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WASHINGTON -- Georgia Congressman Jody Hice is firmly against the Republican health care plan, one of at least two dozen reported GOP opponents who are imperiling the White House-backed legislation roughly 24 hours before the House is expected to vote on the proposal.
The Monroe Republican said the current plan "doesn't go far enough" to repeal Obamacare, despite recent changes leaders made to win over conservatives like him. He wants Republicans to rip up the current version, known as the American Health Care Act, and start over.
"It doesn't move it in the direction we said we would move it," Hice said Wednesday afternoon. "This still is government-involved government healthcare. It's an entitlement program. It is, in essence, a GOP version of Obamacare, and that's not what we've been sent here to do."
The second-term Republican and many of his colleagues on the conservative House Freedom Caucus are being courted heavily by the President Donald Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan and their deputies in a slew of eleventh-hour meetings. He was at the White House earlier Wednesday as officials made their latest overtures.
The only GOP member of the Georgia congressional delegation to reject the plan, Hice said he "wants to get to yes." In order to get there, he said he'd like to see the legislation shelve a list of 10 basic benefits that Obamacare forces health insurers to cover, including all approved types of birth control and pre-natal care. He said the so-called essential health benefits drive up costs for consumers.
"We need the government out of health care and for government to be dictating what insurance companies can offer," Hice said. "Those are not free-market principles and it will not drive premiums down."
Hice isn't the only Freedom Caucus member making the request. But Ryan and his deputies say that such a proposal wouldn't hold up under the special rule that allows Republican lawmakers to circumvent a Democratic filibuster in the Senate if a bill focuses exclusively on fiscal matters.
A day before the House is expected to vote on the American Health Care Act, it was difficult to discern whether GOP leaders had enough support to secure its passage. They can only afford to lose 22 Republicans votes and still pass the bill in the face of united Democratic opposition.
Hice insisted that leaders "don't have the votes right now."
Despite the opposition, House leaders were resolved on Wednesday to forge ahead.
The powerful House Rules Committee met to make final edits to the bill and set the rules of floor debate, even before the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office came out with its latest cost estimate of the revised proposal. A final vote is expected on Thursday night.
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Motorola has decided to stop developing its Webtop system. Motorola cited underwhelming sales as a key reason for its decision not to go forward with the project anymore. As Android devices become more powerful and feature-rich, the need for a desktop-like device becomes less necessary, and Motorola has realized this.
Motorola Webtop, with the help of a laptop shell, essentially allowed users to turn their smartphone into a laptop. It allowed users to create a mobile office almost anywhere, which was convenient, but by no means a critical part of using the devices. There was also a smaller device that allowed users to connect their phones to a television and set up an office almost anywhere.
In a statement to Cnet, Motorola said, "Beginning with Photon Q and Droid Razr M/Droid Razr HD/Droid Razr Maxx HD, we will no longer be including Webtop on our products moving forward." If you use a device with this feature, enjoy it while you can, as it appears Motorola is not wasting any time phasing it out of its devices.
The main limitation of the feature was the cost. AT&T sold the Atrix 2 with its laptop dock for $500. It is possible to pick up a cheaper smartphone and a dedicated laptop for cheaper than that. While Webtop performed some great functionality, it was still not as functional as a dedicated laptop. Hopefully, this failure does not stop hardware makers from innovating going forward, it just seems like this idea priced itself out of competition.
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Many of the world's largest Internet companies, like Google and Facebook, rely heavily on advertising to finance their online empires.
But that business model is increasingly coming under threat, with one in five smartphone users, or almost 420 million people worldwide, blocking advertising when browsing the web on cellphones. That represents a 90 percent annual increase, according to a new report from PageFair, a start-up that helps to recoup some of this lost advertising revenue, and Priori Data, a company that tracks smartphone applications.
The use of ad-blocking software has divided the online world. Supporters say it allows people to get better access to content without having to suffer through abrasive ads. Opponents, particularly companies that rely on advertising, say blocking ads violates the implicit contract that people agree to when viewing online material, much of which is paid for by digital advertising.
Mobile ad blockers, though, have become particularly widespread in emerging markets, where people are more reliant on their smartphones to use the Internet.
Already, 36 percent of the smartphone users in the Asia-Pacific region have so-called ad-blocking browsers on their mobile devices, allowing them to remove online ads when they use the Internet. In India and Indonesia — two of the world's fastest-growing Internet markets — that figure is almost two-thirds of smartphone users, according to the report.
"We found the results surprising because in the West we don't often consider what's going on in developing countries," said Sean Blanchfield, chief executive of PageFair. "It's only a matter of time until mobile ad blocking comes to the West."
The Cost of Mobile Ads on 50 News Websites
Most of the data on the mobile homepages of the top 50 news websites comes from advertising, demonstrating the appeal of ad blockers.
Patrick Kane, chief executive of Priori Data, said greater use of the software in emerging markets was driven by attempts to minimize spending on mobile data. Ad blockers help conserve data and make websites load faster by not downloading ads on people's phones.
While mobile ad blocking is mostly an emerging market phenomenon now, it is costing the global advertising industry billions of dollars a year in lost revenue. Roughly 200 million people also have ad-blocking software on their desktop computers, PageFair estimates.
Still, only 4.3 million Americans, or 2.2 percent of smartphone owners, used ad blockers — through browsers or other services — on their smartphones as of March. By comparison, 159 million people in China have installed ad-blocking software on their cellphones, the report said.
But as people in Western markets increasingly rely on smartphones to reach the Internet, the use of mobile ad blocking is expected to rise.
In June, Three UK, a British cellphone provider, will conduct an ad-blocking test across its network, allowing people to opt in to remove ads whenever they use their mobile phones. Digicel, a carrier that operates mostly in the Caribbean, has started offering a similar service.
Analysts say such efforts may breach so-called net neutrality rules, which require all online data, including intrusive ads, to be treated equally. Legal experts, though, say the use of ad blocking has yet to be challenged in courts over whether it meets net neutrality standards.
Despite this legal uncertainty, people's interest in blocking ads, particularly on their cellphones, is unlikely to wane.
"It's already used by hundreds of millions of people," Mr. Blanchfield, of PageFair, said. "You can't put the cat back in the bag."


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I found Imara to be surprisingly empty for a Friday night, because the Aladdin-esque vibe is actually kinda cool and the food, for the most part, is very good. It's also a great place for large parties, particularly on short notice, primarily because few people know about it, I suppose?
On the flipside, I'm guessing the reason it's so empty is the service- painfully slow on the drinks, yet painfully fast when it comes to the tapas- like eat or die fast! So, don't be fooled by the size of the ginormous tables, because they disappear beneath an army of plates faster than you can say dankeshen.
The best things IMNSHO are the spicy shrimp (so good we ordered seconds… and thirds… and fourths… and I'm not exaggerating). Other crowd pleasers were the bacon wrapped dates and plum, the spinach rolls and the lamb rolls with yogurt sauce. I also dug the mini lamb tagines, forgiving the fact they weren't served covered.
Misses for me were the horribly dry lamb kebabs and the lame bread with tapenade.
Lastly, I would feel remiss if I didn't at least mention the bizarre urinal situation. And trust me, it's not lost on me that this is the second time I've brought up urinals in my reviews of Hamburg restaurants alone, but bare with, because it's worth it. You see, regardless of the fact that there are three urinals, you basically have to go one at a time unless you like touching strangers while you pee, because they are tightly nestled into a corner, so closely together that you'd have to be thinner than Trump's alibi with Stormy Daniels to not be rubbing shoulder to shoulder with the dude next to you. Now THIS must be the real reason why the place is so empty!


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Kentucky's chance to repeat almost went down the drain last night . Nerlens Noel is the top incoming freshman in the country, and last night he was showing off his talents to a group of Kentucky fans.
Noel and his teammates were playing in an on campus pick-up game. During this event Noel went up for a two handed dunk but he was rejected be the rim but the worst part was yet to come. From there Noel fell straight on the ground landing on his back.
Luckily, Noel was okay but he could have been much worst. Just check out the video of the missed dunk.
Noel is almost the same player that Kentucky Anthony Davis was. Noel is the best shot blocker in the class of 2012. He is just a freakish athlete with great length. For a big man Noel is an excellent passer and his post moves have improved but he can get a little better there. He could also add some more strength because he gets to Kentucky. With all three Kentucky players headed to the NBA draft there is no question that Noel will be the star for the Wildcats next season.
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to release its findings on the petition in which allegation of N2 billion fraud was leveled against the University of Ilorin's management.
In a release entitled, "Impunity and disregard for the Rule of Law: the Cases of the University of Ilorin, Kogi State University and Lagos State University," signed by Dr. Ade Adejumo, the Coordinator of Ibadan Zone, ASUU lamented that it was unfortunate that the EFCC has not submitted its findings on the petition submitted to it over a year ago.
Dr. Adejumo also called for the recall of all sacked and victimised ASUU members at the Kogi State University, Lagos State University and University of Ilorin.
ASUU said it would continue to expose corruption in universities despite victimisation of its members and called on President Buhari to check the growing impunity at the UNILORIN.
The union wondered why the anti-corruption agencies including ICPC, Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) and EFCC have failed to bring the administrations of Professors Ishaq Oloyede and Abdulganiyu Ambali as Vice Chancellors of University of Ilorin to justice despite substantial evidence, which nailed them on corruption issues.
ASUU said that the failure of the anti-corruption agencies to make public their investigations on the petition has made a mockery of the whistle blowing policy of the Buhari administration and allowed impunity to thrive while the whistle blowers, Drs. Kayode Afolayan and Solomon Oyelekan were sacked for daring to expose corruption at UNILORIN.
While the union appealed to the Visitor to the University of Ilorin to prevail on the council to recall sacked officials of the union, it called for a "special probe panel of men and women of integrity to look into the books of past administrations in Unilorin."
Dr. Adejumo also noted that it was worrisome that the Lagos State University went ahead to sack its members (Drs. Isaac Akinloye and Adebowale Adeyemi-suenu) over allegations of altering students' results and demanding money from students without proven evidence beyond reasonable doubt and asked Governor Ambode to intervene.
"In a country where universities are short of qualified academic staff, Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state terminated the appointment of 120 members of our union and got unqualified persons to impart the knowledge they do not possess. ASUU believes in the rule of law and would continue to expose the dangers of the criminality that is currently going on in these universities despite victimisation of our members. We call on the visitors in these universities to stop the impunity and recall the sacked lecturers," the union said.


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NEW YORK, Oct 31, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — MetLife, Inc. MetLife announced today that it provided, through its real estate investments department, a $350 million, five year, fixed rate mortgage for the office condominium unit at the Bertelsmann Building, located at 1540 Broadway in Manhattan. MetLife, which provides loans on office, multi-family, industrial and retail properties, has a $40 billion* commercial mortgage portfolio.
"We are pleased to be providing financing for such a high quality asset as 1540 Broadway," said Robert Merck, senior managing director and head of real estate investments for MetLife. "We originate, underwrite and manage each investment with a long-term view, and we are well positioned to identify and complete attractive financing opportunities in top-tier markets such as New York."
The Bertelsmann Building is a 44-story, 907,000 square foot, Class A office building located in Times Square. The building is leased to several high quality tenants, including Viacom, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Duane Morris LLP, and Yahoo!. The borrower is a joint venture between affiliates of Edge Fund Advisors and HSBC Alternative Investments.
In addition to providing financing for 1540 Broadway, MetLife was the lead lender on a $725 million loan for Boston Properties' 59-story, 1.6 million square foot, Class A office tower and retail property located at 601 Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. MetLife provided $375 million of the total $725 million loan, joining with Prudential Mortgage Capital Co. and New York Life.
Through its real estate investments department, MetLife oversees a well diversified real estate portfolio of approximately $60 billion*, which is one of the largest in the U.S. and consists of real estate equities, commercial mortgages and agricultural mortgages. MetLife is a global leader in real estate investment and real estate asset management, with a vast network of regional offices that keep in close contact with major real estate markets. For more information, visit http://www.metlife.com/realestate .
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Have you ever noticed, dear friends and readers, how tricky it can be sometimes to put God first in our lives?
I have been deliberately trying to do just that for several years. I started with the obvious stuff, like giving thanks to God before each meal. That one took a year to become a consistent practice. It was much more difficult than I thought it would be to remember to give God thanks for my nourishment. I felt embarrassed that I would often forget to do such a simple thing. And I began to understand how strongly tied I had become to earthly things, to my material body, to my own immediate satisfaction. When I finally managed to acknowledge God's role in providing for me, and started to thank Him regularly for His kindness and care for me, I began to take more notice of my spiritual life. As I grew more aware of what I would come to view as my real existence, my eternal spiritual existence, my life began to change in ways I could never have anticipated.
As I turned my thoughts to God, my focus turned away from me and toward others. That's when the real joy of living started kicking in. Not only were my own goals easier to reach, but I began to experience genuine joy in the accomplishments of people around me. I wanted to help them reach their goals. I find now, three years later, that my favorite activity in life is encouraging others. God is good! He is mysterious, powerful, loving, and wants to be personally involved in our lives with our best interests at heart.
Even knowing all that, I still sometimes take the first bite of an eagerly anticipated sandwich before I remember to thank Him. Actually, that happens more often than I care to admit. Maybe three times out of five during the school week. Yet, I continue to try to be a better, more grateful servant of my God. I suppose that is a never-ceasing enterprise for all of us.
This brings me to my latest surprising new understanding which should never have surprised me at all; Christian music totally rocks, even in situations I swore it wouldn't.
I have the very good fortune to live in a region which receives the Christian contemporary radio station, K-LOVE. If you have the station available in your area, or can stream the station via the internet, I suggest you give it a listen. There is something very special about that station. Their tagline is "positive, encouraging," and that is an exactly apt description. The bands and artists creating the music on the K-LOVE playlist are truly being led by our mercy-filled Lord. The staff is as well. I have stopped counting the number of times that I have heard on K-LOVE exactly what I needed to hear at a particular moment to get me over a particular struggle.
Until recently, I listened to Christian music only in my car.
When I write, or do math, I listen to music. I have always preferred a mixture of electronic styles, primarily instrumentals, with a moderately slow, repetitive, steady phrasing. I was speaking to a Christian friend a few weeks ago, telling him of my music preferences. He is a fellow mathematics student, and also a musician in a Christian contemporary band. He agreed that he used to think that the lyrics of his favorite Christian songs would distract him while studying, but that his experience turned out differently.
That night, I changed my Pandora station from ambient chill to Christian contemporary. And you know what? My friend was right. Not only did the lyrics (which I sing at the top of my lungs in the car) not distract me, but the music lifted me up and helped me to be more productive.
Wow! God is so good!
I think that the reason it is difficult for us to make Godly changes which are clearly beneficial to us, is that we are tied to the material world. As humans, as creatures born into a fallen creation, we must actively seek to pull ourselves free of the brambles that constantly wind around our ankles trying to pull us deeper into the material world — into the consumer-oriented, gratification-driven, pride-structured, world. Jesus gave us the answer to pulling out of the mire and drawing closer to God. During the Sermon of the Mount, in clear language, among a rich list of instructions for living a life which is pleasing to God, Jesus said:
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened." – Matthew 7:7-8 (NIV)
Go ahead: seek, knock, ask. I guaranteed you that at the very least it will do you no harm.
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Ten faculty members were named recipients of this year's Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Awards.
The awards were created in 2004 by University Trustee emeritus Gerry Lenfest, Law '58, Hon. '09, and Nicholas Dirks, then-executive vice president for the Arts and Sciences, to acknowledge exemplary teaching.
The winners were history professor Christine Philliou, CC '94; English and comparative literature professor Erik Gray; biology and chemistry professor Brent Stockwell, French professor Joanna Stalnaker; psychology professor Valerie Purdie-Vaughns, CC '93; earth and environmental sciences professor Peter Kelemen; art and archeology professor Ioannis Mylonopoulos; biology professor Rafael Yuste; history professor Elizabeth Blackmar; and political science department chair Virginia Page Fortna.
This year's winners, announced in a press release on Friday, will receive $25,000 each, made possible by Lenfest's $12 million donation. The winners were either nominated by students or their department chairs.
Philliou came to Columbia in 2006, and specializes in post-16th century history of the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire, and the post-Ottoman Balkans. She has taught history courses on Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, and is teaching a comparative literature course on Greece this semester.
Gray, who joined Columbia's faculty in 2004, teaches Romantic and Victorian poetry and is currently researching the development of Western love poetry.
Stockwell, a faculty member since 2004 who also chairs Provost John Coatsworth's Faculty Advisory Committee, teaches a biochemistry course on the structure and metabolism of proteins. His research focuses on proteins that cannot be treated with drugs.
Stalnaker, who joined Columbia's French department in 2002, teaches French literature courses on Rousseau and the Enlightenment. She also directs the Master's in History and Literature program and the Master's in Global French Studies, housed at Columbia's Paris global center.
Yuste, who focuses his research on pathological brains process and neural activities, teaches undergraduate courses on brain circuits. He came to Columbia in 1996 and also serves as the co-director of the Kavli Institute for Brain Science.
Purdie-Vaughns returned to her alma mater in 2009 and teaches social psychology courses. She is interested in the relationship between behavior and the experiences of minority groups.
Kelemen, who teaches courses on sustainable development and earth resources, came to Columbia in 2004. His research on the mineral composition of the earth's crust has taken him to India, Alaska, and Greenland.
Fortna, who joined the political science department in 1999, teaches international politics and courses about the effects of the termination of war—the focus of her research. She is also a member of the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies.
Blackmar has been teaching at Columbia since 1983 and is known for her history lecture course, Making of the Modern American landscape. Blackmar also holds workshops to graduate students to prepare them for professional jobs in history.
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It's my Jessops leaving do on Sunday.
Having it at the Laughing Buddha in
Bexleyheath. And you know what I am
gonna get completely wasted. I'm not
being funny either.
I haven't drank a drop of alcohol since about the
29th of May this year. So as Simpson said,
"If there's an excuse to drink, then your own
leaving do has got to be one of them"
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May 18, 2016
Munaga Aavakaya (Drumstick Pickle)
This is my second pickle recipe for Pickles and preserves theme for this month Blogging Marathon. We Andhra people will make pickles with almost all vegetables. Not only with vegetables we make pickles with non-veg, like eggs, fish, chicken, shrimps. In vegetable pickles eggplant, gongura, ivy gourd, cauliflower, carrot, mixed vegetable, bitter gourd and many more like this. most of the pickles are in spicy version. Of course we make some pickles like ginger pickle a dn bellam aavakaya and one more mango pickle with little sweet with using jaggery. But most of the pickles are spicy pickles. This Drumstick pickle is one of them...
So lets check the recipe......
Drumsticks(munakkayalu) --- 4
Tamarind juice --- 1 cup (soak 50 grams of tamarind in warm water and extract tick juice with one cup of water.
Red chilli powder --- 100 grams
Salt --- 75 grams
Turmeric powder --- 1 tea sp
Mustard powder --- 50 grams
Fenugreek powder -- 1 tea sp
Oil --- 120 ml (peanut oil or sesame oil)
Garlic --- 20 to 25 cloves
Mustard seeds --- 1 tea sp
Dry red chillies -- 3 broken
Asafoetida --- 1/4 tea sp
Lemon juice -- 1/3 cup
Curry leaves --- 2 springs
1. Clean and cut drum sticks in to two inch pieces.
2. Heat oil in a pan and deep fry drumstick pieces in the oil till they turn in to light golden and cooked.
3. Remove drumstick pieces from oil in to a big mixing bowl and let them cool.
4. Add salt, red chilli powder, mustard powder, fenugreek powder, turmeric powder mix well and set a side for one hour.
5. Now heat the same oil in which we fried drumstick pieces and add mustard seeds, dry red chilli pieces, garlic cloves, curry leaves and asafoetida fry for a while.
6. Then add tamarind juice cook till oil leaves from the sides of the pan (like pulihora paste).
7. Now add lemon juice and switch off the heat and let it cool completely.
8. Now add this seasoning to drumstick pieces and mix well to combine every thing.
9. Now cover this pickle with a lid and set a side for two days .
10. After two days remove the lid now you can see the oil on the top of the pickle.
Mix well and check and adjust the seasoning.
Store this pickle in a clean jar and store it in a clean and dry place.
This will stay for one year in room temperature.
If you feel oil is less in the pickle you can heat 1/2 cup more oil and add it to the pickle on the third day.
Enjoy munaga aavakaya with hot steamed plain rice.
Posted by Unknown at 10:17 PM
Labels: Andhra Cuisine, Blogging marathon, pachhadi[chutnies] and pickles
9 comments:
- Srivalli said...
Awesome Padma..way to go!..never would have thought of drumstick..
- May 18, 2016 at 10:22 PM
- Oliver Richmond said...
Nice recipe Thank you so much for sharing
- May 19, 2016 at 11:22 AM
- Gayathri Kumar said...
Never heard of drumstick in pickles. This looks so yum..
- May 19, 2016 at 4:18 PM
- vaishali sabnani said...
Very interesting pickle..never heaard of drumstick pickle...I am so tempted to try it:)
- May 19, 2016 at 7:22 PM
- Priya Suresh said...
This pickle rocks Padma, seriously i want to give a try soon.
- May 20, 2016 at 12:31 AM
- cookingwithsapana said...
Never made pickle with drumsticks.Looks mouthwatering.
- May 20, 2016 at 8:14 PM
- Pavani said...
Very interesting and yummy looking drumstick pickle.
- May 24, 2016 at 6:48 AM
- Usha said...
Never tasted drumstick pickle though we make the other vegetable pickles you mentioned. Nice recipe. Drumstick must taste amazing in that pickle masala.
- May 24, 2016 at 9:00 PM
- Chef Mireille said...
Pickle looks tangy and delicious
- May 31, 2016 at 8:07 AM
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Posted on December 16, 2009 at 12:00 am by Chris
It's funny how some people think they are invulnerable and therefore everyone else should be the same. I overheard a conversation about flu shots where one person's reaction was "Flu shots? Ha! Just stay in bed for a day and get over it. Why would you waste your time getting a flu shot?"Tags
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LOL now thats clever! Keep em coming!
paper art week!
Well, than I guess I should stop licking doorknobs…
I had the Flu. Did terrible for a week, then annother week was bad, and then I was fine. That week did feel like three months, though.
I like the expression of the paper beings. "WHY MUST WE BE CREATED SO HORRIBLY MAULED? WHY?"
I bet if Biff got the swine flu, he'd turn pink and grow a snout.
I may or may not have had it, either it was swine or regular, but I never get shots, and I've never really had the flu before, but this year I got one, just don't know which, half a week though and I was fine, saturday-tuesday, only lingering effects were coughs for the next 2 weeks.
Maybe Biff can just color them to be zombies or something 😛
I personally never get flu shots. But then I'm terrified of needles. Besides, I get the flu twice a year, and have for a few years now. I'm miserable for a day or two and then I'm pretty much fine now because I guess my body knows how to deal with it.
I can't believe that I'm somewhat emotional over the paper people and their "expressions". I guess I'm just a very emphatic guy.
Last time I actually got the flu was after I got a flu shot :/
Now I just make sure that my belly is full and that I am at least healthy enough to walk wherever I need to go. I haven't gotten anything more dangerous that the sniffles since. :E
I can understand that some people may need the vaccine though.
Did anyone else saw the paper figures and thought, 'paper boyband!', or is it just my weird imagination?
I got my shots this year, and for the first time, because when I do get ill I'm coughing for months afterwards–I have asthma.
I've spent the last two days with a mild cold, it hasn't gotten worse, symptoms just annoying–headache, throat barely sore, sneezing–and it's going away. Much better than spending three months with a wheezy, hacky cough from it irritating my asthma.
Many people doesn't know the difference between 'flu' and FLU. The first one is not actually flu, it's only common package of viral and bacterial infection, known as 'cold'. But the second one makes you to stay in bed for a week or two and do nothing but sleeping and staring at TV or ceiling.
I'm glad I haven't caught the real flu for 10 or more years..
@Pseudorca; clearly, that is a sign of deep-seated psychosis… 😛
I had the flu. It killed me. But mad science reanimated me…
I'm one of those people who only get the Flu once every 3 or years. When one of the little buggers does manage to get past my immune system though it's always one of those nasty 4 or 5 days versions where the only two places you see in your house are your bed and the bathroom, and it takes a week to recover from.
lol I'm totally digging BOF for the past few days. Clever stuff!
Paper art week, or paper cuts week maybe??
Every time I get a cold, which is VERY seldom, I just tank up on Vitamin C tablets and orange juice, and it gets kicked to the curb. I don't think I've had a flu shot in over 20 years now – heh.
It looks more like the paper men don't want to hold hands as they usually do for fear of getting the flu rather than Biff sneezing and mauling the little guys; I like my story :).
i only ever get the flu every couple years or so, but if i get that flu shot, i'm guaranteed to get sick T-T i therefore avoid it at all costs 'cause then it's 'might get sick for a week or two' or 'will get sick for at least 4 days' lol
Those paper me look like the pepto bismol commercials-heartburn, nausea, indigestion, upset stomach, etc.
I don't get flu shots cuz I don't get sick. the longest I've been sick the past several years has been a day, and I still feel pretty good. Most of the time, if I wake up feeling like crap, like the beginning of sick, I take a Zicam, maybe some advil, go to work, come home, go to bed, then I feel perfectly fine in the morning.
I have only had the flu after getting a flu shot I didn't want, and that my doctor INSISTED I get. Jerk. The flu hurt. Otherwise I get sick about once a year.
Biff: What have I done?!?
more seriously the extended caption makes me wonder about those people who campaign against measles / mumps shots and the like. probably because they themselves had it when they were too young to remember the event, and haven't experienced the true nastiness of the potentially-fatal diseases they're immunised against (but the kids they want to "protect" would then suffer), instead getting wound up by fear over a much more infrequent psychological condition. and arguably suffering from one.
I hate getting shots, for one thing. It's just the idea of a piece of metal
l being inside my arm… (here's the irrational bit) I'm afraid i'm going to twitch and the needle snaps then I start writhing in pain working the needle deeper… Yay for irrational fears. Also, I've lived in the same city all 18 years of my life, so I'm immune to all the local diseases by now. However, I'm movin to NY soon… Actually (train of thought choo-choo!) once, when my Gran came to visit from NY I picked her up at the airport… And the next day I was sick, but she wasn't. I got a NY bug from her! Oh well that's 1 disease down 109900 to go!
It looks like the paper dolls are doing the Macarena…


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text: Homemade Graham Cracker Crust Jump to Recipe Leave a Review GF NF PinShareTweetThis simple Homemade Graham Cracker Crust is a great alternative to those store bought crusts. It is easy to make and tastes a whole lot better! Today's lesson in the Back to the Basics series is this simple homemade graham cracker crust. This recipe is good for both no bake and baked pies, cheesecakes, desserts…. you name it! It's a great recipe to have in your back pocket. It's thick, it's buttery, it's delicious and like I said it's the perfect crust for so many desserts! Now, I know you can buy the premade ones and I am not here to judge if you do. (I'll let you in on a little secret- I use the store bought ones from time to time too!) But trust me when I say this homemade version tastes so much better because it does! In my opinion, it has more flavor and not so stale like the store bought ones can be. Store bought crusts are great to use in a pinch (like I said I have used them too). But if you can take the time to make one from scratch you will be greatly rewarded. And this crust isn't that hard at all!! So let's get started: To get started you will need to grind your graham crackers. But don't worry if you don't have one of these grinders just place your graham crackers in a ziploc bag and crush them with a rolling pin. Just be sure to get them really fine so your crust holds together better. You are going to need 10 full sheets of graham crackers which will yield about 1 1/2 cups of crumbs. A lot of recipes call for only 1 1/4 cups of crumbs but I like my crusts a little thicker. For one I like the crust on any dessert (it's my favorite part), especially a graham cracker crust. I love the sweet buttery combo! I also like it to be a little thicker because it's sturdier. You see, I am TERRIBLE at getting that perfect piece of pie and my crust usually falls apart. So, making it a tad thicker helps. What holds all this together is the butter so don't reduce it. If your crust is always crumbling you need to use more butter. On the other hand, if it is super greasy there is too much butter. I used regular white sugar in this recipe but brown sugar works great too. It adds a nice depth of flavor. I also added a small amount of cinnamon. Just enough to add a little something. Trust me it doesn't overpower, it's subtle and takes the crust from plain and boring to extra special. Now, for this crust to hold its shape it needs to be compact and the best way to do that is with a flat measuring cup or the bottom of a glass cup. Whichever works best for you. We just need something to help press the crumbs in tightly and evenly and this works great for the bottom of the crust. When it comes to the sides I start out using my fingers then I use the measuring cup to really get it smooth and compact. Now there are three options for this crust: For the no bake version: place in the refrigerator to chill for 1-2 hours. This helps the butter to become solid again and holds the crust together. You can also fill it (as long as the filling is cold) then refrigerate but it will need a longer chilling time. If you choose to fill then refrigerate the crust must be super compact. For the baked version: bake it according to the recipe's directions. Usually, it would be baked at about 350 degrees F for 8 minutes. But I have seen others say 325 or even 300 degrees F for 10 minutes. For the third version: this is a make ahead tip. You can store the crust in the refrigerator, covered with cling wrap for up to 3 days before filling it or you can freeze it for up to 3 months. Be sure to freeze it in the pan and wrap it very well first in cling wrap then foil to protect it from getting freezer burn. Even if you are only going to be freezing it for a short time I recommend doing this because this crust can soak up flavors quickly. Remove it from the freezer and let it thaw before filling. Print Homemade Graham Cracker Crust Prep Time 15 mins Total Time 15 mins Servings: 1 9" crust Author: Countryside Cravings Ingredients 1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs about 10 full sheets 1/4 cup sugar 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon 6 tablespoons butter melted Instructions Using a food processor or blender grind the crackers until you have fine crumbs. Otherwise place crackers in a ziploc bag and crush with a rolling pin until you have fine crumbs. It is important to have fine crumbs so the crust holds together well. In a medium sized bowl combine the crumbs, sugar and cinnamon. Stir in the butter until well combined. The mixture should be thick, coarse and sandy. Press the mixture into any 9 inch pan. Use a flat measuring cup or the bottom of a glass to help compact the crust. This is very important or the crust may fall apart. No bake: Chill in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour before filling. Baked: Bake for 8 minutes at 350 degrees F or according to the recipes directions. Make ahead: Store the crust wrapped in cling wrap in the refigerator for up to three days before filling. Or freeze for up to three months. Freeze in pan wrapped in both cling wrap and foil. Thaw completely before using. Recipe Notes This recipe also works great with any flavor of graham crackers. Can also use brown sugar in place of regular sugar for some extra flavor. Subscribe Never Miss A Recipe! Weekly Recaps Daily Emails


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Take some snow. Take some more snow after that. Add a whole lot more snow. Then more snow. Keep adding snow. Stick a car there, because you can.
Sculpt that snow lovingly. Massage that snow. Shape it, rake it, smooth it, groove it, sculpt and shape it some more.
The end product? The biggest, baddest, beefiest, boofiest, berserkest ski jump this side of anywhere. And it's all right here in our backyard in the Australian ski resort of Thredbo.
This thing is nuts. Nuts, we tells ya. It's definitely the biggest jump in Australia and the biggest jump in the world right now. The distance from liftoff point to landing zone? Oh, a lazy 35 metres or so.
The jump took two guys in snow cats two weeks to build working full day shifts. Snow was sourced from an area near the top of Thredbo's Cruiser Chairlift where snow collects after blowing in off the main range.
This is the eighth year Thredbo has built the jump. It's all part of a festival called the Toyota One Hit Wonder. The OHW is a "gold-ranked big air stop" on the calendar of the Association of Freeskiing Professionals. The AFP is skiing's equivalent of surfing's ASP.
About 15 international skiers have been in Thredbo this week, including the Swiss freeski team. The internationals reportedly love the whole snow and gum trees thing -- and why wouldn't they?
And the winner? If you watched the video above, it's the very first jump. Swiss born 17-year-old Alex Hall currently skis for America. He landed a thing called a "switch triple cork 1800" which had never been done before.
The trick included a backwards take-off, three flips, five rotations, a backwards landing ("switch" means backwards in freeski and snowboard speak) and a whole lotta nerve.
The guy who lost the ski was Noah Morrison. Luckily he was OK. Hard to believe, but there you have it.
If you're the sort of person who thinks they might like to try this, our advice is no, don't be silly.
If it makes you want to go skiing, the good news is Thredbo still has snow (as you can see) and will be open until October. There's been a bit of rain around this week, but there's snow on the forecast early in the new week, so all is looking good.


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We are all different. We all deal differently with things. Some of us learn new ways to deal, some can't ever change that part of themselves.
My way of dealing used to be researching everything until I was cross-eyed, sick to my stomach, and anxiety to the point that I couldn't breathe right. I'd read everything I could on whatever the subject was (generally relating to my health, or someone else's health), even when one thing contradicted another. I'd come away with probably less knowledge or understanding than I'd started with, and I'd be filled with stress and anxiety. And then when I was done trying to figure out how to breathe again, I'd dive right back in and start researching again. I thought I was doing something and that I was helping myself. I thought I was educating myself and learning how to fix what was wrong with me…whatever that might have been at the time. It was all a lie. Although I might have learned a few things, most of it just made me worry more and I ended up without any resolutions to anything I was researching.
I'm not researching anything anymore. Not for me, not for my mother, not for anyone. I don't want to live that way anymore.
My brother started researching things as soon as he heard about my mother's surgery. He's tenacious and smart, and he thinks he knows better. Than pretty much everyone. Maybe even the doctors. He's aggressive and angry, all of which comes from his abject fear. He needs to feel in control…I understand his quest, but it's difficult for me to deal with. My mother's pathology came back before she even left the hospital. Other than the original findings from the original uterus scraping/biopsy, they found nothing else in the organs they removed during her hysterectomy. But one lymph node had "microscopic" cancer cells. Her uterine cancer was diagnosed as stage 3, with a cancer that is generally aggressive. I want to say the doctors seem positive about her prognosis, but honestly I did not get the chance to ask because the last time I saw him, it was so brief and we were almost out the door when he showed up to see my mother. But his recommendation is for chemotherapy…a full course. He has already set her up for a second opinion with a colleague (my father is sure the colleague is just a "yes" man for the original surgeon and will rubber stamp his recommendation) in about ten days. She has chosen to focus on her recovery from the surgery, my brother has decided to spend the next ten days on the internet, reading and questioning everything…including the doctors. He sent me an email this morning (and to my father) with the subject line "opinion." I skimmed over the first line of the email, then directed Hub to respond to the email, requesting that my brother not send me anything that has to do with his internet research. Then I asked Hub to delete all the emails to and from that might include anything that the original email said. Hub did it, and I went on with my day (after crying for a few minutes because I felt like I wasn't do anything to help my mother because I wasn't participating in the researching).
I went over to see my mother after lunch today, bringing over some groceries that Hub and I picked up this morning for them. Almost immediate I was attacked by my father. My father researches, but he only reads what he wants to read, and only understands what he wants to understand. He only hears what he wants to hear, and is just as likely to misinterpret and/or misremember things. He questions everything, but from a place of conspiracy and from the expectation of the worst. He thinks every medication out there is only to make pharmaceutical companies bigger and richer. He is sure everything that happens is going to be the worst case scenario. And he's scared shitless. And driving my mother crazy. She doesn't want to discuss this every day, or spend the next ten days until her appointment worrying about it. She wants to recover, she wants to live, she wants to do normal things. He wants to talk to her and spend his days researching and questioning and thinking and worrying and looking for the worst that could be. He wants to question the doctors and tell her everything he thinks they did wrong. He wants to tell her that she's not worrying enough, or thinking enough, or planning enough. She wants to find faith and hope in G-d and in the future…in the daily workings of her life.
I told my father that nothing was certain. That the doctors wouldn't be able to give him any certainty, even if he would believe them if they did (which he wouldn't). They could give him probabilities and percentages, but even those are guesses. Because every person is an individual, and everyone is going to react differently. The doctors can't give him what he wants, which is for his wife not to have cancer. My father argued with me every time I opened my mouth. And with every statement or attack he made, I could see my mother sinking down in her chair. I finally told him to stop talking to mom about this stuff. I told him that he might need to deal with it this way, but she didn't want to, and he was just making things worse for her. I told him to go talk to my brother and to my uncle, both of whom want to do research and talk endlessly about everything. But to leave me and Mom out of it. He stomped off, angrily, and went to talk to my brother on the phone.
I turned to my mother and told her that she needs to take care of herself and her headspace. That she wasn't responsible for how my father feels or what he does, but that she IS responsible for how she feels and what she does. And if he continued to talk to her about this stuff, she needed to reiterate that she didn't want to hear it and that he was upsetting her. I then offered to let her come stay with me for the ten days, which we both knew was just a joke. I don't want him to bring her down. I want her to feel positive and up and enjoy each day she has. None of us has anything promised to us. If she doesn't want to spend her days worrying and reading the internet, she shouldn't have to.
I want to be able to spend time with my mother doing normal things. If it helps her to feel normal by talking about every day normal things, I'm good with that. If she wants to talk about health stuff, I'm good with that. But I'm not going to spend my time thinking and worrying and researching and making myself ill. I can't do anything for her by doing that. I can do the most for her by being in the moment and helping with everyday things. And if necessary, reminding my father and brother to go talk in another room where we can't hear them.


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She was among the first to be ousted from the Big Brother house this season, but Cassi Colvin is wanted big time by The Bold and the Beautiful! The twangy, Texas-born model will appear on the CBS soap in a role that won't require much stretching — she'll play a runway model named Cassi who is involved with the hot new "Hope for the Future" fashion line. She will tape her scenes Sept. 15, the day after she appears on the Big Brother season finale, and will air mid-to-late October.
Though the 26-year-old Colvin hid her occupation from the other Big Brother contestants in an attempt to avoid envy, she told TV Guide Magazine before she went into the house that she's been modeling since age 11 and has had lucrative contracts in New York, Milan, Hong Kong and Sydney. Tyra Banks picked her for the first season of America's Next Top Model but Colvin took a pass. "The show wanted girls who [appeared to be] green so they wanted me to drop my agents," Colvin says. "I just couldn't do it. I wouldn't burn my bridges. And I have no regrets."


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Story told by Gorm's best chum Wombleworry Worters.
It was always great to see old Gorm laughing at things with a tank-full of gigolos, and then gnawing on them should they respond in kind. I am sure he didn't hardly realise how truly loved he was by his fellow inmates, everyday we'd give him a caring clout and a timely trip whenever he truly got too big for his booters. Yes, everyone really felt something inside for Gormo and he will be missed sorely. Just to add howevever that there will be no sympathy and some resentment on the part of stubbo, but I suppose that just goes to prove the owld saying 'stubbo is a bastard'.
But Gorm was a funny old man being 17 and all! I can still recount the time when he would find his overall coat trapped in the industrial whizz-crack machine. Crikey, that day he was sent home like a right gloomer with his tail between his legs and a good rollocking from bossy boots. When he got home his children asked why he was in such a way but Gorm just laughed the children off.
During his final days the sound of air whistling through the remaining moles and kingsizers in his mouth kept us all company while we waited for the inevitable lasting breath ,and before he died he wrote a note with what little strength he had left in his body. It read ''To my colleagues, please remember to remember me on specials occassions such as Morecambe and Wise, the chef's and D-Day. Your pal Gummy.
Today, we keep Gorm in a nice neat box on the top shelf and the box is sealed should he ever grab a chance to jump out and do a runner. The box is observed and reminisced over at designated times of the day and all observations are carried out meticulously as per instructions.
It is sad that he should have to die in such an unspecified, and ambiguously cruel manner but such is life. I am sure Gorm would have said the same if he'd have been around to say it today. He is survived by all who are living.
Good Luck Gorm
Next week - Alfred Poser


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It's still Merry Christmas
Despite the economy, and its parlous state, Nigerians are grateful to God that it's Christmas and that they are are having good times. Many have travelled and others will be travelling because it's holiday season; and some will not forgo visiting their country homes simply because the economy is bad. They have all the odds and by God's grace and the dutiful activities of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), they are safely in their respective homes, savouring the season.
Talking about the road safety reminds of how costly it is to travel, especially those who drive their own vehicles. For sometime now, road safety people have been on the lookout for motorists whose tyres have expired. The lifespan of the average tyre is four years, after which it is no longer safe for use. Even if it was never fitted and had not touched the ground, the owner's manual says, 'discard it'. So, if you bought your tyres in 2012, they are no longer fit for the roads. That is the fact. But then, there is the other fact of cost. What you bought in 2012 no longer sells for that amount in 2016. In fact, going near a new premium tyre in 2016 is scary because the cost has tripled, no thanks to falling value of the Naira, and very scarce forex. Importers and their dealers will get a calculator and ask you to do the costing; they want you to say whether they are asking for too much. They are not.
So, what do we do? Do we manage a Grade One Tokunboh tyre certified by your vendor at Ladipo Market, Lagos? Road safety says NO! Why? Why can't I use a Grade One Tokunboh Tyre to go along with my Tokunboh car? If you allow me drive a Tokunboh vehicle with the tyres that came with it, don't you think I can get used tyres that are yet to expire and can still run for one more year?
Safety experts do not agree that Tokunboh tyres of any grade are good and safe to ferry human lives from place to place. They argue with facts, that their original owners, for one defect or the other, had abandoned some of the tyres being imported by greedy traders into the country. Besides, every tyre that is produced is specified for a particular weather and climate. In the tropics like ours, tyres are made to relate with the environment, such that the temperature of he operating environment is factored into its workings. As a matter of fact, vehicles produced specifically for the Nigerian market are tropicalized, meaning that, the tyres, battery and engine system are programmed for the Nigerian environment. They are made to specification and standards. But in the case of Tokunboh vehicles and tyres, anything goes. What you see is what you buy.
And that has been the problem of Nigeria. We have lost the capacity to plan. Once upon a time, this country had development plans that were predictable and deliverable. One was that which brought in technical partners from France and Germany to assemble vehicles locally and in doing that transfer automobile technology. Peugeot and Volkswagen began serious work in Kaduna and Lagos, and their products were the delight of the emerging middle class of that era. All that remained for that exercise to endure was discipline on the part of government; to insist that only made in Nigeria vehicle were to be used in government and in the private sector. Alas, the same government that brought in technical partners used its hands to frustrate them out through policy flip-flops, unreasonable tariffs and duties.
At that time, China had no thriving automobile industry. India was just struggling, while Korea (South) was still learning the ropes. In the downstream, parts producers for Peugeot and Volkswagen were doing so well. Apart from the engine and body, most other vehicle parts were produced in Nigeria. Given the tempo of that time, if successive governments had shown faithfulness and discipline, Nigeria would have become a major automobile producing country, not consumer.
Need we remind ourselves, that we once had a successful tryre industry, when we produced what we consumed? Dunlop was a household name, with a sprawling manufacturing and corporate office along Oba Akran, Ikeja, Lagos. Dunlop had rubber plantations in two locations in South-south, with distributors across the country. The tyre won many international certifications and was as good as any good tyre from Europe. With N4, 000 then you could get an elite tyre for a passenger vehicle. The company took loans to go into truck tyre business and its fortunes dimmed. Michelin was also producing a little and importing more. Both companies have closed their Nigerian production lines. Whatever tyre from the Dunlop stable that you see now is from South Africa, while Michelin goes to Europe to bring in tyres for sale. The major reason both Dunlop and Michelin closed shop was because they could no longer compete with cheap tyres imported from China. Government refused to protect the local manufacturers.
The loss in terms of revenue, jobs and excitement in the motoring industry is incalculable. Need we also remind ourselves that we once had a thriving automotive battery industry, with thousands of jobs for Nigerians? There was Exide at Ibadan. Lagos had two or three. There was one in Ota. In the Southeast, we had at least two battery manufacturers. We have lost all of them. In their places, batteries are coming from all manner of places, a drain on scarce forex. How did we get here? Through bad policies of government, aided by rampant activities of greedy merchants.
All that is to explain that the road to this Christmas is full of anxieties. For those who have not been travelling far, and had been avoiding members of the FRSC in their corner corner hideouts in our major cities, now you have to surrender to them along the expressways. If you are in the category of those who drive Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs), which many ignorantly refer to as 'Jeeps', I can testify that fixing new tyres before travelling for Christmas is not an easy choice in the regular scale of preference. A premium 225/16/70 tyre, which sold less than N30, 000 four years ago has climbed to around N56, 000. If you have to buy four, plus an extra, you would need something in the region of N250, 00 plus.
That is not all. The fuel that you bought for N87 or thereabout last December has climbed up to N145. Premium engine oils and other accessories for periodic service have more than doubled. For many travelers this season, this could very well be their story. Therefore, if it is not very convenient, don't drive. Go for one of the elite transport companies and with less than N10, 000, you can get to anywhere in Nigeria and still save some money for 2017.
We must also salute the Nigerian spirit. In other climes, a little jerk in prices of bread and other household products will cause riots. Price of bread has gone up significantly and most Nigerians have not lost their steam. Congratulations!
Even states that were thought to have gone bankrupt have kept the Christmas fire burning. From Lagos, Ogun, Rivers, Cross River, Akwa Ibom, to Imo, street carnivals and Christmas carols have wowed the people out of recession. The atmosphere has been very encouraging. Meaning that it is not over.
Another remarkable achievement is the availability of locally produced rice in the menu of many this season. The ban on importation of rice is doing some magic. Lagos has partnered Kebbi State to produce Lake Rice. Ebonyi is doing great with rice. Anambra, Nasarawa and others are doing equally well with rice. Let this not be a fluke. Governments need to consolidate this little gain. Let it grow and become a source of inspiration for those who have lost faith. Let us say a final goodbye to imported rice through faithful implementation of Budget 2017.
The story of 2016, beginning from January is like the story of Nigeria, full of ups and downs. But if we determine not to be put down by our circumstances, we shall celebrate as a country. No matter our circumstances, I say Merry Christmas, but Drive Safe!


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This week's review was a long time coming but I think it was worth the wait, because this movie is a doozy. Gird your loins, it's going to be a long review. I just don't know where to begin with Beyond the Door (1974). I love it, but I'm telling you up front that it's terrible. If The Omen and The Exorcist had a baby and dipped this baby in candy-colored Italian horror cinematography, then you would get Beyond the Door. In fact, this movie was deemed so similar to The Exorcist that Warner Brothers sued the filmmakers for copyright infringement. WB lost and it was determined that they didn't have the copyright to specific scenes in the horror movie, which paved the way for an infinite number of low-budget Exorcist rip-offs.
The plot is simple. Jessica Barrett (Juliet 'effin Mills, aka Tabitha from Passions) finds out that she's pregnant. The pregnancy gestates rapidly and Jessica's behavior rapidly becomes erratic. Turns out that ex-boyfriend, Dimitri, a poor-man's Alan Rickman/Jeremy Irons hybrid, kind of promised her baby to the devil. Women should never date satanists, they always end up renting out our wombs to satan.
This sounds pretty simple, but the devil is in the details. See what I did there? There are lots of little details that combine to make this a very, very strange movie. First of all, the movie opens with this voiceover of a British guy claiming to be at the center of this movie. Yes, Satan, the Prince of Darkness and Lies, Lucifer himself, has gotten a job doing voiceover work. That's when I knew this movie would be awesome. Also, apparently, the movie has many aliases because the title that comes up isn't Beyond the Door but The Devil Within Her.
Then, there's the music, ranging from that seventies music where it's all groovy sounding and someone just narrates over the music, to futuristic outer space music that sounds like it came from the Wall of Keyboards on the Satellite of Love. Does the music create atmosphere? No! Is it hilarious? Yes! To paraphrase Crow T. Robot, what were you people doing in the seventies? Wearing ugly floppy pants and making movies about Satan, with big clouds of pot wafting around?
The people in the movie, except Jessica, are oddly dubbed. I don't just mean that the words don't synch up with the mouths, I mean that the lines themselves are very odd. The father, Robert, is some kind of music producer.
At one point, he shouts that a band's music has as much balls as a castrated jellyfish. Say what?
The children are the worst, though. They are the real demons. There's a little boy, Ken, who drinks Campbell's soup straight from the can with a straw.
He also has a framed print of Warhol's can of soup picture over his bed. I'm pretty sure he was a member of the Factory.
The little girl, Gail, cracks me up the most. She curses often and carries twelve copies of the same book with here everywhere she goes. Why? I don't know! A car almost hits her and she shouts out, "Hey, you son of a bitch!" At one point, Ken is talking about ghosts and she says, "You gotta stop that or it's going to blow my mind!" I don't know how they captured youthful dialogue so well.
There are just some choices that the filmmakers made that make you scratch your head. Sometimes, there are these weird moments where the camera loses focus on one person's face, focuses on another face or object that's far away, and then superimposes another face over this.
Another weird choice is when Jessica first gets sick at Ken's birthday party and there are EXTREME closeups of her barfing. Robert finds her and starts asking her questions, as if she can even answer them while barfing. Then he tells her that she's just over tired. Actually, Robert and their family doctor, George, both dismiss Jessica's fears and complaints as symptoms of feminine weakness. George even hides information from Jessica about her condition, so as not to frighten her. The film could have made an interesting statement about how women are treated by the medical establishment, but the film's goofiness really prevents it from making any serious statement.
Some of the effects are definitely laughable. One scene channels The Exorcist and features Jessica's head spinning around. Unlike, The Exorcist, this movie makes no attempt to make it look realistic.
Jessica speaks in a deep voice with a British accent when she's possessed. The voice sounds moderately gravelly, kind of a Mercedes McCambridge-lite. When she's fully possessed she gets green barf and everything.
At one point, her friend Barbara is talking to Jessica. Jessica's asleep and one eye very slowly opens. Then it just starts spinning around. It looks so creepy and painful.
In another scene, Robert is having a drink and one of the ice cubes becomes an eyeball. He drops the drink, the eye rolls on the floor and it's clear that it's the fakest eyeball on earth. I'm pretty sure they just used one of those gum balls that looks like an eye.
Speaking of Robert, there's another scene where he's walking down the street and is chased by a flutist who keeps running around and around him. Oh, and the guy is playing the flute with his nose. This goes on for TWO WHOLE MINUTES and is never, ever explained.
I'll admit, there are some creepy moments if you can get past the lulz. Jessica and Robert start to see Dimitri in reflective surfaces.
I know that I would cry if I saw Dimitri in the mirror. He's the kind of guy that if he sat next to you on the bus you'd want to get up but you wouldn't because you don't want to be overtly rude. It's somewhat less creepy when Dimitri just kind of loses it and does this weird thing with a mirror.
One creepy moment is when Jessica is sleeping. Something very sloooowly pulls off her bed sheets. That always gets to me in scary movies. It's such an invasive act when you're very vulnerable.
Another moment of weirdness with Jessica is when she's walking down the street and sees a rotten banana peel on the ground. She glances around quickly, picks it up, and crams the thing in her mouth.
There's something so creepy about how such a bizarre act manages to be pulled off so casually.
Another creepy moment is when the toys in the children's room go all craaaazy. The dolls kill their plate of flan.
Although, it is a little "Trumpy, you can do magic!" from Pod People.
What bothers me is that it seems like any scene that's creepy is later counteracted by a scene that's goofy. Jessica morphs into three Jessica's for some reason. Then she's back to being one person and spins around.
She starts hovering upright with her legs spread and the devil starts to yell at Dimitri to rip the baby out of her. All I can think of is how Dimitri is so looking at her junk.
The baby is ultimately stillborn, but it's ok, because evil still pervades the family.
Ahhh, that was a long post. But there was just so much weirdness that I wanted to cram in. Was the movie scary? Meh…mildly creepy. If it edited out the many long walks that characters took and got rid of the seventies music, it might actually have been scary. It was so worth it, for the WTF value.


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What was responsible for this jolt of inspiration? Well, ever since the explosion of blogs I've been one to spend a lazy weekend afternoon floating from page to page, soaking up the visual feast before me. I have a pretty hefty list of bookmarked favourites accumulated over the years, which I've organized into categories of interest spanning art, design, decor, fashion, food, fitness, mags, literature, media, etc that I like to work my way through on a weekly basis if time permits. I find this activity the ultimate tonic to recover the buzz when things a feeling a bit blah. This particular blog fest had me absorbed right up to bedtime. After stumbling across a new blog I was feeling particularly inspired to share my own inspirations, thoughts and experiences.
It dawned on me that simply reading and browsing was no longer enough. I felt compelled to craft my own outlet of expression despite having already switched of my computer and gone to bed. I tried to fall asleep but I couldn't quite switch my brain off. My body was tired, but my mind was buzzing. Sleep just wasn't going to happen and I knew it. My head was spilling out words that needed to be set into sentences - NOW! So, I dragged my laptop to bed and began setting up an account, designing a quick blog template and jotting down some notes to get started. Starting a blog is something I've always wanted to do, but kept putting off for when "the time was right". In other words, when I finally settled not to be so slack and actually committed. I didn't think that time would be now, but something shifted and I took action!
And here it is folks. My first post hatched under the influence of the all the inspiration that abounds. I'd be delighted should you take an interest in this lil project of mine, whether that's limited to silently lingering and observing (I do that a lot myself as I can be pretty lazy when it comes to leaving comments) or adding your thoughts to anything presented in my posts. I hope that what I have to share provides some source of pleasure (G-rated guys...), amusement, entertainment, inspiration and mental stimulation. Maybe it's even inspired to you to begin your own neglected project!
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Geraniums and Fertilizer Requirements
Garden geraniums are a versatile plant belonging to the genus Pelargonium, which consists of more than 200 species of plants. Home gardeners appreciate geraniums for their variations in color, growth and scent, and because they can be grown both indoors and outdoors. Geraniums have low fertilization requirements in general, but the nutrient requirements for geraniums grown outside differ from that of indoor plants.
Fertilizer and Rate of Application
Geraniums grown outdoors will not bloom if they are over-fertilized. Ideally outdoor geraniums will benefit from a slow-release fertilizer to prevent leaching of nitrogen during heavy rains and to ensure a steady supply of nitrogen to the growing plants. In proper growing conditions, outdoor geraniums require a complete dry fertilizer such as 10-10-10. Dry fertilizers should be applied at a rate of 2 pounds per 100 square feet of soil, or 4 pounds of 5-10-5 fertilizer per 100 feet of soil. Dry fertilizers must be watered into the soil. Geraniums grown indoors have very low fertilizer requirements. Pot them in a nutrient rich soil mix, such as one part soil, one part sand and one part peat, but do not add fertilizer until the plant is established. For established geraniums, use a water-soluble 20-20-20 formula at a rate of 2 tablespoon to one gallon of water.
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For outdoor geraniums, mix the fertilizer into the soil at planting or in early spring. Around July, a second application can be applied at half the original rate. Avoid feeding outdoor geraniums during the hottest parts of the day because rapid drying of fertilizer can burn our plants.
Fertilizing Indoor Plants
Fertilization is not necessary for newly potted young plants grown indoors for the first two to three months. After this, fertilizer should only be applied during growth periods. Established indoor geraniums require fertilization every four to six weeks in spring and summer, and no more than every eight weeks during the fall and winter months.
Common Fertilizing Problems
If your geranium is lacking in important nutrients, it will show symptoms of this deficiency. A lack of nitrogen will result in slow growth, stunting and eventual yellowing of the leaves. If your geranium isn't getting enough phosphorous, its leaves turn dark green and growth is stunted. If the deficiency is severe, lower leaves take on a reddish-purple color and eventually die. Potassium deficiency shows as necrosis, or death, of the lower leaf margins along with weak stems and stalks. Nutrient deficiencies in geraniums are sometimes caused by amendments added to the soil. For example, material that is not decomposed can rob nitrogen from the soil as it decays. Avoid this by ensuring that organic matter added to your geranium's soil is well-decomposed. Geranium growers often fertilize both indoor and outdoor geraniums with a constant fertilization method that uses a water soluble fertilizer to avoid deficiencies, but if you choose this method, it is vital that your plant receives adequate water, particularly when grown indoors. A buildup of fertilizer salts occurs in the medium when your geranium isn't getting enough water and this can stunt plant growth.
- University of Minnesota Extension: Outdoor-Indoor Geranium Culture
- University of Massachusetts Extension: Growing Quality Geraniums
- North Carolina State University Cooperative Extension: Fertility Management for Geraniums
- North Carolina State University Cooperative Extension: Geranium Culture for Home Gardeners
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