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And how has your testosterone level changed. Bet it is down!!
This is a serious question and I almost didn't post it since it sounds so crazy. I turned 62 this month and to celebrate it at the beginning of the month I stopped doing the last few remaining drugs that were messing up my life. That would include caffeine, nose spray, aspirin and junk food (I know junk food is not a drug but it is as addicting and as bad for me as drugs are). So this past month has been the first time I have been 100% totally drug free. I have been noticing lately that my beard growth has very dramatically slowed down. After 24 hours my beard used to feel like #80 grit sandpaper. Now after 24 hours I barely need to shave. I did a Google search on beard growth slowing down and every hit was about how to speed up beard growth (teenagers love this subject) and nothing about it slowing down. Has anyone else ever experienced their beard growth slowing down? Is it just something that happens with old age or did quitting one of those drugs prompt it?
Ok, so it's not a beard, but the hair on my legs grows a lot slower and is sparser than it was in my younger days....not complaining, just saying Wendy
This is not thinning, this is growing much slower and it happened suddenly, in less than a month.
I have a vague memory of reading somewhere, somewhen this could be a sign of a thyriod deficiency. Runs in my family.
btw here are standard symptoms for hypothyroidism:-Decreased cardiac output and respiration-Constipation-Myxedema with impaired renal output-Cold intolerance-Muscle weakness, lethargy, fatigue
Just for fun...Females have XX chromosomesMales have XY chromosomesTom, is it possible you have lost the Y in your travels over the years? Trust me, no offense intended. carson FL
Tom, it's just a sign of maturing. Your beard growth has most likely not slowed. It just appears that way because the hair in your nose and ears now grows so much faster. Ask any of the senior citizens around here.
Every time I visit the hairdresser (aka barber) I ask why the hair they're cutting off is a little different color each time. Yesterday I was aghast when someone's (?) gray hair fell onto the cape they put on you. Couldn't be mine, because it's salt & pepper. Chris set me straight when I got home
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You've never seen a gray haired female?
I'm just glad I don't shave...
My problem is I hate shaving. The only thing I hate worse than shaving is having a beard.
SECONDI suspect hair, beards included, grow slower in June, in this part of the world, than in January.
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The campaign sounds the alarm about the dangers of flu, and alerts the public to the need for everyone six months of age and older to be vaccinated against influenza to prevent transmission of the disease.
Flu sweeps around the world each year, and is a contagious and potentially deadly viral infection that can be dangerous for anyone—healthy young adults, pregnant women, babies, and seniors.
Commonly known as flu, influenza is marked by some or even all of these symptoms:
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Flu symptoms can last for days and are usually gone by the end of two weeks.
Flu viruses are transmitted in various ways—even with a kiss. Or, an infected person can cough, sneeze, or talk and spray tiny infected droplets into the air. Those droplets are then breathed in through the nose or the mouth of anyone nearby.
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An infected person can transmit the flu virus even before he or she starts to feel ill.
The CDC states that every year in the United States, on average:
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Flu doesn't treat everyone the same. It can lead to pneumonia or perhaps, in children, sinus or ear infections. It can make an existing medical condition such as asthma much worse, and one can even die from flu
The fact that flu can take perfectly healthy individuals and kill them in a matter of days is the most confounding aspect of infection.
PKIDs' "No Time For Flu" campaign reaches out through social media platforms and a website, www.pkids.org/flu, to educate the public on flu and how to prevent infection.
Through the use of videos, posters, and fresh informative materials, the public's questions about flu are answered with clarity, and the need to use immunization and clean hands as strong tools to prevent infection is made clear.
"It's so easy to catch the flu, and so easy to prevent it. Plan ahead, roll up your sleeve, and protect yourself and your loved ones," said Ari Brown, MD, pediatrician and author of Baby 411 book series.
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He claims that he was sexually harassed and encouraged to perform in masturbation contests with other backup dancers while the singer/celebrity watched and would give cash to those who finished first.
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For the last year (and for the next three weeks), I have been working with a team of archaeologists and scientists from related disciplines at the Laboratory of Geophysical – Satellite Remote Sensing and Archaeo-environment (GeoSatReSeArch Lab), at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, in Rethymno on Crete. The lab and the IMS are part of the Greek research foundation, FORTH. The IMS is the only FORTH centre which deals with the humanities and social sciences. The other Institutes based at Heraklion, Patras and Ioannina, cover the fields of computer science and the natural and biomedical sciences. The specific purpose of IMS is to support and invigorate research in the field of the human and social sciences, as well as to promote the application of advanced technologies in the field.
In that respect, the Lab conducts its own research, but also participates in collaborations with the Ephorate (the Greek State Archaeology service), Universities, Foreign Schools and many others. A key aspect of our work is showcasing the potential of high-tech methodologies in archaeology, and we do a lot of teaching and outreach work alongside the frontline scientific research.
After a year working here, I thought it would be interesting to make my 'Day of Archaeology' post about the whole lab, not just me, to give you all an idea of the diversity of the work we do and the projects we are involved in.
Conducting Archaeological Geophysics:
Kelsey Lowe- PostDoc Researcher
"While fieldwork generally beckons most of us this time of year, or at least myself, I find that today I am sitting comfortably at my desk processing geophysical data from a Middle Bronze Age site in Cyprus. As part of my current position at IMS, having the chance to work along other Mediterranean experts has provided a very unique experience, especially in regards to archaeological and geophysical interpretation of Bronze Age landscapes. Oh look, what do we have here?!? Architecture! Happy Processing!"
Abir Jrad- PostDoc Researcher
"Hello, I am Abir, I am not an archaeologist, but a geophysicist who has the pleasure to work with archaeologists searching for buried archaeological features using geophysical methods. Today I will continue the processing of the data acquired in the last field work on the archaeological site of Kenchreai, in Greece! We combined several geophysical methods to prospect the studied area. As usual the main method was the gradiometry with the Sensys instrument. The gradiometry and also the electromagnetic acquisition show an anomaly with high magnetic gradient intensity and also a high magnetic susceptibility. In the location of this potential archaeological anomaly, we did a hand coring, to collect samples on a vertical profile. The samples collected were analyzed using the Bartington susceptibility meter in the Lab, which allowed us to measure the magnetic susceptibility at different frequencies. The correlation between the field geophysical data and the laboratory analysis will allow me to realize a constraint modelling for the suspected anomaly!
Carmen Cuenca-Garcia – PostDoc Researcher
"Hi there, this is Carmen reporting from her desk on Day A (see photo). Figure 1 above encapsulates today's work, which is… more reporting. In this case, I am writing up the results of analyses of soil samples collected at several Neolithic tell-sites (or magoulas as they are called here in Greece). Before the soil sampling sampling, we surveyed the magoulas using a range of geophysical techniques during several fieldwork campaigns and got fantastic results. We analysed the soil samples using magnetic susceptibility and phosphate analysis, then we correlated the results with those from the geophysical surveys. This type of integrated analysis is extremely interesting and informative for archaeological prospection but it also involves lots of intense work: dealing with many and diverse types of datasets, stats, cross referencing many graphs, tables… which may be a wee bit tough to deal with when you are in a celebratory mood like today ☺ Such analysis also require lots of collaborative work and I particularly enjoy the enthusiastic chats I have with my colleague Abir Jrad, who is working with me on the correlations. Part A in Figure 1 shows a view of how you would find me if you pop into my office right now and part B is where I would rather like to be… outside, fieldworking and enjoying the anticipation of tasting the delicious and well-deserved Thessalian food after a days work on the top of a magoula!"
Teaching and Training Activities:
Kayt Armstrong (me!) – PostDoc researcher
"My day-to-day job at the lab is as the GIS officer for a project looking at the dynamics of settlement on Crete in the Early Byzantine period (roughly the 4th-9th centuries AD). Part of the goals of that project are to further the use of GIS, aerial prospection and other high-tech methodologies in Greece. As a result, I have two interns working with me at the moment, from the Archaeology programme at the University of Crete. They are making important contributions to the project, and in exchange learning database skills, GIS methods and how to survey using the latest RTK GPS equipment. Today they are testing some user manuals I have made for the team, so that the amazing high tech kit can continue to be used after I have left in August. My job isn't just to bring in these skills to the project, but to train local archaeologists, students and researchers in them, so that they are taken up more widely in the profession. Pay it forward!"
Developing Prospection Methods and Equipment:
Apostolos Sarris- lab Director, Ian Moffat – Post Doc Researcher and Beatrice Giuzio- engineering student intern
"We spent the day testing electromagnetic induction (EMI) instruments on the beach near Episkopi on the north coast of Crete. EMI is a geophysical technique that is frequently used in archaeology to measure the conductivity and magnetic susceptibility of the soil to find archaeological sites and map the geology that contains them. Despite the usefulness of this method, recent research has shown that EMI instruments are prone to drifting, that is that their data values change during the course of a day even when sitting in the same location. To determine if this drift exists for the EMI instruments used at IMS we set them up near the beach and collected data continuously in the same location for 7 hours while monitoring changes in temperature. This experiment showed two clear findings: 1) that the adjacent taverna has excellent seafood dishes, and 2) that the EMI instruments drift in ways that are not correlated to temperature change. These findings suggest that much more research to understand drift is required, particularly when using EMI to map archaeological sites that are difficult to map with this method, such as those without extensive metal in the subsurface."
Aerial Prospection and Photogrammetry:
Gianluca Cantoro- PostDoc Researcher
"My name is Gianluca and I am an aerial archaeologist and photo-interpreter. My job consists in looking into photographic archives in search for aerial images where archaeological traces can be identified. In combination with historical photographs study, I also undertake aerial survey myself with Remotely Piloted Aerial Systems (RPAS or simply drones) or ultralight high-wing aircraft (usually something like a Cessna 172) over specific areas.
In the photo, I'm just back from one of these archaeological aerial surveys and I am sorting the pictures I took during the flight. You can see a map with notes I had in the plane, my ideal flight path and areas of interests, my pilot-flight kneeboards and my camera.
Once images have been synchronized with the GPS logger (so that each photograph holds the GPS location in the EXIF tags), they are entered in a digital database and then photogrammetrically processed, to obtain orthophotos and 3D models of the photographed areas (or potential "unknown" archaeological sites). A part of my work at the IMS I have developed software to make these tasks easier, which is free to use and downloadable here. "
Augmented and Virtual Reality for Cultural Heritage:
Lemonia Argyriou- software engineer
"Working in Rethymno, Crete during summer … it's burning hot outside (34 degrees) and I'm finalising an Augmented Reality android educational app for Cultural Heritage.
At least things have become easier the last years after the release of the Unity3D, an extremely powerful and easy to use game platform. By the use also of AR APIs (such as Vuforia or Meteo), text, images and also small objects can be tracked and allow the triggering and presentation of 3D models along with 3D text and voice-over explanations. This leads to a more informative and immersive experience that could easily enhance the level of quality and edutainment in cultural heritage education.
The application I'm working on at the moment is accompanied by a printed map of Crete, displaying aerial photos of the most attractive ancient monuments on the island. By using an android mobile device and hovering over the location of a monument on the map, the relevant 3D model of the monument appears on the screen and can be observed from any side simply by moving closer or tilting the device. There is also a UI that allows the user to listen to the historical information of the specific monument in their preferred language (Greek or English), learning about their story of preservation and their role in the past.
That's all by now…the beach is calling me 🙂 Day Of(f) Archaeology!"
Nikos Papadopoulos Jr – software engineer
"Hello there, and many greetings from Rethymno, Crete. Although the day is suitable for going to the beach, I'm working in the lab developing a cultural heritage virtual navigation application for Koule Castle (Iraklion, Crete) based on natural human interaction. The specific application can capture simple user gestures, like steady walking or torso rotation and lean, with the use of a Microsoft Kinect sensor. The gestures are used for navigating in the virtual space of Koules castle offering the user a more immersive cultural experience. All of this this happens thanks to the Unity3D game platform and of course lots of coffee (sorry…programming). Time for some raki now :-)"
And lots more besides:
Quite a few of the scientists at the lab didn't have time to write something today, or were off elsewhere doing fieldwork or attending meetings and workshops. Other ongoing activities at the lab include using near-surface geophysics to monitor pollution, complex systems and agent based models for historical and archaeological research, GIS classifications of landscapes in terms of geomorphology, risk-mapping, shallow marine geophysics, processing algorithms for GPR data…. I could go on!
I've had an amazing year here in Rethymno. I have learned so much, and hopefully I have given something back and passed on some skills to colleagues and students here. I'll be keeping in touch with the lab team via their facebook page, and I hope to come back to use the huge archive of geophysical data they hold here for a project I am cooking up with my old Dutch colleagues 🙂
As it starts to cool down (a bit), I am going to shut down my computer and head for home, where I will spend what is left of the evening pouring over the other Day of Archaeology posts from around the world, and being very thankful I get to work in such an amazing community.
Happy Day of Archaeology!
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3 Days Cappadocia and Pamukkale Tour from Istanbul by Plane
Day 1: Flight to Kayseri/Nevsehir, Full Day North Cappadocia Tour
05:00 You will be picked up from your hotel in Istanbul and transferred to Ataturk airport. *
05:30 Arrival at Ataturk airport for flight from Istanbul to Kayseri or Nevsehir *
07:00 Flight from Istanbul to Kayseri or Nevsehir
07:55 Arrival at Kayseri or Nevsehir airport. Upon arrival you will be picked up at the airport and transferred to Cappadocia. In Cappadocia you will meet your professional tour guide to begin your full day tour of North Cappadocia.
Your tour will start with a visit to the Devrent Valley to see the unique fairy chimneys. Next you will visit the Pasabag Monk's Valley to see the mushroom-shaped pinnacles. After this visit, you will drive to the city of Avanos. After lunch you will visit the beautiful open air museum of Goreme where the remains of rock-cut churches and Christian settlements date back hundreds of years. Finally towards the end of the day tour before returning to your hotel, you will be able to visit the natural castles of Uchisar. After the tour, you will be transferred to your hotel in Cappadocia for check-in.
- Overnight in Cappadocia
- Included meals: Lunch
* Note: Some flights can also be from the Sabiha Gokcen airport to Kayseri. If your flight is from Sabiha Gokcen airport, pick up from hotel time and flight time can change from above mentioned times. We will confirm exact times with your tour confirmation email.
Day 2: Full Day South Cappadocia Tour, Flight to Denizli
You may add an optional Hot Air Balloon Ride over picturesque Cappadocia to your tour at an extra cost of USD 175.00. With an early morning pick up around 5:00 am from your hotel you can join an early morning Hot Air Balloon ride for approximately 60 minutes. If interested, please request at the time of booking your tour with us and we can make all necessary arrangements on your behalf!
After breakfast at the hotel around 09:30 you will be picked up and met by your tour guide to begin your full day tour of South Cappadocia. Your tour guide will brief you on the day's activities. Your tour will begin with a visit to the Red Valley where you will be able to explore the famous rock-cut churches and hike approximately 5 km through the Güllüdere (Rose) Valley. Next you will visit Çavusin village which is famous for its houses and churches of the Christian Clergymen. We will take a break for lunch around noon. After lunch you will drive to the Pigeon Valley. In the afternoon you will visit the Kaymakli underground city where early Christians lived. This will be the end of your full day tour. At the end of the South Cappadocia tour, you will be transferred to the Kayseri airport for your 7:00 pm flight via Istanbul to Denizli which will arrive in Denizli at 1:00 am. Upon your arrival, you will be picked up and transferred for check-in to your hotel in Pamukkale.
- Overnight in Pamukkale
- Included meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Day 3: Full Day Pamukkale and Hierapolis Tour, Flight to Istanbul
After breakfast at the hotel around 09:30 you will be picked up from the hotel to begin your guided tour of the Pamukkale and Hierapolis area with a profession licensed tour guide. Around 10:00 you will visit the first destination of Karahayit to see the Red Spring Waters. After Karahayit we will drive to Pamukkale and begin the visit to the ancient city of Hierapolis around 10:30. The highlights of Hierapolis are Necropolis, Roman Baths, Domitian Gate, Latrina, Oil Factory, Frontinious Street, Agora, Byzantium Gate, Triton Fountain, Cathedral, Apollon Temple, Plutonium, Theater and Antique Pool. You will also be able to take some photos from the nicest corners of Pamukkale. Around 12:30 you will be given some free time for approximately 60 minutes to explore the natural beauties of Pamukkale. As an option, you may choose to swim in the Pamukkale Antique Pools (at own expense) during this free time. At 13:30 you will meet the guide and will get a chance to walk in the middle of the Pamukkale travertines from top to down without shoes and socks. At 14:30 you will be taken for lunch at a local restaurant. After lunch at approximately 15:30 you will visit an Onyx Factory for approximately 30 minutes. At the end of the tour around approximately 16:00, you will be transferred to Izmir or Denizli airport for your return flight to Istanbul in the late evening. Upon arrival you will be picked-up from the airport and transferred to your hotel in Istanbul. END OF OUR SERVICE and TOURS.
- Included meals: Breakfast and Lunch
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• 2 nights hotel with breakfast
• 3 lunches
• Professional licensed English speaking guide during the tours
• Entrance fees mentioned by the itinerary
• Transport by air-conditioned Vehicles
• Local taxes and service charges
• Hot Air Balloon Ride
• Tips to staff, items of a personal nature
• Drinks with meals (except the drinks served with breakfast)
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• This is a regular group tour, but if requested at cost can be provided as a private tour
• The regular group tour has shopping stops included in the tour
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday made it tougher for investors to join together to sue corporations for securities fraud, a decision that could curb the number of multimillion dollar legal settlements companies pay out each year.
But the unanimous ruling was only a modest step. It stopped short of tossing out a quarter-century-old legal theory that might have ended securities class action lawsuits altogether. Only three of the nine justices said they would have gone that far.
Writing for the court, Chief Justice John Roberts said that companies should have a chance in the early stages of a lawsuit to show that any alleged fraud was not responsible for a drop in the company's stock price.
The change could make it more expensive and time consuming for plaintiffs at the early stages of litigation. That gives corporations a better chance to mount a defense and could discourage lawyers from bringing weaker securities cases.
The ruling is a partial victory for Halliburton Co., which is trying to block a class-action lawsuit claiming the energy services company inflated its stock price. A group of investors claims they lost money when Halliburton's stock price dropped after revelations the company misrepresented revenues, understated its liability in asbestos litigation and overstated the benefits of a merger.
Halliburton attorney Aaron Streett said he was pleased "that the Supreme Court restored a measure of rationality and balance to securities class actions." The case now goes back to the lower courts, where Halliburton will have another chance to block the investors from joining together as a class.
The decision is a minor win for business groups that complain the growth of such class actions is a drain on corporate profits and a windfall for plaintiff lawyers. Investor groups say the lawsuits help deter corporate fraud and abuse.
But the justices rejected Halliburton's broader request to overturn the court's 1988 decision in Basic v. Levinson, a case that sparked a surge in securities class-action lawsuits against publicly traded companies and has led to an estimated $73 billion in settlements since 1997.
Under Basic's "fraud on the market" theory, shareholders who claim fraud don't need to show they actually relied on specific false statements. The theory presumes a company's false statements inflated its stock price.
Roberts said Halliburton offered no "special justification" for overruling Basic's fraud-on-the-market presumption. He said even the biggest critics of the theory "acknowledge that public information generally affects stock prices."
"Halliburton has not identified the kind of fundamental shift in economic theory that could justify overruling a precedent on the ground that it misunderstood, or has since been overtaken by, economic realities," Roberts said.
While the court's judgment was unanimous, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a separate opinion saying that Basic should be overruled because economic realities have "undermined the foundation of the Basic premise." He was joined by Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito.
"The court's rather superficial analysis does not withstand scrutiny," Thomas said. "It cannot be seriously disputed that a great many investors do not buy or sell stock based on a belief that the stock's price accurately reflects its value."
Business groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers had urged the court to overturn Basic. They argued that the doctrine has led to significant costs for investors and businesses and bred confusion in the courts. But the Obama administration asked the court not to overrule the precedent, saying its premise remains sound.
"The business community can't be disappointed that they got an addition to their defense arsenal they previously didn't have," said John Donovan, a securities lawyer in Boston. He said the defendants "won a small battle in a war that was lost 25 years ago in Basic."
The Alliance for Justice, a coalition of liberal advocacy groups, said the court "has placed new barriers in front of shareholders that could make it far more difficult for them to stand up for their rights in court against corporations that have defrauded them out of their hard-earned money. "
The case is Halliburton Co. v. Erica P. John Fund Inc., 13-317.
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Mill Park Publishing of Eagle will sponsor the reception for the Idaho Writers Guild Conference on Friday, May 4. The event will be the final official event for the business. After 10 years, 16 books, 15 writing retreats, multiple national and local awards, and thousands of dollars donated to local charities, owner Elaine Ambrose says she's ready for another chapter in her life.
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Lakers' offense struggles in losses to Southeastern
The Iowa Lakes baseball team dropped its first four region games as they were swept by Southeastern in doubleheaders last Saturday and Sunday. The Blackhawks won by scores of 8-2, 4-0, 2-0 and 5-1.
In the first game, Iowa Lakes' Pat Gough was 2-4 and the Lakers mustered just five hits. Kyle Thomas got the start and gave up eight runs (five earned) on six hits with three strikeouts and two walks. Matthew Vazquez pitched an inning and Alex Cristobal struck out three in three innings of work.
Both teams had just three hits in the second contest, but the Lakers were unable to push a run across the plate as they struck out 11 times.
Ryan Mose pitched five innings in the loss, giving up two earned runs on one hit with three strikeouts and six walks. Austin Smith pitched an inning and gave up two earned runs on one hit with one strikeout and one walk.
On Sunday, Jesus Brito pitched eight innings, giving up two unearned runs on two hits with one strikeout and three walks. The Lakers also only had two hits in the contest, but struck out just four times while drawing five walks. Defensively, Iowa Lakes had four errors.
In the final contest of the series, each team again had four hits with Southeastern again able to push runs across. Manny Deleon took the loss as the gave up five runs (three earned) in 4 1/3 innings on two hits with one strikeout and six walks. Paul Howarth was 2-2 at the plate.
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Planet of the Monkeys
Greetings, Flash Fictionaughts. This week, we have bugoids and space weasels on the fearsome PLANET OF THE MONKEYS.
Set blasters for 'medium rare'!
As you might imagine, this is an insightful analysis of man's (and woman's) eternal struggle for redemption in a harsh universe or artistic criticism and post modernistic expression… or in fact, sci-fi popcorn involving space weasels, bugoids, and (ahem) fashion.
Set brains to automatic and let your imagination coast down hill at warp factor 2.5 to where this story is waiting for you with open claw, Roquefort dip and breadsticks.
polline feels safer in the hours of sunlight. During the day, she can stretch out and sunbathe in front of this yellowy, main sequence star, and not feel the faint pull of transmatic tractors or translocation beacons. She can thumb two Chlachlar at the near invisible ships far overhead. It's only later, when the solar and magnetic radiation fades into a rolling time lapse of northern lights – the energy equivalent of misty tendrils descending a mountain – she begins to stare suspiciously at the skies.
Before long, the sphere of the heavens rise into darkness and the distant point-lights of fusion burn and twinkle as unimaginable energy expends its power into poetry. But these stars are not nearly as powerful as the Hullian drives that hold newly arrived battle fleets in geosynchronicity. Streamlined hulls slide through darkness – darker than dark – and show on no Earthly detector. The starlight appears untouched as light bends.
Soon the Trovians will be coming.
Frankly, she is unconcerned. And yet – and yet – Apolline has her gun on the kitchen table. The brass and glass globes look archaic against the cracked, gingham Formica. Much she has learned of this planet: QVC, Versace and Jimmy Choo. And B Movies. She loves the giant Ant Men and their whippy antennae – they remind so much of home. But she is somewhat dismayed – as she attacks moving gun parts with Brasso and a shammy – that her erstwhile 'technology' would be identified by the more 'Garshoon' hoardes of humanity as a sub genus of Steam Punk and Invasion Mars. How embarrassing. She rubs on and grimaces in a symphony of suit servos. Look at that condensing coil – it's so… Saturday Kid's Club.
Gun polished, glass glittering with insta-death, she slides aside the patio doors. The night air – as it is relayed to her – is cool. She scowls at galactic north and the no-doubt ships hanging there like paving slabs, and slumps into a lounger. Roquefort dip and breadsticks are close to claw… to manipulator… to hand. It is a hand of rubberised silicate and micro robotics: her skin-suit is an off-the-hanger Angelina Jolie in a weighted morph with the topography of Beyonce.
Inside: funiculus, scutellum, and tarsal claw.
She tunes in, one implant after another, to examine the deployed suggestion fields. Her head hurts. That little rim of a thumbnail the Salorians helpfully embedded in her frontal lobe is encouraging a visit to a rather awkwardly shaped mountain somewhere in the United States; flat topped and unlikely. Looks like a coffee table from IKEA. At this time of night? Pfft! she huffs.
Apolline loads in some cheese dip and stick with manicured elegance and a straight pinky and wishes Steve Jobs had gotten hold of the kill-gun before the Fargon Technocracy, who – in complete contravention of the rules of accessorisation – have created a 'must have weapon' which feels as heavy and awkward in a fight as a cheap hairdryer filled with uranium.  And what's with hairdryers anyway? For heaven's sake, people – would it kill you to just translocate wet-hair water one foot to the right? And then: Oh. Possibly yes. She grins at mischievous imaginings of scorched monkeys, her flesh-suit manoeuvring a hundred micro servos in the complex ballet of mirth.
A Traysian Llachja winks disconsolately near her third, redundant brainstem, hinting at a rendezvous in a nearby corn field…
Geometric resonance and crackling fields of pentronic displacement burn a corn circle into gently waving heads of green barley. A Trovian retrieval ship touches down on silken landing gear, sprung like four counterpoised nail clippers.
Apolline scowls. Pfft. If these weasels want to try the whole abduction thing on her, then they'll need to do it somewhere with a café, a gift shop and a surface conducive to high heels. Or forgeddabout it!
She delicately pushes a breadstick – an inch too long – into her plasticised flesh mask, smunches the stick bulge until the faux flesh finally sticks back to her real face and then rubs the lipstick and crumbs onto a napkin. She misses distensible mouthparts (they're there – just folded and folded to the extent she's constantly eating with her 'mouth' full of lobster). But oh god, she wails inside, we look like prawns! Versace does nothing on a prawny theme. You think monkeys are bad – try evolving from fashionless space fry!
She loves her fleshy, monkey face with its paltry thousand or so inflections. So much more convenient than the infinite complexities of a body language where the seventh perithenial antennid inclined at a twenty-seven degree angle on the fourth sun cycle of Epicleas intimates mild confusion mixed with a subtle under-layer of concern over childcare and a toasting fork (well, a Shdada).
Not so much a language, she humps, as exoskeletal Twister.
A cadre of plasticised bodies dismounts the drop ship, looking somewhat like Emo kids, complete with skateboards. The ship's cammo screen ripples slightly as the Trovian kill-squad pass through its outer layer – a layer that licks like a bulldog though reflects only farmland. Between long, yellowed incisors – snug in humanised plastic faces – the Trovians 'skreek', and 'skrerk' and curse skin-suit fur-sweat, and monkey physiology. Guns, however, are chick-chacked to vaporise – these weasels know how tricky bugoids can be.
"Flarrrgh! Fan out. Don't get bit!â€
Perhaps, on hind stalks, it had been a mistake for Apolline to listen to her advisors, but hiding her – one of the last Harvanian royal pouchlings – on planet Earth (the most distant, low tech, and backward planet of any the Confederacy could imagine) had seemed a wonderful idea at the time. For instance, it was a fact that no matter how much they might wish and desire a most inelegant probing, the monkeys had never once been visited by a proper, honest-to-Y'sukta, alien – until now. Alas for them, the merest glimpse of a battle-class sauceroid could only be attributed to the mad ramblings of an unwashed, class D, 'nose breather'.
Still, despite the impending invasion, living incognito on The Planet of the Monkeys had its advantages. For one, Apolline had immediately gotten into this whole four limbs business and had contentedly fallen in love with Prada, Yves Saint Laurent, and every other product she could lapidate onto a skin suit (a suit she, praise Y'sukta, had engineered to a perfect 8). She'd never been into painting and sculpture before, and while she'd rather bump cloacae with a Trovian raddled with Septian Gout Worm than a monkey, she did find the attention of the males rather – quaintly – flattering. After all, as an incipient empress, Apolline liked to win, even if that's winning at increased persperatory functions and a 5 read on the male meat flakes.
Eat that, monkey fems!
The barbecue goes over. A bin-lid rattles close by. Cool night air ripples onto her micro-pore pressure sensors. Apolline pulls up the kill-gun with practiced efficiency, as servos in the monkey suit whine into bionic assist.
A smallish, hunched, humanoid form emerges with a certain Trovian swagger. A furred head and steely, rodent eyes have been pushed through the mouth of a young, earth-girl monkey-suit (the girl now seems rather snake-like, her dislocate jaw swallowing a mouse).The 'mouse' has its eyelids and face pulled back by the silicoid lips it has squeezed between; snout greasy, fur marked with lipstick.  The gun it carries is bigger than a Tropecca.
"I have come for you, hideous princess of Harvania! Prepare for the tractor beams of righteous translocation!â€
Pop goes the weasel.
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Mama has gone to kill Nicolæ
Thankfully, with folks popping by to read 'Lion on the Court', I've managed to get past that rather shaky moment of 666 comments sitting on the Café. Dark shadows loomed, the door rattled. I was scared to cash up. But next day, sunshine and clouds, following some kind words of appreciation. I'm past all that. The Café is now open to its 676th comment, which must surely happen if you click below.
This week, a darker tale (perhaps slipped through the letter box on the night before).
What kind of Café is this? '#119 SUICIDE?' 'Mama has gone to kill Nicolæ?' (complete with strange 'æ')?  Yeah, I'm going to have to get some nice things on the wall. But in the meantime,  mama is missing.Â
n empty glove box and the knife is gone. The blade has scratched the paint down to the van's old, tin bones.
I wish I was back at school. School is the one place where the wheels don't move and the scenery stays still, and I can find one place to call my own. It doesn't have to be a big place: a carved up desk; a step and a book; a sit on the cloakroom spars beneath the jackets. I don't look to life to be generous.
Mamma has gone again and returned and gone once more, and in between there have been monsters in the truck yard, where the old families lay their vehicles down. It's like a graveyard here – except there is rust rather than decay, and weeds for stones, and windows of algae and bird shit for eyes.
I was worried. That maybe… I don't know what. I saw the way that Nicolæ was staring at mamma; like he wanted to own her. I've seen her flick her skirts away on more than one occasion; slap his butcher's hands, cursing while covering my ears. The last time, I ran to hug her and turned like a caravan dog, all spiked up and mongrel, skinny fists to the looming bulk of spit and gold, and wondered how I might beat Nicolæ to bloody dog steak, though he is like an ogre and – as mama says – twice as ugly. Look at the hams on him. An ogre would be preferable, but still, papa taught me to box; beat me to box, until I was my own bloody dog steak. I want to believe I could take Nicolæ, but my own fear keeps me warm.
All things are a question of belief – mama says – and she also says that all things are possible, if we just believe in them enough, though that does sound like one of the well-turned, palm size, polished stories from her 'shameless magazines' (shameless as she calls them). I believe they are quite shameless, but mama reads them because she really is so beautiful and, she says, cosmerche was made for her thick lashes and large brown eyes and… bones.
They don't wear makeup in the 'other'.
I try to get comfy and there's a baggy-ass creak of springs. A copy of Cosmo twists and rips under foot. I consumed it hours ago, word for word, like a chop dog thrown a lamb hock. I guess I was trying to remember her in pictures – in that feminine thing. I read 'Ten Ways to Keep Your Man', while the blower had battery, though that article doesn't seem to have worked for her: that's ten, small failures on two to three long outsiders.
Boys shouldn't read that stuff. She doesn't like me reading too much English, anyway, because we belong to a different world with its own tradicae. But I think the old ways are just another way to keep us apart from the people here, and what more so than: 'believe enough, and so it is'? But the joke is, you don't need to believe in the Twilight for it to creep up and get you. It's real, anyway. That boy Sam with the light up trainers at school (blue like jaybird); and that blackbird, perched right there on a fender like a glob of watery, black marrow; and that little drop of blood on the steering wheel that hums like a hammer; and the Twilight, are all as real as each other – belief or no. I bet that boy, Sam, doesn't vanish if I don't look at him, either – he's still lit up, dancing. The Twilight still darkens down; hunkers, and waits.
Papa's old watch creaks round, buzzing like a shrew in my hand. In the van, the condensation on the windows takes on the tartan and scruffy wool of the blankets where my moving presses out.  If I could just stop breathing, perhaps that wobbly underwater of cars, stuffed high like coral, would resolve into their actual elements: tin and rubber tyres, fat like squeezed bread, treads exploding as the rubber corrodes.
My deep sea view suits the old yard well – I imagine it a place of wide mouthed things with teeth and whisp-fyre lures; or perhaps it's the high-tide line, where what's washed up can be much worse, more alien, than that. In the place beyond the yard, nothing is known for certain and only folklore can provide the answers.
I yank my hand away as I find spittle in my hair.
Mamma and a drop of blood. Mamma and blood. Knife gone. Mamma, blood, knife. Took it in tears and pushed me – pushed me – on the crown of my head, palm like a spider and she hurt my neck and scratched my cheek – I can see a little fleck of skin in the scab in the rear-view mirror – and took the knife. It has a blade like the edge of a dog-food tin: ragged and shiny and meaty, all at once.
Mamma said she'd never needed me to stay in the van more than now, and now she is gone walking again in the other world, and I am terribly, terribly scared. But I won't show it. The door slam made my chest hurt with the whomp of the air.
Mama has gone to kill Nicolæ – for what he has done.
Jaya has come and there is to be council. I am not to bring Rahdi, because 'this is no time for toys, boy'. And no crying, or hugs, or touching and Jaya won't say where mama is, except 'they will come to that, boy. Now get your shoes, and smarten that face. No need for a jacket.' And he has a spade-struck expression, jutting with gold-capped teeth, and a firm hand on my back propelling me along so fast, I think I might fall in the truck tracks and mud, and I must carry on or lose a foot of height when he pushes my head off. This is more friendly and scary-making than I have ever seen him, and he won't talk about mama and the knife. I am running over my own running. How I hate the mud.
This is a court of sorts.
Nicolæ has done and gone into the Twilight.
Here there are tall thrones on the heaps, and the masks of elongated whiskery hares, eyes stitched, fur worn, like a well-loved toy. Flies pick across them. The ears are like strips of sun-dried meat. They tell me, I can take the knife and follow Nicolæ into the Twilight, or I can burn the van and never come back – go to school, get my own blue jay trainers.
But mamma is as dead and blackened and blue – in that strangely deep blood in a tyre furrow – as she's always going to be.
I pick up the knife, feeling the tape on the handle like ribbed bone; note the bloodied blade; weigh the decision.
Jaya looks away.
That's fair.
Others look on as if I am about to give a concert.
"It is his right.â€
They are bitter and funny and pooled like decay, and for a moment I wish I could take a photo of them all. But I believe in what Nicolæ has done…
So I and the knife are gone.
August 17, 2012 12 Comments
Lion on the Court
Strangely, for me, I've been watching the Olympics and quite enjoying it: they've been throwing stuff and all sorts and I've been paying attention. I used to do a lot of swimming, so seeing that and the other events floating by in the background – while doing something much more sedate, like reading a book – has been pure gold. This week's #FridayFlash wasn't planned as an Olympic-appropriate story, but kind of ended up that way.  I guess the coloured rings  must've snuck into my subconscious and stuck, demanding sport-related shenanigans.  As I've never been one to turn down shenanigans, sporting or otherwise, this one is called 'Lion on the Court.'
elly found the lion basking in the sunshine of the court.
At first it was a quality of that high, summer light and the wind-dust blowing across the cracked, compacted grit, and the weed-heads dancing in between – a soft, susserant breath of movement that could be muscle shifting.
How big is it? What does it want? he wondered, even as he knew it was very, very, big and very, very, old (ancient, wandered through his mind) and it wasn't entirely friendly. Its golden pelt was patched from the glitter of small stone and mica, golden sunbeams and childish wonder. He pictured the soft pad of paws and the warm, soft, fur that could be gathered in armfuls – if only it'd let you.
Where the net sagged, string rotting; where the volley ball plopped, deflated; where the other kids came along with a challenge or other – or laughed at the little boy taking soft-wristed punts and splatting the leather bladder on his wrists (playing 'wally ball', they said) – the lion ran underneath, tail flicking, jaws grim, tongue lolling.
And surely those teeth had to be there, if the boy had stared so long into the sun? Or played so long with a dream in his heart? Or had to overcome so much in such a simple place, where grit and promise, and a skint knee or elbow on the wasteland court, had demanded so much imagination? The lion spoke of an older time, when hearts were inspired and battle raged, when glory was held above all other pursuits, where death was a simple thing, unremarked.
"You have stood guard,†the lion rumbled, "for years of your short life and so I shall do the same.â€
Clouds shifted and the lion sat up. Kelly could feel its warm, moist breath on his face and hands; grimaced at the carnivore in it. He punted another shot. Plop went the ball in the dust, unlamented by mum or dad or community or council. Only his grandfather had known: champion of champions, gold so distant it was grey in celluloid. The long shorts, the moustache, the blocky shoes – unshaped and unlovely – the mane of wild hair, were alien, but the look in the old man's eyes was familiar.
"Yes,†breathed the lion.
Kelly kept the picture close, even when it frayed and he had to tape it.
Spray paint ran in the jumbled mounds of brick and slate amongst the fireweed to the sides of the court; broken glass spoke of dereliction as well as the derelict. Kelly played on in determination.
"Well, you've caught me by the tail now,†the lion said. It vanished at sunset, Kelly exhausted, with nothing to indicate the beast had ever been.
That night, the boy flopped into bed feeling sick and sunburned. But the next day he was back and so was the lion, breath blowing through the boy's sandy hair; and Kelly was intrigued as to what it intended.
The lion's breath filled him. From dawn to dusk, there was only the boy's grim smile, the splat-plop of the ball, and the pad, pad, pad and scratch of trainers in the dust as the boy collected the ball, and tried again, punting it once more into the harsh sunlight. Beside him in the endless desert, there were soft-pawed footfalls and the low rumbled purr of approval.
Slowly the boy began to improve.
Though rain came and threatened to banish the lion, or times came when Kelly thought it best not to wolf down his breakfast and do battle on the court before school (when the lion sat on his chest and growled like a motorbike full of rocks until he relented, claws sharp in that first glimmer of light beneath the shades) the boy was given over to his fate and the lion prowled beside him.
Years passed.
Kelly had spent years alone, had gotten some kind of job – not even he was entirely conscious of what – and the ball was now firm, the court cleared of the worst of the glass and cans and condoms, and his gear was cheap but new; if worn and well used. His sword and shield was the light of the sun, and there wasn't anywhere he couldn't put that ball if he had a mind to it.
As he'd grown, so the lion had aged. Its teeth were wonky, its pelt moth-eaten; flesh sagged. But Kelly knew this was the state of things – that the old lion must fall away, so that the new may take its place.
"It's not cold, it' not sad, it's necessary,†the lion had once said. And so it was true. "Take your place in the sun, should you want it†and the lion had motioned to its feet.
A few months later, Don Finch came to the old court – a miracle, he later said: just a detour off the main road to the middle of nowhere and a conversation over a bacon roll and a coffee. A waitress had sat down for a 'quick breather' to rest her varicose veins. Amongst other things, she asked him what he did and he'd said 'sports promoter'. She frowned where the word 'sport' had resonance, and complained that her 'fool son' was out in all weathers knocking a ball about. "Good too, them other lads say, though we all wish he'd give it up. 'Specially his father. Get his head sorted. Get him back to school.â€
Well, Don's heart shrank, of course: all mothers have sons knocking about with some well-worn 'talent' or other, but there was something in her vehemence against the boy that suggested there was fight here, between will and woman, between old and new, that made him want prove her wrong.
Fat, arthritic pads wound through the chairs and tables beside him.
A couple of times Don got lost finding his way down into the old factory works – even had to climb a fence – but there was a nudge when he needed it: a yawn of gap-toothed alertness that ensured his onward path to the battlefield.
"This kid's 'mazing,†said Motto. "It's like, it's like he's got God in his hands. Jus' look at 'im go.†Gutty agreed. So did Franky. So did Stevo.
Don stood back and watched as the court ran with kids, and Kelly sprang the grit and flew and darted and spiked and clawed and played out with all the grace of a feline hunter, all gold in the afternoon sunlight. And later as they talked, Don, who was unfond of melodrama, thought to himself: this kid's already a legend.
And on the old court, as the last of the sun tickled the bricks and glittered it's last of the day, the old, old lion roared its agreement, before softly padding away.
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Our Ebbing Urge to Incarcerate
California seems to be finding a way out of its prison-overcrowding problems. Have we decided that locking up so many people isn't the best way to keep the public safe?
Most informed public officials know that America leads the world in the number of people it incarcerates, but they may not know by just how much. In fact, our rate of imprisonment, 500 per 100,000 residents, is five times as great as that of comparable countries. The United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population, but the 2.3 million people it has behind bars account for nearly a quarter of all the people imprisoned in the world.
Few people have more insight into the incarceration crisis than Matt Cate. He spent the last nine years focusing on the nation's largest prison system, the California Department of Corrections. Cate was a state prosecutor handling public-corruption cases involving public officials, corrections officers and cops when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made him inspector general of California. In that role, Cate focused on waste and corruption in the state prison system. Then Schwarzenegger appointed him secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Schwarzenegger's successor, Jerry Brown, kept Cate in that role, and when Cate left that job last November he was the last Schwarzenegger appointee still on the cabinet.
The stricter sentencing laws California enacted during the 1990s resulting in soaring rates of incarceration, so the state began building more prisons. By the 2000s there was no money to build more prisons, and eventually the system reached 200 percent of its design capacity. The state's prison population peaked at 173,000 in 2006. Two prisoners were occupying cells designed for one. Prison health care suffered, and infrastructure such as prison wastewater systems became overburdened. California's prisons became very dangerous places for people to live and work. Massive incarceration produces what Cate calls a "factory" of bad criminal-justice outcomes despite the massive spending of taxpayer money.
Eventually the federal courts ordered California to reduce its state prison population by about 33,000 prisoners and to improve inmate health care. Gov. Brown's response has been a program called "realignment," whose aim was to make the most effective use of the state prisons' 110,000 beds. Under the plan, which Cate helped craft with deep involvement from counties and other stakeholders, counties were given far more responsibility for deciding which prisoners to send to the state system and which to house in county jails. The state shifted a billion dollars to the counties, and sheriffs are building new jails. Under realignment, state prison is for the most serious crimes, and low-level felons are sent to county jails with the sheriffs empowered to make release decisions.
The results so far have been dramatic. The state has reduced its prison population from 200 percent of design capacity to 146 percent, and the governor has asked the courts to end their oversight of the prisons. Cate agrees that it's time for that oversight to end. The right offenders have been realigned and a new round of inmate releases would be very difficult, he says. What about the counties, which under the realignment process were handed vast new costs and risks? If they're unhappy, it's clear they don't blame Matt Cate: His new job is as executive director of the California State Association of Counties.
We may have reached a tipping point on incarceration in America. The Pew Center on the States reported that as of January 2010 the country had experienced the first year-to-year decline in its state-prison population in 38 years. The federal Bureau of Justice Statistics reported that in 2011 the nation's prison population again declined, with California reporting the largest decrease, down more than 15,000; in all; 26 states experienced declines in the number of people held in their prisons.
Maybe other public officials are beginning to see what Matt Cate sees: There are far better ways than mass incarceration for the taxpayers to get the best return on the money they spend on public safety.


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Claus Paws Animal Hospital, in Vancouver Washington, is seeking an Associate Veterinarian to join our team of dedicated, and incredible doctors. We are a rapidly growing four doctor practice that has been in the Clark County area for almost 20 years, locally owned and managed, with a new custom-made facility offering the latest in veterinary technology. We pride ourselves on our local, privately owned name, avoiding corporate and large industry themes, which allows for targeted and innovative care, that can be treated based on the needs of the patient, and the wants of both owner and doctor.
The person we are seeking will have an innate ability to understand clients' perspective, while also maintaining integrity and passion for helping humans and animals. Our crew is made up of honest, thoughtful, hardworking and fun employees, who go above and beyond. Our main focus is to provide state-of-the-art medicine, while cultivating a culture of understanding and empathy toward both client and patient.
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Cardinals announce details for Winter Warm-Up
Tickets for the three-day event in January go on sale Nov. 23
Winter Warm-Up weekend boasts several opportunities for fans to interact with current and past Cardinals players, as well as engage in question-and-answer sessions with players, broadcasters and front-office officials. Interactive games, meet-and-greets with Fredbird and auctions are also staples of the fan-fest event.
Cardinals Care, the organization's charitable arm, is the biggest beneficiary of Winter Warm-Up, as money raised through the event helps fund the Cardinals Care programs in the St. Louis area. Over the past 16 years, Cardinals Care has donated approximately $18 million toward programs and grants for children.
Tickets for Winter Warm-Up cost $40 for fans age 16 and over and $10 for children ages 5 to 15. Children under the age of 5 can attend for no charge. Each ticket is valid for admission on all three days of the Warm-Up.
The three-day passes can be purchased online at cardinals.com/winterwarmup, at the official Cardinals Team Store at Busch Stadium or at Cardinals Clubhouse stores in the St. Louis area. Members of the military, police departments and fire departments can receive one free adult pass by showing an active ID ahead of time at the Busch Stadium administrative offices.
The event will again be held at the Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch hotel. The sessions on Saturday and Sunday go from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. CT. Monday's event runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
One of the most popular parts of the Winter Warm-Up is the player autograph sessions. Some player autographs will be free with admission. Other autographs will be available only with the purchase of autograph tickets, which require an additional donation.
Information on player autograph dates/times, as well as required donations where necessary, will be posted on cardinals.com in December. Autograph tickets will then go on sale Dec. 19.


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Baking required. These pies are prepped fresh in our La Crosse kitchens, frozen and delivered to your local store, and come hot from your oven. Varieties include Sausage Palooza (Sausage), Pep Rally (Pepperoni), and Meat Sweats (Sausage and Pepperoni), each piled with five kinds of Wisconsin cheese.
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Freshly prepared, home-style meals for one. Just heat and enjoy!
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Thin Crust (Pepperoni, Sausage, Combo, BBQ Chicken, Chicken Alfredo), Regular Crust (Sausage, Pepperoni, Combo, Cheese, Chicken Carbonara, Mac & Cheese), and Specialty (Breakfast, 4-Meat, Supreme).
Hot Food - Breakfast
Available 24 hours! Breakfast Sandwiches (Croissants, Muffins, Burgers, Biscuits, Egg Roll, Burritos), Hash Browns.
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Lunch Sandwiches (Burgers, Chicken, Ribs, Burritos, Stromboli, Hot Dogs, Brats), Tornados, Rollerbites, Breadsticks, Candied Nuts.
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Experts worry that antivirals may mask avian influenza
Aug 24, 2006 (CIDRAP News) – Avian flu experts in two of the countries with the most human H5N1 avian influenza cases to date—Vietnam and Thailand—are warning that the antiviral drug oseltamivir may mask the infection and complicate laboratory detection.Menno de Jong, a virologist at an Oxford University clinical research unit in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, told Bloomberg News this week that avian influenza may go undetected in patients who take the drug days before testing. An incorrect diagnosis is problematic because it may hamper early detection of disease spread.Some countries are responding to local human H5N1 avian influenza outbreaks by distributing oseltamivir to local citizens. For example, the Jakarta Post reported this week that Indonesia's health ministry had distributed the drug to 2,100 villagers in Garut, a district in West Java, Indonesia, where three recent cases have been documented and authorities are investigating the possibility of human-to-human transmission.Antiviral drugs such as oseltamivir are designed to reduce the duration of viral replication and should be taken within 48 hours of symptom onset, according to World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations. However, De Jong's team, which observed 18 cases in Vietnam, found that analysis of nasal and throat swabs taken from patients 48 to 72 hours after beginning oseltamivir treatment was unable to detect the virus.A study of Vietnamese H5N1 cases in a September 2005 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine found that genetic evidence of the H5N1 virus could not be detected in throat swab samples until between 2 and 15 days (median 5.5 days) after illness onset."If a patient is on oseltamivir for 3 days before the first swab is taken for diagnostic testing, it's possible the result will be negative, but the patient could be infected," he told Bloomberg News.To prevent the drug from masking a possible H5N1 virus infection, he advises that patients undergo testing before or soon after taking oseltamivir. Obtaining a swab sample from the patient takes only seconds and should not delay the patient's treatment, de Jong said.Meanwhile, a public health official in Thailand expressed the same concerns about possible false-negative testing results for the H5N1 virus in patients who take oseltamivir. In an article that appeared in The Nation, a Thai daily newspaper, Paijit Warachit, director-general of the Department of Medical Sciences, said that initial laboratory tests did not detect the H5N1 virus in the country's two most recent cases.Warachit said the disease progression may be becoming more complicated in humans, or the use of oseltamivir could be complicating the patients' lab results. He noted that the drug is able only to prevent the virus from replicating, not destroy it, and that little of the virus was in the patients' respiratory tract for testing.With the last two Thai cases, the avian influenza virus was found to be deeper in the respiratory tract than is typically found with other influenza viruses. Warachit said the medical staff has been told to probe deeper to obtain a complete testing specimen.Since 2004 Thailand's health ministry has tested more than 4,000 people for the H5N1 avian influenza virus, with a 3% failure rate. However, Warachit said the failure rate has risen to 20% this year. "We need to continue our studies to see whether the virus will become more and more difficult [to detect] in the future," he noted.See also:Sep 29, 2005, New England Journal of Medicine article on avian influenza in humanshttp://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/353/13/1374


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Red bean soup
This is a typical traditional Chinese dessert, many of which can be eaten like a soup. It is pleasantly sweet and relatively light. It can be served cold or hot, depending on the season.
Every now and then, Hongkongers take time from the rush of urban life to enjoy the rush of sugar in the city's dessert shops. Everything from light traditional Chinese sweet soups to Hong Kong fusions are served day and night. Take a break from your to-do list to enjoy something sweet.
Sweets can be ordered in many types of eateries and there are even restaurants dedicated solely to them. Take a look at the following suggestions to get an idea of what's available:
Red bean soup
This is a typical traditional Chinese dessert, many of which can be eaten like a soup. It is pleasantly sweet and relatively light. It can be served cold or hot, depending on the season.
Tofu pudding
Made with a soft tofu, this pudding is traditionally served with sweet ginger or clear syrup. It is now also commonly paired with red bean soup, coconut milk and a slew of other imaginative ingredients.
A kind of sweet rice dumpling, tongyuen are often eaten at family gatherings during festivals as the name sounds like 'family reunion'. The dumplings are made from glutinous rice flour and will have a sweet filling, such as sesame, peanut or sweet bean paste, and are served in a sweet soup, often made with sweet potato and ginger.
White fungus and pear soup
This is a popular winter treat. The ingredients are placed in a bowl which is then immersed in water in a larger container and stewed for several hours. The result is a warming and wholesome dessert. Many believe it helps nourish the skin.
Mango pudding
Mostly made using agar, fresh mangoes, evaporated milk and sugar, mango pudding is a mainstay of Hong Kong dessert menus. A fusion of Southeast Asian and local styles, mango pudding is served cold and has a light and creamy texture.
Durian creations
Hong Kong has taken durian — an import from Southeast Asia — and worked it into a myriad of combinations, including durian ice-cream, durian sorbet and durian slush drinks.


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For the wall compound you have to watch them the entire time the work on it. As soon as your person walks away pick them up and put them back on the bucket of compound. You have to do this many many times before they complete it. Same thing with the floor. When they walk away put them back on the spot on the floor. I usually have to put them on the floor cracks 4 times before it is done. The floor is not repaired till the floor repair kit disapears.
Look under the table in the kids room for the remote. Set someone on the table several times and see if they try and pick it up. If the remote is under that table you can't actually see it. You just have to try and put a person on it and see if they pick it up try several times.
I wanted to tell everyone that when I'm playing the game I hear this Twinkling sound and everytime I hear this sound I look around and there is a collectable in my yard. There are two different twinking sounds and only one of them seems to indicate a collectable. I only just noticed this today but every time I hear it there is a collectable in my yard. I wanted to see if anyone else has noticed this.
The red ball I'm talking about appears to have no function... read the spoiler.
You get it by clicking and dragging the mouse in the upper most left corner of the game screen. You can bounce it around and stuff. Also if you set it in the ring in the kids bedroom and then move it to the tool tray, then click in the now empty ring in the kids bedroom another ball will appear. I can't find a function for this ball and I just want to know the point of it. Thanks for your inquiry.
How do I post a picture of my game on here?
The Artist works in the office. You have to pick your person up and drop them on the desk. I don't know where the other works sorry. But it has to be either the Kitchen, Workshop, or Office. In the Workshop you need to drop them on one of the tables in there. You can't just drop them in the room you have to drop them where they can work and they aren't going to work on the floor. In the kitchen drop them on the counter to the right of the sink.
Something interesting just happened. I have not seen this. I use the doctors visit fairly often. Any time one of my little people is extremely weak. I just used it on my dad and it said. "our test indicates there is no infection. Also you may need to use baby boost if you want to have any children." I put it in quotes but I may have gotten the wording a little off. I never new that it could say that. I guess he got a fertility test done.
How do I post a picture of my game on here?
I was getting frustrated with a couple that both wanted babies, but then they kept arguing because they couldn't agree it was time to have a baby. I repeatedly dropped one on the other, and when they began arguing, I used the scolding hand. After about 5 or 6 cycles of this, they finally tried to make a baby and were successful!
Please, Please, Help! 2 questions
Does anybody know if it is better to send your kid off to a foreign country or not?
what is the absolute maximum age anybody has gotten for their "little guy"
Does "playing cook, office, or workshop" have any correlation between the children and their future careers?
thanks and please help!
Nikki_21_2 -
Lottery cards are a random event, they just show up.
Megan -
Post the picture on a hosting site and just put the link in a comment.
Crystal -
The gender of kids is pretty random, there's no way to affect it. Just keep trying.
dcobb2 -
Sending the kid to a foreign country is a nice way to get some quick money, but the kid is then gone unless you decide to make them the next generation when the parents die.
I think the oldest I managed was 68 or 69 so far.
I sat down and observed for a week just to see, but the playing cook, office, or workshop appeared to have no correlation to what their adult careers ended up.
Jaluza -
First, if you can afford it, use the doctor's exam on the child, they may have a serious illness that needs treating. Otherwise, there is random stuff you can buy in the store like fruits and vitamins that can help boost their strength. Also make sure that they are getting meals and plenty of sleep.
taz3677 - It appears you have a pretty rare problem there. I've scoured the web trying to find an answer for you. The only "solution" I see is that you are going to have to turn the TV on manually for now and hope that it shows up later. You sound pretty determined so I hope it magically shows up again. Good Luck.
Walzar cool thanks for doing that for me i have been everywhere to and saw one place it says it's under the table in the kids room but can't seem to get them to pick it up!! lmao
i have tried to put it on manually and it dosn't work
i even updated tv to see if one came with it but nothing!!
thanks again for looking very grateful
something strange just happened to me! The father was in bed with the kids around him (mother already dead) and it said 'extremely weak' so I gave him something from the store, multi vitamins, and suddenly he got back up and his ghost disappeared but now there's 2 of him walking around in the house, one weak and one extremely weak... what's gonna happen next?
Crina - remote control
When you read previous comments, you will see, that you are not alone with your problem :).
The remote control can be hidden nearly everywhere in your house and sometimes hard to find.
When you can't find it at all, wait for the event, when a group of maids will come to clean your house. Accept it and they will find the remote and place it back.
For further help please also have a look at the top of the comments, where we provide a FAQ section with a lot of helpful tips and hints.
Greetings, Kayleigh
Henne - people died
If you have to start over depends on if your adults had kids.
If so, you can start a new family with one of the kids.
If not, I'm afraid you will have to start again.
Please have a look at the FAQ - Section on top of these comments. You will find a lot of useful tips there, including the way how to go on with your kids starting a new generation.
Greetings, Kayleigh
Jen - too much water pressure
You will need one of your adults or kids to use the shower or the sink in the kitchen or bathroom. This will reduce the water pressure.
You might also want to have a look at the top of these comments, where you will find our FAQ sections with a lot of helpful tips.
Greetings, Kayleigh
Im new to virtual families and my lady has a baby which she is still carryin in her arms but her status is exhausted and she keeps on going sleep and having a drink and all but it doesn't go away and now the dad of the family is the same. I've looked at sum of the medicines but none of them seem 2 solve it and i even tryed a couple. So im not sure wat else to do now any ideas???????????? please help xx
This is how you do it on a computer, I don't know if it works on a ipod touch though:
1.Go to menu
2. Press Options
3. It says ,Pause game, check yes
Game is paused now
When you want to unpause the game
1. Check no
Hope this can help you, Jana730
I don't know how to refresh on an ipod touch. Sorry
Family does not sleep
Do you have the game running, while you are not playing? If not, go to options and change it there. They will sleep, when you are doing the same ;).
The time of their day is related to your own time. So over day they only will go to bed, when they are ill/very weak.
When you let them live their lifes, while you are not around, then just make sure, you have enough food in the fridge and close the game. When it is night for them they will go to sleep.
Latest when you open the game again, they will get up!
You may also have a look at our Faq-Section on top of these comments. You will find a lot of helpful tips there.
Greetings, Kayleigh
In order to open the shed door go to the sandbox and it will say fixing shed door. then when they are done go to the welcome mat then it will say unlocking shed door. then when you open it there is a fire extinguisher to put out fires and a watering cans to water the flowers.
Hope this helps!
Rachael :-D
having babies can be hard all so when it says arguing it means they cant decide but just do it again arguing dosen't mean its too soon just try again and house emails come every hour also i had people adopted like 4-5 time happen to me so you have to get lucky btw im stuck on getting bug they wont come all i see are leaves and coins i finish picture and coins and need 1 more for twigs and i have 5 bugs
Their energy levels will be fine as long as they take naps. Let them take naps and reward them for doing so a few times.
Naps are common and have a positive connotation in all countries but America.
If you have already taught them not to nap you will have to wait until they are exhausted and reward them for taking one a few times.
Then QUIT the game for about an hour and their energy levels will be back up soon.
Ok, guys my people are in their 40`s and I need to know when their children will take over???
IF anyone need to know how to fix the shower you pick up the person and put them by the shower and make sure that they saw that it was clogged and drag them to the laundry room to that black bucket right between the two items against the wall...
For the fire lint or burning stove (etc.) you have to show the person the fire and make sure they know about it and drag them to the sandbox and put them on top on the door handle to the shed and their status will say fixing shed door and after it says they are doing something different like watching t.v ( etc.) drag them to the welcome mat in front of the front door and it will say unlocking shed door... After that drag them to the shed on top of the fire extinguisher and then the status will be fixing the stove or fixing the dryer!!
I found a way to earn money very quickly, because the game is real time and connected to the clock on you computer if you change the time the game runs "faster".
I set the date on my computer to the earliest possible year which was in the early 1970's I then made a family and got them to have childrenI then exited the game and changed the date to the current date. This caused everyone to age but the parents only aged to about 50ish. Doing this raised my money into the millions, I currently have about 450,000,000 dollars in the bank. It is a lot more dun when I can buy anything that I want.
Been playing this for a few days now... and it's really fun! I really didn't like Virtual Villagers, but LastayofWork did a great job with this one (now if only they could get a better character designer). Allthough it's easy to think "Sims is so much better" (undoubtedly), I have to say that even if those thoughts cross your mind, it doesn't ruin the game at all. I'm obsessed with getting 100% on games, so this really suits me!
I'm still on my first gen, and I look forward to starting a second (unless they all die... those little weaklings).
Does anyone know what I do with the profesional office magazine? I got it somehow and I font know where to pit it iv tried everywhere. Also does anyone know how far you can get on the free app for iPhone. I'm on my 2nd gen but it doesn't seam that I can fix the house up. I can buy the upgrades but I can't fix the floor or buy items for the house. Any help would be good x
I just started a new family, my other one is just Long, long, LONG! My new one is at 1st generation and it consists of Krisetta, age 44 and Akozo, age 42. They have 2 kids, Ribbons, age 16 and Micro, age 10. Also, can they have personalities? Ribbons seems very neat, helpful and devoted to her studies, (i.e: as soon as she finishes vacuuming the living room she starts cleaning out the fridge, always seems to study in her spare time.) and Micro is your standard "nerd" (Sorry, Micro... ) I praise him for playing office all the time, maybe it'll give him an office career. I notice that the girls of the family seem "dainty". Just cured her of a serious infection. Sorry I typed so much... :-(
You can't adopt more than one person . When u first start they let u adopt 1 person. When you keep playing your person will get an email of proposal and you can marry the person or reject them . If you don't marry them you will keep getting proposal emails. Your person may have a baby with who ever they marry and when the parent dies one of the kids will take over.
Hope this helps, Jana730 :)


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The Canadian Journal of Aboriginal Community-Based HIV/AIDS Research (CJACBR) is published annually by the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN) as a service to its membership and anyone with an interest in Aboriginal Community-Based Research.
Purpose and Audience: The CJACBR is a peer-reviewed journal which welcomes contributions from any author. Priority however, may be given to an author of Aboriginal ancestry/background, should manuscripts of comparable quality be available. First consideration will be given to innovative articles covering areas identified as HIV/AIDS research-intensive which demonstrates the use of Aboriginal Community-Based Research (ACBR) methods or philosophy. Articles published in CJACBR are directed toward several audiences.
The primary audience is Aboriginal HIV/AIDS service organizations and Aboriginal people living with HIV/AIDS (APHAs). The CJACBR secondary audiences include community leaders, policy and decision-makers, and anyone with an interest in HIV/AIDS, particularly within Aboriginal populations and communities.
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Panic! At The Disco's stolen APMA trophy for their 2016 Song of the Year win has been returned to the band alongside an apology note.
On Monday (April 22), Zack Hall, the band's tour manager, took to Instagram to share a photo of the broken statue and a handwritten letter from the fan. In case you didn't know, the band's trophy was one of three items stolen from their House of Memories exhibit that let VIP members explore a lounge filled with rare band memorabilia. Among the other stolen items included a robe that Brendon Urie wore in the music video for "Victorious" and a rare polaroid from 2007. "Went and emptied out the fan mail P.O. Box and look what was in there. I guess even though it's broke in half, at least we got it back….?" Hall captioned a shot of the award and note.
In the letter, the unnamed fan apologized for the theft, admitting that one too many drinks were involved in the crime. "I am so sorry for taking this, and regardless if it's just a prop or not, I sincerely apologize with all my being," the note reads. "I was extremely drunk and made a very poor decision while in this state. Since then, I have felt beyond unsettled about the matter. Both as a person and a musician, you have impacted my life tremendously. Ever since I would listen to Fever and Pretty Odd on my 8th grade bus rides, I knew my life was changed. Best wishes on the rest of this tour and your future endeavors."
In August 2018, Hall told his Twitter following that the polaroid was "oddly returned" to him, but after taking a look at the comments to in his latest post, the robe is still missing in action.
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The Domaine Henri DELAGRANGE, in Volnay, Côte d'Or, owns fourteen and a half hectares of vines in the best situations in Côte de Beaune.
The family business is run by Didier Delagrange, vine grower and wine maker, who produces high quality Burgundy wines.
Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) wines:
- Volnay
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- Aloxe-Corton
- Meursault
- Bourgogne Hautes-Côtes de Beaune
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The following specification places a scanning device in a non-global zone configuration.
You must be the global administrator in the global zone to perform this procedure.
Become superuser, or assume the Primary Administrator role.
To create the role and assign the role to a user, see Using the Solaris Management Tools With RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.
Add a device.
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Set the device match, /dev/scsi/scanner/c3t4* in this procedure.
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The girl came skipping in in from kindergarten one day and told her Mother. "Mommy, we were counting today and none of the other kids could go past 4 but I counted all the way to 10. Is that because I'm blonde?
"Yes dear."
"Mommy, we were reciting the alphabet. None of the other kids could go past D, but I went all the way to M. Is that be because I'm a blonde?"
"Yes, dear."
""Mommy, we all pulled up our shirts. They had nothing and I've got these. Is that because I'm a blonde? She showed off a stunning rack of 36Ds.
""No, dear. That's because you're 25."