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Office: Coldwell Banker Advantage One Properties Address: 1500 Valley River Drive - Suite 370, Eugene, OR 97401 Office Phone: (541) 868-8444 Mobile Phone: (541) 221-8202 Business: (541) 868-8444 Fax: (541) 868-8445
About Teri Sapp
- I have lived in the Eugene area most of my life. Met my Husband of 27 years at Willamette High school, where our youngest son attends. Our First son was born and married in Eugene .He and his wife are saving to buy thier first home here.
- My Husband was in the Navy so I have lived in a few other States and have been through the relocation process a few times and have helped others relocate to the Eugene area.
- My listings have multiple photos and detailed property discriptions. This helps to satisfy online home buyers. -These are two of the most sought after features by online home shoppers.
- I contuniue to take classes keeping me on top of the market and learning new and better ways to service my Clients.
- Active member of the Local,State and National Realtor Association.
- I love sewing,crochet,painting,beading,all types of arts and crafts. I have designed and re-modled two kitchens its fun and easy,I put the cabnets together myself and put in the counters,re-laid hard wood floors and lament wood floors, this helps with giving my clients a vision of what could be done in with a fixer.
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Bonniwell Music Machine LP - Super stupid rare & awesome 1960's garage/proto-punk goodness.
This is a piece from my dad's collection. I'd really love to keep it, as this the kind of stuff I enjoy "collecting" but it is worth some fair money and the whole reason my pops gave me his vinyl was to help me raise the money I need to help clear up my current situation in regards to finances and such… so I'm gonna have to let this beauty go to another loving home that is not my own.
If any of you fine tumblr folk know of any serious vinyl collectors who rock the 60's garage/psych/proto-punk wax, please feel free to let them know a reuputable vendor has a choice near mint copy on ebay right now.
I'm pretty sure mine is the only original pressing listed currently…
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I post my tasting notes of good (and bad) beer that I find in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. I don't write snooty or overly nuanced reviews, nor do I drink only one style of beer.
I'll generally rate beers on this purposefully coarse scale, with a few accompanying tasting notes:
1 = bad
2 = meh (mediocre)
3 = good
4 = exceptional
Follow me for an eclectic mix of beers and where to find them. A single beer (or themed set) is auto-posted each day from a queue, hopefully with no more than a few weeks' lag (beer on tap is bumped to the top).
I am Stephen Goggin. When I'm not drinking good beer and writing about it, I'm a PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley.
Cascade Lakes' IRA India Red Ale (Picked up at Belmont Station in Portland). A 2 of 4. Not quite as red as I was expecting, given the title, but definitely has the malt presence of a red ale with some caramel notes, as well as quite a bit of pine hop presence in the nose and body. Quite drinkable, and has a solid hop nose with some citrus as well, but the bitterness in the body is well-hidden. Decent, but not that different from a standard, solid IPA.


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"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato
A fantastic post by a SC Police Officer - definitely check out his blog!
In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.
When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force.
The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a carload of drunken guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.
Do you ever wish shit would just hit the fan? Just to get it done and over with… To prove you can survive? To get out of this lifestyle we are forced to live?
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Indiana added some much needed frontcourt help to the roster yesterday. Center Jeremiah April was a surprise commitment late in the recruiting season.
April is a 7-foot 220-pound center from Westwind Prep in Arizona. He averaged 19 points, 11 rebounds and five blocks per game last season. He went unranked on many national recruiting sites but was seen as a 2-star when he did show up.
His numbers are impressive for someone flying under the radar. His high school coach, Jai Steadman, believes that April has the potential to be great.
"Defensively, I'd like to see him block shots, rebound better, and that's just weight room," Steadman said. "I told him his best friend needs to be the strength and conditioning coach at Indiana."
There is a very real chance that he signed because April now has a very good shot at starting right away. He is solid around the basket and has a decent mid-range jumper. Defensively he is a natural shot blocker and uses his length when he gets beaten off the dribble.
April graduated from high school last year and moved to spend a year at Westwind Prep. He will move to Bloomington this summer when the rest of the 2014 class comes to campus.
This signing addresses a serious need along the frontcourt. The losses of Noah Vonleh to the NBA and Luke Fischer to mid-season transfer have left the Hoosiers without a true center or power forward. Hanner Mosquera-Perea was the only player who saw the court last season that checks in at 6-9.
April might prove to be a project but his ability suggests that he will be able to contribute at some point. He'll likely be thrown into the fire right away, but IU is still going to struggle to stop opponents in the paint.
Here is a highlight reel of his time at Westwind Prep:
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Yankees' manager Joe Girardi has a problem. He needs to find enough playing time for all his players so that they are happy and will produce. Mark Teixeira returned to the lineup on Sunday and will be the everyday first baseman. A role that he has earned over the years in the field and at the plate. Shortstop will remain the domain of the Captain, Derek Jeter, with Dean Anna as the primary backup. Now is where things get interesting in the Yankees' infield. The Yankees have a veteran former All-Star second baseman, a lefty slugger and a switch-hitting rookie who is leading the American League in batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, doubles and hits. They have only third base and second base open. Three players for two spots in the lineup.
This is a situation where a manager would normally be telling his players to check their egos at the door while simultaneously massaging those egos to make sure no one's feelings are hurt or get in the way of the team winning. However, this case is unique in that none of the participants in this playing time triangle have cause for a big head. Brian Roberts is a 36-year-old former All-Star second baseman who has played only 207 games since 2009. Kelly Johnson is a journeyman infielder on his fifth team. Yangervis Solarte is a 26-year-old rookie. However, all three are fierce competitors who want to play and want to win. For his part, Girardi feels confident he can come up with enough playing time to effectively use all three.
"All these guys are going to play," Girardi said. "I think it's important that they all play, that you keep them all fresh, that you make sure that they're all involved in case you do have an injury or something. One year, because of rainouts and stuff, Eduardo Nunez didn't play for the first three weeks. When he got in there and we needed him, he was really rusty. I don't think you can afford to do that. And with the age on our team, I think that everyone is going to play." (h/t Chad Jennings, LoHud Yankee Blog)
Despite his hot hitting, the Yankees seemingly have not yet figured out how to use Solarte. His success has seemingly caught the entire Yankees' staff by surprise and Girardi has maintained that Johnson and Roberts are the regular third and second basemen, respectively. But how can you leave the American League's leading hitter on the bench? Girardi loves playing lefty-righty matchups more than any Yankees' manager in history. It's possible he plays Johnson exclusively versus righties and Solarte against lefties. Of course, Johnson is a career .274 hitter against lefties while Solarte is hitting only .250 against them this season. Meanwhile, Solarte is hitting an absurd .394 against righties.
So if both Solarte and Johnson are producing, what about cutting down on Roberts' playing time? This would seem the obvious option if the decision was being made solely on production thus far. Roberts is hitting a paltry .156 with no power (only two extra base hits). However, Girardi values the veteran presence of Roberts along with his ability to bat both right-handed and left-handed. I would say he can switch hit, but when you are batting .143 against righties and .176 against lefties, you really aren't hitting period.
So if we still need to include Roberts in this puzzle, then the only option is to seemingly play upon the feature of Solarte's game that was valued above all and was the main reason for including him over Nunez at the end of spring training: his versatility. Solarte can play third, second and the corner outfield spots. In 1995, on the way to winning the first ever American League Wild Card, Randy Velarde played in 111 games, getting to the plate over 430 times and hit .278 with 7 home runs and 46 RBI. At various points that season, he played second, third, short, left and right. He was not an everyday player at any position, but he played everyday. Solarte needs to be that player for the 2014 incarnation of the Bronx Bombers. He needs to play second to spell Roberts two days a week and play third three days a week to give Johnson a day off and when Johnson plays first to give Teixeira a rest. Solarte is a rookie whose magic may run out at any time. The Yankees just need to make the most out of it before its gone.
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|07 Nov 2010
HELP NEEDED:Setting up wireless home network
Here what I'm aiming for:
Two desktops(Windows 7) connected to swtich+connected to internet.
One laptop(Windows 7) connected to switch via lan cable.
Now, I want to share my internet connection+files over a wireless network to a second laptop(winXP) using the laptop(Windows 7) which is connected to the switch.
I'm able to setup the wireless so that it connects but thats where it stops, files don't wanna share neither the internet.
How do one do this the right way?
Hope you can help me.
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|07 Nov 2010
type home group in the start menu search box and click on choose home group and sharing options
**If all computers on your home network are running Windows 7, create a homegroup
By far, the easiest way to set up file and printer sharing on a home network is to create a homegroup. A homegroup links computers on your network so that you can share pictures, music, videos, documents, and printers. You can help protect a homegroup with a password, and you'll always be able to choose what you share with the group. If all of the computers that you want to network are running Windows 7, creating a homegroup is the recommended method.
HomeGroup is available in all editions of Windows 7. In Windows 7 Starter and Windows 7 Home Basic, you can join a homegroup, but you can't create one.
the guide while you set the home group up explains as you do it. if you use all windows 7 on the machines its easy
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|07 Nov 2010
Hey, tnx for the advise.
All the desktops and the one laptop is connected to the homegroup except for the one wireless lappy I wanna connect, it has winXP.
So what I need is for the one win 7 laptop to share the internet and files of the other desktops wirelessly to the xp laptop. At the moment I'm able to excess local files between the two laptops, but I cant see the desktop files on the wireless XP laptop.
If I connect the XP laptop directly to the network(with lan cable) then I'm able to access all the shared files on the network plus I have internet. But I wanna do this wirelessly with it.
|My System Specs
|07 Nov 2010
If your network contains computers running different versions of Windows, put all computers in the same workgroup
Let's assume that you've already set up the physical network itself. If you haven't, see What you need to set up a home network.
After your network is set up, the next step is to fine-tune it so that all the computers can find each other—something you'll need if you want to share files and printers.
If computers running Windows XP are part of your network, it's important to use the same workgroup name for all of the computers on your network. This makes it possible for computers running different versions of Windows to detect and access each other. Remember that the default workgroup name is not the same in all versions of Windows.
To find or change the workgroup name on a computer running Windows XP
Click Start, right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
In System Properties, click the Computer Name tab to see the workgroup name. To change the name, click Change, type the new name in Computer name, and then click OK.
To find the workgroup name on a computer running Windows Vista or Windows 7
Open System by clicking the Start button , right-clicking Computer, and then clicking Properties.
The workgroup name is displayed under Computer name, domain, and workgroup settings.
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Volleyball Wins Two of Three
The Alfred State College volleyball team won two of their three matches at the SUNY Delhi pod. ASC opened up the day by dropping a five-game match to Delhi (25-23, 18-25, 25-21, 17-25, 12-15) but rebounded for a 3-1 victory over Mohawk Valley CC (25-21, 23-25, 25-21, 25-11) and a 3-0 win over Herkimer CCC (25-23, 25-10, 25-20).
ASC was led by Meghan Kraus (Trumansburg). Kraus had 34 kills, 40 digs, and 11 aces on the day. Ashley Hulse (Hammondsport) had 21 kills, 16 blocks, and eight aces, Kay Pfleghardt (Tioga) had 38 digs, 17 kills, and three aces, and Mishaya Tuttle (Campbell Savona) finished with 30 digs, 16 kills, and 10 aces. Mandy Bush (Altoona, PA) passed out 80 assists and collected 24 digs and 14 kills while Kara Anderson (Wayne) chipped in 28 digs.
The Lady Pioneers are now 14-10 overall on the season and 9-5 in Region III Division III contests. They take the court again next Friday when they travel to the Onondaga CC Tournament. They are guaranteed four-games in round robin play on Friday and Saturday with the playoffs starting in the early afternoon.


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I've got a CZ 75 P-07 Duty 9mm. Just want to see who carries one and get their comments on the experience and how they like their weapon. This goes for any CZ too....
This is a discussion on Who carries a CZ? within the Defensive Carry Guns forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I've got a CZ 75 P-07 Duty 9mm. Just want to see who carries one and get their comments on the experience and how they ...
I've got a CZ 75 P-07 Duty 9mm. Just want to see who carries one and get their comments on the experience and how they like their weapon. This goes for any CZ too....
Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which it might better provide for itself... Man is not free unless government is limited... As government expands, liberty contracts.
-Ronald Reagan
I've carried a full size 75 occasionally and just switched from 1911 to a 75 Compact for EDC - been running it the last month or so. Don't have any experience with the P07, but I love the steel CZs.
I carry, quite often, a CZ 2075 BD. I absolutely love it! Overall quality is excellent and the accuracy is superb! The only reason I'm not currently carrying it is that I wanted to get my Sigs back into the lineup. If, and it's a big if I know, CZ ever came out with a 357Sig version, that would end up being every day carry weapon!
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But, I repeat myself. ...Mark Twain: Manuscript note, c.1882.
NRA Life Member & JPFO Member.
Sig & CZ-aholic, a Ruger SP101 3" & Wiley Clapp GP100
I used to carry a CZ 75c, and sometimes I will still carry my RAMI. I haven't much lately, though - I work from home and prefer the lightness of my Colt Cobra for around the house. I love the CZs and how well built they are. They've always been reliable for me.
Underrated company, in my opinion.
"Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power." - Yoshimi Ishikawa
CZ is a rare breed of handguns in that even rabid fans of OTHER handgun manufacturers almost universally tip their hat to folks who choose to carry a CZ. It's tough to find any knowledgable handgunners who badmouth 'em. My CZ P01 is as good as any & better than most of my other EDC options.Who carries a CZ?
There are only TWO kinds of people in this world; those who describe the world as filled with two kinds of people...and those who don't.
CZ 75B SA - 9mm
If I'm not carrying a .45, I'm carrying that. It is moderately heavy and large but, those qualities are part of what makes it a fabulous shooter. There is NO OTHER gun that I shoot faster.
Full disclosure - It was NOT this good out of the box. Between night sights, a little trigger work, stocks and low-profile thumb safeties, I have put in nearly as much as I paid for the gun. It is all about making the gun the way I wanted it and, it paid off.
"Mind own business"
"Always cut cards"
Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which it might better provide for itself... Man is not free unless government is limited... As government expands, liberty contracts.
-Ronald Reagan
I shot a custom Shadow for 6 or 8 months in USPSA. CZs are great. I probably should have given it a little more time but an opportunity popped up and I traded it off. My experience: Where the trigger breaks is a little short for me. I have large hands and was a little cramped up with the reach. That was the main issue. Not as important, but parts availability... like a narrower front sight request required milling a blank. You can't just pick up the phone and get stuff for them like a Glock. Field stripping is easy but a detail strip, not so much. It's not close to being as simple as a glock, or even a 1911 for that matter. The gun has some roll pins too. Great gun though.
Unless you are used to assembling these things all day long in the factory, you need a third hand with a couple of extra thumbs to get it done!
Still, I don't think that should stop someone who is interested in the platform from buying one.
"Mind own business"
"Always cut cards"
I used to carry a P-06, I now carry the P-01, as well as a Dan Wesson CBOB, which is made by CZ. On some occasions I carry a 2075 RAMI and CZ 82. So I guess I qualify. CZ is one of the best kept secrets in the gun world, however their popularity is spreading.
Freedom doesn't come free. It is bought and paid for by the lives and blood of our men and women in uniform.
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well i carry a CZ 82 9mm Mak IWB. I carry it nearly 80% of the time
Proudly living in the free state of Florida
A RAMI for the last 10 years with PCRs, P-01s, a P-07 Duty and other along the way to my RAMI P.
The P-09 Duty is on the horizon for 2013 but will too big for most of us to carry.
Ditto on the .357 SIG. I'd love to have a RAMI BD .40 with a .357 SIG barrel or one chambered in it from the factory.
Until then, these have to suffice:
The TAC-XPs shoot wonderfully in my RAMI P.
Lefty here. CZ85B 9mm ambidextrous. Like someone else said, not so great out of the box, but after 300 rounds, Oh Boy! Probably my most accurate handgun. Not my EDC, but it IS my IDPA choice.
You might like to visit The Original CZ Forum - Index, great site, great people!
"If you make something idiot proof, someone will make a better idiot."
- Anon
For IWB I carry a CZ 75b or my CZ 100. Both are very comfortable to carry and the weight doesn't seem to be an issue.
CZ 75D PCR in a Galco Concealable Belt Holster (OWB). I like it very much.


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A drawing for samsubchester :)
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do you ever just get
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that's my friend
I think it's sort of weird that people think of their favorite character in like a romantic way? Like they're sexually/romantically interested in that character
Idk I just want to be my favorite character's mom
#i want to wrap them up in a blanket coccoon and carry them around #and feed them soup and take them to the park and hold their hand and show them neat things #and pet their hair and tuck them in at night #when i say 'my baby' i literally mean like i want them to be my child
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There was quite a bit to be digested within the release buy Ava Duvernay's name quickly got my attention. Duvernay is being lauded at the Third Annual Athena Film Festival, A Celebration of Women and Leadership. Congrats to Ava Duvernay!Read More »
The third annual Athena Film Festival, co-founded by our own Melissa Silverstein, has announced the recipients for this year's Athena Film Festival Awards, which honor actors, directors, producers and others involved in the film community for their contributions and leadership.Read More »
If you're a New Yorker who didn't get to see the film during its theatrical run here in NYC (it's no longer playing in this market, although it continues to expand to others), you should know that there'll be a special screening of it at the Museum Of The Moving Image in Queens,...Read More »
Some back-story... in September, Ava DuVernay's Middle Of Nowhere was shown as testimony at the FCC, as a part of the Wright Petition to end predatory phone rates for incarcerated families; the practice of charging unreasonably high rates of up to $2.99 per min...Read More »
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Is S & A turning into the Middle of Nowhere channel? Seems that way doesn't it? But then again isn't that we're all about? That is bringing to attention intelligent, well made, independently made black films?Read More »
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I was in LA yesterday and already had a meeting set up with Ava DuVernay to just say hi in between her press appearances. I was able to chat with her a couple of hours after her two Gotham award nominations. Her film Middle of Nowhere received two nominations as did Beast of the Southern...Read More »
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For those of you have yet to see, and have been dying to see Ava DuVernay's film Middle of Nowhere, especially after the fantastic word-of-mouth the film has been getting, and the news we reported this weekend that it had the highest gross per screen of any film currently playing in theater...Read More »


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Yeah, we obviously haven't come to terms with the fact that summer is almost over. It's just too gut-wrenching—and besides, the weather hasn't exactly come to terms with it, either. We've already brought you camo shorts and cargo shorts this season, but the heavy-hitting trend we're seeing on the streets lately is: jean shorts! Guys have been copping them from their favorite brands or taking scissors to a tired pair of full-length denim. Either way, they've been rocked hard, so now we want to know what you think. Jorts? 'HUMP' or 'DUMP'?
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Our house is situated at San Lorenzo di Sebato in the heart of the Val pusteria and near the city named Brunico.
At San Lorenzo di Sebato you are at the right place, because the village is the optimal starting point for different toures in the Dolomites, on the ideal sea level, temperated climate and spectacular villages.
The apartment run through an extensive renovation, layed in quiet sorrounding in Maria Sares (1130 m above sea level) on the road to the famous ski-carousel named Plan de Corones. The location is comfortable to get on the ski pist of San Vigilio di Marebbe, in 15 minutes in car or to get on the slope of Brunico (Riscone) still in 15 min in car where you even can go for a walk in the close wood. The flat is equiped of every comfort. You have on your disposal 3 bedrooms, two bathrooms, big kitchen, living room furnished in tipical tyrolean style with antic farmer-oven, spacious terrace/balcony, park place, garden, television, washing machine, dishwasher and linen.
The apartment is sourrounded of fir and larch woods which present itself for walks at one`s leisure.
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Photos: Mighty waves at Mavericks
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Some of the world's best surfers rode the big waves off Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay, Calif., on Tuesday. The annual surf competition is one of the more challenging ones: Sharks frequent the area, waves crest at 25 feet, and a ridge of jagged rocks lies between the participants and land.
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Three's a crowd as these competitors fight for prime placement on a wave.
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Several human clinical trials of potential neuroprotective therapies after spinal cord injury were conducted in the 1980s and 1990s (Mirza and Chapman, 2001); however, none of these conclusively demonstrated a benefit for increasing function after a spinal cord injury. The most high profile clinical trials were of the medications methylprednisolone and the ganglioside GM-1. After careful review of the results by two separate panels, neither of the two medications received endorsement as a standard of care (Fehlings and Spine Focus Panel, 2001; AANS/CNS, 2002c).
The three clinical trials of methylprednisolone, a corticosteroid, were sponsored by the National Acute Spinal Cord Injury Study (NASCIS) (Bracken et al., 1984, 1990, 1997). The trials were launched after it was reported that methylprednisolone preserved neurological function in animal models by inhibiting ischemia, axon degeneration, and inflammation, among other effects. The first human clinical trial in the early 1980s compared high- versus low-dose methylprednisolone (Bracken et al., 1984); the second clinical trial compared the effects of methylprednisolone with those of another agent and a placebo (Bracken et al., 1990); and the third clinical trial compared the timing of methylprednisolone treatment (Bracken et al., 1997). Concerns have been raised about the robustness of the statistical analyses and the heterogeneity of the populations with spinal cord injuries used in the studies, which made it difficult to compare due to differences in the baseline characteristics of the study populations (Bracken and Holford, 2002) (see Chapter 6 and Appendix E). Consequently, it has been stated that the data describing improved recovery from methylprednisolone treatment are weak and that the improvements observed may represent random events (Hurlbert, 2000). In some cases the trials documented serious side effects, the most prominent of which were higher infection rates, respiratory complications, and gastrointestinal hemorrhage.
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BREAKING NEWS - This just in. A teen has died after a failed attempt to compete in something known as the Selfie Olympics. We offer our strongest condolenc- Wait - no, I'm sorry. Sources confirm that those close to the teen have viewed this as a very successful attempt. Well, in that case I suppose congratulations are in order.
Business Insider's Robert Johnson's Charleston, WV hotel sink one hour after filling it with water.
Looks like they have everything taken care of.
The Toxic Chemical Spill, and Why the Working Class Votes Against its Economic Interest
Last week's massive spill of the toxic chemical MCHM into West Virginia's Elk River illustrates another benefit to the business class of high unemployment, economic insecurity, and a safety-net shot through with holes. Not only are employees docile, eager to accept whatever job they can get. The public is also quiescent and unwilling to cause trouble.
The spill was the region's third major chemical accident in five years, coming after two investigations by the federal Chemical Safety Board in the Kanawha Valley, also known as "Chemical Valley," and repeated recommendations from federal regulators and environmental advocates that the state embrace tougher rules to better safeguard chemicals.
No action was ever taken. State and local officials turned a deaf ear. The storage tank that leaked, owned by Freedom Industries, hadn't been inspected for decades.
But nobody complained.
Not even now, with the toxins moving down river toward Cincinnati, can the residents of Charleston and the surrounding area be sure their drinking water is safe — partly because the government's calculation for safe levels is based on a single study by the manufacturer of the toxic chemical, which was never published, and partly because the West Virginia American Water Company, which supplies the drinking water, is a for-profit corporation that may not want to highlight any lingering danger.
So why wasn't more done to prevent this, and why isn't there more of any outcry even now?
The answer isn't hard to find. As Maya Nye, president of People Concerned About Chemical Safety, a citizen's group formed after a 2008 explosion and fire killed workers at West Virginia's Bayer CropScience plant in the state, explained to the New York Times: "We are so desperate for jobs in West Virginia we don't want to do anything that pushes industry out."
I often heard the same refrain when I headed the U.S. Department of Labor. When we sought to impose a large fine on the Bridgestone-Firestone Tire Company for flagrantly disregarding workplace safety rules and causing workers at one of its plants in Oklahoma to be maimed and killed, for example, the community was solidly behind us — that is, until Bridgestone-Firestone threatened to close the plant if we didn't back down. The threat was enough to ignite a storm of opposition to the proposed penalty from the very workers and families we were trying to protect. (We didn't back down and Bridgestone-Firestone didn't carry out its threat, but the political fallout was intense.)
For years political scientists have wondered why so many working class and poor citizens of so-called "red" states vote against their economic interests. The usual explanation is that, for these voters, economic issues are trumped by social and cultural issues like guns, abortion, and race.
I'm not so sure. The wages of production workers have been dropping for thirty years, adjusted for inflation, and their economic security has disappeared. Companies can and do shut down, sometimes literally overnight. A smaller share of working-age Americans hold jobs today than at any time in more than three decades.
People are so desperate for jobs they often don't want to rock the boat. They don't want rules and regulations enforced that might cost them their livelihoods. For them, any job is precious — sometimes even more precious than job safety or safe drinking water.
This is especially true in poorer regions of the country like West Virginia and through much of the South and rural America — so-called "red" states where the old working class has been voting Republican. Guns, abortion, and race are part of the explanation. But don't overlook economic anxieties that translate into a willingness to vote for whatever it is that industry wants.
This may explain why Republican officials who have been casting their votes against unions, against expanding Medicaid, against raising the minimum wage, against extended unemployment insurance, and against jobs bills that would put people to work, continue to be elected. They obviously win the support of corporate patrons who want to keep unemployment high and workers insecure because a pliant working class helps their bottom lines. But they also, paradoxically, win the votes of many workers who are clinging so desperately to their jobs that they're afraid of change and too cowed to make a ruckus.
The best bulwark against corporate irresponsibility is a strong and growing middle class. But in order to summon the political will to achieve it, we have to overcome the timidity that flows from economic desperation. It's a diabolical chicken-and-egg conundrum at a the core of American politics today.
This bums me out so bad.
Also the fact that one of the worst environmental incidents in the US since Deepwater Horizon barely made a blip on the national scene.
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A Candlestick Chart
The basis of the candlestick is said to have originated around the 17th century in Japan.
The Japanese used this style of charting (technical analysis) to predict rice prices.
A legendary rice trader named Homma from the town of Sakata is said to have made a huge fortune using candlestick analysis.
Over the years candlestick charting has been modified and refined and Steve Nison is credited with popularizing the style of candlestick charting that is used today.
The Japanese Candlestick
Since the candlestick shows you the same price information as the bar chart then you may be wondering why to even use them. One reason to use the candlestick is because it gives you a better pictorial representation of the price action.
The box, or rectangular portion, of the candle provides unique visual clues that make reading price action easier. These visual clues make them more appealing than the standard two-dimensional bar chart.
Below are examples of candlesticks with explanations for each candlestick component.
**In each picture I have also included a bar so that you can see its equivalent and compare the differences.**
The Stock Closes Higher for the Day
**We will refer to the candlestick as if we are talking about a daily stock chart.**
The picture below right is an example of what a bar and candle look like if the price of the stock closes higher than it did the previous day. There was a lot of buying pressure so the stock closed higher for the day.
The box, or rectangular portion, of the candle is called the body (also referred to as "the real body"). This represents the price range between the open and close for the day.
The tips of the thin lines above and below the body are called shadows (also referred to as "wicks" and "tails) and represent the stock's "high" and "low" price for the day.
When the stock closes higher for the day the body (rectangular part) of the candle will be white or green.
The bottom part of the body represents the opening price for the day, and the top part of the body represents the closing price for the day.
If you recall from the bar chart lesson the horizontal line extending to the right of the bar represents the closing price of the day. If the horizontal line on the right is higher than the horizontal line on the left then you can easily see that the stock closed higher than it opened for that time period.
The problem that arises is that when you have several bars on a chart it becomes harder to see each individual bar. The candlestick chart alleviates this problem because the "body" of the candle is easier to see.
The Stock Closes Lower for the Day
If the stock closes lower than it opened then the body of the candle will be black or red. This time the opening price is at the top of the body and the closing price at the bottom.
When the stock closes "higher" for the day, the candlestick will be "white or green", and when the stock closes "lower" for the day, the candlestick will be "black or red".
The Chart
Here are how the candlesticks look on a stock chart.
I hope this lesson has helped you to at least understand the basic mechanics of a candlestick chart. There is a lot more to learn about candlestick charting.
There are at least 12 major names for the different shapes of the "body" and "shadows". Names such as Doji. Graveyard Doji, Shooting Stars, Hammer, Hanging Man, etc. Learning about candlestick charting is a course all on its own.
But don't let that deter you. The traders I know that use candlesticks are extremely passionate about what they do and they swear they will never go back to the bar chart again.
I think part of the reason I stick with bar charts is because they are easier for me. It's what I learned how to trade off of and it works for me. I guess it's like the saying, "you can't teach an old dog new tricks".
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"Of all the female sins, hunger is the least forgivable; hunger for anything, for food, sex, power, education, even love. If we have desires, we are expected to conceal them, to control them, to keep ourselves in check. We are supposed to be objects of desire, not desiring beings. We do not need food: in many ways, we are food, trainable meat, lambs queueing up to buy mint sauce. We consume only what we are told to, from lipstick to life insurance, and only what will make us more consumable ourselves, the better to be chewed up and swallowed by a machine that wants our work, our money, our sexuality broken down into bite-sized chunks."
— 'Being A Perfect Girl Can Kill You" - extract from Unspeakable Things by Laurie Penny
"…the problem isn't that girls don't know their worth—it's that they absolutely do know their value in society. Young women know exactly how ugly the culture believes them to be. So when we teach girls to simply "love themselves", we're implicitly telling them to accept the world as it is. We're saying that being beautiful is something worth having when we should be telling them a culture that demands as much is toxic."
"There is no bright line separating self from culture, and the culture in which we develop and function enjoys a deep reach into our minds. It's for this reason that we can't understand gender differences in female and male minds— the minds that are the source of our thoughts, feelings, abilities, motivations, and behavior— without understanding how psychologically permeable is the skull that separates the mind from the sociocultural context in which it operates."
— Cordelia Fine, Delusions of Gender


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I'm going to him now. I'm done fighting. He wants to protect me and I don't get a choice in the matter. So I'll give him what he wants. We'll probably be together forever. He's kept me alive this long, I doubt he'll let me die a normal human death.
So I'll go to him, and dwell with him. Perhaps not alone. In time, he could see fit to give me companions, other protectors. He may give me trinkets with which to amuse myself. It mightn't be a bad life, and, if it is, it could be that I'll convince myself it isn't.
Or I could be left in a shack on my own, with nothing but my delusions for company. Maybe that's already what's happening. It doesn't matter. There is no choice for me. He's too powerful. He's too beyond.
He's been following me for over five years. In that period, I've attempted to commit suicide exactly 121 times. But he always intervenes. He leaves me nothing to live for and then prevents me from following everyone I've lost into the abyss.
It doesn't matter how I approach it. When I took action to kill myself, he stopped me from dying. When I tried to kill myself through deprivation, he forced me to live.
I live because he wills it. What he wills, is. There is no death for me, just as there is no life.
An excerpt from one of the files that Tom gave me;
"It was Christmas Eve of 2007, three weeks after we lost her. We were in a hotel in Richmond, Virginia. I'd gone down to the store to get some coffee. James had been drinking all day for the thirteenth day in a row.
I didn't see the funeral man at any point along my walk. I paid for the coffee with change. I think I saw a Sacagawea dollar in there.
When I got back, he was slumped against the far wall, with all his books scattered around him. Some of them appeared to have been ripped. I closed the door and went over to help him but got a faceful of handgun for my troubles. I backed away slowly and sat down on the farthest bed. His lip trembled as tears tore their way out of his eyes.
"If we keep running, we'd just be dragging out the pain until we die. If we stop running, we'd just be lying down and taking it. Either way, we die."
He laid the barrel against his Adam's apple. There was a trace of a smile on his lips.
"It's a regular Catch-22."
Looking back, it's weird how I remember everything up to that point so clearly, yet everything that follows is a blur. I couldn't tell you who came knocking first, the manager or the cleaning lady. I have no concept of the timeframe on which anything that followed happened, hell, I barely have a concept of what followed. I think I was interviewed at a police station. I might have been taken to hospital for shock. It's just as possible that I floored the person who came investigating and ran. There's nothing I can meaningfully say about what happened after. I have no idea."
He was protecting me all along. Or he thought he was. Protecting me from other people and from myself. That's why the kainic acid treatment wouldn't stick. It didn't matter that I'd forgotten him because he just wouldn't leave me alone. He had to keep coming back to watch over me.
He really was benevolent once. The first time he intervened, he saved me from rape. But he didn't understand, or at least that's how I like to rationalize it in my head. Maybe he can't be spoken of in terms of logic or reason, but I feel like I can almost grasp him as a concept in my mind.
He's too powerful to understand the difference between doing something consensually and doing something forcibly. There's no way you can agree to anything with a being like him. What he wants, he gets, he can't be opposed. So he saw me fleeing my would-be rapist and, in whatever way he "thinks", he didn't see that it was the force that was the problem, he thought the sex itself was at issue…
Or so I tell myself. Maybe I'm trying to make him make sense so I can construct a chain of events to explain how my life went wrong. But it explains a lot, I think. It explains why he's tried to keep me away from men like James but not the women at the shelter or Valerie. It explains why he always seemed to get extra aggressive in the aftermath of love-making.
It explains why he ripped my baby from me.
It's not the monster, I am.
iamdrunek off mhy fuacking face and ti feels goooooopd because i don't have to trememer all the bad shi t I can sjust shoocse to fogeret if I want i can' just foarget about thse world and jsut worry abnout what's i agoing on inside my haead. thra'st wahat alachol is for ; it makes use too durnke to thinkab out thw world so we have to look inside and think abotu ourselves, with out fear of the ugleiness whewr might find sinseide
i;m ugly insid ebut I'm treiy ng to be a morse bueaitfu person. i'm try9ijng really ahrd..
I'm sorry I haven't updated. I just don't know how to deal with everything I've learned. I just don't know at all.
Tom is a member of an organisation that he refuses to name but with whom he says some people reading this should be intimately familiar. When I asked if it was the people doing those experiments in my dreams, he confirmed that was the case but clarified that my audience will have heard of the organisation before that…which I've taken to mean that there are people reading my blog right now who know about the funeral man, just like Valerie did. Tom confirmed this too but I didn't want to pursue the topic because Tom had more things to tell me and limited time. But I have free time here, so I should probably review how I met Tom in the first place.
After discharging myself from the hospital, I gathered the remainder of my resources and tracked down the hotel I'd been referred to by the receptionist back in Wichita. It was a dismal little place full of damp and murk and it didn't cost much to book a room for the night but they didn't have anything computerised and I wasn't able to find out the room I'd used last time, so I had to play Russian roulette with the thirty rooms available. That night, as I slept, I had yet another dream. This time, I was perched on an iceberg, accompanied by a polar bear that starved, grew sick and died right next to me as we floated in the sea. I floated for what felt like hours as maggots chewed on its flesh and coat until a sudden tipping of the iceberg woke me up.
When I woke, Tom was in my room. He barely stopped me from screaming in abject terror and I was very shaken for a few hours afterwards, but he eventually convinced me that he was a friend or something akin to it. We left the hotel and he took me out to lunch, where he told me a story. Once there was a girl called Stephanie Cayetano who wanted to forget a life that had been ruined by a monster in a dark suit. So she found an organisation dedicated to fighting the monster in the dark suit, an organisation where a brave man had once died in the pursuit of a solution which, if injected directly into the hippocampus, would allow people to forget the monster forever. Stephanie really wanted to forget and was willing to take the risk of serious and permanent brain damage if the procedure went wrong - after all, if she was brain dead, at least she wouldn't have to deal with the monster in the dark suit.
Or so she thought.
The procedure was a resounding success. But Stephanie eventually found her way back to the monster in the dark suit and had to have the procedure repeated again. And again. And again. And again. Until she finally realised that she could never escape the monster in the dark suit because she wasn't just another victim. It had a personal fixation with her that she couldn't shake and, no matter how hard she tried, she could not escape him. Then she was introduced to a man called Tom Barker, who had a radical new suggestion. By associating the monster in the dark suit with certain neurochemical reactions, the procedure could be adjusted so that her brain would screen her from seeing the monster in the dark suit unless those neurochemical reactions were active. Stephanie suggested it be associated with the effects of tetrahydrocannabinol or THC - the active ingredient in marijuana, because she would never in a million years consume cannabis. Tom agreed and performed the procedure, leaving Stephanie in an abandoned apartment in Chicago, where she would get one last chance of happiness.
You all know the story from there, though more of the details are now being filled in, like why I started seeing the funeral man again at all. It was the Pushers and their joint-smoking in the dorms that set it off, starting with my dreams, but when I was sick with fever, my brain was weak enough that the smoke in the dorms was enough to drop the screen and let me see him. After I left Chicago, I started smoking it voluntarily for the express purpose of seeing him, until the screen just collapsed completely by the time I got out of the hospital. And now there's no going back, because Tom's organisation is dead, wiped out by the funeral man. He was able to salvage some syringes of the solution but he used them all up trying to save others before he gets killed and the procedure dies with him. Or so he tells me. Maybe he doesn't want to waste any more of it on a lost case like me. I wouldn't blame him.
After lunch, he gave a briefcase with a modest sum of money to help me along the way and a ton of documents I'd given to the organisation in case my memory started to surface. Turns out I'd asked that the hotel in Wichita be watched and Tom got a call from the manager when I checked in, under the impression that I was a psychiatric patient with amnesia and that Tom was my doctor, which isn't wholly untrue, to be fair. He tracked me down here to tell me the truth this one last time, give me the briefcase and wish me luck. He gave me a kiss on the cheek as he left.
Once he was gone, I decided to move along from Glendora before I was tracked down and ended up in Des Moines. I'm probably not in the motel that James mentioned in his diary but I wasn't really looking for it anyway. I just needed somewhere secure to go through all these documents. I'm about halfway through and what I've read so far is upsetting, unsettling and raises more questions than it answers. Once I'm done, I'll provide some snippets of what I've learned and try and update you all on my plans for the future.
For now, I am Stephanie Cayetano, 25 years old, born in Texarkana, Texas on June 1st, 1987, signing off.
I'm with a man called Tom Barker. I'm okay. I'll explain more later.
I've discharged myself from the hospital. They were muttering about Chicago and drugs and stuff, so I figured I needed to get out. Didn't particularly want a police visit. I'm in an alleyway by a MacDonald's jacking their wireless. All I've got right now is my laptop, some clothes and a bit of cash, which I need to investigate that hotel. If I don't, I'll lose the trail.
Unfortunately, these intense dreams haven't stopped since I left the hospital. I'm trying to distinguish memories from nightmares but it's not always easy. Last night, I had one where I was on top of a skyscraper in the middle of Chicago, smoking a joint and looking out over the city lights. Somewhere behind me, I could hear feathery footfalls but I didn't turn. I knew who was coming. A couple of seconds later, the funeral man walked into view, or something akin to it. Like before, I couldn't see the ends of his legs and I didn't try to look. I just kept watching the city for hours, sitting there with folded hands.
When I woke up in the alleyway where I was sleeping, he was standing there, just like in the dream, but at a distance. Since then, I've been seeing him around all day. Always watching. Never acting.
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as I am an official ARRL DXCC Card Checker (CC). Valid all through 2014
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Hi, I have been a ham for more than 40 years, and is today running the Swedish Outgoing QSL-bureau for S.S.A for the last 20 years. Besides I am also the national QSL-card checkpointer for DXCC- and IOTA-awardprogrammes.
On Sept 1st 2009 I left my job at Scandinavian Airlines, SAS and "work" now as a full time retiree 100%.
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It's pumpkin-everything season. Pumpkin Spice Latte. Pumpkin Pie. Pumpkin Soup. Pumpkin carving. Pumpkin candles. And my latest obsession, Pumpkin Cream Rooibos Tea. And here's one more for ya—Pumpkin Pecan Cake. This is a have-a-friend-over-for-coffee kind of cake. She'll never guess it's vegan and gluten-free. She'll ask you for the recipe. … [Read more...]
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I used to think kale was only used for garnish. I mean, really, who eats that stuff?! I don't know about you, but I am not a fan of plain ol' raw kale. It's bitter and tough and has a terrible aftertaste. Fortunately, it doesn't take much to transform this super nutritious leafy green. A little lemon, a little olive oil, some salt/pepper and of … [Read more...]
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Happy World Vegan Day! That's right, November 1 marks this annual occasion, followed by a month-long celebration called World Vegan Month. If you're thinking of testing the waters, check out this excellent article on tips for going vegan. It's full of really great, practical advice from several vegan experts–and it was written by my cyber-friend, … [Read more...]
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Sometimes I get in a rut with salads and then I get sick of them. I need to change up the ingredients more often. Throw in a more fruity version like this one once in a while. Unless you're like my dad who doesn't like fruit in his garden salad. Then you're just missing out, I guess. This post isn't a recipe for a salad (it's pretty easy to … [Read more...]
Roasted Pear and Arugula Salad (vegan, gf)
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