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It was a Tuesday and I was working at the offices of Skadden, Arps - a large global law firm - located on the 38th floor of the Embarcadero Center. I had just started as a temp in the Document Processing department earlier that spring and was hired full-time during the summer.
As I spoke on the phone with a friend in San Jose, I remember her saying "Oh gosh, I think we're having an earth . . ." and the phone line died. It was but five seconds later that I too realized what was happening.
It all seemed to move in slow motion. Since moving to San Francisco from Washington, DC in 1986, I had experienced a few small earthquakes but right away I knew this was different. Way different. I immediately went under my desk, remembering those "duck and cover" drills from my school days.
I really thought to myself, "This is it. This is how I die. The building collapses and I will never see my mother or the rest of my family again." Just then the shaking stopped and the panic started.
* * *
My immediate concern was to make sure that people in my department were safe and unharmed - that no one had been hurt by falling bookcases or items. One of the office manager types came in and immediately said we need to shut down the servers to preserve the data, blah, blah, blah. I just told her, "Piss off. There are people who might be hurt and that's what matters right now." Anyway there was no electricity although we seemed to be running on a backup generator.
I took a tour of the office with a few others and everyone seemed safe. One attorney was very lucky in that she went right under her desk. A large eight foot tall bookcase fell right down on top of the desk and would have killed her or at least severely injured her.
* * *
Soon after an overhead announcement came on stating what little information was known - that there had been an earthquake. The building security asked that we stay in place and that the building would be evacuated floor by floor once it was determined that it was safe to do so. Keep in mind that we had no idea there would be glass all over the sidewalks and other dangers.
One harrowing aspect of being on the 38th floor of one of the tallest buildings in San Francisco was not the shaking - for the building had been built on springs as required by zoning laws - but what you could see from the windows. I could see the fires in the Marina district. I could see that something was wrong with the Bay Bridge. I could see smoke that was coming from the Cypress Freeway in Oakland.
Luckily one of the attorneys had an old black and white battery operated television. We were able to tune in and learn more about the extent of damage, etc. Yet newsrooms were not immune to rumor - one was that the Golden Gate Bridge had collapsed. It hadn't since I could see it out the window.
But what was fact was that BART - the regional train system - and the Bay Bridge were closed and would be that way for sometime.
* * *
As we waited to evacuate down 38 flights of metal stairs (which I don't recommend ever - you will not walk for three days after that), I checked with people in the office who I knew lived in the East Bay and would have problems getting home. Those that had someone in the city didn't know if those places still existed or were safe.
Phone lines were down and cell phones had just come into existence (yes, the heavy clunky kind that weighed 10 pounds) so there was no easy way to communicate. I volunteered to put two women up at my apartment out near Ocean Beach. I told them that I had no guarantees and we might end up sleeping on Ocean Beach, but they were welcome to what I had.
* * *
We finally had the green light to descend those metal stairs. Looking back, if this event had taken place post-9/11, I probably would not have listed to the voice on the overhead speaker and would have just gotten the h*ll out of Dodge. But the evacuation was orderly and eerily quiet. No one spoke. As you descended, other people came out from lower floors with the same look of panic on their faces. The communication was all in the eyes, saying, "I hope we get out of this."
On the ground, we could see that many windows had fallen out. In fact, we made it a point to walk as quickly away from tall buildings as glass was still raining down. Later, I would read that several people were severely hurt over in Union Square when the large pane glass windows at the I. Magnin store fell out and hit pedestrians.
I took my co-workers with me to hop on the 38-Geary bus. This bus line was one of the longest routes in the city and I lived on the other end of town, almost seven miles away. Luckily we were able to get on the bus, through the back door but just barely. As we rode, people would try to get on but everything was orderly and calm - when we said there was no room, people respected that. We told them to walk down Market Street to catch the buses which had more room.
By the time we arrived at 40th Avenue and Geary it was already dark which meant it must have been around 7:00 pm. The earthquake occurred at 5:04 pm and we had spent almost an hour in our offices before we were able to get out. And when I say dark, you don't realize dark until there is no electricity and no lighting for an entire city of 850,000 people.
* * *
Well my apartment building was still standing! And I lived in an in-law apartment in the rear basement so we proceeded to get in. Well tried to get in. Stupidly, I had placed my mountain bike directly across from the entrance door in my unit and it fell against the door. I was able to slowly get my hand in the door and push the bike away.
The apartment was not really damaged. The only casualty was my wine rack table and I lost a few pieces of china that sat on it. But not one bottle of wine was broken! Well, needless to say, my new friends and I including the neighbors in the building who were now out front would sail through my collection of cabernet sauvignons in short order.
Disasters like the Loma Prieta earthquake had one benefit - getting to know your neighbors if you didn't know them already. We all made sure everyone had a place to stay for the night. We all shared food especially if it was refrigerated since that would only last a few hours. Once it was confirmed there were no gas leaks in the area, grills were fired up and food was cooked - lots of food. It sounds weird, but it was a huge party.
* * *
A neighbor told us that the only working phone in the area was a pay phone at one of the bars up on Balboa Street. My main concern was to somehow call my mother in New York - I had this feeling that what she was seeing on television would make the damage appear much worse than it was. And it did - later relatives said all they saw were the fires in the Marina which gave the impression that the entire city was burning.
As we arrived at the bar, the party was on. There was a long line for the pay phone. So as I got in line, my friends got me a beer - which was free. Yes, the bar owner basically gave beer and food away for free. This is how it was city wide - there was no price gouging, no taking advantage of people.
After waiting in line an hour, I got to the phone and the weirdest thing happened - no dial tone. It turned out you had to wait for almost a minute before the dial tone came on. So many people were trying to call out that there weren't enough "ports" on the phone system so you just had to wait. I tried to call my mother collect in New York but could not get through. So I asked my one co-worker who was trying to reach her mother in Hayward, if she could do this: ask her mom to call my mom in New York and just say that I was okay.
* * *
We left the bar and headed back to my apartment. We were all well sated with food and wine but the days events had left us exhausted. I let the two women sleep on my opened Futon while I took the floor. There would be a few small after shocks during the night so there wasn't much sleep.
The next morning, despite their protestations, I decided to escort my co-workers on the bus downtown so they could get home. Ferry boats had been set up to take people to Oakland and other points. Arrangements were made to get home from there.
* * *
I wouldn't actually be able to speak to my mother for another two days. But I eventually did and she was very relieved to hear my voice and was glad that she knew I was okay that first night.
Even now when I am back on the Left Coast and there is a small "shaker," I get this pit in my stomach and immediately look to brace myself in a doorway or dive under a desk. Surviving the Loma Prieta earthquake is something I will never ever forget.
Photo: Loma Prieta Earthquake Damage, via Wikimedia Commons.
© 2009, copyright Thomas MacEntee
Saturday, October 17, 2009
I Survived The Loma Prieta Earthquake
3 comments:
- Midge Frazel said...
I got scared just reading that!
- October 17, 2009 at 3:44 PM
- Amy Coffin said...
Can't believe it's been 20 years.
- October 18, 2009 at 11:41 AM
- Mel said...
It was fascinating to read your account. I was on the other side of the world, in Fremont, it seems. There was no destruction there and the quake seemed a 5.0 at most. It was hard for me to process the images I saw on TV with what I thought I experienced.
One thing I remember was how civil everyone was to each other. We were all going through it together and their didn't seem to be a reason to get ruffled.
I worked on the 9th floor in Oakland. No way I'd want to be in the 38th!
- October 22, 2009 at 1:59 AM
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True Essentials for Your Home Bar: Bottles, Bitters, and Tools
All the basics of the bar.
I find that it's easy to overthink the simple things. For example, I work from home while caring for two small children. Jeans and a black t-shirt are now my daily uniform at home. Why buy button-downs and polos and sweaters just to wear at home, when they'll just get jam and drool and Angostura on them anyway?
It's also all too easy to overthink the home bar, and to assume you need to spend a couple hundred at the Liquorteria just to get started. Here are some tips on the essentials you really need.
Stocking Your Bottles the Smart Way
It might feel like a home bar should have one of everything, but the best way to stock your bar is to start with the cocktails you love to drink. Plan your cocktail shopping the way you plan your meal shopping. If, say, you're making a lasagna, you'll make a list of the things you need for that, and you'll shop accordingly. So when you want lasagna, you buy what you need for the lasagna; why buy ribeye steaks and turkey breast and spare ribs when all you really want is lasagna?
Shopping for drink supplies should go the same way: why should you go out and buy gin and tequila and rum and Irish whiskey and scotch, when all you really want is a Sidecar?
I love Sidecars, so when I started into cocktails, I bought a good cognac and a bottle of Cointreau. Those lasted me for a while, so one night, I bought some tequila and used the Cointreau to make Margaritas.
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And this is where it's good to have some idea of when you can make substitutions. Sidecars and Margaritas are both classic Sours—aside from the base spirit, the only difference is that one uses lemon juice and the other, lime juice.
Remember the first rule about substitutions: You don't talk about substitutions. Wait, that's not right. The first rule is: like replaces like. Tequila replaces brandy. Lime replaces lemon. Use other fortified wines (port or sherry) in place of vermouth in cocktails such as Martinis and Manhattans. Any brown liquor can be quite tasty in Manhattans and Old Fashioneds.
So in this way, if your bar has bourbon OR cognac OR rum OR tequila, AND a gin, AND a couple of different fortified wines, AND a good triple sec, you can make a good variety of cocktails without repeating yourself that often. I mean, you can make two different sours (a gin sour and, say, a bourbon sour); you can try a couple different variations on a Manhattan; and you can try a couple different variations on a Martini. Just for starters.
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Now of course, in the kitchen, it helps to always have some pantry staples around, such as various dried beans, pasta, canned tomatoes, spices, and so on. In the same way, it's always good to have bar staples around. The two most important bar staples are bitters and simple syrup. The latter's easy. Add one part water and two parts sugar to a saucepan, heat it long enough for the sugar to dissolve, and then let it cool long enough to be bottled.
Bitters? Well, what do you really need? I'd start with Angostura aromatic bitters and also a good orange or citrus bitters. Next step is Peychaud's, if you like a Sazerac. Beyond that, I'd wait until you find a cocktail that uses something funky, and only then go shopping for the more obscure stuff, such as celery, grapefruit, or rhubarb bitters.
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When it comes to bar tools, only a few items are truly essential.
Glassware: stem glass (coupe or V, not both), rocks glass (or old fashioned), highball. That's it. You can do anything with these glasses, pretty much.
Measuring tools: Don't bother with jiggers, not for making drinks at home, anyway. To measure 1.5 ounces in a jigger, you have to fill it to the top. Unless you're holding the jigger over the shaker/mixing glass as you measure, you're going to lose some booze. Jiggers are designed for professional bartenders who work in fastfastfast where's-the-martini-for-table-12 environments. At home you need one tool and one tool only: an Oxo mini angled measuring cup. I only have one problem with it: there's no mark for 3/4 ounces. I usually eyeball it, or if I need more precision, I measure 1/2 and then 1/4 ounces.
Knives: Chances are, you can get away with a paring knife, at least to start. With a paring knife, you can cut citrus for juicing, pare off bits of peel for twists, and cut wheels and wedges for garnish. If you need a larger knife, a basic chef's knife will do. They're helpful for larger citrus fruits and also for bigger items, such as pineapple. If you want to get fancy with your lemon and orange twists, a channel knife is helpful, but it's certainly not necessary.
Shaker: I continue to believe that a basic Boston shaker is the best tool out there for mixing drinks. You can stir a drink in almost any vessel that's large enough, but for shaking, the Boston can't be beat.
Bar spoon: You don't need a fancy bar spoon to stir a cocktail, although I would say that you probably shouldn't settle for the cheap type with the red plastic cap on the end. I'd go with something like this.
Strainer: Traditionally, a Hawthorne strainer (the kind with the looped spring attached) is used in a mixing tin, when straining shaken drinks, and a Julep strainer (the kind that looks like an oversized perforated spoon) is used for stirred drinks. I don't really understand why. Right now I'm using a Hawthorne for everything because I can't find my Julep. I think one strainer is enough, though it's up to you whether you prefer the Hawthorne or the Julep.
Swizzle stick: Do you need a swizzle stick? I don't know. Do birds need hang gliders?
Got More to Add?
Tell me, my friends. What truly necessary bottle, bitters, or tool have I forgotten to mention?


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- KristenThis is not the confit they teach in cooking school, or the kind served at restaurants. It's the kind you can make anytime -- all you need are a few good duck legs, a skillet, and some very basic spices. And it's just as good.Confiting duck, technically, is just a matter of salting it long enough to draw out its water content, then preserving it by replacing that water with fat. Traditionally this is done by simmering the salt-cured legs in a big burbling vat of duck fat, which you are expected to already have. It's not terribly hard to come into a bunch of duck fat. Slow roast two ducks and you'll have the two quarts of fat a standard confit recipe might require, easy. Or you could buy it retail in tiny containers. It will cost you an extra $50 or so and you will feel a little silly (or, you know, there's always this bucket).But all of these demand a significant head start, one that food writer Melissa Clark skips right past, by exploiting the natural gobs of fat that come free in every duck leg. Her trick: Just render that fat out first. It's not traditional, but who cares?
This is the most obvious perk of Clark's method, which she developed after feeling inhibited by this whole vat-of-duck-fat requirement and consulting with Eric and Bruce Bromberg, chef-owners at Blue Ribbon. But there's even more to its genius than this.For example, you might think the recipe doesn't call for nearly enough salt: a teaspoon and a half -- barely enough for a subdued sprinkle on each side. But it's portioned deliberately, so that you don't have to rinse the excess salt away at the end of the cure stage as you would in many traditional confits. This is doubly good, because the cure stage leads right into the sear-in-a-hot-pan stage, which is much more fun without water and fat spitting angrily at each other.
You'll sear away until you've collected about 1/4 inch of pooling fat in the bottom of the skillet, then you'll flip the legs, cover the pan with foil, and shelve it in the oven for a few hours, covered for most of the time. The lingering fat on top slowly trickles down into the meat, leaving a crackly sheath of skin behind, while the underside stays submerged. Another bonus of this technique: you don't have to monitor the temperature with a deep-fat thermometer. A modest layer of fat in a heavy skillet at 325°F mostly babysits itself. (Another thing that babysits itself? A slow cooker. But I digress.)When it's done, the duck will be golden and gorgeous, with jewels of dark luscious meat and a crisp-paper skin to put the best roast chickens to shame. Clark recommends serving with roasted potatoes, noodles, or bitter salad greens. But you should count on being down a leg or two, if you are weak of will (and/or unsuccessful in fending off trespassers, who will just stand there stony-eyed, gnawing on a leg over near the sink like a dog).
So for anyone who thought this was only the stuff of fancypants restaurants or roadside inns in southwestern France, consider this your starter confit -- one that you can make anytime you spot a nice set of legs at the market. Clark's simple dried thyme and bay cure is a good baseline, to be fiddled with later as you see fit (try star anise, dill, or coriander).And on top of confit, guess what else you get? Duck fat! And lots of it. Stick it in the freezer so next time you're feeling proper, you can try confiting the old school way. Or forget the old school way, and use it all up: fry potatoes, sauté greens, work it into tart crusts, and smear it on your toast.
Melissa Clark's Really Easy Duck Confit
Adapted very slightly from In the Kitchen with a Good Appetite (Hyperion, 2010)
(As you may know, we're big on both salting early and long-cooking in ample fat around here.)
Serves 6-8
1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper1/2 teaspoon dried thyme1 bay leaf, crumbled8 moulard duck legs (about 4 pounds total), rinsed and patted dry but not trimmed
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Gardening requires gear, and gear requires storage. But gardeners' gear is often relegated to nooks and crannies in garages where it soon collides with cars and the paraphernalia of other family pursuits. We often spend half our gardening time looking for the tools of our trade.
A place to play with plants and to store stuff is the dream of many gardeners. But where to put that horticultural hideaway? What should it look like? How should it function? Following are two examples to give you inspiration for building your own potting shed.
A Useful Bench
For Millie Headrick of Lexington, S.C., a secluded spot in a side yard became the perfect place to pot and play.
Like many of us, she stowed her gardening gear in the garage, but had no designated work area. She relied on two saw horses and an old door set up in the driveway when she needed a flat work surface. At the end of the day, this "portable" table had to be dismantled and put away.
Tired of hauling her table and sundry potting supplies in and out of the garage, she decided to create her own work station. "I went to Lowe's and walked around looking for inspiration. It had to be easy for me to put together – I wasn't interested in nailing, hammering or sawing."
She chose 2 by 6 treated lumber in the longest length she could find – 12 feet – for the top, and cinder blocks for the foundation. "I used three boards laid next to each other for the top surface since they fit perfectly on top of the block – no carpentry skills involved."
Tucked into a service area behind a privacy fence, the bench shares a wall with her husband's workshop. The back of the workshop already had an extended roofline where mowers and wheelbarrows were stored, so her husband built two storage cabinets to link the spaces together. One cabinet is outfitted with shelves for short items with rectangular wire bins attached to the door to hold small tools – trowels, gloves, pruners. The other cabinet is designed for storing long-handled tools – shovels, rakes and hoes.
Headrick's "do-it-herself" potting bench shares a wall with her husband's workshop. The generously proportioned bench provides ample work space and the storage cabinet keeps long-handled tools organized and accessible. The adjacent cabinet provides shelf and bin storage for smaller items.
A watering station at the end of the bench nestles in a corner made by the privacy fence and workshop wall. Outfitted with large J-hooks, the fence provides tangle-free storage for hoses. Millie uses pots to soften the functional arrangements of water connections.
Before constructing her potting bench, Millie leveled the footprint and paved the area with square, cement patio pavers, eventually expanding the adjacent floor surface with bricks. This previously unused space is now her nursery area, where sick plants are nurtured and out-of-season plants wait their turn in one of her container creations.
"My potting bench is something I threw together years ago out of desperation. Now that my husband is retired, he wants to build me the "ultimate potting bench." If the bench was in a more visible area of the yard I would opt for something more attractive, but I'm happy with the old one. It's not pretty, but it's functional."
Kathy and Steve Aiello turned a gazebo located in the middle of their garden into this charming and functional potting shed.
Inside the compact potting shed, tools, potting supplies and a work surface share space efficiently.
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Drenched in the shade of a giant oak tree, Kathy and Steve Aiello's West Columbia, S.C., garden is an inspired arrangement of horticulture and hospitality. Brick paths wander past huge containers billowing with specimen plants, while several water features and seating areas encourage guests to linger. Located in the middle of it all is Kathy's potting shed.
Before the shed took shape, Kathy stored a burgeoning ceramic container collection and gardening equipment in the garage, using an old table for her potting chores. Seven years ago, when she decided she needed a potting shed, Steve agreed. "I figured if her gardening stuff was somewhere else, I would have more room in my garage workshop."
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The Aiello's use architectural pieces and old farm implements from family tobacco farms to personalize their garden, and the potting shed is no exception. Its push-out windows came from her grandparent's house, as did the mule collar and metal tractor seat that decorate the back wall.
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Kathy's favorite part of the shed is its convenience. "I love having everything right at hand, plus its size is a good scale with the rest of the garden. If it was any bigger, it would be stuffed with more containers," Kathy said.
As these gardeners discovered, with a little imagination and a bit of sweat equity, a horticultural play station is easy to create.
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California hiker missing 4 days says she hallucinated wildly, tried to eat rocks and dirt
ORANGE, Calif. – One of two hikers who got lost in the Southern California wilderness last week said Monday she remembers little about her four-day ordeal because she began hallucinating on the first night after the pair finished the three bottles of water they had and darkness fell.
Kyndall Jack, 18, and her friend, Nicolas Cendoya, went missing on March 31 in Cleveland National Forest after wandering off a trail during what they thought would be a short day hike. The pair had picked the hike on the popular Holy Jim Trail almost at random after deciding they wanted to climb to a mountaintop to "touch the clouds," Jack said at a brief news conference.
She said the last thing she remembers is fighting off an animal with Cendoya after darkness fell, but she does not recall how the two got separated or what she did between then and her rescue. She hallucinated she was being eaten by a python, she tried to eat rocks and dirt, and thought that tree twigs were straws from which she could suck water.
"I honestly didn't even know I was missing, I didn't know I was gone, I didn't know anything was going on," she said. "I just thought I was in a big dream."
Jack was plucked by helicopter from a tiny rocky outcropping on a near-vertical cliff Thursday, after searchers followed her cries for help across a canyon and up several dried-up waterfalls. She was severely dehydrated, could not move one arm and complained of shortness of breath and pain in her chest and legs, rescuers said at the time.
Her mouth was so full of dirt the first man to reach her was afraid she would choke if he gave her water.
Cendoya, 19, had been rescued the night before after a volunteer searcher heard him call out from chest-high brush not far from where Jack was found. He was released from the hospital Sunday and the two have since seen each other and tried to make sense of their hallucinations with little luck.
Jack, who was expected to be released late Monday, has frostbite in her left hand and swelling, cuts and bruises on her legs that still make walking difficult.
She sat in a wheelchair and appeared weak during a brief news conference outside the University of Irvine, California Medical Center. The ends of her fingernails were ragged and still coated with dirt and she wore a bandage on one arm, moccasins on her swollen feet and a neon yellow hospital bracelet that said "Fall Risk."
The hike started out well but things quickly went wrong when they left the trail, she recalled.
"We just saw a good place and we were like, `Oh, we're just going to scale the mountain here," she said.
They realized as darkness fell that they were lost and nowhere near the mountaintop and Cendoya called 911 twice on his dying cell phone.
In the second call, he and Jack can be heard having a tense conversation as the operator tries to determine where exactly they are in the 720-square-mile national forest -- a vast wilderness that runs smack up against the suburban comforts of southeastern Orange County.
"Yeah, we wandered off the trail. We wandered off the trail," Cendoya told the operator. "I don't even know if we'll make it to the morning because we have no water."
At one point, Jack can be heard in the background telling Cendoya there is something moving in the wilderness and at another point, she cries out for help as the operator tells the pair deputies are on foot searching for them.
"We don't hear them, but we screamed and my echo went out for miles," Cendoya says during the nine-minute call.
Jack said Monday that she panicked as the darkness closed in around them. She tried to climb a tree and use her lighter to provide a signal for rescuers, but she dropped it. She thinks she remembers fighting off some type of animal with Cendoya before the two began to slip in and out of consciousness -- but that, too, could have been a dream.
"I started to get like an anxiety attack and I started throwing up and I just lost it. I just went in and out of consciousness after the 911 call," she said.
"We just kept telling each other, `Don't close your eyes. Don't fall asleep,"' she said.
Jack vaguely remembers "scooting" down a steep embankment -- likely the cliff where she was found -- but she isn't sure when she did that and how she managed to cling to the rocks for so long.
The teen warned other hikers to pack more water and supplies and not stray off the trail.
She also said she'd like to thank two of her rescuers in person: The first reserve sheriff's deputy who reached her and the paramedic who airlifted her to safety in a harness.
Another Orange County reserve sheriff's deputy who participated in the rescue slipped and fell 10 feet, hitting his chest on a rock before falling another 50 feet and hitting his head. He suffered cuts to his head, a punctured lung, broken ribs and other injuries. He was released from intensive care over the weekend and upgraded to fair condition.


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The shiitake mushroom is native to Japan, China, and other East Asian countries, where it naturally grows on fallen trees in the forest: hence the common name, "black forest mushroom." Deliberate cultivation of shiitake, both for food and medicine, is of ancient origin.
During the Ming Dynasty period (1368-1644), shiitake developed a reputation as a "tonic," a substance said to increase energy, prevent disease, aid convalescence from illness, and slow bodily deterioration caused by aging. It was also used more specifically to treat respiratory illnesses, liver diseases, and intestinal infestation with worms.
The soft fleshy cap ("fruiting body") is the part used medicinally.
As yet, there are no proposed uses of shiitake mushroom or shiitake mushroom extracts that are supported by reliable scientific evidence.
Current investigation of shiitake focuses primarily on the potential immune-stimulating and anti-cancer effects of some its constituents, most prominently lentinan (LNT), a polysaccharide substance in the beta-glucan family. Limited evidence from case reports and highly preliminary human studies hints that use of intravenously injected, purified lentinan might enhance the effectiveness of chemotherapy for stomach cancer, pancreatic cancer, and ovarian cancer.1-4 Note : Do not attempt to inject lentinan products designed for oral use.
One study found hints that oral lentinan might reduce recurrence rates of genital warts following laser surgery.11
Extremely weak evidence hints that lentinan might have immune stimulating 6-9 and liver protective effects.10
In an animal study, lentinan reduced risk of colon cancer in mice with ulcerative colitis.5
One study failed to find oral shiitake extract helpful for treatment of prostate cancer.14
When taken orally, shiitake mushroom is most commonly used in the form of an extract: lentinus edodes mycelium extract (LEM). The typical dose of LEM is 1-3 grams 3 times daily.
Purified lentinan suitable for intravenous use is licensed as a pharmaceutical in Japan; it is not available in the United States.
As a widely eaten food, shiitake mushroom is believed to be fairly safe. As with any food, allergic reactions can occur.12,13
The safety of concentrated shiitake extracts, however, is less clear. Safety in pregnant or nursing women, young children, or people with severe liver or kidney disease has not been evaluated.
1. Matsuoka H, Seo Y, Wakasugi H, et al. Lentinan potentiates immunity and prolongs survival time of some patients. Anticancer Res. 1997;17:2751-2756.
2. Nimura H, Mitsumori N, Takahashi N, et al. S-1 combined with lentinan in patients with unresectable or recurrent gastric cancer]. Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2006;33(suppl 1):106-109.
3. Fujimoto K, Tomonaga M, Goto S. A case of recurrent ovarian cancer successfully treated with adoptive immunotherapy and lentinan. Anticancer Res. 2006;26:4015-4018.
4. Nakano H, Namatame K, Nemoto H, et al. A multi-institutional prospective study of lentinan in advanced gastric cancer patients with unresectable and recurrent diseases: effect on prolongation of survival and improvement of quality of life. Kanagawa Lentinan Research Group. Hepatogastroenterology. 1999;46:2662-2668.
5. Mitamura T, Sakamoto S, Suzuki S, et al. Effects of lentinan on colorectal carcinogenesis in mice with ulcerative colitis. Oncol Rep. 2000;7:599-601.
6. Wang J, Zhou ZD, Xia DJ. Study on effect of lentinan in enhancing anti-tumor action of dendritic cytoma vaccine and its mechanism]. Zhongguo Zhong Xi Yi Jie He Za Zhi. 2007;27:60-64.
7. Markova N, Kussovski V, Drandarska I, et al. Protective activity of Lentinan in experimental tuberculosis. Int Immunopharmacol. 2003;3:1557-1562.
8. Kupfahl C, Geginat G, Hof H. Lentinan has a stimulatory effect on innate and adaptive immunity against murine Listeria monocytogenes infection. Int Immunopharmacol. 2006;6:686-696.
9. Markova N, Kussovski V, Drandarska I, et al. Protective activity of Lentinan in experimental tuberculosis. Int Immunopharmacol. 2003;3:1557-1562.
10. Akamatsu S, Watanabe A, Tamesada M, et al. Hepatoprotective effect of extracts from Lentinus edodes mycelia on dimethylnitrosamine-induced liver injury. Biol Pharm Bull. 2004;27:1957-1960.
11. Guangwen Y, Jianbin Y, Dongqin L, et al. Immunomodulatory and therapeutic effects of lentinan in treating condyloma acuminata. CJIM. 1999;5:190-192.
12. Curnow P, Tam M. Contact dermatitis to Shiitake mushroom. Australas J Dermatol. 2003;44:155-157.
13. Suzuki K, Tanaka H, Sugawara H, et al. Chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis induced by Shiitake mushroom spores associated with lung cancer. Intern Med. 2001;40:1132-1135.
14. deVere White RW, Hackman RM, Soares SE, et al. Effects of a mushroom mycelium extract on the treatment of prostate cancer. Urology. 2002;60:640-644.
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Generally service such as ssh, screen, expect, telnet etc use pty (pseudo-terminals) in master – slave mode for login and other purposes. If pty setting is too low many users will not able to login to system using ssh or other commands. In this tip I will explain how to increase the maximum number of pseudo-terminals.
pty man page defines pseudo-terminal as follows:
A pseudo-terminal is a pair of virtual character devices that provide a bidirectional communication channel. One end of the channel is called the master; the other end is called the slave. The slave end of the pseudo-terminal provides an interface that behaves exactly like a classical terminal. A process that expects to be connected to a terminal, can open the slave end of a pseudo-terminal and then be driven by a program that has opened the master end. Anything that is written on the master end is provided to the process on the slave end as though it was input typed on a terminal.
List the maximum number of Pseudo-terminals
Just run the following command to list / display the maximum number of Pseudo-terminals under Linux
$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/pty/max
Increase the maximum number of Pseudo-terminals (PTY)
If you have large Linux installation such as University or ISP login service you need to increase the PTYs to allow more login sessions. Open kernel configuration file – /etc/sysctl.conf:
# vi /etc/sysctl.conf
Append following config directive (support 5120 ptys)
kernel.pty.max = 5120
Save and close the file. Reload the changes:
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Verify that the new maximum number of pseudo-terminals value is changed, enter:
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N° 17–2012: Call for Media: ESA at Farnborough international airshow
22 June 2012
ESA will be highlighting the key roles that space plays today in our rapidly changing world when the Space Zone - the very popular feature of the Farnborough international airshow opens its doors 9-15 July.
ESA, together with the UK Space Agency, the Italian space agency ASI, the Russian space agency Roscosmos and industry, will participate in a series of events in the Space Zone that bring together key players to address how space can contribute to competitiveness and growth at a time of unprecedented economic challenge.
An ESA exhibition will further demonstrate how space pushes the frontiers of knowledge, supports an innovative and competitive Europe, and creates technical innovation and new business.
The Space Zone is organised by A|D|S, the UK's Aerospace, Defence and Security trade organisation.
There is a special Futures Day for students on Friday 13 July, and access for the general public on Saturday 14 July and Sunday 15 July.
Main events in the Space Zone
Tuesday 10 July, 11:00-12:30: Space Day Conference
The UK Space Agency hosts a conference of leaders from government, space agencies and the space industry focusing on the continued growth of the UK, European and international space sectors and the prospects for the ESA Council at Ministerial level, a critical moment of decision for European space, to be held later this year.
Speakers include David Willetts, UK Minister of State for Universities and Science; Francesco Profumo, Italian Minister of Education, Universities and Research and Chair of the ESA Council at Ministerial Level; Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General; Vladimir Popovkin, General Director of the Russian Federal Space Agency; Enrico Saggese, President of ASI; David Williams, Chief Executive of the UK Space Agency; and Andy Green, Co-Chair of the UK's Space Leadership Council and CEO of Logica.
Thursday 12 July, 10:30-12:40: The Space Growth Agenda: Meet it or Beat it!
In 2010, the UK space industry announced an ambitious strategy to create an industry worth £40 billion by 2030, and 100 000 new jobs in the process. Find out whether the space industry is delivering on its plan and how it is refining its strategy to meet the prevailing economic winds.
Speakers will include Lord Stephen Green, UK Minister for Trade and Industry; Catherine Mealing-Jones, UK Space Agency Director of Growth, Applications and EU Programmes; Magali Vaissière, ESA Director of Telecommunications and Integrated Applications; Volker Liebig, ESA Director of Earth Observation; Keith Robson, University of Surrey Director of Research and Enterprise Support; and Richard Peckham, Chair of UKspace and ADS Vice-President.
Friday 13 July: Futures Day
A day of activities across the airshow for young people from UK schools and universities to explore today's innovation and discover how science, technology, engineering and mathematics can allow them to be on the leading edge of the future. Come and meet ESA astronaut Timothy Peake and learn firsthand what it takes to have the right stuff, whether in space or on Earth.
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About the European Space Agency
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ESA is an intergovernmental organisation, created in 1975, with the mission to shape the development of Europe's space capability and ensure that investment in space delivers benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
ESA has 19 Member States: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, of whom 17 are Member States of the EU. ESA has Cooperation Agreements with nine other Member States of the EU and is negotiating an Agreement with the one remaining (Bulgaria). Poland is in the process of becoming ESA's 20th Member State. Canada takes part in some ESA programmes under a Cooperation Agreement.
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Very couple of people have a tendency to realize that medicine may be used not just for the treatment of illnesses, but in addition for maintaining health. It ought to be understood that any common disease (cold, fever, headache, colic and gastric trouble etc) which comes to the body is really a characteristic of problems or has happened because of their negligence. It ought to be noted that every kind of medicine and therapy features its own tradition and limitations. Following are of drugs used regularly:
Traditional chinese medicine:
It is really an ancient system of drugs and it has acquired recognition around the globe. The therapy given continues to be made to balance your body's chee, the primary supply of body flow which is a vital factor for health. When coupled with a well known type of exercise referred to as Tai-chi by fusion of the body and mind, the power is directed for the best direction for promoting a healthy body.
Acupuncture: Utilized as a consequence of Traditional chinese medicine to supply instant relaxation and it is stated for stopping illnesses like infertility and migraine. Dated to 2 century B.C. this therapy believes within the regular flow of one's in your body. Needles of stainless are utilized. Acupressure: Acupuncture, also produced from Traditional chinese medicine uses needles while as acupressure uses fingers to suggest pressure on tips to stimulate body resistance power and respite from discomfort. It's thought to have originated from Asia before 5000 years.
Therapeutic Massage:
Within this therapy, touch can be used to assist relax or heal an individual body. They are used mostly for muscles aches or individuals who've irregular circulation of bloodstream.
Chiropractic Medicine:
This therapy believes the spine ought to be healthy and, a chiropractor following a session using the patient will suggest certain postures to create adjustments using the spine.
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Thought to have originated from areas of South Asia, it's a traditional medicinal practises based mainly around the thesis and teachings from the Greek scholar and physician Hippocrates. It's stated the unani medicine grew to become prominent after it had been adapted by Persian and Arab practitioners his or her own type of medicine. This grew to become famous in India, China and also the surrounding areas throughout the reign from the Delhi Sultanate.


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Herbidacious wrote:The stuff I had was a bit fizzy!
PatsyMFagan wrote:It is so easy ... I drink the previous day's ferment while I am prepping the next one: Strain the ferment, put the grains back into the jar/jug you are using, pour on the required amount of milk (1 tablespoon of grains to about 300 ml of milk), cover with muslin to enable gases to escape and leave somewhere out of sunlight at room temperature, no heating of milk as you do for yogurt, no special equipment
PatsyMFagan wrote:As far as 'room temperature' do you mean yours is too warm or too cool ? It can be fermented in the fridge if the room is too warm, but this does mean it takes a couple of days instead of 24 hours .. If it is too warm it will over ferment, but probably OK after 12 hours. It's very much suck it and see ... and make it to your own taste.
PatsyMFagan wrote:My last comment seems to have disappeared ... it was to ask if you already had a source of the grains, if not I could send you some, but not to buy them online
scullion wrote:i bought a small bottle a few days ago and have looked online to see if it's worth trying to make some from what's left in the bottle - then i remembered your offer patsy and wondered whether you would have any grains to spare that i may have, please. if not, no worries. i'll still see if the dregs will do anything.
PatsyMFagan wrote:My last comment seems to have disappeared ... it was to ask if you already had a source of the grains, if not I could send you some, but not to buy them online
StokeySue wrote:It's the 3 days or so after you take antibiotics that are critical as the gut flora sorts itself out again
PatsyMFagan wrote:Once your kefir grains have fermented the milk, the grains are strained out and used for the next batch. This is known as the first ferment. The resultant kefir is then best kept in the fridge but can carry on fermenting. You can tell this as a) it separates and b) it sometimes 'burps' when you unscrew the lid of the container you are storing it in. This is known as a second ferment. When you ferment the grains in the milk, it needs a covering that allows the gases to escape .. (a coffee filter or muslin usually.
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