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this is very cute. and it is SO SAD when they are sick, but it's the only time my Gigi will actually cuddle with me, so I kind of love it. we have a very similar pooh bear! I wish Gigi and Huck could be besties.ReplyDelete
Sick days are rude, but I love this post.ReplyDelete
Aww what a sweet post! Especially since my little guy was sick with the fever all last week, I can completely relate to this. I also loved getting to see some snippets of the new apartment, please do a house tour soon. :)ReplyDelete
oh no, feel better H! is now an uncouth time to say i love that you too ROYGBIV'd your bookshelf?!ReplyDelete
poor Huck. Hope he is feeling better soon, although it sounds like your day was kind of perfect.ReplyDelete
he's starting to look more like a kid and less like a baby. and i think sick baby syndrome is going around. both my nephews spent the day similarly.ReplyDelete
today was just a sick day all around! i hope huck feels better & at least you know that snuggles make everyone happier! : )ReplyDelete
This is sad but inlove when my 7 year old twins got sick. Luckily it was never serious. But we'd have Disney parties in my bed and our favorite thing is "Sick Baby Drunk Games!". My hubs is a doctor so he's always on me about dehydration. So we have a game that when we watch a movie say "Peter Pan" for instance, whenever someone says "Neverland" or "pixie dust" you have to take a drink of your Gatorade. I know you don't do sippie cups and I didn't either but keeping a couple playtex insulated sippie cups make hydrating on sick days so much more doable. We have no rules on sick days, naps happen whenever, bedtimes whenever, food whatever they feel like. It's the only time they get Gatorade or 7th, Popsicles And sorbet. It's like a little party. We snuggle and tickle backs and tell each other why we love each other (3 reasons each) and play I Spy. All things you have to look forward to!!! It's so great. Sad for them but great for loving feelings and snuggle time. I loved your post, it was so cute. Love that baby of yours!ReplyDelete
Sick days are no fun! We are having our own over this way and I have dealt with more poo than I though possible. Not. cool. Maybe the little guy's a bit off being in a strange new place too? Hope he feels better soon! Your new place looks georgeous btw... can't wait until for a post on it! :)ReplyDelete
he looks so sad in that last picture :( but he sounds mighty lucky to have a mom like you. feel better soon huck!ReplyDelete
womp womp i have a sick 4 month old on our journey to california. nothing like a bad cold during 12 hour car rides and motel rooms.ReplyDelete
Regarding your Halloween post (I should go click on it and comment there but I am feeling EXCEPTIONALLY lazy right now) I feel the need to fly to New York with my two year old (who I will disguise as a one year old) so that we can traipse (TRAIPSE, MIND YOU) around New York with you doing photogenic and cool New York type things.ReplyDelete
But instead I will probably just sit here on my couch and then later maybe head down to Smiths in my SUV. Mayhaps I'll go a bit crazy and stop at the gas station for a Powerade Zero. (I like to spice it up a little on Wednesday nights.)
You should totally BE JEALOUS OF ME. IT'S A GLAMOROUS LIFE, Nat.
Kisses for your Huck.
Poor Huck. I hope he starts feeling better soon. Even with his little pouty face, he still is just so gosh darn adorable!ReplyDelete
Aww....I hate that. Claire had a day like that last Thursday. Same reason..shots. Nothing like snuggling my 18 mo. old all day. Loved holding her, but damn she is heavy!ReplyDelete
Hope all is getting better soon for both of you.
We had a sick day here, too. If only kisses cured fevers! The saddest thing is seeing the baby try to play with his new helium balloon and just finding himself toooooo tired. We played with the curtains for hours instead. And co-napped like crazy. Take that, fever! Here's to livelier tomorrows.ReplyDelete
Oh, Huck looks so sad in that last picture. :( Hopefully he's feeling better today.ReplyDelete
Ugh, I feel your pain--my baby is sick, too. It's in these times we really learn that being a parent is being a servant, am I right?ReplyDelete
It is so sad when a baby is sick. But I think I have found something that tears at my heart almost as much - my high school senior son moping around the house because I am going back to work full time next week and he will miss me when he has to come home to an empty house every day.ReplyDelete
He told me so.
Aw...Poor little guy. And poor Mama too. Hoping for a speedy recovery.ReplyDelete
Oh no! Look at his poor, sad, red-rimmed eyees! Get better soon, Huck!ReplyDelete
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Oh poor baby! Feel better soon.ReplyDelete
Also, what is that nail polish on your toes? Love it!
Oh! That face:( shots are the absolute worst! Although our current teething phase is awfully gruesome.ReplyDelete
What a sweet, sad post. But on the other hand, look at you! Having rooms and hallways and spaces for books and such!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 03, 2011
As much as I hate that Huck is sick, this sounds like a lovely day. Mommas make everything better.ReplyDelete
UGH I would rather be sick a gizallion days than have my kids sick even one day. So get well soon, and then give us a house tour will ya?!ReplyDelete
Poor Huckles. Get better soon!ReplyDelete
PS I HOPE you do a full tour of your new place. I'm DYING to see it. ;)
Sick days SUUUUUCCCKKKK. Most especially when Mommy is sick, too (like us today chez Taylor). I myself have spent HOURS singing in the shower with a small person on my lap (Camryn and croup are the most intimate of friends every winter). It all makes me feel very, very young and inexperienced and unhelpful and sad that I can't just take ti all away!ReplyDelete
Ohhhhh. I have a sick baby too, only she's 5 and too big to snuggle in the shower.ReplyDelete
It's heartbreaking.
this touches my heart. best. cuddles. ever.ReplyDelete
thanks guys!ReplyDelete
@andalasia, it's sally hansen! it's the no-chip stuff but, spoiler alert, it TOTALLY chips.
I'm so sad about that sick Huck that I wasn't even able to look at the background of photos and wow at your new place. Feel better, Baby H.ReplyDelete
Love the chevron bedding! Where's it from?ReplyDelete
@mera, thanks! it's urban outfitters!ReplyDelete
aw, such a sweet post - loved the photos, too. :)ReplyDelete
Oh you sound like such a wonderful momma. Hope I can be as patient and loving and cuddly as you are when that day comes!ReplyDelete
p.s. look at your new place! moreeee photos!!ReplyDelete


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By Ray McGovern. The prosecution of Pvt. Bradley Manning for inconvenient truth-telling is more proof of how hypocritical Official Washington is, especially when Manning's case is compared to how Bush administration officials walked despite clear evidence that they sanctioned torture and other war crimes, notes ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.
When I was asked to speak at Saturday's rally at Fort Meade in support of Pvt. Bradley Manning, I wondered how I might provide some context around what Manning is alleged to have done.
(In my talk, so as not to think I had to insert the word "alleged" into every sentence, I asked for unanimous consent to using the indicative rather than the subjunctive mood.)
What jumped into my mind was the letter Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote from the Birmingham City jail in April 1963, from which I remembered this:
"Like a boil that can never be cured as long as it is covered up, but must be opened with all its pus-flowing ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must likewise be exposed, with all of the tension its exposing creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured."
I suggested that this is precisely what Bradley Manning did when he saw the need to uncover war crimes like the indiscriminate murder of civilians and torture he witnessed in Baghdad and read about in cables.
What he had become witness to was the inevitable result of aggressive war, which the post-World War II Nuremberg Tribunal called the "supreme international crime," differing from other war crimes only inasmuch as it contains within itself the "accumulated evil of the whole." Was he to obey orders to keep his mouth shut? Or was he to follow his conscience and lance this ugly boil of accumulated evil?
What I especially admire in Bradley Manning is this: his ability, at the age of 22, to discern that there can be a hierarchy of — sometimes conflicting — values, and that from a moral standpoint some values dwarf others in importance.
Apparently, Manning saw in ending the mindless slaughter of aggressive war, with its accumulated evil — its torture and other pus-flowing ugliness — what ethicists define as a "supervening value," one that outweighs lesser values like keeping a secrecy promise required as a condition of employment.
Manning chose to break that promise. And Dr. King, in his Letter from the Birmingham Jail, addressed something analogous. King insisted "an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust," and risks jail in order "to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law."
When Generals Lie
Bradley Manning's courage hits a personal nerve in me. At age 28, I had an opportunity to blow the whistle on the lies of the senior U.S. military in Saigon. The evidence was documentary (a SECRET/EYES ONLY cable from Saigon); indeed, it was hard for me to believe the generals would put their deceit so explicitly in writing, but they did.
Younger readers need to be reminded that, at the time (August 1967) there was no WikiLeaks, but The New York Times was an independent newspaper prone to publishing documentary evidence critical of the government. The Times had not yet gotten into the habit of seeking prior approval from the White House.
Six years older than Bradley Manning was when he summoned the courage to do the right thing — and with college courses in ethics in my moral quiver — I nonetheless, well, quivered.
I blew a unique opportunity to let Americans know that — duty, honor, country be damned — unconscionable corruption at senior levels in Saigon and in Washington had badly misled us on the war and that our GIs and the Vietnamese were being chewed up in a March of Folly.
And that opportunity came months before so many got chewed up in the January-February 1968 Communist countrywide offensive, ushering in the second half of the bloody war in Vietnam. I discussed this last year, in connection with the WikiLeaks disclosures. [See Consortiumnews.com's "How the Truth Can Save Lives."]
As for Bradley Manning, he would not sequester himself in a moral vacuum. He had the insight and summoned the moral courage to follow his conscience and act with integrity.
Manning's Motive
In his correspondence with Adrian Lamo, the man who betrayed him, Manning said he wanted people "to see the truth, because without information you cannot make informed decisions as a public." He wrote that he hoped his disclosures would lead to "world-wide discussion, debate, and reform."
Manning's first disclosure that came to light was the Apache helicopter gun-barrel video, with sound, showing the indiscriminate murder of a dozen Iraqi civilians, including two Reuters journalists and the wounding of two little children. The incident was duly "investigated" by the Army, and the shooting was deemed to be consistent with what is permitted by the Army's Rules of Engagement.
Whoa! Official Washington cannot tolerate such disclosures if it remains intent on waging aggressive war, with its accumulated evil, in secret. So the Obama administration set out to make Bradley Manning an object lesson about what will happen to anyone tempted to divulge these sorts of secrets.
For such truth-telling, this is what you can expect: solitary confinement, cruel, inhuman, and degrading punishment; and a very long wait before being brought to the military pre-trial charade that I watched with others at Fort Meade, Maryland, last weekend.
President Barack Obama, commander-in-chief of Bradley Manning, and those trying him have already said Manning "broke the law" – and be damned with the countervailing moral imperative of truth-telling when faced with clear evidence of unpunished war crimes.
Command influence, anyone? What's wrong with this picture? Quick. Someone explain to me how those subordinate to the commander-in-chief can be expected to hold an impartial inquiry, since they already know Manning "broke the law." The top boss said so.
What About the Damage?
Still, whatever the measure of Manning's technical "guilt," the government's hand-wringing over the alleged damage from the disclosures of diplomatic cables has been "significantly overwrought." How do we know? Defense Secretary Robert Gates said so, in those words. And this time he was telling the truth.
Gates mocked the professional alarums sounded by officialdom and dismissed the negative impact of the disclosed cables as "fairly modest." He had learned a lesson from the earlier WikiLeaks disclosures of documents about Afghanistan and Iraq, when normally sober folks like Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mike Mullen were accusing Manning of having "blood on his hands."
When Sen. Carl Levin, Chair of the Armed Services Committee, asked Gates to provide proof in writing of such claims, Gates could adduce no evidence that actual people — as opposed to reputations — had been harmed.
It's also instructive to see how selective prosecutions work in Official Washington. Manning may face life imprisonment for exposing the slaughter of civilians and other serious crimes (as well as revealing the absurd over-classification of U.S. government documents).
However, when President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney confess that they ordered waterboarding and other acts that have long been regarded as illegal torture, they and their subordinates are spared prosecution, presumably because to do otherwise would stir up a political mess.
Suddenly, clear violations of the law must be set aside as being outweighed by larger national considerations, i.e. political comity in Washington. But no such balancing act is available to spare Pvt. Manning possible life imprisonment for truth-telling, even when many experts believe much good has come from the disclosures, including inspiration for the Arab Spring's ouster of dictators whose brutality and corruption were frankly described in the WikiLeaks cables.
Daniel Ellsberg has called Bradley Manning a hero, and that's what he is. We need to find ways to tell the American people the full story. These days, they are not going to get the whole truth (or anything close to it) from The New York Times.
Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington. A 30-year veteran of intelligence work in the Army and the CIA, he now serves on the Standing Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).

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Entire KJV Bible Added to Wikipedia-Like Rap Site; Scholar Issues Caution
Rap Genius, a website that allows the public to critique and interact with "thousands of canonical rap songs," has added the entire King James Bible to its expansive database. At least one biblical scholar who engaged the KJV text welcomes the idea of the interactive "study Bible," although he calls for wisdom in discerning the "gems" from the "junk."
David Lamb, author of God Behaving Badly: Is the God of the Old Testament Angry, Sexist and Racist?, told The Christian Post that making interpretation of the KJV Bible open to the public can lead to meaningful discussions about Scripture, and forces people to actually read the Bible, an activity that many churchgoers are said to avoid.
"It's always good for people to read and discuss the Bible. It's a confusing book and the more we read it and talk about it, the better we'll understand it. Rap Genius is providing another way to do this for people who may not typically attend Sunday school classes on a regular basis," said Lamb, who is also associate professor of Old Testament at Biblical Seminary in Hatfield, Pa.
"However, people need to realize that before they accept what people say in the Rap Genius comments they need to evaluate it. Does it make sense? Does it fit the text? Does it fit my spiritual experience with God? If it doesn't, then they should comment and share their own thoughts," he added.
Rap Genius, formerly known as Rap Exegesis and which attracts about 10 million unique monthly visitors, announced this week that since the user-generated website "was always the internet Talmud," it was inevitable that it would become "the actual Talmud." The Talmud is the body of Jewish civil and ceremonial laws and traditions along with rabbinical commentary.
"The Bible. On Rap Genius. In classic King James flavor. It's here and we need your help explaining it like never before. Audio, video, pics, maps, comprehensive links to relevant lyrics and memes. Serious theology. Comic theology. You don't have to be of any particular faith (or any faith) to help out: you just have to contribute stuff that's informative and entertaining," it was explained in a statement on the website.
Users with verified accounts, including actual music artists, can log on to the database and make contributions, similar to Wikipedia, the popular crowd-sourced encyclopedia. Particularly noteworthy explanations and interpretations can earn users "Rap IQ," based on thumbs up or thumbs down reviews from the RapGenius.com community.
Notable users on the website include "John Wesley," who has made verified contributions in explaining Philippians 1:1. Wesley, actually an 18th century Christian theologian, has also provided explanations on the website for some of his "songs," or sermons, including "Awake, Thou That Sleepest" and "The Almost Christian."
Professor Lamb, identified as Rap Genius user "dlamb," decided to contribute a note to the KJV Bible, specifically for Gen. 3:6, after reading a comment that suggested a woman was single-handedly responsible for the Fall, described in Christian theology as the event that saw Adam and Eve disobey God and lose their innocence, resulting in humans and nature falling under judgment.
Gen. 3:6 reads: "And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat."
Professor Lamb's submitted explanation of the KJV verse: "They were both at fault. He was with her when she ate and said nothing. Whenever the serpent speaks here, he uses plural 'yous,' basically, 'you all.' The man also heard the command directly from YHWH, where she must have heard it from the man."
After his submission, "dlamb" was soon notified that his "excellent comment" was accepted and added as an official explanation for Gen. 3:6.
"Engaging with people who we disagree with can help us understand our own perspectives better. We just need to not turn off our mind as we do it," said Lamb, who has since been declared "a certified rap genius" – which he hopes will win him some street cred with his two teen sons.
Rap Genius, which also published this week the "Top 10 Biblical References in Rap," was founded in 2009 by Mahbod Moghadam, Tom Lehman, and Ilan Zechory, who met as undergraduates at Yale University.


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A Little Exercise Goes A Long Way for Severely Obese
A little exercise goes a long way toward helping severely obese individuals improve their quality of life and complete important daily tasks, according to researchers at the Duke Diet and Fitness Center.
In a pre-program assessment where patients reported, on average, just under one hour of exercise per week, individuals who were more active reported better overall-quality of life. They also reported improvements in their ability to perform daily tasks as measured on a physical functioning scale.
"Things that many people take for granted like tying one's shoes, getting dressed, or simply moving around were easier for those who reported routine exercise," says Martin Binks, PhD, research director at the Duke Diet and Fitness Center, a residential weight loss program at Duke University Medical Center. He presented the research, which included more than 1,200 participants, at the Obesity Society's annual scientific meeting in Phoenix AZ.
Other quality of life improvements associated with higher activity levels included the ability to complete basic daily tasks, such as getting up from chairs, using the stairs, dressing and undressing, and improved physical symptoms like feeling short of breath.
"These folks weren't reporting high levels of activity yet they still felt better," he said. "This supports what we've been teaching for years -- no amount of exercise is too little to have an impact. And it's beneficial no matter what you weigh."
That's important news for the severely obese population, in which the benefits of exercise have not been studied as extensively as in mild or moderately overweight populations. At the same time, Binks hopes news that even a little activity offers benefits may spur some severely obese people to be more active.
"When you are 100 pounds overweight, as the average participant in our program is, people often feel defeated. They have trouble moving, and they think 'why bother.' This study shows why they should bother. It shows the value of starting to move no matter how overweight you are."
Becoming even more active can lead to greater weight loss success, overall health, and better quality of life, says Binks, but he stresses, "every little bit counts when it comes to quality of life improvements."


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Smart electronics are taking the world by storm. From techno-textiles to transparent electronic displays, the world of intelligent technology is growing fast and a revolutionary new device has just been added to its ranks. Researchers at the University of Exeter have developed a new photoelectric device that is both flexible and transparent. The device converts light into electrical signals by exploiting the unique properties of the recently discovered materials graphene and graphExeter. GraphExeter is the best known room temperature transparent conductor and graphene is the thinnest conductive material.
At just a few atoms thick, the newly developed photoelectric device is ultra-lightweight. This, along with the flexibility of its constituent graphene materials, makes it perfect for incorporating into clothing. Such devices could be used to develop photovoltaic textiles enabling clothes to act as solar panels and charge mobile phones while they are being worn.
Photosensitive materials and devices such as the one developed at Exeter can, in the future, also be used for intelligent windows that are able to harvest electricity and display images while remaining transparent. Smart materials have almost unlimited potential applications from integral iPods and keyboards in clothing to electronic displays on glasses and goggles.
Saverio Russo, Professor of Physics at the University of Exeter said: "This new flexible and transparent photosensitive device uses graphene and graphExeter to convert light into electrical signals with efficiency comparable to that found in opaque devices based on graphene and metals.
"We are only just starting to explore the interfaces between different materials at very small scales and, as this research shows, we are revealing unique properties that we never knew existed. Who knows what surprises are just around the corner."
Metallic nanostructures in smart materials typically cause a haze that prevents them from being truly transparent. The photosensitive device developed at Exeter contains no metals and is therefore completely transparent but, as it can detect light from across the whole visible light spectrum, it is as efficient at sensing light as other recently developed opaque photoelectric devices.
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The other day I stopped by Winkleman Gallery to see Joy Garnett's new paintings, and then hurried up to the Cort Theater where I had tickets to Time Stands Still, a uniformly well-acted play featuring Laura Linney as a photojournalist, home from a stint in Iraq where she had been badly injured in a roadside bombing. The two shows made for an excellent double feature.
The play, by Donald Margulies, explores how artists' lives are affected by the passage of time. Sarah (Linney) and her journalist boyfriend Jamie (Brian d'Arcy James) have spent their twenties and thirties covering wars and other humanitarian disasters overseas. As the play begins, they have just returned to their gritty Williamsburg loft where Sarah, recovering from her injuries, chafes to get back to the action. Meanwhile, shell-shocked Jamie yearns for marriage and a comfortable life — maybe even a couple of kids — along the lines followed by their friends Richard (Eric Bogosian) and his very young fiance (Christina Ricci).
Margulies, understanding the tradeoffs facing most serious artists, explores the dynamic that occurs when one partner is ready to put the action and ambition aside and the other is not. Living behind the camera and courting the risks of human folly have given Sarah a noble excuse to disengage. Looking through the lens has also afforded her the extraordinary sensation that time stands still. For Jamie, it has marched on. He comes to believe that they have spent decades of their lives under the illusion that their moments in hell perform an indispensable social role, leaving precious little time to do other less grandiose but more joyful, comforting things.
Joy Garnett's forceful new paintings capture the evanescent bursts of violence recorded by photojournalists (like fictional Sarah) around the world while also acknowledging the comfort of distance that softens the apprehension of a far-off war by an artist in her studio — and which Sarah disdains. Seeking to transform her secondary experience of the depicted events into something more authentic, Garnett culls photographs of military explosions from online sources, reconstituting the harrowing, split-second images using traditional oil paint and canvas. Painting fast and loose, she renounces exactitude to embrace clunky, restless brushwork that fuses painterly glee with exasperated rage, setting the explosions adrift from both their geographical and their political contexts.
Reinventing the news images as luscious paintings rich in art historical referents, Garnett's work, which she calls "apocalyptic sublime," might come off as glib and exploitative to some. But from Margulies' perspective, even if she's safe in the studio, enshrining the world's daily tragedies is worthy enough, and an acceptable existential compromise. A painter can't make real time stand still the way a great news photographer can. But Garnett's paintings force viewers to contemplate how ugly and destructive its procession can be, and proclaim that physical remove is no excuse for ignoring that reality.
"Joy Garnett: Boom & Bust," Winkleman Gallery, New York, NY. Through November 13, 2010.
"Time Stands Still," written by Donald Margulies, directed by Daniel Sullivan. The Cort Theater, New York, NY. Through January 23, 2011.
About the author: Sharon Butler is a painter and the publisher of Two Coats of Paint.


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A stroke happens when blood flow to a part of the brain stops. A stroke is sometimes called a "brain attack."
If blood flow is stopped for longer than a few seconds, the brain cannot get blood and oxygen. Brain cells can die, causing permanent damage.
There are two major types of stroke: ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke.
Ischemic stroke occurs when a blood vessel that supplies blood to the brain is blocked by a blood clot. This may happen in two ways:
Ischemic strokes may be caused by clogged arteries. Fat, cholesterol, and other substances collect on the artery walls, forming a sticky substance called plaque.
A hemorrhagic stroke occurs when a blood vessel in part of the brain becomes weak and bursts open, causing blood to leak into the brain. Some people have defects in the blood vessels of the brain that make this more likely.
See also:
High blood pressure is the number one risk factor for strokes. The other major risk factors are:
People who have heart disease or poor blood flow in their legs caused by narrowed arteries are also more likely to have a stroke.
The chance of stroke is higher in people who live an unhealthy lifestyle by:
Birth control pills can increase the chances of having blood clots. The risk is highest in woman who smoke and are older than 35.
For more information, see: Stroke risk factors
The symptoms of stroke depend on what part of the brain is damaged. In some cases, a person may not know that he or she has had a stroke.
Symptoms usually develop suddenly and without warning. Or, symptoms may occur on and off for the first day or two. Symptoms are usually most severe when the stroke first happens, but they may slowly get worse.
A headache may occur, especially if the stroke is caused by bleeding in the brain. The headache:
Other symptoms depend on how severe the stroke is and what part of the brain is affected. Symptoms may include:
A complete exam should be done. Your doctor will:
Tests can help your doctor find the type, location, and cause of the stroke and rule out other disorders.
Other tests include:
A stroke is a medical emergency. Immediate treatment can save lives and reduce disability. Call 911 or your local emergency number or seek urgent medical care at the first signs of a stroke.
It is very important for people who are having stroke symptoms to get to a hospital as quickly as possible. If the stroke is caused by a blood clot, a clot-busting drug may be given to dissolve the clot.
Most of the time, patients must reach a hospital within 3 hours after symptoms begin. Some people may be able to receive these drugs for up to 4 - 5 hours after symptoms begin.
Treatment depends on how severe the stroke was and what caused it. Most people who have a stroke need to stay in a hospital.
Clot-busting drugs (thrombolytic therapy) may be used if the stroke is caused by a blood clot. This medicine breaks up blood clots and helps bring back blood flow to the damaged area. However, not everyone can get this type of medicine.
Other treatments depend on the cause of the stroke:
See also:
Nutrients and fluids may be needed, especially if the person has trouble swallowing. These may be given through a vein (intravenously) or a feeding tube in the stomach (gastrostomy tube). Swallowing trouble may be temporary or permanent.
Physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and swallowing therapy will all begin in the hospital.
The goal of treatment after a stroke is to help the patient recover as much function as possible and prevent future strokes.
The recovery time and need for long-term treatment is different for each person. Problems moving, thinking, and talking often improve in the weeks to months after a stroke. A number of people who have had a stroke will keep improving in the months or years after the stroke.
See: Stroke recovery for information about:
Support and resources are available from the American Stroke Association -- www.strokeassociation.org.
The outlook depends on:
You may recover completely, or have some permanent loss of function.
Over half of people who have a stroke are able to function and live at home. Other people are not able to care for themselves.
If treatment with clot-busting drugs is successful, the symptoms of a stroke may go away. However, patients often do not get to the hospital soon enough to receive these drugs, or they cannot take these drugs because of a health condition.
People who have a stroke due to a blood clot (ischemic stroke) have a better chance of surviving than those who have a stroke due to bleeding in the brain (hemorrhagic stroke).
The risk for a second stroke is highest during the weeks or months after the first stroke. Then the risk begins to decrease.
Stroke is a medical emergency that needs to be treated right away. Call your local emergency number (such as 911) if someone has symptoms of a stroke.
See: Stroke risk factors and prevention
Cerebrovascular disease; CVA; Cerebral infarction; Cerebral hemorrhage; Ischemic stroke; Stroke - ischemic; Cerebrovascular accident; Stroke - hemorrhagic
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The tech industry is full of offbeat characters, but none are quite so off the beaten path as John McAfee. The creator of the antivirus software that bears his name has been in the news of late, but I'm having a hard time deciding if his story is comic or tragic.
After selling his software company in 1994, the 67-year-old McAfee built an instant messaging app, operated an "aerotrekking" company that offered motorized hang glider flights across the New Mexico desert, taught yoga, got sued for negligence in the death of one of his aerotrekkers, and fled to Belize, where he started up a bio-pharmaceutical company and was accused of cooking meth in the jungles. Most recently he's been living with his 20-year-old girlfriend Samantha, allegedly dabbling in all manner of mind-altering substances.
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Now he's on the run from the law. The Belize authorities consider McAfee a "person of interest" in the murder of his neighbor, Gregory Faull, who died of a gunshot wound to the head earlier this month. McAfee, who had been feuding with Faull but has also complained about corrupt local police in the past, says he's being framed. Beyond the essential facts of the case, though, is a story I can only describe as Hunter Thompsonesque. It's "The Mosquito Coast" meets "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas."
But don't take my word for it. You can follow it all on The Hinterland blog and McAfee's newly minted Twitter account. Like this post about how McAfee managed to sneak back onto his compound after disappearing by donning a disguise:
I darkened the skin of my face, neck and hands carefully with shoe polish and put on an LA Saints baseball cap with the brim facing backwards and tufts of the front of my hair sticking out unkempt through the band. I stuffed my cheeks with chewed bubble gum stuck to the outside of my upper and lower molars - making my face appear much fatter. I darkened and browned my front teeth. I stuffed a shaved down tampon deep into my right nostril and died the tip dark brown - giving my nose an awkward, lopsided, disgusting appearance.... I adjusted my posture so that I appeared a good six inches shorter than my actual height and slowly walked up and down the beach with a pronounced limp, pushing an old single speed bicycle and peddling my wares to tourists and reporters using a broken English with a heavy Spanish accent.
Some intrepid reporters have made the trek to Belize to meet the man in person. McAfee's tweets give the flavor of the story better than I can:
I am sitting face to face with Adam Thomson of the London Financial Times. He is scared. Samantha is trying to soothe him. Weird world.
Adam Thomson of the Financial Times has chosen not to stay with us. Made a 4 hour recording and moved on. Anyone else out there wanna try?
I think it was the raw, sundried iguana that put him off. Better than sushi in my mind. Should have talked diet before the arrangement.
"I am younger and smaller than you, and I am a girl, but I have more balls than you" - Samantha to Financial Times reporter Adam Thomson


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I ran across a system today that was using the VHCS control panel. It looks like the system wasn't correctly configured to allow SMTP authentication. It uses Postfix as the MTA and Courier-IMAP for the Imap/POP3 server. It was populating the Courier-authentication database with email addresses and passwords to use for logging into the incoming mail server, but postfix wasn't configured to use the same database for authenticating and providing an outgoing mail server.
This is what I had to do to get it working
Edit your system's smtpd.conf file (/var/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf for RedHat and derivatives. /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf for Debian and Ubuntu derivatives). And put in this content:
I think this is a default install looks like:
pwcheck_method: saslauthd mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN
So change it to this:
pwcheck_method: authdaemond mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN authdaemond_path: /var/run/courier/authdaemon/socket
Of course, make sure that the authdaemond_path is correct for your system, and change as needed.
Then restart postfix and see if that works. You can use my SMTP Authentication String tool to get your encoded password and try it through telnet. Tail your mail log to see if it gets any errors.
On the system I was working on. Postfix was configured to chroot the smtpd processes (in /etc/postfix/master.cf). I got errors in the mail log that looked like this:
Jan 24 19:52:46 host postfix/smtpd[14528]: warning: SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to Courier authdaemond: No such file or directory Jan 24 19:52:46 host postfix/smtpd[14528]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed Jan 24 19:52:46 host postfix/smtpd[14528]: warning: host.local[127.0.0.1]: SASL plain authentication failed: generic failure
So, in that case, I simply hard-linked the courier authdaemon socket file inside of the chroot (/var/spool/postfix)
cd /var/spool/postfix ln /var/run/courier/authdaemon/socket courier-authdaemon-socket
Then change the authdaemond_path to just 'courier-authdaemon-socket'. Restart postfix and it should work


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Airbus to have major presence at Singapore Airshow –Feb 04, 2014– Toulouse, France (Techreleased) – Airbus will have a major presence at the Singapore Airshow 2014, Asia's largest aeronautical and defence airshow, taking place from 11th-16th February. Airshow visitors will be able to enjoy the all-new A350 XWB flight-test aircraft (MSN 3) performing its first ever airshow flying display on both, the 11th and 12th February.
A full scale A350 XWB cockpit as well as an interactive A350 XWB model will be on expo at the Airbus stand (J23) together with models of Airbus' market-leading widebody product line and the successful A320neo. Guests can also discover Airbus' benchmark cabin comfort standards in a dedicated Comfort Zone at the Airbus tent, located on the static display area.
Airbus will broadcast the A350 XWB flying display live, and provide daily airshow coverage and news via a special Singapore Airshow website on airbus.com and on youtube.com/airbus. In addition. Airbus will also broadcast a daily 30 minute live show, featuring Airbus experts and special guests. More details will be made available on www.airbus.com from February 11th.
Members of the media are invited to the Airbus press conference on Tuesday 11th February starting at 2:30 pm at the Singapore Airshow main exhibition Hall, Room 5. Airbus recommends media to follow alerts for upcoming events and announcements which will be posted in the airshow press centre, at the Airbus Group Chalet and Airbus Group stand.
The Airbus media relations team welcomes journalists to visit us at the Airbus Group business Chalet, CD19-CD29.
The Asia-Pacific region is a core market for Airbus with airlines from the region accounting for a third of the company's total orders worldwide. Today there are more than 2,400 Airbus aircraft in service with nearly 100 airlines across the region and over 1,700 aircraft on order with Asia-Pacific carriers for future delivery. This represents over a third of the company's total backlog, reflecting the importance of the region as the fastest growing market for new civil aircraft.


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Following on from my last blog about Thurloe, I had intended to write about the double agent, Colonel Joseph Bampfield, but in doing the research I came across an intriguing story and one
entirely appropriate for the Hoydens and Firebrands, the story of Anne Halkett.
Like Lucy Hutchinson, in her later years Lady Halkett saw fit to write notes of her life in her "Auto Biography". Unfortunately much of the manuscript is fragmentary but what it reveals is one of those spirited young ladies who so characterised the period of the English Civil War.
Born in 1623 and highly educated (her parents were tutor and governess to the children of Charles I), young Anne Murray began her tumultuous love life with an unfortunate liaison with a young man. Both sets of parents disapproved and the young lovers were forcibly parted - Anne being made to say farewell to her lover while wearing a blindfold. This caused an estrangement with her mother and poor Anne was not pleased to hear that her loyal and faithful swain promptly married another!
But it is her relationship with Colonel Joseph Bampfield that is most intriguing. She appears to have met him through her brother, Will Murray. Bampfield was much of her own age and by 1648 when they met, he already had a long history of espionage for Charles I. Anne writes that, "...his discourse was serious, handsome, and tending to imprese the advantages of piety, loyalty, and vertue; and these subjects were so agreeable to my owne inclination that I could nott butt give them a good reception...". Bampfield was tramelled with an inconvenient wife but as she lived in the country and he in London, it did not prevent the two from becoming better acquainted.
The three youngest children of Charles I,
a likeness done during their captivity
a likeness done during their captivity
Parliament had in its custody, the young prince, James Duke of York. He was held at St. James' palace with his younger brother, Henry, and sister Elizabeth (Anita did a lovely blog on the fate of these two youngsters in *). Bampfield confided in Anne that the King had entrusted him with the task of securing the escape of the Duke of York. It was agreed between them that the best means of escape would be to disguise the young man as a woman. Anne made clothes for him and on 20 April 1648 they put their plan into action.
The Prince had instigated a nightly game of "hide and seek" with his brother and sister. Having inveigled a key to the garden gate from a gardener, under cover of the game, James went swiftly into the garden where he met CB (Anne's nickname for Colonel Bampfield) who smuggled the boy down to the water and into a boat to take them to a private house where Anne waited. Anne was under strict instructions to leave if they had not turned up by ten o'clock but ignoring these instructions, Anne waited faithfully.
Bampfield and the prince arrived and Anne dressed the boy in the gown she had made, remarking that he "...looked very pretty in it...". Bampfield then took the Prince by barge to Gravesend where a Dutch ship waited to take him to France. The captain of the barge had his suspicions: "Mr. Andrews and his sister" were accompanied by no less than three other people, none of whom appeared to have any luggage and the "sister" was seen to pull up her stockings in a most unladylike manner!
Failing to find the Prince in the game of Hide and Seek, some hours had passed before the hue and cry went up and the ports were closed. By that time the Prince was well and truly at sea and safe. No suspicion appears to have attached to Anne and she waited the return of CB.
On his return to London, CB sent for Anne and told her the sad news that his wife was dead (she wasn't!). Anne fell for the story hook line and sinker and became "betrothed" to him. She sighs: "...hee was unquestionably loyall, handsome, a good skollar, which gave him the advantages of writting and speaking well, and the cheefest ornamentt hee had was a devout life and conversation...". They lived together (probably in Holland) as man and wife for nearly a year before she returned to Scotland where Bampfield continued to court her.
Their on-off relationship continued for some years, resulting in a duel with one of her brothers but it was inevitable Anne would discover that Bampfield's wife was alive and well and, her reputation ruined she took service in the household of Sir James Halkett as governess to his children. She eventually married Halkett and enjoyed twenty years happy marriage with him.
Bampfield fell out with Charles II and by the early 1650s, was already a double agent in Thurloe's pay. He spent the remainder of the interregnum on the Continent and on the restoration was imprisoned in the Tower for more than a year. He returned to the continent where he "...screwed his way into the service of the Prince of Orange..."(State Papers). Shortly before his death in 1685 he wrote an "Apologie", an account of his life and career. For her part, Anne Halkett died in 1699 leaving behind a literary legacy of 21 volumes of her writing.
(PS: I could not resist including Joseph Bampfield in my own story of Thurloe's spy ring, THE KING'S MAN)


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Kosher Soul Food Shabbat Dinner - January 2015
Food for the Soul, and Soul Food, Friday, January 16 at 6:30 PM -- Michael Twitty, our kosher soul food guest chef and southern food historian, prepared BBQ chicken, matzoh ball gumbo, tzimmes sweet potatoes and all the trimmings for a noteworthy Shabbat dinner to honor the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This event, for 200, was expanded to 250 and still sold out. These photos were taken before Shabbat started, so are confined to the preparations. A hearty Todah Rabbah to organizers Susan Moskowitz, Sheri Cerny, Gail Shor and the more than 40 congregants of all ages who helped cook, set up and serve the dinner!Read More


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Now after five days Ananias the high priest came down with the elders and a certain orator named Tertullus. These gave evidence to the governor against Paul.
And when he was called upon, Tertullus began his accusation, saying: "Seeing that through you we enjoy great peace, and prosperity is being brought to this nation by your foresight, we accept it always and in all places, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness. Nevertheless, not to be tedious to you any further, I beg you to hear, by your courtesy, a few words from us. For we have found this man a plague, a creator of dissension among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes. He even tried to profane the temple, and we seized him, and wanted to judge him according to our law. But the commander Lysias came by and with great violence took him out of our hands, commanding his accusers to come to you. By examining him yourself you may ascertain all these things of which we accuse him." And the Jews also assented, maintaining that these things were so.
Then Paul, after the governor had nodded to him to speak, answered: "Inasmuch as I know that you have been for many years a judge of this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself, because you may ascertain that it is no more than twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem to worship. And they neither found me in the temple disputing with anyone nor inciting the crowd, either in the synagogues or in the city. Nor can they prove the things of which they now accuse me. But this I confess to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets. I have hope in God, which they themselves also accept, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust. This being so, I myself always strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and men.
"Now after many years I came to bring alms and offerings to my nation, in the midst of which some Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with a mob nor with tumult. They ought to have been here before you to object if they had anything against me. Or else let those who are here themselves say if they found any wrongdoing in me while I stood before the council, unless it is for this one statement which I cried out, standing among them, 'Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged by you this day.' "
But when Felix heard these things, having more accurate knowledge of the Way, he adjourned the proceedings and said, "When Lysias the commander comes down, I will make a decision on your case." So he commanded the centurion to keep Paul and to let him have liberty, and told him not to forbid any of his friends to provide for or visit him.
And after some days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, he sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ. Now as he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was afraid and answered, "Go away for now; when I have a convenient time I will call for you." Meanwhile he also hoped that money would be given him by Paul, that he might release him. Therefore he sent for him more often and conversed with him.
But after two years Porcius Festus succeeded Felix; and Felix, wanting to do the Jews a favor, left Paul bound.
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It appears there is an award scene for everything, even the trailers. This year marked the 13th annual Golden Trailer Awards and with over sixteen categories, they've got all their bases covered.
This year The Dark Knight Rises took the top prize, and then some, winning the awards of Best Action Trailer, Best Summer 2012 Blockbuster Trailer, and Best in Show. Chronicle was also represented and won the category of Most Original Trailer.
The awards are decided by a panel of judges and this year included names such as directors Jon Favreau, Ivan Reitman, and comedian Patton Oswalt.
Take a look at the award-winning trailers below and click here for the full list of winners.


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With all the wintry weather for the past two months, unusual for Vancouver -- a "hint" of snow witnessed just this morning! -- we thought it was time for a trip. So, we hitched a ride on FOODalogue's Culinary Tour.
We're going to Portugal!
We're no experts in Portuguese cuisine, but what we know and have tasted of the cuisine is so delicious that we knew we had to explore more of it. (Making peri-peri chicken is always a joy, as is caldo verde.)
We discovered PortugueseCooking.com, a site by Ana Patuleia Ortins, and found recipes for Wine and Garlic Marinated dishes. I consolidated two of those recipes and began making our dish.
To start, the marinade, of course.
In a bowl, I combined white wine, red wine vinegar, some cinnamon, cumin, allspice, bay leaves, salt, black pepper, and red chili flakes. I added the pork butt that I've cut into cubes and let them marinate overnight.
left: pork cubes marinating
right: out of the marinade
The next day, JS removed the pork from the marinade and dried the cubes.
The pork was browned, then the marinade went in. The mixture was brought to a boil, then simmered until the pork was tender.
Easy, eh?
We served it with "jag" (short for "jagacida", a Cape Verdean lima beans and rice dish) and some sautéed kale. The whole thing was brightened with a sprinkling of some hazelnut gremolata that I made for another dish.
My favourite part of the meal was the jagacida, mixed in with the kale. So my comments on that taste would have to wait until then.
To be honest, the pork stew was somewhat "unfamiliar" to me -- or rather, it smelled "unfamiliar." The consensus around our dinner table was that the aroma was almost a tad too overwhelming, too wine-y and too vinegar-y. Or maybe it's something else altogether. Unfortunately, it deterred some members of the family.
When one bites into the pork, though, the flavours of the marinade did not really penetrate through to the meat; they were more muted. The marinade-turned-sauce just provided an acidic counterpoint to the brown porkiness of the meat. The acidic highpoints and the background of smoky savouriness from the spices complemented the creamy, butteriness of the jagacida.
If anything, I would have liked this pork stew more if it was not too wine-y and vinegar-y. And, I can take more garlic. I love the combination of allspice, cinnamon, and cumin and would not be averse to playing with it more.
Not quite the knockout dish I was hoping for, but it did make for a good comforting meal.
[eatingclub] vancouver Portuguese meal
Vinho d'Alhos (Portuguese Wine and Garlic Marinated Pork)
Sautéed Kale
Jag (Jagacida, Cape Verdean Beans and Rice)
Hazelnut Gremolata
Other Portuguese dishes
Caldo Verde (Portuguese Kale and Chorizo Soup)
Recipes from PortugueseCooking.com
Vinho d'Alhos
(Wine and Garlic Marinated Pork)
adapted from recipes by Ana Patuleia Ortins (http://www.portuguesecooking.com/)
2 1/2 pounds pork butt, cut into cubes
1/2 cup white wine
3 tablespoons red wine vinegar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon cumin powder
4 kernels allspice
2 bay leaves
1 1/2 teaspoon coarse salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
pinch red chili flakes (to taste)
Combine marinade ingredients together. Add pork. Marinate overnight in the refrigerator, or for 3 to 4 days.
When ready to cook, remove pork from the marinade. Pat dry. Set marinade aside.
Heat a pot and add oil. Brown pork cubes; you may need to work in batches. Once all the pork cubes are browned, place them and the marinade in the pot. Let boil, then turn the heat to low and let simmer until pork is tender, about 1 hour or so.
We're submitting this to The Culinary Tour Around the World, created by our virtual tour guide, Joan of Foodalogue.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Vinho d'Alhos (Portuguese Wine and Garlic Marinated Pork)
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This looks wonderful and the ingredients used all sound delicious together!ReplyDelete
While I respect js' critique, it looks delicious to me. Looking forward to hearing about the rice and gremolata. Thanks so much for participating in the event -- I hope you'll consider meeting me at another of the destinations.ReplyDelete
Hmmm... Too vinegary? Don't we use quite a bit of that in adobo as it is? Heh heh. I would've gladly eaten it up, it looks delicious!ReplyDelete
That looks like a nice meal. I like the sound of that hazelnut gremolata.ReplyDelete
Marinated, seared then simmered until tender...just the way I like my men opps, I meant meat. HEHEHEHEHReplyDelete
I don't know much (if anything) about Portuguese food, but this pork dish looks amazing! I will take a look at that link and see if I can come up with something for the event. I really want to join you guys in this amazing trip :)ReplyDelete
Bummer it didn't come out like you hoped but it sure sounds good to meReplyDelete
May be it needs more salt or stewing time similar to our adobo?:)ReplyDelete
Looks good though.
I can remember something similiar that my grandmother used to make. I like a wine-y and vinegar-y taste to foods, so I think this would be right up my alley!ReplyDelete
Looks like we're both hankering for some Portuguese cuisine. Love the deep caramelization, the spices - yum!ReplyDelete
Can you ship some of that Jag over to me?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 12, 2009 2:59 PM
I need to cook more Portuguese foods too! Thanks for the reminder. :-)ReplyDelete
This looks really really tasty. Yum!
Joan Nova:ReplyDelete
We'r starting to do a little research on those countries' recipes. Hopwfully we'll have time to do two or so of them!
Haha... OK, maybe not too vinegar-y. Maybe I put too much allspice in the marinade. Would have to figure this out.
Thanks. It really added a nice brightness and some crunch to everything.
Mochachocolata Rita:
Haha... Freudian slip?
Everybody should join in the fun! Next stop is Romania... then Ethiopia!
February 10, 2009 6:18 PM
Yeah. Were not giving up on this dish. I think maybe I just need to tinker with the proportion of the spices.
Yeah, when thinking about it, I don't think it's the wine or vinegar that's the problem! because I do like wine-y and vinegar-y items too!
Peter M:
Zen Chef:
Thanks! It certainly seems an underrated cuisine... at least in Vancouver.
- AnonymousMarch 24, 2009 6:21 PM
Oh man this is my kind of food. What a fabulous recipe. Not that familiar with Portuguese food except something called "soupish?" that my stepfather's family used to make all the time.ReplyDelete
Oh, I haven't heard of "soupish" at all. Now I'm really curious.
Thank you so much for making this post-- I'm still new to marinating meat, and stumbled across your blog when I was searching for the answer to whether it was okay for pork to change colors after an acidic marinade. Your pictures solved it all for me. Thanks again!ReplyDelete
Thanks for visiting. Usually something really acidic will change the color of the meat; not so much for marinades that are mostly spices or oil, though. You'll get the knack for it in no time! =)
- AnonymousDecember 16, 2011 11:24 AM
My mother used saffron, wine and Vodka in the marinade makes the meat more tender. 3 days in the fridge turning every day. If the saffron is too costly you can add a little tumeric to extend the amount to a little bit more. I have used good expensive Saffron powder. akd I used a coffee grinder to mix the cheapo saffron flowers that you get in celophane in the grocery store really cheap. Its am okay substitution. Anyway mom insists that the recipe requires 3 days of marination. Mother used to do everything the old fashioned way. This and the Portuguses Sausage recipe were awesome. The sausage takes 6 days to make. I thinkl they marinated it long way back when refridgerators werent so common every where, the recipe I have supposedly passed down from Alva Mai's (Sp?) mother.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 31, 2011 1:29 AM
Our Vinha d'alhos from Madiera and Azores is quite different. My family spices the marinade only with plenty of garlic, dried thyme, and hot pepper flakes with a touch bay leaf and rosemary, (still in a wine and vinegar base). Marinade it for a few days but only use the marinade sparingly when cooking or it can come out too acidy. Throw some fresh portuguese bread on top for the last few minutes of cooking and you'll wonder how something so simple can be so good.ReplyDelete
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Oooh, thanks for the extra info and tips! The old-fashioned way is usually the best. =)
Anon 2:
Ah, good tip re using the marinade only sparingly. Maybe that was our error. Thanks for the comment!


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The evaluation of a new iPad Aniseikonia Test
- Purpose The purpose of this study was to evaluate the validity of the iPad Aniseikonia Test for measurement size lens-induced aniseikonia. The iPad Aniseikonia Test is a new computer-based test designed for measuring aniseikonia in vertical direction. The iPad Test uses red-green anaglyphs. Methods Aniseikonia was induced in 21 subjects by means of afocal size lenses. Resulting aniseikonia was measured in vertical direction by the iPad Aniseikonia Test. The measurement was performed in dark condition with appropriate correction of refractive error. All subject were patients with normal vision with no anisometropia or other ocular problem. Results: Afocal size lenses of known magnification were used to induce aniseikonia. 5 measurements were taken in each subject, ranging from zero to 7 % magnification. When using the regression analysis, the slope of the fitted line significantly differs from 1. The average slope of regression line is 0,58. Conclusions: Only moderate accuracy was found for tested target size and orientation. In all cases the iPad Aniseikonia Test underestimates the level of aniseikonia. However for gross assessment of anisometropia in clinical practice it could be successfully used. Further study with different target size should be addressed.
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In July, production on NBC's Parenthood was delayed due to Maura Tierney becoming ill. She eventually had to drop out of the project and Lauren Graham stepped in.
Because of the backstage issues, NBC delayed Parenthood's Fall premiere and replaced it with a series that was scheduled for midseason, Mercy. Some wondered if having two new medical series might cause one to suffer. It turns out, Mercy and Trauma are both in critical condition.
Mercy follows the lives of three very different nurses at Mercy Hospital in Jersey City. The cast includes Taylor Schilling, Jaime Lee Kirchner, Michelle Trachtenberg, James Tupper, Diego Klattenhoff, Guillermo Diaz, James LeGros, James Van Der Beek, and Delroy Lindo.
The series got off to a mediocre start on September 23, 2009. The premiere attracted a 2.3 rating in the all-important 18-49 demographic and 8.25 million total viewers. That put the debut in fourth place for the demo and in second place for total viewers.
The second episode fell to a 2.1 rating and 7.35 million. The third installment dropped again to a 1.8 rating in the demo and 7.29 million viewers. Not good.
Though the show's ratings could hardly be called strong, NBC gave Mercy a full season order in October. The rest of the network's schedule was performing poorly and the order likely had most to do with the fact that NBC just needed original programming. It didn't hurt that the series is a co-production of NBC's corporate sister, Universal Media Studios.
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Meanwhile, Trauma struggled from the very beginning and NBC pulled the plug after 13 episodes. But then, based on the need for more programming, the network ordered seven more installments. That show returns on March 8th but is a big longshot for renewal.
While Mercy was initially the better performer, the show's ratings have now reached Trauma-like levels. The most recent episode of Mercy hit a series low with a dismal 1.4 rating in the demo and just 5.86 million viewers.
NBC's Primetime Entertainment President Angela Bromstad recently said that she still loves the drama creatively, but she also noted that the show's ratings need to rise for it to survive. She made that statement before Mercy fell to its most recent low.
The network has commissioned 18 pilots for the 2010-11 season and Bromstad has acknowledged that they'll have to essentially rebuild their schedule from scratch.
With the ratings as poor as they are, it's highly likely that Mercy will be cancelled and won't survive to see a second year.
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Opposition or skepticism dominates House sentiment on proposed Syria strike
House returns Monday, but Majority Leader Eric Cantor says any vote could slip into following week
Senate poised to take up measure already passed by committee authorizing limited strike
House members await classified briefings on allegations of Syria chemical weapons use
Even if the Senate backs President Barack Obama's call for military action against Syria, a wall of outright opposition or skepticism from Democrats and Republicans in the House makes approval there very difficult.
House Speaker John Boehner, who backs Obama on the issue, welcomed news on Friday that the president would deliver a national address on Tuesday to try to sway public opinion, which now opposes such a step.
But Boehner's spokesman signaled that the votes aren't in the House for passing a resolution authorizing force against Syria and the GOP is placing the burden squarely on Obama's shoulders.
"Only a president can convince the public that military action is required. We only hope this isn't coming too late to make the difference," Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck said in a statement.
Still, senior House Republican aides find it difficult to see a path for passage.
Boehner's top deputy, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, also supports the president and is talking to members and urging them to review classified materials that administration officials say bolsters their case for military action.
Cantor penned an editorial in his hometown Richmond paper explaining why he believes military action is needed.
"America has a compelling national security interest to prevent and respond to the use of weapons of mass destruction, especially by a terrorist state, and to prevent further instability in a region of vital interest to the United States," he said.
'Constructive' talks but little headway on crisis
But rank and file House GOP members have frequently ignored their leaders and the vote in favor of action is stalled in the single digits, including the support expressed by senior leadership, a CNN tally showed.
One senior GOP House aide said prospects for meaningful additional Republican support is "bad" and "momentum is with the 'nay' vote."
Congress is ending its summer recess and members formally get back to work next week.
In a memo to House Republicans outlining the fall schedule, Cantor suggested the timetable for the vote, which Boehner initially planned for next week, could slip a week.
"Members should expect a robust debate and vote on an authorization of use of military force pertaining to Syria in the next two weeks" Cantor wrote.
But House GOP leaders are leaving open the possibility the House will not bring up the resolution if it fails in the Senate.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid predicted on Friday that the necessary votes were in the Democratic-led chamber to pass a resolution calling for limited force.
The House plans to wait to see if something passes the Senate before making final decisions on the language or timing of any House vote, according to multiple Republican sources.
One undecided GOP member, Rep Richard Hudson, a North Carolina Republican, returned for a briefing on Friday. He told CNN that he came back to hear details about the military objectives directly from the administration instead of through the media.
Obama to address American people on Tuesday
Although his constituents are "very opposed" to military action, Hudson said he would base his vote on what he thought was best for the country and "let the politics sort itself out later."
The lack of GOP support places enormous pressure on House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, who was one of the chief critics of the Iraq war, and Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer.
The two will need to persuade well over a majority of the 200 House Democrats to stand behind Obama, also a Democrat.
Top House Democratic aides counter that it's too soon to predict defeat because most Democrats are reserving judgment until they hear details in a classified briefing on Monday evening.
The administration is dispatching top officials to make a final push before Obama's speech.
Secretary of State John Kerry; Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, National Security Adviser Susan Rice, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey will conduct the joint House-Senate session in the Capitol.
"We're not going to know until our members get back into town. A lot of people haven't had access to the briefings or the classified documents," one of Democratic aide noted.
But for many House members who already have attended classified meetings on Syria this week, the sessions seem to raise more questions.
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Hawaii Democratic Rep Tulsi Gabbard, a former Iraq war veteran, told reporters she was undecided and then ticked off remaining questions she had after a two-hour session with top administration officials.
"What are the unintended consequences? What are the outcomes? What are the next moves that could potentially occur that would involve U.S. interests, U.S military, costs - both in human lives, as well as in resources?" Gabbard asked.
A senior administration official told CNN that top officials reached out to more than 125 House members through a variety of conference calls and one-on-one conversations over the past two weeks.
But the "flood the zone" White House approach hasn't prevented a steady list of members from voicing outright opposition or criticism that the case for military action is thin.
The fact that so many members in his own party remain undecided or publicly opposed illustrates that Obama's political capital in Congress is quite low.
California Democratic Rep. Judy Chu participated in a conference call with White House chief of staff Denis McDonough on Wednesday and remains undecided.
While she said there's no question that the al-Assad government used chemical weapons she outlined a laundry list of outstanding questions.
She wants details about contingency plans if Syria retaliates, the lack of international support, reasons why diplomatic efforts can't be explored, and the direct cost to taxpayers.
Chu says her constituents "overwhelmingly … want me to vote 'no' on this."
She described House Democrats as "war weary. We just came from Iraq and Afghanistan wars. We are war skeptical," Chu said.
Rep Elijah Cummings, a Maryland Democrat who remained undecided, highlighted the stakes for Obama to change minds or persuade Democrats to back him on Syria.
He called it "certainly one of the most important speeches in his career as the president of the United States."


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It was seven years ago this week that the federal government told new mom Jennifer McCrea she couldn't access sickness benefits while on maternity leave.
On Tuesday, the government publicly said it made the wrong decision and is agreeing to pay an estimated $11 million to about 2,000 women who, like McCrea, were blocked from accessing 15 extra weeks of employment insurance payments on top of a year's worth of maternity benefits — despite the rules saying they could.
McCrea, the woman at the centre of the case, said the settlement had left her in tears most of the day with the burden of the case now lifted from her shoulders.
"There were a lot of people that this happened to and we wanted to make sure it didn't happen to anybody else in the future and that we needed to help them," McCrea said in a telephone interview from her home in Calgary.
"Absolutely we've been successful in doing that. Whether that took seven years or 17 years, that was originally what it had to be and it wasn't just about me…. It was about helping others."
McCrea was diagnosed with breast cancer in July 2011, while she was on maternity leave with her youngest son, Logan, who was eight months old at the time.
She had a double mastectomy in August 2011 and was deemed cancer-free shortly afterwards, but was denied sickness benefits, despite a 2002 law that allowed new parents to access the additional weeks of EI payments.
McCrea took the government to court in 2012 alleging thousands of others were also denied benefits between 2002 and 2013, when the Tories clarified the law for all future claims.
The problem was that prior to 2013, the government wouldn't let new mothers and fathers switch from parental to sickness benefits until they could show they were otherwise available for work.
During the 2015 federal election the Liberals vowed to put an end to the legal dispute if they were elected only to rack up a legal bill of more than $2.5 million fighting the women in court after they formed government.
Federal lawyers gave the first hints earlier this year that the Liberals were ready to settle the case. Months of negotiations and paperwork followed before documents were officially submitted in August.
The settlement is conditional on Federal Court approval that is expected to happen in early December and payments should begin flowing to eligible women by next spring.
"I'm happy about it. It's just a tremendous relief," McCrea said.
In a statement, the government said it "recognizes the challenges faced by Canadians who cannot work because of illness, injury and other family challenges" and reached a settlement in the case to "bring closure to these legal proceedings."
Ottawa has not asked for any upper limit for pay outs, meaning federal coffers will pay out 100 per cent of the wrongfully denied benefits, including to families of women who have died. The total cost could be between $8.5 million and $11 million, but that will depend on the number of eligible women.
McCrea's lawyer, Stephen Moreau, said the government's decision to not impose a cap on payments was significant, particularly after a protracted legal fight.
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ST. LOUIS, Aug. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Patriot Coal Corporation (OTC: PCXCQ) announced today that employees represented by the United Mine Workers of America have ratified 5-year labor agreements. These agreements were reached between Patriot's signatory subsidiaries and the UMWA, as previously announced on August 12.
"Ratification of these agreements provides labor stability and ensures cost savings essential to Patriot's plan of reorganization," said Patriot President and Chief Executive Officer Bennett K. Hatfield. "These agreements should set Patriot on a path to emerge from bankruptcy by the end of 2013."
A motion seeking authorization to enter into these agreements has been filed with the Bankruptcy Court in St. Louis and will be heard at the August 20, 2013 Omnibus Hearing.
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Intel's Mac-bound Ivy Bridge CPUs rumored to launch April 8
Intel will release 17 desktop CPUs and 8 notebook Ivy Bridge processors in early April, DigiTimes reported on Wednesday. The initial chips are said to include models 3820QM and 3720QM, priced at $568 and $378, respectively, which could be candidates for Apple's MacBook Pro lineup.
The notebook Ivy Bridge processors will feature the new Intel HD Graphics 4000 architecture. Intel's M-Series lineup is expected to have nominal thermal design power of between 35 watts and 55 watts.
Set for a "later" launch, according to the report, are the Core i7-3667U and Core i5-3427U processors, intended for Intel's Ultrabook lineup. Those processors would also be possible candidates for Apple's own thin-and-light notebook, the MacBook Air.
Earlier reports have said the i7-3667U processor will be clocked at 2GHz, and can overclock to 3.2GHz in single-core mode, while the i5-3427U will run at 1.8GHz and overclock to 2.8GHz in single-core mode. Both models are said to feature a graphics processor clocked at 350MHz that can run as high as 1150MHz.
The rumored April 8 launch date for the first Ivy Bridge processors is slightly earlier than what a leaked roadmap from Intel showed earlier this month. Those documents showed a tentative launch date of May 2012 for the new chip platform.
Recent reports have pegged a MacBook Pro update from Apple to arrive in the second quarter of calendar 2012, a timeframe that would fit with the April debut of Intel's next-generation Ivy Bridge processors. The new MacBook Pros are rumored to feature a redesigned look with new high-resolution 2,880-by-1,800 Retina Display screens.
Retina Display MacBook Pros would be possible with Ivy Bridge because the next-generation architecture will bring support for 4K resolution. That gives Apple and other PC makers the option to build a display that is 4,096 pixels across.
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I'm a huge Carbonara fan.ReplyDelete
I just had to stop by and drool over your spaghetti carbonara--one of my favorite dishes. So nice not to see cream on your ingredient list. :-)ReplyDelete
Thanks for drooling and stopping by:) I am not Italian, but from what I know cream in Carbonara is a no-no. It's all about the cheese, eggs, pancetta or guanciale.
Pasta Carbonara is maybe my favorite kind of pasta. It's silky and smoky and dreamy and it reminds me of the time I spent in Italy in college! I also think it's a dish that everybody loves, so it's perfect for a dinner party.ReplyDelete
Since you lived in Italy I am sure you have had countless versions of the "real" dish. Every home has their own. I agree with you that it is perfect for entertaining--easy and elegant. Thanks for stopping by!
Just as I love it - no need for nasty cream, just deliciousness from the pasta, pancetta, egg yolks and gloriously good hard cheeses. Adding some freshly chopped flat leaf parsley is new to me, and has a possibly delicious flavour feel.ReplyDelete
Happy Cooking throughtout 2011, michelle in Wellington, New Zealand.
I was looking for a TRUE Carbonara recipe and ran across yours. I made it tonight for my son, his girlfriend and her mother (who I was meeting for the first time!). It is PERFECT! SOOO wonderful! Thank you!ReplyDelete
I am so pleased you enjoyed it. Thank you for taking the time to let me know:)
- AnonymousMay 20, 2011
I tried to make this, exactly as instructed but mine didn't turn out so great. I started to get scrambled eggs then I added a little more water so it thinned it out ok. The egg mixture I started with was a little thick and I had correct amounts. Not sure what I did wrong. I'll try it again.ReplyDelete
Sorry it didn't work out for you. I have never had the egg yolks and cheese mixture set when tossing with the pasta. Tossing immediately and constantly is important. I do hope you give it another go.
- AnonymousJune 22, 2012
Awesome recipe. I absolutely loved it.ReplyDelete
Here's a recipe for Fettuccine Carbonara you may like to try.
Thanks for sharing.
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