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Source: Recipe from Chef Troy Guard
Short ribs are cooked until so tender they fall off the bone to top this pizza. The sweet and spicy meat works well with the creamy and mellow mozzarella cheese.
For Mongolian marinade:
1 1⁄2 cups hoisin sauce
1 tbsp. garlic, minced
1 tbsp. ginger, minced
1 tsp. hot chili sauce
1 cup short rib pieces
1⁄2 cup teriyaki sauce
1⁄2 cup tomato sauce
4 3-oz. pizza dough balls
1⁄2 cup mozzarella cheese
4 tsp. parmesan cheese
2 oz. red bell pepper, julienned
2 oz. yellow bell pepper, julienned
4 shiitake mushrooms, sliced
Green onion, thinly sliced, as needed
Fried lotus chips, for garnish
1. For Mongolian marinade, mix together hoisin sauce, garlic, ginger and hot chili sauce. Reserve.
2. In a pan, toss short rib pieces with teriyaki and 1⁄2 cup Mongolian marinade. Cook and reduce until meat becomes tender and falls apart, resembling pulled pork.
3. In a separate bowl, mix together tomato sauce with 1⁄2 cup Mongolian marinade; roll dough out and spread sauce evenly over top.
4. Top pizza with mozzarella, parmesan, red and yellow peppers, shiitake mushrooms and short rib mix.
5. Bake in a 550° F. oven for 3-5 min. Remove from oven, top with green onion and fried lotus chips.

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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:36 pm
Post subject: Lake Isabella Rocks
I'm new to the dessert ... from HR, OR. Lake Isabella rocks! Great sailing. Just starting to explore, but the locals are great. Lots of boat/jet ski traffice, but it doesn't seem to be an issue. Rigging on the sandy beach isn't much fun and there 'ain't no waves' ... but the flat water jibing makes me feel like a pro (even though I probably still look like an idiot).
Great relief in the desert heat and a short drive from where I'm living.
No available gear nearby. Heard about someone in Bakersfield, but no luck finding that resource.
Any other tips from locals? Wind site says to go off around to the east a bit for some better conditions, but really haven't seen people sail other than the area just 1/4 to 1/2 mile behind the dam.
Lots of kiters ... THEY get good air.
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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:03 pm
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Hi -glad you like Isabella. I think you're looking for Dave at Spin Out Sports in Bakersfield (661) 834-3451.
Sometimes the wind turns west and you can sail from the beach at the marina about a mile north of Old Isabella Road.
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I'm down in the Long Beach area and in need of consistent wind so I was planning on visiting Isabella. What time does the wind come up? What are the camping conditions like? Reservations required to tent camp? Any facilities available? Week day or week end better?
What size board and sail is typical on an average windy day?
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:32 am
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I'm not sure I would describe Isabella as "consistent". You can get your arms ripped off or get skunked on any given day. Check the last seven days for a guide - wind is strongest after noon. Note that conditions are currently favorable for Isabella - see the forecast for a description re. onshore flow and gradients. Generally, don't go to Isabella in a heat wave.
You can camp on either of the two windsurf beaches (first two exits off the highway) for a small fee, payable at the "iron ranger". No reservations. There are some bathrooms at both beaches -even some running water. Bring your own shade. Actual campgrounds are located around the lake - on the road to Kernville or on the road to Weldon. RV parks too.
Week days are better, but weekends are OK. Weekends have lots of boats and jet ski traffic between memorial day and labor day, but not a major issue. MOST users are knowledgebale about giving way. Boat chop is a minor pain.
Bring everything you own. Kites too if you like, but I'm told you should be on your game with a kite or have a rescue option.
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Yeah, Isabella rocks. A true gem for So Cal sailors. I consider it one of the greatest places to windsurf in CA...just plain fun. It's where I learned to plane for heaven's sake...and no need for a wetsuit when the water warms in the summer. 4.0 can happen at Is, especially in the Spring. And, I'd bring your biggest sail, too. In my case that was a 6.0 which was only good enough certain days because I was smart enough to bring a 110-120 liter board. So 6.0/6.5 and a floaty board for the lighter days and smaller gear in case it honks. You're in heaven.
Here's the link to the iWindsurf.com wind archives for June 2007 -- the full history of the wind last month on one page.... hmmm..YEAH Isabella rocks!:
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Issy is best in late spring, early summer, or, if there is a Catalina Eddy like lately. It is VERY unusual to have wind there this late in the summer. Like a previous post said, don't go up in a heat wave, you'll roast.
Check out Spencer Thompson's site
Its totally for fun, he and his wife maintain the site, there's lots of Issy stuff on there, as well as general So Cal fun windsurf stuff. He's somewhat of an amateur wind forecaster, does the "Fearless Forecast" for Isabella on Thursdays and is uncannily accurate most of the time. That said, again, its just for fun and for free so don't rag about it if its not right, we want him to keep doing it!! He's not a professional after all.
We sail Issy a lot, hope to see you there!
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:53 pm
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I have to agree with all of you, ISABELLA ROCKS!!!. I moved to L.A last year and spent the summer sailing at Cabrillo but if you like strong winds and warm water and just a great spot, Isabella is it!!.
I sailed there on Tuesday and I had rigged 3 sails, a 6.5 a 5.5 and 4.8 and I started sailing at about noon. By 4 PM I had used all three sails with a 115L board and a 95L board so yes if you go to Isabella bring everything you got.
By the way I find IWindsurf very accurate on their forecast of the Lake.
See you all there![/quote]
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yeah Isabella does rock
My 5.8 is usually perfect in the summer and I barely get by with the 5.3 in the Spring- have to downhaul the shit out of it. Could probably use a 4.0 most of the time haha.
if you want some swell go down to Tillie Creek when its blowing 20+ at the Ghetto you'll be launching off huge Rio Vista-Style (2-3foot) swell.
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Sailed Isabella once. Didn't hit any rocks.
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Hundreds of Houston area children suffer from respiratory illness
With no vaccine, RSV hits kids more than flu
A highly contagious respiratory virus has landed hundreds of children in Houston-area hospitals this season, with the number of diagnosed patients even outpacing those with the flu, officials said.
Like the flu, respiratory syncytial virus, better known as RSV, is an illness that infects the lungs and breathing passages and generally strikes during the winter months. The illness causes influenza-like symptoms that may resolve within weeks without treatment. But for infants, especially those premature babies or with weakened immune systems, the virus can be severe and potentially life-threatening.
"It's been a very robust season (for RSV) this year," said Dr. Gail Demmler-Harrison, an attending physician in the pediatric infectious disease section at Texas Children's Hospital.
Texas Children's officials reported more than 600 patients tested positive for RSV in December, about a 45 percent increase from the same time in 2012. At Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital, more than 140 pediatric patients have been admitted since October due to RSV, officials said. The hospital could not provide numbers for 2012.
"We've definitely had a heavy RSV season, with a lot of RSV admissions," said Dr. Galit Holzmann-Pazgal, medical director of infection control for Children's Memorial Hermann. "And I would say some of them have been quite severe."
Texas Children's officials said they do not track RSV deaths, but have not heard of any reports at the hospital thus far. Officials at Memorial Hermann have no deaths related to RSV this season.
The number of flu patients seen at both hospitals was significantly lower. In December, Texas Children's reported a little more than 400 patients diagnosed with influenza. Children's Memorial Hermann officials said since October only about 40 patients have been admitted due to the flu.
While it is difficult to pinpoint exactly why RSV affects more patients than influenza, it may be due in part to the fact that there is no vaccine to prevent the virus, Demmler-Harrison said.
However another reason could be timing.
"Right now we are in the heart of RSV season," Demmler-Harrison said, noting that virus generally spreads starting in October, and peaks in December and January. "But come February and March, RSV will kind of burn out and flu will be the predominant one."
RSV is spread through close contact with others who are infected or on objects, such as toys, as well as through the air from coughing or sneezing. Physicians say it is also difficult to explain why one RSV season may be more severe than another, and may involve factors such as the weather.
Because the symptoms are similar, both causing coughing, sneezing and fever, parents often may mistake RSV for the flu. Physicians say the most definitive way to make a diagnosis is through a laboratory test.
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According to the Centers for Disease Control, 75,000 to 125,000 children under 1 year old are hospitalized each year because of an RSV infection. For that age group, it is the most common cause of bronchiolitis and pneumonia in the United States. Most children have been infected with the virus by age 2, according to the agency.
Adults and teenagers are also susceptible to contracting RSV.
However, physicians say those prone to the most severe consequences of the illness are premature infants and children under 2 suffering from congenital heart or chronic lung disease, or those patients with weakened immune systems.
Demmler-Harrison said she believes it's just as important for parents to be cognizant of RSV as they may be of the flu.
"Children also end up in the hospital due to RSV," she said. "I think one of the reasons is that it gets second place to influenza is because we do have an active immunization for influenza."
Angie Light, a Houston mother of three, said she had not really taken the RSV seriously, until last month, when her newborn daughter, Georgina, ended up hospitalized at Texas Children's after she contracted the virus. Only a couple weeks after being born, Georgina was, having trouble breathing already fighting for her life.
Light said she strongly suspects that one of her two toddler daughters was infected with RSV and the baby caught the virus from one of them. While she'd had the entire family vaccinated for influenza, she'd hadn't given much thought to RSV.
"You just really don't realize how contagious it is," she said, adding she didn't know it could strike newborns.
While there is no vaccine for the RSV, an injection of antibodies has been developed to help prevent a severe illness from RSV. However, it is only administered to infants and children who are at high risk for contracting the virus, Holzmann-Pazgal said.
There is also no specific treatment for RSV. It involves supportive care, such as keeping the patient hydrated and reducing a possible fever.
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Physicians say the best way to prevent RSV is to practice good hygiene, such as washing hands and avoiding sharing eating and drinking utensils. If possible, parents should also limit the exposure children have to others with fever and colds.
"Thousands of infants every year suffer from RSV. Many are put in the hospital and are critically ill and some even die," Demmler-Harrison said. "A vaccine to prevent that would definitely be a major medical breakthrough, but so far we are still waiting for that."


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I'm thrilled to share with you the following video I made. You don't need to know anything more; just click play. Then check out the giveaway below where you can win one of two ARCs of Robert Crais's The Sentry (Putnam, January 11, 2011). U.S., Canada and Mexico residents are eligible!
Can't wait to see the REAL video and read The Sentry, right? For more info, visit the Robert Crais website and check out his tour dates.
Now, how about an advanced reading copy of the book? Putnam has generously allowed me to give away two.
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Just for the record, I seem to have changed colors. But I think I look o.k. in green…I'm Irish, right?
PCN, stay away from the stairs next time I see you! 😉
You have ALL the damn fun!! I am SOOOOO freakin' jealous!! Thanks so much for sharing that. What a wonderful day it looks like you had…. including that pizza! 😉
PS – I don't need to be in the ARC contest.
My first thought was to go with something vegetarian since Joe eats healthy, but you said to "think beyond traditional toppings", go I'll with a literal version of a Joe Pike Pizza.
Rather than the usual hand-tossed dough, the crust would be made of hardtack to exemplify Joe's stoic demeanor.
The sauce would be made of sun-dried tomatoes, the color of blood.
The main ingredient would be meat from the Northern Pike (Esox lucius). Rather than fillets, it would be prepared whole (bone in) since the carnivorous fish is practically inedible anyway.
There would be no cheese since there is nothing cheesy about Joe.
To finish out the toppings I'd sprinkle a generous amount of coffee beans. Why coffee beans, you ask? Because another name for coffee is "joe" and this is a Joe Pike pizza.
Bon appétit!
I was gonna give my version of a Joe Pike Pizza, but I don't think it gets any better than Ed's! 🙂
PCN, stay away from stairs, period.
Okay, don't include me in the drawing for the ARC (I have one coming, thanks!), but I do have to tell you about my Joe Pike Colt Python Pizza: If you can find it, you can 'eat it'.
Oh, hell yeah, I will carve off a piece of that. And I ain't talkin' pizza, sister.
For the record, I'm NOT Irish (Australian, but I guess that's really just an Irish convict anyway, right?) and I'm as green as Jen and will help push.
BTW, that shot at :44 should be book jacket pic.
You are certifiable. Hilarious.
Absolutely hiliarious! I'm insanely jealous. No need to enter me in the contest; I already have a copy of THE SENTRY.
I follow on GFC and email.
Joe Pike Pizza: I am inspired by the Venice Canals of California….instead of tomato sauce a salsa base to the pizza, then add some California toppings like avocados, orange slices, olives and artichokes. Top with Monterey Jack cheese.
Perfect way to end my day…a video with Bob's Big Box. 😉 This was great, PCN!
(BTW, I concur about the still at :44)
Gosh, a Pike pizza? Hmmm…artichoke hearts (cuz he has a heart of gold when it comes to his friend(s)), jalapenos (spicy!), lots of garlic, and something different….how about something realy manly like a nice stilton or gorgonzola? Yeah baby!
Joe Pike 'za: low fat cheese, thin crust, organic pesto sauce, topped with gunpowder, shredded Nike running shoes and fresh green peppers. Bake at 400 degrees and serve with a vengeance!
Just followed you on Twitter! I am @p_dub.
I'm a follower and a subscriber, baby.
Pike's pizza is spinach, basil, and tomato on a wheat crust. Extra sauce, light on the cheese.
So fun! Awesome job Elyse 🙂
Great video! Very funny and gorgeous…uhm…let's call it 'scenery'! 😉
A Joe pizza? Whole wheat crust topped with Pike fillets, spinach (strong like Popeye!), sweet potatoes, a blend of Asian spices (to honour his martial arts), and just a little bit of cheese (not too much! hard to be covert with flatulence).
Hahahaha! Thanks for the glimpse of Mr. Crais behind the scenes, PCN. It's great to see you guys laughing it up off camera. Well, off the OFFICIAL cameras, anyway. Some good action going on there! 😀
I had to watch that 3 times because I was laughing so hard, I missed the little details. So funny, PCN. Good thing you were there to capture all the "leaking" for us.
My Joe Pika pizza would have red bell pepper strips shaped like arrows, eggplant pieces in the shape of guns, and big round shiitake mushroom tops placed side by side to represent his sunglasses.
Sorry, Chris, didn't mean to steal your idea about the arrows. Didn't see it til afterward, I swear.
Very silly stuff from behind the scenes! Is is safe to assume the actual promo is really serious?
Okay, Joe Pike Pizza:
Flour-less crust (because Joe uses the flour in his back pack when he runs)
Salsa sauce instead of tomato sauce
Cheese-less (because Joe isn't cheesy)
Steak topping (thinly sliced – he's a vegetarian, but he's meaty)
Red Bell Peppers laid out to match the arrows on his shoulders
Spinach (applied just at the last minute, so it isn't mushy)
Come on, you know you'd eat that….
I just subscribed and you can send my book before Christmas. I'll quit shopping and the family can go nuts while I read it. For the pizza I think: beef, c-4 and ground glass with a Michelob Ultra.
Heh, does a day get better than that, PCN? No wonder Joe Pike and Elvis Cole are so cool. And so hot. You rock the hat, by the way.
Fabulous, fun film! Why weren't you wading in the water?
A dessert pizza for Joe! (because he is so yummy?)
The entire concoction is shaped like an arrow…crust with sugar and cinammon and covered with melting red candy hearts served hot, hot, hot! Eddy already symbolized the tough guy, so this is the softer side of Joe. Plus, it would make a festive holiday treat…
Do you think Pike has jumped on the gluten-free bandwagon yet? So, replace the gluten in the crust with an armless sweatshirt and I think you've got his pizza.
(poss will also have arrows on delivery box)
Can't quite decide if the video or comment thread is more laugh-inducing…
Always fun to find a new entertaining site.


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ORANGEVILLE — American Legion baseball, for some, is a way for high school and first-year college players to build their skills over the summer.
ORANGEVILLE — American Legion baseball, for some, is a way for high school and first-year college players to build their skills over the summer.
"It started as a desire to get our Orangeville baseball players a higher level of competition and more experience," Orangeville Legion coach Bill Meier said, "and hopefully have that carry over into some extended tournament play."
For others, specifically those closer to the Rockford area, Legion baseball is a thing of the past.
"It's too bad," former Belvidere coach Ken Anderson said. "It was a great thing, but time took over and we moved on to a different stage."
The official Legion Baseball website lists more than 50,000 teams nationwide. But those numbers aren't coming from northwest Illinois. Currently there are just six teams in this corner of the state: Orangeville, Lena, Fulton, Ottawa, Rock Falls and Hanover. There are also a couple across the northern border in Beloit and Janesville.
Meier, who's originally from the Chicago suburbs, remembers growing up playing legion baseball.
"There were legion teams all over the place," he said. "We had 22 teams just in my city.
"I didn't really understand what American Legion baseball was because we never played in the national tournament. By legion rules, each city is only permitted to enter one team into the tournament, so we had a town tournament and then it was done."
American Legion, chartered by Congress in 1919, is a patriotic veterans organization that has become one of the most influential non-profit groups in the U.S.
Legion baseball began nearly 88 years ago.
Players up to age 19 can play. In the Rock River Valley, most programs have used legion teams to develop younger players' skills while helping experienced athletes refine theirs.
Some programs are inclusive to all area players, such as the Lena Legion, while others are exclusively for their specific town.
Orangeville has done both throughout its eight-year history.
"The first two years in Orangeville, our team was almost exclusively Orangeville guys," Meier said. "And for whatever reason, baseball has slowly been losing its popularity, so we had to expand and go to other places to get other kids to play. But the next few seasons, I expect there to be more Orangeville kids getting involved for us."
Orangeville Legion has seen players from Aquin, Dakota, and this year even players from Freeport.
Lena has been one of the longest running legion teams in the area at more than 30 years. Coach Cary Schroeder has managed the team for about a decade. Lena is sponsored by Legion Post 577. But not every legion team is sponsored by its local post.
"You don't have to be," Orangeville's Meier said. "It all comes down to who's going to sponsor and fund you.
"We have a legion, but I didn't approach them for it. Once you get sponsored by a legion team, all decisions and documents have to go through the legion post and signed by officers."
Being sponsored by a legion post does have its perks. Schroeder said Legion Post 577 has a raffle supported by the sons of the legion, which has helped pay off some expenses.
"It works real well for us because it finances our whole program," he said. "We don't charge the kids anything to play because of this raffle.
"The legion does pay our insurance and then I pay for everything else out of that raffle. I donate mileage here and there and my assistant coaches drive sometimes, but it's not a standard 50 cents a mile or anything like that. Anything we donate is time and a vehicle."
Meier said the Orangeville Legion, which is actually called the Orangeville Baseball Club, is self-funded.
"I do the fundraisers and there's a player fee," he said. "We just call ourselves the Orangeville Legion team because we play in a Legion league."
Meier said starting a legion team is as easy as simply going to the American Legion website and filling out an application.
Dwindling numbers
Legion baseball isn't limited to small towns, but you would get that impression when you look around the Rock River Valley, and even beyond. Rockford legion teams existed for a time, but eventually died off.
"Belvidere was sponsored by our legion post here," Anderson said. "Then we ended up combining with Harlem.
"There were two high schools for every legion post, and then they took a few players from each school to fill in the team.
We probably had four or five different teams in this area."
Anderson believes the prevalence of travelling teams diminished legion baseball's value in the Rockford area.
"There's a lot of travel teams around and anyone can find one," Anderson said. "You just have to pay the money."
Anderson also said around the early 1990s, senior teams — Legion teams with players ages 19 and under — went away and there were only junior teams (ages 13-17) in the area.
"Most high schools weren't too concerned about playing their junior kids," he said. "That took your kids that graduated out of the picture.
"But most legions that sponsored you wanted you to play in legion tournaments. Well if you did, you played against kids that were 18 and 19. It was pretty tough to be representative, plus you got beat pretty bad because you had younger kids.
"I think those are the two big things that took American Legion baseball out of the area."
Staying committed
The difficulty of running a legion team in small towns is the numbers game. Not that there aren't enough athletes willing to play, but that many have other commitments to other sports programs in the school.
"Most of the teams in our league are made up of small-school guys," Meier said, "and small schools need their players to be three-sport athletes."
Meier thinks there's pressure that comes with playing for those programs, while also wanting to play legion during the summer.
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In one of the many digs at Fox News and their conservative alignment, Moynihan as Kilmeade talks about how close the U.S. government came to a shutdown last week, with: "We almost had the first government shutdown in the history of this country!" When his co-host Carlson asks if that's true, Kilmeade gleefully responds, "Oh I just assumed." At another point Carlson, expressing her strong objections to Michelle Obama's anti-obesity campaign, asserts that "When American kids get too skinny, chubby Mexicans will take American acting jobs. Just look at the kid on 'Modern Family'!" With this skit, the SNL team joins a growing number of mainstream media that are explicitly addressing the issue of immigration, with another recent example being ABC's 'The Good Wife' that broke stereotypes when representing an immigrant Latina nanny. The SNL team takes this further by spoofing the attitude of Fox News towards this issue, with a particularly spirited appearance by Helen Mirren as a "border war expert" who shares her fears about "undercover Mexicans in America, you know, known as A-merx-icans."
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Posted 13 August 2008 - 08:02 PM
About every week & a half I would be woken up at around 4:15 in the morning by intense cold, hairs standing on end, and an intense feeling of dread. I would also occasionally see a few different cats (A larger orange & white striped one, a black & white one, and a common tabby). These cats were also sometimes seen by friends visiting, though I hadn't told them about the phenomenon. ("I didn't know you had a cat" was a common thing for me to hear at the time)
One morning, I woke up in that same manner, freezing and terrified, and rolled over to look at the clock. 4:20 it said. I groaned about it and flopped back on my pillow to see a younger woman with long dark hair, wearing a late 60s / early 70s-style nightgown (with the lace around the collar and bottom hem) and holding a noose. Her neck was bruised up and she had a funny smile. I clenched my eyes shut and pulled the covers over my head, only to have an image pop into my head of my bathroom at a strange angle, and a pair of feet swinging near the toilet. I guess I went unconscious after that.
The next day I was constantly keeping an eye on my bathroom door, since I was now convinced that "she came from there." However, I assured myself that it was silly to be "freaked out by someone who's either dead or a figment of my imagination." I had also read about the Buddhist concept of hungry ghosts, and thought "maybe ghosts could use the Dharma too..."
So I lit a bunch of candles, shut out the lights, leaned into the bathroom and invited whatever was present to come and meditate with me, and sat down in front of my shrine in my bedroom. I began meditating and after about 10 minutes began to feel cold, but i told myself it was a draft and continued. Then I felt a pressure on my chest (as in a bad nightmare) but i had read that sometimes strange physical sensations arise in beginning meditators so i tried to ignore it. About 15 minutes later the pressure was still there so i decided to end my medidation. I stood up, and immediately felt fine, so i bowed to where i was sitting and said "Thank you for joining me, feel free to do this when ever you like." There was an extremely localized cold spot where i had been sitting.
After this event, I was no longer woken up in the morning as before, and although I still experienced that feeling of "something else is here" it was a much more positive feeling than a "dreadful" one.
If anyone knows anything about any suicides by hanging that took place in those apartments please let me know. I've checked the Lansing State Journal's online archives, but they don't go back far enough. The apartments in question were build in the mid-60s, and judging from her clothing, I would say this woman died in the early 70s... Anyway, I post this story in the Religion and Spirituality section because I feel like this "Buddhist" approach (teaching the ghost how to meditate) was more effective in this case than a typical "Christian Exorcism."
Or maybe she just wanted a little attention?
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In the book "The Tibetan Yogas of Sleep and Dream" the author states that in the Bon tradition of Tibet, unsettled spirits are sometimes responsible for recurring sleep problems, and prescribes lighting incense and chanting mantras to either dispel the spirit or at least calm them down. I read this a couple years after the encounter i've posted here, and thought it was pretty relevant...
Posted 10 September 2008 - 01:14 PM
As for the cats...you got me on that one. Unless the cats belonged to that woman, and somehow, they're attached to this place, too.
Good luck with your meditations. Remember, sometimes spirits just need attention and for someone to show that they care. Chasing them around and trying to exorcise them could only make them angry and feeling unwanted. Most spirits were people at one time, and they're looking for acceptance and (maybe even) love that they didn't feel when they were in the flesh.
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Posted 10 September 2008 - 01:38 PM
I tried to edit my post, after I saw that you'd written something at the same time I'd written the above posting; but I couldn't.
I can't even remember what I wrote, just 5 minutes ago!
To sum it up, I guess I can say that I'm glad that your meditation seemed to help this spirit.
Not all spirits have bad intentions. Sometimes, they're only looking for acceptance that they couldn't find when they were in the flesh. I'm happy to see that you're response to the spirit wasn't to automatically consider an exorcism, or to chase her away.
I think it's terrific, what you did. I hope her spirit is able to find peace and comfort.
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Posted 28 October 2008 - 01:17 AM
Not all spirits have bad intentions. Sometimes, they're only looking for acceptance that they couldn't find when they were in the flesh. I'm happy to see that you're response to the spirit wasn't to automatically consider an exorcism, or to chase her away.
I think it's terrific, what you did. I hope her spirit is able to find peace and comfort.
I like what you said. Exorcism is a drastic response to a mild haunting or even a major non-violent one. I tend to ask once if they need help and then honor there decision. They sometimes need or want to be there. Sometimes they need to be there to resolve an issue or to pay for a deed in thier own mind. We interfere too quickly and for our own sarifaction. To believe we know best is just conceit on our part. They usually know whatr they are doing.
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i have to be really honest here. as much as I would like to say no, he probably does. but it sure doesn't seem like it. we could both be sitting around and he's on the computer and i'm doing something and I'm the one that takes the toddler potty, i'm the one to get a glass of juice and i'm the one give a hug when someone scrapes a knee.
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we've talked about this and when i'm home, i think he knows (or at least thinks) that i want to be with the kids and spend time with them, so he "lets" me take care of them. but i'm at work all day AND at work at home with the kids while he gets to relax on the computer.... hmmmm....
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney started the Iraq war based on lies — to make money, period. He profited off the lives of Americans and Iraqis alike, not caring how many people died.
Iraqi leader Nouri al-Maliki was put in as prime minister by George W. Bush. Instead of uniting the country, al-Maliki used his power as a majority Shiite to abuse other religious sects in Iraq, just as Saddam did while in power as a Sunni.
Obama tried to leave troops in Iraq, but was unable to get a Status of Forces Agreement between the United States and Iraq. That resulted in the removal of U.S. Forces.
The GOP was more than happy to declare victory in Iraq soon after the initial assault. Remember "W" strutting around the deck of the aircraft carrier? Why don't they take credit for the situation in Iraq now? If they want advisers in Iraq, why not send Cheney and Bush?
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Pre-NCAA game preview: Saint Joseph University
The two-year wait is finally over
UConn will finally play its first NCAA tournament game tonight since 2012.
"We're back where we belong," coach Kevin Ollie said.
First up: A dangerous Saint Joseph's University.
Here's a pre-game preview
Tip-off time: 6:55 p.m. (TBS)
Location: First Niagara Center, Buffalo
Records: Seventh-seeded UConn 26-8, No. 10 Saint Joseph's 24-9
Probable starters: UConn, 6-1 sr. guard Shabazz Napier (17.4 pts, 5.9 rebs, 4.9 assists), 6-0 jr. guard Ryan Boatright (11.8 pts, 3.5 assists), 6-9 jr. forward DeAndre Daniels (12.5 pts, 5.8 rebs), 6-7 sr. forward Niels Giffey (8.5 pts, 3.4 rebs), 7-0 fr. center Amida Brimah (4.3 pts, 3.1 rebs 2.5 blks)
Saint Joseph's, 6-3 jr. guard Chris Wilson (9.0 pts), 6-2 sr. guard Langston Galloway (17.5 pts, 4.3 rebs), 6-6 fr. forward DeAndre Bembry (12.0 pts, 4.5 rebs), 6-8 sr. forward Ronald Roberts (14.4 pts, 7.4 rebs), 6-8 sr. forward Halil Kanacevic (10.7 pts, 8.8 rebs, 4.4 assists)
-- Here's coach Ollie's scouting report: "We're going to have our work cut out for us. Galloway is an exceptional shooter. … They've got other players. Bembry is a great freshman that's kind of their energizer. He can get it off the rebound and push it.
"And what makes them tough, four guys can get a rebound and push it and start their fast break. … Then they've got a great motion offense that coach (Phil) Martelli has been using for years. We're going to have to stay packed in our principles and play great basketball."
-- Series: UConn leads 4-2, winning 67-61 in the only NCAA match-up in 1965. It is the first regular season meeting since 1989.
-- The Hawks are 20-5 since losing to Villanova on Dec. 7. They're one of six Atlantic 10 teams to qualify for the tournament.
"We've got to show up and show them a lot of respect because they deserve it," Napier said. "We've just got to play the best basketball we can possibly play."
-- Player to watch: Kanacevic, most outstanding player of A-10 championship tourney. He leads the team in assists, rebounds and blocks.
-- All five St. Joe's starters average at least 31.8 minutes, so the bench is not deep. The top reserve is 6-7 forward Isaiah Miles (3.2 pts, 1.8 rebs).
-- The Huskies will need to prevent the Hawks from heating up from 3-point land. Saint Joseph's averages 7.4 per game while Galloway is the school's all-time leader in 3-pointers. He made a school-record 10 this season against Fordham.
-- Hot: Daniels is averaging 15.2 points and 8.0 rebounds in last four games. Cold: UConn is shooting 40.5 percent in last 10 games.
-- The Huskies own a 7-5 record vs. the NCAA field and the Hawks are 6-5.
-- UConn is 52-29 in 31 NCAA appearances, including 29-5 in the first two rounds. St. Joe's is 18-23 in 19 trips.
-- No one on the Saint Joseph's roster has ever played in an NCAA game. The Hawks are making their first appearance since 2008.
-- The Hawks are determined to pull off an upset and win their first NCAA game since 2004.
"We definitely want to go out there and shock some people," Galloway said.
-- Both teams enjoyed success in previous NCAA trips to Buffalo in 2004.
UConn beat Vermontand DePaul and went on to win a national championship. Saint Joseph's defeated Libertyand Texas Tech and reached the Elite Eight.
-- Up next: Winner plays either No. 2 Villanova or No. 15Milwaukee on Saturday. Those two teams play the late game tonight.
-- Check back later for a post-game breakdown and video.
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|2012-10-09, 09:42
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Gyrozetter 02 - Rinne no Nissan Prius
I will give the show this. While Xros Wars took some time for Akari to be more than support, Rinne is chosen as a second hero almost immediately. Though she's not very fond of the idea. That there's two heroines this season who ride around on rollerskates is pretty cool, though. It's not one of those character traits you see very often. Prius is definitely a mecha that inherits a lot of the feminine traits of its pilot, from its build and motion to its weapon (a giant needle). But it's still pretty awesome.
Other little tidbits I realized in this episode are that Kakeru and his mother both have Marina Inoue's voice. Also, all of this was foretold by a giant Rosetta Stone like thing that was able to guess everything, down to the names of the main characters. That's oddly specific. I'll work with this and see where it's going.
|2012-10-09, 19:20
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Episode 2
Yeah, I definitely like this show. Gonna keep watching it as long as it stays entertaining. It's a kids show but so fun. It reminds me of the old Sunrise shows I used to watch, which were also similar in tone. While the main character is a boy, the girl is not pushover or damsel in distress either. She has her own hopes and dreams, she's more mature, and can hold her own in a robot battle. The direction is enjoyable, I like the characters, and it's fun to watch a show which isn't ashamed to be a well produced toy/game tie-in once in a while. This episode introduced the actual card battle mechanics too. So shameless. So fun.
|2012-10-09, 19:49
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This is one of those weird series. You have an obvious "sell toys to kids series" matched up a quality writer/series comp & a solid directing staff. So it's a fun question of what the staff can do inside the constraints that are placed upon them.
And episode 1 left me thoroughly entertained. Though all of the CG cars was fun, as well. Evil CRZ's was a nice touch.
|2012-10-12, 18:56
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|2012-10-13, 17:37
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I have only one thing to say: GT-R!
That was awesome to see in an anime. I hope that blue GT-R transforms. Doesn't seem to be the case though. And this also shows how taxpayer money is being spent by defense organizations: on buying shiny cars to drive around the campus. Almost like in real life.
|2012-10-15, 12:02
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|2012-10-16, 08:07
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Episode 3
There's a dip in quality this week. The episode feels a bit like filler, with the story barely moving forward, and some padded out hi-jinx instead. There were some fun moments, but it got draggy by the end. I guess such is expected of a long kids series. But next week should be pretty fun! We're going to have a RACING BATTLE between comrades!
|2012-10-16, 09:25
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Gyrozetter 03 - Now Where's the Kabuto Car?
Within the first two episodes, Akana's gotten a lot of attention from the fanart community, for various reasons. The first appearance of a non-mass produced kind of enemy robot is a good milestone (plus, it's getting a toy), and the Gyro Commander continues be shilled as heavily as anything else. It's been pretty obvious since all the promotional material that Shunsuke would be the third Driver, and Rinne once again was the only one catching onto the fact that Kakeru was reading the wrong thing from the Stone. Shunsuke does look to fit the "cool guy" archetype, the foil to the hotblooded hero, but he's also voiced by Yoshitsugu Matsuoka - seeing the voice of Kirito in this context should prove amusing, at least.
|2012-10-23, 09:36
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Gyrozetter 04 - Sword Car Online
Zenon had a pretty small role to play this week. Only a single grunt car sent out, so effortlessly able to be displaced that Kirito Shunsuke made short work of it with a single slash. Though he almost didn't become a Gyrozetter driver until the very end. Guy's just not very big on being the hero. I don't think transforming into a robot when crossing the finish line is allowed, but the race was more about Kakeru and Shunsuke trying to prove that each one of them was worthy to the other. My favorite part of the episode was that they didn't get very much intel on the race at all - but they did get plenty of fanservice shots. (As fanservicey as one can get for a show in this time slot.) Rui and the power of race queens are stronger than anything else.
|2012-10-23, 09:53
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Episode 4
This feels like another week of drawn out filler content. Shunsuke's introduction is pretty draggy, and I think the most annoying part is how boring the enemy designs have been. This week we get a bad CG race, the female support crew all in race queen outfits, and most rival drama between Kakeru and Shunsuke! It's mostly silly, definitely a kid's cartoon, but still kinda fun. The pace definitely needs to pick up soon though, or I'll get bored. At least next week it looks like we'll be seeing a new enemy robot design! Hope it has cool attacks, lol.
|2012-10-30, 09:32
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Gyrozetter 05 - 道
Training! Vacation! Cats! Once again, the show has a neat design aesthetic for its toys. The Gyro Arc transporter jet isn't bad looking. That the episode's first shot of Akana is on her cleavage isn't bad either. Nor was the hot spring scene. For the most part, I've been okay with the way this show is treating its characters, but there is something I was curious about on the training course. Only Kakeru and Shunsuke were practicing with their Gyrozetters. Rinne has one, too, and she is a chosen driver. Girl or not, she should be honing her skills as much as those two. The opening makes it look like Rinne's role won't be completely sidelined, so I'm holding out hope. And there's the other beetle mecha - Eraser-01, who looks to be the evil version of Kakeru. Another cliffhanger ending - they're targeting the school, too.
Thankfully, Rinne and Michi get a chance to ride again next week. After the cat spy messed everything up, letting Michi have a chance to save the day sounds like it's coming at the right time.
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Dufner claims final spot in Grand Slam of Golf
Watch all of Jason Dufner's highlights | See complete coverage of the PGA Grand Slam of Golf
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Everyone knew long before the 95th PGA Championship came to Oak Hill that the classic Donald Ross design was a ball-striker's course.
When all was said and done in the season's final major, Jason Dufner proved it.
Two years after losing to Keegan Bradley in a playoff in the 93rd PGA Championship at Atlanta Athletic Club, Dufner got his redemption at Oak Hill, winning his first major championship by two shots over Jim Furyk at 10 under par.
With the victory, Dufner became the final player to qualify for golf's most exclusive foursome, joining Masters champ Adam Scott, U.S. Open winner Justin Rose and Open Champion Phil Mickelson in the 2013 PGA Grand Slam of Golf to be played Oct. 14-16 at Port Royal Golf Course in Southampton, Bermuda.
Dufner entered the final round trailing Furyk by a shot, but was nearly flawless when it counted most. On the weekend, Dufner made just two bogeys in his final 28 holes -- those were on the last two holes.
The PGA Grand Slam of Golf features a $1.35 million purse, with the winner receiving $600,000, second place $300,000, third place $250,000 and fourth place $200,000.
TNT's prime-time broadcast of the event reaches a worldwide audience of 88.9 million U.S. homes and international viewers in more than 100 countries. The PGA Grand Slam of Golf is hosted by the Bermuda Department of Tourism, Port Royal Golf Course, and the Fairmont Southampton Hotel.
Established in 1979, the PGA Grand Slam of Golf has grown from an 18-hole, single-day charity event to a 36-hole annual showdown that matches professional golf's best against each other.


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Lard is amazing. I had some hesitation writing this post. An almost border line abusive conversation happened between my artistic freedom self and my down to reality self about whether or not 1) lard/pork fat/bacon/pork belly is a food trend that is over, stale, or needs to die, 2) way too unhealthy to belong on a blog that talks (mostly) about healthy local foods, or 3) too similar to lard rice to post.
In the end, I realized that I made the dish, took the picture, and might as well write the post.
Are you familiar with this dish? It's a traditional Taiwanese dish you find on the streets of Taiwan. The dish is rooted during a time when the low income and working class were conscious of their access to extravagance, like meat, and the respect towards their food by not wasting any of it. I never ordered it when I was in Taiwan, mainly because I was eating other things that I couldn't get in the US. I finally tried this dish one lunch with my parents when I was in middle school.
Growing up, my parents made sure that we always had a stocked fridge. Every meal must always have vegetables, fish, meat, and soup. This also meant that we went grocery shopping every week, which became one of the best family memories growing up. The weekly Saturday schedule was always driving 30 minutes to Irvine or 45 minutes to Roland Heights, getting some delicious Chinese or Taiwanese food for lunch, and then grocery shopping. It's where I learned about Chinese produce, cuts of meats, and more about the food from my community.
One of the places we frequented was a Taiwanese restaurant that had "sha gua" noodles. It's translated to "fool's noodles". Mainly because a fool can make it. Lard, soy sauce, noodles, and scallions in a bowl. Easy. The flavor is something between butter and nutty soy. To be more specific, in as much vague descriptions as I can give, it's like an earthy, briny, less gamey buttered noodles with bursts of freshness from the scallions. The scallions also add a green crunch which buries itself in the creaminess of the lard mixed with the al dente chew of the noodles. All in all, it's a great snack or meal after a night of drinking.
Enjoy all it's goodies.
2 servings dried Chinese Noodles
1 tbs lard
1 tsp soy sauce
1/2 cup scallion, minced
chicharon or pork rinds, crumbled (optional)
cook noodles per packaged directions until al dente and drain
mix in rest of ingredients
season with salt or soy sauce to taste and sprinkle the Chicharron if you like
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This 1975 residence was built as a prefab, the owner says. She always felt that it looked like a trailer.
While she had seen this type of house as a starter, 23 years, two lovely daughters and two happy dogs later, she is amazed that they are still rooted there.
The façade has a dated, rustic quality mixed with a Victorian-style doorway. My approach was to work toward a fresher look and quiet elegance. The owner was thinking of painting the green surface in a taupe colour. Because of the golden, medium-brown roof, which had no grey subtleties, I opted for a warmer tone like a neutral sand tint for the siding, the foundation, the base of the bay window, all vertical gutter pipes and the tiny white dryer vent cap that stands out like an elephant. The beige shouldn't have any hint of pink or green undertones. A good quality exterior acrylic paint is a wise choice if done in a matte finish.
The husband wanted to hold onto the wood grain of the handmade shutters that he loved. First, I would square off the Popsicle tops and re-stain them in a less orange tint. The colours from the roof shingles are a good reference. Using the same design as the other ones, two new shutters will be installed on each side of the bay window. The smaller basement louvres are too distracting and ought to be removed. The holes will have to be repaired.
The front fascia of the entrance overhang looks disproportional compared to the ones on its left and right. Instead of small vertical bits of wood, a single plank would look cleaner. Same for the triangular shape, which should be a flat, one-piece board adorned with a relief detail. These fascias as well as the new thicker posts would look crisper in a fresh coat of white paint or opaque stain. The existing ones seemed too weak compared to the house.
Details are so important. The hinges of the screen door are showing. These should be placed inside and the door itself ought to be flush with its contour or frame. The entrance could be enlivened if both doors were painted in an earthy orange tone in a soft sheen finish. The light fixtures are OK, but the entryway would look richer if these were bolder in size in a lantern-style bronze patina.
The level of the driveway is somewhat higher than the rest of the lot. Various stones, flat mural slabs and concrete dividers that border the Z-shape long beds surrounding the car entry, seem damaged and untidy. They need to be changed, or at least straightened out.
Because of their low height, several fir-like, golden perennials will cover the strips of soil without hiding a new bed near the foundation. Not seen here, the central round bed will be eliminated and substituted with grass. On the inferior ground level, two pathways will merge from the new concrete slab flooring of the porch area.
Edges of orange perennials will border the new, longer passageway. This colour will be introduced with Caramel Heucheras and shrubs and plants that will mirror the deep carroty tints of the two front doors.
Less is more. Homeowners typically tend to use numerous, small or mismatched flower containers, and in this case, sun-bleached ones. One hunky vessel is sufficient if your entrance is asymmetrical. If the entry is symmetrical, two big pots on each side of the porch are plenty. If there is an empty wall or a feature space, use three identical ones. In this week's design, there is no need for any.
Solar light fixtures in black containers not shown here, loose fireplace wood, bits and pieces at the end of the driveway, minuscule things propped against the extension wall of the house, and garbage and recycling bins add to the visual clutter. All these should vanish out of sight and mind.
Bravo to the owners for the homogeneous window treatment and for the white colour that was picked from the façade. It's fortunate that it was not inspired from the previous hunter-green shade.
Vegetation (from left to right):
- Rhododendron Golden Lights (persistent shrub, orange, extremities of home)
- Potentilla Abbotswood (shrubs, white, near rhododendrons)
- Pieris Japonica Mountain Fire (shrubs, front outer corners)
- Astilbe arendsii Diamant (perennials, white cones, foundation)
- Heuchera Caramel (perennial hedge, white, walkway)
- Hemerocallis Stella de Oro (owner's perennials, orange, three each side)
- Cimicifuga ramosa Atro-purpurea (perennials, purplish, white, porch)
- Euonymus fortunei Emerald 'n' Gold (persistent shrubs, variegated, porch)
- Thuja Smaragd (pyramidal evergreen, right side of house)
- Sedum reflexum Angelina (border perennials, gold, amber in fall, L-shaped bed)
- Geum Borisii (perennial border, orange red, edges, new larger walkway)
This is a column in which designer Suzanne Rowe selects homes that could benefit from a little inexpensive help in increasing their curb appeal. After examining photographs, she then proceeds to sketch out an artist's rendering of what they could look like with a few minor changes. We hope you enjoy the results.
Most homes can use a little bit of help when it comes to warming up their curb appeal. If you would like some inexpensive ideas on how to improve the appearance of your home, send a clear photo of your house with your commentary to: Suzanne Rowe, Designer, email@example.com


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#SPSM Video Chat on Social Media Campaigns for Suicide Prevention
John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 10 blogs containing over 8000 articles with John having written over 4000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 16 million times. John also manages Healthcare IT Central and Healthcare IT Today, the leading career Health IT job board and blog. John is co-founder of InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and LinkedIn.
In case you missed it, I've been spending quite a bit of time lately with Blabs and Periscope. These along with things like Google Plus hangouts and Meerkat have made live streaming of video stupidly simple and amazingly interactive. I'd love to hear your thoughts on these platforms and how you think we should use them and how you think healthcare should use them. What would you find valuable.
With that in mind, I was intrigued by this Google Plus hangout with members of the #SPSM community talking about social media campaigns for suicide prevention month:
What do you think of video hangouts like this? Are these discussions good? Will they reach the intended audience? Is video going to be a powerful medium for healthcare? I'd love to hear your thoughts.


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posted by Thom Holwerda on Sun 15th Jun 2008 21:11 UTC
"Of all the community distributions, probably the least known is openSUSE. After two and a half years, the distro is not only still working out details about how its community operates - including how its governing board is elected - but also struggling to come out of the shadow of its corporate parent Novell, much as Fedora has emerged from its initial dominance by Red Hat. With the pending release of openSUSE 11.0, community manager Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier suggests that the distribution is finally starting to get the recognition it deserves. In the middle of preparations for the new release, Brockmeier took the time to talk with Linux.com about the priorities within the community and its relation with the larger world of free software."


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I put my budget Hammocka hammock out in the back yard last night for my first trial hang. I was woefully unprepared for the event and I suspect, like most, found myself modifying and adjusting things as daylight descended.
I needed to add a tarp because I'd forgotten the dew that would cover me by morning and I also wanted to have a drink of water handy. I quickly found my 8 X 6 Walmart tarp from my tent gear and afixed that to a hastily configured ridge line. I used snap clips to attach everything (I know, not the lightest method but it was quick and it worked.) I grabbed some wire tent pegs from my kit and laid down some side lines.
This seemed to work pretty well, but I wasn't ready yet. I dressed in long pants, a tshirt and long sleeved shirt, and socks, despite it having been a warm day, I thought the night would be cool. Oh, boy...the temp dropped quickly after sunset and by 1:00 am I was getting pretty cold. I hadn't configured an under-quilt and I needed my sleeping bag, which I hadn't pulled out of my gear. So, I bailed and went into bed.
This picture was taken this morning and I was pleased with my first experiment. The trees are so very far apart that I needed a ladder to get the attachment point high enough for a good sag. This was my major issue in every attempt to hang previously and it came to me last night as I was sitting down to enjoy an adult beverage in my Hammocka. Looking up at the clouds sailing by, I noticed the location of the ropes just didn't seem high enough. So, I pulled out the step ladder that I'd been using earlier and move 'em up three feet. Perfect, and then it hit me; "I should try an overnight experiment."
Well, I'll need to make some adjustments, and I need to add a welcome mat-ground pad of some sort for entry/exit to facilitate clean feet, but I call it a success.
Except: This morning, when I went out to check on my configuration, I found that there was a LOT of dew on the underside of my Walmart tarp. I mean a lot. So much, that if I were in my hammock and accidentally hit the tarp, it would drip on me and would be like rain. What's the solution to this problem. I wouldn't want to be out in the woods with this kind of issue, but I realize that the amount of fog was pretty intense last night/this morning. Would a different material react differently? What's your opinion?


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March 15, 2013
Life expectancy for people living with HIV has been steadily rising -- approaching, but not quite achieving, that of the uninfected population in most studies. But such data have been limited in that they have tended to look at all comers, including those presenting with more advanced HIV disease.
That is, until this study, which was published in the March 13 issue of AIDS and authored by Alison J. Rodger, M.D., of University College London, and colleagues.
This analysis compared the rate of death among HIV-infected patients with relatively preserved or reconstituted immune function with that of the general population. It found that, for those with a CD4+ cell count >500 cells/mm3, there was no excess mortality. Details include:
It can be speculated that long-term inflammation could cause life-threatening disease, and that this is reduced with effective HIV treatment. These results suggest that a normal CD4+ cell count equals a normal risk of death -- and they punctuate the point that a normal CD4+ cell count is not below 500 cells/mm3.
Foremost, the finding of an increased risk of mortality at counts below 500 cells/mm3 adds further support for early initiation of HIV therapy.
The Study: Rodger A, Lodwick R, Schechter M, et al. Mortality in well controlled HIV in the continuous antiretroviral therapy arms of the SMART and ESPRIT trials compared with the general population. AIDS 2013; 27:973-979.
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- The government of the US has no moral authority to elect itself as the judge over human rights in Cuba, where there has not been a single case of disappearance, torture or extra-judicial execution since 1959, and where despite the economic blockade, there are levels of health, education and culture that are internationally recognised.
- We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.
- Commentary essay, "For one day only, I'm a Lib Dem: We must take the politics of the anti-war front into the electoral arena," The Guardian, March 26, 2005.
- For all their incoherence and senseless rage, their message is attractive to those layers of the population who yearn for some order in their lives. If the fanatics promise to feed them and educate their children they are prepared to forgo the delights of CNN and BBC World.
- Referring to the Taliban. The Clash of Fundamentalisms ISBN 1-85984-457-X, pg. 200.
- Let's discuss the world. To answer the question, "is globalisation possible without God", the simple answer is "yes". Globalisation is after all itself a code word, a mask, for not using the C-word, capitalism. Globalisation is basically the latest phase of expanding capitalism. This not something which is neutral, this is a capitalism that has its rules: it has its economic rules, it has its political rules, it has its cultural rules and it has its military rules. It is a system. At the heart of this system is the United States of America, the world's only existing empire today. The first time in the history of humanity that you have just had a single empire, so dominant, whose military budget is higher than the military budgets of the next 15 countries put together, and whose military-industrial complex itself is the eleventh largest economic entity in the world. This is the reality we live in, and this is the reality which confronts us in different ways.
- 10th Globalisation lecture, VRPO. [2]
The Clash of FundamentalismEdit
- Tragedies are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setting, local and global. The events of 11 September 2001 are not exception.
- Even if you reject everything, it is always better to know what it is you are rejecting.


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One thing is for sure as a new expansion approaches in Warcraft – many of the end game materials and components that have been staples of the economy for the last two years will suddenly become defunct, useful only as curios.
It's at this time of the expansion cycle that people start thinking about clearing out their current bank inventory and making more room. But what to sell, or buy, or collect? And emblems and honour will also become outmoded, what to do with those?
In a scant few months, almost no one will want to buy those epic gems, raid crafting materials, or foodstuffs. There will be some demand from new goblins or worgen who are levelling tradeskills but it won't be for the level 80 endgame materials. On the other hand, cosmetic items which required some grind at 80 might become even more sought after in future. The pets from the Argent Tournament fetch a decent price now, but how much more when half the new players don't even know where the place is, let alone want to go grind rep there? Plus of course there will be a huge influx of gold into the system when everyone heads out questing again. So prices may rise across the board as the value of current era gold falls.
But still, that's months away. Players will still want to gem and enchant their gear as long as they are still raiding/ PvPing. They'll want to buy materials to prepare for the expansion too.
But I did find something recently that made me think harder about my plans.
The Tiny Crimson Whelpling is a rare dropped pet in The Wetlands and is a small red dragon. I wasn't particularly trying to farm for one. I was just wasting time while waiting for Arbitrary because I wanted to show her where to find the Razormaw Hatchling eggs (another pet, but not so rare.)
And now the poor thing is sitting in my bags while I try to decide what to do with it. I guess the pet is probably still available in Cataclysm but we won't know that for sure until the expansion goes live (I'm assuming that beta players have better things to do). So on the one hand it's pretty cool and definitely rare at the moment. On the other, it'll probably be worth more after the expansion drops, possibly lots more if it is no longer farmable.
But it's a tiny red dragon! Would a worgen with a tiny red dragon pet be cool or not?
Have you started clearing out your bags and banks for Cataclysm? Or collecting things to help future alts with levelling and training a craft?
A glimpse beyond the veil
The character copy has finally worked for me with the Public Test Realm so I've been able to start testing warrior stuffs for patch 4.0. It feels a bit like Moses getting a glimpse of the promised land – I'm not cool enough to be in the actual beta, but just enough to do a bit of testing with a fragment of what is to come.
This shows the default UI during combat. The red shields are the new built in power aura effect for Sword and Board. It thoughtfully also lights up the icon, and writes the name of the ability above your head, making me feel like a character in an anime.
I find myself reluctant to actually go tank an instance without waiting for people I know to transfer over. I know from other comments that AE threat has been found to be lacking and when I say to myself, "Self, how about testing this new tanking build in an actual instance with a PUG?" I somehow find a zillion other things to do instead.
I just can't feel inspired to want to put up with whatever insults and personal comments the frustrated and overgeared dps masses probably want to throw at me. I will sometime. I'll gird my loins with beer or something and just see what happens but in the cold clear light of day, it sounds rather masochistic and I'm sure I urgently need to test … err… something or other different. I remember tanking BC heroics on my warrior. It had its moments, but those were mostly in specific instances which played to my strengths (I remember Arcatraz being a personal favourite.)
My inclination is to tank for friends or guildies, and switch to DPS for everyone else if it's going to be like that. This probably does not bode well for LFG queues in Cataclysm, because if I'm not sure I want to tank randoms, you can bet a lot of other people are thinking the same thing.
Still, on the bright side, Victory Rush heals Spinks for about 10k which is is a fifth of her health unbuffed. Not bad.


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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte expressed regret Tuesday over his "son of a b****" remark while referring to President Barack Obama, in a rare display of contrition by a politician whose wide arc of profanities has unabashedly targeted world figures including the pope and the U.N. chief.
In a statement read out by his spokesman, Duterte said that while his "strong comments" in response to questions by a reporter "elicited concern and distress, we also regret it came across as a personal attack on the U.S. president."
Duterte had made the intemperate remarks Monday before flying to Laos, where he is attending a regional summit. He had been scheduled to meet Obama separately in Laos, but Obama indicated he had second thoughts, and the White House announced that the meeting had been canceled.


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Over the holiday, I found myself reading:
- You've only got one fire extinguisher over at Only God Can Make A Tree looks at what it means when you're the ONLY healer in Arathi Basin. I love the metaphor of 5 fires burning all at once.
- Via Ihra, I have started reading Battleground PvPer. I can't imagine what about the topic appeals to me… oh, wait…
- Psynister and I have been having a lot of fun building our twinks over on Durotan, and his guide to How to Play a Mage: CC Edition is spot on.
- She only mentioned it in passing, but Ambermist over at Tastes Like Battlechicken has also rolled a twink on Durotan as a break from raiding and is tearing apart Warsong Gulch with her bare hands. Well, I think there might be maces involved, but you get the idea.
- Nibuca takes a look at Warlock Affliction pets and it looks like all's right in the Affliction world again.
- Cassandri over at Hots & Dots has had two posts which have my Shoulder Goblin thinking, one on Profiteering and the Value of Gear and the other on Inscription and Demand. Making gold in Warcraft is easy, but not always as easy as it seems.
- Would You Sell Your Pride For 5 Minutes over at Righteous Orbs is an interesting look at the tradeoffs people make for civility. (I don't hesitate to drop party if I'm the only one I know in it, by the way. The only exception is when I'm tanking.)
Happy Reading!