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When you're ill, good nutrition becomes even more important because it can have a bigger impact on your overall health. At the same time, your illness may pose new challenges. MG weakness can make it difficult to eat certain foods. MG medications may affect your appetite, your metabolism and your ability to exercise.
According to the "Dietary Guidelines for Americans" from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:
Maintaining a healthy weight is extra challenging and extra important. If you're weak and unable to exercise, or if you're taking a corticosteroid like prednisone, extra pounds can show up. But doing everyday activities with extra weight is a bigger drain on your strength. Keeping your weight in check is worth the effort.
Prevent excessive bone loss (osteoporosis) that happens with age and with prednisone usage. According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, adults under age 50 need 1,000 mg of calcium and 400 to 800 IU of vitamin D daily. Adults age 50 and over need 1,200 mg of calcium and 800 to 1,000 IU of vitamin D daily. An 8-ounce glass of milk contains about 300 mg of calcium. Ask your doctor about taking a calcium/vitamin D supplement.
If your MG medication causes diarrhea or stomach upset, avoid foods that are fatty, spicy or high in fiber. Avoid dairy foods, except for yogurt which can sooth digestive problems. Good choices include mild foods like bananas, white rice, eggs and chicken.
Diarrhea can lower potassium levels. Foods rich in potassium include orange juice, bananas, potatoes, avocados and apricots.
If prednisone use causes fluid retention, you'll want to avoid salt. Use a salt substitute. Avoid frozen meals, canned soups and vegetables, smoked and cured meats, and salty snacks.
Unless otherwise stated, the information provided here is of a general nature, composed by non-medical personnel. It is meant to be accurate and helpful advice for MG patients. It is not intended to be medical opinion, nor is it a substitute for personal professional medical care.


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Last week, BusinessWeek reported that Tech Jobs Fare Better Than Most Jobs in Slump. Unemployment just hit a new 5-year low dropping to 6.1 percent from 5.7, but the tech sector is still showing continued growth. While some tech companies have slowed their hiring during the current economy, overall companies in computer and electronic manufacturing increased the number of workers on staff by more than 5000 in July and August. Companies within the tech sector who are developing tools to allow businesses to run more efficiently are doing especially well and are allowing other would-be-struggling companies to maintain growth. With other industries outside of technology, such as healthcare and government, still demanding more tech professionals to meet their growth, the tech industry is fairing very well during this economy.
Expect to see some new improvements to both CNBC and Linkedin in the coming months. Late last week, Linkedin Partnered with CNBC, to share content and integrate news within the two sites. Currently they are still developing the new ways that they will support each other, but CNBC has already added a Linkedin section to their website and has run their first poll, which surveyed how people feel about their job security. This new partnership should really help Linkedin maintain its current growth and become more of an everyday tool for more people.
If you are currently in the job hunt, and you are looking for more tools to help support your search, check out CIO.com's list of the Top 50 Web 2.0 Tools for Job Seekers. The list contains a lot of great web 2.0 sites ranging from social news and networking to directories and data collectors. I'm not sure how someone might use Pandora to find their next job, but this list is definitely worth checking out to see if you have missed any good resources.
In the first post on Search & Social, Dave Synder took the opportunity to stress the Importance of Continued Education in SEO. Dave gives his advice as to how to continue building your SEO education:
1)Assess Your current SEO level
2)Add 5-10 blogs within your level to your RSS reader
3)Ask questions in your social networks
These are really essential ways to make SEO education a constant part of your career. Dave also mentions that he is focused on making Search & Social an educational resource for search marketers, with conferences as well as a search marketing study groups. I look forward to good things coming out of Search & Social and expect them to help move search marketing forward.


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The WoW Insider Show Episode 176: A little WoW Insider for you {WoW}
Jan 17th 2011 6:56PM In regards to "What to do with extra JP" for enchanters we can buy the offhand(as it's cheapest) and turn it into a shard, which you can sell or use
Breakfast Topic: What's a deal-breaker in your love for a particular race? {WoW}
Dec 27th 2010 8:23AM For some reason allorcs, female tauren and female dwarfs are the combos that I'll never roll, and goblins I dislike them alot
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Nov 16th 2010 10:31PM So i went down to my local retailer when I'm buying my copy from and it's confirmed, it's a world wide release at 12:01 tuesday PST, so anyone in Australia doesn't get it until last tuesday afternoon, I'm going to miss my midnight release
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Nov 16th 2010 4:02PM Question for the queue for international readers, I've been hearing rumors that those of us not living in the states (Australia for me) are not going to be able to buy our psychical copies of Cata from stores until 12:01am Pst, which is 9pm tuesday 7th for Aus, Any truth to this and if so why should we be held back based on our time zones when anyone buying online is not
Weekly Podcast Roundup: Sept. 13-19, 2010 {WoW}
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The Queue: Road dog {WoW}
Sep 19th 2010 9:21AM In Cataclysm is there a change to For The Horde/For The Alliance achievements, it seems as over the last couple weeks i see the main horde cities being raided daily for this achievement, where as up until recently you could go months without this happening
Cataclysm Beta: Balance druid changes {WoW}
Aug 21st 2010 9:19PM Whats to stop say a resto druid popping thorns on any tanks for extra threat, if it scales with SP a resto/balance druids thorns in theory will generate more threat for a tank then a feral druid popping it on himself as he pulls
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Jun 22nd 2010 8:23AM it's not turned on for me. Besides normally when the Background downlader has data in it on patch night it will start downloading from say 80% (if that how much of the patch was on the background downloader) where as tonight it went from 1%-100% in about 8mins (about 55KB/s download speed for me)


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Cracking the Internet in Half
Okay, so it's one thing to overhype your stuff to the tried and true fans; by this point, we should expect every issue of every comic that rolls off the Marvel assembly lines to fundamentally change our lives and bring peace to the Middle East. No, let's not get into whether or not the issues actually deliver, let's stick with where our expectations should be. Marvel should make it sound like every character will be the axis of their universe because somewhere, out there, that character is to that loyal fan. All their books should crack the internet in half and cause a mad rush to the stores to but every copy and then some. We're fans. We already love your product. Marvel's job is to make us love them more.
The common media needs to be reminded that comics still exist and that they're pretty nifty and cheap entertainment. Honestly, that's it.
Anything more is either going to get confusing and be a waste of time, yours and theirs. I remember watching Joe Quesada on the Colbert Report when Secret Invasion was coming out and asking myself, "Why is he finishing a rather fantastic interview having to explain what Skrulls are?" Seriously, watch 'till about the 4min mark and then imagine the viewer's brain just start translating Quesada's voice into a Charlie Brown schoolteacher. Not even the easy visual gag of seeing Obama or McCain morph into Skrull heads doesn't save the obvious and uninteresting plug. It starts out great, don't get me wrong: using Colbert to tell people who the new Cap was going to be and when the issue came out made it easy to understand and relatable. Telling him that he was still in the Presidential running in the Marvel Universe had the right effect: I remember people coming into the shop to ask if that was true and to pick up at least a Spidey issue to check it out. None of those guys asked for Secret Invasion.
So when Marvel promised 'Civil War-like' promotion of Captain America #600, some of us were already sitting down. Mind you, it could have been mind-blowing: new Cap could have shook hands with President Obama and indeed, the internet might have cracked, just a little. No advance idea of what the book was going to be about or why we should start hyperventilating now, retailers were once again caught with the Lady or the Tiger. Order a bunch and be left with stacks of comics that don't move or order too few and miss that frensied fevor when it turns out to be something huge. We make the orders, hold our breath and...
... wait, that's it? Steve Rogers' return is 'Civil War like'? NO! It's the first thing we all thought and I mean all, fans and non-fans. Yeah, the rubes fell for Superman's death, but fool me once, shame on you. Everyone and their mom knew Rogers was coming back, it's a freakin' comic book trope! You've got to be kidding me that this is what all of that was for! Not only that, it's promotion for the start of a story. Not the result. Not the first appearance. The beginning of a comitment to read this sucker until you get the payoff you expected before the issue came out.
Don't get me wrong, Ed Brubaker has been writing the most consistantly amazing Captain America stories I have ever read. The sun will rise and set and Captain America will entertain and delight you, even if it's just Bucky having a birthday. When I got a chance to breathe the same air as Mr. Brubaker last February at WonderCon, he was as giddy as a schoolgirl when he mentioned that July was going to be huge for Cap. A schoolgirl, people. Don't try and get the image of Ed Brubaker in pigtails out of your head, just know that I'm deadly serious about trusting him with this very obvious story.
But that's me. I'm a fan. I'm already sold and this is just trying to be the cherry on top of my awesome Cap sundae. For the average man on the street, hearing that the start of a story will be coming out on a Monday ("You mean they still make comics?") bringing back a character from the dead becomes a joke on NPR.
Lemme show you how it's done: this Saturday, June 20th, at 10am, I am returning from the dead.
I'm serious. Go to Metro Entertainment this Saturday and see Yours Truly sell you a goddamned comic again because I've finally got the Doctor's OK to go back to work.
That, my friends, is a payoff.
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I am so, so goshdarned happy for you.
I am considerably more excited by this news than by the news of Cap Reborn.
Congratulations, Carla.
Permission to go back to work? That's great. Congrats, Carla!
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Ricettario by Karsten Wegenerto is a photo series interpreting the benefits of a balanced diet. Yet similar to the 'Perfect Pairings,' '200 Calories' and 'Burning Calories' series, the images take a more literal stance when it comes to these common concepts. In this case, the dishes have been arranged precariously to better depict the idea of balance.
Styled by Elena Mora, Ricettario by Karsten Wegenerto revolves around four different dishes: Pizza Margherita, Apple Cake, Minestrone and Salmon. In the Pizza Margherita image, a wooden spoon with filled glasses atop it is balanced on a mountain of flour and artfully surrounded by a table, fork, book and photograph. A splendid series, it takes food photography and still life to another level.


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Race Around the World – The Armchair View
And a few minutes later they were off, just like that, with the crack of a hansom driver's whip, careening through the streets of gaslit London, with a copy of Bradshaw's Continental rail and steamship timetables and the great wide Victorian world stretching out before them, all brass and mahogany and steam. None of the hairbreadth escapes and exotic locales that followed ever piqued my imagination as much as that cavalier departure, for it made adventure on this sort of grand operatic scale seem possible.
In all the other adventure stories and explorer's tales I read in those days the action was invariably predicated on some glamorous circumstance that I could never reasonably aspire to. I mean, nobody was ever really going to send me abroad on a clandestine mission to save the British Empire, or call upon me to shoot man-eating lions along the Ugandan Railway, or solve great geographical mysteries, all of which had been satisfactorily solved by the time I was born.
But here was a fellow just getting up from the card table and striding out the door, a host in himself, off to trot the globe on a whim and a bet – that was something I could at least imagine and relate to, even if I didn't, like Phileas Fogg, have a fortune in sterling in the bank.
What I did have though was something nearly as liberating: a Schwinn Varsity ten-speed, my very own, and which I knew from first-hand experience could transport me anywhere I liked along the backroads of Carroll County, New Hampshire and could fill the miles with adventure. You didn't need to be a poet to sense the difference between a trip down to the village in the back seat of the car, and pedaling there yourself on your bike: one was twenty minutes of dead time, life in suspension, and swiftly forgotten but the other cold fill and entire morning with colour and event and imaginings you might be mulling over days or even weeks later.
And to think – if even the five miles between our house and the village could be so rich and involving, imagine what five hundred such miles would be like, or five thousand, or making a trip around the world? It took but a small hop in my imagination to go from skipping school and riding over to the lake on a fine spring morning to picturing myself setting out one day on a grand globe-trotting quest, off to where there were real tigers and jungles, palm trees, deserts and high mountain passes. I couldn't wait to go someday. More than anything I wanted to travel and see the world, and it pleased me to think that in my trusty Schwinn, propped up hopefully against the shelves of old paint tins in the garden shed, I had my ticket already.
I've been lucky. I've done a lot of travelling in my adult life, writing for newspapers and magazines and such, and in between assignments I've done quite a bit of expedition cycling too – I've ridden across America, the length and breadth of Britain, went from London to Istanbul, through Zanzibar and the Swahili Coast and in 1996-97 did a solo 10,000-mile trek through the Australian outback. I never did find the time to circle the globe though. The nearest I ever came to that was a whimsical bike ride around the South Pole a few years ago when I was down there on an assignment for National Geographic – riding a tight little circle around the pole itself and crossing, in a few cheeky seconds, every line of longitude along the way and therefore, technically and in an irritatingly strict geographic sense, riding around the world. If mine wasn't exactly the most arduous and dramatic circumnavigation on record, I liked to think of it as it least as the fastest.
But alas it isn't, not officially anyway. My time of perhaps eight seconds or so is not one the good folks at Guinness recognize, and fair enough too I suppose. They expect a bit more effort than that, eighteen thousand miles more effort to be precise and have set a number of other technical conditions for would-be record-setters to fill as well (for Rules see here). (If you care to read the tale of my cheeky and totally never-to-be ratified circumnavigation in eight seconds and minus-72 windchill, you can do so here)
When I 'rode around the world', back in the year 2000, the idea of lapping the globe as quickly as possible on a bicycle was rather an alien one. As a general rule cyclists who set off to circumnavigate the world pretty much did like Marco Polo, disappearing for a couple of years and resurfacing many thousands of miles later, lean and fit and nut-brown, and as storied as mediaeval pilgrims, with their bicycles saggy from hard use and their dog-eared passports crammed with visas and inky stamps.
But then, almost exactly four years ago, on 14 February 2008, a Scottish adventurer named Mark Beaumont captured the endurance-cycling-world's imagination when he completed a circumnavigation of the globe in a record 194 days 17 hours – shattering the previous mark of 276 days and 19 hours set by Steve Strange in 2005, and which was the first record set and ratified under the Guinness Book of World Records strict set of rules for a circumnavigation.
Beaumont's feat drew challengers out of the woodwork – James Bowthorpe did it in 175 days the following year and in 2010 the record was broken twice more – by Julian Sayarer in June (at 169 days) and by Vincent Cox in August, with a Guinness-ratified time of 163 days, 6 hours and 58 minutes, for cycling 18,225.7 miles.
The record was shattered once again in August 2011 by Alan Bate, albeit with the assistance of a support crew, and now stands at 106 days, 10 hours and 33 minutes. It was formally ratified by the Guinness Book of World Records just last month, although in the eyes of many round-the-world adventurers Vincent Cox's record for a solo, unsupported circumnavigation remains the more prestigious mark and the time to beat.
One or perhaps even both of these records might not be around for much longer, for at nine o'clock this morning a group of ten intrepid cyclists pedalled away from Greenwich Park and, using the Prime Meridian as their starting line, set off on the first ever round-the-world bicycle race. It's a race Jules Verne would have loved. Run under strict Guinness Book of World Records rules, the World Cycle Racing Grand Tour competitors – all of them riding solo and unsupported – will race each other around the globe with the winner hoping to break, at the very least, the solo-and-unsupported record for a circumnavigation by bicycle – and possibly even arriving back in London in time for the opening ceremony of the Olympics, which starts exactly 160 days after the racers set out.
Like a specter at the feast Alan Bate's 106-day official world record is also dangling out there as a tempting carrot, although pedalling a fully laden touring bike the 170 miles or so per day needed to break it is a mighty formidable ask. And then of course there is the ultimate fantasy, breaking, by bicycle, Phileas Fogg's (fictional) Eighty Days – a romantic benchmark one of the Grand Tour competitors described as being like the four minute mile for endurance cyclists.
The travel romantic in me loves it that there should be such a race. With its old-fashioned air of derring-do and gallant young men in jaunty jalopies, exotic locales and the weeks of hardy travel involved, it is the perfect restorative to a 21st century world made small and mean and over-familiar by cheap air travel and a gazillion frequent flier miles. As I followed the nine o'clock start from the Greenwich Meridian and monitored the satellite-tracked progress of the competitors on the Grand Tour website (follow them here) as they snaked their way through the tangle of inner city streets and out into the countryside, and pictured in my mind their coming adventures through central Asia, and the Australian outback, and the American west, the world around me seemed to become wide again, fanciful, rich in detail and ripe for discovery, the way it used to feel back when I was a kid reading Around the World in Eighty Days and rehearsing these favourite someday-daydreams on my old Schwinn Varsity. And just as I did back then, when I was sighing over the adventures of Phileas Fogg and Passepartout and Inspector Fix, I found myself feeling a bit like a kid left out of a circus and wishing I could have gone too.
Pole Position
They call it the sleigh ride: the three-hour flight on a ski-equipped Hercules cargo plane from the U.S. base at McMurdo to that most exotic of Antarctic destinations: the South Pole. Schoolboy keen, I showed up early at the icy airstrip, bundled up, bags packed, eager to go. It was the summer of 2000 and I was in Antarctica on an assignment for National Geographic, bound for Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station where I was supposed do a story on the future of science at the Last Place on Earth, talk with climatologists about such worthy topics as global warming and the ozone hole, and write a side piece about the construction of a new $150 million super-high-tech base the Americans were building there. Unbeknownst to my editors, I had a hidden agenda as well: to ride a bicycle around the world. I love touring and I'd always wanted to circumnavigate the globe by bicycle, but never could find the spare year or so such a journey would take. At the South Pole, however, not only could I ride around the world on a flat course free of traffic, but I could do it in a time that would make even the space shuttle's ninety-minute orbits seem pedestrian by comparison.
A few quick turns of the pedals was all it would take, a little circle around the pole itself, and I would have passed through every single line of longitude, both the Prime and Ante Meridians, and geographically speaking, could claim to have ridden round the world.
The stars must have been all in alignment on this one. It turned out I wouldn't even need to bring my own bicycle. In the course of my research into the goings-on at Pole that summer, I learned that a team of design students from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, working in conjunction with scientists from the U.S. Antarctic Program, had recently come up with a 'Polar Bicycle' for use in the South Pole's extreme conditions.
Given the high cost of getting fuel to Antarctica, the sensitivity of the astronomical instruments at the South Pole Observatory, a half mile away from the base, and in keeping with the general low-impact eco-philosophy of Antarctic research, it was decided to make Amundsen-Scott South Pole base a bicycle friendly zone-or at least take a crack at it. A prototype of the new Polar Bicycle had been built and shipped down to Pole for testing-and yes, sure, I could take it for a spin if I liked. I liked.
The Sleigh Ride to 'Pole' was magic, three-hours of high adventure, following at 22,000 feet the route taken by both Scott and Shackleton back in Antarctica's Heroic Age: across the Ross Ice Shelf, through the towering peaks of the Trans-Antarctic Mountains along the Beardmore Glacier, up to the hauntingly empty vastness of the high polar plateau. Amundsen-Scott base, when I eventually spotted it in the distance, looked almost frighteningly remote, a few scattered specks of colour in an immensity of white that stretched to every horizon.
We circled once and then the big turbo prop touched down, its skis kicking up a blizzard of snow. The hatch opened and we emerged, blinking, into a dazzlingly bright, bitterly cold, alien world, where the air was razor thin with the nearly 10,000-foot altitude, a double halo circled the sun, and home was a great blue Plexiglas dome that belonged more to the realm of science fiction than real life. The outside temperature on that balmy summer day was minus-33, the wind chill minus-61, while in the dimness beneath the dome, where the sun's rays never reached, the temperature stayed at the Poles constant year-round average of about minus-60.
But all was pleasingly snug and warm inside Sally's Galley, as the base canteen was affectionately known. Cramped and crowded, with lots of heavyweight red parkas hanging on hooks along the walls, it made me think of a truckstop café on the Alaska Highway, circa 1975. Meals here were hot and hearty – 5000 calories a day was the reckoning for people living and working in the extreme conditions at Pole – and there were always pots of steaming coffee on hand, trays of fresh-baked chocolate-chip cookies, and generally plenty of amiable company as well, for this was the social hub of the base.
And it was there, the following day, over mid-morning coffee and biscuits, I met Jeffrey Petersen, an astrophysicist from Carnegie-Mellon University who, it turned out, was Pole's resident wheelman, commuting back and forth between the dome and the futuristic astronomy complex half a mile away.
He took me around to the Polar Bike. It was quite a piece of work. With its chunky frame and seven-inch-wide steel-mesh tyres it was never going to make me forget my whippet-lean Italian road bike back home, but then Italian road bikes aren't designed to run in minus-80 temperatures, and be operated by someone wearing huge fur-lined gauntlets and enormous insulated 'bunny boots' that are standard South Pole-issue. This one was.
I hopped aboard. Jeffery grabbed his studded-tyre mountain bike which he'd freighted all the way from America and together we pedalled off to trot the globe. And yes, if you're wondering, there really is a pole at Pole. There are two of them in fact: the barber-striped 'Ceremonial Pole' with all the flags around it, where everyone goes to have their photo taken in Hero mode, and, because the ice cap shifts about thirty feet or so each year, a more portable and more precise Pole a few yards away, its position being recalculated by GPS each January. We looped both. Many, many times.
We pedalled east to west, west to east, racing each other, cracking jokes and playing the location for all the quirky humour we could conjure. We even paused to wind our watches for the different time zones. As far as handling goes, the Polar Bicycle made a Mao-era Flying Pigeon look as light and responsive as a Pegoretti-Jeffrey's mountain bike performed far better-but it was a fun toy to play with out there on the high polar plateau. Finally when we'd had enough we turned for home and pedalled back to the sheltering warmth of Sally's Galley. Our best time, we reckoned, was somewhat under ten seconds, or as I like to think of it now, we lapped the entire world in around the time Usain Bolt can run a hundred metres.
Alas, I'm afraid our record doesn't stand. I've since learned, with all the recent hoopla over round-the-world cycling records, that the nice folks at the Guinness Book of World Records take a picky stance as regards circumnavigations. They expect you to suffer a little more than we did, the morning's minus-72 windchill and Pole's razor thin air notwithstanding.
They expect hills, traffic, bandits, war zones, bad food, bad roads, near misses, and hairbreadth escapes. They want visas and stamps in your passport. They want you to have cycled a full eighteen thousand miles, to be precise, like James Bowthorpe did when he set the record of 175 days, not to do it playfully during your tea break as we did on a sparkling summer morning at the South Pole, then trot inside for milk and cookies like a couple of overgrown kids in the world's biggest winter wonderland.
I dunno. Maybe I should see if they'll give it to us with an asterisk: done at altitude.


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"The scholar general"
An interesting story of the life of David Petraeus showing how he learned from one assignment and applied the knowledge gained to the next. A good over view of the wars in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. The book also allow an insight into the sacrifice a high ranking officer wife and family must make. Petraeus's wife was the daughter of a famous General so she knew what was expected of her. The book tried to give a favorable view of the war in Afghanistan but I was left with a feeling we should have approached this problem differently, we expected to much from a tribal culture. Paula Broadwell is a person one should keep an eye out for she may become a leader herself. James Lurie did a good job narrating the story. This is a good book to understand the making of a famous General and to get more in-depth insight into current affairs.
"The Inside Story"
Mayer took over the job of C.E.O. of the troubled Yahoo Company, in a male-dominated industry while pregnant. Nicholas Carlson's book set out to reveal the controversy about Mayer because she was upsetting the women's issues industrial complex. Some people upset because she took maternity leave right after accepting the job of C.E.O. and the other people upset because she only took two weeks leave.
The book is really two books in one, as a good portion of the book is the history of Yahoo. It's history of brand neglect and mismanagement. The remainder is about Mayer. There is little documentation in the book regarding Mayer as it appears Carlson reported a lot of the gossip. I got the feeling from the book that Carlson reported a lot of the sexist gossip such as the name of the designer of the clothes Mayer wore etc.
Carlson demonstrates that Mayer is worth paying attention to for reasons that transcend gender. He states that Mayer is a complex personality who defies most stereotypes. Carlson states that Mayer early in her career understood personal branding and developed hers early in her career. She is a geek that doesn't look the part. Carlson argues Mayer earned her shot at running Yahoo through years of innovative thinking in an industry that prides itself in novel ideas.
Mayer was born in Wisconsin and joined Google right out of Stanford University graduate Computer Science Program. She ultimately became one of Google's most influential executives. As with any fast raising career person she generated jealousy and resentment from some of her co-workers. Just like many other in her field she put in the hard work, long hours and creative abilities to raise though the ranks of a company.
The question isn't whether Mayer can save Yahoo; it's whether Yahoo can be saved at all. For the past two years Mayer has attempted to focus on making the company's workforce more productive and on making applications for Mobil phones with some success. She has managed to prevent mass layoffs. But Yahoo is a deeply troubled company. Carlson says she is having trouble replacing a few critical key people and without doing so she will not success. Carlson states that even if Yahoo fails Mayer is a star to watch. She has an incredible work ethic, genius sense of what makes an Internet product useable and she was worldwide frame, and charisma to success in the business world. Kitt Vandenheuvel narrated the book.
"A Rollicking Tale"
I am now at book four in the John Pearce series and I am happy I discovered David Donachie.
The year is 1793 and John Pearce and friends have just returned from a successful mission in Corsica. The siege of Toulon is escalating in violence and the Revolutionary Army is preparing to attack. Pearce has been assigned to escort five thousand radical French sailors to a port on the Atlantic coast, where there are to be set free. As you can predict, the assignment goes awry.
The book is well written and well researched. Donachie brilliantly combines a gripping adventure with intricate historical detail of the French Revolution, in this case the Siege of Toulon, to explosive effect.
If you enjoy a good Royal Navy story set during the Napoleonic Wars this is a book for you. Peter Wickham narrated the book.
"Entertaining Biography"
I have been fascinated with Winston S. Churchill since I was a child. I try to read everything I can find about him. I was shocked to read in the book that the young people in Britain do not know who Churchill was. Johnson said he wanted to write about Churchill in such a manner as to bring Churchill to the attention of the young. Johnson thought the young might enjoy Churchill's eccentricity.
This book is written by the current Mayor of London. The element of self-identification in Johnson's writing is too obvious to ignore. This book is not just another biography. Rather, it is a series of polemics in which Johnson takes up the cudgels against Churchill's critics.
One of the allegations against Churchill is that he wasn't very nice to the little people in his life. That in private he was a mean-spirited and short tempered. Johnson relays a story to rebut this charge, told to him by Nicholas Soames, Churchill's grandson. Johnson also discusses the accusation that Churchill was an unprincipled opportunist and he also addresses the charge of incompetent leadership during World War One that led to Gallipoli. Johnson also discusses Churchill's literary output and explains how Churchill managed to fit all this into a busy life.
Johnson has created a canvas of more than just World War II but also looks at Churchill's contributions in the Boer War, WWI and the period leading up to the start of the European Union and shown how, at each point, Churchill's contributions were essential to Britain's victories or were ignored by those in power resulting in decisions that left Britain far worse off than it could have been. Johnson also addresses Churchill's work on behalf of the working poor in the UK, his efforts to improve the living and working conditions of the poor throughout the British Empire.
The book is written with wit, and reveals fascinating nuggets of information I found fascinating. I believe Johnson has been successful in his defense of Churchill as a uniquely great man. Simon Shepherd narrated the book.
"Great short story"
This is a novella #3.5 in the Longknife series. Kris and her crew are tasked to set up a training command for foreign navies buying Wardhaven's fast attack boats.
Kris's body guard, who works for the Secret Service is drafted into the Marines. This is explained in humorous detail. This adds lots more detail of how Jack got into the marines.
I am enjoying the series and that also includes the novella. Please note it is best to read this series in order, otherwise you will feel lost. I am enjoying the banter that goes on between the key characters. This short story fits in well between book number three and book number four.
I am enjoying the adventures of Kris Longknife and I would to have my own Nelly. This is a fun easy read. Dina Pearlman narrated the story.
1st Special Forces Operational Detachment –Delta (SFOD-D) is the military's formal name for Delta Force. The Department of the Army has Delta Force and the Department of the Navy created the SEALS during World War II.
The book is divided into three sections. The first is about the SAS (British), the second is about the creation of Delta Force and the third or last section of the book is about the U.S. hostages in Iran.
Beckwith tells about the year he spent with the British Special Air Service (SAS) and thought the U.S. needed to fill the void and create its own special force. This unit would be an elite counter terrorist unit.
The middle section is about the meetings and Army politics Beckwith had to deal with to create the Unit. The book has to do with the formation of Delta Force, and as with any organization I am sure Delta Force has changed over time. Beckwith includes information about his two tours in Viet Nam and the use of Special Forces.
The last part of the book is about the selection and training of the members of Delta Force. Beckwith goes into the planning and training for its first mission, the rescue of the U.S. hostages in Iran. The ill fated mission was aborted.
Beckwith is a highly decorated soldier, and his skill in shepherding his idea through the various obstacles placed by the Army, creates an interesting memoir. Alan Sklar narrated the book.
"Cracking good historical fiction"
I am a big fan of Bernard Cornwell's stories. I got hooked on Richard Sharpe and from there have read many of his other series including this exciting series of old England. This is book eight in the Saxon series of historical fiction that chronicles the making of England and is set in the eighth century England. The protagonist of the story is Uhtred of Bebbanburg. England is now fractured, torn apart by internal fighting since the death of King Alfred and the threat of a Viking invasion.
The ruler of Mercia is dying, leaving no legitimate heir. His wife, Ethelflaed is the daughter of King Alfred and is a formidable fighter and leader, but no woman has ever ruled over an English Kingdom. With Uhtred's help Ethelflaed attempts to gain control of the throne of Mercia. The fight for the Mercia throne leaves an opportunity for the rival West Saxons to siege Mercia. Edward of Wessex is distracted by the two heirs claiming his throne. Will the Viking's take advantage and invade?
Uhtred is older and recovering from a near fatal injury ( see book 7 The Pagan Lord) facing more turbulent times and intrigue that sees him doing what he does best-leading a war band.
Cornwell creates a sense of the historical place and time that comes through well, clearly the book is well-researched. The main characters continue to be well developed. Cornwell is truly the master of the battle scene. Cornwell leaves me waiting breathlessly for the next book in the series. Matt Bates narrates the book.
"Engaging easy readable biography"
In reading this book I have learn a great deal of information about the life and work of Patrick Henry. Henry was mentioned in every biography I have read of the time frame, from George Washington to James Madison, Henry was discussed in the book but only in passing. Historians have paid the most attention to the founding fathers that attained the presidency. At the bottom of the bag, nowadays are those founders who were important for a brief period on the national level but whose working career was at the local level. Henry was the first governor of Virginia. People like Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry did not get much attention.
Harlow Giles Unger, an historian and former visiting fellow at Mount Vernon, has written a delightful biography that tries to rectify the prior lack of attention paid to Patrick Henry. The author provides an insightful glimpse into the life and work of one of the most important men who helped bring about the creation of the American republic.
Unger provides an overview of the life of Henry. The book is not a comprehensive biography. The author delves into the key events in Henry's life explaining how the episodes discussed helped to shape Henry's work and approach to politics. The book covers Henry's earliest days as a backwoods lawyer. Unger covers Henry's friendships and family life (he fathered 18 children) as well as his relationship with George Washington.
What I found most interesting was the discussion of some of Henry's cases as a lawyer. For example, Henry argues in defense of a group of famer's who had refused to pay the Church tax to support the established Anglican Church of Virginia colony. Henry's opposition to what he saw as both a violation of religious liberty and the freedom of the people to be secure against oppressive taxation by distant imperial and colonial governments.
Unger's book is a fascinating study of one of the most colorful and important public men of the founding era. If you are interested in the formation of this country this is a book to read. William Hughes narrated the book.
"A book about the romantic age of sail"
This is book three in the Thomas Kydd series of historical nautical fiction. Stockwin's richly detailed portrait of life on ship and shore during the Napoleonic Wars is engrossing. He writes of shipboard routine, the panic and confusion of combat and the terrifying approach of a hurricane at sea. Stockwin writes from the view point of a common sailor in the 18th century British Navy. It is all here the cramped conditions, the disgusting food, the underserved punishment and cruelty of some officers and the unremitting toil.
From the beginning of the book we are plunged into a fast paced series of actions. The manic plot encompasses four battles, three courts of naval inquiry, two hurricanes, two shark attacks, a shipwreck, yellow fever, and rescue of French Royalist and a few floggings and dinner parties.
Kydd goes from an ordinary sailor to a Master's mate, picking up along the way the navigational skills and drawing room manners of an officer and a gentleman. The setting of the story is in the Caribbean as Britain and France fight over the West Indies in about 1795. Christian Rodska does his usual great job in narrating the story.
Michael Deaver is a long time Reagan staffer and he was the liaison between the Reagan staff and Nancy Reagan. Deaver states that Nancy Reagan had only one goal in life that was to support and protect Ronald Reagan. Deaver says her life was always about Ronnie.
The first part of the book covers her early life. She was born Anne Frances Robbins July 6 1921. Her nickname was Nancy. Nancy's mother was the famous stage actress Edith Luckett (1880-1987) she did not know her father. In 1929 her mother married neurosurgeon Loyal Davis (1896-1982). They lived in Chicago and Nancy legally changed her name to Davis. Nancy graduated from Smith Collage in 1943: she majored in English and drama. As an actress she appeared on Broadway and later was contracted for film with MGM. She was in many films and retired from acting in 1962. She married Reagan in 1952 and had two children Patricia Ann and Ronald Prescott Reagan.
Deaver covers the time from Governor to President mostly from Nancy viewpoint. He shows how she went from a reluctant and hesitate speaker into a polished speaker. The author reveals Nancy as a reluctant politician's wife but he shows how she applied herself to learn the job. Deaver says she was a direct, impatient person and as such some people felt she was intimidating.
The last part of the book covers their life living with Alzheimer disease and the toll it took on them. This is not a comprehensive biography of Nancy Reagan nor is there any pushing of a political agenda. It is primarily a personal and moving tribute to Nancy Reagan by a person who worked with her daily over more than 35 years. The book provides a look into the life of Nancy Reagan and what she thought was most important in her life. I enjoyed learning about Nancy's life as first lady. The author narrated the book.
This is book five in the Longknife series. Navy Lieutenant Kristine Longknife, Princess of Wardhaven is going on vacation to the planet New Eden. Of course, her family assigns her various diplomatic and military obligations while on the planet. These jobs are to stand around looking pretty during diplomatic occasions and dealing with paperwork.
Two assassination attempts convince Kris and her bodyguard Jack something is wrong in New Eden. They dig deeper into the planet society and find a deeply conflicted planet on the verge of a revolution. Those who tried to kill Kris picked on the wrong person as Kris shoots back. They also find that as the planet falls into chaos the Peterwald are trying to take over the planet.
More is revealed about Abbeys past in this book. Seem the author is gradually peeling away Abbeys mysterious background in each book. The characters are interesting and the plot is full of twists and peppered liberally with sharply described action. The pace of the story is fast. As with each book the author sprinkles the book liberally with humor. Every time I read one of the books in this series I become more fascinated with Kris's computer Nelly. I would love to have a Nelly of my own. Dina Pearlman narrated the book.


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West Virginia Wesleyan College Department of Physics and Engineering Physics alumni working at government labs Robert Hardin (2001) earned his Ph.D. in Physics at West Virginia University. His dissertation topic is plasma physics, to which he was introduced in Wesleyan's Electro-Optics Lab. Robert was an invited speaker at the Mid-Atlantic Undergraduate Research Conference. He works at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a neutron spallation researcher. Bobby Powell (2011) writes, "I have a new job as a Field Engineer at the Bechtel-Bettis Atomic Power Lab in West Mifflin, Pa. The Field
Engineering Program leads to assignments at a variety of shipyards. We
provide oversight of all aspects of submarine and aircraft carrier construction
and maintenance. The program begins with a rigorous and comprehensive
qualification program at Bettis involving nuclear reactor
design and operation." Joe Zambelli works as a physical scientist at the National Energy Technology Lab in Morgantown, WV. He is studying methods of carbon sequestration to mitigate global warming. Tyler Gruber completed his Ph.D. in Physics at Texas Christian University. Tyler works as a research physicist at Columbia Chemicals in Marietta, Georgia. |


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I find the DH Red Velvet Mix cake to be a bit too fluffy when made using the box directions. By adding an extra egg, sour cream, and buttermilk, the cake is more dense and can withstand fondant. It also retains a nice red color. Enjoy!Red Velvet Redux--Easy & Durable
- 1 Duncan Hines Red Velvet Cake Mix 1 box instant white chocolate (hard to find) or chocolate instant pudding mix 4 eggs 1/2 c. sour cream 1/2 c. buttermilk 1/3 c. vegetable oil 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- Hand mix all ingredients until incorporated and then mix on medium with a hand mixer for 1:30 to 2:00 minutes. Do not overbeat, as it will make the cake tough. Bake at 325 until a toothpick comes out clean, usually about 34-45 mins . Makes great cupcakes, too.
- This cake is tasty and sturdy. I often ice with a 50/50 mixture of homemade buttercream and canned cream cheese icing so that the cake can stay at room


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Guildwatch: "officers dont do officers like u did" {WoW}
Apr 23rd 2008 6:13AM Wow... guild drama overflowing to Wowinsider.
Patch 2.4.2 notes released {WoW}
Apr 23rd 2008 5:56AM "Priest Spell: Power Word: Shield now has the correct sound associated with it and can no longer be heard from large distances.
Whirlwind now has the correct sound associated with it."
Thank god for that, was driving me nuts.
Blizzard creates pages for BC dungeons and raids {WoW}
Apr 1st 2008 12:58AM Changes we definitely DID NOT ask for:
- new Whirlwind sound
- new Power Word:Shield sound
Officers' Quarters: When members vanish {WoW}
Mar 31st 2008 11:49AM One of my old friends who I used to play Ghost Recon with logged out of his full T2 mage in front of BWL in 2006.
He never logged in again, his char remains there, forever...
Are hybrid tanks going to *be* left behind? {WoW}
Mar 13th 2008 8:29PM "They also have major problems, as I've mentioned, maintaining consistently high threat on high mobility fights and on caster mobs, are the only tank who can be silenced..."
Just for the record, warrior tanks can be silenced as well.
When silenced they cannot use: taunt, challenging shout, fear, demo shout or thunderclap.
I assume this also applies to druids.
Wowhead and other sites are having trouble with ad banner trojans {WoW}
Mar 10th 2008 11:04PM "Interesting. Well eitherway, auto-installed keyloggers off of internet banners is not a reality."
I'm afraid it is.
Any page capable of opening a hidden iframe containing malicious javascript can do exactly the same with flash ads.
Hybrid Theory: What can I do? {WoW}
Mar 1st 2008 5:10PM Just FYI, your links for Misery and Blood Frenzy both point to Vampiric Touch. :P
Also, Deep Wounds is approx 4-5% of a warrior's damage output so it's not really insignificant. Anything which boosts this is great. :)
Arena tournament PTR live {WoW}
Mar 1st 2008 11:20AM I want realms like this, really badly
World PvP back again, the way it should be!
Ask WoW Insider: What does a naked level 60 mage do? {WoW}
Mar 1st 2008 2:00AM Don't run Deadmines, run SM instead.
I did this on my level 60 shaman about a year ago then once I had an item in each slot I went to Outland for questing.
I died a lot during the first few quests but it was easy after that and pretty soon I had better stats than I had before.
Arena tournament items revealed {WoW}
Mar 1st 2008 1:47AM This is VERY interesting - look on this page:
One of the screenshots show enchants sold by a vendor which proves that Blizzard ARE able to let enchanters create BoE enchants to sell on the AH!


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Jones' Response to Campbell
I find it more than a little ironic that Andy Campbell's primary criticism of my book is my proximity to the subject matter. He is disappointed with my lack of objectivity. Yet he begins his review with an admission that he flirted with the emerging church movement a decade ago but withdrew to campus ministry because of his disappointment with the movement. I wonder, does that disqualify him from writing a review of my book on the movement? Yes, I am a participant-observer in... Read More
Forest, Grove, or Tree? Predilection and Proximity in Jones' The Church is Flat
I come to Dr. Jones' book with a muddled history in the emerging church movement (ECM). From 2001-2005 I was actively involved as a commenter on Spencer Burke's TheOOZE website, fascinated by the simultaneous emergence of faith communities who were tired of evangelicalism-as-usual and interested in creating clusters of people who really wanted to live out the faith they confessed in ways that were connected to the deep history of the church, while at the same time exercising... Read More
Upcoming Book Symposium – The Church Is Flat by Tony Jones
Beginning next week, we'll highlight and review a unique new book by Tony Jones entitled The Church is Flat: The Relational Ecclesiology of the Emerging Church Movement. The book brings together much of Tony's doctoral research and his experience as a pioneering leader in the Emerging Church Movement. Our reviewers include one of churchandpomo's regular contributors, Jason Clark, as well as a new voice but regular reader, Andy Campbell. Clark is a leader in conversations... Read More


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From: Tracy
Date: 10/11/2001
Time: 6:15:31 PM
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Hi there,
I am preparing for the very same Themed party this Saturday for my daughter who is turning 3. Here are some of the things that I am planning to do and/or make.
1. Ladybug cake (gotten from Family.com) 2. printed some ladybug pictures to put in loot bags for coloring (from DLTK of course) 3. I already have a red fabric tablecloth and will be purchasing black round stickers to put on it 4. I printed a ladybug template from Daniellesplace.com and made my own wings template. What I did was cut the "wings" in half and attached to the "body" of the ladybug with 3/4" round head fasteners (available in any office supply store). The wings then will be moveable. When you spread the wings apart there is a message underneath that says, "Having you here...really hit the spot!" These will be handed out to guests as they leave as a thank you for coming. 5. I made ladybugs from paper plates to use as wall decorations. I don't remember where I got the idea. 6. I don't have any games planned because my daughter and her friends really don't care to play games and would rather just play in her room with her toys. 7. For the treat bags, my plan is to buy red lunch bags and use any leftover round black circles to decorate them and just put candy, a coloring picture, possibly a red pencil and a printed Scripture verse with a ladybug on it also from daniellesplace.com. 8. I am providing my guests with a meat and cheese tray with rolls, soda and condiments. The tradition among our circle of friends is to ask each guest to bring a dish to share, that way the load of providing the food is not laid on one person (the party-giver) and there's a bunch of yummy food to choose from.
I have more ideas, but time and money constraints prevent me from going wild (even though I'd really like to).
Hope this helps and if you want to know my other ideas just let me know and I'll be happy to provide them to you.


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So the question is, what actually defines a weapon as an assault weapon?
The definition as us pro-gunners see it, may be merely 'protective' thinking. E.g. I think most of us pro-gunners consider an assault weapon to be solely defined by it's full auto capability. We generally do not consider a semi-auto AR/AK an assault rifle. We probably cling to that thinking so that we can claim our ARs and AKs are not assault weapons. But why aren't they assault weapons? PDs and SWAT use semi-auto ARs in an assault modes.
Is the difference really just semi-auto versus selective fire? What about all the other things that are common, magazines, ammo, capacity, design. AR/AKs even look like assault rifles. Everything is the same except selective fire.
So is selective fire the sole defining factor?
Is there a decisive, non-politically driven definition of assault rifle?
The common definitions for assault rifle/weapon come from the pro-gunners and anti-gunners - who is really right and why?


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I am thinking of purchasing this item because I love rotisserie chicken. Do you have one? Is it difficult to keep clean? |
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I'd have to suggest that you read the amazon reviews of this item? http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000055Y0W/qid=1104892243/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/002-0082668-6484862?v=glance&s=home-garden&n=507846 If this is not the item ... then what is? |
I've had one for the past 3 years and I love it! It does rotisserie poultry wonderfully. I've not done much anything else in it as it is sort of a pain to clean. I usually take mine and run it out in the garage or on the patio as I don't like the rotisserie smell in the house. I guess I should experiment more with it. |
- Posted by Twinkledome (My Page) on Fri, Jan 7, 05 at 18:11
We have had the rotisserie for a number of years and love the way it roasts chicken. Haven't done too much else in it. As far as keeping it clean, I started spraying the nonstick oil spray on the drip pans. It really helps clean up. I also lay a wet papertowel with soap on the top, grated pan as soon as possible to soak so it softens all the drippings. There really isn't an easy way to clean it. But, the chicken it produces is worth it. |
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The Stuff of Legend – Part 2
January 23, 2013 in cricket
Last week, we had a look at the beginning of the Proteas rise to dominance in test cricket and although South Africa had been playing excellent Test cricket for a while (such as series wins in Eng and Aus in 2008/2009) they lacked a certain consistent ruthlessness that said "we are South Africa and we WILL NOT be beaten" as Graeme Smith puts it, the Proteas are now able to "skin the carcass" and although that might be a strange way of putting it, put some thought into it and Smiths words are spot on. A few comments last week suggested I may be jumping the gun and that a clean sweep of the Black caps is hardly anything to gloat about, well that may be true (although any clean sweep where all matches are won by an innings is cause for excitement) Winning series away against England and Australia for a second consecutive time is probably one of the finest achievements in test cricket especially since only one other team has done it in the games history. Last week we spoke about the indifferent home series against Australia and the satisfying series against Sri Lanka, it was now onto New Zealand then a mighty challenge in England where the number 1 ranking would be up for grabs.
7 – 27 March –South Africa are tasked with a 3 match test series against Lowly ranked NZ, expectations are that South Africa will brush them aside and that this is just preparation for the
England tour later in the year, only two members of the current South African team have played test cricket in New Zealand, Graeme Smith and Jacques Kallis.
The first test in Dunedin is drawn and despite centuries from Graeme Smith (115) Jacques Kallis (113) and Jacques Rudolph (105) weather gets the better of the match and the Proteas can not force a result. The disappointment of the 1st drawn test would be overshadowed by a 9 wicket win for the Proteas in Hamilton, Vernon philander again showed he is something special with match figures of 10-114 and Graeme Smith scoring a meaty 4th innings 55 not out to take his team to victory, South Africa were now up 1-0 in the series with the final match to be played in Wellington. There would however be bad news for Smith and his men and despite a massive first innings score of 474 thanks to hundreds by Alviro Petersen (156) and JP Duminy (103) the weather once again had the final say despite an aggressive declaration by Graeme Smith. The Proteas had won the Series 1-0 and it was more than a satisfying result. Captain Graeme Smith continued his rise in form as he finished as the leading run scorer with 282 runs at an average of 56.40.
19 July – 20 August – South Africa's next challenge was a big one, they were to go to England to play a 3 match test series (Basil D'Oliveira Trophy) but there was more at stake, much more. Should South Africa win the series they would overtake England as the number one ranked side in world cricket. The task was massive and would take a top performance by the Proteas,
they were up for the challenge, what made matters even more interesting was that South Africa's captain Graeme Smith was to play in his 100th test match in the first test at the oval.
The first test, probably the most spectacular of the series started on a rocky note for South Africa as Alistair Cook's ton guided England to 267-3 after day 1, South Africa needed something special if they were to get back into the match and as they so often do, South Africa fought back and England lost their last 7 wickets for only 118 runs to be bowled out for 385. South Africa's reply started disastrously as Alviro Petersen was struck LBW for a duck but what was to come would be sketched in the record books forever.
Graeme Smith and Hashim Amla came together at the cease and tormented England's bowling attack into the ground, Graeme Smith's 50 came off 160 balls, his slowest 50 ever, and his dual with Graeme Swann was scintillating, but it was after reaching his 50 that Smith opened up and smashed the bowlers to all parts of the park, and it was in the 64th over that the special moment came when smith hit Tim Bresnan for two consecutive boundaries to bring up the South African captains 25th Test Hundred and in doing so became only the 7th player in history to score a hundred in their hundredth test, He received a standing ovation as if playing in front of the Newlands Cape Town crowd. Smith departed for 131 for a majestic innings and it was now the Kallis and Amla show.
Jacques Kallis brought up his ton on day 4, pointing to his eye in honor of his best friend Mark Boucher who sadly, had been struck in the eye by a bail in a warm up match and was forced to announce his retirement from international cricket. Kallis went on to make 182. but the real millstone was still to come, a man who's beard probably grew a few millimeters during his innings, the Might hash became the first South African in cricketing history to score 300 runs in an innings, it was simply fantastic, and by the time Graeme Smith declared Amla was on 311 not out, a number that will stay in the minds of South Africans for a very, very long time. South Africa had plenty of runs on the board, they couldn't lose, and it was now up to the bowlers to deliver and deliver they did. Led by Dale Steyn (5-fer) South Africa bowled England out of the game during the last session to take a 1-0 lead with two tests to come. The second test match ended in a draw but some top batting displays were on offer, most notably 182 by Alviro Petersen and a fantastic
149 by Kevein Pietersen, Proteas captain Graeme Smith also weighed in with two 50's. The third match which was another milestone for SA great Graeme Smith who was to overtake Alan Border as the most capped test captain but this achievement was overshadowed by the Kevin Petersen SMS sagas which also lead to KP being dropped for the 3rd and final test. The 3rd test was a nervous one for the Proteas as their top order flopped in their second innings, but another fantastic hundred from Amla saw them post a decent total and set up a scintillating final day at the home of cricket. Lords.
England's chase was a show of fight back and character, It was also England captain Andrew Strauss's 100th but unfortunately for him, he was not about to have the same joy Graeme Smith did in his 100th and despite top batting performances by Trott, Bairstow and Matt prior aided by contributions by Swann and Broad England fell just short and South Africa won the series and become the number 1 ranked team in the world. It was a sign of things to come
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The White Sox have sent nagging irritant Michael Jordan down to Single A, and the United States government is sending the Patriots to South Korea--probably because they haven't won the AFC East in about a hundred years. A grand jury says that Tonya Harding used funds from the U.S. Figure Skating Association to help finance the whack attack on Nancy Kerrigan. But Tonya copped a plea a couple of weeks back, so instead of going to the slammer she's going to Hollywood, where guys in Armani suits and $300 sunglasses are going to buy her lunch and hand over a ton of dough to make movies about her fascinating life. In that same little corner of the world, Kerrigan used her recent trip to Disneyland to dis Mickey Mouse, who's her new employer.
In pro football, the owners have finally voted to institute the college game's exciting two-point conversion. This has taken only twenty-five years. A lot of NFL coaches, who are ordinarily pretty macho types, say they don't like the idea because it will put more "pressure" on them. Too bad. Because football coaches don't know what pressure is. Pressure is what afflicts a brain surgeon every time the operating-room nurse slaps a scalpel into his hand. Pressure is what a beat cop feels when a stick-up man points a shotgun at her. Pressure is going out to get a loaf of bread in Sarajevo.
Meanwhile, your Denver Broncos have angered two of their traditional rivals, and you can look for revenge when the leaves start to fall. After the Broncos wined and dined Raiders speedball Tim Brown and offered him a salary King Tut would envy, Brown got his fleet feet and his Heisman Trophy back in gear and went right on home to Papa Al Davis, who was clearly cackling behind his sleeve and working over the Broncos' front office the whole time. But Bowlen and company's second choice is the better player. San Diego wideout Anthony Miller, now a Donk, runs more precise routes than Brown, and he has better hands. Last year he grabbed 84 passes for 1,162 yards on a mediocre offense. He's a click slower than Brown, but still the Ferrari John Elway needs for one more ride to the Super Bowl.
Down in sunny Miami, outside (and we mean outside) linebacker Bryan Cox is mighty upset that the NFL fined him ten thousand bucks for making obscene gestures to fans in Buffalo last year. As any fool can tell you, any Bills fan insensitive enough to get the finger from Bryan Cox is guilty of racial discrimination, and he means to prove it in court. Better hire Clarence Darrow, Bry.
Women's tennis, on the other hand, has turned into Snow White and the 700 Dwarfs. German star Steffi Graf has won 50 of her 52 matches so far in 1994, and all five big tournaments. In the last two months, in fact, she has dropped only one set of tennis, and she looms a lock to sweep her second Grand Slam. Hot stuff, huh? Well, no. In another era, one including a reasonable facsimile of Billie Jean King, a Martina Navratilova in decent form and a couple of Chris Everts, Graf would still be a pretty strong competitor. But she wouldn't blow everyone away like Hitler in '39.
Truth be told, the collection of stumblers and pat-ballers and head cases she faces these days look like Helen Keller out there. The great irony, of course, is that the only current player who can stay between the lines with Graf is Monica Seles, who's still traumatized after being stabbed last year at the Hamburg Open. Her attacker, as it turns out, was a German Steffi Graf fan. Rumor has it he's collaborating with Jeff Gillooly on a do-it-yourself book for terrorists. No wonder the women's tour no longer has a corporate sponsor; right now it doesn't deserve one.
And how about little Mikey Andretti? Off he goes to Europe last year, intent on imitating Dad by winning the Formula 1 Drivers Championship and, possibly, learning to eat spaghetti without cutting it up. Three months later home he comes looking like an Iraqi taxi driver who's just been through an ice storm at rush hour. Five accidents for Mike last summer. A slew of nonfinishes. Little matter: The bigger, clumsier (if such things can be called clumsy) Indianapolis cars suit Andretti the Younger just fine once again, and last Sunday he won the first Indy Car event of the year--in Australia.
The baseball season also starts next week, but when the National League champion Philadelphia Phillies roll into town to open against the Rockies Monday, they won't have John Kruk with them. As you probably know, the shaggy, self-deprecating first baseman is undergoing radiation therapy after being diagnosed with testicular cancer. The offending unit has already been removed from Kruk, and while the recovery rate for this type of cancer is excellent, he won't play for several months.
Until then, consider the man who saved John Kruk's life.
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Trying to get ideas of what I can hang on our bathroom walls. Show me how you filled your wall space.
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I don't have a picture, but I have 3 small framed black and white pictures of each of my children taking a bubble bath as infants. I don't have a big bathroom, so I don't have too much wall space. I can take a pic and post if you'd like when I'm at home, but I'm not there right now. |
That's very sweet! Pics always help. I have a small bath too and I'm wondering if I should fill the space or not. |
- Posted by birdgardner (My Page) on Wed, Mar 14, 12 at 22:49
I can't send a picture because I'm painting but I've got seven small Lizars bird prints on the walls - think I'll put up another few when I'm done - am stencilling bamboo so it will be like they're perching there. Tiny bath - about 4'x7' counting shower. |
All three of our bathrooms are small. The guest bathroom is longish, but very narrow. The other two are roughly 5' x 7 1/2' incl tub (hall bath), and 5' x 7' incl tub (MB). Guest bathroom: Hall bathroom: MB: |
My hall bath with coral reef shower curtain: and the small master bath (pictures of berries reflected in the mirror: |
- Posted by lynninnewmexico (My Page) on Thu, Mar 15, 12 at 11:10
Our powder room has a "shell" feel to it. Our guest bath has rainforest green marble on the counter and in the shower, so we have photos of a rainforest on the wall. Master bath, near the tub we have a row of three Degas nudes at their baths. I don't have any photos of those. |
- Posted by porkandham (My Page) on Thu, Mar 15, 12 at 12:25
polly929 - I love the pictures of your babies! So cute! The hall bath has nothing on the walls. It's a narrow ractangular bath from the 1950s. It does have a window on the short wall at the end, and to add some interest I hung an extra long chinoiserie toile shower curtain. This is in the WC in the master bath. It was painted by DH's mother when she was 12. I have Thai temple rubbings in the basement guest bath. |
Wow! Some great feedback. I was thinking of adding a hand towel rack to the right of our sink. Is there a height that it should be? Or as long as it clears sink and looks ok? |
If you look back at my master bath picture, you'll see the towel rack is a bit too high. I searched hard to find towels that were long enough to cover most of the wall area and not look skimpy. Those are the only ones in existence and they've been there for years. I didn't think about the height until after the "guys" hung the racks. You might first get the towels you want to hang, and then place it how you would any wall hanging -- where it looks best to you. (I'm sure there is some rule that I don't know about!) |
Great bath decor. cat mom: love your ruffled shower curtain. So funky and fun. I also like what little of the backsplash I can see in the MB. Very cool and different. Can you post a larger picture of that please? lynninnm: love all your tile and those punched tin light fixtures. I have a funky bath that all the men love. Me not so much. The previous owners "panelled" it in galvanized roofing sheets. That also forms the shower stall. Yeah, it's different too :) Can't believe I don't have a picture of it to post! I'll have to dig one up. |
I don't have any pictures of my pictures uploaded, but we have in the master bath 2 large blowups of photos we took at Pacific Grove with beautiful blue ocean and sky, framed in simple black Ikea frames. We have blue towels and mats that match the ocean's blue. In the guest bath we have my photos again - a white swan and a black swan again with nice details closeups) in simple black frames. I like that the photos are places we have been and that they are water-themed! |
- Posted by francypants (My Page) on Thu, Mar 15, 12 at 18:33
- Posted by gsciencechick (My Page) on Thu, Mar 15, 12 at 18:48
We have a "retro beach" look in the hall bath. Beach print (have another beach-related print on other wall but no photos): |
You have all given me some great ideas and beautiful themed bathrooms - so unique other than just a picture! Though I really love the idea of personal pictures as well as water-themed pictures. As for the towel holder, I know I should have kept the matching hand towel holder I bought, I didn't think it would work. Thanks for the ideas! |
It may seem a little crazy, but this is the only picture I have in my bathroom so far. I love Bulldogs and I felt like it's so silly, it would make me smile every morning. |
Msrose - that is great! I'm thinking I may frame my Roxy who is a boxer. This would definitely make me smile. Thanks! |
I love seeing how differently everyone has decorated their bathrooms! rafor--cool manbath! Here are some hall bathroom pics for you: |
Here is a link that might be useful: cat_mom's hall bathroom
cat mom: could you show the white circular type backsplash behind the vanity in your master ? I can just see the edge of it in the previous pics you posted. TIA |
It's a White Thassos mosaic from Porcelanosa. I linked it below for you rafor, but here are a few pics: |
Here is a link that might be useful: cat_mom's finished MB link
That is so cool! Thanks for the pic. Really like the "unfinished" wandering edge. |
Thanks! It really does "wander." The mosaic has a repeating "pattern" that isn't quite square/even, which made the tile guys really work at installing it. (The split-face mosaic in the other bathroom drove them even crazier trying to get it to line up to their exacting standards!) |
So pretty catmom - thanks for keeping this post going I love all the ideas. |
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Followed this recipe exactly as written. It was okay, pleasant flavors. A dish I might use once in a while in the every day cooking, but certainly wouldn' serve it on a holiday; just not that good.
I loved this citrus-twist to cooking collards. I used dried cranberries instead of raisins and the colors are just beautiful!
Our farmer's market has an abundance of wonderful greens that I thought I would try. I have never even eaten collard greens let alone cooked them. They were phenomenal and everyone loved them! I might try less raisins next time because 2/3 cup was overkill. Frantically searching for new collard green recipes! Ready to try mustard greens next.
Used thompson raisins, golden would be fine, too. You can cook the greens ahead of time and finish just before dinner. Balance of sweet and garlicky was just right. Served with swordfish in a mint, cucumber, shallot sauce (Cooks Illustrated.) Highly delicious.
Delicious - not too sweet but enough for an interesting flavor. Made exactly as recipe describes - low on raisins, so only used about 1/2 c.
This is a fantastic recipe if you don't like your collards cooked to hell and back. Simple and delicious.
I loved the combination of flavors with the sweet raisins, reduced OJ, and as I had already started before looking this up, I browned 2 strips of bacon, snipped prior to sauteing w/ 1/2 of a med. onion. Outstanding, and I'm not a collards fan, but resolved this year to give them a try again, b/c of their high nutrition.
This is one of my favorite recipes. I keep making it again and again, plus sharing it with all my friends. Healthy, easy, and delicious! So much better than many other recipes that have overcooked, over salted greens.


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I am looking at a house with a 6.5 basement height. What is a ballpark figure for digging out a 15'x40' basement. There is bulkhead access to the outside. Philadelphia urban area. |
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The digging is not as expensive as the foundation shoring, and is very region specific. A lot depends on how often it is done in the area. |
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Its done quite a bit, I just don't know anybody personally who has done it in the past few years. Actually one client I worked with who had two adjoined houses did it in 2008 but doesn't know how much that cost specifically because it was part of a gut rehab. They also dug out one basement and filled the other in essentially, based upon existing conditions in each basement even though they were adjacent. |
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