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Getting the Family Christmas Tree in KSOs
By Justin on Dec 4, 2009 | In User Stories | Leave a comment »
Alan sent in the above photos taken recently on a trip to get a Christmas tree:
Here is a recent photo of me harvesting a Christmas tree near Highlands, NC while wearing my black Fivefinger KSOs. I have been running in the KSOs for about 2 months and recently completed my first 5k in them ... I am definitely hooked.
Greenville, SC
Great looking family, Alan, and I'm happy to hear you're enjoying your newfound foot freedom!


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The women's soccer team traveled to Philadelphia this past weekend to take on Penn in an Ivy contest that finished in a 2-0 defeat for Bruno.
The Quakers (7-5-3, 2-3-1 Ivy) started off strong with a goal from Clara Midgley in the fourth minute. With a strong defensive performance, Penn successfully held the Bears (6-7-3, 1-3-2) to just one goal attempt during the first half of play. With just over five minutes left in the first half, Penn tallied on another goal from Kaitlyn Moore off helpers from Anna Estep and Olivia Blaber. Entering the second half, Bruno trailed in total shots 6-1 and was looking to gain ground against the Quakers.
The Bears came out stronger on both sides of the pitch in the second half — putting up seven total shots during the period while containing Penn to just three. But this surge in play was to no avail, as the team was unable to find the scoreboard. Captain Chloe Cross '15 and Allie Reilly '15 put up shots during the second half, but they were unable to capitalize with a goal.
"We changed some things tactically going into the second half and came out with more energy," Cross said.
The Quakers maintained their two-goal advantage for the rest of the match and took home the victory.
"We were fighting hard for that comeback but just couldn't seem to find the back of the net," said Kirsten Belinsky '15.
Next up, the Bears look to finish their season on a high note Friday night at Stevenson Field against Yale (7-4-4, 1-1-4) at 7 p.m.
"It's exciting finishing my collegiate career at home and will feel more satisfying than if we were to end with an away game," Belinsky said. "Ending with a win would mean a lot to us seniors and the rest of the team, too, especially since it is a home game."
The team will be celebrating Senior Night Friday. The game against Yale will be the final game for seven seniors on the roster who will be graduating this spring.
"It has been quite a journey. Ending my career at Brown will definitely be bittersweet," Cross said. "On the one hand, I will miss the collegiate game and playing with my amazing teammates. On the other, I feel as though I have learned a lot from playing Brown Soccer and am better prepared to move forward in life after graduation."

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What is it?
The power of retinol without the harshness—Visibly reduce the signs of aging for more luminous, brighter skin
Trilane® Retinol + Vitamin C moisturizer gives you everything original Trilane® Anti-Aging Moisturizer with Squalane offers, plus age-fighting and skin-renewing antioxidants to leave your skin smoother, more even, for a more radiant, youthful glow.
– Smoothes and evens out skin texture
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Retinoil-5 contains a unique combination of 5 ingredients that give you the wrinkle-fighting power of retinol without any redness, irritation, or flaking.
- RETINOL erases wrinkles and smoothes skin. The superstar of skin renewal, retinol works on a molecular level to speed up cell turnover, revealing fresh, new skin cells and glowing skin beneath. Clinical studies1 show retinol works to:
- Reduce the look of fine lines and wrinkles
- Fade away brown spots
- Boost skin-plumping collagen
- Smooth the skin texture
- Shrink unsightly large pores
Retinoil-5 provides retinyl palmitate, a precursor to retinol that's blended together with retinol to give you all the benefits without the harshness of pure retinol!
- VITAMIN C helps retinol work better! This powerhouse antioxidant helps protect against the aging effects of the sun and free-radical damage. And it helps clarify and brighten skin for a more even skin tone. Plus, research shows that vitamin C helps retinol work better!So you get even more age-fighting power, but still none of the irritation or redness.
- POMEGRANATE hydrates and calms your skin. This superfood is packed with micronutrients, antioxidants, and phytosterols that not only work on the inside of your body—but work like magic when applied to parched or aging skin. Its sterols increase skin hydration and its fatty acids calm and soothe skin.
- LICORICE brightens and evens out skin tone. The root of licorice (which contains glycyrrhetinic acid) when applied topically helps soothe irritated, inflamed skin and acts a skin brightener to help even out skin tone. It's also known for its ability to help fade dark spots.
- CUCUMBER rejuvenates and "cools" skin. This favorite summer vegetable has been used for hundreds of years as a facial treatment and remedy for skin irritation thanks to its cooling effect. Its high alkaline level also helps improve your skin's pH and neutralize acidity.
Aloe vera
A 2-week randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical study suggests that freeze-dried Aloe vera extract improves skin hydration.2
Squalane is naturally found in your sebum, a critical substance in the skin's outer layer that keeps your skin moist, soft, and free from wrinkles. The trouble is squalane levels peak in your 20s, then start to decline. It's one of the reasons we lose that dewy, luminous look, especially after age 40 when squalane levels really start to run dry.
When you lose squalane, your skin loses elasticity, gets drier, and becomes more prone to wrinkles. But when you replenish your skin with squalane, it's like feeding your skin its own natural moisturizer. Squalane has been used as an ingredient in topical creams and cosmetics for several decades.3
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In a double-blind, placebo-controlled human clinical study, researchers evaluated the skin application of jojoba esters. The results showed a decrease in dryness, roughness, and flakiness in just 30 minutes; reduced fine lines in one hour; and visibly improved skin firmness in 5 hours.4
1Randhawa M, et al. J Drugs Dermatol. 2015 Mar;14(3):271–80.
2Dal'Belo SE, et al. Skin Res Technol. 2006 Nov;12(4):241–6.
3Final Report on the Safety Assessment of Squalane and Squalene. pg 41.
4Schwartz S, et al. International Research Services, Inc. Final Report. May 8, 1995.
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Uses: Trilane® Retinol + Vitamin C contains a proprietary blend of gentle, yet effective, 100% natural anti-aging ingredients to speed cell turnover and leave your skin radiant
Directions: This product is an all-natural formula and some slight settling of ingredients may occur. If this happens, shake gently to combine before applying.
How is it used?
For best results: After cleansing, apply generously to face and neck in the morning and evening.
Who is Healthy Directions?
Our business originated in the newsletter division of Phillips Publishing International (PPI) more than two decades ago.
In 1985, PPI began expanding its newsletter offerings to include natural health–related titles that featured advice from alternative medicine doctors. These included the 1991 launch of our flagship letter, Dr. Julian Whitaker's Health & Healing, and the acquisition of Mountain Home Publishing and the newsletter Alternatives, both owned by Dr. David Williams.
The health advice was well-received, and readers began calling to find out where they could buy the nutritional products recommended by our physician editors. We helped point them to safe, appropriate sources, and then began working with the doctors to formulate their own supplements.
The rest, as they say, is history.
In 2004, the business was sold and officially rebranded as Healthy Directions. Today we are proud to be a leading health publisher and direct-to-consumer retailer of doctor-formulated nutritional supplements and skincare products, dedicated to helping people lead healthier, happier lives. Healthy Directions provides expert guidance and advanced nutritional supplements from America's most knowledgeable and highly respected integrative and alternative health doctors including Julian Whitaker, MD, Dr. David Williams, Stephen Sinatra, MD, Susan Lark, MD, Aaron Tabor, MD, Richard Wurtman, MD, and Joseph Pergolizzi, Jr., MD.
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I was actually already a fan of Healthy Directions before trying this product, and I didn't realize their connection to this moisturizer until I sat down to write the review! If anything, Trilane Retinol+Vitamin C Moisturizer made me love Healthy Directions even more. I expected a serum, but this product is kind of a serum-moisturizer hybrid. It's less cloudy and oily than most serums, but it's not as thick and creamy as a typical moisturizer. The product is actually fairly runny and looks almost like perfume in the bottle. The packaging feels nice and expensive, which is always a plus for me. I love a glass bottle! Luxurious packaging makes using beauty products feel more like pampering. The pump is very functional–it's sanitary (keeps bacteria out) and helps control how much product is dispensed. However, it seems to shoot out of the pump sometimes, which can be an issue. This moisturizer feels amazing going on the skin, and it takes a few minutes to sink in. If you're going to follow it with a cream, make sure to give this product time to sink in completely. It leaves my skin looking fresh, dewy, and clean. I can't speak for how well it works on wrinkles, but my mom has tried it a few times and is impressed with the results. Her face looks a little firmer, and she loves how the product feels going on! It does seem to be helping my dryness, and I'm not having flaky skin near as often. I've very sensitive to scents in beauty products, and there is little (if any) scent to this one. I notice a faint minty smell when applying, almost like vapor rub, but it's not too strong and quickly disappears. Trilane Retinol+Vitamin C Moisturizer is a little pricey, but one bottle will last you for awhile. And it could potentially replace several products in your beauty arsenal. If you're interested, check out the coupon code below!
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But after being featured on Ugly Betty and a Heineken commercial, Walter Meego kept on, producing its second album, last year's Wondervalley, a collection of almost-disco throwbacks and glossy dance tracks. This show is twenty-one and up, and tickets are $8-10. Doors open at 8 p.m., and sets begin at 8:30 p.m.
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Scientists and researchers, both federally employed and those who rely on funding from federal sources like the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), or the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) are struggling to determine how exactly the shutdown affects them.
This comes on the heels of a year of sequester-related cuts that set back federal research institutes such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) by reducing travel to conferences and implementing furlough days. While not devastating up front, these kinds of work restrictions can separate researchers from the rest of the scientific community, including academia. Science is a collaborative, peer-reviewed effort and interference from the federal level can cause major slowdowns to important research.
Federal scientists are not allowed to conduct any sort of work-related business during a furlough or shutdown. This not only means staying home from work but also being unavailable for scientific collaboration or consultation with extramural researchers or other non-federal peers.
For federal outlets that are both research and educational facilities, such as the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California this can mean leaving graduate students unattended, and quite possibly causing a delay in their graduation.
Scientists could also missing abstract submission deadlines, such as for the 2014 Ocean Sciences Meeting, a major conference for which abstracts are due on October 4th. Scientists are just like the rest of us, often getting submissions in at the last minute, and now many will probably be forced to miss this deadline, and likely the conference as well. That is, if their sequester-reduced budget included funding for them to go in the first place.
Visiting researchers or lecturers, a regular occurrence in the scientific community, are also being forced to cancel trips to federal outlets such as NOAA.
This type of uncertainty can be especially nerve-wracking for experiments involving living organisms or time-sensitive data collection where projects can't easily be put on hold until the government decides to restart the cogs of our vast bureaucratic machine.
The NSF has furloughed 95 percent of its employees. This means that grant panels which review proposals will not convene, likely delaying all new grants for months.
Many scientists work with chemicals that they will be unable to order or pick-up. This could leave chemicals stranded in warehouses, some of them dangerously, to be sorted through once the shutdown is over.
While shutting down may happen quite abruptly, starting processes back up can take significant amounts of time. One scientist estimated that one week of furlough could take two weeks to recover from from once all the restart protocols are completed.
For example, any instrument that emits radiation, such as an electron microscope, must be reinspected after a shutdown. Repairs or service contracts will be delayed or possibly terminated, and have to be renegotiated in some cases.
These multifarious concerns have spawned a Reddit discussion about how the government shutdown will affect scientists.
Some of the comments include:
"I have no way to contact my Program Officer about my upcoming grant submissions, or previous grants that are under review. I can't submit grants — and if the shutdown goes on long enough, I'm guessing that the NIH will start falling behind on Study Sections and the rest of the review process. As the money on hand dries up, this will grow into a huge problem for most labs."
"Unfortunately, the likelihood of forthcoming grant issues is extremely high — for the NIH anyway. The review panels are scheduled a year or more in advance and are populated primarily by senior faculty/researchers. Getting 20+ senior folks together for a week is a challenge a year in advance, so I can't imagine they'll be able to replicate the current funding schedule that many rely upon."
"I've been using NASA's computers to run radiation simulations on spacecraft, to help improve the software NASA uses to design shielding for spacecraft (real and theoretical) in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and deep space. Because of the shutdown, I (and my boss) have been deemed non-essential. My remote access has been revoked, and his laptop has been confiscated while he was sent home until time TBD. Yesterday was a 24-hour marathon of let's see how much work we can get done and download for data analysis at home."
Patents are another concern. While the U.S. Patent And Trademark Office is staying open for up to four weeks by using reserve fee collections, not all necessary legal and patent review facilities are functioning. A delay in a patent can be detrimental to an inventor as competing patent claims are based on filing dates. So an overseas competitor could file a patent that would otherwise have been granted to an American if it weren't for the shutdown. Many patents are very time-sensitive.
Then there's the issue of morale, especially for federally employed scientists like those at the NPS who were already under one-day-a-week furlough all summer. To go from a furlough to a shutdown in which you have less than 24-hours to prepare yourself, your students, and your staff for an undetermined amount of leave time is not an uplifting experience. Plans that were made for conferences or other work-related events, which can often take weeks or months to coordinate, must also be cancelled or rescheduled.
And things may get worse before they get better. Science Careers quotes the head of grants office as writing in an email:
"What's more frightening [than the threat of a government shutdown] is the pending debt ceiling negotiations. The last time there was an 11th hour deal on that, it resulted in the sequester. And if there isn't an 11th hour deal, and the U.S. is allowed to default, then we're in uncharted territory — grantee organizations and government contractors could be facing partial and/or delayed payments for costs that have already been incurred. And that's just limiting it to a parochial view of the immediate impact on government grants, broader economic implications aside."


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Help! What Do I Do When Somebody I Care About is Experiencing Infertility?
Posted on January 17, 2013
TAGS: friends and infertility family members and infertility emotional support for people who love someone going through infertility
Having a friend or family member experiencing infertility can be tough on your relationship. It may even seem you can never say or do the right thing and they may be either irritable, sensitive, or isolating of themselves much of the time. While those of you fortunate in not experiencing infertility may never fully understand what your infertile loved ones may be going through, there are a few things that are important to know, a few things you can do to help, and lots of understanding and caring you can try to provide.
- Understand - Know that individuals experiencing infertility are stressed (and there is no conclusive evidence that this is the cause of their infertility), often feel ashamed, sad, hopeless, angry, out of control, and fearful they will never have children. While they may care about you, your pregnancy, and your children, they may not be able to support you at this time as they often find it difficult to be around pregnant women and young children. They are often ashamed of these feelings, yet they are very common and understandable. However, this may make family holidays and birth/children's events quite difficult. Try to understand their pain and know if you are sensitive, they will re-join you some day.
- Validate - While you may often feel powerless to help your friend/family member or to take away their pain, there are things they need from you that will help. They need you to listen, validate their struggle and empathize if you can, don't tell them what to do, be supportive and sensitive, be informed, and be patient with them. If people have shared their infertility struggle with you, this is very personal and private information and means that they trust you. So, do not share it with others unless they give you permission.
- Support - Ask if there is anything you can do to help such as going to appointments with them or cooking a meal. If your abundant fertility means you aren't the best person to help them, don't be offended. Play down your identity as a parent or pregnant person, as well as your children for now. Be sensitive in announcing a pregnancy or inviting them to baby-centered events such as baptisms, brits, or kids' birthdays. Don't spring news of a pregnancy on them in a group. Consider calling them in advance of a planned event, explain that you do not want to exclude them as they are important to you, and you want them to do what is most comfortable for them - that you will completely understand whatever they need to do - and mean it.
- Empathize - You may feel helpless or awkward in the face of your loved one's infertility, not knowing how to help or what to say, and fearing whatever you do may upset them. This discomfort can result in either withdrawing from them or blurting out some well-intentioned but simplistic advice such as, just…relax, adopt, have a drink, take a vacation, maybe this means you are not meant to have a child, or that everything will work out. It may be better to empathize, not saying, "I know just what you're feeling" (because you probably don't), but, by saying something more like, "I bet all this uncertainty makes this really hard." Simply telling them you love/care about them and that you are sorry because you know how much they want children is far better. Ask them if they want to talk about it, and make yourself available. Ask if you can call and check on how they are, or if they prefer to contact you when they wish, and respect their privacy if they don't want you to contact them.
- Ask - Every infertile person is different in their comfort in sharing and their needs of you. Don't assume, ask. Realize their needs may change from day to day as they are in the process of decision-making or undergoing treatment. And, be patient, as infertility can take a long time to resolve. Yet know, also, if you have treated them with kindness, compassion, understanding, and sensitivity, you will remain an important person in their life and they will rejoin you in your close relationship some day.
Joann Paley Galst, Ph.D., is Co-director of Support Services and Chair of the Mental Health Advisory Council for Path2Parenthood. She is a psychologist in New York City specializing in reproductive health issues including infertility and pregnancy loss and a past chair of the Mental Health Professional Group of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. She is also a co-author of a professional text published by American Psychological Association Books entitled, Ethical Dilemmas in Fertility Counseling.


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New study suggests levetiracetam for epileptic seizures in children when benzodiazepines fail
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Emergency department (ED) doctors now have a better way to treat status epilepticus in pediatric patients that fails first-line benzodiazepine treatment, according to the results of a new study.
Prolonged epileptic seizures are a common, and potentially fatal, pediatric neurological emergency, with an estimated incidence of 18 to 23 per 100,000 children annually and a mortality rate of 2 to 7%.
Up to 5% of affected children die, and a third suffer long-term complications associated with brain damage. As a rule of thumb, the longer the status epilepticus seizure, the greater the chance of long-term complications.
ED clinicians typically treat status epilepticus with benzodiazepines, followed as necessary with phenytoin, but this approach often leads to intubation and ventilation. Now, the results of a study from researchers in New Zealand and Australia suggest there is a better way to treat severe epileptic seizures in children, and the results of the study will likely change how ED doctors around the world manage status epilepticus in pediatric patients.
Comparing Levetiracetam with Phenytoin as the Second Line of Status Epilepticus Treatment
Benzodiazepines are the first line of treatment of severe seizures, but the medication only stops seizures in 40 to 60% of patients. Phenytoin (Dilantin) is currently the second line of treatment, but researchers have never assessed the practice in a major and robust randomized controlled trial. Furthermore, phenytoin is associated with a number of serious complications.
Researchers compared phenytoin with levetiracetam as the second line of treatment for seizures. Children who continue seizing after receiving phenytoin typically need intubation, sedation and placement on a ventilator in intensive care.
Levetiracetam is a newer anticonvulsant routinely used daily to prevent seizures; its side effects are much less severe. It has never undergone proper testing against phenytoin for the treatment of severe prolonged seizures, though, which underscores the importance of this study.
The research covered 13 emergency departments at hospitals in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia, and it involved 233 pediatric patients aged between three months and 16 years.
The team of scientists found that phenytoin and levetiracetam were equally as good when given individually: both had a 50 to 60% success rate at stopping a prolonged seizure. They also found that treatment with one drug and then the other boosted the success rate to approximately 75%. Administering the two medications consecutively may potentially reduce the number of ventilated children by as much as half.
"This study has now given us robust evidence to manage children with prolonged seizures without reverting to intubation and intensive care," says the leader of the study, Dr. Stuart Dalziel, who is professor of emergency medicine and paediatrics in the Departments of Surgery and Paediatrics at the University of Auckland.
"By controlling seizures in the emergency department we will increase the chance of these children recovering more quickly and returning back to their normal lives," he says. "This research has already changed practice and led to new guidelines in New Zealand and Australia."
"This study is going to profoundly improve treatment for children who are critically ill with epilepsy around the world," says the lead author of the study, Professor Franz Babl, who is also professor of paediatric emergency medicine at the University of Melbourne.
The Health Research Council of New Zealand funded the research. The researchers published their results in the medical journal The Lancet.
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The shirt in question, pictured below, has the words "Don't say maybe if you want to say no.," in bold writing across the front.
In what was likely meant to be typical Forever 21 bro-y humor -- other men's shirts say "Player's Club," "Bad Habits," and You Know I'm Right" -- this particular shirt insinuates that, perhaps, "maybe" actually means "yes."
It doesn't.
People on Twitter criticized the shirt, pointing out the way it reinforces harmful notions of victim-blaming after sexual assault.
The clothing company issued the following statement to The Huffington Post Monday afternoon about the tee:
Forever 21 strives to exemplify the highest ethical standards and takes feedback and product concerns very seriously. With regards to the t-shirt in question, upon receiving feedback from our customers, we took immediate action to have it removed from our website. We sincerely apologize to anyone who was offended by the product.
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Conservative Radio Personality Lee Rodgers has passed away from complications of what his wife of 35 years termed the "risky surgery" of a heart bypass.
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Lucasfilm, an owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, in association with Bad Robot Productions, Genre Films, and Kasdan Pictures are in pre-production on the highly anticipated epic feature film "Star Wars: Episode VII". Despite the recent change in writers, shooting will still commence on January 21, 2014. Casting calls have been issued and auditions are taking place for starring and co-starring roles. The primary filming locations will be at Pinewood Studios in the UK, with additional shooting in New Mexico, and in Los Angeles. J.J. Abrams has constructed production facilities at his Bad Robot Santa Monica headquarters specifically for Star Wars: Episode VII. The extras will be cast throughout production in London and New Mexico. Film crew resumes can be submitted via email to the production office.
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"Anchorman: The Legend Continues" is scheduled to hit theaters on December 20, 2013.
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Apatow Productions and Gary Sanchez Productions are in production on the feature film sequel "Anchorman: The Legend Continues" for Paramount Pictures. The extras casting directors in Atlanta, GA are seeking local people who have floor-length gowns and tuxedos or very nice black suits to work on April 25, 2013. Female talent must also either have a 1970s style haircut or be able to style their hair in a 70s manner. For this formal event scene, the casting directors only want people who have not previously worked on the film. Note: "Anchorman 2" aka "Anchorman: The Legend Continues" is going by the working title "Teaching Manheim".
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Liam Hemsworth's last film before shooting commences on "Catching Fire" is now casting for lead roles. The film is titled "Paranoia" and also stars Academy Award nominated actors Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman. It is being described as a corporate espionage thriller that follows a war between rival telecom companies. Auditions are taking place in Los Angeles and New York. The extras, stand-ins, and photo doubles will be hired in the filming locations of Philadelphia and New York.
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Winterize your car and be ready for winter
Get your car ready for winter—Winterize your car
There are several things you can do yourself to get your winterize your car and get your car ready for winter and most don't cost very much. The checklist items below can save you from damaging your engine, getting stranded, getting frozen out of your car and getting into expensive slip and slide accidents. Let's start with winterizing your car.
How to winterize your car
Engine coolant is the modern term for antifreeze. Engine coolant prevents freezing the can destroy your engine, but it does more than that. Engine coolant also contains anti-corrosion additives to prevent internal system corrosion that can eat away at your radiator, heater core, water pump and steel heater lines. So it's critical that you check the level of freeze protection of your engine coolant as well as it's pH balance and anti-electrolysis properties.
Check engine coolant for freeze protection
Buy an engine coolant tester at any auto parts store. Squeeze the rubber bulb and suck in some engine coolant. Then read the freeze protection level on the chart. If the engine coolant tests to the temperatures you'll encounter in your area, move on to the next test.
Check engine coolant for pH balance
Buy engine coolant test strips at any auto parts store. Simply dip the strip into the coolant reservoir, wait the recommended time and compare the color to the chart. If it passes the test, move on to the electrolysis test.
Check coolant using a digital multi-meter
Set your digital multi-meter to read 12 volts DC. Connect one meter lead to the negative battery terminal. Submerse the other end into the coolant. Start the engine and rev it to 2,000 RPM and read the voltage on the meter.
Any reading over .3-.4 volts indicates that the coolant is conducting too much electricity. Replace the coolant right away to avoid internal cooling system corrosion.
Use the right motor oil for winter
Cold temperatures cause oil to thicken and make it harder to pump and start your car. Using the wrong viscosity for winter temperatures can cause your engine to struggle to start and drain your battery quickly.
Oil recommendations are in your owner's manual. Don't substitute your own preferences for the car maker's. If the car maker recommends synthetic oil, it's because they feel it'll provide the best starting and gas mileage and the lowest engine wear. Using the proper motor oil viscosity is critical to get your car ready for winter
Test the battery and clean the battery terminals and posts
Clean the battery terminals
You put the greatest demands on your car's charging system and
battery during the winter months. Accessories like seat heaters, electric defoggers, headlights, and the blower motor all draw lots of current. Corrosion on the battery terminals produces high resistance, causing the alternator to work harder that can cause it to fail early. In addition, corrosion at the terminals reduces the alternator's ability to keep your battery fully charged.
If your car has an electronic throttle body or memory accessories like memory seat, memory sunroof, etc, it's best to provide battery backup to the computer before disconnecting the battery terminals. Some cars require a factory scan tool to reprogram and relearn throttle body closed positon. You don't want to be in a jam if you disconnect the battery terminals and find that your car won't start after you clean the terminals.
Remove the negative battery terminal first, then the positive terminal. Use a battery cleaning tool or wire brush to
clean the terminal and battery posts. If you have corrosion buildup, spray the posts, terminals, and battery top with a battery cleaning spray that neutralizes battery acid. Then wipe off the cleaner. Reinstall the positive terminal first, then the negative terminal. Spray a battery protectant spray on the terminals to reduce further corrosion.
Test the battery
Car batteries have a limited life, usually less than five years. But you can test the condition of your battery with a battery tester or take it to an auto parts store and have them test it for you. Don't rely on just a simple voltage test—that's not enough to judge the battery's overall condition.
Modern battery testers perform a conductance, resistance and simulated load test that can accurately predict your battery's condition. If yours is on the edge, replace it now, because it will fail when the temps fall.
Replace your wipers
Winter wiper blades don't plug up with ice and snow like regular wiper blades, so you get much better wiper performance without streaks. Winter wiper blades cost about $13 each and are available at any auto parts store. They're well worth the money.
Check tire tread depth
Forget about using a penny to check tread depth. Low tread depth can be fatal in winter conditions because the tread can't grip the road. A single slide into a curb can easily cause over $1,500 in damage. Sure, you can file an insurance claim, but you'll still have to pay the deductible and increased rates for several years.
Buy winter tires
For about the same price as your deductible, you can buy winter tires that can help you avoid those kinds of accidents in the first place. In fact, winter tires accelerate better and stop faster than even new all-season tires. Independent prove that winter tires stop you 66% faster (an amazing 30-ft shorter) than the same vehicle equipped with all season tires. The tests were done by accelerating to 30MPH and slamming on the brakes (vehicle equipped with ABS). Here's why they stop faster:
Snow-on-snow grips better than rubber-on-snow. You may think the aggressive tread on snow tires is designed grip the snow and then throw it out of the tread voids. That's wrong. Winter tires are designed to pack the snow into the tread voids and keep it there, because squeezing snow against snow provides more grip. Think of how well snow packs together when making a snowball!
Winter tires stop faster on Ice too
The same tests shows that winter tires help you stop 44% faster (18-ft) on ice too. That's due to the tire's sipping and rubber compound that literally squeegees water off the ice.
Check tire pressure often
Tire pressure fluctuates with outside temperature. If you check tire pressure at 40° it will be lower than the recommended pressure when temps drop to 0°. Driving on low tire pressure wears out your tires prematurely and increases stopping distance because you have less tread in contact with the road.
Examine belts and hoses
As I mentioned earlier, winter weather puts a big strain your starting and charging system and it's all run by the alternator which relies on the serpentine belt. A worn belt can cause the alternator to produce too little power. Older style serpentine belts were made from nitrile that cracked as it aged, so you could see when they needed replacement. But the newer belts are made from EPDM and they don't crack as they wear. See this post to learn how to check for belt wear.
Lubricate lock cylinders
I know you use your remote keyless entry to unlock your doors. But one of these days that's going to fail. If you haven't lubricated the door and truck lock cylinders, you may find that your keys don't work. Lubricate door locks with graphite, silicone or dry Teflon lube spray. Do NOT use an all purpose lubricant like WD-40. The oil in those products attract dust and dirt and gum up the lock cylinder.
Prevent door freeze up with spray lubricant
New cars don't have rain gutters so the water rolls off the roof and right into the opening at the top of your door. When it freezes, it bonds the weather stripping to the door frame, preventing you from opening the door. To avoid that problem, spray silicone or dry Teflon lubricant on a rag and wipe it on the weather stripping and door frame. That way, the water won't stick when it freezes.
Lubricate window channels
Snow and ice can also cause problems with your windows. If your window freezes in the track and you try to open it, the cable operated mechanism can break, costing you hundreds of dollars. Prevent that freezing by spraying the window tracks with silicone spray or dry Teflon lube.
Pack an emergency kit
Be prepared for winter emergencies by packing an emergency kit. Aside from some basic tools, always pack these items:
• a hat and warm gloves—there's nothing worse than trying to change a flat tire in freezing conditions with your bare hands.
• Can of flat repair and plug in tire inflation pump
• Candle and matches (to keep warm inside if you're stuck),
• Warning flares or flashing warning light
• Rags and hand cleaner
• Energy bars
• Plug in (power port) light with long cable to do repairs or change tire
• Cheap rain poncho or large garbage bag.
• Blanket
• Hand warmers
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[...] Following a meeting in Paris between Fabius and PA Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki, the French Foreign Ministry issued a statement that indicated Paris was beginning to set the groundwork for future French recognition of "Palestine."
"The meeting," according to the statement "also provided an opportunity to prepare for the first French-Palestinian intergovernmental seminar, the first session of which will be aimed at strengthening our relations in the political, economic and cultural spheres."
One senior Western diplomatic official told The Jerusalem Post recently that the French backtracked from their UN proposal after facing objections from both Israel, who objected to the idea of imposing a solution form the outside, and the Palestinians, because they were unhappy that the resolution did not give them everything they wanted.
Instead, he said, the French would likely offer a trade off: recognition now instead of the resolution. The French parliament, along with a number of European parliaments, recommended taking such a step last year, after the Swedish government became the first significant Western European country to do so.
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[The Peace That Almost Was: The Forgotten Story of the 1861 Washington Peace Conference and the Final Attempt to Avert the Civil War by Mark Tooley (Thomas Nelson, 2015). Hardcover, photos, illustrations, notes, index. 315 pp. ISBN:978-0-7180-2223-5 $26.99]
In February 1861 a group of 131 commissioners representing twenty-one free and slave states met at Willard's Hotel in Washington with the goal of reaching a compromise agreement that would avert disunion and prevent a likely civil war. Differing little from the earlier Crittenden Compromise proposals, their recommendations similarly failed to gain any traction in Congress or among the newly elected Republican leadership and the rest is history. The story of the earnest yet ultimately fruitless Washington Peace Conference of 1861 is the subject of Mark Tooley's The Peace that Almost Was.
All of the conference delegates could probably be classified as either conditional or unconditional unionists but it was clear from the start that fundamental (and likely irreconcilable) differences would derail any kind of compromise that would satisfy southern politicians as to legal protections accorded slavery both within the South and throughout prospective national territories. Distrust was abundant on both sides and some delegates seemed attentive only to sounding out the intentions of the other side, only feigning interest in finding acceptable "adjustments" to the nation's problems. Many southern observers viewed northern participation in the conference as being conducted in bad faith, with their only goal being to delay the possibility of Border State and Upper South secession until President-elect Lincoln was inaugurated and firmly seated at Washington. On the other side of the divide, some northern partisans viewed southern compromise efforts as thinly disguised blackmail.
The Peace Conference itself, chaired by former president John Tyler, begins at the book's halfway point and those readers primarily seeking a detailed chronological account of the nearly three week long proceedings along with in-depth historical analysis of each point of debate will be largely disappointed. Tooley does describe each day's events but they are brief summaries written in the fashion of popular narrative (which he does quite well and in an evenhanded manner), with a heavy focus on personalities over procedures. Fairly or not, the conference comes across in the book as rather disorganized. Even though reporters were officially banned from attending, it's apparent that media leaks were prevalent as, in addition to Vermont commissioner Lucius Chittenden's journal, newspapers comprise much of the source material for Tooley's account. As stated above, the conference was clearly a failure, with everyone surely recognizing that the suggested amendments (among them even stronger fugitive slave laws, a new law requiring sectional approval of new territory acquisition, and guaranteed slavery protections where it already existed) would be dead on arrival in the halls of Congress. Those that still believe that slavery was not the cornerstone of
secession should also be reminded that nearly every point of debate
discussed at the conference directly involved that institution.
Key to any negotiation is establishing the authority of the representatives of each side and in this case the delegates could only offer suggestions to the elected officials in Washington. It's unclear from reading the book how the country as a whole regarded the prospects of the peace conference. The advanced age of most of the commissioners led many newspaper editors to dismiss the entire effort on the grounds of fogy-ism.
A curious aspect of the book is just how much of it focuses on the religious institutions of the nation's capital. Tooley devotes a great deal of space in the book to the city's churches and the men that led them. With the religious study backgrounds of both author and publisher, this special concern is not surprising but how it benefits this particular book is unclear given that religious leaders had no real role in the conference beyond opening prayers. Nevertheless, it might interest some readers to know that nearly all of the many clergymen profiled in the book were unionist and anti-slavery in sentiment.
The title The Peace that Almost Was is a bit misleading as nothing in the book suggests that any kind of satisfactory sectional agreement was in the offing but Tooley's work generally succeeds as an engaging and well balanced popular history of the Washington Peace Conference. On the other hand, those seeking a deeper and wider scholarly analysis of the proceeding will have to look elsewhere for satisfaction.
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Name: Stacy Kohut
Age: 35
Occupation: Man of Action
Last book read: Killing Dragons: The Conquest of the Alps, by Fergus Fleming.
Music: Johnny Cash.
Favourite recreational pursuits: Riding.
1. Why are you running for mayor?
Im running for mayor because, in a lot of ways, at 35 years of age Im about the same age as this municipal resort.
Its time to have someone that understands what its like to be 35 and feeling 35 and acting 35 running the show. I believe the next mayor of Whistler should be able to actually ride a half pipe.
2. What are the biggest issues facing Whistler?
Culture. Were losing our culture. The economic model that weve been using with the transient workforce and trying to have high turnover and keep labour costs down its not working anymore. Our customer service is suffering tremendously. Were losing culture to the north and to the south. Were not retaining a vital group of people and thats the 25-to-35 year olds that want to get their first home and lay down some roots. Theyre the ones a lot of times that have their finger on the pulse of modern youth culture.
The RMOWs got to be the one that is the balancer and let culture flourish here because in the end the only thing thats going to separate us apart from any other resort in this world will be our culture. So thats a huge umbrella and think of all the things that come underneath that housing, employment, proper training within the service industry, really becoming a global leader in the resort municipality field.
3. What needs to be done to address these issues?
We have to definitely take the power out of the hands of those that are attached to the real estate business. We have to take the power out of the hands of special interest groups.
If you want to have a town run by realtors and run by development groups, then definitely, go ahead, vote those people into office. If you want a place thats culture based and reality based and has some authenticity to compete on the world stage in the resort market, then lets look at people who take a little bit more of a holistic look at what this is.
In a lot of ways we need people that dont have strings attached, that dont have special agendas, that dont have pressure from friends or other business groups to go one way or another on certain issues. I believe thats me, and a lot of other people like me.
We have to realize that the leader of this resort municipality for the 21 st century should be someone that really understands the essence of what this place is about. And the essence of this place is fun. Its man meeting nature for recreational purposes which equals fun in a lot of peoples minds.
4. How will Whistler 2020 help us?
I do have a question right off the bat. I read the title of it and the goal is to become the worlds premiere resort municipality but it forgot a very important point in that title For who? For the real estate developers? For the retail world? For the visitor? For the local? Who do we want to be the best for? Well, we want to be the best for those that want to come visit us and we want to be the best for the locals. And if we can find a balance between that were happy.
5. Name three things you expect to accomplish in this councils term.
Theres a lot of pessimism in this town. It makes me want to puke. Its disgusting. Its gross. Its negative. I want to get rid of that pessimism.
I want to bring some real pride too. I want people to realize that theres no shame in being the resort municipality. Theres no shame in embracing the bohemian roots of this town. And lastly, I want to help people realize that we have a moral issue in this town to get through and the moral issue is this: are we a resort for young people or are we a resort for families?
We cant do both. A sophisticated traveller sees through the fact that neither one is authentic. We have to pick one and be very authentic about it.
Most importantly I want to make things work Its my job as mayor to go in there and to get all the councillors to see and realize that theyre all on the same page and that we can move on it.
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This is a very traditional Turkish dessert with a history behind it. You can check the historical part out from here and here.
- 1 cup of uncooked whole wheat
- 1/2 cup of uncooked chickpeas
- 1/2 cup of uncooked kidney beans
- 1/3 cup of uncooked rice
- 1/2 cup of raisins
- 10 dried figs
- 15 dried apricots
- zest of an orange
- 2 cups of granulated sugar
Soak wheat, chickpeas, and kidney beans in different cups for 10 hours over night.Next day, drain the water of beans and take them different pots. Add 6 cups of boiling water to the wheat, 2 cups of boiling water to the chickpeas, and 2 cups of boiling water to the kidney beans. Bring the them to boil and turn the heats down to low.Cook wheat around 2 hours or until it is mushy. Add 1/3 cup of rice and 2 cups boiling water to the wheat's pot. Cook it until rice is soft. Add boiling water if necessary. Cook chickpeas and kidney beans until they are soft. Add chickpeas and kidney bean to the wheat's pot. Chop figs and apricot. Add orange zest,raisins, figs, and apricots. Stir, cook until fruits are soft around 10 minutes. Add sugar to the pot and turn the heat off.
With these ingredients, you will have a big pot full of pudding.
Apportion the pudding into small serving dishes and serve it warm or cold. Could be decorated with walnut, cinnamon, pomegranate, hazelnut, almond, pistachio, sesame seeds, etc.


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a vehicle for the many to become one
across the creek,
light expectantly spills out of the 8 vertical windows
of the shell of the new C.F.S. Performing Arts Building,
construction slowly transforms concrete slab and block
toward the intimate, comfortable structure of the auditorium,
within which the art of our dance and drama
can create an extended wholeness of experience
that feels alive to me,
George Fox could see that of God in everyone
and, in performance,
I see it join with that same essence within others,
and a light kindles and flares,
the light within the shells of those windows,
like the coals of a fire,
ready to flare when new wood
releases itself into a blaze,
within our current performing space, the Center Building,
our alums maintain a tradition of coming together
as Winter Solstice and Christmas reach toward the New Year,
they use their talents to create a performance:
today it is a take on "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,"
a reimagining of the story,
starting with poverty as the reality of Charlie and his family,
at least in terms of food and money,
with poverty the reality of Willy Wonka's soul,
a man obsessed with his own importance
and with how the kids on the tour are, to him,
existing only in how he can use their ideas to make money,
despite who might need to be sacrificed, forgotten,
in this version of the story,
Charlie's father and a former coworker
commingle their ideas and create products
that work and make money for them,
the collective working better than the individualistic,
I enjoyed the use of dance as transformative,
a vehicle for two, for three, to become one,
the actors impressive in their virtuosity,
the actors impressive in their virtuosity,
two weeks ago a bridge already spanned the creek
between the new Performing Arts Center and the Center Building,
but there was no way to walk to it on this side of the creek,
while we've been gone, earth has been moved and shaped
into a pleasantly curved, inviting path
that connects what is to what will be,
the light in the windows across the creek promises of a future,
the light on the stage in the Center Building tonight reminds us
that every moment can be kindled and blaze bright.
by Henry H. Walker
December 30, '17


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Sunday, February 23, 2014
The irresistible diagonal pattern
10 comments:
Love the diagonal stripe design. Thanks for joining in with my Old but Not Forgotten dare this week at the Daring Cardmakers xReplyDelete
Ooh, I love stripes! The diagonal stripe design is real cool and making it the central theme of your cards was a great idea. Thanks for playing along with the Daring Cardmakers this week!ReplyDelete
I love the simple design of these, very effective. Thanks for sharing your idea with as at Creative CornerReplyDelete
Stunning creation! Thanks so much for playing along at CCCB!ReplyDelete
Super ideas brought to life !!ReplyDelete
A pretty selection of cards here ... Thanks so much for playing along at CCCB!!ReplyDelete
Wow! love these cards - the diagonal stripes look brilliant!ReplyDelete
jo x
Lovely work!ReplyDelete
Great cards!!! Thanks for playing this week at CCCB :-)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 1, 2014 at 2:16 AM
Lovely CAS cards! Great job on the diagonals, I think you've nailed it :) Thanks so much for joining us at Creative Corner this week and hope to see you again.ReplyDelete
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Join us for the Spring 2013 Fly-In on Saturday, June 15th (Electric Only) starting at 9am at the GFF Field, (GPS N44.503025 W-71.589103). Also Night Flying.
Fly-In continues on Sunday, June 16th for all aircraft (gas, glow, electric).
Pilot Fee: $10 for weekend. Refreshments available.
CD: Rusty Scott, Cell Phone: 603 621-0944, Email: email@example.com
Our field is in great shape,
The weather looks good too,
Come join us at our fly-in,
There's nothing better to do.
Fly electrics on the 15th,
Everything on the 16th,
Come on over you will be glad,
To celebrate with good ole dad.
It's not over yet,
How silly can I get,
Tho we may have just met,
We'll have fun flying I bet.
By now you can tell I'm no poet,
But I'll never know it,
Cause as I look at my feet,
They sure are Longfellows.
Oooh that is so bad,
Please don't get too mad,
So fly with us to be glad,
It'll be the best fun you've ever had.
Did you get the message, the fly-in is on, well it is.


text: linebckr83 3 #51 December 20, 2012 I know why the mod was added and I didn't interpret anything. You asked for an example of a skyhook-related fatality and I listed one. I also wanted to point out how many things had to happen at once for this to happen, and how it is being prevented with the staging loop."Are you coming to the party? Oh I'm coming, but I won't be there!" Flying Hellfish #828 Dudist #52 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Part 1 of this series on Fosfor, the free and open source EPUB tool (https://java.net/projects/epubopentoolbox), was 7 months ago. Time for part 2, clearly. What's happened in the past 7 months?
Well, I did some work on this project again about two weeks ago. I decided to continue to use JavaFX for its WebView component. However, I simply could not get the WYSIWYG stuff from the HTMLEditor to work in the WebView, and vice versa. I.e., as I have mentioned several times, and blogged about in detail here, when talking about this JavaFX stuff, integrating the best of both worlds of the HTMLEditor and WebView just doesn't work. Not for me anyway.
My compromise solution is to integrate BOTH of these components. So, now, Fosfor has a "View" tab, which renders 100% correctly, i.e, the CSS and the images that are defined in the source file are shown in the view correctly:
In addition, Fosfor now has an "Edit" tab, which doesn't show the CSS and images at all. However, maybe that doesn't matter. In the "Edit" tab, you have the HTMLEditor from JavaFX, so that you can do WYSIWYG editing, i.e., graphically, with all the tools for resizing text, changing fonts, etc:
There's also a "Source" tab, where you have the HTML from the source file, with syntax coloring and all the cool features that the NetBeans HTML Editor provides.
The next step is to synchronize the "Edit" tab with the "Source" tab, as well as with the "View" tab (so that changes in "Edit" and "Source" are visible in "View"). I've done this before in an earlier version of this tool, so just need to reimplement that in this version, shouldn't be hard.
After that, the priorities are to (1) make sure all of this works on Windows and Mac OSX (especially all the JavaFX stuff), (2) create a TOC window like in Sigil, (3) create different export formats, especially XML (which is what Uitgeverij Fosfor, the client of this application, actually needs) and, of course, EPUB (i.e., now that one can open an EPUB file, i.e., extract its contents, it should also be possible to turn the contents back into an EPUB file again, which is also something I've been able to do in an earlier version so need to reimplement that).
And then the first release of Fosfor will be ready. When? Not sure... can anyone out there help with this free and open source project (https://java.net/projects/epubopentoolbox), especially with solving the XML export request? (This can probably help somehow.) One cool thing is that Fosfor is built on Maven so any IDE should be usable when developing this tool, assuming the IDE has good Maven support.
This is a very interesting tool
for the conversion a way to go is to use the calibre command line interface to make the conversion (http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cli/cli-index.html). I don't know if there is the exact xml format as you expect.