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Some exceptional elders start 2018 with high hopes and restored bodies, thanks to modern medicine and their own attitudes.
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QUINCY – Barbara Gillis of Scituate had what turned out to be a banner year in 2017. After celebrating her 100th birthday the previous summer with a grand party, she was greatly enjoying her usual activities as a centenarian. Gillis is a very active woman who counts on her social routines.
Then, last winter, one of her hips began to cause a lot of pain. She realized she wouldn't be able to continue her social activities, and she wasn't about to let herself be sidelined.
Gillis had already undergone one hip replacement when she was in her 90s, and a knee replacement when she was 95.
She went back to see her orthopedic surgeon about getting her other hip joint replaced. The surgeon was cautious – very cautious – but after many discussions, visits and rounds of tests, she had her second hip replacement on March 23 at age 100½.
She was told that she had the bones of a 60-year-old.
"It was fabulous," Gillis reports.
After her stay at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, she went for rehab at the Queen Anne Nursing Home in Hingham. There she met up with a gentleman named John, whom she had known when both attended weekly luncheons at the Congregational church in Scituate. John was now a resident of the nursing home.
"We had a chance to visit," Gillis said. "It was lovely."
Since she has returned home, they have been able to get together several times with help of her niece Dottie Cook of Scituate.
By the time Gillis turned 101 this past Aug. 18, she was back in full mobility. She points out that now she is "almost 101½," and that "the half is very important as you get older, as it is to the children."
Gillis is a master of adaptation. Legally blind due to macular degeneration, she attends the low-vision support group at Hingham Elder Services. Listening to talking-book tapes is one of her favorite daily activities, and she looks forward with great enthusiasm to the Thursday luncheons of the First Trinitarian Congregational Church in Scituate.
Life is good.
"I just take it as it comes," she said. "So long as my mind is still functioning, I'm content."
Gillis is, of course, just one of so many remarkable elders I have written about in recent years. A few are over age 105. Like the rest of us, they enjoy the benefits of modern medicine. They take each day as it comes. They have gratitude for where they are in life; they also have plans for the future.
Wes Osborne of Norwell turns 95 on Wednesday. He served in the Coast Guard from 1942 to 1945 and is one of the oldest veterans living in Norwell. He is also the town's former tree warden. A year ago, Osborne developed an irregular heartbeat and had a pacemaker implanted. Since then, he reports, he is doing well and enjoyed a New Year's family gathering at his home.
"I've already had a visitor who brought me a lobster roll, so that was pretty good!" he said.
At age 106, Margaret AuCoin is enjoying life at the Colonial Nursing Home in Weymouth. Her daughter Martha Abraham of Pembroke reports: "She's excellent. She's got a strong little heart, knock on wood! We don't know what's keeping her going, but she'll be 107 in March."
At 105, Agnes Mullay is also enjoying each day over at the Marina Bay Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Quincy, especially the rubdown she gets from a nurse every night. Agnes goes to all the activities, and the staff plans to hold another big party when she turns 106 on March 12.
Dorothy Elkin is doing well at Care One in Weymouth, where she will turn 106 on Jan. 30.
Catherine Nana Mitton of Holbrook is 107 and carrying on at home with the full-time help of her daughter, Carole Mitton, who is 79, and her son, Wainwright. She will be 108 in May. This past year, she lost her beloved dog Minnie, but she has adjusted. She takes no medicines and hates going to the doctor.
Her daughter reports that Nana Mitton "used to raise the roof in her younger days" but has calmed down with age, is "very happy" and has a good sense of humor.
She had cataract surgery at 93 and still enjoys good vision. She spends most of her days reading religious materials. "Something about her – she just keeps going."
Auld lang syne: I'm remembering local elders we lost in 2017, including Natalie Loomis of Marshfield, Mabel Bean of Weymouth, Armand Bolduc of Quincy, Dorothy Hammer of Rockland, Bob Kalchthaler of Middleboro, Ruth Goldrosen of Brookline, Ellie Gay of Norwell, Sylvia Close of Stoughton, Gertrude Reynolds of Scituate and Phyllis Ruscitto of Quincy, plus Lillian Broide of Braintree, who died in late 2016.
Reach Sue Scheible at email@example.com, 617-786-7044, or The Patriot Ledger, P.O. Box 699159, Quincy 02269-9159. Read her Good Age blog on our website. Follow her on Twitter @ sues_ledger.
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Happy One Month Birthday, Katie-bean!!
I can't believe it has already been a month! It seems like just yesterday that I was in labor, awaiting your arrival. This first month has been an emotional whirlwind, little girl. As difficult as it has been, I wouldn't trade it for anything if it meant that you weren't in my life.
Let's see what you're up to this month...
You are already 10 pounds! And you eat every 2-3 hours. I think you have your Daddy's appetite. :)
Katie, you are such a delight, even at 1, 3, and 5 in the morning. :) Daddy and I love to watch the many facial expressions you have - Mommy's favorite is the pursed lip look, and I think Daddy gets a kick out of your scowling furrowed brow look (it's very similar to a look that Daddy gives Mommy to make her laugh). You also stick out your bottom lower lip when you're upset and about to cry.
You are such a mover! We place you down for a nap straight in your pack and play, and within minutes you are diagonal. When you're waking up, you reach your arms above your head and stretch so big. You're also very noisy. You grunt, squeak, and make all kinds of other noises when you're waking up. And if you're mad when someone is holding you, you stand right up on your legs against that person's legs. You're such a strong girl!
Mommy compares you to a baby chick all the time - for two reasons. One, when you're hungry, you "peck" like a chicken on my shoulder when I'm holding you. Two, after a bath, if Mommy doesn't brush your hair fast enough, it will dry sticking straight up. This look is what Mommy refers to as "fuzzy chicken head hair."
You are so sweet when you're falling asleep - you oftentimes will break out in a smile, and I think you even have your Daddy's dimples. Shh, don't tell him I'm talking about his dimples.
Speaking of Daddy, he loves to "boop" your nose. He is convinced that you like it.
The same day you turned 3 weeks old, you gave Mommy the sweetest grin. And I've seen it several times since. It melts my heart.
But then again, so do you.
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Dissociation of the peptide-MHC class I complex limits the binding rate of exogenous peptideJournal of Immunology
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Publication Date12-1-1993
AbstractSoluble, single-chain molecules for two MHC class I alleles, H-2Kd and H-2Kb, were used to analyze the kinetics of antigenic peptide binding to MHC. After MHC preloading with radiolabeled or fluorescent peptides, the observed rate of MHC-peptide complex dissociation increased after addition of an excess of unlabeled competitor peptide. Although exogenous peptides conforming to the allele-specific motif were required for the enhanced complex dissociation to occur, the dissociation rate of the complex was independent of exogenous peptide concentration. Similarly, the association rate of exogenous peptides was independent of concentration, reflecting the presence of low affinity peptides in the binding sites of the recombinant MHC proteins; the sequences of these endogenous peptides conform to the consensus motif for the MHC allele studied. Finally, the association rate of exogenous peptide decreased when MHC molecules were preloaded with high affinity peptides, and the binding of labeled high affinity peptide to isolated recombinant MHC was faster than the subsequent dissociation observed in the presence of competitor peptide. Taken together, these results imply that the rate of exogenous peptide binding is limited by the dissociation rate of the previously bound peptides.
Citation InformationDavid M. Ojcius, Jean-Pierre Abastado, Amanda Casrouge, E. Mottez, et al.. "Dissociation of the peptide-MHC class I complex limits the binding rate of exogenous peptide" Journal of Immunology Vol. 151 Iss. 11 (1993) p. 6020 - 6026 ISSN: 0022-1767
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After finding someone is stockpiling gold, James Bond is sent on the trail of Auric Goldfinger. He soon uncovers a plot "Operation Grand Slam" for Goldfinger to rob Fort Knox and throw the world's economy into turmoil. -- Chris Kavan
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SIngli6 12/12/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful)
Rating of 3.5/4
Third time's the golden charm.
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My personal favorite of the series. This is the film that introduces the gadget-car and iconic henchman that is shown in more films, from this point on.
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"A martini. Shaken, not stirred".
Pussy Galore: "My name is Pussy Galore". / James Bond: "I must be dreaming".
The story is about a Bond gets his Aston Martin, spars with two statuesque British beauties (Honor Blackman and Shirley Eaton) and pits his wits against a memorable villain, Auric Goldfinger. Add the first Shirley Bassey theme song and some exciting action sequences and the result is an explosive cocktail. Goldfinger is by far my favorite bond film that I have seen. The main song in this movie "Goldfinger" got stuck in my head while watching the whole film. The two main villains in the movie Odd Job and Goldfinger himself was two remember-able and in my opinion, the best villains in a movie. Odd Job to me was like bane, he can break you with a little touch of hands just like that....
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One of the best Bonds!
The immortal line of "Do you expect me to talk Goldfinger?"
No I expect you to die Mr Bond" replies Goldfinger should be written down as one of the greatest Movie lines in history.
"Goldfinger" is in my opinion one of the best Bond movie. Sean Connery as James Bond is superb throughout, his delivery of his dialog superb and his performance assured and confident. The basic story is fantastic with a very clever plan for world domination. The villain, played by Gert Frobe, is great as is his deathly servant, Odd Job. Who can forget his steel rimmed hat or him crushing a golf ball in his bare hand? Though he is mute, he simply oozes menace. But there are plenty of memorable images here, too. The girl painted in gold, and the figure of the hit-man reflected on Bond's lover eye are wort...
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James Bond locks horns with an international gold smuggler who plans to break into Fort Knox. The third instalment of the popular franchise sees the formula find its feet and delivers a near perfect cocktail of action, humour and sixties style to create a magic that the producers tried (unsuccessfully) to recapture for the next two decades. One of the obvious reasons for Goldfinger's success is Bond's nemesis himself; gone are the camp caricatures of the previous films, replaced by a cold, calculating criminal mastermind who proves a match for 007, especially during the classic "interrogation" scene ("Do you expect me to talk?" "No Mr. Bond. I expect you to die!"). Honor Blackman also makes a stronger, more independent Bond girl and we see Q Branch for the first time, providing an assured...
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'Hannah Montana' actress Miley Cyrus was overcome with emotion when she was named Favourite Female Singer at Nickelodeon's 22nd Annual Kids' Choice Awards on Saturday (28.03.09)
Miley Cyrus burst into tears at Nickelodeon's 22nd Annual Kids' Choice Awards.
The 'Hannah Montana' star was overcome with emotion when she beat Beyonce Knowles, Alicia Keys and Rihanna to be named Favourite Female Singer at the ceremony, which was held at the University of California, Los Angeles' Pauley Pavilion on Saturday (28.03.09).
Praising the fans who vote for the winners, she said: "I really thought I was going to lose, so thank you guys. I'm so excited. I know this isn't like the Oscars, but it's still amazing because unlike any other awards show, it's all because of you guys."
'High School Musical 3: Senior Year' star Vanessa Hudgens picked up the Favourite Female Actress accolade, while the film was voted Favourite Movie.
Zac Efron took to the stage to accept the film's award, saying: "Lately, a lot of people have been taking credit for bringing back the musical. The truth is, we've known who's been responsible for bringing back the musical all along. It was you guys!"
Just as important as the winners were those who got covered in green slime while on the stage, with Favourite Male Singer Jesse McCartney and presenters Sandra Bullock and Hugh Jackman getting gunged this year.
Other winners included Will Smith who was named Favourite Male Actor, the Jonas Brothers who won Favourite Group and Beyonce's 'Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)' which was voted Favourite Song.
Jack Black thrilled the audience by picking up the Favourite Voice gong - for his part as Po in animated movie 'Kung Fu Panda ' - in a motorcycle sidecar.
Leonardo DiCaprio was handed the first ever Big Green Help Award for his environmental work by Cameron Diaz.
He said: "Do you like this planet that we live on? Is this an awesome place to live or what? Well, it's the only place we've got. We need all of you, the next generation, to take action. In fact, I bet someone watching this very show tonight will be a part of the solution to global warming."
The awards are decided by viewers of children's TV network Nickelodeon, with a record 90 million votes being cast.
Nickelodeon's 22nd Annual Kids' Choice Awards winners:
Favourite Movie - 'High School Musical 3: Senior Year'
Favourite Male Movie Star - Will Smith, 'Hancock'
Favourite Female Movie Star - Vanessa Hudgens, 'High School Musical 3: Senior Year'
Favourite Animated Movie - 'Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa'
Favourite Voice from an Animated Movie - Jack Black, as Po, 'Kung Fu Panda'
Favourite Song - 'Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)', Beyonce
Favourite Male Singer - Jesse McCartney
Favourite Female Singer - Miley Cyrus
Favourite Music Group - Jonas Brothers
Favourite TV Show - 'iCarly'
Favourite Reality Show - 'American Idol'
Favourite Television Actor - Dylan Sprouse, 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody'
Favourite Television Actress - Selena Gomez, 'Wizards of Waverly Place'
Favourite Cartoon - 'SpongeBob SquarePants'
Favourite Male Athlete - Peyton Manning
Favourite Female Athlete - Candace Parker
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We had to wait far too long for THE CABIN IN THE WOODS to finally come our way, but earlier this year we learned that it was worth it, as Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon delivered a fresh spin on the familiar conventions that have populated horror over the years.
Now you have a chance to have it all to yourself with THE CABIN IN THE WOODS arriving on Blu-ray and DVD today, finally keeping that digital copy that was made available early a bit of company. In order to commemorate the occasion, I've got FIVE Blu-ray copies of CABIN to make available to you.
So how do you take your best shot at winning one of these bad boys? Well, you're going to need to have seen the movie already in order to proceed. If you haven't, I suggest you avert your eyes moving forward, as we head into some SPOILER TERRITORY.
Then answer in 200 words or less the following - which creature would you have preferred been chosen by the cabin's visitors, and why?
If you want to lay out what might have been cooler kills in your book, be my guest. If you want to tell me all about the more exciting visuals your choice would have produced, that's all you. However, you're going to have to sell me on why your creature would have made for a better film than the zombie redneck torture family on record.
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Skip to comments.Historic Lutheran churches feeling some stress
Posted on 11/23/2013 7:26:11 PM PST by 11th_VA
YORK, Pa. (AP) At 89, Helen Behler still drives into York from her West Manchester condo every Sunday to worship at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church.
The oldest member of a dwindling congregation, Behler cut the cake a few weeks ago when Trinity completed its centennial celebration.
She is part of a fading community of churchgoers, staunchly Lutheran worshippers who trace their faith to German-born ancestors who flocked to central Pennsylvania in the 18th and 19th centuries. Christ Lutheran on South George Street is said to have been the first church built west of the Susquehanna River. It was followed by dozens of Lutheran churches in and around York.
Some of those city churches are struggling to counter alarming drops in membership, attendance and giving....
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Both Smithville and LaGrange TX have a large population of German Lutherans.
They make some of the best kolaches in the world, I'm sure!
But how's the gemutlichkeit?
I don't know that one—at least not by that name......LOL!
No, it mentions it about half way down. Look under the subhead " CONSOLIDATION CAN BE 'NONSTARTER' "
The Lutherans have moved from being conservative both theologically and politically 30-40 years ago to being liberal today. They along with most other mainline Christian churches have followed the same pattern. (ditto universities and government) This is the story of what happens.
However, you will find individual parishes within all denominations which have been able to remain conservative by careful selection of pastors and smart lay leaders who have recognized the problem of liberal infiltration and maintained a disciplined order of business. They have generally prospered over the years. Not many, but they are there.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) resettled over 10,000 refugees in fiscal year 2013, thereby contributing, as Americas second-largest resettlement agency, to the United States reaching its refugee admissions target for the first time since 1980.
LIRS has resettled 10,095 refugees in 2013, including many refugee kids who arrived without a parent or guardian and in desperate need of protection and human care, said Terry Abeles, LIRS Director for Refugee Resettlement. This achievement comes as we approach our 75th anniversary in 2014, and marks an important new milestone in a history in which weve helped nearly 400,000 refugees rebuild their lives."
I know exactly what you are talking about—I'm Catholic—LOL!
ELCA - Liberal 4 million
LCMS - Moderate 2.3 million
WELS - Conservative .4 million
My neighbor was talking about how her (ELCA) Church and its school were slowly dieing. It was really sad.
The ELCA has lost over 500,000 members and 1,000 congregations since their endorsement of homosexuality. Its donations are also drying up: Donations were $88 million in 2008 but only $40 million in 2011.
We are having the same problems here in Akron Ohio (LCMS). My husband got in an argument at a council meeting, because no one ever checks into the reasons members are leaving. The Mo. Synod is forcing churches to move to the left. new hymnals that water down our doctrine. Words are changed for no reason. I have an idea many are leaving because of the modern ideology and contemporary hymns and services.
I always thought LCMS was special in it's doctrine and hymns—as opposed to Protestant Churches. Members are not happy with these changes—synod thinks they will get more members-—WRONG. We were raised to believe in strict doctrine—now we wonder why we even bother to attend.
Is the Lutheran university in conservative Seguin, TX, also a liberal enclave? Maybe they should change their name to (Martin Luther) King Church. A lot of Americans can't distinguish between the better known MLK and the original Martin Luther.
$40 million is still too high. It might be that the generous donors left are uninformed about the direction of their own church.
You may want to see this.
Evicting Christ from Christianity hurts it all right....
Well if the doctrines are the chief reason, you're going to get disappointed. Most important is to have the Christ that the doctrines are intended to describe. You don't get Christ by making a web of doctrines and waving it in the air. Once you DO have Christ, then getting the doctrines as correct as you can makes sense.
Ah, out of the frying pan into the fire
But even conservative, confessional Lutheran congregations (such as mine, in the LCMS) are struggling.
* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.
Glory to the King of kings!
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The Final Revelation
Paul Turner
Haunted sculptor
Paul has never had any doubt in his own mind that he is talented, possessed of a unique vision that needs to be shared with the world. The problem so far is that the world has not been quick to see this, and he still relies on a stipend from his father for subsistence, and even occasionally on petty thievery. This hurts his ego, but he knows his work will bring him immortality of a form, even if posthumously.
His work has always been intuitive, drawing as much upon his dreams and imaginings as on what his eyes see. His hands find shapes in the clay and then his conscious mind moulds them into beauty. Recently, though, he has discovered pieces of work in amongst the others that he does not remember creating, but which are undeniably in his style. They are nightmarish shapes that do not draw from any natural or imaginary source he can identify. When he look at them, he feels echoes of something he cannot define, of imminent danger.
Now all his work is tainted by his attempts to make sense of these shapes, and the few collectors who valued his work have stopped buying. He has decided to attend a meeting of people who have had similar experiences to find out if he is mad or if there really is some occult threat looming over the world.


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i do realise this is a public place.
but i just have to ask the question (rhetorically, unless ya leave me a comment lol)
Do hormones get more ravagey (yes. it's a word. here at kate5kiwis) as ya get older?? cos every month i tend to have an Absolutely Psycho Day where i feel completely ragged and NOT EVEN a glass of bacardi-and-lemonade (my preferred 2008 summer vice) and a loud listen to my boys will fix, (no matter what time of day, lol...)
I'm tense and nervous and I can't relax...
Don't touch me I'm a real live wire.
and then *boom* exactly a week later my cycle starts.
i'd really *really* love some feedback, via (private) email if ya prefer
kate DOT kiwi AT hotmail DOT com
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Sometime in the early 1990s when the Shiv Sena and the BJP were yet in the opposition, both at the Centre and in Maharashtra, then state finance minister Ramrao Adik had accorded a lot of concessions to the tobacco industry in one of his annual budgets.columns Updated: Oct 10, 2012 14:55 IST
Sometime in the early 1990s when the Shiv Sena and the BJP were yet in the opposition, both at the Centre and in Maharashtra, then state finance minister Ramrao Adik had accorded a lot of concessions to the tobacco industry in one of his annual budgets.
That seemed somewhat strange because usually gutka, cigarettes or bidis are taxed heavily for health reasons rather than the other way round. Many Congressmen fought those concessions during the debate on the budget. So did the BJP, rather fiercely.
When Adik rose to reply to the debate he had some interesting revelations. He said he had received numerous petitions from the tobacco industry for the concessions. But his rider is what took everyone aback. Every single MLA of the BJP hailing from Pune, those who had fiercely opposed the concessions, were the same people who had written passionate requests for those concessions to the finance minister – and the letters were on official letterheads, personally signed. Now, one MLC – a spokesperson of the BJP – who had missed writing the request had made up for it by thanking Adik soon after he had presented the budget. Adik waved all the letters in the House as proof.
I was rather bemused. But an older colleague, a hardened cynic, said rather wryly, "Looks like the tobacco industry has been very active among BJP politicians in Pune." After some investigation he informed us that the letters had been identical and probably dictated by the same source to one and all.
So I was overcome by a sense of déjà vu as reports filtered out last week about BJP president Nitin Gadkari's letter to Union water resources minister Pawan Bansal seeking concessions for contractors on irrigation projects, who are essentially his cronies. And I was not surprised that Prakash Javdekar, too, should have copy-pasted an identical letter to the minister – after all, he hails from Maharshtra and cannot but go along with his party president.
No wonder then that both the BJP and the Shiv Sena, whose members (including some from the Thackeray clan) have figured on the list of directors of various companies involved in irrigation projects around Mahrashtra, were silent on the issue and allowed the Congress-NCP government to get away with the scam for so long.
However, there seems to be a fundamental difference between the Sena, the Congress and the NCP on one side and the BJP on the other. While the entire Congress has rallied to the side of Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra, under attack from Arvind Kejriwal of a newly-formed but yet to be named political party, who is accusing him of quid pro quo in various property deals -- and both Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar have come fiercely to the defence of son and nephew respectively on different occasions -- Gadkari seems to have been abandoned by his party and left to his own resources in battling these allegations.
I also wonder why it is Kirit Somaiya, a former BJP MP, who is bringing to light all these facts through various RTI applications. One can understand Somaiya's need to expose alleged scams against the Congress or the NCP. But why he should be rendering his own party president so vulnerable is beyond my comprehension.
Hailing from the same town as I do, I was privy to the fact that Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh had been snooping around Nagpur for months, attempting to gather intelligence on Gadkari's business connections, his lifestyle, his sources of income, etc. I was startled when told that Singh, in a style that could be the envy of the best investigators, would 'casually' bump into or drop by the homes and workplaces of Gadkari's friends and neighbours to ferret out as many incontrovertible facts as possible -- I knew then that Gadkari would soon be in his firing line. If I did not know better, I would say that both Somaiya and Singh are working in tandem and to a single game plan. But, I guess, Singh is targeting Gadkari because he has taken cheap potshots at Sonia Gandhi. Somaiya's moves, on the other hand, could be part of a larger BJP conspiracy to deny Gadkari smooth passage in his bid for a second term as party president.
For Gadkari may have many friends but, as a potential PM candidate, he also seems to have made too many enemies. And his own party is proving his Trojan Horse!
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- How can I get my girlfriend to start wearing high heels?
"How can I get my girlfriend to start wearing highheels ? I took her shopping at the Aldo shoe store and told her I wanted to buy her some nice shoes. She went right for the comfortable shoes. I have hinted to her in the past that I have a thing for highheels. I know she would look great in a nice high heels."
– First of all I commend any man that takes a women shoe shopping!!! My best advice is MOST women love honesty. Tell her she's beautiful but you would love her to wear heels when you go out nice. That she has beautiful legs. Then offer again to take her shoe shopping.
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I'm not sure a girl can just put on a great pair of heels and be able to handle them. I see so many girls that just can't look good when they walk in heels. I wish I knew how to know if she can even handle a highheel.
Don't get a pair too high and then let her practice walking in them at home. You could also start her out with a wedged heel first.
High heels get a bad rap because a girl will have an affair of some kind and go out and buy a high heel to wear. Being that she has never spent any time in heels her feet ,ankles, and legs start to hurt. When she gets home she put the shoes away and thinks they hurt too much and avoids heels thinking she can't wear heels.
Here is what worked for me,
I high heel trained 3 girls at my store and now they went from being convinced heels are not for them to wearing 3 and 4 inch heels at work every day.
Take your girlfrind to a good shoe store and get a pair of heels with a 3 inch heel that fits her right. Make sure they have a leather upper and are made very well. stay away from cheep shoes. leather shoes can be stretched if it is needed. She will think they are to high the first time she puts them on because her body is not used to heels.
Have her practice walking on her toes around the house as much as she can for a 2 weeks stretching her leg mussles.
Every night have her lay on her back and point her feet as much as she can over and over. Then after the 2 weeks she can start to wear her heels around the house. She should try to wear them a little longer each time. Just don't over do it. It's a good idea to do the stretching every night by pointing her toes as much as she can. This will break in her new shoes and let her get used to the heels.
When she feels like she can do it .Take her go to the food store and she can walk around while holding the shopping cart. Before she knows it she will find that heels can be comfortable. I she has to she should put on her heels once a week to keep her legs used to the heels.
I found that after walking around in 3 inch heels I wanted to go higher and that seems to common after you wear heels for a while. Just going a half inch higher takes time to get used to the new hight of the heel.
I hope that helps you..


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Today I've got a story of conditioner (which we use a lot of in our house), the messiness of life (as evidenced by every hour of every day), and a story of friendship (which I'm always learning and growing in, that's for sure). Here's a nugget of the article, or you can head on over to She Loves Magazine to read the whole thing!
We go through a lot of conditioner in our house.
My husband and I use extra conditioner on our boys' hair when it's washed, then we spray down their curls with a leave-in detangler most every day in between. We comb through the tangles until the ringlets pop and bounce, mostly because they can't do it themselves, partially because I refuse to shave their heads quite yet. My younger son, whose hair is longer, curlier, coarser, can't stand the process, but for the time being, I'm bound and determined to have one curly-haired baby boy.
If we don't have conditioner, all hair-hell breaks loose. Gnarled baby dreadlocks stand in place of ringlets. A matted mess threatens the back heads, the spot a permanent reminder of the previous night's sleep.
And sometimes, I must say, I feel like I'm in need of my own extra dollop of conditioner, too.
Because life, man: it's messy.
Relationships are messy. Schedules and calendars and deadlines are messy. Political and racial wars are messy. The division that so easily exists between Christians–and the way we tend to forget that Christ remains the center, even when we disagree–is messy.
Sometimes it feels like everywhere I look, and everywhere I step, and everything I put a listening ear to is consumed by mess. My own hair a tangled mat of curls, I find myself reaching for a bottle of conditioner to pour like honey over my hair.
Is it just me?
Do you ever feel the same?
Don't worry: it does not end with questions, even though that is the best way to end a story sometimes. So, head on over to She Loves Magazine to read the rest of the tale.
Happy August!
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I have several fruit trees, but the ground around them is uneven and often sloped, making regular ladders really unstable. I came across this design in a great book called Farm Woodwork, published in 1919. It's available free on Google Books, and since it was written before the advent of widely-available power tools, it's perfect for a galoot like me.
This ladder proves to be super stable, even when I raised one of the legs 4 " higher than the others! The rungs are narrow—only 10-1/2" wide—but that forces climber to center themselves in the middle of the tripod. I have never seen this kind of design for sale anywhere; certainly not at the big box stores. It just goes to show that sometimes the best designs are the ones we have forgotten.
The wood was all Craigslist salvage and the metal brackets were custom made by a friend. Total cost for hardware (including all the screws): $17.50.
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#1 posted 04-10-2015 11:24 PM
I see one or two of these in my future
#2 posted 04-11-2015 01:04 PM
Hey David, do a search of Hasegawa ladders. These are Japanese ladders that have been around a long time. The ones you see now are made out of aluminum but I am sure they were designed from wood many years prior. What you have is a good design and I like that you gave the reference to where to get info on making one. This looks very sturdy and it will be handy in any garden. Thanks.
-- "Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art." Frank LLoyd Wright
#3 posted 04-11-2015 01:07 PM
Nice looking ladder.
-- "I love it when a plan comes together" John "Hannibal" Smith
#4 posted 04-11-2015 09:49 PM
Well done. I'm also going to run this down: damn dwarf apple trees are a lot taller than I'd expected.
-- - Crud. Go tell your mother that I need a Band-aid.
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EnviroStat provides functions for spatio-temporal modeling of environmental processes and designing monitoring networks for them based on an approach described in Le and Zidek (2006).
The modeling approach offered by this package has a number of features:
Conditional on knowing the process parameters the environmental process is assumed to have (after a suitable transformation if necessary) to be a Gaussian random field (GRF).
At every spatial location, the process can yield a multiplicity of random responses such as air pollutant concentrations.
The approach used in the package lies within a Bayesian hierarchical modeling framework However for computational expediency empirical shortcuts are made at higher levels of the hierarchical setup. Thus for example most hyperparameters are fitted using a type II maximum likelihood approach, eliminating the need for the the user to specify them. Thus the package can handle large fields of monitoring networks, say with 600 or more spatial sites.
The approach does not assume a stationary GRF. Instead it takes a nonparametric approach where the spatial covariance matrix is left completely unspecified and instead endowed with a prior distribution with a hypercovariance matrix that can be modeled at level two of the hierarchy, making the method quite robust against non-stationarity in the random field.
It presents a approach for designing monitoring networks based on the well-known warping method of Sampson and Guttorp (1992) as developed with Wendy Meiring.
It allows for missing data, providing that these data are missing in blocs of time, which after a regional trend is fitted, then become exchangeable. For then the blocs of residuals can be permuted the get a decreasing or increasing staircase pattern in the data matrix something that is required in the approach.
It has been empirically assessed in a number of major applications and found to yield well calibrated prediction intervals. For example, a 95% interval will cover their predictands about 95% of the time.
Nhu Le, Jim Zidek, Rick White, and Davor Cubranic.
Fortran code for Sampson-Guttorp estimation authored by Paul D. Sampson, Peter Guttorp, Wendy Meiring, and Catherine Hurley.
Maintainer: Davor Cubranic <[email protected]
Le, Nhu D. and James V. Zidek. Statistical Analysis of Environmental Space-Time Processes. Springer, New York, 2006.
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About half of those on board the flight returning to Chicago were already U.S. citizens. ABC7 is told the others all previously head visas to come to the United States.
The flight landed in Haiti just hours after the country was rocked by a 6.1 aftershock eight days following the earthquake.
Hundreds of people had lined up at the airport in Port-au-Prince hoping to get a seat onboard the return flight to Chicago. Several military planes are transporting evacuees, but the United Airlines jetliner was the only commercial one involved in the process. Many people stood in line for 24 hours for the chance to get out of Haiti.
"They are getting people out, although it is a very time consuming process. This plane I'm on is not full and the reason is the state department couldn't move quickly enough to clear enough people before our place onto tarmac was needed and we needed to get going," said Bradley.
The five security checkpoints where U.S. State Department workers checked for proper visas and other documents caused a bottleneck, forcing the United plane to take off without a full flight. Only 68 adults and 13 children were on the United flight back to Chicago.
"Some of them got on this flight not even know knowing where it was going. Some thought it was just going to Miami. Obviously, they will be in for a shock when they see the weather. The American Red Cross will be there when we land around 10 p.m. tonight to help people who obviously need immediate combinations of accommodations, but many folks I talked to on this plane have relatives across the country and many are U.S. Citizens caught down there who do have a place to go," said ABC7's Ben Bradley earlier in the day from Puerto Rico, where the flight crew stopped to fill up the tank.
One of the United Airlines flight attendants who flew down Wednesday morning is bringing back her niece and nephew. They live in Haiti but will be staying with relatives in the U.S. Those children- ages 9 and 7- were the first to board the plane back to Chicago. And just before take-off, they spotted with huge grins on their faces as they dived into a big bag of chips.
"It was sad leaving her and taking the kids, but it was good to have the kids with me," Zazne Cajuste told ABC7. "She knows the kids are going to be safe with me until she decides what she's going to do."
Bradley said a steady stream of aircraft from across the world were seen flying in and taking off at the airport.
Pallets with supplies could be seen stacked up at the airport. There are reports that those supplies are not making it out to those who need them. A former Marine from Winnetka who met volunteers at the airport said the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince is not getting the supplies it needs and people with common medical conditions are getting worse without the basic supplies.
60 relief workers arrive in Haiti on Chicago flight
The 60 relief workers - including paramedics, nurses, Internet and water purification experts - on a United Airlines plane from Chicago arrived in Haiti Wednesday on the first leg of the round trip. The jet was also loaded with bottled water, tents, and other relief supplies.
ABC7's Ben Bradley reported that the United Airlines 757 was the only commercial jetliner on the tarmac at Port-Au-Prince airport late Wednesday morning. All other aircrafts were military at that time.
Click here to hear Ben Bradley's report from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti
Those who flew United to offer help in Haiti hope they can make a difference- and get the supplies-- 15,000 pounds of bottled water, 300 tents, and communication equipment-- where they are most needed.
"We've got all of our bags filled with IVs and medical supplies. We are heading down to help out with an orphanage and a mission that's being used as a hospital at the moment," said Zak Beck, a former US Army medic from Chicago who was on United flight 9902 Wednesday.
"Certainly watching the news and watching the images and the devastation, gave me an idea of what to expect. But, really and truly, emotionally, I don't know how I'm going to handle it. But I have to be strong," said Philippe Gaspard, Chicago volunteer and UAL agent.
"It's real now, but I'm ready to get set up and get to the hospitals we're suppose to go to," said Seth Teske, a Lakeview resident.
Volunteers on the flight also included a group from San Francisco that will build satellite Internet and communication connections and another group from Louisville who are experts at purifying salt, well, and river water so people can drink it.
"I'm concerned for the people themselves but also just to know that we're there to reassure them that we're there to help them and to help them survive and get through this," said Jim Keagy, water purification expert.
Several Haitian-Americans were also on the plane. They now live in New York and are with Hatian Task Force, a medical volunteer group. Silvie Pierre, a psychiatric nurse, is going to help people cope with loss.
"At this point of time some people have really lost family members and they have lost everything they have. So, they need somebody to talk to them," said Pierre.
"It breaks my heart to see so many people dying from infections and small stuff," said Nathalia Bousquet, Haitian Task Force. "We've volunteered our time. We have no idea how long we're staying. I've taken a leave of absence, anywhere from a week to a year, if necessary."
"I really could not sleep. It bothered me. I really want to help people who are really in need. It's really important for me to do this. It's a peace of mind," said Jasmine Augustin of the Haitian Task Force.
Chicago media team up for Haiti Relief Drive
ABC 7 is joining other media organizations to raise money for Haitian relief.
The Chicago helps Haiti relief drive takes place Thursday, January 21 from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Media outlets will air and print a blitz of public service announcements encouraging people to donate to the American Red Cross. A phone bank will be set up to accept donations


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The greatest thing about Episode 5 of House M.D. is that House M.D. only has five episodes. It's finished! DSiWare's done with the series after today, and thank goodness -- we may never have to see Hugh Laurie's scowling mug in another eShop Update ever again.
If you're somehow just now taking notice of this on-going trainwreck, the House M.D. DSiWare series has been a five-way fragmentation of what was originally supposed to be one complete DS retail cartridge. The plans to get the game into actual physical form fell through, and so publisher Legacy Interactive salvaged the code and pushed it out the door digitally instead. And that would have been just fine -- except for the huge price discrepancy that came about as a result.
Each individual episode of the House series has sold for eight dollars through DSiWare, whereas the PC version of this same game collects all five parts together for less than seven bucks. It's a ridiculous difference. And this one on-going example, to me, has become the poster child for everything that's wrong with Nintendo's pricing structure in its digital download shops -- when people complain that the company's behind the times and that alternatives like Apple's App Store filled with 99-cent downloads are the future, it's hard to argue in Nintendo's favor on days like today.
Setting the phenomenally inflated price aside, these House games have at least been consistent in their look and tone. Each one has captured the wit of the Fox TV show well, particularly in the dialogue for Dr. House himself, and this installment has him in rare form making fun of a mysteriously ill circus performer. The mini-games peppered throughout the story are average as always, with nothing new and sensational here beyond what we've already suffered through four times before.
But even with the game itself being mediocre overall, it can't be rated as anything but awful with that comically steep price attached to it.
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If you need to make some cash, get creative. One potential idea is to make some cash off unused land (woods, fields, scrub land) by turning it into a paintball course. You don't even need to own the land, you just need to arrange access to the land from your family, friends or neighbors.Â
Paintball is a sport that continues to grow in popularity supported by big paintball stores like Ultimate Paintball. Paintball offers the opportunity to engage in mock battle with friends and strangers while no one gets hurt. Shotting paintballs can be great exercise as it involves running, climbing, crawling, and other physical activity. Paintball will create an adrenalin rush in the players and is even fun to watch. Paintball can also be used team building exercise for corporate teams and sports teams.
Many undeveloped sites require little preparation to turn into a paintball site. As long as there are natural blocks to hide behind and the opportunity to get up high safely the property could make a good paintball course. If desired, you could add a fort, an old car, walls, and other elements to enhance the course.Â
Be a good neighbor and make sure that the edges of your course are well defined. You don't want the game spilling over onto your neighbors land. Also be sure to talk to your neighbors and get them onside so that no one is calling the police over stray gunshot like sounds. Make sure you plan for parking so that you don't block neighbor's driveways.
Zoning is another important issue to consider. You may need outdoor recreation type zoning, or perhaps a permit. Generally this is not a big issue for the occasional paintball event but make sure you are clear to avoid fines.
Before setting up your paintball course be sure to visit some other paintball sites to understand your competition and maybe make some friends in the business. Players like to try different courses so there are opportunities to cross promote between courses.Â
Done correctly, a paintball course can be a great way to generate some extra recurring cash from unused land. What other ways can you turn that back pasture into some recurring income?
2011-03-03 9:57pm PST
This is a very clever idea that will help many people find a way to use their undeveloped land!
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2011-07-05 5:41am PDT
Creative idea and not all that hard to implement really. Thanks for the info.
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2011-12-03 1:30am PST
A paintball field is a pretty low overhead simple business to implement assuming you can find the land and have decent marketing skills. I'd start by talking to paintball supply stores about promoting the field. Also look at ways to bring in groups from high schools, sports teams, ESL schools, etc.


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- Medical School, University of Michigan: 1963-1967 (M.D. Degree)
- General Medical Officer then Flight Surgeon, United States Air Force: 1968-1970
- University of Michigan Ann Arbor: 1970-1973
- Ophthalmology Residency and Master's Degree in Ophthalmology
- Functional and Bariatric Medicine
- Weight Loss
- Chronic Disease Management and Reversal
- Athletic Optimization
- NC State Medical Society
- Cabarrus County Medical Society
- American Society of Bariatric Physicians
- Board Certified with the American Board of Ophthalmology
- Former member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology
- Former member of The American College of Surgeons
I believe in treating a patient as an individual who is complete as the mind, body and spirit. We consider the whole patient and their well-being in order to identify and rectify present and future risk factors of disease processes. Our goal is to get patients well– off medicines where possible — and to provide functional nutrition information and efficient exercise methods to maintain total wellness. Optimization of hormonal balance with bio-identical hormone replacement is an integral part of the program.
Born Philadelphia, PA on Nov 2, 1941 and moved to and grew up in Grosse Ile, Michigan 1 year later.
- Enjoyed Hunting, Fishing, Sports
- High School in Grosse Ile, Graduated 1959
- Sports: Lettered, 4 yrs Baseball, 2 yrs Football, 2 yrs Basketball, MVP Senior Year
- Student Council Present Jr. and Sr. Year
Undergraduate at University of Michigan: 1959-1963
- Bachelors of Science High Distinction (Magna Cum Laude)
- Phi Beta Kappa as a Junior
- Fraternity Chi Psi
- President Senior Year
Married Highschool Sweetheart: June of 1963
Medical School, University of Michigan: 1963-1967 (M.D. Degree)
- Studied his butt off.
- Interned at Wayne County General Hospital, Detroit 1967-1968
United States Air Force: 1968-1970
- General Medical Officer then Flight Surgeon
- Stationed at Strategic Air Command
- USAF Base of Shreveport Louisiana
University of Michigan Ann Arbor: 1970-1973
- Ophthalmology Residency and Master's Degree in Ophthalmology
Moved to Concord, NC 1973
- Raubin Ophthalmological Clinic
Built New Office on Lake Concord, Rd 1975
- Co-Founder of Cabarrus Eye Center
Built Eye Surgery and and Laser 1984
- Ambulatory Supply Center
Built Additional New Office Building 1998
- Cabarrus Eye Center now has 9 care providers and over 70 employees.
- Specialized in cataract surgery.
Family: 3 children, 13 grandchildren.
Tennis, Aerobics, Weight Lifting, Hunting, Biolung, Backpacking, Skiing, Ran Several Marathons in 1979-1981 (Charlotte, Greensboro, Boston, Marine Corps). I've long-maintained an interest in exercise physiology and nutrition, wellness, weight reduction treatments.


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Tuesday, 2 March 2010
The *sweet* taste of success
I want a log cabin.
A modest Norwegian log cabin of course, heaven forfend none of those plush Alpine chalets. Just a quaint log cabin with a few basic amenities: workable kitchen, a fireplace and a sauna. Moose antlers to grace the front door, a polar bear rug on the floor and a few choice pieces of vintage Norwegian furniture to lend the cabin authenticity. There will be books scattered all over the place, and comics, lots of old comics. Under-floor cable heating installed throughout the cabin will mean I can scamper around barefoot from sauna to kitchen, foregoing the thermal and fleece socks I've been wearing all winter back in London. A requisite fat sofa will sit in front of a window with a magnificent panoramic view of the local fjord, the surrounding forest and the little woodpecker nest hidden in the nearest tree.
In this cabin I'll retreat from the world, read books and comics, drink aquavit, and take in the breathtaking vista of my fatherland, all whilst having exceptionally warm feet.
There's only one problem.
In order not to be lynched by the locals I need to ski. It's no good retreating to a cabin in Norway and not ski. Norwegians are fierce ski enthusiasts and some wise scribe once irritatingly claimed we Norwegians are all born on skis, suggesting we're pre-destined to be superhuman skiers. My parents met when dad was a ski instructor in Breckenridge and mama johansen was a voluptuous snowbunny, so I had no choice but to ski from a young age:
Snowbunny junior ca.1984
But there is a grain of truth in the notion that we're born to ski: one of my earliest memories is of dad holding me carefully as we skied slowly down gentle slopes in Oslo. From the age of five I was racing both cross-country and downhill in the local Tomm Murstad ski school. It was practically the law. Back in the '80s there were no plump Norwegian children playing on their playstations. We were all skiing six months of the year, eating wholesome sandwiches, fruit and the requisite kvikk-lunsj (akin to a kit-kat but somehow cannily marketed as an essential foodstuff for skiers). It was the Norwegian Ideal and a perfect parenting strategy: expose children to crisp winter air all day and total exhaustion will render us sweet and placid.
Living on top of a mountain in Oslo, our house was near a ski jump called Holmenkollen where the winter olympics were held in 1952. As I was musing on the abovementtioned log cabin fantasy I discovered the beloved Holmenkollen ski jump of my childhood had recently been renovated:
Yowzers. The world's fastest ski jump on your door step. Times have changed.
While I watched the winter games last week it occurred to me how spoilt we are in Norway: you walk out the door, put on your skis and simply set off into the wilderness for a day's cross-country, or head for the nearest slope to go downhill. The easy access to nature and great ski terrain is a constant reminder of how achingly beautiful Norway really is, thus making die-hard patriots of us all. Despite my better instincts I get pangs of nostalgia when I think of Nordmarka, the national park behind our house, and of course Holmenkollen.
Being contrarian I decided at a young age that downhill was for adrenaline junkies, and adrenaline junkies who are co-ordinated at that. With cross-country you have time to absorb your surroundings and it also means you're less likely to ski into a tree, as I was prone to with downhill. As you might imagine, this didn't go down so well with the parents. Dad's visions of my becoming an olympic downhill champion were shattered, and to this day he still ribs me about my dislike of downhill. Sadly I haven't skied cross-country with any regularity since moving to the UK ten years ago. For shame!
Norway goes bananas during the winter olympics, and as I watched the games I found myself thinking the following:
1) I need a log cabin
2) I need to swallow my fear and start downhill skiing again
3) why the frack is Norway always doing do well in the winter olympics?
Canada with their 14 gold medals may have reigned supreme on home soil, but Norway had its moments of owning the podium, matching that sporting colossus the U.S. with 9 gold medals. We're talking about a nation of 4.7 million people versus 300 million in the U.S.
For a time last week the most read article on the Wall Street Journal was one which asked the same question, what lay behind Norway's success in the games? I suspect the reason it was WSJ's most-read feature that day was 4.7 million Norwegians were clicking on it.
Pondering this question I wondered if it might be related to diet. Not the celebrated Nordic Diet, but something specific to Norway. Could it be the large volume of fish we eat? If that were the case, Japan, Iceland, Spain and other piscine-loving nations would surely do just as well as Norway in the winter games. No, that couldn't be it. What about our love of smoked fish and cured meat? A lot of top Norwegian skiers come from the west Norwegian town of Voss, where the local tradition is to serve smoked sheep heads to guests.
No, this wasn't it either. Icelanders eat things like sheep buried in the ground and other weird cured meat. They hardly gained a medal in the winter games.
Then suddenly...Eureka! It struck me as I was nibbling a slice of this:
It must be our geitost, or goat's cheese!
Lest you think this is any old white goat's cheese, it's known in Norwegian as brunost, or brown cheese. Made from pasteurised goat's whey mixed with either goats' or cows' milk, this cheese is cooked in large vats over a long period until the lactic sugars in the milk start to caramelise. During the slow cooking process, excess liquid evaporates and the cheese turns brown and firm. It's ready to eat and requires no maturation. Think dulce de leche with a salty twist. It's sweet and savoury cheese, with the consistency of firm yet creamy fudge.
The most popular variety of geitost in Norway is actually Gudbrandsdalsost which has the right balance of goat and cow's milk, but you can get pungent, artisan versions that are made from unpasteurised goat's milk, such as this Slow Food one from Undredal, a village near my grandparents' farm that we used to visit when I was growing up. Today the artisan brown cheese appeals, but as a kid I found it too intense, and I remember watching my grandmother cook with it. Oh yes, brown cheese as you might have guessed is full of umami, making it an excellent flavour-enhancer in sauces and stews.
Divisive as Marmite, you either love or hate this cheese, and I'll admit it's an acquired taste, but every child in Norway grows up eating brown cheese sandwiches as part of their school lunchpack. Nothing tastes better on freshly baked wholemeal bread than a pat of butter and a couple of thin slices of brunost. The ski queen equivalent you find over here is powdery and crumbly compared to the real stuff back in Norway.
As brown cheese is something of an acquired taste, babies are often weaned on Prim, a spreadable buttery version of brown cheese that isn't cooked as long as the firm cheese version. It's a sort of nutritious caramel:
Forget being born on skis, we're born with the taste of this cheese in our mouths. Everyone in Norway eats it. At the Lillehammer winter olympics in '94, then prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland was asked why Norway did so well despite being such a small country, and she replied in all earnest "It is typical Norwegian to be good" to howls of laughter from my father, who to this day still quotes Brundtland's nugget of jingoism.
Sorry Gro, it's not typically Norwegian to be good, it's typically Norwegian to eat mounds of brown cheese. It's our secret to olympic success, I promise you.
And now I'd better stop musing on log cabins, skiing and cheese. Time to start plotting how to acquire that log cabin, find a hot ski instructor to re-introduce me to the joys of downhill, and make myself a sweet brown cheese sandwich for lunch... ;-)
photo credits:
Top photo of Aksel Svindal CBC Canada,
Second photo of Marit Bjoergen www.morethanthegames.co.uk
Third photo: my parents
Fourth photo of the new Holmenkollen www.dezeen.com
Fifth photo of ekte geitost www.cheesestorebh.com
Bottom photo of synnove prim http://www.flickr.com/photos/synnovefinden/3680517551/
18 comments:
- shayma said...
Signe, I really enjoyed reading this bec I know so little about your lovely culture. I was so impressed with the way the Norwegians performed at the Olympics. That log cabin youre talking about, sounds v Canadian, too, youre always welcome to come and visit us here, though I have to warn you, as a Pakistani-Afghan, I dont ski! That brown cheese sounds great and I'd love to see a photo of it. I shall google now. x shayma
- 2 March 2010 at 13:15
- Signe said...
Aww thanks Shayma, yes I suspect you get similar cabins in Canada. I was exagerating slightly (only slightly, the sauna is a must) but `i really would love to have a cabin back in Norway. Next time you're in London I shall share some brown cheese with you, and I'd love to come visit you stateside. Fear not, being the clutz I am we can steer clear of the slopes ;)
- 2 March 2010 at 13:21
Great post Signe - that is one amazing ski-jump!
Your vision of a ski cabin sounds idyllic - I hope you achieve your dreams!
- 2 March 2010 at 19:30
- paul said...
sorry the anon. post was mine !
- 2 March 2010 at 19:32
- spiltwine said...
As great and interesting as this story was all I got out of it was YOU LIKE COMICS!!!
I am so happy! Now we can talk about comics and food.
But maybe the comics you like are some weird Nordic ones and not about (pick one)
-A steampunk era detective Badger
-The son of Satan (but he doesnt want to be)
-An inter-planetary bounty hunter
I've even got the book of Genesis illustrated (by R.Crumb if your interested)
My, I've shown far too much of my geeky side here...but if you ever want to borrow one of the above I swear not to tell your faithful Scandilites.
- 2 March 2010 at 22:19
- Signe said...
Paul thanks for your comment, will keep you posted on the quest for a log cabin ;-) Can't wait to see the new ski jump in person later this spring when I visit friends in Oslo!
Louis you are a fellow comic geek? Why did we not establish this before! My collection is a little eclectic to say the least. Oddly enough a lot of the French bandes desinees do well in Scandinavia so grew up on translated versions of Lucky Luke, Asterix, Gaston la Gaffe and Spirou! We shall have to convene a wine, food and comics symposium soon ;)
- 3 March 2010 at 06:19
- Fiona Beckett said...
Aaaargh, no. I knew there would be a mention of Gjetost sooner or later. You've beaten me into submission. I'm going to have to try the real version sooner or later . . .
- 3 March 2010 at 08:23
- goodshoeday said...
I have been assiduously eating real gjetost brown cheese for several years. It has not improved my ability to ski. In fact it hasn't even increased my minimal desire for a log cabin or to be near a ski slope of any description. On the other hand it tastes delicious and thats enough for me :))
- 3 March 2010 at 14:18
- Signe said...
Goodshoeday you are going to have to help me convince Fiona of the merits of brown cheese!
The fact that the cheese is delicious is also enough for me, but if I could sit on my fat sofa, barefoot and with a good book in hand whilst chomping away on a brown cheese + spelt sandwich then that would be a moment of supreme joy :)
- 3 March 2010 at 14:39
- David said...
I've finally found a couple places locally that carry the brown goat cheese. There are a couple different brands, 'Ski Queen' in a red package and another from 'Tine'. It ain't cheap. But it IS good.
- 4 March 2010 at 16:07
- David said...
I see also you mention Aquavit as being integral to your "Nog-cabin" if you will ;-)... Amazing the variety of things I've heard people do with that stuff. If you haven't already, is there a chance you could do a piece on Aquavit and all you can do with it... cooking with it, flavoring it yourself... perhaps stories of things that have happen when you drink too much etc?
- 4 March 2010 at 16:16
- A Scot in London said...
That actually sounds amazing (the brown cheese). I now want to try.
- 5 March 2010 at 06:44
- what said...
you aren't messing around with these detailed posts, are you
- 11 March 2010 at 16:26
Jeg snubla tilfeldigvis over bloggen din, og må si jeg synes det var utrolig artig å lese dette her! Jeg skal selv flytte til London til høsten for å begynne på skole, og jeg må si at selv om jeg elsker London (jeg synes det er en utrolig flott by med fantastisk kultur), så kommer jeg nok til å savne en del typisk norske ting. Det verste er vel egentlig sjokoladen, tror jeg. Det finnes ingen annen sjokolade som er bedre. (Så fint. Spis mindre sjokolade, Ingelinn!)
Som liten var jeg helt hekta på brunost og honning. Så du er nok inne på noe der. Haha.
- 11 March 2010 at 21:01
- Julia said...
Great post, Sig. I want a log cabin too . The closest I've got is a stay in one, but it was in this country and with no snow. http://asliceofcherrypie.blogspot.com/2007/02/woodland-hideaway.html
- 14 March 2010 at 09:53
- tasteofbeirut said...
My first time on your blog; I am enjoying reading about Norwegian culture as my aunt who has lived in Denmark for the last 50 years, was telling me yesterday how beautiful Norway was; I also love your famous Munch!(the artist, long gone!)
Interesting read for me, thanks.
- 15 March 2010 at 13:56
- Signe said...
Hei Ingelinn, kjekt aa lese at du gleder deg til aa flytte til London! Brunost og melkesjokolade kan du finne ved Scandinavian Kitchen pa Great Titchfield Street :)
Julia I LOVE that cabin, lucky you staying there. Looks idyllic...
Taste of Beirut you're most welcome, am a big fan of Lebanese food and would love to visit Beirut one day!
- 15 March 2010 at 18:47
You do know the technology exists to fabricate dreams and visions.
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Vilsack Says Immigration Reform Critical For Agriculture
Comprehensive immigration reform is critical to sustaining the Midwest's role as a global leader in agriculture.
That is the message from U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.
Vilsack told St. Louis Public Radio that moving forward with the immigration reform plan recently passed by the U.S. Senate is key to retaining international talent that comes to this country to study in the plant sciences.
"Immigration reform focuses on making sure that the visa program for those scientists, those researchers, is doable," Vilsack said. "That provides greater flexibility than the current system and gives us the capacity to attract more talent from around the world."
Vilsack also said the Senate plan expands the guest worker program which would make it easier to maintain a steady and legal supply of farm labor.
Some Republican leaders in the GOP- controlled U.S. House of Representatives have criticized the Senate's plan, saying in part that it is too vague when it comes to ensuring border security.
Speaker John Boehner has indicated that House Republicans are likely to develop their own immigration reform plan, but that it will probably be done piece by piece.
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Vilsack said failure to pass a federal farm bill before it expires next month could send ripples all the way to the checkout aisle.
Inaction, he said, will trigger farm policies that date back to the 1940s.
"This will require the United States to begin purchasing commodities at very high prices that will likely create shortages that over time will over time will drive up prices for consumers," he said.
The Senate and House have passed farm bills, but there are big differences. Most notably, the Senate version has funding for food stamps, while the House version does not.
Members are currently on summer recess, and a conference committee to hash out their differences has not been set.


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Awesome stuff, if it's half as good as VoidExpanse this will be amazing.
I'm gonna be really cheeky now but.... how does one get on the pre/alpha/beta etc list ?
I hate cutting down 25 trees to build a simple shelter. In real life, i don't even cut one single tree, i only gather a few branches on the ground, set them in specific position, and cover them with smaller branches and leaves. Not need to kill trees.
I hate the need to eat 25 apples and 8 meat from dead rabbits, and dozens of roots, each day. In real the food in one of the last part of survival. First, focus not to get hurt, second keep your temperature, third find water. I can stay without risk 1 or 2 weeks without eating anything, only water. After 2 weeks only i will be really weak enought to be in trouble, but even weak i can leave in a good shelter with water for 1 or 2 more weeks. So with just a little food reserve, i could stay several months "surviving the wild".
So calm...
Unfortunately... We'd like to have more people here, but it seems that until we actually release the first public version people aren't that eager to join the fun But I can at least tell you that currently we are working on the last big thing needed for the closed test, so we will start inviting people to join the test in November.We are working on the editor currently. Initially we wanted to leave it for later and have procedurally generated world for the test, but in the end decided to finish the editor first, since we will need it anyway. And it will allow us to have a better world when the test starts.Well, I can only say - stay tuned! It's going to happen relatively soon!
Sounds great guys. I think I won't understand how it's different from the other games of it's ilk till I play it. Regardless of that, I welcome more of this genre anytime. It should be fun to see the vision you guys have along with the community take form and experience it.
I think it's a positive thing that you've moved away from Unity, I've switched from UE4 to .NET Cote 1.0 RC2 with SFML.NET myself, tho for very different reasons than yours. I'm going to go read all about your engine now, also prob load up Void Expanse since I've been reminded of it later.
Well, I like your guys work and am an existing customer, yet just now caught wind of this project via the survey email you guys sent out. Tho, I'll spam those I know likewise interested, they're a drop in the bucket.
Just read in the survey results that you guys are thinking about player hosted server - if that's the case then count Kunix on hosting a Cryofall server.
I hope they do not plan to implement currency.
Especially not, if the skills needed to craft something are linked directly to crafting something.( make 100 tables to get better at the skill Carpentry which is needed to make better tables )
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ISRN Algebra
Volume 2012, Article ID 658201, 16 pages
A Gelfand Model for Weyl Groups of Type
Departmento de Matemática, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, UNICEN, B7000 GHG, Tandil, Argentina
Received 27 March 2012; Accepted 17 April 2012
Academic Editors: H. Airault, D. Sage, A. Vourdas, and H. You
Copyright © 2012 José O. Araujo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
A Gelfand model for a finite group is a complex representation of , which is isomorphic to the direct sum of all irreducible representations of . When is isomorphic to a subgroup of , where is the field of complex numbers, it has been proved that each -module over is isomorphic to a -submodule in the polynomial ring , and taking the space of zeros of certain -invariant operators in the Weyl algebra, a finite-dimensional -space in can be obtained, which contains all the simple -modules over . This type of representation has been named polynomial model. It has been proved that when is a Coxeter group, the polynomial model is a Gelfand model for if, and only if, has not an irreducible factor of type , , or . This paper presents a model of Gelfand for a Weyl group of type whose construction is based on the same principles as the polynomial model.


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Trek from Kalaw to Inle Lake – Myanmar 2016
The main reason for travellers to visit Kalaw is to do the trek from there to Inle lake. After arriving in Kalaw, 10 of us who had hired the bus to bring us here elected to trek together. 7 of us had already made plans for this in Bagan, and we were joined by 3 Austrians. The other 6 were 2 Norwegians (1 mum, 1 daughter), then all travelling separately… Read moreTrek from Kalaw to Inle Lake – Myanmar 2016


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Located in Forsyth County North Carolina Kernersville is referred to as the "Heart" of the Piedmont Triad area. This is area is defined by surrounding cities: Winston-Salem, Greensboro and High Point North Carolina.
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However, though a growth increase did occur in the first part of the 21st century, Kernersville has maintained its small town atmosphere and has revitalized its agricultural community.
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This week we meet #openSUSE IRC supporter, and openSUSE Quality Assurance team member Marco 'daemon' Michna in one more 'People of openSUSE' interview!
Archive for March, 2008
People of openSUSE: Marco MichnaMarch 28th, 2008 by News Team
Google Summer of Code Update – Looking for StudentsMarch 26th, 2008 by News Team
The openSUSE Project is looking for students who are interested in contributing to the project via the Google Summer of Code. The application deadline for students is Monday, March 31st at 5 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time. (00:00 UTC, April 1, 2008)
If you're not sure whether you're qualified to join as a student, check the SoC FAQ — it spells out the eligibility very well.
After all students have submitted applications, the mentoring organization (in this case, the openSUSE project) will review and rank the proposals.
Mentors must be signed up by April 11, and students must be matched with mentors.
The entire timeline is available on the Google Summer of Code site.
The openSUSE Project's ideas page is available on the openSUSE wiki. As you can see, we have a ton of good ideas. We're open to more, though, so feel free to add one if it's something you're particularly interested in working on.
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Issue 15 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out!
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Issue 14 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out!
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- Novell Free Hugs at CeBit 2008
- KIWI-LTSP 0.3.14 Now Out
- LimeJeOS, the openSUSE-based JeOS is Born
- Banshee 1.0Alpha1 is Available with 1-Click-Install
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openSUSE Participates in Google Summer of Code: Looking for Mentors, Projects, StudentsMarch 18th, 2008 by Andreas Jaeger
Zonker wrote the following:
I'm happy to announce that the openSUSE Project has been accepted to Google's Summer of Code 2008! Now the real fun begins!
We're now in the "interim period†for students to discuss application ideas with mentoring organizations. (That'd be us.) Students will then have from March 24th through March 31st to apply to Google. See our ideas page, and Google's SoC 2008 FAQ for more info and timeline.
Kudos to Google for acting quickly on this — applications for organizations were due last Wednesday, and I was notified this afternoon that we had been accepted. That's pretty speedy, given the number of applications I'm sure they had to read through.
Discussion about openSUSE's participation in Google's SoC 2008 is most appropriate on the opensuse-project mailing list.
Videos and Slides from FOSDEM 2008March 15th, 2008 by News Team
The videos and slides of the openSUSE presentations at FOSDEM are now online, and available at the FOSDEM2008 wiki page.
They are also available on Google video (lower quality).
Huge thanks goes to Thomas Schmidt and Juergen Weigert for making it all possible.
openSUSE Packaging Days II – April 4th/5th, 2008March 14th, 2008 by News Team
Ever had problems finding a package for your favorite application for your favorite distro? Are you an application developer or project contributor, and want to learn how to provide binary packages for all the popular distros (including openSUSE) automatically?
Using the openSUSE Build Service, you can provide packages for most popular Linux distros using one single service. Rather than maintaining separate systems to build packages, you can take advantage of the openSUSE Build Service and let it do most of the work.
To learn how to leverage the build service, join the openSUSE community on April 4th and 5th on IRC to hone your package building skills. The Packaging Days II event will be held on Freenode at #opensuse-buildservice. Community members will be standing by to provide support and answer questions about using the build service and creating packages.
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One of Nurse Friends
This is my first thread to post.
I have a nurse friend who I met through work (I'm a nurse too.) I hung out with her sometimes, and she complains a lot about work. We used to work on the same Med-Surg floor, and I moved to another floor within the same hospital because of the stressful work environment. At the beginning, I was intently listening to her and giving her compassionate comments because I know what it is like to work on the floor. Every time we meet, her complaints about work go on. Now I'm tired of it. I understand stressful events unfortunately happen time to time and a nurse may need to find someone to talk. But she chronically focuses on negatives and never sees any positive side. Even if I give some advice, she is lack of action. Like, I don't see any reasons why she is unwilling to change job (she is single with no kids. The area where live has a lot of nursing opportunities available).
I like her as a friend, but not as a nurse friend much. Should I stop seeing her because after all I cannot change her? (She has to be the change) If you were me, what would you do?
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Joined: Jun '15; Posts: 98; Likes: 105Jul 22, '17Joined: Aug '06; Posts: 1,032; Likes: 3,030She probably just wants to vent. I'm sure she has her reasons for staying and is smart enough to leave if she needed to. I doubt she even wants suggestions, just commiseration. But if it bugs you too much. then move on from the friendship. Some people are generally negative, while others are generally positive. Personally, I'm a fairly negative person, but I do recognize that about myself and try to add some positive at times.Aug 5, '17Joined: Jan '16; Posts: 83; Likes: 80I had a friend on a med surg unit at the first hospital I worked at who was like this. I realized that she just likes to *****. If she has nothing to ***** about she wasn't herself. I learned to let it go through one ear and out the other. You moved off the floor so it shouldn't be to much of a problem. Next time try not to calm her or give advice, then she might not complain as long if she gets it all out.


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A little more than two months ago, cherry blossom season came and went in a flash, as it usually does.
It seemed that, within a week of sakura coming out in full bloom, the wind had already carried them away.
Cherry blossoms herald the arrival of spring, the time during which we can begin to walk outside without our heavy winter coats (sometimes, anyway).
This year, however, spring appeared to last all of a week before it gave way to summer. What happened?
I found myself wearing short-sleeved shirts before the end of April.
That usually never happens. Last year, I remember wanting to wear long sleeves outside well into May.
Sometimes I'd even have to throw on my winter coat!
But not this year.
It may have gotten a tad chilly during rainstorms, but otherwise the weather was more or less consistent (in my opinion) with summer conditions.
Is this a new trend?
Given all that's happening with global warming (or, as some call it, climate change), it could be a permanent change.
I guess we'll have to wait and see. All I know is that, in all my years in Japan, I've never seen spring skipped altogether.
And that's a shame, as Japanese summers are already too long as they are!
What do you think?
Do you agree that 2015 lacked a spring season in Japan?
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Saturday, May 26, 2007
Practice Related
The Maryland Court of Appeals rejected the contention that discipline should not be imposed in a case where the accused attorney had contended that his conduct was unrelated to the practice of law. The attorney was also a licensed title insurance agent, which took 80% of his time and generated 80% of his income. The rest of his practice involved estate and real estate matters. He became involved in a contested matter that had both estate and real estate aspects. Entrusted funds were mistakenly released by him to his client. Here, the court reviewed de novo the question whether the conduct related to legal practice and concluded that it did. Indefinite suspension with the right to apply for reinstatement after 60 days. (Mike Frisch)