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I totally agree on removing VHoS. I don't know about transferring the two bosses. Namtar is fine as is, and he is technically a vampire (or he shares the sprite) under that cloak.
I love symmetry.
Darvin wrote:Far too late for this, but I'd love to see a central dungeon that includes Indomitable, Rex, Evolvia, Itsssama, BlahBlah, and Getindafax. All the sub-vicious final bosses from the four directions plus two lesser bosses. The quest text for the vampire could say "we need blood from powerful creatures; lots, and lots of blood"
Gavster wrote:If space is the issue, binlor, lemissee or bludtupow can make life easy.
The Avatar wrote:Yeah. Especially since Binlor can feed magic resistance to help beat forms one and two.
Technicaly, if you nerf all of these, Namtar's lair should be impossible
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As warm weather arrives people in the South turn their thoughts to their favorite beverages. Be it bourbon on the rocks or a refreshing lemonade, everyone has a favorite summertime drink. That was even more true in the days before air-conditioning made summer in the South so much more tolerable.
A review of 19th century recipes from Columbus provides an interesting insight into people's taste. The oldest cookbook used in Columbus that I have seen is an 1825 copy of "The Virginia Housewife." Most of the drinks in that cookbook are listed in a chapter called "Cordials, & etc." In the 1800s, a cordial was a sweet drink, that may or may not have contained alcohol, served warm, generally after a meal.
In 1825, favorite drinks included: Ginger Wine, Orgeat (a milk, cinnamon and almond drink,) Cherry Brandy, Rose Brandy (made from fragrant rose,) Raspberry Cordial, Mint Cordials, Peach Cordial (made with fresh peaches sliced and aged 4 to 6 weeks in peach brandy and brown sugar,) and Ginger Beer.
In the golden age of steamboats, steamers were leaving Columbus on an almost daily basis for Mobile. With many boats to pick from, people often selected the boat they would travel on based on the steamer's cook or bartender. One New York writer traveling on an Alabama steamboat in 1858 described the boat's food and drink as comparable to that of a Paris restaurant. The list of supplies for the Steamboat Tropic in the Columbus to Mobile area in 1837 includes the following beverages on board: coffee, tea, French cordial, and whiskey.
The popular beverages of the mid-1800s are provided in Sally Govan Billups' 1866 cookbook "Southern Cookery." Beverages are included in two chapters. One chapter is titled; "Wines and Cordials." The other beverages are listed in a chapter titled simply "Miscell- aneous." The list of wine recipes include: muscadine, blackberry and port wine Sangaree. Cordials were blackberry and strawberry. Other drinks were peach brandy, grape brandy, corn beer, hop beer, ginger beer, persimmon beer, egg nogg, mint julep, milk punch and lemonade.
The cookbook also contained a drink called "instantaneous ginger beer" Instructions were: "Fill a bottle with pure cold water; have a cork ready to fit it, also a string to tie it down with, and a mallet to drive the cork in, so that no time may be lost. Now put into the bottle sugar to your taste and a teaspoon of good ginger. Shake it well; then add the sixth part of an ounce of soda, cork rapidly, and tie it down. Shake the bottle well, cut the string, the cork will fly out, and you may then drink the beer." Beer often referred to a beverage that was carbonated but not necessarily fermented.
After the Civil War, the beverage market began to change with the bottling of ready-to-drink products. Anheuser-Busch first produced beer in glass bottles in 1876 and Coca-Cola began bottling Cokes in 1894.
By the time "The New Dixie Receipt Book" came out in 1902, the Southern taste was becoming more modern. Root beer was no longer made from scratch. The recipe, rather than giving ingredients, stated: "A cooling, non-intoxicating and healthful drink for summer is Hire's Root-Beer. Procure a bottle of Hire's root-beer extract of your grocer and follow directions for making." Even the recipe for "a summer drink," which was ginger beer, called for using Hire's and adding ginger to the mix.
A new beverage also appeared on the Columbus scene, the milk shake. To make a milk shake "fill a glass 2/3 full of milk, sweeten to taste with any fruit syrup or with sugar and then flavor with vanilla or orange water. Fill up glass with cracked ice and shake together until well mixed."
It was the beginning of the 1900s that saw the increasing popularity of iced drinks such as flavored teas and the wide spread sales of bottled sodas and beer. The beverage taste of the South had entered a new century.
And to answer the question that started me on this topic: that children's drink of choice, Kool-Aid, was invented in 1927 by Edwin Perkins as a drink called "Fruit Smack." He changed the name to Kool-Aid, and in 1953, sold it to General Foods.
Rufus Ward is a local historian. Email your questions about local history to him at [email protected]
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An intimate conversation with Boo, the world's cutest canine traveler
Like butter, Boo, the self-proclaimed world's cutest dog, is on a roll.
Following his 2012 appointment as Virgin Airlines Official Pet Liaison, the supernaturally charming Pomeranian released his first travel book this past summer. Published by Chronicle Books, "Boo: Little Dog in the Big City" is a pictorial account of a journey through San Francisco.
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Curious to get the thoughts of the travel world's latest celebrity (and, let's face it, after Richard Branson and Bill Bryson, there aren't many), we managed to keep a lid on our giddy excitement long enough to document Boo's take on everything from essential carry-on items to travel pet peeves.
CNN: Your recent book finds you traveling around San Francisco. Why San Francisco?
Boo: San Francisco is one of the world's most popular travel destinations. It's beautiful, not too hot and very dog friendly. Also, my publisher is there so it counts as business travel!
CNN: Better San Francisco song: "Lights" by Journey or "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding?
Boo: I think Journey is my favorite. Also, I can't whistle, so it's harder to join in on "Dock of the Bay."
CNN: You're a little guy -- how do you handle all the hills of Chinatown?
Boo: Our human carries us sometimes or has a dog carrier, so if I get tired I hop in there. But, Chinatown has lots of great smells, so I stop a lot to sniff.
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CNN: Are you following the 49ers quarterback controversy this year -- are you a sports fan at all?
Boo: I often watch football, but my favorite game is the Puppy Bowl.
CNN: Any pooch-friendly San Francisco restaurant recommendations?
Boo: I love The Brixton on Union street. They have a Prime Rib Sunday! And Café des Amis has tasty French food that you can eat outside.
San Francisco also has a great new food cart place called SOMA StrEAT Food Park.
They all are pet-friendly.
CNN: You've become Virgin Airlines' Official Pet Liaison. May we call you "spokesdog" and how did that partnership come about?
Boo: We like to fly Virgin Airlines; they're mood lighting is relaxing. When they contacted our human, it seemed like a natural friendship.
CNN: What are your obligations and duties as Virgin Airlines spokesdog?
Boo: Virgin America said they wanted to make their guests -- two-legged and four-legged -- feel comfortable, so I offer tips on products that make pet travel easy.
I will offer tips and post photos when I travel.
One Virgin teammate said it "makes their day" when I am on the flight, so that is pretty cool.
CNN: In your Virgin photos, we can't help noticing your post-flight fur looks a little tousled. Were you intentionally going for that look or was perhaps a bit of jet lag involved?
Boo: Who emerges from a cross-country flight looking ready for the runway? I snuggle up with a blanket when I fly and sometimes it musses my hair.
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CNN: Has the pressure to remain adorable increased with fame? How do you stay grounded in light of your sudden notoriety?
Boo: Life hasn't changed much for me. I like to stay home, play with toys and pal around with Buddy.
CNN: No offense, but do people ever ask if you're a real dog or a toy?
Boo: Haha! In person, no. But on the Internet there have been debates.
My human has posted videos of me, but the rumors persist.
Gund made a plush dog that looks like me, so now we have both: real Boo and doll Boo.
CNN: Do fans ask for your pawtograph when they see you in public?
Boo: Sometimes people recognize me. I like to say hello and get petted.
But my human says no to people feeding me. Otherwise I might put on some weight from too many treats.
CNN: Having a travel buddy is great but now always easy -- what are your areas of sensitivity we should know about before hitting the road with you?
Boo: It's funny you should say that as my best friend is named Buddy. I like to go places, and when my human pulls out the carrier I get really excited.
I do need naps, otherwise I get groggy and don't want to play.
Traveling by plane or car gives me a chance to take a long nap in my carrier, and when I get there I'm ready for fun.
CNN: What traits irritate you the most in a travel pal?
Boo: Sometimes I like my peace and quiet, so like most people I don't like a neighbor who is too chatty.
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CNN: Got a favorite dog movie?
Boo: "Lady and the Tramp." I'm a sucker for true love.
CNN: What did you think of "Marley and Me"?
Boo: I haven't seen it. Is it about Bob Marley's dog?
CNN: Lassie or Triumph the Insult Comic Dog?
Boo: Lassie! She would be fun to hang out with and would keep me out of trouble.
CNN: Paris or Beijing?
Boo: I hear that Paris is a great town for dogs, and I bet French pastries are delicious. I bet I would look good in a beret.
CNN: Beach or mountains?
Boo: Beach for sure. Here's a tip: if you dig down into the sand it is cool on your belly.
CNN: Belly rub or behind-the-ears scratch?
Boo: Behind the ears. I like to lean into it.
CNN: What items do you always pack in your carry-on?
Boo: A squeaky toy and my favorite striped shirt.
CNN: On airplanes, do you ride in the passenger cabin or in the hold below?
Boo: Buddy and I ride in carriers under the seats. I'm close to my human and I can hear the conversations around me.
CNN: Do you travel with a stylist?
Boo: No. The reason I have this haircut is so that I don't have to be groomed often. I have a habit of matting my hair and this is a low-maintenance cut.
CNN: Ever sat next to a cat on a flight? How would that work out?
Boo: What's a cat?
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CNN: What's the longest flight you've been on?
Boo: I have flown to New York before. Now that was a nice, long, undisturbed nap.
CNN: Would you ever consent to being sedated for a flight?
Boo: I can sleep through almost anything so no need for sedatives.
CNN: Are there special dog facilities on a plane where you can "freshen up"?
Boo: There is no grassy area for dogs, if you catch my drift
CNN: What do you never leave home without?
Boo: Buddy and my human. We're a team.
CNN: What sorts of in-flight snacks do you prefer?
Boo: I have a good breakfast and then only some water on the flight.
CNN: If you competed in a cute-off with Maru, the Internet cat sensation from Japan, who would win?
Boo: Maru is funny. I have seen his videos. He has lots of talent so it might be a tough competition.
CNN: What celebrity would you most like to meet?
Boo: Who doesn't want to meet Oprah? I also like Jason Mraz's music. I hope he is a dog person. Alicia Keyes Instagramed a photo of me once, maybe we can become friends.
CNN: We know you're single and, in your own words, "still having fun." Do you lick on the first date? Or just sniff?
Boo: Oh gosh…! My face is getting red under my fur.
CNN: Are we getting too personal here?
Boo: Uh … yeah!
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CNN: What's on the front burner? Product endorsements, movie deals?
Boo: I have a paper doll set and children's ABC book coming out in spring of 2013.
I like kids and they seem to like me, so I am excited to have a book for them.
CNN: What places do you most want to visit in the world and why?
Boo: I have many fans from Brazil who write me to say I should come visit. They make it sound like a fun place to be.
CNN: We live in Hong Kong -- if you ever come here would you PLEEEEEEEASE visit our office?
Boo: I thought you'd never ask! We can eat some ramen, go to the horse races, maybe see the big Boo-dah on Lantau. It is spelled Boo-dah, right?
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Each of us had an influence that made us fans of Mopar. For 46-year-old Dana Motes, this influence dated back 36 years, to when he was 10 years old. "I was working on a Volkswagen with my father in a one car garage and he was slowly turning me into a gear head," he recalls. Thankfully, his time spent with "the People's car" didn't last long; otherwise this may be a feature in VW Muscle. Two years later, in 1974, Dana's brother, Calvin, purchased a brand new '74 Road Runner with a 400 engine backed by a Pistol Grip four-speed. After that, and with the support of his father, Dana's life would eventually be consumed by his passion to build the ultimate Challenger with his family by his side.
He became addicted to muscle cars and power after his brother's Road Runner, and several years later, he would purchase the car from his brother when he was 15 years old-before he even had a driver's license. Dana modified the Road Runner almost as soon as he got it, swapping the 400 for a 440 that was bored .030-over, and then dropped the four-speed out in favor of an automatic with a Cheetah valvebody. The power was sent to the ground with a 4,500-stall and a 5.38 rear gear. A pair of 12×32-15 slicks absorbed the punishment of the big-block and tall gear. "My dad was proud but also very worried that I would get hurt."
John claimed that he bought the Challenger from an elderly lady in 1984, and then he drove it home and took it apart where it just sat in his garage for the next three years. Dana and his buddy, Bruce Zeimba, loaded up his '79 Power Wagon for the 18-hour trip one way.
When the pair arrived at John's house Dana wasn't too happy. The Challenger had collected three years worth of dust, had four flat tires, some white interior pieces, and boxes of extra parts from swap meets. There was a lot of work to be done. However, just as John described, the body was in perfect shape and the price was a firm $2,700. After some internal debate, Dana finally decided to take the convertible back to Oxford, Michigan, with him.
As dusk rolled around, the Power Wagon was running on fumes so they stopped to fill her up. When he looked back at the Challenger he noticed that the color of the car had changed, and it now had a little bit of a green hue to it. It was Citron Yella-you Plymouth boys may be more familiar with Curious Yellow. Dana's attitude about the car began to change, especially since he had three offers to sell the car before he even got it home. Once finally at home, the car sat in his parent's driveway until his father finally asked him to move it into the garage because so many people were making offers to buy it.
Once the convertible was in the garage he knew it was time to get started. The first thing on the list was to pull the 318 and transmission. Then while lying on his back, under the car, with a wire wheel and sandpaper, Dana cleaned the underside before spraying it and the engine compartment Citron Yella. Once the paint was sprayed in the engine compartment, he enlisted his good friend, Jeff Herbon, to assist him in rebuilding his 440 he took from his Road Runner so many years ago. They kept it stock looking on the outside, aside from the 8-quart oil pan. "When you start it and hear the 12:1 compression breathing through the 2 1/2-inch stainless TTi exhaust, it's incredible." Dana gutted the factory resonators to achieve a factory appearance, but wanted the Dynomax sound connected to the factory tips. "It turned out to be a lot of motor for the convertible, but with air conditioning, it's a blast," he says. Ron Mancini of Mancini Racing rebuilt the TorqueFlite and installed a 2,500-stall converter and a Cheetah valve body with a reverse shift pattern. After he and Julie, his fiancé at the time, put the drivetrain together, the Challenger was sent to Dave Reins at Action Collision and Restoration for fresh paint.
This is when life made an impact on the project. Dana and his father were building the younger Motes' new home, while Julie was busy planning the wedding. He had most of the parts to finish the car, but he didn't have the time or money to deal with it at that point. Then his father was diagnosed with cancer in 1995 so he stepped up to take care of him and his home. By the time he got around to begin working on the Challenger again it was 1998 and his wife became pregnant with their son, Wendle.
He now realized that it was time to become a mentor to his son as his father was to him. Sadly, his father lost his battle with cancer about a year later and he kept his promise to take care of his mother and their home. Dana decided that there was no greater way to impact his son's life than in one of the same ways his father did for him, and that started in the garage. Wendle was only five but he enthusiastically joined in.
In 2004 Dana made a gentleman's bet with his buddies that he would drive the car in the 2005 Woodward Dream Cruise. They didn't even begin to put it together until about three months before the Cruise, but they were able to finish it the day before, detailing the car that morning. After driving the car and getting the well-deserved thumbs up and stopping people in their tracks, the addiction was back. As fate would have it, this didn't last for long. The paint was marred in a garage accident that caused him to feel "nauseous for a few months." The paint was a 17-year-old lacquer job that couldn't be replicated.
After taking a few TUMS, he uncovered the Challenger and disassembled it to be painted again. This time around he used a modern base coat clear coat system from PPG. The original taillight panel, bumpers, and chrome were put back on along with a new top and Rallye cluster from Year One. It was finished in time for the 2006 Woodward Dream Cruise. After talking with Jack Irons from Unlawful Racing, he decided to take the car to the 2008 Mopar Nationals. He was invited to display his drop-top Challenger at Mopar's New Challenger display and again the following weekend at the 2008 Woodward Dream Cruise. His wife now calls the car "The King" and his son loves it when the pedal hits the floor. "Wendle wants to build a Demon when he gets older," he says. (Future Young Gun?) Dana has come to fully appreciate the time and the story that a project build can bring. In telling the story of this car, you can also tell the story of his family and his life. Long live the King.
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'71 Dodge Challenger
Car Owner: Dana Motes Oxford, MI
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Engine: This mighty 440 once powered his Road Runner and when he parted ways with the car, he held onto the engine. Dana and Jeff Herbon rebuilt it in 1988 before lowering it into the Challenger. It's bored .030-inch over and features TRW pistons held by TRW Six-Pack rods that clench a factory crankshaft. A hydraulic-roller Comp Cams camshaft with .525-inch lift and 305-degrees duration controls the 2.14-inch intake and 1.81-inch exhaust valves. The valves are tamed by Comp valve springs and actuated by Mopar Heavy-Duty Hydraulic stamped rocker arms. The stock cast iron heads were ported and polished and the Edelbrock TM7 high-rise intake were port-matched. For fuel, a single Holley 850 was modified to flow 1100 cfm and an Electronic Direct Connection tach-driven distributor with Super Stock coils deliver the charge. The exhaust leaves through factory manifolds that were port-matched to the needs and into a 2 1/2-inch stainless TTi exhaust with Dynomax mufflers and an X-pipe. Dana bought new resonators to cut open and remove the guts and weld back together. This gives the exhaust a stock appearance and even uses the stock tips.
Transmission: Mancini Racing rebuilt the TorqueFlite and installed a 2,500 stall Turbo Action Street torque converter and a Cheetah valve Body with a reverse shift pattern.
Differential: The 8 3/4-inch rear is filled with a factory Sure Grip, 3.91 gears, and Strange axles.
Suspension: The front features 90/10 shocks with small block torsion bars. The back uses 50/50 shocks, a pinion snubber, and big block leaf springs.
Brakes: Factory rebuilt drums.
Wheels and Tires: Factory Rallye wheels with BF Goodrich radials measuring 235 up from and 255 our back.
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Paint and Body: 17 years ago, Dave Reins at Action Collision and Restoration in Troy, painted the car in Citron Yella' lacquer paint. After the accident in his garage, the paint couldn't be matched and the entire car was repainted with a base coat clear coat system from PPG. Interior: The original interior was white, but now it's an unrestored black interior out of a donor car he located 20 years ago. The carpet was sourced from YearOne, the Rallye cluster was taken from the donor.


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This has been one of the longer days in recent memory, beginning with a blogger breakfast at 8:00. The day included technical problems with our internet connections; our first video post; interviews with a number of luminaries including Ed Koch, Ken Mehlman, Ari Fleischer, and, most memorably, recent Miss America Erika Herold; a National Review party at which I met Rich Lowry and Byron York; an appearance on Hugh Hewitt's radio show along with John Podhoretz; and, finally, an evening spent inside the hall watching the first night of the convention. I just got back to my hotel a few minutes ago, and will wait until morning to post detailed impressions of the speeches.
A few preliminary comments: John McCain is at best an adequate speaker, but it is hard for me to believe that he can't muster a more enthusiastic delivery for his endorsement of President Bush. I think his speech was important simply because of who McCain is, but it could have been much more effective if delivered better. McCain waited until the last fifteen seconds to show any emotion.
Rudy Giuliani was nuclear. He went on a little too long, but the middle portion of his speech, in which he eviscerated John Kerry, was a brilliant performance. Kerry cannot withstand that kind of ridicule from a man with as much credibility as Giuliani. And Giuliani's reminiscences of the events of September 11 were important, if only because the media studiously avoid recalling them or showing images of them, lest Americans be roused to fury and tempted to support President Bush.
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Vince, I did receive your registration. If you can tell me your partners name, shirt sizes for both players, team name and division, we will have you all set up. Thanks for your registration, Vince!! It's gonna be a awesome tournament!!!
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Sunday, September 13, 2009
Libertarian Halloween Costume: Banksy's Flower Chucker
I may have found my Halloween costume for 2009- with an awesome libertarian twist.
It's to dress up as the "masked anarchist" throwing a bouquet of flowers instead of a bomb or Molotov cocktail in a classic work by the English graffiti artist, Banksy.
The work is entitled "The Flower Chucker."
It is visually powerful and philosophically poignant because it seems to espouse peace, love, and non-violent means to the ends of political revolution.
I would love to be that masked anarchist throwing a bouquet of flowers for Halloween because I would love to be that masked anarchist throwing a bouquet of flowers.
If my life's work could be summarized in that picture, I would die a happy man.
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- AnonymousSeptember 13, 2009 at 4:09 PM
Hmm, seeing the picture got me thinking about the physics of throwing flowers. Maybe ten feet at best (as depicted). Any thoughts on how to throw the flowers further without property damage (except for the 'pollution' of the flowers and wrap themselves)ReplyDelete
Good point! If the flowers are all just wrapped nicely together in a paper or plastic covering, you are correct that they will fly apart in the air and wind resistance will shorten their range.ReplyDelete
If they were somewhat tightly tied or rubber-banded together however, I think they could fly much farther than ten feet because they would be somewhat projectile-like, especially if I threw them stem first like a spear.
Maybe to be consistent I should just nicely hand them to someone though.


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My Kind of Life: Not Just Another Healthy Drink
Sometimes the wheel is reinvented and it rolls better. There is a nutritional drink on the market that has redefined the very essence of its nature. Redefined because it is made for the HIV-impacted community and others living with chronic diseases like cancer. Unique because it has ingredients way above and beyond your basic A through zinc vitamins. Special because it is specially formulated to help you add body mass and maintain it. Different from others because it fights oxidative stress by helping you eliminate it from your system. Your body gets stressed when free radicals roam around within your cells. HIV medications, smoking, alcohol, food digestion and the omnipresent air pollution can cause these radicals to float around your blood stream where you don't need them. And did I mention that it tastes really good?
Millennium Biotechnologies, Inc., has created two formulas Resurgex and Resurgex Plus, which contain a patented ingredient called SOD (Superoxide Dismutase), which helps your body process and eliminate those free radicals. The product also contains an impressive array of essential and non-essential amino acids, vitamins and minerals to help maintain weight, increase energy and strengthen the immune system. This product is superior to other nutritional drinks because it does not start out with any high fructose corn syrup and all that other stuff that, for all we know, may also cause free radicals. It is packaged in neat single serving packages and you get to choose what liquid to shake it up with. I used soy milk with mine and it made the flavor richer and smoother. I could tell you about the impressive profile of all the ingredients but you may find out for yourself by looking it up on the Internet or calling them. Toll free: (888) 412-9179 or go to www.milbiotech.com.
SOD (Superoxide Dismutase) is a metal-containing antioxidant enzyme that reduces potentially harmful free radicals of oxygen formed during normal metabolic cell processes to oxygen and hydrogen peroxide. As mammalians we need oxygen to breathe and survive and as your body lives each day it naturally creates free radicals. Normally, people create SOD on their own which helps the body deal with free radicals by canceling them and returning your cells' balance to normal. As a natural part of aging the body produces less SOD. Free radicals have been studied and implicated as the main cause of chronic degenerative diseases from HIV/AIDS to cancer to cardiovascular disease and more. HIV-positive individuals taking HAART are at risk of free radical overload as these medications themselves cause free radicals. HIV causes free radicals, now if you also happen to smoke and eat rich foods you are racking up with an overabundance of free radicals.
SOD used to be effective only by injection but Millennium Biotechnologies Inc., has the exclusive rights in the medical markets to use the first orally effective form of SOD -- a patented method to cover the SOD with Gliadin, which serves to protect it in the GI tract and help get the SOD into the body. Better yet, the SOD is derived from melon and the Gliadin is derived from wheat, completely vegetarian! Also, there is mitochodrial toxicity that HIV and its medications can induce. Mitochondrial damage has been linked to lipodystrophy, peripheral neuropathy, kidney damage, muscle weakness and liver damage. The mitochondria are the cells power source. HIV-positive people taking nukes for a long time may have poor functioning mitochondria. Along with SOD, Resurgex and Resurgex Plus contain nutrients such as D-Ribose, L-Carnitine and Coenzyme Q10 that have direct and indirect roles in supporting and protecting the mitochondria.
I have been on a structured treatment interruption since October of 2002 and the only thing that I have added to my body in the interim is Resurgex. I prefer the Resurgex because I want to maintain my current body mass. When I first tried it I did not expect much but within minutes I felt more energy. And I have never really felt energy after taking supplemental drinks except for the ones loaded with ephedrine or caffeine. So I could actually feel something immediately. I also felt full and I mean extra large, biggie size value meal full. And I felt this way for about three to four hours.
When I returned to my doctor for blood work my viral load was 58,000 and on my next visit my viral load was down to 29,000 and three months after this visit the load was still hovering at 29,000. I expected my viral load to be at least near 100,000, since the last time I went on an STI after only three months my viral load spiked up to 59,000 and within one more month nearly 90,000. So I was ready for a bad report and the inevitable conversation over what meds to start and what side effects to watch out for. I believe the drink boosted and detoxified my immune system. I have been on some type of antiretroviral medications since approximately 1991 and that does not take into account any antibiotics and other medications to treat specific infections or problems that have occurred. Going back to 1991 I can also add smoking cigarettes daily and a few party favors at least every weekend to my systems' fair share of free radicals.
Naturally, we are all different and everything we ingest works differently on us but these are my results. I have been applying AndroGel for years and I also took a cycle of Deca-Durabolin while I was drinking this product but my weight never went anywhere over 199 pounds. However, during the ingestion of Resurgex, my BIA (Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis) shows that I gained more muscle than ever before to the tune of 205 to 207 pounds. That's about 6 to 7 pounds of extra muscle that I had never achieved to gain myself.
Representatives from the company were at the United States Conference on AIDS in Atlanta a few years back and a co-worker brought some samples into TPAN and that's how I was introduced to the product. It is not cheap but we are what we eat and drink aren't we?
A couple of my buddies said it was too sweet for them, I have a sweet tooth and I like it just fine the way it is. It's good to know that the sweetness is not from a bunch of processed chemicals or sugars. If it's too sweet your taste, you can add a bit more of your favorite liquid to lessen the sweetness. You may qualify to have this drink covered under your insurance plan depending on which state you reside in and what insurance plan you have and what kind of rings of fire you can jump through. There are many people impacted by HIV and AIDS that cannot keep any food in them or cannot maintain any weight gains. Then there are people living with cancer and other chronic conditions that require the best nutrition possible. These formulas can be ingested orally or through a feeding tube.
I researched the ingredients found in two of the most popular standbys of the nutritional drink arena. It's incredible that some of these nutritional drinks are covered by most health insurance plans while being loaded with processed ingredients! These are given to the elderly, those with cancer and HIV and anyone in a hospital setting on a liquid diet. Here's the list of the first three or four ingredients from one can of brand X: water, corn syrup, sugar and sucrose. Further down the list we find canola oil, corn oil, artificial flavors and pyridoxine hydrochloride! While this is only a form of vitamin B6, it is also listed as an eye irritant! I think I'll stick to something new and truly different that I believe is healthier to ingest. And when it comes to all the sugars and oils, I would rather have these as a treat in the form of pecan pie but not in my nutritional drink.


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Don Waller celebrated his 81st birthday April 6, commemorating not only eight decades of life, but nearly 60 years as a farmer, founder and owner of a successful funeral home business, and an eight-year term, 1988-1996, as president of the 200,000 member Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation.
And he's looking forward, come early May, to planting another crop of cotton, which has been the one and only row crop on his farm near Oxford, Miss., for the past 40 years.
"I still feel good, still enjoy what I do," he says, "and as long as I'm physically and mentally able, I have no plans to retire. I'd be totally miserable.
"I've had some great experiences, great travel opportunities during my Farm Bureau tenure, and business success beyond farming — but first and foremost, I've always been a farmer. There has never been a day that I woke up in the morning dreading what I had to do on the farm that day."
Since he started farming on his own in 1954, Waller says, he's been involved in various enterprises in addition to cotton. "I've tried almost everything — poultry, cattle, hogs — but cotton was always the backbone of the operation. Some of my land has never had anything on it but cotton."
He hasn't been tempted by the high prices for corn and soybeans in recent years.
"All my equipment is geared to cotton, and at this stage of my life, I have no wish to expand or move into other crops. On our hill land, for non-irrigated production, I don't think there's a better crop than cotton. With no-till, Roundup Ready technology, and stacked trait varieties, I think we can grow it here in the hills cheaper than anywhere in Mississippi. For me, it's by far the least risky crop option.
"Roundup Ready has been the key that made no-till production workable. Before it came along, everybody laughed that 'no-till means no-yield,' but being able to go over the top with Roundup made all the difference in the world."
And the boll weevil eradication effort eliminated a pest that had robbed farmers of yields for decades, adding an extra measure of profit potential to cotton, Waller says.
"The eradication program got under way when I was Farm Bureau president, and I was proud to join farmers in Mississippi and across the cotton belt in supporting the effort. It took a long time and a lot of money, but it has been of tremendous value to the cotton industry, and will be of benefit to growers for years to come.
"All these developments have been the salvation for cotton producers."
The current sharp cutback in U.S. cotton production — with one of the lowest acreages ever expected in Mississippi this year — is a concern, he says.
Concern for cotton infrastructure
"The big factor is the potential loss of important infrastructure. We need for there to be enough cotton to keep our gins, warehouses, dealers and suppliers, repair shops, etc., in business. I believe cotton will come back — it will just take time to work out from under the oversupply situation we're in. I hope all these infrastructure components can hold on until that happens."
Even before he started farming on his own in 1954, Waller's life was centered around cotton.
"I was born just down the road from here. My father, Percy Waller, farmed here, and I grew up helping out on the farm. We were plowing with mules and still had sharecropper families living on the farm. We chopped out weeds by hand, picked the cotton by hand. There were years the boll weevil took a heavy toll on the crop. But we managed to hang on.
"We had maybe 100 acres of cotton and grew some corn for the mules. In most years, we'd make a half-bale to three-quarters bale. I don't know how we made the yields we did. When we were first able to mount sprayers on tractors and spray for the boll weevil, things got somewhat better."
Even when he was going to school at Ole Miss, Waller says, "I kept farming — I scheduled all my classes in the morning so I could do farm work in the afternoons.
"The Wallers have been here a long time. My grandfather, Morgan Waller, bought land and settled here in 1904. After he died, my father later bought the 360-acre home place from his estate. When my late wife, Patsy, and I married, we lived in my grandfather's house. In later years, we moved it elsewhere on the farm and built a new house."
When Waller began farming full time, he and his father formed a partnership. "Over the years I've bought my uncle's place and other land here and there, and I also rent some land from the Corps of Engineers near Sardis Lake. I'm now farming in five different locations, but five miles is the farthest I have to travel to any of the farms."
In 1977, Waller says, his wife, who had held a county elective office for many years, was looking for a career change, and "we saw a need for another funeral home to serve the area.
"We started Waller Funeral Home, which she managed, and I helped out as needed. It was a tough business to get started, and the struggles we had were as demanding as anything on the farm. But with her hard work, it became successful and now is an integral part of this community.
"After her death, our daughter, Beth Rosson, and her husband, Bob, took it over and now operate it. Their son, my grandson Brett, works there too, but he also works with me here on the farm. He understands all the computer, GPS, and other technology. Two funeral home workers also help here on the farm at planting, harvest, and other times."
The evolution of machinery, chemicals, varieties, and production systems during his farming years has been nothing short of astounding, Waller says. "Those advancements changed farming for everyone.
"Our first mechanical picker was a 1-row International Harvester that we bought used. I remember to this day going to pick it up south of Memphis and driving it back to the farm. People along the highway would stop and look at it — it was such an unusual sight in those days.
Less equipment with no-till
"Most of the equipment I use now was bought in the 1990s. With no-till, I don't really have need for a lot of tractor power any more. One of my tractors has never been used for anything but pulling the planter; another I use with a dirt pan and for other jobs. They have less than 2,000 hours on them. Less use, of course, reduces fuel and maintenance costs.
"I have a self-propelled John Deere sprayer for chemical applications and to apply liquid nitrogen. The spreader truck, for applying potash and phosphorus, is equipped with GPS for greater accuracy and efficiency. That's pretty much the extent of equipment that I use on a regular basis.
"My picker is an International 420 4-row machine, the last 4-row model they made, and it still serves my needs adequately. We do all our own maintenance, unless it's something major."
He soil tests every year. "I try to maintain pH in the 6.0 to 7.0 range, and to keep P and K at optimum levels. I plant fully loaded Deltapine varieties exclusively. I've tried most varieties over the years, but these seem to work best year-in and year-out. Deltapine DP 0912 B2RF has been a very good variety, and I've grown some of their 2010 class and 2011 class varieties. Last year, I averaged 950 pounds."
Thus far, Waller says, he's had no resistant pigweeds. "There have been a few resistant marestails, but nothing that's been a real problem. I've never used anything but Monsanto's Roundup in my weed control program; it has worked well from day 1, and I've stuck with it.
"With the weevil eradicated and with Bt technology, we don't have many insect problems. Depending on the season, I may spray two or three times for plant bugs and occasionally for a flare of aphids or stink bugs.
"Insect control technology has come a long way since the days of DDT, malathion, and the really potent chemicals. Now, we're applying materials at ounces, or fractions of an ounce per acre, and they're much more benign in the environment."
While most farmers cuss them for other reasons, Waller says he believes the fire ants in his fields are "a pretty good insect control ally. They really go after aphids or any egg-laying insect. They can be a pain at harvest time, or when I'm out walking in the field, but I think they're of some benefit in helping to control some insects."
He applied his burndown application in early March, and says it has worked well despite the wet, cold weather that occurred on into April.
"I seldom plant cotton before May 1, and try to get everything in during the first two weeks of that month. We'll generally start harvesting in early October."
He and five other farmers in the area own the Taylor-Lafayette Gin at Taylor, Miss., where his cotton is ginned. "The gin processed about 12,000 bales last year, which was one of the smallest volumes we've had over the years," Waller says. His cotton is marketed through Staplcotn. He also serves on the board of directors and the executive committee of Delta Oil Mill.
Timber market in doldrums
In addition to his 850 acres of cotton, Waller has 1,000 acres in pines and hardwoods, and some pasture land that he rents to a neighbor.
"The timber market has been terrible since the housing crisis hit," he says. "Pulpwood prices have been decent recently, and I've done some thinning here and there, but I'm trying to hold off on any logging sales until the market recovers."
Waller, who says he has been involved with Farm Bureau all his farming life, considers it "a great privilege" to have served as president of the Mississippi organization from 1988-1996.
"It was a great honor to be chosen by the membership to lead the organization. It gave me the opportunity to work with a lot of really outstanding people at the state and national levels (I was on the board of the American Farm Bureau Federation), to work with a lot of the key leaders in Washington, and to travel internationally — China, Israel, Germany, Austria, and many other places. I kept a suitcase packed all the time.
"Farm Bureau's Farm Families of Mississippi promotion campaign, which has been under way the last couple of years and is co-sponsored by a lot of individuals and businesses in the state, is an excellent program to help create awareness of the importance of agriculture.
"The public now is so removed from any connection to agriculture, we need to do everything we can to make them aware of how good we in the U.S. have it in terms of bountiful food and fiber."
He also is appreciative of all the people he met and worked with when his brother, the late Bill Waller, served as Mississippi's governor from 1972 to 1976.
As he moves into his ninth decade, Waller says he's happy that he's able to continue farming. He remarried in December 2011 and says he and his wife, Mary Lee, are now "just living the quiet life.
"I've got some great farmer neighbors, and we're always ready to help each other. If I need something, they help me; if they need something, I help them. There are just no better folks than farmers."
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Walk up to the reception desk in any hotel today and ask for its luggage label, and you will receive a puzzled expression. Luggage labels, also called baggage labels, are long gone. However they used to be a small but eye-catching part of the so-called golden age of travel from approximately 1900 to the mid-1960s.
We are primarily talking about hotel luggage labels as hotels, particularly the so-called 'Grand Hotels', led the development of these small labels. Hotel chains and many of the world's most notable hotels produced luggage labels, which today remind us that travel wasn't always about budget airlines, overbooked hotels and security line-ups.
Don't think of luggage tags - the small and unremarkable tags where you add your name, address and flight number before boarding a plane. Luggage labels were a form of advertising that hotel staff would apply, using a sticky gum, to the suitcases and trunks of travelers arriving at their establishment. Back in those days, suitcases were rigid affairs, which made it easy for bellhops or concierges to stick on their label.
For the hotel, they were free advertising. For the traveler, they were a badge of honor if you stayed in prestigious hotels or visited fashionable places, or if the suitcase showed you were a seasoned traveler. Is there a more fascinating travel accessory than a well-used classic brown leather suitcase plastered with luggage labels of hotels from Lake Como to Paris?
Once a label had been applied to a suitcase, it was not coming off. Therefore the vintage luggage labels that exist today were never stuck on a trunk or a case. Perhaps the guest asked for extra labels after a particularly good vacation or tipped the bellhop generously in order to obtain a handful of particularly beautiful ones. No matter how the labels survived intact, there is now growing interest in original luggage labels by travel-loving collectors.
Labels fell from favor as soft luggage started to replace rigid suitcases, and as the grand independent hotels were bought up by chains with centralized marketing departments.
Luggage labels from 1900 to the 1960s were closely aligned to the travel posters of that era, even sharing the same designs sometimes. Whereas vintage copies of beautiful travel posters are often now priced at more than $1,000, original luggage labels have remained more affordable. It's possible to buy original hotel luggage labels for anywhere from $5 to several hundred depending on condition, hotel, illustrator, scarcity and style.
There are several important illustrators who contributed immensely to this area of graphic design. Dan Sweeney was an American illustrator who provided artwork for books, posters, magazines and luggage labels for the Hong-Kong & Shanghai Hotel group. Italian graphic artist Mario Borgoni was known for his art nouveau labels and posters.
As well as the Internet, original luggage labels might be found at antique shows, flea markets, car boot sales, and rare bookstores with decent ephemera sections. Be mindful that reproductions do exist and that sticker books of luggage labels are also easy to find.


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by Clark Groome
A couple of weeks ago, former Flyers' winger Simon Gagne created something of a flap when he lashed out in print against his former team.
Now a free agent, Gagne was quoted in the French-language La Presse as saying, "All summer, the Philadelphia Flyers kept hinting that they wanted to offer me a new contract, and I even told my agent not to negotiate with other teams."
The Flyers, in the meantime, decided that as much as they like Gagne, who played the first 10 years of his career and then returned at the end of last season after two years away, it was time to go in a different direction.
Clearly there was a communications breakdown. Maybe Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren had said something that gave Gagne the impression he'd be back. Maybe Gagne, widely viewed as one of the classiest players ever to play for the Orange and Black, heard what he wanted to hear.
Either way, the kerfuffle his remarks caused raise an interesting question: How does a team – when dealing with a popular, positive and loyal player – make the decision to re-sign him or not?
The Flyers aren't the only local team to face this issue. The Phillies have two important parts of their history – Roy Halladay and Carlos Ruiz – becoming free agents after this season ends Sunday.
With Gagne's remarks as the catalyst, I asked Phillies president David Montgomery how these situations are dealt with. He said, "Let's talk about Chase Utley. We've done that contract."
"He's having a healthy year," Montgomery said. "When Chase is healthy he's a premiere player, so his stature as a player has gone up as opposed to the last two years when he wasn't available for major portions of the season."
Montgomery said Utley's good health and his ability at second base were the two major, but not the only, reasons for his re-signing.
The other thing teams do when making a decision about a player is factor in the intangibles.
"In Utley's case," the Wyndmoor resident said, "His intangibles are he's a special teammate. He's a great influence in the clubhouse. We are making a transition to younger players. To have him set the example about how to play the game, you can't have a better one."
But that's not all.
"And when the player, on top of that, expresses, as Chase did, that he wants to be one of those one-team players, that weighs heavily on your thinking.
"If he's a popular player, one who can help generate more fan support, that also plays a part in it. Yes, liking Chase Utley as an individual is certainly part of it, [but] you have to have a justification that is stronger than just sentimentality."
Clearly the decision about whether to re-sign a player is a complicated one.
"What often times the fans don't see is the context in the decisions we make," Montgomery said. "For example, one of the things we had to factor in [in thinking about re-signing Utley] was we have a pretty good second baseman coming through the system by the name of Cesar Hernandez. When you commit to Chase you're making a decision about how quickly somebody else [moves up]."
He also said, "One of the real frustrations as somebody who works for a club or runs a club is when fans think they are more concerned about winning than we are. There is just no way. You're living it. You're dying it. It's your identity. Every second of every day we are thinking about what we can do to improve the club.
"Sometimes fans just think we are too much about the business side. The business does well when you win."
The last point Montgomery made was, "You can't sit in this seat and think just about the short term or just about the long term. You have to think both."
So what this says about Simon Gagne not being in a Flyers' uniform is that Holmgren must feel that the leadership Gagne brought is available elsewhere and that the best hope for the team now and for the future is to give some of the younger players a shot. We'll see if he's right.
The Phillies have their own challenges ahead. Should Ruiz and Halladay be re-signed? Will they be?
What Montgomery made clear is that these decisions are made only after considering many different factors in determining what is best for the team. Only time will tell whether the decisions are the right ones.


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DrarenThiralas wrote:For some reason, "capped for stats lethal" in the Var Store, is stuck at "loading" indefinitely for Strength and Perception, and as a result these stats and everything dependent on them can't be calculated. I haven't changed anything at all, in fact, that's how the linked sheet is displayed for me (but a copy has the same issue).
EDIT: After some searching, it seems that your sheet suffers from an "infinite loading" bug, that is apparently a known problem in google sheets.
Yeah it's a problem with Google Apps Script needing a kick in the butt. There's nothing I can do about it on my end.
The only thing you can do when you encounter this problem:
- go to the first cell in the chain that doesn't load (those are almost always the Strength and Perception cells in the var store page)
- open it for editing and cut out the formula
- close it and wait for the rest to react
- open it again and paste the formula back in
- then close it and it should work fine
Sometimes just reloading the page also works for me.


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New Orleans architect Arthur Q. Davis passed away on Wednesday, 30 November 2011 at Ochsner Baptist Medical Center. A graduate of Tulane University's School of Architecture and a World War II veteran, Davis studied with Walter Gropius and apprenticed in Eero Saarinen's Michigan office.
In 1947, Davis received an offer from another Tulane alumnus -- Nathaniel C. Curtis, Jr. (1917-1997) -- to establish a joint practice in New Orleans. The Curtis and Davis partnership lasted nearly thirty years, and its Modernist buildings were once pervasive throughout the Crescent City. Structures such as Thomy Lafon Elementary School (razed 2011), the Rivergate Convention Center (razed 1995) and the Superdome garnered international attention. Journals such as Progressive Architecture, Architectural Forum and Architecture d'aujourd'hui highlighted the firm's notable buildings, a long list that came to include projects in Germany, Vietnam, and Saudi Arabia.
In 1978, the firm was acquired by the West Coast engineering and architecture office of Daniel, Mann, Johnson, and Mendenhall (DMJM). Davis worked with DMJM for twenty years, and then established his own firm, Arthur Q. Davis FAIA and Associates, in 1998.
In 2009, Mr. Davis published a memoir, titled It Happened by Design: The Life and Work of Arthur Q. Davis, which summarizes his career and his reflections on the profession. He was working on a history of the Berlin Medical Center at the time of his death.
Thanks to Docomomo US/NOLA for reporting this story.