day. Eventually this tingling would make its way to my hands, legs, arms, sometimes even the top of my head. It would last for a few minutes, max. This was occurring on both sides of my body. I also began to notice what felt like raindrops hitting my leg- or the sensation of wetness on my legs when there was nothing there. I went to my family doctor and they did a series of bloodwork tests but all of it came up normal. He didn't feel the need to refer me to a neurologist and told me it was probably all just hormonal and related to the birth (even though at this point I'd given birth almost a year ago). Finally, sometime after a year, my symptoms started to slow down and almost completely go away. But, then I noticed a new symptom. Suddenly I had a huge amount of eye floaters. I mean, I went from having absolutely no floaters to a TON in both eyes within a week. I also noticed that in a dark room, when I moved my eyes I'd see flashes of light. I wasn't convinced that these new symptoms were related to all the tingling, so I just went to the eye doctor. All tests were normal. Optic nerve looked good. Which was what I was worried about because at this point, after hours of searching online, I had already diagnosed myself with multiple sclerosis. Because my eye doc couldn't find a reason for these flashes, he referred me to a retinal specialist. I went, and, as always, tests came back normal. So I was left to believe that this was all in my head. Well, eventually I started seeing just random flashes of light even without eye movement. And my other symptoms just hadn't gone away- so I booked myself an appointment with a local neurologist. I really did just look one up in a phonebook out of desperation. So I went and he did a few tests on me but basically told me he didn't think it was multiple sclerosis or a brain tumor (great) but he thought he'd order up an MRI just in case. Well, after leaving his office I felt a lot better so I went ahead and canceled the MRI- I just felt like we couldn't afford it and after his reassurance I figured it would all just go away.
Well, the floaters never went away and I got used to the occasional flashes. My tingling had almost completely stopped. I figured it was all hormonal, especially after looking up all these other people online with almost identical symptoms. They had all gotten MRI's and all of those MRI's had come up clear and they were just on a rabbit trail, desperate to find a diagnosis. Well, I hate doctors and tests, etc. I wasn't that desperate for a diagnosis. Plus my symptoms seemed to be fading...I figured that everything was fine.
So I got pregnant again when my daughter was 21 months. I had a perfectly healthy pregnancy and a natural birth. My tingling got a little worse when pregnant so I figured it was definitely hormonal and didn't give it much thought. After he was born , I didn't get bells palsy. Everything went beautifully.
The past 10 months I've often worried and thought maybe I should have gotten that MRI. But I prayed to God and said, God, if you want me to get further testing done you are going to have to give me a symptom that I just cannot ignore.
Well, a few days ago, that symptom came. On Saturday, I noticed that when I blinked I saw a perfect little oval shaped ball of light. It was like what you see after looking at a lightbulb for too long. So I figured that must be what it was. So I just waited for it to go away.
Well, it never did. I eventually noticed that this little flash happened mainly when I blinked or sometimes on upgaze. But the thing that really bothered me was- I couldn't see through it. It's like a blindspot in my vision. Thankfully, it is only in one eye. I can never focus on it directly.
I praise God that he was kind enough to give me a symptom that I cannot ignore- but it's a symptom that I can handle. So I made up my mind - I was going to go back to the doctors and try to figure out what I'm dealing with. But where in the world would I go? I knew nothing about neurologists and I had a sneaking suspicion that the last one I had gone to was a bit of a quack.
So we went to church yesterday. I sang, hoping for a healing. It was hard to get my heart into worship. I felt alone and scared. I didn't understand why it was all happening to me. I have two beautiful kids that need me. What if this blind spot gets bigger?? What if I get more of them? I couldn't stop crying. At the end of worship someone got up and said they felt like there were people in the church that were finding it hard to worship God- but God wanted us to know that a time would come where we would truly be able to worship and with our whole heart believe and confess that God is great and he DOES work for the good of those who love him. Obviously, that person he was speaking to was me. I could just feel it.
After the service was over I was desperate to get prayed over. Me, my husband and my two little kids stalked the pastor until I finally just shouted "Pastor Bill!" and got his attention. I told him I desperately needed prayer. He immediately got his wife over to me. She took me aside and I broke down in tears.
I told her I was afraid I had something like multiple sclerosis and I was so scared. She looked at me and said, "I know exactly how you feel." She went on to tell me that she'd had very similar symptoms to mine for years and she'd been to neurologist after neurologist and they diagnosed her with everything under the sun because they couldn't figure out what was wrong with her. She was diagnosed with everything from clinical depression to Multiple Sclerosis. Finally, she went to a new neurologist at UNC. She was diagnosed with B-12 deficiency and she now takes shots and her symptoms went away completely. She was able to refer me to that neurologist and pray for me.
When I'm done writing this blog post, I am calling that doctor and scheduling an appointment. I am scared to death. I don't know if anyone reads this, but if you do, please pray for me. Thank you.
3 comments:
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2009 at 7:43 AM
I am praying for you D, am getting others to pray as well. Please please please keep me updated! love you!! AnjieReplyDelete
Hi D, just wanted to know a common friend (spicyburrito) sent me this link and told me to pray for you. And so I shall...ReplyDelete
And God is awesome. 8 years ago I had a phantom spot that showed up in my brain's CT scan... after much prayer and more (very expensive) tests, it just disappeared one day. Just wanted you to know that I have an idea what it's like to be scared. But God is bigger than the bogeyman and gozilla and the monsters on tv and all our other fears... So keep the faith, dear sister, and keep your eyes on the Author and Perfector of our faith.
Much love to you and your family.
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2009 at 3:21 AM
I am praying for your healing. We claim this in Jesus' mighty name. By the stripes on the cross, you are healed.ReplyDelete
I saw a video of Nadir Sadiki. Powerful testimony. Look him up. He was in the hospital, critical condition. The doctors gave up on him. He called out to God. He was miraculously healed. Similar thing happened to his wife. She had MS...one day, she just got healed. They have a huge congregation in the United States. Anyone who is believing for healing should watch their testimony. Amazing.
Also, look up Jerry Savelle. He has a couple books in National Bookstore. He wrote: "If Satan Can't Steal Your Dreams, He Can't Control Your Destiny"--there's another powerful healing story in this book that happened with his daughter.
Hold strong. Run the race to win. Christ is victorious.


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Bhavana means contemplating the attributes of the Buddha and practicing tranquility or insight meditation. The practice of meditation is more beneficial than the performance of charitable acts or the observance of moral precepts. It is necessary to have a calm and tranquil mind to practice meditation, because it is cultivated through mental action. This time of the Buddha Sasana is the opportune time for all human beings to contemplate the attributes of the Buddha (Buddhanussati Bhavana) and cultivate loving-kindness (Metta Bhavana). It is of great benefit to practice tranquility meditation (Samatha Bhavana) and insight meditation (Vipassana Bhavana). Only at the time when the Buddha's Teaching flourishes do the people have the chance to contemplate the three characteristics of impermanence (Anicca), suffering (Dukkha) and unsubstantiality of sentient beings (Anatta). The practice of meditation (Bhavana) even for a short time can bear more benefits than practicing Dana and Sila for a long time. Therefore, everyone should practice tranquility meditation (Samatha Bhavana) as well as insight meditation (Vipassana Bhavana) to gain great merit and to make his life worthwhile.
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Strict imposition of IP laws for branding Bangladesh
Md. Joynal Abdin
The Financial Express on July 06, 2010
Bangladesh earns a significant amount of foreign exchange by exporting Readymade Garments (RMG) to the west with brand name of Wal-Mart, Mark & Spencer, Nike and many more. This is because we are doing a nominal task of stitching. As a result these products are sold as buyers' brands. On the other hand Bangladesh is an SME dominating economy. Our SME's are producing a wide variety of products in different important sectors like, light engineering, plastic and rubber, ceramics and glassware, electrical and electronics, leather and leather goods, cosmetics & toiletries, handicrafts and many more items. But most of the cases businesses operate without any formal registration even without a registered trademark. Some SMEs are producing world class goods but in absence of a registered trademark these products are not getting brand status. At the same time as the products or manufacturing processes are not patented so these are copied by their competitors and product quality reduces.
Many companies start with a good opening but lose market share due to unfair competition and copying. As a result brand image is not being building up in SME sector. Trademark is essential for every business entity. Our light engineering sector is producing world class parts, machineries and appliances, but not a single firm has got brand image in the market. Many Bangladeshi companies' products are deprived of their expected goodwill at home and abroad. So, the government, especially the SME Foundation, will have to take the lead to create awareness among the SMEs for registering trademark and marketing products with their own trademark to establish brand image. Leather and leather goods are earning a significant amount of foreign currency. But if we exclude Apex, Jenny's then what are the names you can remember? We must come out of this mentality if we really would like to brand Bangladesh. Strong imposition of IP laws is also necessary to stop piracy of IP rights. It will help promote branding. Other than Keya, Tibet, and Aromatic thousands of cosmetic companies are producing cosmetic in Bangladesh. Some of these are producing really quality products but marketing with a foreign pirated brand name. If this is the scenario how we can expect a branded cosmetic company in Bangladesh. The government should take a lead in building awareness among the entrepreneurs that whatever you produce you must have to market it with registered trademark so that local quality products can get brand image at home and abroad.
The government should ensure proper enforcement of IP law (trademark, industrial design, patent, copyright, and trade secrete) to create a competitive environment. A significant amount of handicraft and gift items are being exported every year, perhaps without brand name. Azad products and some others have started their journey in this sector but with very limited product coverage. But, what is about others exporting handicrafts and gift items? This is not the scenario of the stated sectors only. They are producing finest goods but not aware of having a self trademark for building up own brands. SME Foundation can take a lead in awareness creation among the SME owners in different sector about basic issues of IPR and strong imposition of IP laws for branding Bangladesh at home and abroad.


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The Sea Ice Extent graphs I publish here graph the average SIE for each month. In early April I will publish the one that shows the average SIE for March (the month of maximum winter ice coverage) compared to previous March averages since the satellite era began in 1979. This chart compares the absolute maximum SIE on the day it topped out, compared to other high ice maxes since 1979. Either way, in March, as in every other month of the year, the trend is for the ice to disappear. Its not quite as extreme an effect in winter as it is in summer. The winter SIE ice loss has been about 13% in the last 40 years. The summer losses have been about 13% per decade.
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by Ron Clark
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Quick Summary:
Ron Clark was a teacher who established 55 'essential' rules in his classroom that his students needed to follow. Some are trivial, but most teach character and positive social interactions. In his book, he takes you through each rule, telling entertaining stories along the way.
Why I love this book:
This book appeals to the wanna-be SuperTeacher in me! Ron won Teacher of the Year award and for good reason- he has a great heart for his kids and a love for challenging them to dream big and achieve great goals.
Ron's book inspired me to start the R.A.K Club (Random Acts of Kindness Club) in my classroom. Read more about our R.A.K Club here.
by The Mailbox
Click here for Grades 3-4, K-1, and Preschool.
Why I love this book:
This book has a TON (well, 500 if you want specific numbers) of ideas for how to better organize and manage your classroom. Each tip is accompanied by a simple illustration and explains how to implement it in a clear and concise way. Seriously you guys, this stuff is awesome.
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On Monday, Twitter announced that it's users can now opt in to a Weekly Email Digest that highlights the 'most relevant Tweets and stories shared by the people you're connected with on Twitter.'
The email will feature a format that is similar to Twitter's Discover tab on it mobile apps and users can click on headlines to read the full story.
You will be also able to tweet a reply directly from the email. 'This new email digest also features the most engaging Tweets seen by the people you follow, even if you don't follow those who wrote them,' Twitter explained this in the blog post. "You can see who from your network retweeted or favourited these Tweets and click "View details" to retweet, favourite, reply or view the conversation around them.'
This feature is
rolling out to everyone in the coming weeks and can be enabled from the Notifications Settings page.
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If you haven't heard, Microsoft is reversing its policies on the 24 hour check in necessary for the XBox One. In the statement, they say that they will, of course, also have to scrap the great things they had plan that needed that connection, including the family plan that would let you share games between 10 family members. Oh no! A great thing is being taken away by nasty, angry internet posters!!!
Ok folks, let's clear away some bullshit here. Microsoft was NEVER going to allow you to share one game among ten people. Never, ever. Do you really think their developers and publishers were going to be ok with the system potentially cutting their revenue by up to 90%? Hell no. They want all ten people to buy the game. They honestly can't afford for you to share games! That's why they hate the used game market in the first place! So sorry, Microsoft, you made a bullshit promise with that family plan and thought people would buy into it as the benefit for what was really just shitty DRM.
But wasn't the push to digital sales going to drop the price of games like it does with Steam? Fuck no it wasn't. They were still going to sell you the same game you could buy at the Gamestop down the street for the same goddamned price – $59.99, digital or disc. They're "great sales" would have amounted to no better than buying a used game. They were not going to start dropping game prices to $5 or $10, or drop new game prices for digital by $10-$20. Why? Because again, the publishers would literally leave. They are already finding it hard to recoup the huge development and marketing budgets for their games – do you really think they want to sell them for less than they do now? Again, digital and "cloud based games" was all about DRM and doing shitty things like pushing stealth advertising into your games.
But, but, the cloud! The future is digital! Yeah, maybe in twenty years when the cable companies get off they fucking asses and replace the shitty networks we have today. I have Time Warner second tier high speed internet…I am lucky to get 15 Mbs. Downloading a game on my 360? They average 6.5 gigs, which should only take about 20 minutes to download, but have never taken less than two hours. Why? Because my download speed isn't the problem – Microsoft's shitty servers can't handle the traffic, never could, and I have zero reason to believe they will in the future. I'm sure the assholes sitting in Redmond beta testing right off the goddamned server get great throughput. Have them come to my house, which is in the middle of a typical US city, and see how fucking long a game takes to load. Which was another giant coffin nail in that pie-in-the-sky family plan, by the way. Digital is simply NOT BETTER when it comes to transferring large amounts of data to a hard drive.
Ok, but wait, what about not having to disc swap? Yeah, there's ZERO reason they couldn't keep that feature. Download your game to the XBox One and you agree to lose the right to sell the disc, and there you go, no disc swapping. Or base the DRM on having the main game disc in and allow the extra to be loaded separately. Or if the fucking cloud is so fucking glorious, why would any game NEED a second disc?
Anyway, as you can probably tell, I'm still a titch pissed at Microsoft. To be honest, they have fucked up so hard lately with Windows 8 and now this that I don't know if they're trying to ruin their company. They need to fire Don Mattrick from XBox posthaste, and never let him near a microphone again. He single handedly dropped Microsoft share prices by at least a few percent last week. You know, I love my PS1 and my PS2. I was lured to the 360 by things like Mass Effect (which went into fail mode with the ending to 3) and the prohibitive cost of the PS3, but now…man, Microsoft, you've stopped pissing on my head and telling me it's raining, but you still haven't given me a reason to buy your box, which is less powerful than the PS4 and costs $100 more with a creepy always on camera. Seriously, no one fucking cares about the Kinect, assholes.
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Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)
Metal ions exist as solvated complexes in aprotic donor solvents such as dimethylformamide (DMF), dimethylacetamide (DMA), and hexamethylphosphoric triamide (HMPA). The coordination structure and intramolecular interactions of the solvated metal complexes are largely different from those of hydrated metal complexes, and the difference play a key role in thermodynamic and kinetic complexation aspects in these aprotic solvents. In the present study, we particularly focused our attention on solvation steric effects in some aprotic donor solvents. As kinetic aspects on metal complexation in nonaqueous solution have not been revealed yet, we newly introduced a stopped-flow spectrophotometer, and kinetic analyzes have been carried out for the Ni-Cl-bpy systems for which precise thermodynamic analyzes have been accomplished.It is found that in DMF the rate of formation of the tris-bipyridine nickel (II) complex is reduced when chloride ions coexist in solution. In the Ni-Cl-bpy ternary system
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, the [NiCl (bpy)_2]^+ and [NiCl_2bpy_2] complexes are significantly formed and the pass through these complexes was found to be slow compared to the pass through [NiCl (bpy)_2]^<2+>, suggesting a presence of a specific interaction within the intermediate [NiCl (bpy)_3]^+, in which one bpy coordinates as monodentate. Solvation steric effect exhibited a strong relationship to the ionic radius of metal ions. Halogeno complexation of beryllium, aluminum, cadmium and manganese ions were examined in DMF and DMA,and their thermodynamic parameters were compared. The four-coordinated small beryllium ion show no appreciable steric effect. One the other hand, relatively large and six-coordinated cadmium ion exhibits a significant steric effect. Even larger lanthanide ions show also significant steric efffect, and it is indicated by EXAFS that the coordination number in DMA is reduced by one compared with that in DMF.It is also indicated by ^<89>Y NMR that in DMF-DMA mixtures, the coordination number reduced gradually with increasing DMA content. Less
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hunterthegreat99 wrote:I have been trying many times to defeat the Iron Golem in the Golem Tower and I never succed! I am beginning to to become very aggervated. My heath is currently at 1,012 and mana is 106. I have tried to heal myself once or twice every round but the third round is what gets me.Does anyone have any pointers?
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011
No Name
12 comments:
- Dr Sonia S V said...
Claire do get well soon.The flowers are adorable.Even the fairy looks like a flower!
- July 6, 2011 at 12:25 PM
- Shannah said...
This is so sweet! I'm glad I came over from Make it Monday for a closer look!
- July 6, 2011 at 1:16 PM
- Dr Sonia S V said...
Claire again Dropped in seeing your card on MIM
Do chose a name for the little fairy!
Cheers from Bangalore ,India
Dr Sonia S V
- July 6, 2011 at 2:11 PM
- Martha said...
its just too cute!!
thanks for joining us at clear It Out
- July 6, 2011 at 5:27 PM
- Jill said...
Brilliant with the fairy in the middle, sweet image
Thanks for playing along at Allsorts this week and good luck!
Big hugs
- July 6, 2011 at 6:05 PM
- Angie said...
Wonderful card and wow to carry on crafting even when your poorly what a trooper. Thanks for joining us at papertake weekly
Angie x
- July 6, 2011 at 6:48 PM
- Debs said...
Super girly card.
Thanks for playing Free & Easy with us at Allsorts this week.
Good luck.
Debs xx
- July 6, 2011 at 8:16 PM
- misteejay said...
BIG (((hugs))) and hope you are feeling better - thank you for your lovely thoughtful comment.
Cutie of a card Claire and the flowers are lovely.
Toni xx
- July 7, 2011 at 7:05 AM
- Chrissy said...
You poor thing feeling so awful, take care.
Lovely card, the flowers are very cute.
Thanks for sharing with us at 'Make it Monday'
Luv CHRISSYxx
Don't forget. .if you leave a comment on another entrant, mention that you saw their card on 'Make it Monday' for a chance at second prize.. the more you comment on and mention MIM, the more chances at winning second prize.
- July 7, 2011 at 10:07 AM
- The Crystal Elephant said...
Very sweet card. I hope you feel better soon. I saw your link on MIM xx
- July 7, 2011 at 12:11 PM
- Mary J said...
OH Claire - sorry to hear you are not feeling well - hope you are better soon!
A gorgeous make - your flowers and colour combo are just lovely!
Thank you for sharing with us at Make It Monday!
Mary J x
- July 8, 2011 at 5:20 PM
- scotspanda said...
what a sweet card
thanks for joining in with our free and easy theme this week at Allsorts
Amanda xx
- July 8, 2011 at 8:44 PM
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Successful people are simply those with successful habits. – Brian Tracy
Your success as a leader is tied to your habits. Leadership successes are not the sum of random acts but rather the sum of consistent habits. Success with your clients, customers, employees or any other endeavor are proportional to your ability to identify the habits you need to develop, the discipline to carry them out, and the flexibility to adjust them as needed. What habits do you need in place to achieve the success you desire? When you work your habits you will soon begin to realize more success. Successful habits are the cornerstones of your success. When you build with confidence and consistency you are on the way up.


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Well, here we are on the eve of the race! Where did the time go?
All of the training and preparation, the early mornings, the miles and miles done in all weathers have brought you to this point and it will all have been worth it.
Now is the time to finalise your preparations and to relax as much as possible. You won't sleep well tonight as the anticipation sends your mind racing however, it is not the sleep you get on the night prior to a race which is important (it is never fitfull), but rather the sleeps on the two or three preceeding nights which count. You were much more relaxed at that point and will have slept better than you will tonight.
The forecast is for a hot day so it will be important to increase your fluid intake to compensate for fluid loss due to the conditions. Equally important is drinking the correct fluids i.e. not simply water. Mix it up with isotonic drinks, tea, coke, fruit juices and if required, Dioralyte. This is great for replacing minerals lost due to excessive perspiration but on the down side, it tastes pants. Whatever you fancy really or can get your hands on but the golden rule is to keep hydrated! Remember: if you feel thirsty, its too late and you are already on the road to dehydration.
Ideally, today should be spent hydrating by drinking lots of fluids. Most will pass through but your body will retain what it needs. Do the pinch test on the back of your hand to give a rough guide to how hydrated you actually are. This is a rule of thumb really because younger people have better elasticity in their skin than older people so results will vary. However, the premise is that when pinched, the quicker the skin falls back to its normal position, the better hydrated you are. If it snaps back, chances are you are good to go. If it sinks down slowly, seek out a tap.
One of the problems with drinking lots of fluids to combat dehydration is that it can fill your stomach which in turn tells your brain it is full and your brain then declares that you are not hungry and so you don't eat anything. It is important to realise that this may happen and to be aware of it and ensure you do eat otherwise you will rapidly run out of energy.
Weather like that forecast makes what is already a difficult task somewhat more challenging. The 2010 race saw similar weather and a lot of entrants suffered in the heat especially going up the Sloc in what would have been the hottest part of the day.
Should push come to shove and you feel like you can't continue, take 10 or 15 minutes out sitting in the back of your support vehicle and use the time to eat, drink, change clothing and re-apply sun screen. I can guarantee that you will feel like a new person at the end of this period and you will be able to carry on in a much better frame of mind.
I can also state with conviction that if you do give up before you reach your goal, that by the time you get home you will feel ok and will wish you had carried on.
I hope you do well tomorrow and that you reach your intended targets. The only person who can stop you getting there is you.
Good luck and good walking!


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What You Need to Know about Leff Watches
When you see a Leff watch, the first thing that you will notice is their minimalist design that can attract other people's attention. The company states that nobody really needs a clock. Their bold statement is a testament to the company's goal of reinventing watch design. They work with various international designers to come up with attractive watches that are unique and attention-grabbing.
The studio of Leff Amsterdam Watches is located right in the middle of the city. It is founded by brothers Dennis and Arno Ruijzenars and designer Erwin Termaat. In Dutch, Leff means doing something that others don't want to do. And that is exactly what the company is doing.
In the age where everyone is carrying a cell phone or wearing a smart watch, it seems like nobody needs an analogue watch. But in reality, consumers still love wearing watches, especially if the design is appealing.
All Leff Amsterdam watches have been designed to be aesthetically beautiful, and at the same time durable. Its Leff Tube Watch line has been designed by Piet Hein Eek, one of the top designers in the Netherlands. While he is more famous for his scrap wood furniture, he has been making art using different mediums. And this is the reason why the watch company approached him to design cool watches that are part of the Tube Series.
Designer Piet Hein Eek shared that the original idea of the Leff Tube Watch is something that the user can build and modify. It requires a logical and technical design to ensure that the watch is something that can be assembled easily. The base material is a steel tube, thus the name of the line. They used an extruded ring as the face of the clock. The first prototype of the Tube Watch was too beautiful that they thought it should not be modified anymore. That's why they changed the concept and came up with a simple, minimalist watch. At first glance, you might dismiss the Leff watch as a generic one, but it is not.
As the starting point of the design, the extruded ring is cut precisely to give the watch its industrial look. There are two watches from the Leff Tube Watch line, which are the D42 and S42. The D42 comes with a brown or black leather strap. You can choose from brass, matte black or steel casing. The S42 only comes in a steel band, and you have the option of brass, matte black, or steel casing.
Leff watches are some of the cool watches on the market today. They have a unique design, which is something rare these days. The watch can go with any outfit. You can wear it as your everyday watch, or to formal events as well.
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Never Wanted to Meet 'Em!
I was watching The Science Channel after dinner, and I got into the program Dinosaur Revolution. I found it interesting to watch how the artists' imaginations were involved in the depictions of these ancient animals' skin tones and dermal markings. I am not sure that we actually have knowledge as to how living dinosaurs truthfully might have appeared. I will look into that….
Anyway. The show was displaying the presumed actions and habits of the raptor dinosaurs. I believe that enough studying of the animals has happened for us to be able to recognize how they behaved, in regards to their manners of hunting, feeding, and cohabitating. This particular presentation displayed the natures of one particular breed of raptor.
Utahraptor lived during the early to middle Cretaceous Period, roughly 125 million years ago. It's home territory was what was to become North America. It is noted that Utahraptor was the largest of the raptor dinosaurs, with some of them reaching twenty-three feet in length, and weighing up to a half-ton. As well, it is argued that Utahraptor is one of the dinosaurs which had feathers, which adds further support to the concept of surviving dinosaurs having evolved into birds.
One thing that is recognized as having been extremely formidable with Utahraptor is it's tremendous claws. It's feet had four toes, with each of the second toes having an extemely lengthy claw that was nine inches to fifteen inches long, and is described as being similar to a sickle! All of it's other toes were clawed, too!
Utahraptor was a type of dromaeosaurid. This means that it was a higher level of the theropod classification of dinosaurs. The animal was "beast-footed" (I've met some of those people….), bipedal, and it moved swiftly. They are presumed to have been very intelligent, as they cooperated in packs to handle their actions, especially hunting and killing prey animals.
Utahraptor was roughly twelve feet-long, and is figured to have weighed around 150 pounds. As a dromaeosaur, Utahraptor was directly related to the achillobator, the deinonychus, and the velociraptor. These animals did not live within the exact-same time periods, yet all existed between eighty-five and one hundred twenty-five million years ago.
Perhaps it was not a total threat alone, yet the methods of Utahraptor were similar to wolves. As they teamed in packs, these dinosaurs were able to gang-up upon their prey, cornering, capturing, then consuming them. Due to their higher levels of mental aptitude, they knew how to function as teams to attack and to kill prey animals. It is basically believed that Utahraptors ate anything they wanted to eat, yet they favored feasting upon the expansive meat of the sauropods!


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The verdict came Thursday night in Butler County Common Pleas Court in Hamilton.
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Not so Happy Today
It was one of those conversations that makes you grow up all of a sudden. You know, the one that brings you down to earth and makes you realize that you are not exempt. BAD NEWS! Numbness, as the reality of what you have just heard doesn't want to sink in. You know that inevitably it will and you hope you don't go under. God is a very present help in the time of need.


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- ResMed S9 AutoSet. This is a medical device that is a fully data capable auto positive airway pressure (APAP) sleep apnea treatment system. It applies a varying air pressure to my face using a sealed mask, which forces my airway open if it needs to as I sleep. This device gives me information such as:
* Event Flags: What kind of breathing event I have, when it occurred and for how long
* Air Flow Rate as I breath in and out
* Mask Pressure which varies as the machine tries to eliminate events
* Tidal Volume which is the amount of air I'm breathing in and out
* Minute Ventilation, similar to Tidal Volume, but the amount per minute.
* AHI, an index that reports the events/hour.
* Leak rate (how much the mask is leaking)
* Snore Index (how much I'm snoring)
* Respiration Rate (breaths / minute)
Data from the ResMed S9 AutoSet is from an SD card, which you pop out of the ResMed S9 AutoSet and put into a card reader in your PC. Presently, until I can get this data into our software, I use SleepyHead to view trend charts with it.
Note: I highlight the word AutoSet because so there is no confusion with other ResMed "Auto" machines that are not necessarily data capable.
- CMS 50 E Pulse Oximeter. This is a that device clips on my finger and as I sleep it records my heart rate and blood oxygen levels (spO2). It is not a medical device, and is therefore not very accurate, but good enough to know what is going on. The pulse rate is reasonably accurate. The spO2 is within 2% when above a 70% spO2 reading.
Data from the CMS 50 is available through a provided USB/Serial cable and the data can stream from the device in real-time, or the device can store it for up to 24 hours each session and then it can be transferred to your PC using the provided USB/Serial cable. It comes with two software applications; real-time and session review (SpO2 Review). I use the latter to fetch sessions off of the device and the SpO2 Review application dumps the data to disk, which then I import into our software.
Available from Amazon (?) or the PulseOxStore.
Software and the device driver, if you need them, may be found here at the PulseOxStore.
- Zeo Bedside Sleep Management System. (psst... you can get it cheaper on Amazon). A rather cool non-medical device that has a headband that you wear and it measures electrical activity through the skin on your forehead. This activity is in part facial movements but principally your brain's frontal lobe electrical activity. The Zeo Bedside gathers this data in a fancy alarm-clock and generates various information about your sleep, most notably crude, but generally correct, estimates of what your sleep stages (Wake, REM, Light and Deep) were during the night every 5 minutes. It is computing this every 30 seconds based on frequencies calculated every second, based on a brain electrical activity measured 128 times per second.
Data from the Zeo is available either through
* An SD card, on which there is a night's sleep session, which then can be transferred to your PC, uploaded to their web site and used in a user friendly sleep coaching system with lots of interesting charts, statistics and such. You can also download data, summarized by night, to your PC again in a CSV file, one column of which has 30 second sleep stage estimates.
* A serial port in real time. The Zeo does not come with a USB/Serial cable however, you must make one. :( I did and I'll tell you how. And when you do make one, there is an application called ZeoScope that enables you to see your brainwave and the amplitude (I think) of Alpha, Beta (1, 2, 3), Delta, Gamma, Theta frequencies the impedance of the band on your skin and also the sleep stages the Zeo is estimating.
Presently, I use both the SD card / web site to get Sleep Stage charts and a serial cable to collect the real-time stream into our software.
- X16-1C Accelerometer by Gulf Coast Data Concepts. Tells me the orientation of my body and head while I sleep, such as on my belly, head to left or right, or on my back, head left or right. This device confirmed without a doubt my positional sleep apnea.
This device is not only an accelerometer, but a USB thumb drive that contains the data it creates in text CSV file format. Spiffy ! Easy.
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Friday, January 20, 2012
I have a variety of equipment that I am using and I might get more, we'll see. Here's my list:
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I called Orkin for help with an ant problem. Given a 2 hour appt window, during which I sat home on a beautiful day. No one showed during the appointment slot. Tech called 40 minutes AFTER time slot to tell me he'd be there in 30 min. Showed up over an hour later (almost 2 hours outside of the window). My mother let him in and also signed a service contract. Manager called me and apologized profusely and assured me that Orkin would never been late again. 5 days later, I still had ants and called to make another appt. Again given a 2 hour window. Again no one showed and no one called. Our time is valuable and this is not acceptable customer service!
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The inspector was friendly and helpful. But we didn't end up choosing them after shopping around. Their systems seem more expensive and don't have as much coverage as competitors.
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They showed up on time for my free inspection on a weekend, and were knowledgable and polite - enough so that I chose to pay for their survice going forward.
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I used them for a few months, but they never came out when they said they would. Also, we had persistnent wasp and ant problems. We don't have them since switching to a new vendor. Might only be this location, not sure.
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I had a standing appointment for pest control service, which was missed several times. One time I rescheduled service and they didn't show up again. I called and spoke to the manager once, problems remained, and I ultimately had them cancel my agreement.
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Well, I'm 26 weeks pregnant now, but these pictures were taken at 25 weeks :)
Which one of us has the bigger belly? Rob tends to get these "food baby's" after he eats too much, but I am glad to say that at 25 weeks my belly is bigger than his. Things are going great, and the pregnancy is still going smoothly! Only three more months to go til we meet the little one and we are so excited!


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Ouch. "approved 7pm-6am work FOR THREE WEEKS!"
Photo by PoPville flickr user Eric Spiegel
You gotta unmute the video below for full effect:
This is what @balfourbeatty did all night last night, and will do tonight, at 150 M NE. @NoMaBID @Heather_Edelman @dcra @PoPville @20002ist pic.twitter.com/dmIWViAAL4
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What's this? A Chicago style hot dog on a sesame seed bun? With its traditional tomato and neon-green pickle relish? And a side of fries with ketchup?
No! It's cake! Pound cake bun, chocolate chip poppy seeds and more waffle cut cake for the fries. With lots of artery-clogging "ketchup" icing.
Creating this confection at the park district made my girls happier than eating the results.
Ew. And what's this? Some disgusting leftovers from a late night poker game? Can't you just smell the stinky soot? My throat is closing up and my stomach's churning, just from the sight of it.
Well this, my friends, was a savory course at Moto, where Randy and I had our recent eleventh anniversary dinner. A Cuban sandwich made with brined pork shoulder and pickles, costumed as a Cuban cigar. A Monte Cristo with Iberico ham and Manchego cheese disguised as a Montecristo smoke. And a veggie version with smoked and pureed red pepper for the illusion of burning embers. All wrapped in collard green "tobacco" leaves with edible wrappers. White and black sesame seeds were finely ground to give the illusion of ash, then freeze dried so a misty "smoke" wafted up as the dish was served.
A burst of laughter and "That's disgusting!" was my shocked reaction when this Halloween dish arrived at our table. "That's a new one," said our waiter. "Although I have heard, 'I'm not eating that.'"
And I almost didn't. Had to lift my napkin and hold it between my eyes and all the repugnant baggage those little sandwiches held.
"Now I know what the girls feel like when I offer them a new food," I told Randy. I think I could more easily have eaten a cricket. Of course, they were delicious.
And finally, not really an optical illusion, but cute nonetheless. The remains of one of the celebratory lunches for the Optimus 15th anniversary week. They also munched on Big Star with a side of live mariachi band, Donut Vault for breakfast and Lowry's prime rib served from their rolling silver carts.
The day Randy sent this pic, I had a veggie hot dog for lunch and the girls declared their grilled cheese burnt and inedible. Sigh.
Raising a family out of the ruins of the past. Mothering and movies, grief and grace, books and blunders. Recovery without chicken soup.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Trompe L'Oeil Pour La Bouche
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- Technoprairie said...
Joe once made me a "baked potato" which was ice cream molded into a potato shape and rolled in cocoa powder. Whipped cream was the sour cream, candied rosemary was the chives, yellow frosting frozen and sliced were the butter pats. And it was delicious!
- August 23, 2011 at 6:03 PM
- Cindy Fey said...
YUM!! Oh, is he clever!
- August 23, 2011 at 6:22 PM
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Something I failed/forgot to mention, via Arko! and his newly-found savant ability: considering the sigils & signs on the walls of the tallow golem room, the only way that thing could have been animated would be due to the corruption oozing from somewhere relatively nearby. The room is not innately magical – it is, however, completely decorated with things that would help a cleric or adept focus in order to get back to work doing a seemingly burdensome job.
Also via Arko!, the place is radiating corrupted energy…that which is often called "taint" – that is, the placed is tainted. The evil – a special blend of necromancy, chaos, and madness from beyond space and time – has permeated the walls like cigarette smoke in an old apartment. That is, it's going to take some serious work to get rid of the stench.
Additionally, some of the signs & sigils on the walls are of a cosmological bent, which both Arko! and Mishka recognize as being similar in theme to some writings about the Draconic Prophecy, which is often 'phrased' in terms of the movement of moons, stars, and constellations. This chamber has a combination of elements that are good and lawful; and clearly what's going on around here is neither.


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Sometimes I think we get things a little bit backwards in our walks with God. I was thinking about this last evening when a song came on the radio that asked God to "draw me near." There's one in our hymn book too– "Draw me nearer, nearer, nearer blessed Lord . . ."
This is a lovely thought. And of course it should be the desire of our hearts to draw nearer to God. I used to pray this all the time– draw me near to You, Lord God. And then one day I stumbled upon James 4:8.
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Here is what that verse says. We have to draw near to God, and then He will draw near to us. Crazy, huh? But think about that for a minute. When I pray and ask God to draw me nearer, without doing the work of moving nearer to Him, I am trying to bypass His commandment. When I pray for Him to draw me nearer, I shouldn't be surprised when He does so by bringing circumstances that drive me to my knees. Because THIS is God's chosen way of drawing near to me– I am to start moving near to Him.
I'm not talking to unbelievers here. God's Word is very clear that if God did not initiate the work of reconciling us to Himself, we would NEVER be able to come near to Him.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
This is why Christ came– to die for us, pay the penalty of our sin, and make clear the way to God. And He is the One who draws unbelievers to Himself, for if He didn't, we are all so lost and foolish and blind and stubborn that we would never come on our own.
And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.
However. The verse in James– draw near to God, and He will draw near to you— is written to believers. And so is this one, from Hebrews 10.
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith.
Christ has opened the door, done all the work, made the way clear, and invited us in. And once we know Christ as Savior, we are daily invited nearer and nearer to the God of the universe and His throne of grace– invited to come boldly and without fear, like a child running up to his daddy. And the promise is that when we run up to our Father on that throne, He stoops down and scoops us up. He draws near.
I think that a lot of the time when I'm praying draw me nearer, what I'm really asking for is some kind of emotional confirmation. I'm asking for a sign or a feeling of special peace or bluebirds to fly out of the sky and sprinkle heart-shaped confetti on my head. But that's not what faith is.
Faith says, "God, You have said that if I draw near to You, You will draw near to me. And so I am choosing to draw near to You today. I am choosing to open Your Book and obey what it says. I am choosing to spend time with You. I am choosing to love You and to love others, and I believe that you are near right now, even though I can't feel it and the bluebirds are far away and in fact this feels much more like a desert in the dead of night than the glorious presence of God."
Faith lives like God is near– knowing He is because He has said He is– even when there is no emotional confirmation, even when there are no signs, even when everything seems to point in the opposite direction. Faith presses on, eyes on Jesus.
And when I draw near in full assurance of faith, believing that I am near to God because He says He is drawing near to me, I discover that He is true to His promises. I discover that there is enough strength for every day. I discover that He does renew my strength, that He does satisfy me with good, that He does bring forth a harvest in His own perfect timing. I discover that in all this drawing near, my roots have gone deep and I am able to flourish when the hot sun beats down or the wind blows hard or the night lasts on and on and on.
God is who He says He is. But I never truly learn that until I step into nothing and discover Him there.
Oh Friend, I hope you know that these things are truths that God is just beginning to teach me, that I fail far more often than I succeed in my walk of faith. I hope you know that all the things I share here are things I am learning, that if it weren't for the grace of God I would be so far away from this place right now. I am, in the words of my old college president, a beggar showing another beggar where to find bread.
And if you are reading this and do not know Christ as your Savior, if you are trying to draw near to God on your own steam or are running from Him entirely, please know that Jesus died to give you the privilege to draw near to God. That way was completely blocked to all humanity because of the offensiveness of our sin to the pure holiness of God. Only Jesus Christ, fully God and fully man, completely holy and undeserving of death, was able to pay the penalty for the sins of mankind– for my sin and yours. And He invites you to come. This is a gift, freely given by a God who loves you. Trusting Jesus, accepting His gift opens the way to eternal life in the presence of God, and daily abundant life in that same presence. You are invited. Will you accept this invitation, this free gift?
We have all been invited to draw closer to God today. Let us draw near in full assurance of faith to this glorious God of the universe who loves us unconditionally and welcomes us with open arms.


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... marks the end, 89 years ago, of the short-lived Bolshevik Republic of Alsace, declared in Place Kleber (briefly renamed Place Karl Marx) on November 18 and crushed four days later by French troops, who took advantage of the situation to repatriate the region from Germany.
It was a good four days to be a communist.
In Strasbourg, the date is marked by Rue Novembre 22, one of the larger streets in town. You can trace the progress of the French army through Alsace this way - I noted a few villages on our route with Rue Novembre 23's, and presumably further North you can stroll down a Rue Novembre 21.


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Video: Pillsbury "A" Mill Interactive Visualization
The historic Pillsbury "A" Mill was completed in 1881 on the west bank of the Mississippi river in Minneapolis, Minnesota. To power the mill, water works were constructed beneath the building, carrying water from the river and through turbines to generate electricity. VJAArchitects hired Artificial Natures to create an interactive application that allows people to explore this underground world, including the 500 foot long head race tunnel and realistic water effects. This video shows a tour through the tunnel system.