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One thing I've been trying to do this summer is get back to back to eating in a way that lines up more closely with my ethical system. Obviously, there is the veganism. But, there are other things too – like going to the farmer's market, eating organic (or, as organic as I can afford), focusing on whole foods (by which I mean unprocessed foods, not the store), aaaaaannnnnd cooking!!! Cooking is still largely overwhelming to me. Something about combining ingredients and trying to count it all creates very high levels of anxiety, confusion, etc. Portioning is also difficult, so I eat more pre-portioned things than I would like, because of the trash associated with it. But, I figure, the first aim is that the food has to get into my body, and for now if that means I have some frozen Amy's meals or some pre-portioned things, I'm going to let that be okay.
I am, however, making progress now that it's summer. I have more time to plan food, deal with the anxiety, go to farmer's markets, etc. One thing I've learned is that when I reincoporate something back into my diet – tempeh, most recently – I need to eat it a few days in a row if it's going to "stick." Also, as an incentive to cook, I bought myself a new cast-iron skillet. For a while, I wouldn't let myself cook in cast-iron because it's the "best/healthiest" way to cook because supposedly you actually get more iron in your diet that way.
With cooking, if I stick to whole, vegan ingredients (and not too many ingredients or it gets overwhelming), I'm actually starting to get some enjoyment out of it again. And I'm actually starting to feel good about what I'm putting in my body. I had forgotten what this felt like.
So, for example, one of my new favs to cook is a vegan tofu scramble:
It includes: lite firm tofu, tomatoes, cilantro, onions, mushrooms, red and yellow peppers, Spike seasoning, Bragg's essential aminos, garlic, dried basil, Daiya vegan "cheese" sprinkled on top (gotta get that endurance fuel!*)
This is a meal that I have come to feel good about. At some point I need to be able to use regular (not lite) tofu, and oil (not just pan spray), but this is a big step. I hadn't let myself eat this (too nourishing) in probably a year or so. Maybe a bit more. Now it's pretty thoroughly reincorporated.
And then there's traveling when vegan and in recovery. I'm going to D.C. for a few days and I have absolutely no idea what the food situation will be, the availability of vegan food, etc. So, my RD and I did some planning. My packing chaos looks like this:
Let's just say: 8 soymilks to stand-in for supplements, some granola (new food!), vegan Luna bars, vegan Clif bar & Clif zbars, fruit leather, Annie's vegan gummy bunnies (new food!), chocolate covered soy nuts (new food! And yes, I'm super annoyed they're south beach as well), vegan nu go bars (my fav protein bar), vegan wheat crackers, primal strips (vegan jerky), electrolyte water (no dehydration for me!). This is more than I would normally take for four days, but since the availability of vegan food is questionable at best, I am prepared for a worst-case scenario in which I have significant trouble meeting my nutritional needs at meals. Some of these foods are highly processed (the bars, ahem), but overall, they're foods that I feel good about putting in my body and I feel secure knowing that I have the means to stick to vegan foods so that I don't have to deal with the anxiety/frustration/disappointment in straying from that.
So, I've been thinking about veganism and the role that it plays in my recovery – specifically in regard to choice. First and foremost, let me reiterate: I am an ethical vegan. My veganism extends beyond my food choices – I don't wear animal products (leather, wool, silk), and all of my personal care products (shampoo, soap, shaving cream, make-up, etc.) are vegan. But, in the eating disorder world, veganism is often equated with restricting (Aimee Liu makes this mistake in Gaining, a book which I otherwise thoroughly LOVE). Yes, being vegan limits your choices. If you're not vegan, think about your favorite restaurant. Think about what options on the menu would and would not be viable if you're vegan.
This is what gets a lot of people up in arms. The response often is, "You just want to be vegan so you can restrict!" Of course there are some people who are ill who use veganism/vegetarianism in that way. But, the restriction is not about the vegetarianism. It's about the eating disorder. And if one is going to actively engage in the eating disorder, one is going to actively engage. Claiming veganism might make it a bit harder to spot to other people, but the restriction is about the eating disorder, not the veganism, and if one is determined, it will happen, vegan or not.
So, let's think about dopamine now. One of the posts that I linked in my last post – Structured on the ED Bites blog by Carrie Arnold – discusses the fact that people recovering from Anorexia Nervosa often need a meal plan because our brains process dopamine differently, and therefore we have very little gauge of whether we are making "the right" decision. So, without that internal gauge of "Yes, this is good" or "No, this is harmful," decision making can quickly become overwhelming. So, that's why many patients may find it helpful to have a meal plan to help them structure and guide the the decision making process. Carrie Arnold also talks about how choices often need to be limited – the example that she uses is that instead of saying "What kind of grain would you like with dinner?," it might be more helpful for someone recovering from anorexia to be asked "Would you like rice or pasta?" (I think that this must be partially why grocery stores are so daunting for so many of us. SUCH an overabundance of options. – What do I choose? Am I making the right choice? How do I know? Should I get this or this . . . or this . . . or that?!) I've seen my RD use this tactic with people when they're struggling with meeting their meal plan in nutrition group – if they need more, she just comes over to them with a couple of options and says "Choose one" or "Choose two." Or, she might say, "Would you like nuts or a supplement?" But it's never, "How do you want to make up for that?" because . . . so many options! How would one know what decision to make?
So, what if the structure of veganism isn't bad? For me, the fact that being vegan often pares down an overwhelming abundance of choice is really, really helpful. Sometimes when I go to strictly vegan restaurants, I get someone paralyzed by the multitude of choices (What do I get? What if I don't choose the right thing? What if I think I know what I want, but I don't? What if I want something else after I've already ordered? What if I want two things? How do I pick? Etc., etc.) It's too much; I can't gauge if I'm making the right choice. I think that further into recovery, this will improve as I keep having healthy choices externally reinforced by my treatment team. And it's better than it used to be. But, what if one of the fringe benefits of ethical veganism is helping reduce the anxiety of overwhelming choice? What if veganism *in recovery* actually makes eating more manageable, not more restrictive? What if people with eating disorders are actually capable of having ethical/spiritual/moral beliefs that affect what they good about putting in their bodies, as I've mentioned in a previous blog post?
What if the fact that so many people go through at least a "phase" of vegetarianism in recovery is about making overwhelming choices more manageable? What if those of us in recovery need ongoing methods to help structure our decision-making? Is that really so bad?


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This guide walks you through installing a web server, an SQL database server, and a server-side scripting tool that ties everything together. Some of the more popular tools for doing this are Apache, MySQL, and PHP3.
This is what you will have accomplished after successfully completing this guide:
- setup the MySQL database server
- setup the Apache web server
- setup the PHP 3.0 Hypertext Preprocessor for server-side-scripting
- create a simple web enabled database
This guide is meant as an introductory guide to get you started in the world of server-side-scripting and web databases. It will help you get up and running with the aforementioned products, and hopefully give you a better understanding of how this stuff all works.How It Works
It is helpful to have a feeling for what goes on behind the scenes, so here is an over simplification of how things would work,. This diagram isn't really correct but it should be enough for now:
So let's set the scenario. We have a web page that pulls some data out of a database. John Doe requests this page from his browser, the request is sent to the web server which in turn calls a PHP script. The PHP script is executed by the PHP preprocessor, it pulls data from the database. The results are then massaged by the rest of the PHP script and turned into HTML. The final HTML gets sent back to the user's browser.
Got that? Let's look at this step by step:
- John Doe clicks on a link to from his web browser; his web browser sends a
request for http://www.foo.com/foofoo.php3.
- Apache gets the request for foofoo.php3. It knows that
.php3 files are handled by the PHP preprocessor, so it tells PHP to deal with
- foofoo.php3 is a PHP script that contains commands. One of
these commands is to open a connection to a database and grab some data. PHP
knows how to talk to the database, so it does its thing.
- The data comes back from the database, and foofoo.php3 does something to
format the data. Typically this would be to make it look pretty before
formatting it into HTML.
- The HTML goes back to Apache.
- Apache sends this back to John Doe's browser, as the response to his request. John Doe now sees a pretty web page containing some information from a database.
Again, that's not 100% correct but it's enough to understand what goes on :). Now that we have a basic understanding of what we are trying to accomplish, let's get on to installing the software.{mospagebreak title=Requirements}
In writing this document, I will assume that you already have:
- a basic understanding of Unix commands, HTML, and SQL
- an understanding of administering your Unix box
- a working Unix box on which you will install the software
- the necessary software packages to compile software
- you don't already have MySQL, Apache, or PHP installed
This guide is written to be as OS neutral as possible. Please make changes as necessary for your setup.Getting MySQL
First let's grab MySQL, you will find it at http://www.mysql.com. The latest version as of this writing is 3.22.22. From their download page, you will find precompiled binaries for the following operating systems:
- Linux
- Irix 6.3
- SunOS 4.1.4
- Solaris (Sparc) 2.5.1 and 2.6
Next thing to get is the Apache source distribution. You will find it at their homepage http://www.apache.org, the latest version as of this writing is 1.3.6.Getting PHP
Finally, get the PHP source distribution from their homepage http://www.php.net. The latest version as of this writing is 3.0.7.Other Packages
There are many other things you can compile PHP. Doing this is beyond the scope of this document, you can always add support for these things later. We will keep things simple to get through this guide.{mospagebreak title=Installing MySQL}
Okay, we actually get to do something now! Assuming you've downloaded everything into /tmp, do this to install MySQL.
The MySQL file you downloaded will be called something like mysql-3.22.21-pc-linux-gnu-i686.tar.gz, depending on your platform.. Extract this into /usr/local, you must do this as root:
$ cd /usr/local $ su # gzip -dc mysql-3.22.21-pc-linux-gnu.i686.tar.gz | tar -xvf
After it extracts everything, a directory called mysql-3.22.21-pc-linux-gnu-i686 (or similar) will be created. We make a symlink to this directory and give it a friendlier name:
# ln -s mysql-3.22.21-pc-linux-gnu-i686 mysql
Next time there is a new version of MySQL, you can just extract the binary distribution to a new directory and change the symlink.
Creating a MySQL User
Now we will create a user account to run the MySQL server daemons and to own all the MySQL files. Add a new user called mysql on your system using whatever commands are available for your OS (eg. useradd). No one should be logging into this account, so disable logins by:
- setting the account expiry to a date in the past
- entering NP or * in the password field of /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow
- whatever your OS recommends
First let's change the ownership of MySQL directories and files to be owned by the mysql user and the root group:
# cd /usr/local # chown -R mysql mysql-3.22.22-pc-linux-gnu-i686 mysql # chgrp -R root mysql-3.22.22-pc-linux-gnu-i686 mysql
Now we have to run a little script that creates the initial MySQL database, do this a the mysql user. This is the only time we use this account directly:
# su mysql $ cd mysql $ scripts/mysql_install_db $ exit
If that didn't give you any error messages, you're well on your way.Make MySQL Start Automatically
MySQL comes with a little startup script in /usr/local/mysql/support-files called mysql.server. Make sure it is executable:
$ chmod +x /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server
You should call this from one of your system startup scripts. As this is different for every operating system, refer to your system manual for more information on how to do this.Testing MySQL
MySQL comes with a sample database called test and its internal database that keeps track of permissions and users, so let's fire it up and see if everything is working so far. First start up MySQL:
# /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server start
If that worked, you should be able to something like:
Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/mysql/var
The MySQL programs files are located in /usr/local/mysql/bin, you may want to this to your path. Start the client by running:
# mysql
You should see the following:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or g. Your MySQL connection id is 2 to server version: 3.22.22 Type 'help' for help. mysql>
Next, list the installed databases by typing show databases:
mysql> show databases;
You should see:
+———-+ | Database | +———-+ | mysql | | test | +———-+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
If you did, then it's working!! Exit MySQL by typing exit:
Changing the Admin Password
mysql> exit; Bye
The first thing to do after everything works is to change the administrator password. Do this by running mysqladmin (remember that it may not be in your path):
# mysqladmin -u root password newpassword
This sets the password for the user root to newpassword. You probably don't want to use that, so substitute it with something clever.{mospagebreak title=Installing Apache}
Now we will install Apache. Assuming you downloaded it into /tmp, do the following (note you probably shouldn't be root while doing this):
$ cd /tmp $ tar -zvxf apache_1.3.6.tar.gz $ cd apache_1.3.6 $ ./configure –sysconfdir=/etc/httpd –datadir=/home/httpd –logfiledir=/var/log/httpd –enable-module=most –enable-shared=max –disable-rule=WANTHSREGEX
This tells Apache to store it's configuration files in /etc/httpd. The data files directories (HTML documents, CGI-BIN directory) will be rooted in /home/httpd. Next, we tell Apache we want most of the modules enabled, and that they should be built as DSO modules.
DSO stands for Dynamic Shared Object. By compiling Apache with DSO support, you are able to add and remove modules from Apache without having to recompile it. This is really handy, read all about it at the Apache DSO page (http://www.apache.org/docs/dso.html), if you're interested.
Next thing to do is to compile this thing. Do this by running make:
$ make
That should take a little while. When it finishes, you'll have to su to root to copy the files to their final destinations:
$ su # make install
If all goes well, you should see a bunch of messages tell you some information about Apache and how it was installed on your computer.Configuring Apache
Starting from Apache 1.3.4, the three configuration files: srm.conf, httpd.conf, and access.conf have been consolidated into httpd.conf. Naturally, this carries on to 1.3.6, so load it into your favorite editor and change these directives:
Port 80 DirectoryIndex index.html index.shtml index.cgi index.php3 AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3 AddType application/x-httpd-php3-source .phps
Scan through the files and change any other directives that you feel should be changed. For detailed information about the directives, visit the Apache Website and look at the server documentation.Testing Apache
Run this to start Apache:
# /usr/local/bin/apachectl start
If it said that Apache was started, you should be able to use any web browser to connect to your box. If all goes well, you will see a Welcome to Apache page. Also, check that the httpd processes are running:
# ps ax | grep httpd
# ps -ef | grep httpd
depending on your flavour of Unix. You should see a bunch of processes like:
14362 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd 14364 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd 14365 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd 14366 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd 14367 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd 14368 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd
Now let's turn off Apache and install PHP.
# /usr/local/bin/apachectl stop
As with MySQL, you probably want to add an entry in one of your system startup files to fire up Apache when your system boots up.{mospagebreak title=Installing PHP}
With Apache installed and working, let's now turn our attention to PHP. Assuming you downloaded it to /tmp, let's get to work on it (you don't need to be root yet):
$ cd /tmp $ tar -zxvf php-3.0.7.tar.gz $ cd php-3.0.7 $ ./configure –with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs –with-config-file-path=/etc/httpd –with-mysql –with-system-regex
This configures PHP to compile itself as an Apache DSO module. Configuration files are to be stored in /etc/httpd (along with your Apache configuration files).
After running that configure script, you can build PHP by running make:
$ make
If that completed without errors, you will have to su to root and install PHP:
$ su # make install
Voila, PHP is magically installed into Apache, it will get enabled next time Apache is started.Configuring PHP
Let's configure PHP, start by copying the PHP configuration file into /etc/httpd.
# cp php3.ini-dist /etc/httpd/php3.ini
The defaults in this file are good enough, but I like the debug messages to be more verbose. Change the error_reporting directive from the default value of 7 to 15:
error_reporting = 15
You can now start Apache again by running:
# /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start
No errors means it started up with PHP enabled. Everything working so far? Excellent! Let's do a quick little test page with PHP to make sure it is indeed working.Testing PHP
Create a file in /home/httpd/htdocs called test.php3:
  <title>My First PHP Page</title>   <? echo "Hello World"; ?>
Save this file, and try to load it up from your web browser. For example:
# lynx http://localhost/test.php3
You should see a page come up with the words Hello World. Now let's get started with a simple web database sample.{mospagebreak title=Creating the Database}
In the next sections, we will go through the steps involved in creating a web enabled database. First we create the database, and populate it with some data. After that is done, we create some PHP scripts that talk to the database and see it all work.Building the Database
Make sure the MySQL server processes are running. If they aren't start them manually by running:
# /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server start
Now we start the MySQL client as the administrator, this time we will see a password prompt:
Creating the database
# mysql -u root -p Enter password:
newpasswordWelcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or g. Your MySQL connection id is 13 to server version: 3.22.21 Type 'help' for help. mysql>
Create a database called example with the command create database example;. When using the MySQL client, remember to put a semicolon (;) after each command:
Create a new table
mysql> create database example; Query OK, 1 row affected (0.03 sec) mysql> use example; Database changed
Create a table in the example database called mytable:
mysql> CREATE TABLE mytable ( -> name CHAR(30), -> phone CHAR(10) -> ); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
Here's a handy tip that will save you some typing. Use the up arrow and down arrow keys to recall back the previous/next lines you typed in.Adding some data
Now let's populate this with some data, we will insert a few entries into the table. Enter in the following INSERT statments:
mysql> INSERT INTO mytable VALUES ("Homer Simpson", "555-1234"); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.05 sec) mysql> INSERT INTO mytable VALUES ("Bart Simpson", "555-4321"); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) mysql> INSERT INTO mytable VALUES ("Lisa Simpson", "555-3214"); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) mysql> INSERT INTO mytable VALUES ("Marge Simpson", "555-2314"); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) mysql> INSERT INTO mytable VALUES ("Maggie Simpson", "555-3142"); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
Make sure everything is there by issuing with a SELECT statement:
mysql> SELECT * FROM mytable; +—————-+———-+ | name | phone | +—————-+———-+ | Homer Simpson | 555-1234 | | Bart Simpson | 555-4321 | | Lisa Simpson | 555-3214 | | Marge Simpson | 555-2314 | | Maggie Simpson | 555-3142 | +—————-+———-+ 5 rows in set (0.00 sec)
Looking good so far? Excellent.Creating a Database User
We've created the database and put some data in there, now we must create a user account. This user will have access to this database. We create the user and grant privileges with the GRANT command:
mysql> GRANT usage -> ON example.* -> TO webuser@localhost; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.15 sec)
This creates a new user called webuser. This user can connect only from localhost, and he has the ability to connect to the example database. Next we have to specify what operations webuser can perform:
mysql> GRANT select, insert, delete -> ON example.* -> TO webuser@localhost; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
This gives webuser the ability to execute SELECT, INSERT, and DELETE queries on every table of the example database. Our work is done here, exit the MySQL client:
{mospagebreak title=Making a PHP Script}
mysql> exit Bye
We've created the database, now let's make the PHP scripts that form the guts of our web database example.Creating the PHP Scripts
To keep things really simple, we will just create two scripts: one that lists all the entries in the database, and one that allows us to add new entries.index.php3
Create a new directory called example in your web directory:
# cd /home/httpd/htdocs # mkdir example
Next, create a file called index.php3 in this directory. It should contain:
 <title>Web Database Sample Index</title>
Data from mytable
 <? mysql_connect("localhost", "webuser", ""); $query = "SELECT name, phone FROM mytable"; $result = mysql_db_query("example", $query); if ($result) { echo "Found these entries in the database:
"; while ($r = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $name = $r["name"]; $phone = $r["phone"]; echo "
$name, $phone"; } echo "
"; } else { echo "No data."; } mysql_free_result($result); ?>
Add new entry
Next, we create add.php3 in the same directory. This script does two things, first it will prompt the user for information to add to the database. Second, it will add this information to the database. This second function is normally put in a separate file, but it is so easy to do that we cram them both into one PHP script:
 <title>Web Database Sample Inserting</title>   <? if (isset($name) && isset($phone)) { mysql_connect("localhost", "webuser", ""); $query = "INSERT INTO mytable VALUES ('$name', '$phone')"; $result = mysql_db_query("example", $query); if ($result) { echo "
$name was added to the database
"; } } ?>
Add an entry
 <form> Name: <input type=text name='name'>
 Phone: <input type=text name='phone'>
 <input type=submit> </form>
Back to index
That's it, nice and simple. Now let's test it.{mospagebreak title=Testing the Script}
All the work is done, let's see if it works! Make sure everyone has read permissions (chmod ugo+r) for these files, otherwise you'll get an Access Denied error message from Apache. You should now be able to use your web browser to access what you've just created.
Assuming you're using lynx:
$ lynx http://localhost/example
This should bring up a page that lists all the entries you added to the database earlier. For example:
Found these entries in the database: * Homer Simpson, 555-1234 * Bart Simpson, 555-4321 * Lisa Simpson, 555-3214 * Marge Simpson, 555-2314 * Maggie Simpson, 555-3142 Add new entry
Select the Add new entry link, and you should go to a page that allows you to enter data:
Name: ____________________ Phone: ____________________ Submit Back to index
Enter something and select the Submit link. This submits the filled-out form back to the same PHP script. This time, there are values in the two fields name and phone, so these get added to the database.
You should see a message telling you something was added to the database. Select the Back to index link to confirm that your new entry is in fact there.
If everything worked, then congratulations! You've completed this howto and built your first web database application! It was pretty easy wasn't it?


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World Vision unveils "World Vision's Summerfest '09," their first-ever summer concert series featuring pop-rock band Building 429, 33Miles, Lanae Hale, and new act Kimber Rising. The Summerfest will visit 12 to 15 cities and kicks off this week. World Vision hopes to have more than 800 child sponsorships by the end of the tour.
The tour dates lead up to Building 429's World Vision mission trip to Uganda this July where the band will be performing to approximately 30,000 people in Rwanda with Andrew Palau of the Luis Palau Association. The band will continue their tour with World Vision in August for 15 dates across Canada.
For more information on World Vision Summerfest '09 and the tour dates, click here.
For more information about World Vision, a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice, visit the World Vision Web site.
ParentLife is excited to feature 33Miles' lead vocalist Jason Barton and his story in our upcoming October 2009 issue. You can see Jason and 33Miles as part of Summerfest '09. Don't forget to check out this month's ParentLife feature on musical artist TobyMac.
Tell us! Who are your favorite Christian artists? Do you sponsor a child through World Vision?


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Q: What are your thoughts on using the oxyacetylene style of brazing for fabricating operations—chopping tops, frenching headlights, shaving hoods, or pretty much every aspect of sheetmetal work? I have a lot of experience in that process from years past, putting together fairly intricate radio controlled race cars, and it works well for that application.
Ben Jones
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A: Brazing has been around for a very long time, and it has some characteristics that make it well suited for many applications. Brazing is an easy process to learn, and the oxyacetylene equipment required for brazing is less costly than for any type of electric welding. When brazing, it's easy to build up a lot of material, as is sometimes needed for creating fillets, or filling low spots. Brass won't rust, and that offers some benefits for certain types of work. It's also a good material to use on parts that will be chrome plated, since the copper-nickel-chrome electroplating process works exceptionally well with brass. While brass isn't quite as strong as steel, if you build up sufficient thickness, in some cases the brazed joint can be as strong, or stronger, than the base metal.
Unfortunately, there is one characteristic that limits the usefulness of brass for auto body work, such as frenching headlights, shaving hoods, or chopping a top; neither paint nor plastic filler stick to brass very well, so I really don't recommend it for work of this nature.
If you've been around cars and trucks for some time, you've probably seen a lot of photos in old magazines that show custom cars and trucks being built with the bodywork brazed, since that was a common way of working "back in the day". Now that I know the limitations of brazing on bodywork, if a car or truck comes into my shop with any body metal that has brass on it, I will cut that area out and replace it with new metal!
As an interesting sidelight, bronze filler rod is increasingly being used with MIG and TIG welding. Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin, while brass is an alloy of copper and zinc. Paint and plastic body filler stick pretty well to bronze, so many OEM manufacturers are using bronze-welded joints on certain body panels, and it's becoming more accepted in the collision-repair trade, as well.
Q: Hello Ron, I enjoy your Q&A in Classic Trucks! I'm doing a partial doorskin replacement on a '40 Chevy truck; what's the best way to get that sharp edge on the new skin so that it will match the factory edge? I'm doing a partial replacement—the front third of the door—and the new skin has the 90-degree flange, but it has a lot of roll in the bend; it's not really sharp. I'm thinking it may need some hammer work on the face of the door (after I fold over the flange) to make it match the factory edge. I don't want to damage the face side by doing anything unnecessary or out of order.
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A: Doorskins are held to the inner doorframe with a hemmed (folded over) edge. Normally, a replacement doorskin comes with a 90-degree flange on the outer edges. The flanged edges are placed over the inner doorframe, and then the flange is hammered down flat to make the hem, holding the skin to the doorframe. This gives the door edge a uniform, finished appearance.
The way I like to do this job is to lay the door upside down against a heavy, smooth-surfaced steel plate, and orient the door so there is no air gap under the section I'm hammering on. The hem is flattened out in that section, then the door is repositioned, and the process is repeated. This eliminates any problems of getting hammer marks on the outer surface of the doorskin.
The flatter you hammer the flange down when making the hem, the sharper the radius on the door edge, up to a limit. If the doorskin and the inner structure are made of 20-gauge steel, you just can't get the "sandwich" of metal to be less than 1⁄8 inch (the thickness of three pieces of .035-inch sheet), which gives you a 1⁄16-inch edge radius. This is most likely the radius the original door has. CT


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I recently read that Tiger Woods is selling his yacht, Privacy, for $25 million. He bought it as a wedding present for his wife, Elin Nordegren, for a mere $20 million. He offered it to her in their divorce settlement, but she declined. Perhaps there were too many sequins and boa feathers and sticks of Orbit gum and bikini bottoms left on it from the lady friends he was entertaining while still married? He has downsized to a $3 million yacht named Solitude. From Privacy to Solitude. That's so, like, Buddhist, which is what he said he is in one of his mid-scandal, well-scripted press conferences.
When he purchased the yacht, he never set foot on it during renovations. But his then-fiancée was very involved in the decorating, choosing white silk fabric for the walls and cherry wood handrails for the staircase. Christensen Shipyards builds about three Tri-Deck fiberglass motor yachts per year, leaving them 40 percent unfinished so their clients can tailor the interiors to their own taste. A project manager was happy to report how pleasant Elin Nordegren was: "She was a quick decision maker, no haggling!"
So I was thinking, hey, if I had $25 million to spend on a mega yacht, I could keep it moored in front of my little 250-square-foot camp at Lazy Point. I guess I'd have to ask the trustees' permission, but how could they object to such a magnificent display, plopped down in the middle of the channel, affording me a splendid view of Hicks Island?
Tiger Woods has been quoted as saying he bought the yacht as a sanctuary from the media. Well, I could use it as a sanctuary from Route 27 traffic, fresh air, and outdoor life in general.
Here is what my new fantasy motor yacht has: a 29.5-foot beam, a pair of 1,800 horsepower MTU/Detroit Diesel motors (oops, sorry, delicate shellfish population of Napeague Bay!), two 99-kilowatt Northern Lights generators, fluid capacities for 12,000 gallons of fuel (glug, glug!), 2,000 gallons of water, three Sea-Doos, two kayaks, and two Vespa scooters. No longer any need to dip my toes into that pesky saltwater! On the deck is a large bar, an eight-person jacuzzi, a station to fill scuba tanks, and an inflatable decompression chamber. One of the twin cabins has been converted into a workout room with a treadmill, exercise bike, and free weights. So rather than take a leisurely bike ride down Shore Road, greeting my neighbors, I can cycle in air-conditioned comfort on my slightly used mega yacht. Oh, and there's an elevator.
I worry a little bit about seeming ostentatious out there at Lazy Point where most of the houses are small, the boats used for fishing, and the neighborhood low-key. So I should probably toodle over to Sag Harbor where my yacht can mingle with the Combses and Joels and Mottolas. Better yet, maybe I could get some fellow mega yacht owners to join me, perhaps Andrey Melnichenko and his Philippe Starck-designed 390-foot yacht, A. Maybe Roman Abromovich and his 500-foot Eclipse (which burns 691 gallons of fuel per hour at cruising speed) would like to break bread at the Beacon while on his summer vacation. It's too bad Mikhail Khodorkovsky can't join us. He's in jail and his yacht is just bobbing around in St. Bart's. We'll just have to raise a glass to him, as our yachts are tied together, watching the sunset through our bullet-proof, U.V.-deflecting, tinted windows in the air-conditioned comfort of our floating, moneyed, luxury wombs.
So I'm saving up my pennies for this purchase. I usually cash in my spare change at the CoinStar machine at King Kullen and just use it for groceries. But now I'm thinking big. I'm dreaming mega . . . I just want my Privacy.
Laura Donnelly is a food writer at The Star.


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What was the weather like the day you had your babies?
I've been at (hospital) births where a woman hasn't seen outside for thirty hours or more. I like to open the curtains every once in awhile, not to show her the clock has been ticking without her focused attention, but to offer a change of scenery, even for a few moments.
If I could, I'd unhook her and walk her outside... barefoot... find her a patch of dirt and encourage her to dig her feet into it.
In my ideal outside hospital garden, flowers would be abloom no matter the time of year -deep winter or scorching summer. Scents wafting heavenward, swirling around the laboring woman's body; a fragrant aura to feed her flagging spirit... nudging her onward still so she might be ready to hold (and devour!) her freshly born babe's own -perfect- perfume.
What was the weather like the day your babies were born?
LK: The first one, many summer days and nights. It's a blur. 50+ consecutive hours, most of it spent indoors.
The second, a dingy gray day, drizzling, raining. It didn't affect my mood negatively though. There was a pressure in the air, a scent of change. Laughed a lot that day.
KS: I think it was a regular sunny day, but right after I went to the postpartum floor, we had a tornado warning, and everyone had to be out in the hallway for hours!
PK: First induction: sunny; second induction: raining; first homebirth: snowing, midwife stuck in Gatlinburg, assisted by back up midwife and my midwife over the phone; second homebirth: sunny; third homebirth: don't remember, it was the wee hours of the morning, I think it turned out sunny, I remember he was sunny side up until the last couple of pushes when he turned - thank you baby!
ACA: First was a clear, beautiful bright September day. Second was a cold, but sunny December day and the third was a bright (hot) June day (although all of my kids were born in the wee hours of the morning). We'll see what the day is like when the twins are born!
MG: Blizzard for the first one! Drove to the hospital in heavy snow...2nd one at home, in the summer, nice day!
GP: Beautiful June day. Not a cloud in the sky and not too hot. Took a walk outside with my doula, which pushed me into active labor.
ACM: Cold, with a mix of slush and snow everywhere. Kind of like today actually.
MCR: My first it was (a) cold but clear November day. My second it was cold and there was a lot of snow on the ground, cloudy sky. My third wasn't as cold, still clear day for January. I mostly remember the day I brought her home. I wasn't wearing a jacket. Shocking for it being January in CT.
KBH: My first was cold, partly cloudy, and snowing. Second ended up being clear and nearly setting a record for the heat.
EVU: My first I was in the hospital for so long prior to her birth that I actually have no idea.
The second was a beautiful June morning; super sunny and not too hot.
My third was a hot and sticky July day (although she was born at night).
AK: For my first, it was cold and clear when I went into labour, and 28 hours later, when my son was born in a windowless OR, and I was then transferred to a windowless post-op room and then up to a post-partum room with a window onto a hallway and I didn't see the sky for four days - I really don't know what the weather was.
My second - I watched the sun come into blue skies up from the window of the triage room I was in - had my baby a few hours later in a window-less room, and when I asked what time it was when he was born - I was shocked to find out it was still the same morning - I had not looked at the clock and completely out of touch with time. We drove home joyfully squinting into the red and gold sunset the same day.
SB: For my son's birth, I don't totally remember because I had been in the hospital the previous 2 days with PIH. It was fall, though, and when I discharged, it was gorgeous October fall weather in Nebraska.
For my daughter's birth, it was magically cool for July in Missouri! I walked off and on for several hours around our block and it felt glorious outside--not the hot and muggy like it could've been. It was sprinkling on me at one point, but I didn't care, I loved it! And then when I took another walk around 10:00 pm, it was a perfectly clear sky, a light breeze and hardly any humidity. I remember thinking to myself how I needed to remember what the weather was like the day I started labor! (I love that! Somewhere, you knew someone would ask this question. smile)
CB: First was a clear and crisp January day, second started the day with thunder and lightening in July, third blisteringly hot in June.
JRBB: First baby it was a beautiful May Monday morning.
Second baby it was a rainy, cool January Sunday. But that was way better than the 2 feet of snow we had the following week! Thank God he came early!
HT: It was sunny with some clouds. I only remember that because I asked the midwives to close the window shades in my bedroom so it would be darker.
NH: First it was sunny, warm and clear. Early august in southern Spain, the weather there is a lot like southern California.
Second was mid-November in southern California, a gorgeous fall day, not too cool, but clear and sunny and lovely.
BJ: Fires raging all around!!!
ND: #1 - Slushing and 40-50 degrees
#2 – Rainstorm.
#3/#4 – Rainstorm.
#5 - Gusty, windy 60 degrees with hints of sunshine.
(You get quite the stormy weather when those babies are born, eh?)
KP: Weather? Was there weather? Hmm... Can't remember! I'm guessing that since we were in Chicago in November, it was cold but I know it wasn't snowy; and then the Mississippi birth in May it was hot and sunny.
NgM: Tristan: Hot as Hades (late October, in Orlando).
Meghann: An amazingly beautiful day that heralded the end of the northwest rains in Tacoma... late May. We had sun for 3 months and I was in heaven!
Aimee: April 20, Frankfurt... flippin' FREEZING...! (40 degrees)... felt like heaven to me as I struggled to get into the car while pushing. Delivered in the car and they had to whisk her fast into the hospital (we were in the parking lot) because it was so darned cold.
JUM: I can't remember, but it was early November in the northeast, so I imagine kind of chilly and a little gray.
STT: Classic snowstorm... for the 2nd; hot and muggy for the first.
KM: We were having a hot day. It was 8 am when I went in to the hossy for a NST and it was already at 98 degrees. Gotta love West Texas weather.
EC: I labored for 26 hours at home (going back and forth between the birth center and home) and then ended up at the hospital laboring for another 52 hours and didn't see daylight for another couple days. I had no idea what time it was or whether or not it was sunny or not. It wasn't ideal.
Dawn: 7 births...
1. Bright warm day...September
2. Warm again, but not as warm as we lived in the Seattle area...clear and dark
3. About 60-70 and evening, nice enough for no jacket and dark. Dry.
4. Cold and clear in KS...January...dark.
5. Warm and clear...early morning before the sun came up
6. Warm, clear, no rain...and twilight...still light but it became dark quickly after her birth
7. Sunny and winter but unseasonably warm Feb. I recall driving in early in the morning to a setting moon, it was reddish and tecnhically almost full...but that Sunday night was a full moon. The room was sunlit while babe was born.


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By: Cresta
The other night I had a delicious beer that's perfect for summer. I was out with friends at Barleycorn's Five Mile House in Lakeside Park. On tap was Pink Lemonade, a refreshing blend of two Leinenkugel's beers :
Summer Shandy, a seasonal beer and the brewer's version of a traditional German Radler, a combination of beer and German-style lemonade. Radler, which means "cyclist" in German, dates back to the early 1900s. The tale goes…a bar owner short on his beer supply became overwhelmed by a group of cyclists because they were thirsty from their travels. So the bar owner mixed whatever beer he had with lemonade. Over the years, the recipe has added Sprite or 7-Up instead of lemonade. Hmm…I see a little recipe testing in my future.
Berry Weiss, a year-round Leinenkugel's beer that contains the flavors of blackberries, elderberries and loganberries.
This beer was very refreshing and thirst-quenching. Fitting for the end of a 95-degree day. And it did look a lot like pink lemonade (my pictures did not turn out well so I apologize for not being able to share).
I loved the taste but I don't think I could drink too many because of the sweetness. It's a great summer option though if you're looking to try a different twist on beer.
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California Department of Transportation
March 24, 2011 #11-042
District 3 - Marysville, www.dot.ca.gov/dist3
Jody Jones, District Director
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Phone: 530-741-5474
Sacramento – The California Transportation Commission (CTC) today allocated $101 million in funding to 90 projects to improve transportation statewide.
"From one end of the state to the other, transportation projects are providing jobs and improving mobility for people and businesses in California," said Caltrans Director Cindy McKim.
Highlights of the project allocations include:
- SACRAMENTO - $10.4 million allocated to the City of Sacramento and SACOG (Sacramento Area Council of Government) for structural retrofit, life safety and accessibility improvements for the Sacramento Valley Station on 4th Street in downtown Sacramento.
- NEVADA COUNTY- $990,000 for the relocation of traffic signals and the addition of two right turn lanes on State Route 20 at Penn Valley Drive and Rough and Ready Highway. This project will increase intersection capacity, improve traffic operations and reduce rear end collisions.
- YUBA COUNTY – $700,000 to install interchange lighting, improve safety and increase traffic operations on State Route 70 at McGowan Parkway.
The CTC also approved the first phase of the Interstate 805 Managed Lanes North in San Diego County as the ninth design-build project under landmark state legislation (SBX2 4) signed in 2009. The legislation provided for a pilot program for the design-build method of procurement, which combines both design and construction into one contract to expedite the construction process and potentially reduce project costs.
The I-805 Managed Lanes North project will be built in five phases at a cost of approximately $615 million. Caltrans anticipates the project will be completed nine months earlier using design-build. The expedited construction schedule will bring more jobs to San Diego County sooner than expected.
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- Words by Mr Colin McDowell
Mr James McNeill Whistler could never be called a quiet American. Even today when there are thousands of Americans living in London he would stand out. In the last years of the 19th century he was as well known in London's social circles as Mr Beau Brummel had been 100 years earlier - at least in Mayfair. And like the legendary dandy, Mr Whistler was a dude, a wit and a poseur. He was also one of the most controversial men of his time.
Born in Massachusetts in 1834, Mr Whistler had itchy feet and was ready to take on the world from an early age. He loved Europe and even spent a year in St Petersburg as a young man. He studied at West Point, America's top army training college, where he was eventually sacked because even in his youth he was a contrarian. Always ready to argue with anyone over anything - a propensity that was to frequently get him into trouble throughout his life - he made no attempt to fit in or go with the crowd. But for those who found him insufferable there were many more who found his company delightful and his challenging attitudes endlessly stimulating.
"Whistler in his studio" by Mr James McNeill Whistler, 1865-66. Photo The Art Institute of Chicago/The Bridgeman Art Library
Mr Whistler was a social entertainer, always sharply critical and ready with a witty comment or repost. He was once entertaining a group of London's finer intellectuals and creative minds and after an especially witty comment, the poet Mr Oscar Wilde, who was a friend and one of the group, said, "I wish I had said that, James". The reply came as quick as a flash: "You will, Oscar, you will." It is little wonder that when it came to his paintings, Mr Whistler signed them with a butterfly - with a long stinger tail. It showed that, like so many apparently flippant people, he knew exactly what he was made of - gentle, even fragile delicacy but with a sharp sting in the tail for those who crossed him or stood in the way of his boundless ambition. But, while he may have had many of the characteristics of a street-fighting bruiser, his paintings were as understated as any great painters.
Mr Whistler was a great painter, and is recognised as such, although fashion has changed and he is now no longer at the forefront. At the time of his best work - all done in London in the last half of the 19th century - his strange approach to naming them brought him criticism for being pretentious. He called them by musical names, such as nocturnes or harmonies. Probably most famous of all his work was the portrait of his mother, which he called "Arrangement in Grey and Black". It became one of the most famous paintings of the time and was bought by the Musée D'Orsay in Paris, where it still holds pride of place.
"Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1", portrait of the artist's mother by Mr James McNeill Whistler, 1871. Musée d'Orsay, Paris/Giraudon/The Bridgeman Art Library
A man with such a subtle and single-minded attitude could be expected to have an original approach to his appearance, and Mr Whistler certainly did. There was nothing about him that was not contrived. Everything was for effect. By no means conventionally handsome, and slight of figure, he had a dominating presence nevertheless. It was all about swagger and style. From his ringlets, usually half hidden under the sort of floppy velvet cap that was worn by Rembrant, to his long silver-topped cane without which he was rarely seen, this little man somehow contrived to have a large presence. His monocle glinting with malice, his dandy clothes - almost always black and tight cut to show off his slight figure - and his curling waxed moustache made him stand out from the crowd. People noticed him even before he opened his mouth and let the bons mots and outrageous comments flow.
And it was this that got him into trouble. Nothing if not arrogant, he was incensed when Mr John Ruskin, the man considered the greatest art critic in Victorian England, wrote in a review of one of Mr Whistler's "Nocturne" paintings, "I have seen and heard much of cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas [an enormous amount at that time] for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." It was a red rag to a bull for Mr Whistler, who responded immediately by suing Mr Ruskin for libel. The trial was a society occasion with crowds waiting for entrance to the court. After all, a public scrap between a major art critic and one of society's sharpest wits could not fail to be entertaining. And it was. Choosing his words carefully to convey the greatest contempt for the painting in question, Mr Ruskin's lawyer asked Mr Whistler, "How long did it take you to knock it off?" When Mr Whistler replied that it had taken two days, the lawyer said, "The labour of two days? Is that for which you ask 200 guineas?" Mr Whistler rose to the occasion. "No. I ask it for the knowledge I have gained in the work of a lifetime." The public gallery stood up and cheered him. He won the day. But this time the sting in the tail was aimed at him. While he won his case, the libel damages, rather than the thousands Mr Whistler expected, were in fact exactly one farthing. His exuberance never quite recovered from the blow to his self-esteem and his standing in public opinion.
Main image photo credits: left: "James Abbott McNeill Whistler" by William Merritt Chase, 1885. Credit: Photo 2013 The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource/Scala, Florence; Above, centre: Mr James McNeill Whistler in his Fulham Road studio. 1884. Credit: Photo 2013 WGBH Stock Sales/Scala, Florence


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- Random Access Memories is the duo's "first proper album in eight years"
- It was recorded with an orchestra, a children's choir, and an all-star cast
- Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo comprise the duo
Let's play one final bass-drop requiem in memory of EDM.
If the genre hasn't already been wub-wub-wub'd to death, Daft Punk would like to smother it with its own spirit hoodie. True, the duo's Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo helped spawn this new wave of harder, faster, stronger dance music — but lately, they've been slagging off that scene for its lack of imagination and its overreliance on preset sounds. Of course, that only makes Random Access Memories, their first proper album in eight years, feel more like a revelation: It features no electronics except for a modular synthesizer and some vintage vocoders, and uses only one sample. (A snippet from the Sherbs' ''We Ride Tonight'' opens the final track, ''Contact.'')
Recorded in the studio with an orchestra, a children's choir, and an all-star cast that includes Pharrell Williams, Nile Rodgers, Julian Casablancas, Panda Bear, and Giorgio Moroder, it's a headphones album in an age of radio singles; a bravura live performance that stands out against pro forma knob-twiddling; a jazzy disco attack on the basic house beat; a full collaboration at a time when the superstar DJ stands alone. It's also quite moving; melancholy runs through every song.
As the title suggests, RAM explores the way that memory is stored — on a hard drive or in your brain. Nostalgia is a major theme here, both in the music, which celebrates disco (first single ''Get Lucky''), funk (''Give Life Back to Music''), and classic sci-fi soundtracks (''Contact''), and in the lyrics, which often feature men of a certain age reckoning with the past. ''Giorgio by Moroder'' begins with the disco godfather recalling the days when he stayed out all night and slept in his car, while the music vividly evokes each decade he describes, building from a dramatic string section to record-scratching to a synth-pop finale that plays out like an epic laser-tag game. Later, Todd Edwards wants to ''feel like I'm 17'' on the pedal-steel daydreamer ''Fragment of Time,'' and the wistful ''Touch'' finds Paul Williams looking back on young love: ''I remember touch,'' he sighs through a vocoder, as spaceship sounds fire off. ''You've given me too much to feel/ You've almost convinced me I'm real.'' You don't know whether you're supposed to imagine him playing a sad HAL 9000 or a lonely astronaut. And maybe that's the point: It's hard to tell the difference between people and machines in dance music these days. But if EDM is turning humans into robots, Daft Punk are working hard to make robot pop feel human again. Grade - A
''Giorgio By Moroder'' A disco odyssey that explains the genre's back sto


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Correct me if I'm wrong, but mostly as atheists, we believe in nothingness after death, or at least I think I do. But then we have all of this stuff with mediums and spirits that maybe point to evidence to an afterlife. Some mediums have told people things that no one else has known, so that really makes me wonder.
I was really just wondering what everyone's opinions were on afterlife and spirits and stuff like that. Like, what exactly do you think happens after death?
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Okay, there you go again with the use of "we," in "we have an extensive understanding of consciousness and how it develops." This is untrue. If you were to look up "consciousness" in any psychology book or neuroscientific medical book, the resounding message you'll find is often quoted as, "Nothing worth reading has been written about consciousness." The very thing that is most familiar to us, yet it is the one thing we know very little about.
As Steven Pinker once said, "Consciousness rest on a chemical foundation, it is not a product of it." Mind may be an epiphenomenon that is based in both the quantum world and the physical realm, but I don't think there's any neurobiology or neuroscience being done as of now that would claim to have some kind of understanding of "consciousness" that would be able to define what exactly is going on.
You said, "Near-death-experiences" are just that. Well, perhaps you're not familiar with N,N-DMT as it's now been proven that the near-death-experience is an experience of the natural induction of endogenous N,N-DMT.
Steven Pinker once said, he said, "The way I think of mind is as a 4th dimensional organ of your body
The irony here is that Pinker isn't at all suggesting what you seem to be taking away from his abstract description of mind. Wouldn't your interpretation be closer to Chopra's?
Pope Paul, I've never read anything relative to Chopra in my life. Pinker, on the other hand, is a person that I've read extensively upon. So, maybe you can enlighten me with your interpretation. Why do you believe it's closer to Chopra's view?
The example I gave doesn't discount these instances of brain injuries. So, I'm not sure what you aimed to prove with your response. I said that these things may be intertwined, not that it's solely that consciousness resides elsewhere completely separate from the brain, but that consciousness is a kind of projection into an "elsewhere", if you will, that M-Theory or String theory proposes. After all, as in the example I gave, where is the tree?
Well, I've already answered this question by giving the example of the imagined tree and also quoting from Steven Pinker. I'm not sure if you read it, but if you're interested, it's on page 10.
How it relates to the full-blown psychedelic experience is a little more tricky. Terence had one idea that somehow maybe the neurotransmitter, whether it be DMT or psilocybin (which is converted to psilocin when it passes the blood-brain barrier), maybe is a kind of transceiver of some sort that has a lock and key fit into the thousands of synaptic receptor sites, the thousands of serotonin receptors in your brain, and the informational content that you're accessing is non-local, as in Bell's non-locality.
Terence McKenna - Radio Interview
I just came across this audio piece where Terence seems to go a bit deeper into that concept than the Radio interview which I'll post below:
Terence McKenna - Psilocybin and the Sands of Time
Well, that's his take, I think I've interpreted something very similar which I'll go into on another post. But your question, I did answer it on page 10, but if you find that explanation a bit vague, I'll try and make it less unambiguous on my next post.
However, I want to make clear that I only offer these concepts as heuristic insight into what these compounds may be doing. You're perfectly welcome to completely dismiss it all, but I maintain in order to truly judge this, you must experience it for yourself in a shamanic fashion, meaning at the dose range necessary to elicit the "full-blown psychedelic experience." Then, you have a basis on which to speak from regarding these experiences.
Well, you're confusing my example as my own concept of this hypothesis, and it's not. This is not my concept, what I'm referring to in the example is David Bohm's "Quantum mind" hypothesis. I only gave the example so you could attempt to wrap your head around how it may work.
So, it's not as though this is my concept that I'm trying to prove which you've seem to have interpret that way. This is a response to "The Hard Problem of Consciousness" which gives way to more questions as in the "Quantum mind-body problem." You're perfectly free to look into it yourself, I only offered the example of the imagined tree as to offer you a way to think about these things.
Pope Paul replied to this thread, but immediately deleted his post, perhaps you saw it. He wrote the following which I'll emphasize with italics, "Can anyone recommend an atheist website where respect has a higher priority? If I had more time, I'd jump in more with something positive when possible, but sometimes I just want to read for new ideas.
(Nothing personal, guys... different strokes and all that. I'm probably just an oddball, but I'd often rather not compete with the personal jabs.)"
This perfectly describes most of the people posting on this thread, they feel more compelled to insult people rather than entertaining new ideas. Maybe M-theory or even David Bohm's "Quantum Mind" hypothesis goes a little over your head. So, instead of responding seriously, you respond very similar to what is referred to in cyberspace as a troll.
Maybe he deleted it immediately because someone might make a parody of his post and then insult him. Who knows? You'd think this is TA, a place filled with open-minded individuals who are willing to discuss anything from DMT to M-Theory, but that isn't the case, apparently.
I never said that Bohm's "Quantum Mind" is proven. What I was trying to get at here is that there may be more to consciousness than what we find on the surface. It's you who was under the impression that I was proposing these concepts as truth, you see.
So, there is obviously a misinterpretation on both of our parts, maybe, but the point is that neuroscience, psychology, neurobiology, or science in general does not as of yet have the complete picture of what's going on. If it did, then there'd be no discussion or debate.
And about the psychedelics, yes, I still maintain that a full-spectrum dose of psychedelics, at the very least, will show you that everything you thought you knew about the universe is wrong. It's an experience that will challenge your ontology to its core. So, yes, I believe that until someone takes on this experience, they will continue to scoff it, mock it, and underestimate it.
Not just a full spectrum dose, however - for you've also stipulated, several times, that a 'shamanic setting' also may or may not be required.
Well, it depends on what you mean by "setting" here. In other words, yes, the "shamanic dose" is required, but a precaution that is often taken is what Timothy Leary called "set and setting" as these things can lead to a potentially dangerous situation. For instance, if you take these things while you're depressed and you have things like a hand-gun present, etc. (Very bad combination, I'm sure I needn't mention in this setting.)
"Set and setting" refers to the set, in other words, the mindset you're in while you partake in this experience, and the "setting" meaning the environment you take these things in. One thing that is often posed against these substances is that they're often accused for people who decide to jump off third story windows. Well, that could be completely avoided if you simply do not take these things at great heights. Okay, so that's pretty obvious.
However, I know Graham Hancock uses the phrase "in a shamanic setting" in that podcast with Joe Rogan. So, that can be confusing, but I really believe he's referring to is dose range, the shamanic dose range, because it is necessary to breakthrough a certain physiological threshold in order to have this experience in the first place. It's necessary to take a "heroic dose" or "shamanic dose" to elicit this phenomenon in consciousness.
Okay, so that was a long-winded answer to a question that perhaps could've been answered more simply on my part, but I emphasize those details as to avoid any further ambiguity and confusion.
So, the short answer is that the "shamanic setting," if you're referring to a kind of ritualistic or specific environment isn't necessary, but only taken into consideration as a kind of precautionary measure, but what is necessary is dose range which can vary between individuals, but by rule of thumb is usually (when concerning psilocybin-containing mushrooms) is about 5 to 5+ dried grams, and there's many factors involved, of course, like fasting, lack of sleep, synergies (meaning other drugs you've taken in combination) etc.
@Gallup When Josh Westhoelter mentioned Bohm's "Quantum Mind" as hypothesis I had no quarrel, because it is, in fact, speculatory. When you asked for "evidence" for "Quantum Mind," I was under the impression that you were asking why is this something that's speculated in the first place, and that's why I referred to the example as to offer an explanation of why this is even considered or entertained in neuroscience as a possible explanation for consciousness. I'm not sure if you understood the metaphor or even Pinker's statement about it, because you didn't exactly respond to it.
If I believed that the Quantum Mind hypothesis was true, then I would have referred to it more as a law of nature rather than conjecture. If I thought "Stoned Ape" was true, then I wouldn't have said it was a plausible possibility.
The one thing I do hold as true is that psychedelics offer a pathway to a colossal state of consciousness that will, in fact, require every ounce of courage to take and will challenge your entire ontology whether you're an atheist or a Buddhist monk, and it's not a religion, it doesn't care whether you believe in it or don't believe in it, and you will, as I mentioned before, continue to mock it, scorn it, and even doubt it until you have it for yourself.
You said you didn't entirely agree that we know the mind is a product of the brain. I aimed to prove that science does know this. Brain injuries prove it. The evidence is overwhelming.
But don't you see, GM? The mind is very tricky. When you injure the brain, it starts ACTING like that injury has an impact on the mind. It's just like the way
God fools us by putting dinosaur bones around that carbon dating tells us are far older than 6000 years.


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I was intrigued to find that despite having some of the deepest pockets in the industry, Google seems to have lost a bid for social media marketing company Buddy Media (according to Peter Kafka at AllThingsD).
Buddy Media may sound like a counter-intuitive soulmate for Google: Does Google really want to help brands have a presence on Facebook? And those competitive considerations, plus regulatory concerns, might have held them back from paying top dollar. But it's a shame they didn't dig a little deeper, because nobody needs a buddy in social more than Google does.
As the premier search destination, Google has no trouble earning consumer attention or selling search ads. But in social, the company has struggled. They could keep trying to woo social users with new offerings, or they could try the back door: social advertising. But Google+ doesn't yet translate into an attractive social ad buy, and so the company's only option is to use competitors' platforms (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter) to broaden their advertising efforts. In which case, a play for Buddy Media was really quite smart.
An acquisition of Buddy Media would have helped to protect Google's position as the leader in online advertising. They control 44% of global ad spend today (compared to Facebook's 3%), but if social advertising becomes more important than search – and I predict that it will – those tables could turn with alarming speed. Google is struggling to stay relevant in an increasingly social world, and if they don't find a social buddy, they could lose their grip on the internet advertising needs of their clients. Google needs to stay forward on the leading edge of advertising. And the leading edge is social.
When Google acquired DoubleClick for $3.1B in 2007, it was with the recognition that to be a pro-level player in advertising online, Google simply had to have access to advertisers' display budgets. Now, this interest in social looks like it signals that Google has the same recognition when it comes to social spend. Simply put, the social advertising market is about to grow to a level so high that Google can't afford not to offer it to clients.
Even though Buddy Media would not have solved Google's top-of-mind problem – convincing users to hang out, rather than search and leave – it would have helped to position them as an expert in social media marketing. And that might have helped them develop, over time and with a new perspective, the formula for that elusive social secret sauce.
That alone would be invaluable to Google. It's no secret that the company that excelled in search doesn't have social in its DNA, and it is unlikely to change that without help. An acquisition is one of the few course-changing options that could make the difference.
More than anything, this week's news demonstrates that Google sees tremendous value in social. Now that the acquisition appears unlikely to happen, Google needs to turn its attention to other game-changers that could inject it with some social DNA. Of course, Pinterest and Twitter should be on the list, and are probably worth far more to Google than any financial valuation would suggest. But just as valuable would be a company that uses the social web to drive usage, audience, or conversion. Each of these would help Google advance its media offering and rewire itself for social.
Stay tuned: I bet more news will be coming soon. It's good to see Google getting more aggressive.


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American (Athens, Georgia)
Harriet Powers (American, 1837–1910)
Object Place: Athens, Georgia, United States
175 x 266.7 cm (68 7/8 x 105 in.)
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Cotton plain weave, pieced, appliqued, embroidered, and quilted
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Americas, Textiles and Fashion Arts
Appliqué quilt, dyed and printed cotton fabrics applied to cotton. The quilt is divided into fifteen pictorial rectangles. Worked with pieces of beige, pink, mauve, orange, dark red, gray-green and shades of blue cotton.
This extraordinary quilt was created by Harriet Powers, an African American woman who was born a slave in Georgia in 1837. Powers is thought to have orally dictated a description of each square of her quilt to Jennie Smith, who had purchased the first quilt Powers made, and arranged for it to be exhibited at the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta in 1895. This second quilt is thought to have been commissioned by a group of "faculty ladies" at Atlanta University, and given (together with Powers's descriptions) as a gift to a retiring trustee. What follows is Powers' descriptions of all fifteen blocks starting in the upper left and moving to the right.
1. Job praying for his enemies. Job crosses. Job's coffin.
2. The dark day of May 19, 1780. The seven stars were seen 12 N. in the day. The cattle wall went to bed, chickens to roost and the trumpet was blown. The sun went off to a small spot and then to darkness.
3. The serpent lifted up by Moses and women bringing their children to look upon it to be healed.
4. Adam and Eve in the garden. Eve tempted by the serpent. Adam's rib by which Eve was made. The sun and the moon. God's all-seeing eye and God's merciful hand.
5. John baptizing Christ and the spirit of God descending and resting upon his shoulder like a dove.
6. Jonah cast over board of the ship and swallowed by a whale. Turtles.
7. God created two of every kind, male and female.
8. The falling of the stars on Nov. 13, 1833. The people were frightened and thought that the end had come. God's hand staid the stars. The varmints rushed out of their beds.
9. Two of every kind of animal continued…camels, elephants, "gheraffs," lions, etc.
10. The angels of wrath and the seven vials. The blood of fornications. Seven-headed beast and 10 horns which arose of the water.
11. Cold Thursday, 10 of February, 1895. A woman frozen while at prayer. A woman frozen at a gateway. A man with a sack of meal frozen. Icicles formed from the breath of a mule. All blue birds killed. A man frozen at his jug of liquor.
12. The red light night of 1846. A man tolling the bell to notify the people of the wonder. Women, children and fowls frightened by God's merciful hand caused no harm to them.
13. Rich people who were taught nothing of God. Bob Johnson and Kate Bell of Virginia. They told their parents to stop the clock at one and tomorrow it would strike one and so it did. This was the signal that they had entered everlasting punishment. The independent hog which ran 500 miles from Georgia to Virginia, her name was Betts.
14. The creation of animals continues.
15. The crucifixion of Christ between the two thieves. The sun went into darkness. Mary and Martha weeping at his feet. The blood and water run from his right side.
About 1895-1898, Dr. Charles Cuthbert Hall (1852-1908), New York [see note 1]; 1908, by inheritance to his son, the Reverend Basil Douglas Hall (1888 - 1979), New York; between November 2, 1960 and February 7, 1961, sold by Hall to Maxim Karolik (1893-1963), Boston; 1964, bequest of Karolik to MFA. (Accession date: May 13, 1964)
[1] Commissioned and purchased for Hall, President of the Union Theological Seminary in New York, by the faculty ladies of Atlanta University where he had served as chairman of the board of trustees.
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Bequest of Maxim Karolik


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FuzzyBoots wrote: I can't speak for mrdent12, but given the most common usage of Hero Points is re-rolling, having an effective -2 Flaw there seems a bit excessive, kind of like taking a -2 Flaw on Enhanced Intelligence for it being "Limited to Knowledge checks".
Fair enough. I figured since the re-rolls were one of 6 or 8 different uses I'd start out where I'd like to be and see if you went for it. Since the GM has spoken I'm going to re-edit the sheet and change it to just straight up Luck 2 and no Second Chance.mrdent12 wrote:I will look over the sheet when I get home, but I am going to say limiting to re-rolls isn't much of a limitation as Fuzzy argued so it will say each luck costs one point.
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Marni comes to L.A.
The Marni for H&M collection launched in L.A. with a star-studded soiree that included Drew Barrymore, Andrea Riseborough, Jessica Chastain, Milla Jovovich, Lily Collins, Freida Pinto and Winona Ryder. The setting — the 1926 Sowden House in Los Feliz, designed by Lloyd Wright — couldn't have been more magical. The Mayan architecture, lush palm trees, kilim rugs and cushions were the perfect backdrop for Marni's playful, tribal-meets-modernist aesthetic. (February)
Fred Segal, the brand?
Worldwide rights to the Fred Segal name, a retail brand that has come to define the Los Angeles fashion-shopping experience, were purchased by New York City firm Sandow Media. The deal allows Sandow to put the iconic red, white and blue Fred Segal logo on merchandise as well as build Fred Segal stores around the world. By year's end, plans had been announced to put Fred Segal stores in LAX's Tom Bradley terminal and the SLS Hotel in Las Vegas as well as the Japanese market. (May, December)
Sizing up
Not sure what size you are? The Westfield Culver City shopping mall debuted a body scanner that will tell you. Shoppers step into the "Me-Ality" ("measured reality") full-body scanning machine and in less than 20 seconds receive a printout listing some of the clothes they can buy in the mall that will fit them. There's still no word on when we can look forward to a machine that will tell us if this blouse clashes with that skirt. (July)
Shoe-floor wars
In August, Macy's Herald Square opened what it billed as "the world's largest shoe department" at 39,000 square feet, following the July opening of the Barneys New York Madison Avenue flagship's revamped shoe salon combining men's and women's shoes in 22,000 square feet of selling space. These are just two examples in an industry-wide trend of retail shoe expansion in response to a footwear business that has grown so lucrative that sales per square foot top most other merchandise categories. Saks Fifth Avenue's New York flagship kicked it all off in 2007, when it opened a shoe floor so massive (22,000 square feet originally, and now 32,150 square feet) that it was able to get its own ZIP code suffix, 10022-SHOE. (July, August)
Too-skinny Minnie?
Barneys New York is known for its elaborate holiday displays, so there was much anticipation when the retailer announced it would be teaming up with Disney for this year's holiday display titled "Electric Holiday." The centerpiece of the display is a three-minute animated video in which Minnie Mouse imagines herself and some of her Disney friends as ultraslim fashion models wearing designer clothes. Naturally when the first concept art came out, there was outrage from Disney fans who felt that making Minnie a size zero sent an unhealthy message about body image. The finished project wasn't quite as extreme as the concept art. Minnie maintains her classic form, except during a short dream sequence. (October)
Retail responsibility
This year saw several major names in fashion and retail take up causes. Nike and Nordstrom made major donations in favor of Washington state's Referendum 74, which legalized same-sex marriage. Used-fashion retailer Buffalo Exchange announced it would stop using plastic bags, which will "keep an estimated 350,000 bags out of landfills every year," according to a company press release. H&M announced a recycling initiative for 2013 that will give discounts in exchange for old clothes, and Levi's committed to eliminate all releases of toxic chemicals throughout its entire supply chain and products by 2020. In addition, all corners of the fashion industry rallied in support of Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. Fashion houses and retailers donated money and clothing to help support victims of the superstorm. (2012 and beyond)
Change on Rodeo Drive
This year Rodeo Drive saw the opening of a new Valentino flagship and the reopening of Dior's Beverly Hills boutique. But the most interesting news on the Boulevard came from an unlikely source: the 99 Cents Only Stores. The chain is seeking a space to rub elbows with Armani, Harry Winston and other luxury emporia. In a press release, 99 Cents Only Stores CEO Eric Schiffer said, "We are confident a Rodeo Drive store will be successful because our stores do well in affluent areas." (October)
Local love
In an effort to make the city's contributions to apparel design and manufacture as instantly recognizable as its flora and famous folk, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced the "Designed/Made In L.A." initiative and garment hangtag logo. The goal? To brand Los Angeles as a city perfectly positioned to take fashion production seamlessly from mood board to shipboard and raise the city's apparel manufacturing profile overseas. (October)
Black Thursday, Giving Tuesday
It seems that Black Friday is no longer the biggest shopping day of the year — stores that opened on Thanksgiving Day and offered deals reaped benefits. Thirty percent of Americans surveyed in a Reuters/Ipsos poll said they shopped online or in stores this past Thanksgiving Day, slightly more than shopped on the day after. Also of note, a coalition of 1,400 charities launched Giving Tuesday to encourage shoppers to donate to worthy causes after the five-day shopping binge. (November)
High-low collaborations
Sales of two of the year's most buzzed-about cheap/chic designer collaboration collections — the Neiman Marcus + Target Holiday Collection and Margiela for H&M — were less than stellar, prompting fashion insiders to wonder if the concept has fizzled out. (December)
Open 24/7
Growth in the use of tablets and smartphones meant that the store was always open. Retailers and Web entrepreneurs responded with a torrent of new mobile applications to use in and out of the store. They allowed shoppers to browse and buy items in tastemakers' closets (The Cools), to purchase celebrity-recommended items (Opensky), get a second opinion in the dressing room (Go Try It On) and more.
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text: Anyone think Reed was going to make a 53 yarder on yesterdays field? Raiders go 57 yards to take the lead. That was the start of the 21 points by Oakland. You can't give up that kind of field position in a 10-6 game! Ben took a 9 yard sack to make it that long. 44 maybe but not 53 in those conditions. Reed has been far from automatic. Ben slipped on a qb sneak and Gay couldn't stand up the whole game. I never seen one player fall down sooooo many times.


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There are times when the reward of sessioning a new snowkite spot comes easy. You see the spot on a map (or GoogleEarth), you go there on a windy day and you score a fantastic snowkite experience. Then there are other times where one has to make repeated trips into a remote location, spend hours poking around by skins or snowmobile and you still come away without harvesting the goods.
Lately I have been paying my dues in reconnoitering the SW side of Sage Peak in the southern Madison Range. Every trip into this wild range has brought me closer to the ultimate goal of snowkiting this 10K+ foot peak. Still, in spite of my efforts, I have not achieved the target.
Last weekend Dave, J.J. and I got pretty close. We knew it was a no-wind day so we took our time and figured out where the best approach would be and what variations exist. The approach is technical. There are trees and highly incised terrain that may be an issue. Still, we came close to having the approach wired. Someday, soon, I'll be back. On that sunny day in the near future, when SW winds are peeling off the summit, I hope to session this beautiful mountain and explore its snow loaded ridges and folds. Enjoy the pics! Thanks for reading and see ya out there.
btw, in spite of the winds being light and northwesterly, we still managed a despicably light wind session. Some sess is better than no sess…


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