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The Culinary Institute of America
Hyde Park | Hudson ValleyRather than protecting secrets like the more well-known CIA, the Culinary Institute of America shares the tricks of the cooking trade with its students. Covering areas of study from baking to food science, the campus' kitchens, bakeshops and student-run restaurants provide future chefs with the resources needed to try their hand at all aspects of the food service industry, whether it's food preparation, food service or business management. Among the critically lauded on-campus restaurants are The Bocuse, which serves a modern take on French flair, and the American Bounty Restaurant, which highlights the region by using local produce to make the traditional dishes of the Hudson Valley. Far beyond Hyde Park, illustrious CIA alumni like Anthony Bourdain spread the Institute's gastronomic influence worldwide.
Stony Brook University's School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences
Stony Brook | Long Island
New York City doesn't quite have a coral reef, ideal for marine life, but at Stony Brook University, the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences is keying in on the coast. The school's unique location on Long Island gives students access to the big city as well as the open ocean. The two-story Marine Sciences Center on Stony Brook's Southampton campus features a 2,500-square-foot indoor lab with the ability to mimic an array of different seawater environments. Programs like the Semester by the Sea give students a glimpse of local issues near Long Island. For those New Yorkers in more of an international state of mind, there are plenty of opportunities for research abroad. One program investigated radioactivity in tuna off the coast of Japan after power plants there were damaged in 2011, while another looked at the increasing prevalence of sharks in the Bahamas.
Buffalo State's School of Arts & Humanities
Buffalo | Western New YorkArt departments typically offer overarching studies of visual arts, performance arts and art history programs, but students at Buffalo State, part of the SUNY system, can get very specific, selecting their specialization from among 11 departments, including drawing, sculpting, printmaking, photography and more. The best selling point for the program may be the access to the on-campus Burchfield Penney Art Center, which exclusively displays the art and artists of Western New York, with occasional exhibitions of the works of Buffalo State alumni. At the heart of the museum's collection is a vast collection of works by its namesake, Charles E. Burchfield, including an evocation of his Gardenville, NY studio. The school is also located across the street from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, one of the nation's oldest art institutions, which boasts a renowned collection of contemporary and modern art.
Fashion Institute of Technology's Toy Design Program
Manhattan | New York CityFollow in the footsteps of designers for product lines like Tickle Me Elmo, Barbie and Star Wars at FIT. The university in the heart of Manhattan features a Toy Design program that is not only top-notch, but also gives students access to the best in the industry. The program features everything from advanced digital game design to creating plush toys and dolls. Weekly meetings with CEOs and other executives help students expand their professional network, the perfect start before internships with the likes of Disney, Fisher-Price, LEGO Systems, and the list goes on. If that weren't enough, students study within five miles of more than 40 members of the Toy Industry Association, and each year, New York City is home to the International Toy Fair, which always attracts the top names in the business.
Elmira College's Center for Mark Twain Studies
Elmira | Southern TierThe place where Mark Twain may have written most prolifically is now home to the Center for Mark Twain Studies. In the 1870s and 1880s at Quarry Farm, located three miles from Elmira College main campus, Twain wrote The Adventures of Hucklebery Finn, The Prince and the Pauper and much of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. More than a century later, recipients of a research fellowship can live at Quarry Farm and draw inspiration from Twain's sometime summer residence, which was his sister-in-law's home. The Center promotes and researches all things Twain, covering his life and literature through lectures, conferences and contributions to the Mark Twain Journal. Although you'll find its foundation stone at Quarry Farm, the small gazebo-like study built specifically for Twain to write in now resides on the Elmira College campus, spurring future generations to write the next Great American Novel.
St. Lawrence University's Adirondack Semester
Acadia | The Adirondacks
For those eager to get away from the hustle and bustle of campus life, the Adirondack Semester at St. Lawrence University offers a change of pace. Instead of simply studying our relationship to nature and the environment, students live it at Arcadia, a small yurt village on Lake Massawepie. The fully-immersive outdoor experience includes courses in the yurt classroom covering the history of the region, as well as a survey class examining the various ways in which cultures have interacted with nature, through science, poetry and indigenous shamanic traditions. There is canoeing and hiking, woodworking, and the cooking of every meal using food sourced from local farms. Without the constant inundation of cell phone, laptop and TV screens (all prohibited technologies), students enjoy ample free time to explore the woods, hills and abundant wildlife all around them in the heart of the Adirondacks.


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Centurion FX44 Carbonfiber Nose Intake Cover Problems
CentralCenturion posted a topic in Centurion Boats General DiscussionI just bought a 2014 Fx44 with 110 hours. I started shopping for value boats but couldn't make myself settle. After talking with Monty, a dealer buddy in Canyon Lake, and seeing the waves Centurions put out, not to mention they are amazing eye candy, I couldn't be swayed from the Centurion. I heard some cool stories about how they really support their product which was a huge plus! I found an FX44 and traveled up to it and bought it. Most everything about the boat checked out and was very nice. We hooked up and began to tow the boat home keeping an eye on everything. My dad was with me and he is super meticulous and cautious, the kind of guy anyone wants when making a big purchase and handling something sensitive. It was going great and all of a sudden one of the carbon fiber air scoops began to blow around like it was coming lose, but before we could pull off the road to fix it it blew off taking the lights with it in heavy traffic. We stopped to check it out. Looks like it had been replaced before because there are two screws in one hole and signs of a repair. We checked the other carbon fiber nose piece and it looked fine. We got back on the road and then had to stop for gas. I was pretty upset that this happened so naturally I go and inspect it all over again and now the other carbon fiber piece has a crack in it. The dealer I bought it from had given me a roll of white shrink wrap tape "just in case" which I thought was odd but also didn't turn down because who knows... thankful to have the tape now so I put it over the remaining cracked carbon fiber nose piece to keep air from entering the scoop which got me home. When I called Centurion yesterday the guy in the warranty department said he never heard of this issue. I find that hard to believe since there were two screws in one hole plus other signs of repair AND seeing my second scoop crack a few minutes later. Granted it was very windy while towing but a person still should be able to town their boat down the highway. The guy at centurion isn't offering to send me anything or discuss the matter until I get the warranty transferred which sounds like a little hassle and I'm willing to do, but I wish they would just make this easy... I also want to use my boat during my kids' spring break without it looking all damaged. Has anyone else had problems with this while towing their FX44s? The added some "louvered ridges" on the FS44 scoops for a reason and I'm thinking this is why... no matter what the guy at centurion said. A company doesn't make that kind of change on a part for no reason. I would love to hear from y'all. I think this should be a warranty or recall issue if it's common enough.

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West Brom V Arsenal
Saturday 17th March 2017
13:30 Kick off Live on Sky Sports
This will be the 138th fixture between the pair. Arsenal have won 70 of the previous meetings, West Brom 37 and they have drawn 30 times.
They last met on Boxing Day at the Emirates stadium and Arsenal managed to grab a 1-0 home win. It wasn't the most exciting game to watch and West Brom looked to have snatched a point until the 86th minute when Olivier Giroud grabbed a winner for the Gunners.
West Brom had been playing really well but have started to struggle a little of late. They have managed 2 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats in their last 6, unfortunately their 2 defeats have come in their last 2 fixtures a 2-0 home defeat to Palace and a 3-0 away loss to Everton.
Arsenal have been pretty inconsistent themselves lately; winning 3 and losing 3 of their last 6. To be fair to them their 3 defeats came at the hands of rivals Liverpool and two 5-1 defeats to Bayern Munich. Last time out they managed a comfortable 5-0 win over lower league Lincoln City.
The Baggies are currently in 8th in the Premier League, they are 7 points behind Everton in 7th so could use the 3 points to help close that gap.
Arsenal find themselves in unfamiliar territory outside of the top 4 in 5th position. they are 5 points behind Liverpool but have 2 games in hand so could really us a win to keep tabs on the top 4.
West Brom manager has said "The most important thing is that we get that mentality into the players and into everyone around the club that we want more points, that we want to push on".
Under fire Arsene Wenger said "Success it's not down to me to judge that. Our job is to do as well as we can until the end of the season. We want to play Champions League next season."
West Brom will be without James Morrison who is struggling with an ankle problem. Matt Phillips is also set to miss his 4th game in a row with a hamstring problem.
Arsenal have fitness doubts over Oxlade Chamberlain and Kieran Gibbs and Santi Cazorla remains a long term absence.
Despite being away from home Arsenal are the odd on favourites for this and you can get 8/11 with a few firms including Coral. West Brom are best with Betfred @ 9/2 and the draw is 3/1 with Bet365 and Bet Victor.
I think Arsenal are too short of a price @ 8/11 considering the current problems so I will avoid this game in regards to the match betting but I will have a little bet both teams to score NO which is around 11/10 but you can get as big as 119/100 with Marathon Bet.


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Pakistan has been lent funds by the International Monetary Fund, partly because the US government is concerned that a coup or an Islamic revolution could otherwise occur. Lawlessness is seen as a problem in Pakistan, but elections are also seen as a way of securing change. Pathan tribal leaders control some of the border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan, and impose a combination of tribal code and sharia Islamic law. Tribal code allows the death penalty to be imposed on rape victims as well as rapists. The prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, sees Islamization as a way of solving Pakistan's problems.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
Year: 1999
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The weakness of the Pakistani and Indian states in some areas has led to deficiencies in education and health. Both countries rank low on the human development league table, with illiteracy, malnourishment and gender inequality all creating problems. Some parts of India are relatively well off, such as Kerala in the south. The proportion of the population in poverty has dropped, but population increases mean that the numbers in poverty have risen from 1951 to 1995 in both countries. Corruption is a problem in both countries, despite their having different political systems.
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Year: 1999
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This is the personal account of Gaurav Jhunjhunwala, one of Network Capital's first 100 members. He has beautifully captured lessons learned from his career. His work has been instrumental in S Chand's heavily oversubscribed IPO.
My name is Gaurav Jhunjhnuwala, and this is my story:
I was born in Hong Kong and led a happy childhood. I grew up in a household with a lot of family and there was a sense of togetherness and community not often found in families these days.
Despite wearing eyeglasses with really thick lenses, I looked, felt and acted just the same as any other child in their adolescent years would.
I still remember the day when my life started to change. I was in 6th grade and our class had gone for a short camping trip to an island just off the coast of Hong Kong. On the last night of the camp, the teachers and support staff organizing the trip were handing out prizes for a unique contribution or skill each student possessed. When my name was called I bounded up to the makeshift stage eagerly waiting to hear what was special about me for which I was being recognized. The words printed on my award said 'For Gaurav – for having the thickest glasses we have ever seen!'
Over the following months I completed my primary education and moved to a new campus to attend my secondary and higher education.
While I had always had difficulty with my vision, it was never really a problem in the small classrooms in primary school. As I started secondary school I found that I was having increasing difficulty reading the words my instructors scrawled on the blackboards.
Although I didn't have perfect vision I was able to enjoy playing soccer with my friends during our long lunch breaks. In the back of my mind I was clinging onto the false hope fed to my by my optometrist that once I reached the age of 18, my eyes would have developed enough to the point where it would be clinically safe for me to undergo lasic eye surgery which would surely give me near perfect vision.
The following summer my family and I accompanied my grandfather to visit the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, USA. My grandfather was having some heart related problems and the family had decided that the US would be the best place to have this investigated properly. While at the Mayo Clinic my father felt it would be good for me to have a consultation with their ophthalmology department.
Many harrowing eye tests and retinal photographs later, the ophthalmologist sat us down and informed us that my condition was not one that could be corrected by any surgery. In fact my condition had an obscure name that I could barely pronounce, but the bottomline was that my vision would continue to deteriorate over time and would in most cases result in permanent blindness.
Walking back to the hotel from the opathlmologist's office, still bleary eyed from the eyedrops, all I could remember feeling was hollow. The mental benchmark I had set for myself that my life would once again start to be normal upon undergoing surgery had been stolen from me and I didn't feel like ithe past few hours were real. I just wanted to Wake up from this experience as if it were all a bad dream.
Returning back to school after the summer I tried to erase the thought of my disease from my mind. We had always been told to try harder when things get difficult, so I tried to apply the same approach to my vision problem. I tried staring more intently at my textbooks and at the blackboard, but my vision didn't seem to co-operate.
Eventually I wasn't able to read anything written on the blackboards at all and would just listen to all the information my teachers were saying. I was too scared to say or do anything because even if I sat in the first row, I was still unable to read the board properly. As anyone who has been through the confusing and awkward experience of being a teenager knows, at that time in your life all you want to do is fit in, something that was becoming increasingly more and more difficult for me.
After struggling through high school I was intent on attending college in the US just like all my classmates. I didn't want to be that kid who was different or wasn't able to leave the safety net of home.
I attended college at Indiana University in Bloomington Indiana. My vision continued to deteriorate through these years to the point where it was becoming dangerous for me to be unassisted. Yet a mix of denial, shame and fear clouded my better judgement and propelled me through many difficult college experiences.
One cold winter evening after finishing a math class (I failed calculus twice before and this was the third time I was taking it), trudging out of the lecture hall I noticed that it had been snowing quite heavily. Walking back to my apartment located a few blocks away from the college campus, I almost slipped and barely missed hitting the back of my head on the icy pavement.
I have heard that will power is like a muscle and that if you push it too much, it can get worn out completely. My will power to manage my disability in an independent manner wore out by the end of my Junior year in college.
I told all my friends that I was taking some time off and would come back to complete my degree after a year, but deep down inside I knew and I suspect so did everyone else, that this was never going to happen.
With my head hung low I returned home, less disappointed about not having completed my college education, and more fearful of what I would say to friends and relatives who would ask me why I'm back in Hong Kong without having graduated.
Since my vision was deteriorating every single day, my operating mantra became that 'everyday is the worst day of my life because each new day is worse than the day before.'
Through a chance conversation with someone my parents found out that there was a hospital somewhere in the Indian state of Kerala where a family of doctors used natural remedies to treat patients with the very same disease with which I was afflicted.
Three months and a few short plane rides later we found ourselves in a remote jungle in Kerala at Sreedhareeyam eye hospital. Not knowing what to expect and not wanting to get my hopes up I underwent the rigorous regiment prescribed by the doctors of consuming various herbs and administering a number of excruciatingly painful eye drops made of plant extracts.
While the treatment did not seem to help y condition physically, mentally my life started looking upwards. I met many people who are now close friends, afflicted with the same disease as me and with similar stories and experiences like mine. All these years I felt so lonely and isolated that I didn't know a single person who could possibly know or understand what I was going through because the chances of having this condition were said to be one in a million.
The painful eyedrops and bitter medicine became a breeze to handle and at many times was even enjoyable because we were a group of hundreds of individuals having these experiences together. Not only did we feel like we fit in, but we even started to feel like we had our own subculture, sharing jokes that only people who have walked straight into a door or been hit in the face by a football or have spoken to a tree because they thought it was a person would understand.
Although my experience in Kerala didn't help my condition externally, I felt the blindness lifting from my attitude and outlook towards my life. I removed the negative programming that my life was getting worse each day and felt empowered to face the world anew.
With the help of technology and the gift of text to speech software, I am rediscovering the joy of learning which had earlier faded away along with my vision. I have become an avid book reader listening to audiobooks and 2x the regular spped, or listening to e-text at a rate of close to 500 words a minute and an uncanny ability to retain most of the information I hear. I would typically go through forty to fifty books in a year. While this may sound like a superpower to some, it is quite normal in the visually impaired community.
Presently I am living in new Delhi with my wonderful wife and amazing parents who are collectively the biggest sources of joy in my life along with my love for learning. I am extremely passionate about edtech and making the world a more accessible and inclusive place for everyone.
My experience in Kerala was nothing short of lifechanging. The jury is still out on whether it was divine intervention or sheer dumb luck, but we now have the ability to create such experiences for more and more people.
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Attention, County Chairs and Commissioners! Do you have the dedication and spirit to lead the Association and all 67 counties into a bright future? If your answer is 'yes,' we strongly encourage you to submit your personal nomination to serve as the ACCA Vice President or ACCA Minority Director. The ACCA Vice President and Minority Director play a critical role in the activities of Alabama county government and will be voted upon and announced at the upcoming ACCA 90th Convention and Celebration in August. To learn more about the requirements for and duties of these positions and to access a nomination form, click here. Nomination forms must be completed and emailed to Chase Cobb, Governmental Affairs Manager, by Monday, July 9.
Calling all County Chairs and Commissioners! Seats are still available for the final 2018 course of the Alabama Local Government Training Institute's (ALGTI) Commissioner Education Program and Commissioner Graduate Program. Referred to as the 48th Annual Alabama County Government Institute, the course will take place this week, June 20-21, at the Marriott Prattville Hotel and Conference Center and will focus on "building healthy counties" and addressing the challenges of healthcare access, mental health and substance abuse. Specific topics and registration information for the 48th Institute can be found here.
The Perdido Beach Resort — the location for the ACCA 90th Convention and Celebration — has been sold out of Convention hotel rooms for weeks now, but our waiting list for rooms continues to grow. If you have a Perdido room reservation and discover before the Convention that you no longer need your room, we ask that you kindly contact Jennifer Datcher, Coordinator of Events and Education, to cancel your room reservation. Please do not contact the hotel. Cancelling your room through Jennifer will ensure your room is provided to a fellow county employee — and at the discounted rate.
Attention, County Administrators! This month's webinar of the Association of County Administrators of Alabama (ACAA) is scheduled for this Wednesday, June 20, at 10:30 a.m. All County Administrators and their staff are invited to tune in for a discussion on the new "dangerous dogs" law, the ACCA 90th Convention and Celebration, upcoming education courses and other administrative items of interest. You may register to participate in the webinar here.
The 2018 Alabama Disaster Preparedness Conference will take place next week, June 26-28, at The Wynfrey Hotel in Birmingham. A joint partnership between the Alabama Association of Emergency Managers (AAEM) and the Alabama Emergency Management Agency (AEMA), this year's conference is catered to benefit emergency management professionals across the state and will feature 2 1/2 days of educational sessions covering the gamut of disaster preparedness. All County Emergency Managers and their staff are encouraged to register for the conference here and to invite others who may benefit from attending. For questions, contact Abby Fitzpatrick, Director of Communication and Engagement.
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Events — Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Nov 13, 2019 | 9:30 am
If you're interested in transferring to St. Bonaventure University, visit its representative for details on degrees and student services.
Nov 13, 2019 | 10:00 am
The 6th Annual Technology and Manufacturing Expo showcases manufacturing companies and new technologies.
Nov 13, 2019 | 11:00 am
Register your team to compete against others for the honor of preparing the best entree and dessert.
Nov 13, 2019 | 12:00 pm
Jeff Musial, also known as the Animal Guy, brings an assortment of exotic creatures from his Nickel City Reptiles and Exotics sanctuary to campus.
Nov 13, 2019 | 12:00 pm
Representatives of New Directions Youth & Family, a regional agency serving children with high risk behavioral needs, will discuss their programs, careers at the agency, employment, and challenges and needs of the youth served.


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Magnesium For Heart Health [Infographic]
One of magnesium's many important roles include maintaining a healthy heart. This infographic from Positive Health Wellness shows the importance of magnesium for optimal heart health and some great natural sources of magnesium.
If you want to read more on their take on magnesium, read the Positive Health Wellness summary on everything you need to know about the health benefits of magnesium here.


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10/26/16: East Somerville Main Streets Board Meeting
Wed. Oct. 26 6:30 – 8:00 PM
Community Assembly Room
50 Middlesex Ave.
Somerville MA (map)
East Somerville Main Streets is holding a Board meeting at which, among other matters, the Board will discuss the proposed Michael Ades development at 5 Middlesex Avenue in Assembly Square. This development is on the site of the existing office building and includes in phase 1 a five-story hotel and residential building with ground floor retail and in phase 2 a 14-story mixed-use building with office and lab space. There are two additional phases as well that include more office/R&D and residential space. The project is estimated to add 18,535 new vehicle trips per day.
The project is beginning environmental review (EEA# 15595). The comment period ends November 23, 2016. For more information, see the Environmental Notification Form:
There will opportunity for feedback. Come and find out where things are going!


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Most avian influenza (AI) vaccination and field studies have focused on chickens and turkeys because of their high death rates and the large amounts of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus that they excrete into the environment when infected. Data on vaccination of other species against HPAI remain limited.
An increasing number of studies have been conducted to test the efficacy of inactivated vaccines in ducks and geese since it became clear that these species are a source of HPAI H5N1. One problem is the varying susceptibility of waterfowl to H5N1 in general, and to different H5N1 clades in particular. This makes the extrapolation of protection results obtained for a particular waterfowl species against a particular viral strain very difficult.
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Why Email Automation
No matter how effective I was with the first two steps, nothing happened until I was able to grab their interest, convert them into a prospective client, and actually sign the contract and write a check.
To be clear, in my opinion, hard-sell techniques are both rude and ultimately self-defeating, so I learned to close the deal by seeking first to understand the potential client's situation and then having an obvious intention to provide a product or service that would make the potential customer's life better, happier, and more secure.
How Does it Work?
Social media tools and resources are used to simplify and empower the challenge to channel the additional seconds of attention secured from users through the tripwire or lead magnet into a genuine interest in the product or service being offered.
It's important that the customer/client is able to purchase the product or enlist in the service with a minimum of click-throughs and complicated instructions. Any confusion or unnecessary complication at this point might make the potential user or buyer think your solution may not be simple or make their life easier.
What should I do?
Test your interface. Put yourself in the position of a customer/client and see how easy it is to do business with yourself. Solicit your friends' help in reviewing your processes and moving through the steps and then reporting their experience to you. In development and design we call this UI/UX. If you have time, sit beside your friends as work their way through your sales process. Keep your mouth shut; don't give them any helpful hints, directions, or explanations. Just sit quietly and see how the procedure works.
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Australia's rate of HIV is low. In 2010, women made up 8.9 per cent of the population of people living with HIV and AIDS, a total of 2074 women. Because of Australia's large size and moderate population, these women are widely dispersed, often isolated.
'This study looks at how women living with HIV experience pregnancy and their use of antiretroviral therapy when administering it to themselves and their children,' says Dr McDonald.
In-depth interviews were conducted with 34 HIV-positive women in 2001 who were diagnosed during their childbearing years. This paper reports on 16 women who gave birth to 23 children after becoming aware of their HIV status.
In order to provide effective and appropriate health care for women living with HIV/AIDS and their babies, health-care professionals need to consider the mother's perspective. According to Dr McDonald, women taking ARV asserted a lack of scientific explanation for many of the experiences with the treatment.
Almost all the women in the study accepted that taking treatment during pregnancy and giving treatment to their newborn babies was one of the final steps in the pursuit of a healthy HIV-negative baby. However, the few who rejected treatments for themselves or their babies cited a suspicion towards the suitability of AIDS care for infants.
'It is not that these women failed to understand the scientific reasons behind the prevention of mother-to-child transmission, rather, they identified their primary role as protectors of their children, including protection against the medical fraternity and drug companies,' she says.
'To maximise the benefit of antiretroviral therapy for mothers and babies, thereby reducing the risk of transmission, it is imperative to understand a woman's explanation of what therapy means to her, and advisable to presume that she wants the best for her baby.
'Such an approach will facilitate better communication and encourage clinicians and patients to work towards a shared goal,' says Dr McDonald.
The study—HIV-positive women in Australia explain their use and non-use of antiretroviral therapy in preventing mother-to-child transmission— was first published in AIDS Care and is available on request.
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This is the traditional "Hang Loose" sign you flash on appropriate occasions; generally with a flip of the wrist or shaking back & forth motion. I can mean "right on brah!", "no worries", "that's cool", "be cool", "relax, brah" and any other number of things depending on the situation. Like if someone stops to allow you to enter the highway from a driveway you might flash them the shaka and a way of saying "thank you". BTW, "brah" is a more modern contraction of the Hawaiian "Bruddah" which is pidgin for "brother". What's "pidgin"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7X9AAeDCr4
Back in the old sugar mill days a worker at the Kahuku mill named Hamana Kalili got the three middle fingers of his right hand cut off in a mill accident. No longer able to work his job, the boss at the mill gave him the job of guarding the mill and facilities including the sugar mill train. The mill and train cars were a popular place for kids to play, and the mill owners feared someone would get hurt; so there was an effort to keep the kids out. Before there was a guard, the kids would sneak in through the cane fields and play around the mill half the night. After Mr. Kalili was put on as guard, it became a game for the kids to antagonize him and not get caught. So they wouldn't have to yell a warning to each other (and reveal their location) when Mr. Kalili was approaching, they would mimic what his hand looked like, shaking their fist in the air with their thumb and pinky finger extended for the other kids to see. The shaking motion is what gave the name "shaka" to the gesture. True story.
Subject: Building Costs
We saw several lots on your site and we were wondering what the current cost is per sq.ft. to build on the Big Island.
I get this question all the time. The first time it happened I asked a friend who is a building contractor. First of all, I knew in advance that there was not just one fee that all contractors charge to build a house. But I didn't know how complicated it was. My friend explained that it depends on if the home is on a slab or post & pier. Single wall or double wall. If it's single wall, it depends on if it's fir, cedar or redwood. If it's double wall, it depends on the type and quality of the exterior wall material (plain plywood, T1-11, stucco, vinyl, etc.). It also depends on the type and quality of the floor covering. It could be carpet, linoleum, laminate (various grades), real wood (solid-various species, veneer, bamboo, tile (ceramic, porcelain, travertine, quartz, etc.). There is a wide variety in the type and quality of the cabinets (plastic covered particle board, solid wood (price varies by species and if the entire cabinet wood or just the face-frame). Counter tops could be Formica, quartz, Corian or Corian type, granite, etc., and the brand and quality of the counter tops also varies greatly. Likewise the brand and quality of all the kitchen and bathroom fixtures & appliances varies greatly as well as the type, brand and quality of the windows and doors. Even the quality of the hinges is a variable factor. You might be able to build a house for around $135/sq.ft. using all the cheapest materials, and you can easily spend over $1,000/sq.ft. and up if you use only the finest and/or rarest of materials. So what my friend told me was: "Give me a set of plans and a materials list and I'll tell you how much I will charge to build the house." That's what every contractor I have ever posed this question to has told me.
So the best I can suggest is to call either HPM Building Supply or Honsador Lumber and ask how much, in their experience, have local contractors charged to build some of their kit homes.
HPM: Address: 74-5511 Luhia St, Kailua-Kona, HI 96740 Phone: (808) 334-4200, http://hpmhawaii.com/
Honsador: Address: 73-5580 Kauhola St, Kailua-Kona, HI 96740 Phone: (808) 329-0738 www.honsador.com/
But if you want a custom home, you are going to have to find a contractor and provide him with a set of plans to find out the price per square foot.
Mahalo, Harry
I receive quite a few questions regarding the Contingent status. The best definition in Webster's Dictionary for "contingent" is "dependent on or conditioned by something else". Before I get into contingent status I feel I need to explain what an escrow is. Many states do not use escrow companies, but use attorneys instead. So many people do not know what "escrow" is. An escrow company is set up to safeguard the interests of the parties to a sale. In the old days, you could hand over your deposit to a seller only to find out two weeks later that he had "sold" his property to ten other people and absconded to South America with all their deposits. The escrow company's job is to hold the Buyer's funds in an "escrow" account while making sure that all the paper work is in order and all the documents get properly recorded at the state Bureau of Conveyances on the day of "closing". On the mainland closing may be called "recordation". This is the day that the title transfers from the seller to the buyer. The escrow company than distributes the funds as the Purchase Contract stipulates. The whole process is called "Escrow".
Here's how the sale works. The buyer's agent helps the buyer draft an offer, which when completed, the buyer signs. The buyer's agent sends the offer over to the listing agent who presents it to the seller for his consideration. If the seller accepts the offer he also signs it. Once both parties have agreed on the price and terms of a Purchase Contract and signed it, they have consummated the deal. Their agents then take the signed contract to the escrow company and an escrow account is opened. At that point the sellers agent is required by their Multiple Listing Service to change the status of the listing in the MLS data base. The status was "A" for "Active". At this point there are two choices, "C" for Contingent, and "U" for Under Contract. Here's where the confusion starts. A contingent offer is also under contract, but with a contingency. That is, there are conditions that must be met before the seller must turn the property over to the buyer. The most common contingency is the home inspection. The buyer is allowed time to fully inspect all aspects of the property. If he finds something he doesn't like within the allotted time period, he can cancel escrow and get his deposit back. The Purchase Contract is then voided and the property goes "Back On The Market", and the status is changed back to "A", active. The process is similar with any other contingency. The next most common contingency if financing. This can last from 30 to 45 days.
The point is, when you see a "Contingent" listing, it's in escrow, in effect it is sold, but there are contingencies. The only difference is, unlike a listing that has the "U" designation, a "C" listing could come back on the market at a later date. When it does, it will show up in the "Back On The Market" category of the UPdate. But while it is "C" it is not available to purchase. It is possible to make "back-up" offers on contingent listings but back-up offers stay dormant and are voided if the original escrow closes. If, however, a contingency is not met and the present escrow "falls out", then the back-up offer automatically goes into first place and takes over the previous offers position in escrow. Back-up offers are successful about 10% of the time.


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MeerKAT radio telescope inaugurated in SA – reveals clearest view yet of centre of the Milky Way
13 July 2018
Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, Mr David Mabuza, today officially inaugurated the MeerKAT radio telescope. After a decade in design and construction, this project of South Africa's Department of Science and Technology has now begun science operations. At the launch event, a panorama obtained with the new telescope was unveiled that reveals extraordinary detail in the region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the centre of our Milky Way Galaxy. This is one of several very exciting new views of the Universe already observed by the telescope.
"We wanted to show the science capabilities of this new instrument", says Fernando Camilo, chief scientist of the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO), which built and operates MeerKAT in the semi-arid Karoo region of the Northern Cape.
"The centre of the galaxy was an obvious target: unique, visually striking and full of unexplained phenomena – but also notoriously hard to image using radio telescopes", according to Camilo. The centre of the Milky Way, 25,000 light-years away from Earth and lying behind the constellation Sagittarius (the "Teapot"), is forever enshrouded by intervening clouds of gas and dust, making it invisible from Earth using ordinary telescopes. However, infrared, X-ray, and in particular, radio wavelengths penetrate the obscuring dust and open a window into this distinctive region with its unique 4 million solar mass black hole. "Although it's early days with MeerKAT, and a lot remains to be optimised, we decided to go for it – and were stunned by the results."
"This image is remarkable", says Farhad Yusef-Zadeh of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, one of the world's leading experts on the mysterious filamentary structures present near the central black hole but nowhere else in the Milky Way. These long and narrow magnetised filaments were discovered in the 1980s using the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope in New Mexico, but their origin has remained a mystery. "The MeerKAT image has such clarity", continues Yusef-Zadeh, "it shows so many features never before seen, including compact sources associated with some of the filaments, that it could provide the key to cracking the code and solve this three-decade riddle".
Yusef-Zadeh adds that "MeerKAT now provides an unsurpassed view of this unique region of our galaxy. It's an exceptional achievement, congratulations to our South African colleagues. They've built an instrument that will be the envy of astronomers everywhere and will be in great demand for years to come".
About MeerKAT
MeerKAT is a South African project, a precursor to the larger international Square Kilometre Array (SKA). It is managed by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO), where most of the specialised hardware and associated software was designed and built in cooperation with industrial partners. MeerKAT consists of 64 antennas (or dishes), each 13.5 meters in diameter, located on baselines (distances between antenna pairs) of up to 8 km. The dishes are of a highly efficient design with up to four cryogenic receiver systems operating in different bands of the radio spectrum. The first installed set of receivers operates between frequencies of 900 MHz and 1670 MHz. The vast amounts of data from the 64 dishes (up to 275 Gbytes per second) are processed in real time by a "correlator", followed by a "science processor", both purpose-built. After further offline analysis, images of the radio sky are generated. Eventually, MeerKAT will be incorporated into Phase 1 of the SKA-MID telescope.
MeerKAT a beacon of economic development in Carnarvon
The newly-launched MeerKAT radio telescope, the gem of the Karoo and the precursor of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), has brought more than just astronomers to Carnarvon in the Northern Cape.
Billed as the most sensitive radio telescope in the world after scientists unveiled breath-taking images from the centre of the milky way galaxy, the project has empowered local businesses, contributed to infrastructure investment and opened up educational and employment opportunities for the small town, says Kareeberg Municipality Mayor Norman van Wyk.
The prospects of major scientific research has attracted scientists and tourists to the local town, and that has led to local contractors getting a lot of work.
This includes, among others, visitors and scientists spending R3 million on catering companies, R4 million on transport and local entrepreneurs being given business support by the MeerKAT project managers.
Van Wyk says young people in the area are also reaping the benefits of the projects by accessing bursary opportunities to study at technical vocational education and training (TVET) colleges.
SKA South Africa facilitates human capital development programmes to 22 schools that are located in town that surround the SKA project, which reaches 5 400 learners.
In addition to a tarred road and several Wi-Fi hotspots in the local community, 72 students are studying at technical colleges for further education and training.
"I am mentioning these things as highlights of the success that comes out of a partnership between government and the private sector. SKA has also committed to help register local black entrepreneurs on the central supply database to ensure that everyone has a chance to tender for government contracts," Van Wyk says.
In his address at the launch of the 64-dish MeerKAT on 13 July in Carnarvon, Deputy President David Mabuza said 75% of the components that went into the construction of the MeerKAT were sourced locally.
During construction, more than R134 million was spent on local suppliers, and 351 people were trained by major SKA contractors.
"In addition, more than R110 million was awarded to 16 small and medium enterprises through a financial assistance programme.
"This has empowered local industry and institutions to acquire skills and expertise in advanced technologies, and to grow their international competitiveness," Mabuza said.
The Deputy President said there was no doubt that the launch of the MeerKAT further strengthens the prospects of a larger role for South Africa in the construction of the SKA, and promises numerous benefits for the country and the region as a whole.
"There has been a visible impact on the real estate sector of the Northern Cape, which has led to new economic opportunities for local communities.
"It gives me pleasure that the SKA project has had a direct impact on job creation, thus changing the lives of many families. The SKA project has created 7 284 employment opportunities through the construction of the MeerKAT and related projects.
"These include land acquisition, the resurfacing of 80km of road to the site, the construction of 110km of power lines, fibre rollout, as well as the MeerKAT data centre," Mabuza said. – SAnews.gov.za


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The French multinational hotel group has launched Singapore's newest integrated lifestyle hub with the opening of two new hotels, Novotel Singapore on Stevens and Mercure Singapore on Stevens.
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There is a very large terrace with pergola with amazing views over the golf course and the mountains. All the windows and doors have mosquito nets, bars and shutters. There is tv and satellite tv, telephone, internet and alarm system. This property is perfect not only for golf lovers but for anyone who wishes to live in a quiet and unique community, very well maintained and green all year round!
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Cee-Lo Green: Cee-Lo's Magic Moment
Halloween just passed, so we may as well start listening to some Christmas music...?
Cee-Lo Green
Cee-Lo's Magic MomentLabel: Elektra
US Release Date: 2012-10-30
UK Release Date: 2012-10-29
"I found joy through all my pain / I just wanna be happy with being me," sang Cee-Lo on Common's 1997 album One Day It'll All Make Sense. At the time he was examining his relationships with religion and blackness on a song called "G.O.D. (Gaining One's Definition)", but the Cee-Lo that's grown into the public spotlight over these past six post-"Crazy" years seems to have taken that particular line as a mantra he keeps close to his heart at all times. Especially since accepting a judge's role on FOX vocal talent show The Voice and eschewing the paranoid Gnarls Barkley persona for a boisterous retro figure some have likened to Elton John or George Clinton (most notably SNL's Kenan Thompson), Cee-Lo has become a glamorous, flamboyant male id who can follow up hits "Fuck You" and "Cry Baby" with a Christmas album without surprising anyone. But Cee-Lo's confidence as a vocalist shouldn't be confused as talent in all cases; the slow burn soul searching of Goodie Mob and the Dungeon Family/Neo-Soul movement was a perfect couch for his style, especially when paired with his then-amazing ability to pick your brain apart through regular old rapping.
The Gnarls Barkley project was essentially that personality filtered through a vent of absurdism, and that too played to Green's strengths as a communicator of frayed emotions. But in his latter days, Green's attempted to portray a singer who's not just awesomely adept at crafting genuine articles out of novelty, but a force to be a reckoned with. And he just isn't. Part of Cee-Lo's Magic Moment's struggles no doubt come from the deeply rooted family trees of most of the songs he selects here -- it's just not fair to put his "This Christmas" in the same conversation as Donny Hathaway's or Patti LaBelle's (let alone my personal favorite, the Dismemberment Plan's) or "All I Want for Christmas Is You" against the Mariah Carey original.
The choice of guests here is also stale at best, confusing at worst. Christina Aguilera, herself a Christmas veteran, appears early on the duet "Baby, It's Cold Outside" and initially impresses, but about halfway through the song both artists' vocals devolve into diva histrionics that serve nothing to the song. "All I Need Is Love", Cee-Lo's one original, has some laughable lyrics about 60-inch TVs, really poor instrumentation that brings to mind an amateur "Mambo No. 5" and a number of Muppets shouting lyrics for no apparent reason. You'd be forgiven for not knowing who the next guests, Straight No Chaser are (I assumed some sort of Cobra Starship spinoff): YouTube superstars in 2006 thanks to an unearthing of their acapella rendition of "12 Days of Christmas", they appear on Dr. Seuss's "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" to provide the cartoon's signature whimsy. Unfortunately, whatever fun you might have expected Cee-Lo to have with the song is quickly replaced by dread as he hams it up through the spoken word sections and reminds you why we so rarely listen to that song out of context in the first place.
Listening to Cee-Lo's Magic Moment feels a lot like wandering into a dark night club, buying a few overprice drinks and watching an aspiring Vegas act fumble through his sterile interpretations of the past. Just take a look at "Run, Rudolph, Run", which features B.o.B. and feels like a bar band channeling Little Richard for a country club. But even those acts get things right every once in a while, and Cee-Lo's "What Christmas Means to Me" opens the album professionally if nothing else while "Please Come Home for Christmas" pulls the album out of those mid-section doldrums with a sedate performance that would probably test well with the American Idol crowd. And there's also the curve ball of Joni Mitchell's "River", not only for being a non-standard (at least to my knowledge -- trusty Wikipedia says otherwise) of the season but for its subtle Canadian sentimentalism.
Christmas music is an unstoppable capital force in the consumer-based American interpretation of the holiday, a genre that creeps ever further into the autumnal months with each passing year it seems. For folks who love Cee-Lo as a television personality and/or demand new renditions of songs we've all heard thousands of times over, Cee-Lo's Magic Moment exists. For everyone else...well, there's probably copies of Cee-Lo Green...Is the Soul Machine lying around somewhere out there.


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Jack Eugene "Jack" Bouchard
June 30, 1929 - September 25, 2004
Bouchard - Mr. Jack Eugene - Peacefully at Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital, on Saturday, September 25th, 2004, Jack Bouchard of Wellington-on-the-Lake at the age of 75. Beloved husband of Ria. Loving father of Lynn and her husband Ron Birrell of Whitby and Brad and his wife Elana Medicoff of Montreal. Dear brother of Marge Todd of Manitoba, Pat King of Saskatchewan and the late Robert. Loving grandfather of Sean, Connor, Christopher, Gene and Lucy. A Celebration of Jack's Life will be held at The Whattam Funeral Home, 33 Main Street, West, Picton on Wednesday, September 29th at 2 P.M. Reverend Dr. Ken Micklethwaite Officiating. Cremation. Donations to the Canadian Cancer Society would be appreciated by the family. (CHEQUES ONLY PLEASE). Friends may call on Wednesday from 1 until the time of service at 2 P.M.


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Calvinism makes God the author of sin; he chose its existence when it did not exist. He becomes the most unholy being in the universe--the cause and source of all wickedness and misery. Adam did not fall, he was shoved, was not deceived by the devil, but by the bully God of Calvinism.
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sleep, that is... and here i want to go to 13 the musical tomorrow night... maybe saturday will work better after some rest... but softball wants me to wake at 8am on saturday morning... that may be what is draining me most, not having any sleep-in days at all for weeks and weeks on end... unless i just do nothing tomorrow and fall asleep without watching tv or playing games or giving myself any me time...
so i am enjoying me time now :)
though quite groggily :)
Friday, April 30, 2010
apparently not
sleep, that is... and here i want to go to 13 the musical tomorrow night... maybe saturday will work better after some rest... but softball wants me to wake at 8am on saturday morning... that may be what is draining me most, not having any sleep-in days at all for weeks and weeks on end... unless i just do nothing tomorrow and fall asleep without watching tv or playing games or giving myself any me time...
Thursday, April 29, 2010
softball fatigue
we won 13-9 by coming back from an 8-2 deficit in the third inning which was much fun and blurry which meant i hit poorly and pitched ok, but struck out one in the last inning and got two to pop up, which is what counts most in the whole game thing...
home, eat, rest... sleep?...
smile :)
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
home after another long no lunch day so i chowed down on calamari, seafood cheese spread, babaganoush, crackers and pretzles and potato salad and strawberries and water and yummy healthish... jackson and casey stopped by and they're spending the night... maybe i'll fall asleep after idol... or not... definitely fatigue...
lost in the game
bowl bound college foorball has most of my attention these days... giving my brain a distraction, a vacation from anything responsible or meaningful or connected outside of my head...
jackson and happiness came by for dinner and to drop more stuff off... happiness is itching more and has an inflammed tail, so the vet is being called tomorrow... and the brain needs sleep now...
hope life is fun for you too :)
Sunday, April 25, 2010
mostly lost offline
-spent most of the last few days playing with happiness (jackson's dog, in case you are not following along, who spent the weekend while jackson was out of town) and the majority of time was spent sitting still, playing the college bowl bound computer game that lets me vege into numbers without thinking about much else (friday and saturday) and then saturday night a game night wth friends and today, a little softball and that's the way it is, today and days passed...
still want to keep in touch though:)
Friday, April 23, 2010
a little more sleep
alas, the phone woke me as work called to let me know about an incident and te sleep was feeling so good and i am waking smiling, though still groggy, and i shall sleep some more... happiness is at my feet hungry for attention at each movement, but he's good and didn't wake me... hope your morning was as productive and enjoyable as mine :)
awake why?
cuz the body is used to waking before 9am and happiness is here wanting attention and scratching himself a lot and i am wondering if we have fleas, which is a thought that woke me and helps keep me awake... i am taking the day off, so i have every intention of napping if happiness cooperates... gonna rest, i hope :)
Thursday, April 22, 2010
late again
i was so sliding into sleep about six hours ago and now, wide awake and ready to bounce around and all i've got are the words and the tv and the empty room... jackson is here, but asleep like most human people with good sense and day jobs... and me, i am looking for snacks and games to play... so once again i am left to wonder... is there anybody else in the world like me?....
i'll be here having fun when you get here time for fun :)
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
a little early
home, that is... and cooked some good food (shrimp, asparagus, peppers, garlic, onion, tomato basil sauce, penne, yummy)... and fell asleep... and woke to clean a bit and do dishes and dishwasher and unpack just a little more and rest now... jackson's coming over and we'll watch idol gives back and i'll fall asleep... maybe...
taking friday off to sleep all day... maybe :)
days rushing by
faster than is comfortable these days, i am not sleeping enough to be awake enough to enjoy the time as much as i could if i was awake enough to enjoy the time as much as i can when i am awake...
wish you were here :}
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
could have fallen
asleep, that is... but the sharing bug is boting more and more so i write and read and hope and glance up at the tv for distraction and i ought to get to the gym but i am soooo tired and still, share?... and sleep would have been very wise because i wouldn't have snacked on the fuits and nuts and i would be more rested for tomorrow which would be good cuz i've got to run the monthly quality meeting and have few of my reports ready so it'll be almost all verbal reporting... but i stayed awake anyway and tomorrow, whatever will be will be...
i'll have fun, hope you do too :)
Monday, April 19, 2010
food heaven
yes, this might be a religion i could buy into, a religion that has a food heaven, all the food you can eat of any kind you can want and no negative physical effects...
i tossed in the towel at work this month, so in stead of sitting at my desk (or bringing the laptop home) all through the night as i have done other months, i left at a semi-reasonable hour (still after everybody else) and cooked up some lobster and shrimp ravioli (with extra shrimp to give the sauce some body and of course, extra flavors to make it mine) and yummy yummy yummy i've got love in my tummy, or at least... food heaven...
so i'm home and tomorrow, the monthly review of everything we do meeting will go on without my review of everything we do... could be kind of short :)
did i mention honey roasted cashews and dark chocolate candies for dessert? :)
more time needed
if only time could be purchased or bartered for, if only if only if only... not enough rest, but much more not enough me time and not enough friend time and not enough love time and not enough intimacy time and not enough play time and not enough writing time and not enough music time and not enough singing time and not enough art time and not enough exercise time and not enough detailed body care time and not enough house time and not enough car care time and not enough gardening time and not enough nature time and not enough meditation time and not enough stretching time and not enough shower time and not enough... time to list all the things there are not enough time to do and nurture and experience and enjoy and share...
Sunday, April 18, 2010
can't win 'em all
we went up against our tournament nemesis, precious little miracles, and in spite of ridiculous drama that distracted players enough to give up 10 runs on errors and arguing on the field to the point where i had to yell that we are playing a game, there is a batter up, and i am about to pitch, we won 16-11... and then it was off to the other game, the playoffs, where we unfortunately were missing one of our best players who leads off and plays left field, not to mention our shortstop who hits with power and a couple of other starters... and then, it was a muddy field where nobody in the infield could maintain footing and i had to put from 2-3 inches of sticky clay-mud... and errors galore as we played one player short and even our best outfielder couldn't seem to hang on to the ball and our shortstop and second base people never play there and our first base person had a broken toe... we lost 19-17, dangit, and came one batter away from winning...
we should not have played the playoff game because the field was not safe... the other team was younger and faster so they had a big advantage... and the playoffs should not be decided by weather and an insafe field, but anyway, we did amazingly well considering the missing players and the lack of experience at positions and the weather and field and yay us for coming in third...
home now, to eat and rest... hope you had fun too :)
much better
to sleep, to relax, to prepare for the game... instead of getting to the field four hours early and standing around in uniform getting tired and dreaned in the heat, relax, sleep, and focus... drizzle outside...
work called to wake me about a half hour ago, but i am not going in on weekends any more (barring a catastrophic event)... i still have to be notified of serious or potentially serious incidents though, so i will get called and i'll ask questions, give guidance and instructions, and decide whether i need to go in... the latter will be extremely rare...
so now, wash up and head out for softball... the cages first to test the back while swinging and then, game time... we shall see if the drizzle get wetter... rain later cancelling the playoffs would not be bad as about five of our regular players are out of town...
make today beautiful :)
early night
delicious dinner of authentic chicago deep dish pizza from giordano's and then to the game night to have fun with friends, leaving early to pick up happiness and move some of jackson's stuff in here so they can spend their first night here so happiness can get used to being here... i could ride back over to the game night cuz the late nighters are still playing, but since i have a lot of softball to play tomorrow and the back is still healing and i was falling asleep before i left for dinner nine hours ago, the rest will do me good...
hope your night was as much fun as mine :)
Saturday, April 17, 2010
daily chores
not that i enjoy them, but i wish there was time for them... most days no chores get done at all, which lets them pile up and pile up and (multiply by fifty and then some) and then i am exhausted on saturday and only want to lay around and rest (and the body needs it) and then sunday i play softball from morning till dark (sometimes less depending on the game times) and then the aily work week starts again so...
two loads of wash are happening (though one is waiting for the dryer, so we're a long way from completing two loads) and about 10% of the boxes were unpacked (though that does not mean the contents are all put away where they will be when i decide where they will be... just too tired to think today) and i can walk into the closet and i cleaned the week's trash and showered long and hot and so, a minor dent in the unpacking and a substantial dent in the laundry and a clean place to live happened today...
in about an hour i am heading to jackson's to go to dinner at her favorite pizza restaurant to celebrate our birthdays (which are six days apart), then we'll decide if we are going to the game night, then jackson and happiness will spend the night so happiness (the friendliest dog alive) can start getting used to the place...
yes, i know, a fascinating life... and you wondered why you rush home to read about it every night, aye? :)
enjoy yours too :)
slight addiction
yes, as i mentioned in my newly templated bullsugar (whatever that is), i am slightly addicted to my current entry in my video me blog cuz it's fun and i miss fun so very much (among other things)... waking ealier than intended but charged with more energy than usual and every kind of desire to share (and some are undulged much more than others, so balance, dangit! (with and without exclamation points) and i sense a rush of missing babble flooding my inner sanctums)...
games, babbles, lusts, intimacies, exercise, more more more!...
yes, i work too much... wanna save me? :)
gonna rest today
gonna rest today, mostly... maybe nap... have some work i must get to... maybe unpack a bit, though bending is not too wise until the lower back disk stops hurting... it's much better than it was monday... and a few other body irritants continue to come and go and to and fro, but healthy is relative too :)
overall, i feel wonderful this morning :)
supercalifragilistic (without the bouncing :)
words over sleep
the desire to share overrides sleep even when extreme long-term exhaustion manifests (or is that festers?... cry uncle?... oh, the pun-ishment of old tv show character references) as i sprinkle words all over the blogosphere in what is left of my written gardens (att sucks)...
for you, of course, all for you...
Friday, April 16, 2010
yeah, what (must be again)
the yeah, what? title (with and without the question marks) has been the title of a blog (or journal or diary entry) before, certainly, along with it's sibling, yeah, whatever and cousins yeah, so? and yeah, right (ditto about the question marks)... and this entry was opened last night to be nothing as i must have fallen asleep, so that's the real...
miss you too :)
soooo tired
john lennon wrote a song... and me, off to work i go... hi-ho...
make today stupendous (and smile a lot :)
sick fool
laughing at my own particular stubborn self-destruction as i am still awake and can barely move and know the body will hurt me tomorrow and the mind will not be as crisp as it needs to be but still, laughing at myself is addictive... i think :}
hope you enjoy yourself too :)
Thursday, April 15, 2010
more more more (work)
work... just when i wanted to get some other work done, in walks an ahca investigation team... no lunch, no sitting down, and all day later, i am just getting home... so i missed my first softball game in many many weeks... mostly torn about that... actually, skipping a game was probably the best thing i could do giving my back tightness (which still hurts, by the way, but is getting a little better every day, thanks for asking)... and since sitting would have been murder on my back, it was almost perfect, except for the fact that i have a couple of days work to do before tuesday morning and i have the ahca people back in the morning, which means i'll be working all weekend again...
i am taking next friday off... next thursday too, maybe... and maybe the following week, or at least a day or two... we shall see how serious i am come next week... and you?... how serious are you?... what's up?... how ya doin?... anybody home?...
yeah, the cheesy over-tired grin is back :)
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
more or less
not moving much
it only hurts when i stretch standing erect (no double entendre intended)... tired, beyond the fatigue of the day, yet the brain wants more... more intellectual stimulus... more sharing... more ego play... more emo... more interactive meaningful existence (that's life).... just too tired to actually communicate... wanting, sighing, longing, zoning, vegging... and this, dear readers, is e-the-real...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
slipped disk
at least that's my diagnosis... it happens now and then in my lower back when i life too much a certain way when i am way past fatigued, cummulatively... sucks, but the muscles do not seem involved, just to posture (disk position), which is why i say slipped disk... still hurts like hell and makes standing up straight quite challenging... wonder how softball will go thursday...
busier than usual busy day with and hopefully, sleep will cure all ills :)
morning already?
yes, and the sleep felt wonderful and was almost enough, but this isn't horseshoes (though it almost is), so laughter abounds (almost) and the day begins with more smiles than most (not almost) others cuz that's the way it is (and i have friends communicating on facebook and email, which is almost more real as this e-the-real that you love to stare at silently, almost)... thank you friends :)
hi ho, ya know?...
Monday, April 12, 2010
healthy dinner?
while jackson is going out for her birthday to some restaurant downtown, i ate wheat thins sundried tomato & basil crackers and roasted garlic hummus with a vanilla activia for dessert and water to drink... so?... healthy dinner?...
gonna sleep soon... dinner out would have been nice... celebrating jackson's birthday would have been nice... sleep is necessary...
early to rise
does not mean early to bed for this body, so no wonder i am not healthy wealthy or wise... though i am comfortable i suppose... and not actually unhealthy... anyway, monthly orientation starts in less than an hour and i've got to make copies of training materials i hand out, so out the door i go...
make your day a big smile :)
Sunday, April 11, 2010
long day of softball
woke two hours earlier than optimal rest just to head to the field for a practice, but the coach didn't reserve the field, so some of the team got a handful of batting practice hits and the rest of us drove accross the street where we found all those fields were taken too so we drove over to the batting cages which is where i wanted to go in the first place but i am a good team player and show up when and where coach says and i could have slept two more hours... four hours later we were tired as we were heading into extra innings and maybe if we didn't run around so much and tired ourselves out... from there i rushed over to the playoff game in the other sunday league only to find the team we were scheduled to play did not show and we won by forfeit... i hung around to see the teams we might have to play in the rest of the playoffs next week and forgot about the jack kerouac tribute music/poetry/art show at the white house (home of the conductor of the cirque du soleil set up with a three story concert room and art gallery and more and is an artsy landmark in orlando) and decided i was too tired to go... cooking now, then sleep, tomorrow starts early as it's orientation day... midnight is jackson's birthday, so i want to stay up to send her a happy birthday on facebook and then i'll fall out... and that was today... how was yours? :)
mockery, seriously?
i love to tease and be teased. especially by myself and if you've read me for any length of time and actually understad the meaning in my words, you know this well... and like in the previous, a tease for you is best followed by a tease even more bitingly real (cuz serious teasing is best based in th real) at myself... we should all do what works best for ourselves as long as it hurts no one else, else the mockery is a waste and even detrimental...
and another sunday morning i wake way too early because the coach wants his pre-game routine followed, which includes getting to the field more than two hours before the game and standing around after a light disorganized practice, a practice (and practice) that does not work for me... i would rather sleep an extra two hours, go to the batting cages an hour before the game and then getting to the filed about a half hour before the game to stretch and loosen up by pitching a few dozen pitches and also to cut down on the stand around time and most impoortantly, get the extra two hours of sleep... that works best for me...
but i respect the attempt at uniformity and give up my sleep and my optimal pre-game preparation, therein performing at less than my best, especially hitting as i do not practice or warm up enough... pitching, i generally am good after the first inning, but do have to use the first inning to warm up and sometimes will walk someone or give a good pitch to hit...
and the question above the entry in the sometimes i wonder section below the main title... anybody?... seriously?... if we communicated better in life, we would all do better than we do... at work, at play, at everything... that's serious, this thought in this paragraph, i mean, not a mockery in sight...
so in spite of life's compromises, make today your best as well as you can...
continuing explorations
wandering the web is the intellectual pleasure i enjoy, intercranial orgasms that keep me full of wonder and excitement about living and learning and enjoying life even alone and if the dream of sharing it all never comes, at least i enjoyed myself as much as possible...
jackson stopped by tonight to spend a little time and i loved sharing the internet wanderings i did today with her, but i don't expect her to get into it all the way i do... it was just sweet to share a bit... i'd include all the links, but all the windows were closed and i have food cooking and should get some sleep soon and well, this time you'll just have to ask (so there :)
until you do, i'll just keep pretending you're out there :)
Saturday, April 10, 2010
fruitful awakening
though sleep could have easily lasted longer if the phone did not ring, i find myself spouting out purposeful babble and random nonsense this morning at many unknown locals in the new web world (so designated by the demise of the written gardens at the hands of the dastardly att folk, who suck, by the way)... busy day of three softball games tomorrow, so relax today... maybe some laundry and unpacking?... perhaps... fresh air (no times square)...
make this a wonderful weekend...
Friday, April 9, 2010
still exhausted, still awake
future bullsugar believes in love and hopes it will save me (even more tomorrow than yesterday or even today)... today, in the real, i am wired in spite of being beyond exhausted... wish you were here...
Thursday, April 8, 2010
slept a lot, still
i slept a few hours yesterday evening and then woke for a couple of hours and went back to sleep for about six more hours and still, exhaustion... must rest this weekend... not even sure if i turned on the internet last night, just ate, sat down, and slept until about midnight, then went back to sleep about 1am after playing a game for a few... still exhausted, but better than yesterday... if i turn on the internet, i don't get the extra hour or few sleep and some nights, i need sleep more than anything else... must make some time off for nothing but sleep and rest this month...
i hear birds in the morning outside my windows... got a mini-forrest ten feet away and it is wonderful :)
yes, pause, clear, breathe :)
blur with a spin cycle
yes, sitting at my desk last night i was feeling the woozy extreme fatigue feeling as i leaned on the border of pushing this body and mind too far... it is so weird when the mind threatens to shut down (as in pass out) and it has not happened much in this life, but extreme long term fatigue is taking it's toll... still, it turns me on, and off, cuz i love lemonade too :)
hi-ho :)
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
scratching it out
doing my best to stay positive, but so tired - in terms of energy and time for writing of any kind, or just about any activity at all these days, i am practicing minimalism... getting some necessities done, but there's just not enough time or energy for anything else... at least two dozen different work projects are going on at any given time and at least a dozen critical time consumers and then there's all the stuff to do at home and then survival stuff (haven't gotten to a doc or dentist in three years) and the car is three months past it's oil change and forget rotating tires or anything else)...
the good news (sorta of) is that i am maintaining regular contact with myself here and the past week or two made time (sleeping even less) to let words out in many other places because that is survival, but scratching the bottom of the barrel for energy...
sleep more, please? :}
four hours sleep
give yourself a present, go to bed
now :)
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
steady rush
another regulatory survey today... battle with a subordinate manager yesterday changed a few things at work that will give me more time for myself and less money at the end of the day (I decided to stop doing weekend on-call due to poor management by the interim admissions director who is an entitled drama queen who gets away with delegating too much)...
work work work, something's got to give... so a few thousand less each year, but my weekends are all my own now... and life goes on...
hope life is fun for you :)
Sunday, April 4, 2010
not much done
yeah, so i spent most of the afternoon with the cable guy and got the internet fixed, but still have not done any laundry or unpacking or cleaning or writing or... i did get a bunch more work done for work and and relaxed and just got home from dinner out with precious who called cuz she wanted some family on easter and had nobody else around and needed a ride home from work and knows i'm a soft touch and so we ate and went shopping and then i dropped her at a friend (that was not too cynical, was it?... if you aren't laughing you take my nonsense too seriously :)
good weekend, even if it was lonely and too much work and not enough home care me time... you? (someday someone will actually respond regularly and keep in touch and share everything and fall in love and partner forever soulmates and passionate amazement and it may not all be the same person, but hey, won't that be a trip and a half :)
enjoy it all, whatever it is :)
holy speedtrap. batman!
by trap, i mean how could i ever go back to slow if this speed keeps up and by speed i mean speeeeeed... ok, so reliability of test sites may be questionsble, especially since the frog leaps to 384mbps, which is beyond T4, which is possibly not even possible given the hardware and i wouldn't know what to do with 384mbps even if it was real... bandwith place tells me i am at 18.5 mbps and speedtest tells me 13.4, which has been the most logical of the test sites... the bright house test site tells me i am at 34.5mbps, which is a bit suspect since the techs say the system doesn't really offer much more than 20mbps, which is what i supposedly pay for, so anyway... test again on brighthouse and 10.3 shows up, so it does fluctuate... but the connection is much better and it was a combination of re-wiring and a new modem... the modem really made the difference... so wow, and happy new year, or bunny hop, or dead guy day, or sunday, or whatever you want to celebrate... today i'll celebrate speed :)
feeling lonely
work took twice as long as i thought it would and i left some for tomorrow morning and i stopped to shop for food on the way home so now i have a full freezer and a full belly and it's time for sleep for the whole world (in this time zone) and i am feeling lonely...
this is the constant loneliness that never leaves and never wanes but is usually relegated to the back of the consciousness by the busy activities of life and work and helping others and playing games and doing all the things i do cuz sitting around moping or nurturing this feeling lost it's creative appeal some years back... you might say that my misery stopped loving company... nyuk, nyuk, i guess...
hope you are staying in touch with your depths even as you rush through your daily life, cuz somewhere inside, your true colors can be found... and if you live to share like me, you might know the lonely feeling too...
and the real...
Saturday, April 3, 2010
years later
or so it seems... the tech showed up and did not have the expertise to test/fix everything and everything he tried changed nothing, so a whole saturday shot and nothing changed except the location of the cable box, which is now atop a kitchen cabinet with wires running up the side of the cabinet... not ideal, but if it works, great...
trouble is, it didn't work... the speed is still way slower than the speed i am paying for, so another tech, a pc-tech (level 3, perhaps, as this guy was a level 2 tech) is coming out tomorrow 2-4pm... hopefully it won't take too long as i'll be heading into work after the tech is done, just like right now... so much for a fun weekend... tonight though, i hope to continue unpacking and moving in and that will be a pleasure (after it is done :)
hope your saturday is more fun than this :)
beginning the process
the moving in process, that is... i botched it at the start, which has caused this long delay... usually i will bug spray a new place first time or, when possible, before moving in... i had the perfect opportunity to do that as i took the place two days before actually moving in, but i dallied (or perhaps i dillied… wonder why dallied is in the spellchecker and yet dillied is not… s'pose you can dally without dallying, but but the most common method is th dilly before dallying, as in dilly dally, ya know… anyway) and still did not bug spray as of yesterday… this morning I bug sprayed all the areas that were not blocked or at least that were easy to get to… so the process begins and the next step is to move the stuff around and spray where the stuff was blocking and then, the actual unpacking can beging… there is also the outside treatment to do which will hopefully get done this weekend, though I must buy the granular stuff to complete it… the cool new battery operated bug spray jugs did not work, so I will return them… I used the pump and the aerosols… aren't you fascinated by how I have trained myself to live in florida where the bugs outnumber the people a gazillion to one?... ok, maybe that's an exaggeration, but anyway…
I cleaned a bit but have not started laundry yet and these is the events of the day so far as I wait for the cable guy who is supposed to be here between 12 and 2 and there has been no confirmation call (the first time there were six different confirmation calls)… I am heading into work this afternoon, so the cable company will have it's second strike if the tech does not show as scheduled… the first strike is not delivering the service as advertised as the extra money I pay for 20mbps has so far provided an average download speed of 6mbps, which is better than my aircard, but considering the speed did hit 22mbps in one out of two dozen tests over the last few days, an average of 6 means there are a lot of hours when the speed is well below 6 and for a few days last week there was no connection that would last more than a minute which is why the service call was put in… the aircard is much more consistent…
how's your saturday so far? :)
Friday, April 2, 2010
early to home
whatever that saying is, it's good to be home early and to relax and gather my wits for a busy weekend... hopefully work will be light (and not like last weekend when jackson had nine admissions) and i will finally ocus on giving this place a bug spray treatment inside and out and then, finally actually start to unpack... and laundry, got a pile of that too... and maybe a little writing time... there's always hope...
cuz i hope :)
and now awake watching craig... bugged by the probably loss of 90% of the web world because corporate america, in this case, att, did not provide accurate information in email and blocked me from downloading and saving my web pages... att sucks... and then there's work on my mind as well, too much of it, not enough support...
i am reaching the point of faking it because nobody really cares whether i do or not except me and i will burn out if i do not cut back on the time i put into work... so life goes on and i will survive and continue looking for people who care... and for money, i'll play the corporate game and produce the paper in fewer hours a week...
Thursday, April 1, 2010
bright house sucks
two weeks into the service and it's gone, connects for a minute or few at ridiculously slow speed (less than 100kbps) and then disconnects... can't even update the virus files and i have to take time out of my life to wait for a cable guy, twice in the first month...
i desperately need sleep anyway... won't put up with this too long... they must get this a lot cuz the tech guy gave me a free month... so i am back on the att aircard... bad news for brighthouse because the aircard is faster than the brighthouse after a two week trial... and they claim up to 50mbps?... that sucks...
and how are you? :)
bright house goes dark
i've read about problems with bright house internet and figured i would give them a shot myself and so far it's been mediocre at best with a download speed not much faster than my ATT aircard and sometimes slower, which sucks considering i am paying for turbo which is supposed to be 30-40mbps according to the tech i just spoke to... i'd settle for the 20mbps i paid for... tonight, it will not even stay connected... wish it was an april fools joke, but it started march 31 and it's no joke cuz i am paying for service i am not getting... so i called tech support, giving up my time to fix their problem, strike two against bright house... maybe the poor service reports on the web were right... we shall see...
so i've got a tech appointment killing my saturday and the only reason i went for that instead of cancelling is they are giving me a month free... i'll give bright house the month and might try att u-verse next if this poor bright house service and disconnect problem continues...
yeah, i know, i should be sleeping... woke from a nap and decided to pay bills and see if the connection got better and it just got worse... now it won't even stay connected... good thing i didn't cancel my aircard yet...
hope your tech life is smiling more than mine :}
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