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Looking at System Activities, it's all Vivaldi...
Hi. See attached pic. Is this normal and/or fixable?
@AMutavdzija: It's completely normal for Vivaldi or any Chromium-based browser. Since you appear to use lots of tabs and/or extensions, you may recapture some memory by hibernating the background tabs you are not actively using.
Mac and Linux do seem to use a lot more memory for Vivaldi than does Windows, but the developers are always working on ways to optimize this and make it leaner and faster.
@AMutavdzija The memory utilization on your system is MUCH higher than mine. For me, the main Vivaldi process uses ~130MB and Vivaldi helpers use between 105MB and 250MB depending on the complexity of the web page. The only extension I use is uBlock Origin, I disable some Vivaldi features that I don't need, and I use a solid colour for my Start Page background.
If you have many tabs with complex web pages open, many extensions installed, enable "eye candy" features, and use large images on backgrounds, they all consume system resources.
If you also have a lot of History or a corrupted "Top Sites" file, this can also increase memory consumption.
Without more information, I can't really say if this is normal or if there's an underlying problem that needs to be fixed.
Either way, we're happy to help any way that we can.
@Ayespy @xyzzy @Gwen-Dragon Tab hibernation on Mac hasn't worked properly since v1.6.
Bug report : VB-28005
I have an older macbook pro (late 2011) and relied heavily on hibernating tabs to recover resources. Now I have to close Vivaldi and re-open when the macbook slows down.
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@Rascasse said in Looking at System Activities, it's all Vivaldi...:
Bug report : VB-28005
Was a duplicate and dupe was closed as fixed mid April 2017.
Sorry, but i do not know more about your Mac issue.
Another thing that you can try to do is install a "Standalone" version of Vivaldi. This is an installation that's logically separate from your current installation and will allow you to see what the memory utilization is like with a clean profile.
I also posted in this thread this several months ago where I profiled memory utilization on a fresh Vivaldi installation.
@xyzzy @Gwen-Dragon I followed the instructions and set-up a standalone latest version of v1.9, thanks. The advantage for me is that it is very easy to clone (by just copying the entire folder) and have multiple set-ups. I played around with two set-ups:
an out-of-the-box default non-native mode version with no extensions. I didn't see any blank tabs nor any hibernation misbehaviour, although my tab usage was limited. Videos refused to play (youtube, gifs, etc). Flash plugin is set to default (only play important content).
fully loaded extensions (ublock origin etc.) and macos native mode. I've been using this version all afternoon with 50+ tabs distributed over 3 windows. I only saw one instance of tab hibernation misbehaviour (two tabs still active in the task manager when all tabs were supposed to be hibernated - I should only have a blank start page active in each window). Videos refused to play in twitter and on Youtube. No blank tabs at all.
@Rascasse Re: your video issues, check vivaldi://gpu to see if your GPU has been blacklisted and hardware acceleration disabled. If so, videos should still play normally but apparently there's a bug in Vivaldi that needs to be squashed to get this working again on some systems.
There's a flag to bypass the blacklist but I don't recommend using it because it can cause instability in Vivaldi; hardware acceleration will appear to work at first but at some point you'll hit a site that will either cause performance issues, instability, or breakage in the renderer.
@xyzzy Thanks for the heads up, I tried it out and the video is working now (by forcing gpu and h/w rasterisation in vivaldi://flags).
@xyzzy update on tab hibernation after 24h of use... in case (2), using extensions (ublock origin, https everywhere, h264ify) with a standalone v1.9 and a clean profile, still suffers from not hibernating tabs.
@xyzzy Great thread, thanks for your reply and input.
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TAKE Solutions announces its Q1FY14 financial results
New Delhi, India, August 3, 2013: TAKE Solutions, a player in the Life Sciences (LS) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) domains, has announced the financial results for the quarter ended June 30th, 2013. The company has posted revenues of INR 1,957 million for this quarter, which is a 1.8 percent decline in dollar terms over the previous quarter.
Srinivasan H.R., Vice-Chairman &Managing Director, TAKE Solutions, said, "The performance during the quarter ended June 30, 2013 was as per our guidance for FY14. The demand remained soft during the quarter and is expected to remain subdued in the short term. We continue to work towards realigning our businesses and operations to make the company more profitable and creating value for our shareholders in the long term. Our focus is to be a 360 degree solution provider to the Life Sciences industry and to be a niche player in the Supply Chain Management domain."
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After a period of feasting 'The time for Penance has come!'. It is Ash Wednesday and at Mass we will have received the Ashes which have been burnt and blessed from the Palms of the previous year. Each of us will then go to Mother Abbess with our Lent Books 'for approval', and our lenten penances. This is a custom of ours and St. Benedict asked us to this during lent as extra spiritual reading.
We also have an extra day of fasting – wednesday's and friday's.
I was going to update my vocation journey but i am still having problems with technical hitches this end, sometimes the computer works sometimes it doesn't get connected at all. It is just luck at the moment!!!!!
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by Cel
It is no secret that Baltimore has problems. It is a city with a long history of extreme racism that haunts every street. It is a city filled with poverty. The elite and the oppressed live on top of one another. Tensions escalate quickly. The militarized police, who blatantly defend the privileged, have been known to seed eruptions of violence to justify their own atrocities –as was the case during the Baltimore Uprising. Humans are set up for incarceration because they happen to be poor and not white. Some are murdered –often by the police. Vast neighborhoods are without access to food beyond what can be purchased at a corner store or liquor store. The job market is hard to enter beyond minimum wage. Countless homes are left vacant while the homeless are denied space. Shelters can be as dangerous as the streets. Despair is common.
Yet, there are tiny oases in Baltimore. Here, the pain that hangs over the city is dampened slightly. These are a few passionately run non-governmental organizations and collectives. These are some of the few places where the disadvantaged can experience kindness and be treated like humans.
In the western corner of the Hampden neighborhood, lies one such oasis. In this oasis is a garden filled with green veggies, tomatoes, berries, grapes, carrots of many colors, and more such delights. There are community plots for rent. There is a section for experimenting with urban permaculture. There is a warehouse full of concerts, Food Not Bombs, and other events. There are houses occupied by a growing intentional community. This oasis is the Baltimore Free Farm.
The group of friends who founded BFF knew nothing of the intentional community movement when they first dreamed up the project. They had not heard of Twin Oaks, Acorn, or any of the other older communes. The idea of formal consensus was foreign. Income sharing was unheard of. Yet, when they were laid off from their construction jobs, the original BFF members came together to build a garden, and around that garden they built a community.
They chose a small patch of vacant land just far enough from Hampden's famous Avenue to be out of gentrification's reach –at least at the time. It was covered with weeds and trash. The soil was poor and toxic. Together, the four friends cleared the land and got to work on the soil. To protect the land they worked on, the friends began camping on the property. They were soon joined by more friends. Eventually they moved into the abandoned houses down the hill from their garden space. They began to renovate the spaces –albeit very crudely — and built a culture together. Accidentally, they had formed an intentional community.
BFF has come a long way since then. The Baltimore Free Farm is now a community in dialogue with the Federation of Egalitarian Communities. As a result, BFF is in the process of becoming income sharing. The eventual dream is to have a community business to support all of the members. Yet, BFF is also engaged with interaction with the broader Baltimore community thanks to the very public warehouse space. This makes BFF a very dynamic community that attracts diverse perspectives.
As with many urban communities, it is easy to become involved in political action within the city. Much of BFF's work centers around food justice –an important goal in Baltimore. BFF hosts three days of Food Not Bombs a week. BFF also hosts a weekly food give-away called Food Rescue Day. Several individual members are also part of groups like Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ).
Baltimore Free Farm is incredibly exciting. BFF's unintentional beginning is a poetic expression of the hunger for community in our world of increased alienation. It is a dynamic, multifaceted place that is somehow cohesive. It will be exciting to see how BFF grows.
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I really love the creative design of the Fabrica Pocket-in-a-Pocket notepads by Yukihiro Kaneuchi of Japan. They have several unique features derived from the fashion industry that makes them both fun and memorable.
These notepads are pocket-size in a very literal sense: not only are they shaped like a pocket, they are sized to fit perfectly inside a classic men's shirt pocket. They also are a great fit for the back pocket on a pair of jeans. Women's fashion tends to have a greater number of variables, but I'm guessing the Pocket-in-a-Pocket notebook would also fit into some women's pockets too. The size of the notepad is about 4" x 4.5" and it is less than 0.25" thick so you can check to see if it'll fit your own favorite pockets.
The white paper inside the Pocket-in-a-Pocket notepad is quite interesting. Each of the notepads in the set of 3 has a unique page texture that imitates the textures of weaves found in fabric. I'm no fashion expert so pardon my descriptions – one notepad's paper has a herringbone texture, another has a check pattern and the third has a diagonal texture that looks like gabardine to me. Even though the paper has texture, it is subtle and I felt that it did not interfere with my writing. It's really hard to show the texture in a photo, but if you click on the photo above, enlarge it and then squint you might be able to make out the checkered pattern inside the aqua blue notebook.
(Writing Test – Front)
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From this writing test, it's fairly obvious that this is not the notebook to use with fountain pens unless you only plan on using one side of the page. A fair amount of the fountain pen ink bled through the paper. It works well with both ballpoint and gel pens and the texture of the paper does not interfere with their performance. The texture of the paper makes me think it would be interesting to try some pencil sketches in these.
The Fabrica Pocket-in-a-Pocket notepads come in a set of 3, with one set featuring the Cool colors shown in the photo above, and the other set featuring Warm colors. It has a flexible cardboard cover with a subtle embossed Fabrica logo, is top stitch-bound and has 52 pages. What a great gift for the man in your life!
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Title: Electoral Frameworks, Party Systems and Electoral Outcomes: Comparing Elections in the Gulf
Workshop Directors:
This workshop examines the transformation of Gulf representative politics through the study of elections. The onslaught of political challenges in the Gulf – post-2011 popular mobilizations; regional security crises; and oil-induced fiscal pressures – have had a substantial, yet disparate, impact on electoral frameworks, party systems, and electoral outcomes. This workshop seeks to analyze these changes through historical analysis of single countries as well as comparative studies drawn from across the GCC states, Iran and Iraq. While the focus is on elections, we welcome broader reflections, beyond electoral laws and process (funding, campaigning, monitoring), to political behavior (ideology, cleavages, participation) and political meaning (policies, identities): not only how, but also why and to what end.
Description and Rationale
The 'Arab Spring' that started in Tunisia in December 2010 generated a wave of popular mobilization that materialized in very few, but significant, electoral and institutional reforms. New constitutions were adopted in Morocco and Tunisia, with the latter experiencing a complete change in the ruling regime. In the Gulf region (the six GCC states, Iran, Iraq and Yemen), the emphasis was on reform, with some steps taken to expand electorates, such as the Saudi Arabia's decision to grant the vote to women in 2013, and the UAE decision to substantially increase its electoral college for the 2015 elections. Other states made some efforts to show transparency and competitiveness of electoral processes, such as Iran, Iraq, and Oman.
However, the amplified demands of the opposition were also met with new restrictions on participation, such as the dissolution of the main Bahrain opposition society, al-Wefaq, and the exclusion of religious officials and those arrested on blasphemy and lese majeste convictions in Bahrain and Kuwait, respectively.
The lack of substantial improvements in electoral frameworks, or in some cases, changes perceived as detrimental to the opposition, seem to have discouraged turnout in elections, with boycotts undertaken in Kuwait and Bahrain. Meanwhile, the lack of political agreement in Iraq, despite the reportedly clean elections of 2014, generated a political crisis that is still ongoing. On the other hand, the repression of political demonstrations after the 2009 Iranian presidential elections was not replicated in 2013, with population interest in engaging in elections recovering, at least at the presidential level.
After the Arab Spring all the countries included in the Gulf region held elections, as follows:
Many of these elections were undertaken with significant changes in timing, electoral districting, and voting procedures, but with different aims and outcomes, making the comparative analysis of these changes worthy of study. This workshop will thus welcome an examination of the impact of the Arab Spring on elections in all of their aspects: electoral frameworks and laws, party systems, election turnout, and election results. More generally, we welcome papers that comparatively analyze the role of parties, political groups and associations, as well as electoral campaigns and election monitoring.
At the same time, this workshop welcomes a deeper questioning of elections beyond process to political meaning: Do electoral changes represent a response to the demands of local populations, or do they serve the interests of political and economic elite? What is the value of elections for institutions without effective policy making and legislative powers? Why do candidates run for elective positions and why do people vote? Are elections conducted in the Gulf region meaningful?
Anticipated Participants
The workshop is seeking theoretically strong and empirically grounded papers. Comparative papers as well as single case study analysis are welcome, with the regional cases providing plenty of opportunities for analyzing the same type of elections across different countries.
Papers on the following specific topics will be welcomed:
Workshop Director Profiles
Luciano Zaccara is Research Assistant Professor in Gulf Politics at the Qatar University Gulf Studies Center. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, a Honorary Research Fellow at the Exeter University Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies in United Kingdom, and Director of the Observatory on Politics and Elections in the Arab and Muslim World in Spain. He obtained a BA in Political Science from National University of Rosario, Argentina, and a PhD in Arab and Islamic Studies from Autonoma University of Madrid, Spain.
His research focuses on the political and electoral systems in Iran and the GCC countries as well as international politics in the Gulf. He has published an edited volume on Electoral Processes in Middle East and North Africa (in Spanish), and numerous articles, chapters and a monograph on Iranian and Gulf politics. He is founder and director of the Spanish OPEMAM project (Observatory on Politics and Elections in Arab and Muslim Countries) composed of more than fifteen researchers.
Kristin Smith Diwan is a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, D.C. She works in both comparative politics and international relations and specializes in Arab and Islamist politics. Her current projects concern political activism, generational change, and the evolution of Islamism in the GCC states. Her analyses of Gulf affairs have appeared in many publications, among them Geopolitics, Middle East Report, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy.
Diwan was previously an assistant professor at the American University School of International Service where she still teaches in an adjunct capacity. She has held visiting scholar positions at both the George Washington University Institute for Middle East Studies and the Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. From 2013-14, she served as a visiting senior fellow at the Atlantic Council Hariri Center for the Middle East where she published on youth movements and participated in the Strategic Dialogue for a New US-Gulf Partnership. She received her PhD in political science from Harvard University and holds an MA in international affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
Selected Readings
Al‐Ghanim, Mohammed (2010), Do Elections Lead To Reform? Assessing the Institutional Limits of Representative Bodies in Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, Contemporary Arab Affairs, 3:2, 138-147.
Diwan, Kristin (2015), "Between Popular Representation and the State: The Politics of Municipal Council Elections in the GCC", AGSIW available at: http://www.agsiw.org/between-popular-representation-and-the-state-the-politics-of-municipal-council-elections-in-the-gcc/.
Ehteshami, Anoush and Zaccara, Luciano (2013), "Reflections on Iran's 2013 Presidential Elections", in Orient, German Journal on Politics, Economics and Culture of the Middle East, Vol IV, issue 54, pp. 7-14.
Kraetzschmar, Hendrik (2010), "Electoral Rules, Voter Mobilization and the Islamist Landslide in the Saudi Municipal Elections of 2005", Contemporary Arab Affairs, 3:4, pp. 515-533.
Valeri, Marc (2012), "Oman's Consultative Council Elections 2011", OPEMAM Election Watch Analysis, available at: http://www.opemam.org/sites/default/files/ER-Oman-Consultative-Council-2011.pdf .
Valeri, Marc (2011), "Bahrain's Parliamentary Elections 2010", OPEMAM Election Watch Analysis, available at http://www.opemam.org/sites/default/files/ER-Bahrain_parliamentary_2010.pdf.
Visser, Reidar (2014), "Iraq: Democracy and Electoral Politics in Post-Saddam Era" in Mahmoud Hamad and Khalil Al-Anani (eds.), Elections and Democratization in the Middle East: The Tenacious Search for Freedom, Justice, and Identity (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 133-152).
Zaccara, Luciano (2014), "Elections and Democratization in Iran", in Mahmoud Hamad and Khalil Al-Anani (eds.), Elections and Democratization in the Middle East: The Tenacious Search for Freedom, Justice, and Identity (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 153-179).
Zaccara, Luciano (2013), "Comparing Elections in Gulf Cooperation Council Countries after the Arab Spring: The United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Kuwait", Journal of Arabian Studies, vol. 3.1, pp. 80–101.
Zaccara, Luciano (2011), "Qatar Central Municipal Council elections 2011", OPEMAM Election Watch Analysis, available at http://www.opemam.org/sites/default/files/ER-Qatar-CMC-2011.pdf.


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Employee fraud 'cost East firms £6.3m last year', data reveals
PUBLISHED: 08:36 20 September 2017 | UPDATED: 08:36 20 September 2017
Corporate employee fraud cost businesses in the East of England more than £6.3m last year, according to new data.
Information obtained by audit firm RSM under the Freedom of Information Act revealed the region's firms submitted 76 reports to the police about employee fraud in 2016-17.
Nationally, losses from employee fraud amounted to more than £40m, according to the data from ActionFraud, the UK's national fraud and cyber-crime reporting centre,
Verified losses in the Essex police area amounted to £4.4m from 28 incidents, putting it third in the table, after Metropolitan and City of London. Suffolk lost more than £9,000 from four fraud incidents, and Norfolk lost more than £3,000 from one incident, while Cambridgeshire lost nearly £1.1m from 18 incidents.
Internal or employee frauds occur when fraud is committed against the company or organisation a person is working for. They can include payment fraud, procurement fraud, travel and subsistence fraud, exploiting assets and information or receipt fraud.
According to recent research from CIFAS, a not-for-profit fraud prevention membership organisation, almost half (47%) of internal frauds are discovered as a result of internal controls and audit. However, a growing number are coming to light as a result of staff raising concerns with line managers, or via whistleblowing channels.
RSM forensic partner Akhlaq Ahmed said: "The levels of reported employee fraud and the resulting losses are already high, but this is likely to be the tip of the iceberg. Sadly, a great deal of employee fraud goes unnoticed and unreported, and businesses are simply not doing enough to prevent losses.
"Understandably, employers want to demonstrate that they trust staff to carry out their duties, but there is a balance to be struck by making sure that sensible and effective oversight and controls are in place to prevent abuse.
"In our experience, fraud is often carried out by employees who may have been in post for some time and who know where the weak points are.
"They can often be motivated by greed, lifestyle aspirations, debts or addictions.
"To counteract the threat, companies should take proactive measures to monitor payments."


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A Pilot Study of Preoperative Tarceva (Erlotinib) Monotherapy in Patients With Early Stage (I/II) Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Tarceva® (erlotinib) is a drug that blocks a receptor called the Epidermal Growth Factor
Receptor (EGFR) on certain cells including tumor cells. Blocking this receptor has been
shown to shrink tumors in some patients. Tarceva®(erlotinib) is approved for commercial use
by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treatment of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)
after failure of at least one chemotherapy treatment. However, it is not approved for the
first treatment of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC), which is the treatment used in this
Patients with early stage non-small cell lung cancer will receive daily Tarceva® (erlotinib)
at 150 mg/day for 3 weeks followed by surgical resection at week 4. High resolution CT scans
for tumor response assessment will be obtained at baseline and after 3 weeks of treatment
with Tarceva® (erlotinib). Post-operative 2-year treatment with Tarceva® (erlotinib) will
be offered to patients who had at least a 50% (half) decrease in size of their tumor after
treatment with Tarceva® (erlotinib)and/or patients with tumors that were found to have the
receptor, Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR), on their tumor cells at the time of their
Post-operative chemotherapy will be administered at the discretion of the treating physician
to patients with stages IB and II. Patients who receive post-operative chemotherapy will
begin Tarceva (erlotinib)no sooner than 3 weeks from Day 1 of the last chemotherapy cycle
and no longer than 6 months after surgery. Follow-up for recurrence and survival will
continue for 2 years.
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment
Response Rate Defined as the Percentage of Subjects Achieving at Least 50% Tumor Volume Reduction.
High resolution CT scans for response assessment were obtained at baseline and within 1 week after completion of erlotinib treatment. Volumetric and maximum diameter (RECIST) response criteria was determined by a radiologist blinded to the sequence of treatment. Response rate (RR) is defined as the percentage of subjects achieving at least 50% tumor volume reduction.
High resolution CT scans for response assessment will be obtained after 3 weeks of treatment with Tarceva®.
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A former Gainesville Regional Airport employee who was fired in June after airport officials suspected he had taken almost $49,000 in cash from the airport's parking lot kiosks has been formally charged by the State Attorney's Office.
Police arrested Paul Adjan, 65, Friday morning after Eighth Circuit State Attorney Bill Cervone filed charges against him Tuesday.
In the charging document, Cervone alleges that between April 1, 2016, and March 31, 2017, Adjan committed aggravated white collar crime, money laundering and grand theft.
In a Oct. 3 sworn complaint, police say Adjan, who was a facilities manager at the airport, took $48,702 in cash from the parking lot payment kiosks.
Police said for nearly a year, Adjan had taken over pulling cash boxes from the parking payment system with the purpose of turning in the money to be deposited in the airport's safe.
CEO Allan Penksa told the Sun in June that any time a cash box is removed from the parking system kiosk, the parking system generates a time-stamped record and "zeroes" out the amount recorded as being in the cash box.
The sworn complaint says on most Fridays Adjan would turn in the "pulled" money to be deposited.
But on Mondays, he'd pull the cash boxes without depositing the money, police say.
When discrepancies were found in February 2017 between the amount of money the parking machines collected and the amount deposited into the airport's safe, airport employees were informed.
Once the theft was discovered, police say Adjan turned in cash deposits Feb. 20, Feb. 27 and March 6, all Mondays, police say.
A witness told police they saw Adjan removing cash on Mondays.
Another witness said before she went on vacation, she gave Adjan her safe combination so he could access the parking system's money boxes, the complaint says. The only other person with access to the combination is Penksa, the airport's CEO.
The airport has a surveillance camera near the parking system machines, but the video data can only be stored for a certain amount of time, and airport officials said in June they believe any footage of theft was overwritten.
Adjan was held in the Alachua County jail with bail set at $45,000.
Penksa told the Sun on Friday the only thing he'd say about the case is, "let's just let the justice system take its course."


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Virgin Vines Shiraz / Syrah (2007) red – CaliforniaWednesday, November 16th, 2011
What a DAY! Everything seemed to go wrong today . . . I'm SO glad work is OVER!
This morning the shower leaked (which I had to fix), my phone fell behind the piano and my bicycle had a flat so I had to take my spare, running late I picked the wine without even looking at the label and peddled off to the office.
Things went wrong at the office all day and I barely made the boat.
AMAZING! What a wonderful surprise . . . I want to get away and the wine is Virgin Vines Shiraz / Syrah (2007) a red from California. The label resembles Virgin Airlines!
I know this wine will take me and my friends away from troubles and make our day better!
We sail at 5:30 from the San Francisco Ferry Building for Sausalito and we pop the cork. As the voyage progresses our prospective changes from the city to the San Francisco Bay and then the view of the Pacific Ocean. We see the ships sailing in and out to exotic locals. What strange and exciting cargo do they bring. I remember the song "Mule Train" with a long list of (looking at an attractive young and vivacious tourist from South Asia and can't help but think of the "dress of Calico for the Pretty Navaho").
Too soon we're docking in Sausalito and we must come off our cruise across the bay remembering tomorrow we do the same again!
Life is Good!
Cheers, Willy
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NOTE: Syrah and Shiraz are the same grapes
Rex Goliath – Cabernet Sauvignon (red) California – non-vintageMonday, November 14th, 2011
Hurrah! My niece is here. She just got a job here down the street from the Ferry Building and is staying with us until she can find an apartment. She's one of the smartest people I know and absolutely happy with the world. She has lived all over the world and just moved from Europe.
She's always looking at the world for wonderful sights and experiences. Boy are we ready to give one . . . She's going to be on The World's Best Commute with a party every day, The 5:30 Sausalito Ferry the San Francisco Ferry Building. She's working for a web publisher and does video. For opening there's a wonderful big, bold California Cabernet Sauvignon (red) by Rex Goliath, a non-vintage wine absolutely ready to drink but it can be stored for while.
Today the boat is absolutely loaded with tourists who are enjoying themselves immensely. They appear to be college students and they've obviously slipped the leash and are Party Animals!
We open the bottle and we share it around. My niece raises her eyebrows and asks, "Is this really less than $5 a bottle?".
We laugh since we've had this wine before and many buy it regularly for home consumption . . . We all nod our heads and say "Definitely!"
We enjoy the run watching the sunset through the Golden Gate with the Bridge in silhouette.
The trip is over too soon, a fun time was had by all.
Life is Good!
Cheers, Willy
La Castella Pinot Nero (Pinot Noir) (red) 2009Monday, October 3rd, 2011
Sailing Time! I'm late for the boat! Thank goodness for the bicycle tourists. 158 bicycles today and the Sausalito Ferry is late unloading at the San Francisco Ferry Building!
It's a picture perfect day . . . and every tourist stops and takes a photo of the SAN FRANCISCO sign on top of the Ferry Building. Meanwhile, us commuters patiently await while the aggressively dressed hard bodied young tourist girls. Today seems that Asia is the source of thin and willowy girl tourists with giggles like silver bells in the sunlight speaking a mixture of Japanese, Chinese and Tagalog . . . The last group on our commute was from Northern Europe, blonde, blonde and and occasional redhead with the throaty, hearty laughter speaking German, and Swedish!
As gracious regular riders of the Sausalito Ferry from the San Francisco Ferry Building we offer to take their picture . . . it's so easy to be hospitable to beautiful girls whose laughter is a balm for even the most tired and care worn soul.
We live in the destination for beautiful gorgeous young women!
Tonight we're trying a new wine, La Castella Pinot Nero (Pinot Noir) (red) 2009. Before the boat casts off we open the bottle with a highly audible POP! The young tourists look at us and smile. We pour a libation in our commute group . . . a wonderful and soft wine ready to drink immediatey. Very drinkable.
We enjoy the ride and the scenery around the boat and on the bay.
Life is Good!
Cheers, Willy
Available at BevMo at 2nd bottle for $0.05.
Caves du Fournalet – Red – Cotes du RhoneThursday, September 29th, 2011
When you're on the San Francisco Bay, it's always sweatshirt weather… at it's warmest. Today looks like a typical day so' we've got our sweatshirts and jackets ready!
It's August and we're riding the 5:30pm ferry across the bay home from work . . . the worlds BEST commute! The sun shines down on us as we watch the fog roll over the hills of Marin to the sound of clinking glasses, laughter with everybody have a nice time. This is just simply WONDERFUL! The wind blows through the bustling conversation among the usual tourists, commuters and friends as we pass Alcatraz and the opening of the Bay to the North Pacific.
The Golden Gate was named centuries ago after it's appearance during sunset, the whole opening turns golden! If you watch carefully and the sun is going down when the ferry cruises across the sun reflects off the structure and for a brief moment the bridge appears to be made of gold!
I reach into my briefcase and pull out my bottle of Caves du Fournalet Cotes du Rhone. Cheers are raised! This is our second bottle of wine tonight but the group is large and the party strong. With a loud POP the bottle is opened and the wine is ready . . . this doesn't need to breath to eliminate any off flavors!
This is a nice chewy red – ready to drink right after we open it but with some substance and this nice red warms you right up. We pour a round and savor the momemt – today, the world is good.
Epicuro – Nero d'Avola (red) 2009Thursday, September 29th, 2011
Party up, Party Down . . . Party time!
It's a Birthday on a foggy, foggy day. San Francisco is at it's best. the fog at ground level with the TransAmerica Pyramid sticking out! The top of the Golden Gate Bridge emerges from the fog.
The party is on the 5:30 ferry from the San Francisco Ferry Building to Sausalito – Our regular commute, the world's BEST commute!
We have a wine suitable for the occasion, Epicuro – Nero d'Avola (red) 2009. This is a nice chewy red, not as heavy as cote de Rhone but still not a light wine.
One of us stopped at the bakeries in the Ferry Building, we have a beautiful cupcake for the tradition minded and a Cheese Wheel roll from Acme Bread for the more adventurous!
We open the bottle and the wine is good from the first pour. After singing the appropriate song, we toast the birthday boy and cut the cupcake and Cheese Wheel!
Life is good!
Cheers, Willy
From Trader Joe's
Black Oak White Zinfandel (white / blush) – 2007 (dry, not sweet)Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
I'm Late! I'm Late! I feel like the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland!
I've got to get off to work and I forgot to pack a bottle for tonight for the Ferry Boat between San Francisco Ferry Building and Sausalito.
I grab the first bottle that come to hand, Black Oak White Zinfandel – 2007. I normally don't bring this type of wine, a white made from red grapes. The Zinfandel's skin is so dark it looks black but the inside is the slight yellow of white wine. If crushed too hard or allowed to stay in contact with skin it turns pink and if left to ferment with skins it turns red. Pinot Noir does the same.
Wineries call it various names white, blush, eye of swan, rose depending on what the marketing people recommend. Many of these wines are made sweet.
I get some ice at work and chill the bottle for the commute home.
I bring it on the boat . . . we aren't big fans of sweet wines, many only taste sweet and nothing else. We open the bottle, many only take a small pour . . . SURPRISE! It's dry, not sweet.
We proceed to drink the small tastes we have in our cups with the second pour MUCH larger! This wine is good and we'll savor, savor and savor thru the voyage to Sausalito!
Life is good!
Cheers, Willy
Bought at Bevmo.
Benefactor Cellars – Shiraz / Syrah (red) 2010Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
What to do? What to do? It's a conundrum! We need something different, remarkable but drinkable. I'm walking down the aisle and spot the perfect thing.
An Oz wine (as in Australia). The label on the Benefactor Cellars – Shiraz / Syrah (red) 2010 is VERY different, something from a Mexican Day of the Dead wood cut. Australian export wines tend to be good and soft when they're on the low end of the price range which this is.
I turn the bottle over and look at the back . . . again a VERY positive clue! The winery has written about the wine, obviously they take pride in their handicraft!
I'm expecting a wine sales rep on the ferry tonight! She's a regular with her husband on the 5:30 Sausalito Ferry from the San Francisco Ferry building and she always likes exotic and unusual wines that are good. So far most of the time her requirements are met.
We board the ferry and we pop the cork and pass the cups of wine . . . AHHH! Another successful foray into the wine wilderness!
We enjoy the ride by Alcatraz and awesome view of the Golden Gate Bridge.
I've noticed that Shiraz / Syrah wine that is less popular than Cabernet Sauvnginon or Merlot so what's available tend to be better quality. Many wineries will sell an inferior Cabernet or Merlot but tend to do better on the less well known wines.
As always, a wonderful way to commute!
Life is good!
Cheers, Willy
From Trader Joe's
Benefactor Cellars – Shiraz / Syrah (red) 2010
Archeo (Ruggero di Tasso) Nero d'Avola (red) 2008Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
PARTY TIME! We're going to boogie, Boogie, BOOGIE!
We were on our way to a friend's party, a fun and frolicking potluck. We live in San Francisco area and this is going to be a VERY international group (and a LOT of fun). Most of the people at the party drink very little wine but the host has declared, "This is a wine themed party!"
We decide that we will bring a wine within reach, something very approachable both from cost and taste. We are looking for a soft wine that comes in an attractive bottle.
The people work with number (accountants, etc.) but aspire to be Party Animals . . . they certainly get enthusiastic about these events!
The party is at night here in the San Francisco Bay Area and the night will be cold. The food will come with many different spices, the piquant (hot) of Thai and Indonesian, the garlic of Italian, the fish sauce of Vietnamese and heavy creams of Europe. We decide a red with a tiny bit of pepper (hot like black pepper rather than vegetable like green peppers / capsicum). It should be ready to drink and not offend anyone! We hope by buying a wine under $5/bottle we can encourage people to discover wine. We know the people will drink only a few glasses so we want our contribution to be a nice experience!
Archeo's Nero d'Avola by Ruggero di Tasso certianly meets the bill. It drinks well right after opening and goes down softly. The bottle is beautiful, tall and stately with a gold label. The wine is intensely red but smooth a very mild aftertaste (what wine people call finish).
This is a regular with my commute group on the Sausalito Ferry.
You can't go wrong with Archeo's Nero d'Avola by Ruggero di Tasso.
Life is good!
Cheers, Willy
From Trader Joe's
Tommolo Montepulciano d'Abruzzo (red) non-vintageTuesday, September 20th, 2011
Decisions, decisions, decisions! The weather forecast is unclear and ambiguous. Sort of like every fortune teller!
San Francisco and Sausalito show sunny and warm . . . BUT the marine forecast is for chilly temperatures, fog and winds!
As Mark Twain said, "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." or as another wag said, "You spend the day in your bikini but by 5:00 you'd trade your firstborn child for a set of long johns."
I have epiphany! Like a strike of lightning I know what to bring, Tommolo Montepulciano d'Abruzzo (red) non-vintage.
Montepulciano is a reliably nice wine and you can't go wrong getting it for a tipple. It's on the edge of heavy but still soft and very drinkable.
I get to the 5:30 ferry from the San Francisco Ferry Building to Sausalito. When we get on board and there's a wonderful surprise! Today was Farmer's Market at the Ferry Building and we have a very nice crusty Acme bread, some hummus and a little sharp cheddar from Cow Girl Creamery. Someone else has brought a roll that Acme Bread makes called a Cheese Wheel. A flat roll with a center of melted cheese . . . Mmmm!
As we board the boat the air is warm and we look very different from the tourists. Most of our group wear sweaters and or jackets while the tourists are dressed in shorts and tank tops. We describe the young ladies as "aggressively dressed"!
We open our bottle of wine and share out the wine and the impromptu munchies.
We cast off and start across the San Francisco Bay. As we pass Alcatraz there's a sudden change in climate! We enter a fog bank. The fog is a solid wall, in just a few seconds we go from bright and warm sunlight to cold, chilling fog.
As we listen to the tourists freezing we're so glad we've come equipted with the right wine, Tommolo Montepulciano d'Abruzzo !
Life is good.
Cheers, Willy
Bought at Trader Joe's
Delicato Merlot (red) – 2008Monday, September 19th, 2011
Monday! Off to work! The weekend is over and it's time to plan today's party!
Time to pick the wine for the party, THE important part of the commute home after work! To make Monday morning easier I spend time selecting the wine to pack.
Today is expected to be cool and windy . . . a typical day on the San Francisco Bay.
My commute is GREAT! I take the Sausalito Ferry from the San Francisco architectural gem, the Ferry Building. We have 1/2 an hour to open and drink our wine.
What is needed is a nice soft red. This means drinkable and goes down easy.
The long anticipated end of the day arrives. We board the boat and time to PARTY! We immediately head for the top deck and take the seats in the middle . . . we know we can see just fine from the inside and tourists want to sit at the edge. Tonight is one of the magnificent, perfect evenings that brings gasps from the tourists. The sun is shining on the bay and the bottom of the Golden Gate Bridge is shrouded in fog with the towers protruding above the fog. The tourists are shooting pictures . . . as a courtesy several of us offer to photograph the couples trading holding the camera. We frame the picture in the stern with the Life Ring with the name of the boat, the couple and the bridge, and the headlands or Alcatraz, whichever we know will be more dramatic.
It's the least we can do to make them feel welcome as they share the world's greatest commute! Watching and helping people enjoy themselves is wonderful.
We tell them some of the good photos . . . get the sign at the Sausalito Dock that says "Welcome to Sausalito" and the return trip to San Francisco with the ferry Building "San Francisco" sign. We
We don't decant, or let our wine breath . . . sometimes we do use a wine that's good after it's Gasped (any off taste is gone in under 5 minutes).
This does need a minute or 2 after it's opened but that's all.
We have our wine and watch the people and the view.
Life is good!
Cheers, Willy
Purchased from BevMo.


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The science of the gardens
My college physics class was not exactly one of my favorites, but I clearly recall one moment in that class when I sat up and took notice. That ah-ha moment paved the way for the rest of that class to help me understand the world around me. That split-second of insight struck when the instructor described how, after the clouds clear and the sun comes out following a ripsnorting thunderstorm, everything appears greener. You know that effect.
Turns out that greenness isn't just an optical illusion, but is a physics-class turning point! The electrical energy in lightning separates the nitrogen atoms in the air. Those atoms then fall to earth, diluted within the rain water and combine with minerals in the soil to form nitrates — which those of us who garden recognize as fertilizer! It's elementary: Lightning + rain = fertilizer.
John Fromer knows how science and the garden are no strange bedfellows. In fact, Fromer, who with his wife, Kathy, runs Appleton Ridge Flower and Vegetable Farm, recently spoke to a lunchtime seminar at Merryspring Nature Center on that very topic and shared some garden science facts.
He discussed the classifications of plants — annuals, biennials, perennials and beyond that, herbaceous perennials (those that die back to the ground in the winter) and woody perennials (those that do not). Former spoke about leaf shapes and stems and roots, too. Annuals live one season -- plants such as snapdragons, green beans, calendulas and tomatoes. They grow, bloom, fruit and set seed and die in one growing season.
Biennials produce foliage only their first growing season, plants such as foxgloves, parsley, mullein or some hollyhocks for example. Their second growing season, they bloom, set fruit and produce seeds and die. Perennials live more than one season, though not all perennials are long-lived. Some only live a couple of years. Examples are agastache, Maltese cross or delphinium. Herbaceous perennial examples are daylilies, Kirengishoma or liglularias. Woody perennials include many shrubs, tree peonies, rose of Sharon and climbing hydrangea.
All of those plants differ in many ways, including their root systems. Roots are one way to determine which perennials can be divided and which cannot. For instance, those with a tap root — plants like lupines, baptisia, sweet Cicily, monkshood and the like are difficult (but not impossible) to divide. (Experts suggest slicing the taproot along its length to divide, something I have not tried.) Taproots are known for their ability to pull nutrients from seep down, making plants like comfrey good additions to compost piles because of the extra nutrients their leaves and stems contain.
"Root hairs only live one to two days," Fromer said. Those "hairs' or tiny roots increase the area that roots can absorb water and nutrients. This is one reason vigorous weeding around perennials and annuals during dry times can disturb, even damage those tiny hairs on plants. Same goes for the stems and leaves of adjacent plants, because they are the "circulatory" systems of plants, distributing the sugars that plants create through photosynthesis and the water and nutrients absorbed through the roots.
Another factor in the science of growing things is the pH, or acidity, of the soil in which plants are grown. Some plants, like hollies and hydrangeas, for instance, benefit from a slightly acid soil and fertilizers for those plants are often labeled as being for "acid-loving" plants. However, not all plants like acid. If the pH of the soil in which some plants are grown is too acid, they will not be able to extract the proper nutrients from the soil because the nitrogen is bound up. Applying the correct amount of lime can correct this balance, and that is why Fromer recommends soil testing to be certain how much lime to add and when. Or if soil needs more acid, for certain plants.
"Lime takes about six months to activate the soil," Fromer said. "Put out lime in the fall for it to be available in the spring." My weedy mix of a "lawn" which is composed of a variety of grasses, clover and an occasional weed, stays green even when the summer temps go up and the rain fails, in part because of appropriate applications of lime — no other chemicals required. Unlike monoculture lawns of nothing but grass, my lawn is a haven for pollinators. The presence of buttercups in my eclectic lawn tells me that my soil has an excess of acid, so lime is applied.
Fromer also noted that shade plants often benefit from additions of potassium, while full-sun perennials would not necessarily need more. But a soil test can tell anyone for sure what is needed. A lawn, a garden of vegetables or ornamentals, is not much different from those science experiments we conducted back in the day. Only difference is that now we get zucchini, or tomatoes or delphiniums instead of a passing (hopefully) grade. You could say, it is science in action.


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Tinto Trail
2-3 Hours
4.9 Miles
Moderate to difficult
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Map, compass, suitable clothing and footwear are essential.
Photo courtesy of Graeme McLeish
There are three routes that you can follow, have a look at our map or OS Landranger 72. For the main route you can start and finish at the car park at Fallburn, Thankerton or a bus leaves every half an hour from Lanark bus station.
Fallburn car park - Route One
Most days, the summit cairn and almost the entire route revealing its underlying red rock, can be seen from the Fallburn car park.
At first the going is easy as the well-worn path crosses the gently rising heathery moor, through the kissing gate etched 'Tinto Hill' (it's considered impolite not to exchange kisses as you hold the gate for your companions, as long as you're sufficiently friendly that is!) then follows the first of three steep sections.
You've got time to get your breath back at the top of Totheron Hill (479m) before starting up the next steep wide section. You'll also have an opportunity at this point to check out the Iron Age fort below before following the wide red 'highway' south.
Another short heart pounding section brings you to the fork – choose left and follow the 'highway' or sweep right around Maurice's Cleuch and along the much narrower path with full views of the steep ravine of shale, scree and heather.
It's not far before both of the paths join up again and the 'highway' begins to run parallel with a barb wire fence on the right for the final climb to the summit (707m), where you can enjoy this ancient lookout, its magnificent views and a well-earned cup of tea (go prepared) in one of the several wind shelters scattered around the summit cairn.
Photo courtesy of Graeme McLeish
Tinto Ridge – Route Two
The main route is a linear walk suitable for anyone of average fitness, but for those who wish to make it circular, it's easy enough to turn right at the summit and to follow the ridge west, following an intermittent hilltop track close to the stone boundary wall, until you reach an obvious cleft in the ridge at Howgate. Pass the farm towards the road and follow it back to the car park.
Tinto South Side – Route Three
An alternative route starts from Wiston Lodge on the south side of the hill. This route can be so quiet that it's hard to believe it's the same hill. This is a much steeper route and the path at times is not so obvious, but it does offer great views of the Clyde Valley and Southern Uplands.
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As President-elect's Donald Trump's transition rolls on, more and more attention is being paid to possible selections for a variety of high-ranking positions and meetings that might help decide these appointments.
On Monday, Trump will meet with John Allison, the former CEO of the bank BB&T and of the libertarian think tank the Cato Institute.
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Chad Hasty Show and The Choc'late Mousse: Pie Bar [AUDIO]
The Friday edition of the Chad Hasty Show was live at The Choc'late Mousse: Pie Bar in North Kingsgate Center. Chad spoke with owner Carson McCabe about the Pie Bar and their new location on 82nd street and Quaker.
Carson spoke about the beginnings of the Pie Bar, the new location, and the family effort behind the concept of The Choc'late Mousse.One of the new features of the Kingsgate location is breakfast on the menu with casseroles and quiche.
I was able to sample the Bacon quiche from the breakfast menu and it was phenomenal. I can't say enough about the quality of their menu and the continued innovation they bring to the Lubbock restaurant scene.
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...lives in imposing Braithwaite Hall with her husband Charlie and teenage twins Olly and Sam. Vicky runs a luxury bed and breakfast business in the 17th Century hall while Charlie looks after the family farm. It's all owned by the National Trust.
What do you feel makes mid-Wensleydale such a special place ?
The countryside is a big plus but we are also served by some excellent restaurants and tea rooms. The Blue Lion in East Witton and the Wensleydale Heifer in West Witton are favourites of mine. Our guests have offered glowing reports of Penleys in Leyburn and the Jervaulx and Serendipity tearooms are a must.
Where is your favourite place around here?
Black Dub. It's a bend in the River Cover accessible along footpaths from both East Witton and Middleham. It is so tranquil, a place to watch the world go by and have a picnic on hot summer days.
What is the best event to take place in the Leyburn area?
The Food and Drink Festival in Leyburn over the May Bank Holiday weekend. It showcases the diverse range of food produced in Yorkshire, from lamb to ostrich and bison.
What single piece of information should people have when they visit here?
Don't go down a single track road unless you are confident in your abilities to reverse!
What's the best kept secret in the area?
Hulla Bridge, just below the hall on the bridleway to Middleham. There's been a bridge there since Cisterian monks carried firewood to Middleham Castle. It's an idyllic spot, rich in history and wildlife.
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|Stefan is 2 1/4 and Fraser is 3 3/4... approximately. ;)
This is not the first time that the boys have veered from our expectations and come up with something SO much better. Here's a flashback to last year when we anticipated their glowing smiles facing the camera while we kissed.
|This monkey-see-monkey-do moment of perfection was captured by our friend, Danielle!
Back to this year's fab collection...
It was at this point that Chelsea's true commitment to the task shone through as she got soaking wet. It was a little later on that she split her pants... and kept going. Ultimate dedication.
|A little behind-the-scenes moment that Lowell captured with such speed and subtlety! Haha... sorry Chels (but not really). ;)
Once the boys' tootsies had a feel for the water, we could hardly pull them from such pleasantries. Thus began the delightful progression of wetness...
Enough with those pesky shirts...
|Oh gosh. So typical, and melts my heart every time.
|Stefan's "cheese" isn't at all stiff, is it?! haha.
I love love LOVE them. All. You rock, Chels.
After the photo fun, we went to Nick & Chelsea's place for ice cream! Well if that don't beat all.
A couple of days later, our families had more lake & ice cream time together. I'm just going to go right ahead and toss a few of those casual snaps up too...
|Rough life!
|The four little hooligans.
|One of my favourite photos of all time. Nico has his arm around Fraser and is pointing out the pelican in the distance. PLUS there's that whole awesome thing the setting sun in doing. So idyllic!
|I love that this forced friendship has morphed into a true bond.
Thanks again for the pictures, Chels. You're a treasure of a friend, and we love you to the moon (and back)!


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in my face, fingers, and feet. My joints are painful and it definitely is not touching my anxiety. I have called the doctor and asked to speak to him. He has not returned my call. The receptionist told me to come in, which wouldn't be an issue if I had health insurance or a job. Should I just discontinue use? Go to the er? I wish he would return my phone call...
I am beginning to get worried. I started BuSpar only 2 days ago and now I am having swelling?
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I'm so sorry! I was trying to look through these on my phone and accidentally hit the vote down instead of the vote up!! Is there a way to change it? I didn't mean to.
no prob dont worry about it hun,its fine
Dear Hopeless
like Dzoobaby and Punckiemull said if you having issues like this either push to talk with him or before putting more into you be checked out. I didn't do so well with Buspar several years ago (20's) but I didn't think it provided me with the relief of anxiety, I don't recall any issues with my face, fingers or feet I didn't feel like it reduced my anxiety and I am going to be honest I don't think I remained on it for very long, if its causing you side effects thats a problem he needs to discuss with you, if it's not making any dent in helping with anxiety then it's your body 2 days it is a short time but you know your body and if it isn't helping it's an issue he needs to talk with you. I hope you hear from him or as Dzoobaby says if you find problems otherwise then you need to be evaluated I hope the next time you post you are feeling much better
He told me that BuSpar doesn't cause swelling. I'm thinking he didn't believe me. Started Amitriptyline tonight. I hope this one works... Anyone heard of this used in combination with Zoloft for GAD?? (generalized anxiety disorder) Everything that I've read says anti- depressant. Side effects?
Hey HOPEless,
Are you still going to take the Buspar or discontinuing and starting the amitriptyline? While amitriptyline is an antidepressant it may well help with the anxiety. It should also help you sleep at night. You may experience some of the same side effects you experienced when you started the Zoloft such as nausea, headache, and drowsiness but that should subside with continued use. Good luck, hon, and keep us posted.
Yes. Stopped taking the BuSpar. I definitely didn't like the way it made me feel... I just slept for over 12hrs. Don't know if that's okay or not. LOL. I have a job interview tomorrow and it's eating me alive. I just hope the new meds kick in IN time! I hate this feeling... ugh. Like I'm standing on the edge of a cliff. Just trying to remember to breathe...
Hi Hope,
Sorry the buspar did'nt work out for you!
I hope the interview goes well for you tomorrow,fingers crossed for you!
Try take deep breaths,and try stay focused and relax.
Best of luck with it.
Let us know how it goes
Take care my friend
Thanks for wishing me luck. I'm kind of excited right now, but still terrified. Im determined. I have a vascular ring around my esophagus so I have a lot of trouble taking deep breaths anyways. I think that attributes to a lot of my anxiety. I WILL get this job though! ;)
hi hopeless87 .i read that if any medication causes swelling you should stop it right away and call your doctor. it wont hurt to stop since you have only been taking it for 2 days an anyway i heard that buspar was not addictive. oh you know i just noticed that you wrote this back in july 2011, it is now december 2011 . i do hope things are going well for you. by the way when we are feeling hope less it is a good idea to reflect on what kinds of things we have counted valuable in life and what things we have counted insignificant.it is my understanding that getting an underastanding of what is important in life and asking God to help you focus on and achieve these things to please him and see what adifference that will make .remember romans 8:28 says that all things work together for the goodfor those who love there creator (christ jesus) and are called according to his purpose.
God knew us before anyone else did and already had a plan for our lives but he leaves it up to us to accept that and seek after that goal.just ask him you will see in a little while you will no longer be using the username hopeless87 but ,full of joy. thats what i am working on.
God has been showing me all kinds of natural and safe ways to heal myself, through what i eat , what iwatch on tv, how i exercise, what church to attend , the friends to stay away from ect. when the spirit of the lord comes it will lead you into all truth.Ask him for his spirit without it we are none of his and if we are none of his then we realy are hopeless because we will have to spend eternity separated from him ,now that hopeless.
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Smithsonian Folklife Festival Expected to Draw a Million Visitors
This is the 45th folklife festival to be held on the National Mall, a wide expanse of open space between the U.S. Capitol building and the Lincoln Memorial which is lined with museums. White tents set up on the mall house an eclectic assortment of programs and exhibits, including craft and cooking demonstrations as well as concerts. "My favorite part is seeing things from other countries and listening to music," says Jim Yuengert, who works nearby. "It's a great opportunity to showcase things going on worldwide and within the U.S. and to open people's minds."
Smithsonian Folklife Festival Expected to Draw a Million Visitors
Smithsonian Folklife Festival Expected to Draw a Million Visitors
Dora Mekouar | Washington, D.C.
This year's event spotlights Colombia's rich bio-cultural diversity, the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps and the powerful influence of rhythm and blues music in American popular culture.
Hundreds of participants come to the nation's capital for the 10-day event, which generally draws about a million visitors, according to Smithsonian spokesperson Becky Haberacker.
"The festival is a way to showcase cultural traditions from around the world," she says. "And it's a way to allow people to share their culture and their experience."
This is the 45th folklife festival to be held on the National Mall, a wide expanse of open space between the U.S. Capitol building and the Lincoln Memorial which is lined with museums. White tents set up on the mall house an eclectic assortment of programs and exhibits, including craft and cooking demonstrations as well as concerts.
"My favorite part is seeing things from other countries and listening to music," says Jim Yuengert, who works nearby. "It's a great opportunity to showcase things going on worldwide and within the U.S. and to open people's minds."
The Peace Corps program includes dance demonstrations from Ukraine, Botswana and the Philippines along with food samples from Morocco, Peru and Ghana. One of the most popular events, which occurred early in the festival, was a rhythm and blues performance by the musical group Soul Train. In the Colombia section, visitors can witness a ceremonial Amazonian dance or sample sweet corn arepas.
"It's very nice to show the kids and everybody how people in Colombia live," says Henry Rodriquez. A native of Bogota who now lives in Virginia, he brought his 19-year-old daughter to the festival. "It's very important for the new generation to see their background, to see their roots."
This first-hand cultural exchange is at the heart of the folklife festival experience.
"Instead of visiting an exhibit someone else has done, this is done in the first person," says Haberacker. "Visitors are hearing directly from the tradition bearers; the people who make the crafts, who cook the food or sing the songs."
Although the event draws visitors from around the world, most who attend come from around the United States.
Phil Jones made the trip from North Carolina. Having lived abroad for over a decade, it's a way for him to reconnect with other cultures again.
"Until you speak someone's language, eat with them, pray with them, you understand nothing about the rest of the world and your own culture," says Jones. "Americans fear other cultures because they don't know anything about them. They are more alike than different and when you see them, you're less likely to be mistrustful or wary of other cultures."
This spirit of mutual cultural understanding is exactly what Smithsonian organizers hope people gain from the experience, especially since many who attend won't have a chance to visit the foreign countries they learn about at the festival.
"We hope people walk away with a better appreciation of cultures from around the world and at the same time share a bit of America or wherever they're from with the participants," says Haberacker. "So it's a bit of a cultural exchange we hope people come away with."
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If you weren't able to attend in person, then take a look at our photo essay of Peace Corps' featured program at the 2011 Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington DC to see how the festival showcased the work of Peace Corps volunteers in economic development and income generation; ways volunteers have helped support local groups to help educate communities; and food and cooking traditions that have played a role in the Peace Corps experience.
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RCL - Easter 5 B - Sunday 10 May 2009
Acts 8: 26-40
1 John 4: 7-21
John 15: 1-8
Today is the Fifth Sunday of Easter. But if you've been around parishes or churches, large and small, of whatever stripe, you'll know that the real liturgical observance today is Mother's Day. Indeed, a Methodist friend of mine once suggested that their whole spring calendar was ordered around this feast: the Sunday next before Mother's Day, Mother's Day itself, the week within the octave of Mother's Day.
Certainly in my growing up days there was a whole series of tasks and obligations and observances: cards and gifts, hand made or purchased, long distance phone calls, breakfast in bed prepared by children or husbands, Mother and Daughter Communion luncheons, special trips to IHOP or reservations for brunch made long in advance at your fanciest local eatery (with sittings at 9, 11 and 1), family reunions, and, if you lived in a Catholic milieu, May Crownings or even living rosaries!
I'm sure some of this has changed over years…but not too much.
The idea of honoring mothers with a special day, though a 19th century invention, still retains resonance and power. Sentimentality is its hallmark, of course. But there are also the not-so-hidden themes of sensuality, fertility, birthing, nurturing, nursing, teaching, protecting, comforting, loving…qualities or roles that each one of us needed—and continues to need—in order to survive, to flourish, to grow, to mature. These lie very close to the surface today. And whether our biological mother or some else filled these roles for us, they must be acknowledged and honored. They are primordial and archetypal, at once biological and psychological and social, and deeply human. And to the extent that any of us fills one or another of these roles, whether physically or in some more abstract or extended sense, we too feel part of the great wheel of existence and claim our role in the great dance of life.
This is thus a great festival of fertility, of fecundity, of fruitfulness, of generativity, of spring, of veriditas, as the mystic Hildegaard of Bingen called it referring to God's greening power.
How strange it is, then, that we should begin our worship today with a reading (Acts 8: 26-40) about a eunuch, that quintessentially infertile, non-generative, weak, strange, defective human person. What shall we make of that?
Earlier this week I was speaking with my sister and mentioned this strange contradiction. She thought for a few seconds and said: "Well, he had a mother too." How true! And what a key to compassion. For every one of us here today had a mother. Indeed every human being had a mother. This is the great fact that in some way makes us all brothers and sisters. We all came into the world in the same way, just as we all exit in the same way, as the author of the Book of the Wisdom reminds us.
But nevertheless, what a contrast: mother & eunuch. It is image and counter image, type and anti-type.
Let's spend a few minutes looking at this passage.
Chapter 8 of the Book of the Acts of the Apostles recounts two stories about the apostle Philip. And both have to do with religious outsiders, those who are ritually and culturally suspect or marginal. The first story takes place in Samaria, among our old friends the Samaritans, and has to do with healing power, a certain sad magician named Simon, and the spread of the Christian gospel there. Samaritans, as we all know by now, were considered defective members of the ancient household of faith. Yet Jesus seemed to have a special outreach to them, and so many powerful lessons about the universality of the Good News are made through the tensions and contradictions of their status. We need only mention the Parable of the Good Samaritan and Jesus' encounter with the Samaritan woman at the Well.
Eunuchs were in an analogous position. They were defective in important ways, not intact, and therefore excluded from full participation in the covenant community of Israel. The Torah is quite explicit about this: "No one whose testicles are crushed or whose penis is cut off shall be admitted to the assembly of the Lord." (Deut. 23:1) [I'd wager this is the first time you ever heard that passage of Scripture read publicly in a church!] Eunuchs could perhaps associate themselves with the People of God, but they could not worship in the Temple itself or offer sacrifice. They could never be fully included. They could never count.
Further, this unnamed eunuch riding in his chariot is from Ethiopia, and is thus presumably a person of color, and therefore, at least on the face of it, not a member of the majority household of Israel. Double exclusion!
Yet here he is—wonderful paradox—a devout believer who, like those Roman centurions and righteous Gentiles spoken of elsewhere in the New Testament, has found in the ethical monotheism of Israel a deep and liberating truth that has grasped his heart and set him free, in spite his outcast status.
And what is reading as he travels in his chariot on the long journey back from Jerusalem to Africa? The Prophet Isaiah. According to Acts, he is reading one of the Suffering Servant passages, prophetic words that Christians almost immediately saw as referring to Jesus and offering them a key in making sense of his life and death. The passage offered Philip his opportunity to witness and explain and journey with the eunuch and ultimately to baptize him into relationship with Jesus.
But just a few columns further along in this very scroll of the prophet Isaiah, are these very surprising words:
Do not let the foreigner joined to the Lord say,Maybe it was no accident that this man, this euncuh, was reading Isaiah that day. He needed a word of hope, a sympathetic author, an invitation to and a promise of a future. And maybe it's no accident that we hear this passage today, on this Mother's Day, we who likewise need a word of hope, a sympathetic author and an invitation and a promise of a future.
'The Lord will surely separate me from his people';
and do not let the eunuch say,
'I am just a dry tree.'
For thus says the Lord:
To the eunuchs who keep my sabbaths,
who choose the things that please me
and hold fast my covenant,
I will give, in my house and within my walls,
a monument and a name
better than sons and daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name
that shall not be cut off.
It is very easy to fall into the trap of believing that we know what motherhood or parenthood or fruitfulness or fertility or generativity is. We think we know what productivity or success or status consists in. We are all too ready to measure it in others and in ourselves. And if you are like me, when you do this you inevitably come up lacking, you fall short of your own measure. But Isaiah tells that eunuch and he tells us: God has other plans, God has other measures. And of them we may know little or nothing right now. But they are more real and transformative than we can imagine.
Do eunuchs have children? Of course not.
Can eunuchs be faithful? Can eunuchs love? You betcha!
Do you or I have children? Maybe. Maybe not.
Can we each be faithful? Can we each be fruitful? Can we each love? Oh, yes!
Are there any eunuchs here this morning? You don't have to identify yourselves. You know who you are. Maybe you are feeling dried up. Maybe you feel that your life has not been productive. Maybe you are facing infertility in one form or another. Or think yourself fruitless, deprived, or less than. Maybe you know yourself to be marginal or partial or barren or crushed or cut off. Do you ever feel that way? To you and to me, God says,
Happy Mother's Day!
Because if you abide in God and God abides in you, you will be fruitful, fertile, green. You will have an inheritance and a progeny and an offspring that will astonish you.
Happy Mothers Day!
To you who have children and to you who don't. To you who feel yourselves successful and you who count your life a failure in one department or many.
Happy Mother's Day!
God is doing something great in you right now. God is inviting you and equipping you and preparing you to be exceedingly fruitful. And God can do this. It's his job description. God is doing this, in you and me, right now, though we may know little or nothing of it nor even begin to imagine the shape of the outcome.
Happy Mother's Day to any who hope in God's greening, quickening power. And Happy Mother's Day to us who for the moment have lost that hope.
Happy Mother's Day, you who have made yourselves parents and partners, and Happy Mother's Day you who have made yourselves eunuchs for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven, you spiritual eunuchs.
Happy Mother's Day!
Don't forget to call home.


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A deck of cards, each marked with a thing you like to do, that nourishes you: journalling, taking walks, fingerpainting, practicing guitar, renting movies, writing letters, whatever. Whenever you have a few hours to kill, and you know you won't touch your to-do list, reach for your boredom deck and pick a card. Specifically combats empty habits such as watching television or reading trash.
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