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Out Of The Dark Official Album [Release Date: December 25, 2015AD]Genres DJ13 Tracks
01: Don't You Beater02: Electro V Electronic03: Mine [Hell To The Slammer Remix][Explicit]04: Erelim[Explict]05: Master Of Remixes[Explicit]06: Set Me Free[Hammer Remix][Explicit]07: Houston Remix[Explicit]08: Kill The Joker[Explicit]09: 13TH Hour[Explicit]10: Teardrops On My Guitar Remix[Explicit]11: Israel Flag Remix[Explicit]12: Out Of The Dark[Explicit]13: Revamp FT.Jordyn Houston[Explicit]
Dear DJ William Paul Houston Fans I have the musical album on Reverbnation website all you have to do its to search for DJ William Paul Houston and buy the Music there only $1.29USDollars per song online I wish all my fans world wide to support me in my music, and also don't forget to visited my website also and I like more people on my facebook band site page just go to reverbnation website and just follow the instruction and when you get to my music page you will see my songs on mp3.
Hope you will bring your friends and families along to joined in my music page being a artist is important it takes up only a hour a day to get things sorted out so I hope you will enjoyed my website as well so have a great day to all my fans Amen.
Hell To The Slammer Official Album [Release Date: December 25, 2014AD]Genres DJ13 Tracks
01: Mine [Hell To The Slammer Remix][Explicit]02: Erelim [Explicit]03: Master of Remixes [Explicit]04: Set Me Free [Hammer Remix] Explicit05: Houston Remix [Explicit]06: Kill The Joker [Explicit]07: 13TH Hour [Explicit]08: Teardrops On My Guitar Remix [Explicit]09: Don't You Beater10: Electro V Electronic11: Israel Flag Remix [Explicit]12: Out Of The Dark [Explicit] 13: Party Turbo [Explicit]
Hello this is Holy DJ Artist Mr. William Paul Houston I have a album out on Reverbnation call Hell To The Slammer in DJ Music I hope you like it and it good to listen to just visited the site and search for DJ William Paul Houston and you will find my Music Profile world wide its a good Album to listen to and I love all my fans world wide also I like you to buy my Music on Reverbnation website and there is plenty of my music to listen to I hope my Father and Brother and Sister will listen to it as well I also like my fans world wide to support my Music world wide, on Planet Earth.
And to all my Music fans online get online and listen to the Lord's Music world wide and you will enjoyed geat things to come I hope you like Hell To The Slammer my First Album thank you for listening Amen.
My Name is Holy DJ Artist Mr William Paul Houston, I enjoy Writing the Bible, Colouring, Drawing, Walking, Listening to Music, and Going on the Computer, I also like going to Church, The Library, and out for walks. I also really enjoy going to new places, some of the places I have been and really enjoyed are: DUXFORD, CAMBRIDGE, LONDON, & THE RACING. I am a happy, Talkative, Positive, and Knowledgeable person.
I sometimes need help when I get UNHAPPY and being to feel DOWN. This is normally when I think about my mum or when something goes wrong with my family. I sometimes need help when this happens, you can help me by: reminding me of this, encouraging me to do the things I enjoy doing. You can also remind me to talk about my feelings and be there when I am feeling lonely.
When things are going well... I enjoy making friends, I am down to Earth, I like being around people, I CAN BE VERY TALKATIVE, I keep to a routine, I go to Church regularly, I make my own meals, I go to the shops by myself, I ENJOY DRAWING AND COLOURING.
When things are going bad... I don't see my friends. I stay Indoors, I stop taking my medicine, I start drinking alcohol, I spend all day on my computer, I start thinking people are watching me, I don't follow my routine, I believe I am famous musician, I become quite and withdrawn, I focus all my time and thoughts on female music artists like Taylor Swift, I stop going to Church, I DON'T GO TO SLEEP.
ALCOHOL... Thoughts of Mum, Feeling Lonely, Getting sad, Thoughts of Alcohol, (way to Forget), Stop Eating, Stop Sleeping, Stops Medication Working, Mental Health gets worse, Physical Health gets worse, Start to make bad choices.


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April 15 1924. 1,490,496
w. J. TREVILLIAN RESILIENT RECEPTACLE ADAPTED T0 EJECT ITS CONTENTS WHEN COMPRESSED Filed Dec. '7, 1921 Patented Apr. l5, 1924.
Application filed December 7, 1921.. Serial No. 520,470.
To all VIZZO/HL it may concern:
Be it known that I, V. J. TREVILLIAN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Freeport, in the county of Stephenson and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Resilient Receptacles Adapted to Eject Their Contents When Compressed, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.
This invention relates to resilient receptacles adapted to eject a portion of their contents as often as they are manually compressed and released. Receptacles of this general type are often used for spraying vegetation with powder to destroy insect. life or other injurious organisms. For spray ing with powder such receptacles should be capable of containing a somewhat large amount of material and when their sides are pressed suddenly inward should eject a large volume of air. Small receptacles having outwardly convex thin resilient walls may give fairly satisfactory results, but when the receptacles are larger the metal of such side walls received set and no longer operates properly. This fact has led many to use special spring devices for restoring the walls to initial position after they have been pressed inward, but such expedients are in many ways objectionable, and one object of this invention is to avoid such objection's and secure better results in a simpler way.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a side view of a receptacle made in accordance with this invention.
Fig. 2 is a like view of the opposite side.
Fig. 3 is a diametrical section of the same receptacle.
These figures show a shallow cylindrical box divided perpendicularly to its axis and consisting of a body portion A which telescopes a companion or cover member B fitting it 'so closely that the joint is nearly or quite air tight. This body member is provided with a circumferential bead C, a conical marginal portion D terminating in a bead D near the top or cover member and is provided with a marginally plane, centrally convex bottom E having radial inwardly tapered ribs F which extend from the plane marginal portion toward the central noncorrugated area G. The companion or cover portion has an annular flange H fitting closely over the conical portion of the body D and provided with a marginal bead H which, when the parts are pressed firmly together, lies near the bead C. The cover has a top disk portion like the part E of the body except that the central non-corrugated portion I is provided with an opening J surrounded by a raised rib L having an iii-turned flange M in which fits a small disk N. This disk has an outwardly diverging flange 0 provided with a marginal lip O by means of which it may be lifted out of its closing position. One member of this two part receptacle is laterally perforated near its broad face disk to form a discharge opening P in which fits a plug P of suitable material, a nail or large tack being sometimes used.
When the receptacle is to be used, the body member is filled with material to be sprayed and the cover is forced on with such pressure that there is no danger of its accidental displacement, although it may still be detached by inserting a suitable lever between the adjacent beads. The plug and small disk being in place the apparatus is complete. If the plug be removed and the sides or top and bottom of the box, or receptacle, be suddenly compressed, the broad stratum of air near the cover is compressed, and a large volume of air strives to escape through the lateral opening P and thus ejects a portion of the material to be sprayed. hen the pressure applied ceases, the top and bottom instantly recoil and assume their initial positions.
Vhen more powder is to be introduced, the small disk is removed and the material is introduced through this opening. Should the powder become wet and form a cake, the two main parts are separated and the receptacle is refilled with fresh material.
The inwardly tapered radial ribs form integral springs which bend progressively, the. displacement being greatest at their inner endsand gradually decreasing without being concentrated in any portion of the disk. and consequently no set occurs no matter how long the receptacle may be in use.
At the same time, full central displacement is maintained so that effectiveness is not diminished. It may also be noted that the cost of the simplest common form is substantially unchanged, and no soldering is employed. at any point.
The length and the base width of the ribs may be varied according to the size of the receptacle and the character and thick ness of the material or metal, and preferably the aperture P is in the axial line of one of the ribs. It is also obvious that it is not indispensable to have both faces ribbed, and that the ribs would be just as effective with the receptacle body and cover soldered together.
lVhat I claim is:
The combination With a receptacle having two opposite, broad, highly resilient, convex sides connected by a separable air-exeluding peripheral wall and provided with a filling opening and a relatively small discharge perforation, of a removable closure closely fitting said opening, and a removable closure for said perforation, said broad sides having gradually widened corrugations extending outwardly from their middle portions.
In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature.
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City Bar and Vance Center Team with Weil, Human Rights Watch and Others on Supreme Court Marriage Equality Amicus Brief
The New York City Bar Association, through its LGBT Rights Committee and its Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice, along with Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Human Rights Watch and several international partners, submitted an amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges on marriage equality for same-sex couples.Read more
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A centuries-long war between daimons and witches sets the stage for three teens caught up in a deadly struggle for power and autonomy. In a city of daimons, rigid class lines separate the powerful from the power-hungry. And at the heart of The City is the Carnival of Souls, where both murder and pleasure are offered up for sale. Once in a generation, the carnival hosts a deadly competition that allows every daimon a chance to join the ruling elite. Without the competition, Aya and Kaleb would both face bleak futures—if for different reasons. For each of them, fighting to the death is the only way to try to live. Continue reading For Those Who Want More Magic, Mayhem, and Chaos…Staff Pick Dec.16th – 22nd


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Blaming the media in India and China for being unnecessarily high-pitched on their bilateral ties, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the leadership of both countries wanted a peaceful resolution of the border issue.
"Despite the persistence of the border problem, both countries have agreed that peace and tranquillity should be maintained along the border. Therefore, by and large, sometimes something appears in the newspapers in our country, something appears in the newspapers in China, that I think invites comments, but overall our relations are quite good.''
The Prime Minister said he had good working relations with Chinese President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and he was convinced that the top leadership of China wanted peaceful resolution of all problems between the two nations.
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What Nutrients Do You Use?
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Hey everyone.I just wanted to hear what nutrients and additives you use aswell as the brand. Also what system you are running and what plants. I use GH is there a better brand. I use a soiless drain to waste system.
I use CNS17 "grow". I only grow hydro lettuce and a couple herbs, but I also use it for my spring "starts" (peppers, tomatoes etc.) which are potted in coir. I also use a weak mix for houseplants.
Effective, cheap, easy to use.
Lettuce in deep water culture systems and herbs in an ebb and flow.
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We stayed at Ocean Palms for two weeks and had a wonderful time. We've stayed on Eleuthera many times, this is one of the few houses where everything worked as advertised. George and Ann were kind enough to supply us with cell phone for local calls as well as a house phone for local calls. The house has a great location, close to Gov. Harbour, and the best restaurants, plus it's right on the beautiful beach where you can walk for a mile. If you're looking for a great house, on a great beach, on a great island, look no further. Thom Shipman
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We spent a week at Off The Reef and absolutely loved it. The home was all we would have needed, included all the beach goer stuff including umbrellas, cooler, towels and snorkel gear. We found it quite easy to get around to various places and beaches in the different settlement and found the house to be nice and central making everything as accessible as possible. There was nothing that we needed and didn't have in the house and the private beach and cabana was fantastic and relaxing. I also found the most seaglass right in from of the stairs to the beach! I would recommend this is any couple who are looking for a relaxing adventure!
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We rented the Villa for Island Breeze in March, 2015. The villa exceeded our expectations in every way. The Villa is removed from any heavily travelled roads with a short stretch of sand road leading along the coast to the home. The views from the home are fantastic, as was the quality of the North Palmetto beach. Each day we walked the beach - usually not seeing anyone along the miles long coast/beach. On occasion we saw others, but never more than 5 people on the entire beach. The home is well decorated with modern appliances, furniture, and excellent bedding/linens. A rental car is a must, of course, given that the home is approximately 20 minutes from the Governor's Harbor Airport. An SUV is not necessary for the home, but we found it nice to have one for our excursions to the different beaches along the island. We highly recommend a chef/cook for the vacation. We accepted the recommendation of the owners for "VB" - who was nothing less than outstanding in all ways including a wonderful personality who informed us of everything we'd ever want to know about the island in addition to being a kind, generous friend for the week. The Villa would be appropriate for just about any group. We traveled as a couple with our daughter who was on spring break from college. There would be no issues for young children, and the beach would be ideal. Additionally, the site is well removed if not even secluded for the couple or family desirous of privacy. The home is on the Atlantic - North Side - of Palmetto in the central section of the island. We found this ideal for excursions to both the North section (Harbor Island) as well as South section (Tarpum Bay) of the island (about 1.25 hours and 0.75 hours, respectively). The drive to Tippy's and French Leave beach is approximately 10 minutes. The Drive to Ten Bay Beach is about 5 minutes. All of these were favorites we visited during our week on the island. The snorkeling and swimming on the beach at the house is excellent. The constant breeze and winds kept us bug-free the entire week. Basically, one chooses a beach based on one's activity for the day (walking, shells, snorkeling, swimming, family, etc…). Gov Harbor airport is the closest. We flew Southern Air in from Nassau. This was an easy set of connections. Wifi at the house was excellent. Thank you for the excellent sound system as well for the beach tunes. The bluetooth connection is appreciated - thanks! Thanks for a great vaca!!!


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Hill continues to swim upstream
Sink or swim, Grant Hill is rehabbing his way in a pool for one last splash with the Magic.
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Grant Hill has made up his mind about water.
"Next house, I don't even want a pool," Hill says.
Swimming as metaphor.
Grant Hill knows what being in a pool means. It means, again, that he's not on the basketball court. Once again, his left ankle is failing him. Once again, he is spending dozens of hours in tedious rehab. Instead of wearing the silver, blue and white of the Orlando Magic on the team's practice floor at the RDV Sportsplex -- just a few, tantalizing steps away -- Hill is, this day, wearing a blue muscle shirt and shorts, with a weight belt around his waist, about to step into the 82-degree waters of RDV's pool.
The team's physical therapist, Vinnie Hudson, is waiting. He's planning to work Hill in the water 45 minutes to an hour, but this therapy isn't just for Hill's ankle -- though working the joint in water obviously beats pounding it on a basketball court. The bigger goal is keeping Hill in good cardiovascular shape, with the goal of keeping Hill's heart rate at 165 beats per minute for 20 to 25 minutes.
Hill starts in a sitting position in the water, knees up, with blue fins on his feet, and starts kicking backward, going the length of the pool. Then another length, back toward you. Then the other way. Then back. And up. And back. And up. And back.
Then, the fins come off. Hill swims freestyle the length of the pool, up and back, up and back. Hudson, whose job frequently forces him to be hated by his clients, pushes the man who's got a $93 million deal -- but who still isn't sure he can go to his right.
"One more down," Hudson says.
A few more minutes, and then Hill puts an orange, foam weight in each hand. The weights are for resistance, not strength training. Hill then runs half the length of the pool without his feet touching the bottom, with a high leg kick. Then he comes back. Then up. Then back. Then up. Then back. Then he runs in place.
At the end of this set, Hill is almost out of breath.
"TV's looking pretty good right now," he says, referring to a certain national cable network's desire to have him work in their studio this year.
He finishes by putting the blue fins back on, then grabbing the edge of the pool.
"You want to do four 15s or three 20s?," Hudson asks.
"Three 20s," Hill says. "No, let's do four."
Hill then goes face down in the water while holding onto the pool's edge. He then kicks his lower legs in place for 10 seconds. (Sounds easy, doesn't it? Try it some time.)
"Five seconds," Hudson says. Five seconds later, Hill stops. Then, he knocks out three more 15-second bursts in the pool. And that's it for today. He comes out of the pool, gassed, and this is when you ask him if this time around, it's worth it. After missing 199 games over the last three seasons, and having four surgeries on the same ankle, and having all the security he and his beautiful, R&B-star singer of a wife could need. After seeing his father's career as an NFL star be impeded the same way, with injuries clipping him in his prime.
Is it worth it?
"It better be worth it," Grant Hill says.
He knows the Magic don't want him to play this season, because it's hard to insure a guy who's had his left ankle cut on four times. He knows his teammates would just as soon have him not play this season, because it's been impossible to have any kind of continuity the last three years. They waited for him, dreaming about what he and Tracy McGrady could do in a backcourt together. And every year, his ankle has betrayed him. So they'd like to move on, with McGrady, and Juwan Howard, and Drew Gooden, and Gordan Giricek.
"When you're playing and you're healthy, whatever your role may be, whether you're a superstar player, or you're the last man on the bench, you feel like you are a part of the team," Hill says. "When you're on IR, you're on injured reserve, you feel like you're not ... you feel like people want to sweep you under the rug, they want you to go away, you're a problem, it's your fault, whatever, and I've sensed that. And even if people don't really mean that, you get that feeling. You don't feel like you are a part of the club. You don't feel like you're in the mix."
How does he deal with that sense of isolation?
"Well, I'm an only child, so I guess I'm used to it a little bit," he says, then laughs a little. "I still want to play and I'm still gonna do what I need to do, and if it means I feel for a while that I'm an outsider looking in, then so be it. I've definitely had a lot of practice at it, so I should be good at it now. But it still bothers me right now like it did when I first arrived here in Orlando."
Orlando ... it hasn't been what he'd hoped. He never would have minded being McGrady's second banana, as long as the kid listened to him when he had something important to say. But he knows that he's surrendered just about all of his credibility as a team leader. Out of sight, out of mind.
"When I first signed with Orlando, a lot of the same players were here and we played and my ankle was not right, and guys were just dominating me in practice," Hill recalled. "I can't get by people, I can't stay in front of people, I can't get to the ball on the rebound, I mean all these things ... just nine months earlier, I scored 42 on Orlando and just dominated, and then, nine months later I feel like I'm ... no offense to anyone out there, I feel like I'm a 50-year-old man. I'm out here trying to compete with these young guys. And immediately, right away when I tried to put on an Orlando Magic uniform and tried to play, my confidence was not there. I was not the same person that I was previous to the injury."
That's why last season was so, so frustrating. After the third operation, Hill had been able to play most of the 2002 summer. He got through camp OK, and his confidence started to build. For a couple of months, he put up solid numbers -- 14.5 points, seven boards, four assists. Hill believed he could be the all-around player that he'd been in Detroit with Allan Houston, and then, Jerry Stackhouse.
But in December, the pain came back.
"For once, I felt like my old self," he said. "And then, the ankle started to give me problems early in the year and then it just got worse and worse."
By January, he knew he'd fractured the ankle again. He hoped against hope that he could play through the pain. But on the 16th, in his hometown, he cratered. He went out against the Wizards and tried to guard Michael Jordan. Jordan may have been 39, but Hill felt like he was 89.
"The competitor in you didn't like to be embarrassed by an old man," Hill laughed. "Anytime you get embarrassed, that's one thing, but also, the pain was so much I knew I probably shouldn't have been out there. I knew before the game I probably shouldn't play, but it's my last chance to play against Michael, it's on national television and sometimes you let your emotions get the best of you, and so, uh, I went out there and played, and he torched me in the first half and I knew. I knew at halftime that I was done, I was done for the season."
I had heard that Hill broke down and wept in the locker room. Hill says now that that wasn't so.
"But it wasn't easy," he said. "It was rough. I mean, you can say, well, wow, you've gone through a lot up until that point, but for me, I just had doubts. I said, 'Maybe it's time, maybe I need to move on.' "
Six weeks later, he had the fourth operation. But this time, he had the operation at Duke University Medical Center, with doctors that had operated on him in college. He went around the country to see ankle specialists, and if they'd told him this was it, you're done, he would have retired with no regrets. But this time, Hill says he finally got an explanation for why he kept breaking his ankle. It wasn't coincidence. It was structural.
"The analogy that I like to use is like a car, if a car that is out of alignment, the tires will wear down, and if you change the tires, eventually that will solve the problem but, if you don't fix the alignment, the tires will continue to wear down," Hill said. "There wasn't anything wrong with the bone. The bone wasn't dead, which was sort of the approach before ... there was something structurally wrong. That's why it initially happened over a six-to-eight-week period while I was still in Detroit. It wasn't like I landed on somebody's foot, wasn't like something like that occurred. It just progressively got worse until it broke."
And broke.
And broke.
And broke.
|If I can't come back and play at a high level, I have standards, and I'm not going to sit around and play and be a marginal player. No offense to those that are. But I have standards for myself and if I can't play at the level that I've set for myself, whether it's because of injury or because of age, then I'll move on. "
|— Grant Hill
So this time, the doctors removed the three screws that had been previously inserted. They removed the non-union bone. They put in a plate with screws to relieve the latest stress fracture. And they cut his heel bone in an attempt to realign Hill's entire leg. The misalignment, the Duke doctors believe, is what caused Hill's ankle to fracture time and time again.
But let's be honest. It's still an educated guess. One that makes sense. But it's still not a certainty. Or, as Hill puts it, "Well, you know, there's an old story, half the doctors out there finished in the bottom half of their class."
He's laughing again.
"I'm not trying to talk bad about the medical profession. I respect it, and it's definitely helped me ... I just know that there's good doctors and there's bad doctors. I'm not saying the people I had before were bad, but sometimes people have different theories ... I just feel like, like I said, there's comfort in knowing why this thing occurred. I never really had that answer, why it occurred, and I was given theories, but they never made sense."
This time, instead of rushing back to play, Hill spent six months on crutches ("arm pits were pretty raw and pretty sore") and hasn't even been cleared yet to start jogging. Given the slow rehab approach, you wonder if February, his target date for returning, is realistic. But Hill says he needs a goal to shoot at. To just wait until '04-'05 to make his last stand would make it really hard to rehab now.
And he wants to be ready. Because this is the last stand. There will be no more. No more surgery. No more limitations.
"If I can't come back and play at a high level, I have standards, and I'm not going to sit around and play and be a marginal player," Hill said. "No offense to those that are. But I have standards for myself and if I can't play at the level that I've set for myself, whether it's because of injury or because of age, then I'll move on."
Whenever Grant Hill moves on, he will have lots of options in life. He is a basketball player, but that's just a job description. He could be Senator Hill, Governor Hill. He could be a star on TV, to be sure. But he could also be this generation's Dave Bing, who followed up a Hall of Fame playing career with a still-thriving career as a steel magnate. Among Hill's friends is Richard Wagoner, the CEO of General Motors. Hill is interested in real estate. He is about to publish a book, "Something All Our Own," highlighting his own collection of African-American paintings and sculptures. (Full disclosure: I've read it. I loved it. I wrote a blurb for the book jacket.) His wife, Tamia, has sold a few CDs; between the two of them, they have a little money, and they have a beautiful young daughter to shoot hoops with in the driveway.
So why on earth does he keep trying to come back?
"I mean, I've been around professional sports all my life in some capacity," Hill said. "My rookie season, when I was 22 years old in Detroit, I was always thinking about the future, I was always preparing for life after basketball ... now that I've been hurt, all I think about is trying to get back, and my time and my focus hasn't been the same, or it hasn't been like it has in the past. But I still feel like I can do it. I still feel like I have it in me and I want to do it for as long as I can ... right now I just want to play ball, I just want to put that Magic jersey on and lace up my shoes, and put on, my ankle brace, and go out there and play."
So Grant Hill will be back in the water tomorrow. It's not fun, but it's something all his own.
David Aldridge, who covers the NBA for ESPN, is a regular contributor to ESPN.com.
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Easily one of my favorite movies of all time. I also am a huge fan of Hannibal the series which stars Hugh Dancy and Mads Mikkelsen. In fact, I may do an A-P-S on that show one of these days. … Continue reading
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This weeks APS is by request of darkenwulfbytes. Although the request was for alt-posters from the original Tobe Hooper classic; I threw in a few from some of the other films in the franchise as well. As always I hope you … Continue reading
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It's always fun to add a film I remember seeing as a kid and then loving as an adult to the ever-growing ALT-POSTR-SPOTLIGHT. Creature from the Black Lagoon is that type of movie. Enjoy. ALT-POSTR-SPOTLIGHT: CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON
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How could I not have a Hitchcock film featured on ALT-POSTR-SPOTLIGHT? How could that film not be Psycho? We all go a little mad sometimes; mad for awesome alt-posters, that is. ALT-POSTR-SPOTLIGHT: PSYCHO
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High Intensity Training and why YOU should be doing it!
High Intensity Training and why YOU should be doing it!
By: Steve Gallagher CPT,NPTI
In the world we live in today the fitness industry is booming! Big chain gyms, personal training studios, and small gyms are taking over every corner. With all these "workouts" how can YOU tell which workout is for you?
Easy let's take a look at the word exercise. If you were to ask most people the definition of exercise they would most likely tell you that it is anytime you are moving or tired from an activity. Wrong! I have seen many people go to the gym day in and day out "work" all the muscles in their body and see no improvement. Why is that?
For exercise to be effective the process MUST be stimulated and set in motion where a group of positive biological events will follow. What exactly does that mean? In order for our body to positively make changes we need to put more emphasis on working our muscular system & cardiovascular system simultaneously, rather then separately.
The best way to do this?
High Intensity Training (H.I.T)
High intensity Training is a form of strength training popularized in the 1970s by Arthur Jones, the founder of Nautilus. The training focuses on performing quality weight training repetitions to the point of momentary failure. The training takes into account the number of repetitions; the amount of weight, and the amount of time the muscle is exposed to tension in order to maximize the amount of muscle fiber recruitment.
The fundamental principles of High Intensity Training are that exercise should be brief, infrequent, and intense. Exercises are performed with a high level of effort, or intensity, where it is thought that it will stimulate the body to produce an increase in muscular strength and size.
Other benefits include but are not limited to revving up your metabolism and giving you an after burn – where you burn more calories and fat AT REST. Lastly, you can get through your exercise sessions in less time.
Base Guidelines-
F.I.T.T. Principle
Frequency: 2-3 days/week.
Intensity: 100% Train to volitional fatigue.
Time: 30 minutes per session.
Type: Circuit resistance training.
Other points:
Work largest muscles first.
Perform full body workouts.
Perform slow controlled movements.
Know variables and advanced techniques for continued progress
For anybody that would like to try H.I.T. Here's a General Routine
Full Body Workout
Leg curl
Leg press
Reverse grip lat pulldown
Chest press
Compound row
Tricep extension
Bicep curl
Abdominal crunch
Lower back extension
Calf raise
Any Questions? Feel free to send me a message firstname.lastname@example.com
Steve Gallagher
Celebration Fitness


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Still in love with wine
It was on this day, Dec. 26, exactly 31 years ago that I fell in love with wine.
It happened in the Safeway store in the little town of Benicia, some 30 miles northeast of San Francisco. I'd just made one of the biggest, riskiest moves in my life–coming to California from the East Coast, to go to graduate school. (That's a whole different story I might tell one of these days.) My cousin, Maxine, and her husband, Keith, had invited me to live with them until I got settled. I'd flown west out of Logan Airport in a blizzard, only to arrive in sunny San Francisco where the mild temperature, leafy trees and flower-choked gardens blew my mind. I mean, roses and magnolias in late December? I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto!
We drove to Benicia. I was shown my new room. Then someone suggested barbecue for dinner. Maxine went out into the garden to pick lettuce (another mindblow) for a salad, and then we drove up Main Street, past the little park with the gazebo, to the Safeway. Threw a couple steaks and potatoes into the shopping cart. Then we headed over to the wine aisle. This is where "the incident" occurred.
Maxine's steering the cart slowly down the aisle. I'm trailing after her. I don't remember Keith in the picture; maybe he'd stayed at home, starting the fire. Maxine picks up a bottle of wine, examines the front label, turns it around, examines the back label. Puts it back on the shelf. Picks up a second bottle and goes through the same ritual. Then a third bottle. And a fourth.
Me: "What are you doing? Just grab a bottle and let's go." [I was sooo New York in those days.]
Her: [arching an eyebrow of disapproval] "You don't just grab a bottle of wine. You think about it."
What? I can remember my reaction as if it were yesterday. What is she talking about? I know my cousin has her "ways," but she is, for the most part, a sensible, rational human being, not subject to whims or emotional fancy. I simply could not understand why buying a bottle of wine was any different from buying a can of peas. They were all the same, weren't they?
Things happened very quickly after that. I needed to understand. Not wanted; needed, as if understanding were as important as breathing. I bought a couple wine guides: Bob Thompson's "Pocket Encyclopedia of California Wines" and Olken, Singer & Roby's "Connoisseurs' Handbook of California Wines." I started haunting wine shops. For sure, I didn't have much money to spend, but I remember the pride I felt when I bought my first varietal wine: Wente's Grey Riesling (or was it spelled Gray?). Shortly afterward, I moved out on my own, to Concord, where I shared a house with a young Diablo Valley College kid, Tim. I shared with him my passion for wine, which he quickly adopted. Together we would go to wine shops, looking for suitable bargains to drink with the dinners we cooked. That's when I began my career as a wine educator, teaching Timmy: as long as I knew a little more than he did, I was mentor, he mentee.
I've thought often of Maxine examining those wine bottles. I observe the same behavior today, when I loiter in the wine departments at Cost Plus or BevMo, watching people. They're so confused, most of the time, so apprehensive, so clueless. I don't say that judgmentally, just objectively. Lord only knows what's going on in their heads. I am reading now the 1950 article, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," by the great computer pioneer, Alan Turing, who came up with the concept of the "Turing test," in which a human observor (you or me) has a "conversation" with an unseen interlocutor [in, say, another room], through a teletype screen or similar digital device. The idea is for the observor to determine whether the unseen interlocutor is another human, or a machine [computer]. The theory is that, if the computer were programmed sufficiently well, this determination would be impossible. It was Turing's conjecture that someday computers could be programmed so that there would be no way of telling the difference. All theories of artificial intelligence begin, and end, with Alan Turing.
Watching those wine shoppers, I try to imagine what's happening in their brains. I can't, in that particular situation, because I know too much about wine to be confused in a wine aisle. But I get confused in many other situations: for example, anything that involves mechanics defeats me. So I can recall my confusion when dealing with automobiles and imagine it inside the head of the Cost Plus wine shopper, and I feel empathy. Could a machine ever feel empathy? Is that what makes humans different from machines? I don't think that's the case, because I can imagine a computer behaving in such a way as to simulate empathy; and since I can't crawl into the computer's brain, any more than I can crawl into yours, I would just have to assume, based on its behavior, that the computer actually was empathic.
I would have loved to ask Turing, who died in 1954, if a Turing test could ever determine if a computer liked wine. Actually, he anticipated such a question in his article. Can a computer "enjoy strawberries and cream?…Possibly a machine might be made to enjoy this delicious dish, but any attempt to make one do so would be idiotic." That's how Turing dismissed the idea of programming a computer to have esthetic or hedonistic preferences: that it would be "idiotic" to do so, presumably because the effort involved would be vast, whereas the payoff would be meaningless. Why not use the same effort to program a computer to find a cure for cancer?
Maybe it's idiotic for us humans to fall in love with anything–strawberries and cream, wine, each other. Yet Mother Nature gave us that capacity. It happened to me on that long ago winter day, and you know what? I'm still in love with wine.
Looking back, abroad and forward
This being the last day of the year, I'm in a look-back mode. The first wine I ever tasted was a sip of Manischevitz from my Uncle Teddy's glass. I must have been six or seven, and the event was probably a Passover seder. Uncle Teddy was one of those friendly, boisterous guys whom everyone likes and who's always at the center of attention. I think he offered me a sip of his wine at the table because everybody was watching, and Teddy knew that no matter what I did, it would be funny. I guess it was, because all the adults laughed when I made a face and spat the wine out because it tasted so evil. That may account for the particular loathing I have to this day of table wines, red or white, that should be dry but have residual sugar.
Wine didn't re-enter my life until my freshman year at college when, away from home for the first time in my life, I went on a rampage. Freed from the constraints of parental oversight, I did anything and everything I could to celebrate my new-found freedom, including drinking. Lots of drinking. I remember well the favorite libation of me and my similarly reckless young friends: Bali Jai. I think it was made by Italian Swiss Colony. Anyhow, it too was sweet, but as I was drinking, not for flavor, but to get inebriated, I didn't care (and Bali Jai was the cheapest rotgut you could find). A step above Bali Jai were Mateus and Lancer's. Already I was establishing a hierarchy of wine in my head: I knew they were better wines, but they also cost $5 more per bottle, which put them out of my price range, and besides, I had no need of better wines.
By my sophomore year, I had enough sense to realize that drinking Bali Jai, starting some weekend mornings at 10 a.m., was not a very smart thing to do. So I stopped. Disciplining myself with regard to my alcoholic intake is something I'm still good at (fortunately, given my profession), having developed the habit long ago, and being in possession of a pretty acute radar that warns me when I'm coming too close to doing anything in excess. So wine effectively passed out of my life for more than a decade until I moved to California and re-discovered it, a process I have previously written about.
When I think about my own wine journey, and then look at what's happening in China with wine, I think of that old saying, "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny", which, if I may so describe it, means that the human embryo goes through successive stages of development, each of which resembles an earlier phase of human evolution. Thus, as the embryo grows in the womb, it looks, first, rather tadpole- or fish-like, then like some kind of small mammal, then finally assume a more anthropoid state until, on the day of birth, out pops a tiny little new human person. I think that in our (human's) wine-drinking habits, we similarly go through stages, regardless of whether we're Chinese or New Yorkers. You start off (in most cases) with hideous junk, like Bali Jai, then you realize that wine is inexorably connected with things we value, such as status, fun and the need for love and affection; and as this realization increases, so does your appetite for better wine. This explains why the Chinese, with their nouveau wealth, mix Coca Cola with Lafite–and it also explains why that bizarre phase probably will not last much longer, for the Chinese are fast learners.
At what point, though, does this upward spiral of our desire for better wine result in a tipping point that can blossom into snobbery and elitism? This is a question that deeply interests me, and has at least since my days writing The Collecting Page for Wine Spectator. There, I saw the Dark Side of a love for wine: the self-absorption, the insularity of the Old Boy's Club and their membership of fatuously bragging egotists, constantly trying to one-up each other, piling up such massive collections that neither they nor their children or grandchildren could ever possibly consume it all. And to what point? I saw men who equated meaning in life with the possession of 19th century pre-Phylloxera Bordeaux or verticals of every vintage ever made of Mouton; but who then called their winetasting dinners with their friends "pissing matches," a vulgarity but illustrative of their motive for gathering: Who could bring the oldest, costliest bottle, thereby winning the contest and humiliating the losers?
Why wine makes fools of some people, I'll never know, but it does seem to accompany excessive income, especially when it has been accumulated quickly. Think of all those high-priced athletes and rock stars whose tastes, once they are newly riche, span the gamut from indulgent to merely offensive to downright vulgar. I'm sure they love their Cristal and Lafite, as much as my Uncle Teddy loved his Manischevitz. Yet somehow Uncle Teddy's love of his wine seems in kind different. He loved his wine for the way it brought people he loved together, and made them laugh and be happy; not, as I have seen in some collectors, to satisfy some inner lack of joy.
Happy New Year! I'll be back here on Monday morning!
A look back
In 1989, I lost my job. I'd gone to grad school (S.F. State) to get my M.A. in Educational Technology, a weird hybrid of a major that the school designed because they understood that computers were going to be important, but they didn't know which department should investigate their uses. So they stuck it in education. It was a silly major, and I never used a single thing I learned (BASIC?); but I did work on campus in the Career Center, so I learned a thing or two about college career counseling, and when it came time to get my first post-graduate job, it was as the director of the career planning and placement center at California College of Arts & Crafts (now California College of the Arts), here in Oakland.
As jobs go, it was a disaster. I struggled for the better part of three years to make it work, but ran into academic politics of the worst kind. I was hopeless at the backstabbing and maneuvering it takes to survive campus in-struggles, with the result that the school's personnel director called me into her office one day and told me it was all over. Everything I'd gone to school for, and worked so hard to achieve, went down the toilet.
I was in shock. Fired from my first job! I thought I'd never recover from the blow. Went home, slept, drank, lost myself in a whirlwind of indulgence. I had no money, a mortgage and car payments to pay, the whole dreary mess. Needed a new job asap. But what? That's when I told myself, "Self, you can't go through another debacle. It's pretty obvious you're not cut out to be a suit-and-tie wearing, briefcase-toting bureaucrat. You're a creative, fanciful, non-conforming independent sort, and you need to do something that allows you to express that part of yourself."
As a career counselor, I'd often told my students, "When it comes to choosing a job, don't just pick something you think will earn you money. You're going to be working for the next 30, 40 years, and studies tell us that 70% of Americans hate their jobs. Do you really want to be doing something you hate until you're 65? So find your passion, and get a job doing something you love."
I asked myself, What do I love? Two things: writing and wine. I practically came out of my mother's womb wanting to write. I can distinctly remember being 3 years old and doodling on pieces of paper, pretending I was writing in script. I couldn't wait to write. I was an early, avid reader and an early, avid writer. I was writing poems and short stories by ten. So I knew I wanted to do something involving writing.
And I loved wine. Fell head over heels in love with it in the late Seventies. Went off the edge, around the bend, out of my mind in the pursuit of wine knowledge, way beyond what any normal person should do. So in that awful aftermath of getting fired, I decided to put the two things I loved together. Writing + wine = wine writer.
Fine, but how to make it happen? I did a lot of visualising (a method of thought projection and imagination that was popular in those days). I established a resumé by writing for our local free newsweekly, the East Bay Express, and for the Oakland Tribune as a stringer. I quickly developed writing skills: how to construct a story, come up with a strong lead, check facts, meet deadlines and word counts, work with editors. And then it was time to find an actual wine writing job. I think I've previously described here on my blog how I pestered Jim Gordon, at Wine Spectator, so mercilessly that he finally broke down and gave me an assignment. And the rest, as they say, is history.
If there are lessons to be learned by my experience — and I think there are — it's that younger writers who want to make it in wine writing should do these things:
1. educate yourself as thoroughly as possible in wine.
2. work constantly on your writing skills.
3. believe in your dream.
Of course, things are a lot different now than they were when I started. Back in 1989, few people wanted to be wine writers, so the field was wide open. Today, everybody seems to want to be a wine writer. Another thing that's different is the advent of the Internet. In 1989, you could only be a wine writer if somebody hired you to be one, because only publishers controlled the press. Today, anybody can blog. Self-publishing is an advantage, but it's also a liability, because the very ease of digital publishing means that young wannabe wine writers might not discipline themselves with the severity needed to mold an unformed passion into honed talent. It's always taken talent to make it as a wine writer. Still does.
An extract from my memoir
Readers: I'm writing a memoir. The below is a section. I'd like to know if you're interested in this sort of thing. If not, I won't put any more sections up here on my blog:
California seems like a big state, but the wine industry is actually a little village. And if there are town criers who know what's happening all the time and tell everyone else about it, it's the cadre of public relations experts, whose jobs it is to keep track of every sparrow. Wine critics are very big sparrows, and I was one of the biggest of all. So it wasn't long before the word went out: "Steve doesn't travel anymore."
It was true; I didn't. But I was aware of the negative side to this. It was that I ran the risk of being perceived as a Diva. It was turning into a case of "If you want to see Steve, you must travel to Oakland, because Steve doesn't have the time to drive to your place." Or "If you want Steve to attend an event, you're going to have to send a car and driver to Oakland and then bring him back again, because Steve no longer drinks and drives."
You'd think I would have stumbled across the concept of "Don't drink and drive, ever. Period. End of story." before 2001, but I didn't. I'd been drinking and driving all my adult life. When I lived in San Francisco, and especially during my Noe Valley days of the early 1980s, weekend after weekend I'd wake up on a Saturday or Sunday morning and have no idea where I'd parked my car the night before. There were times I'd have to walk the neighborhood for 30 minutes before I found it. I'd have no memory of driving home, or indeed even of what I'd done or where I'd been. I might recall leaving home at 10 p.m. and heading down to my favorite bar, the Headquarters, which was South of Market. I might have a memory of the bartender giving me free drinks. But after that, nothing. Nada. It was even scarier when I'd wake up with a stranger in my bed. Who is this person? Where did we meet? What did we do?
But what really persuaded me not to drink and drive anymore was an incident that scared the hell out of me.
It was Beaulieu's 100th birthday. They'd arranged for a super-tasting at the winery, which is in Rutherford. I was covering it for Wine Enthusiast, and staying the night at the Embassy Suites hotel, in Napa city, about 20 miles south of Beaulieu.
The tasting was stunning: every vintage ever made of the winery's Georges de Latour Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon, plus the three Pinot Noirs that André Tchelistcheff had said were the only ones he'd ever made that succeeded: 1946, 1947 and 1968. Needless to say, everybody at that tasting, which also included plenty of champagne and white wines with appetizers, was basically blitzed when it was over.
It was past midnight, in the dead of winter. Cold, windy. As soon as I got to the parking lot, the sky opened up, and a deluge of Biblical proportions poured down, from a gale that had descended upon Northern California from the Gulf of Alaska.
Now, anyone familiar with the stretch of Highway 29 that runs from Rutherford down to Napa (and up past Calistoga) knows there are no street lights. Much of the road is two lanes only. As I drove, the rain became so heavy that I couldn't see a thing out my windshield. The wipers did nothing at all, even though I turned them on full speed. In fact, they made things worse. I had no idea where the center lane was, where the shoulders were. I was driving completely blind, and I was drunk. I figured my blood alcohol must have been well north of the legal limit.
Yet what could I do, but to plow on and try to get to the Embassy Suites safe and sound? So I made a little prayer: Please get me to the hotel without an accident or getting stopped by the cops. If you do, I will never again drink and drive.
He did. And I did. Or didn't, rather — didn't drink and drive again, ever, for any reason. It wasn't just the fear of getting a DUI conviction, although that would have been bad enough. It was the thought of what the San Francisco Chronicle would do with it.
Steve Heimoff taken to jail, booked, out on bail
There was no way I was going to let that happen!
But the price I paid was the Diva thing. Once I started blogging, and became fair game for the criticism of half the wine bloggers in the world, the charges of "limousine Steve" and his "all expenses paid lifestyle" mounted. They were serious enough that I had to spend considerable time and energy refuting them. But tell me, dear reader, how should I have dealt with the matter of drinking and driving? If you're invited to a wine event, chances are likely that there's wine to be consumed. I mean, that's what a wine event is all about! If I want to go to an event, but I won't permit myself to drink and drive, then my only option is to tell the people who want me to come to the event that they have to provide transportation. I am single, and thus don't have the luxury of bringing a designated driver-spouse with me. So it's not because I'm a Diva that I insist on these arrangements.
Yet, to this day, I get phone calls from people, both P.R. types and winemakers, who say, "I know you don't have a car, but we were wondering if you'd visit us, if we send a car." I have a car! I drive almost every day! I just don't drink and drive. So I patiently explain my situation, and then hope that people don't think I'm a Diva. But I guess sometimes they do.


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Jiti Serpentine Pillow
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|Color: Grey
|Style: Contemporary
|Size: Large (Over 20")
|Shape: Square
|Cover Material: 100% Cotton
|Fill Material: Down/Feather
|Number of Items Included: 1
|Areas of Support: Back; Neck
|Density: Medium
|Handmade: Yes
|Construction Technique: Woven
|Embroidered: No
|Room Use: Foyer; Bedroom; Living room; Den; Game room
|Pattern: Geometric
|Organic: No
|Gender: Unisex
|Life Stage: Adult
|Fill Weight: 2 Pounds
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|Removable Cover: Yes
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|Washing Method: Dry clean only
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Britain says it will become the first country to offer all babies a vaccine for potentially fatal meningitis B after it reached a price deal with GlaxoSmithKline PLC.
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Two experimental Ebola vaccines, tested in Liberia on more than 600 people in a phase 2 clinical trial appear to be safe, the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) said Thursday.
The Ebola virus is not mutating as quickly as scientists had feared, which is good news for treating the disease and preventing its spread, a study showed Thursday.
An Ebola whole virus vaccine, constructed using a novel experimental platform, has been shown to effectively protect monkeys exposed to the often fatal virus.
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Near drowning JEROME H. MODELL, M.D. ABSTRACT Several conditions that contribute to drowning and near drowning must be considered in the treatment of near-drowned victims. Regardless of the cause, mechanical ventilation should begin as soon as possible and closed-chest cardiac massage should be administered when there is any question about the adequacy of cardiac output. After aspiration of either fresh or seawater, a large intrapulmo- nary physiologic shunt can occur, which requires aggressive mechanical ventilatory support to ensure adequate oxygenation and to return pulmonary function to normal. Near drowning is a multisystem disease and, while abnormalities of the lung and brain have been emphasized, definitive therapy must be tailored to each patient and must address all of the patient's needs. Circulation 74(suppl IV), IV-27, 1986. SEVERAL CONDITIONS that contribute to drowning Some have advocated that a subdiaphragmatic ab- and near drowning must be considered in the treatment dominal thrust (Heimlich maneuver) be used routinely of near-drowned victims. The nonswimmer in deep before initiating CPR.2 Because near-drowning vic- water usually will struggle for survival, whereas a tims frequently swallow large amounts of water, there swimmer suffering from physical exhaustion will not. is a risk that water will be expelled from the stomach Persons who hyperventilate before swimming under- with subsequent aspiration into the lungs. Further- water may lose consciousness secondary to cerebral more, many near-drowning victims aspirate relatively hypoxia and, as a result, begin breathing underwater. small amounts of water; also, freshwater is rapidly Alcohol can interfere with judgment and, in excess, absorbed from the lungs into the circulation. Thus, this can act as an anesthetic. The person who dives into maneuver is not recommended unless a clear airway shallow water must be suspected of having a head or a cannot be obtained by other means or there is no re- neck injury. Persons who swim or plunge into cold sponse to basic CPR, in which case a subdiaphrag- water will be hypothermic, which, in turn, can cause matic abdominal thrust is indicated.3 ventricular fibrillation or near drowning, with or with- Because aspirated freshwater is absorbed rapidly out aspiration of water. Hypothermia decreases meta- into the circulation and then redistributed, even when bolic rate and, thus, such victims may withstand respi- the quantity of water is large, an increase in blood ratory and circulatory arrest for a longer period than a volume is no longer present 60 min after aspiration in victim who is normothermic. In any of these cases, experimental animals.4 Seawater is hypertonic, and immediate therapy at the scene should concentrate on thus draws fluid from the circulation into the lungs. ventilation, oxygenation, and circulatory support. ' There is good evidence that most near-drowned hu- Mechanical ventilation should start as soon as possi- mans do not aspirate large quantities of water. ' This is ble, preferably in the water, provided, of course, that substantiated by the fact that abnormal serum electro- the rescuer can perform mouth-to-mouth or mouth-to- lyte concentrations that require specific treatment are nose ventilation in the water without also near drown- rarely seen, except when an extremely concentrated ing. Because apnea usually precedes cardiac standstill salt solution, such as water from the Dead Sea, is after water has been aspirated experimentally, if me- aspirated.5 chanical ventilation is provided, circulatory support The primary immediate problem is that significant may not be needed. Since the near-drowned victim intrapulmonary shunting occurs and persists even after may be suffering from severe vasoconstriction, deter- ventilation and circulation have been restored. After mination of whether there is mechanical cardiac action aspiration of seawater, this shunt is likely due to fluid- may be difficult. Unless a carotid, femoral, or radial filled but perfused alveoli and, after aspiration of pulse is definitely palpable, closed-chest cardiac mas- freshwater, to unstable alveoli due to an alteration in sage should be started immediately. Supplemental the surface tension properties of pulmonary surfac- oxygen should be provided as soon as it is available. tant.' In either case, the intrapulmonary shunt de- From the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Florida Col- creases rapidly with the application of continuous posi- lege of Medicine, J. Hillis Miller Health Center, Gainesville. tive airway pressure (CPAP). After aspiration of Address for correspondence: Dr. Jerome H. Modell, University of seawater, both CPAP with spontaneous ventilation and Florida College of Medicine, Box J-254, J. Hillis Miller Health Center, Gainesville, FL 32610-0254. controlled mechanical ventilation (CMV) with positive Vol. 74(suppl IV), December 1986 IV-27 MODELL end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) have been demonstrat- elevated, then it should be monitored and hyperventi- ed to dramatically decrease intrapulmonary shunting lation, fluid restriction, and barbiturate coma may well and increase arterial oxygen tension. After aspiration be beneficial. The pros and cons on this subject are of freshwater, results are similar with CMV and PEEP; beyond the scope of this report. however, the response to CPAP with spontaneous ven- In conclusion, the hallmark of therapy for near tilation varies. In some victims, a favorable response drowning remains prompt, effective CPR. All near- is very rapid; in others, the response is not optimal drowned victims should be transported from the scene until mechanical ventilation is applied with CPAP. to a hospital for further evaluation and therapy as nec- The application of CPAP with or without mechan- essary. Usually, the most crucial part of therapy is the ical ventilation may lead to hypotension. This is early, aggressive treatment of the pulmonary lesion, caused by a decrease in cardiac output secondary to the whether freshwater or seawater has been aspirated. increase in intrapleural pressure with concomitant rela- Definitive therapy needs to be tailored to the individual tive hypovolemia after aspiration of either seawater or patient. freshwater. Thus, even though the intrapulmonary shunt may decrease and arterial oxygen tension may References 1. Modell JH: Drowning. In Staub NC, Taylor AE. editors: Edema. increase, oxygen delivery is not improved. Experi- New York, 1984, Raven Press, p 679 mentally, cardiac output can best be supported by the 2. Heimlich HJ: The Heimlich maneuver: first treatment for drowning administration of intravenous fluid, which increases victims. Emerg Med Serv 10: 58, 1981 3. Modell JH: Is the Heimlich maneuver appropriate as first treatment oxygen delivery.4 Intensive pulmonary support should for drowning? Emerg Med Serv 10: 63, 1981 be instituted early and continued in an intensive care 4. Tabeling BB, Modell JH: Fluid administration increases oxygen delivery during continuous positive pressure ventilation after fresh- environment with appropriate invasive monitoring as water near drowning. Crit Care Med 11: 693, 1983 indicated by the severity of the insult or other system 5. Modell JH: Serum electrolyte changes in near-drowning victims. JAMA 253: 557, 1985 failure. 6. Bergquist RE, Vogelhut MM, Modell JH, Sloan SJ, Ruiz BC: During the past 5 years, there has been considerable Comparison of ventilatory patterns in the treatment of freshwater near drowning in dogs. Anesthesiology 52: 142, 1980 attention given to cerebral salvage after near drowning 7. Conn AW, Montes AG, Barker GA, Edmonds JF: Cerebral salvage and many have advocated the routine use of dehydra- in near drowning following neurological classification by triage. tion, hyperventilation, hyperoxia, hypothermia, mus- Can Anaesthesiol Soc J 27: 201, 1980 8. Modell JH, Conn AW: Current neurological considerations in near cle paralysis, barbiturate coma, and corticosteroids.7 drowning. Can Anaesthesiol Soc J 27: 197, 1980 (editorial) The literature in this regard is quite confusing because, 9. Modell JH, Graves SA, Kuck EJ: Near drowning: correlation of level of consciousness and survival. Can Anaesthesiol Soc J 27: while some recommend such techniques, others point 211, 1980 to their complications and condemn them. To date, no 10. Rogers MC: Near drowning: cold water on a hot topic? J Pediatr 106: 603, 1985 well-controlled study has been performed to support 11. Conn AW, Barker GA: Fresh water drowning and near drowning such therapy as routine.8'-" If intracranial pressure is an update. Can Anaesthesiol Soc J 31: S38, 1984 iv-28 CIRCULATION
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A big thanks and a w/s Milkweed question
First off I want to thank you all for being so helpful and opening my eyes to what beauty I can bring by attracting butterflies. It was very, very relaxing chasing butterflies during a horrible economic and emotional year. Thanks again for all your inspiration.
I also have to thank all the folks that sent milkweed seeds either for a SASE or trade. I ended up with quite a handful!
Regarding winter sowing I am curious (never winter sowed) to how close you folks like to seed. I am under the impression that milkweed doesn't like to have its roots bothered. I am going to use 4L milk jugs (1 gal) and 2L (1/2 gal) pop (soda, for another southern translation LOL) bottles.
My other plan is involving stratifying the seed in the fridge between moist paper towels then planting them as soon as I can work the top portion of the ground. I will try to get a few going under my lights but have hundreds and hundreds of milkweed seeds to plant.
Any thoughts?
Looking forward to viewing all your pics and being able to share more this coming year.
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Beautiful picture :) Is that Lobelia?
Try all methods and see which works best. Start some inside a few weeks ahead of time to get a jump on things. Spring sow other seeds after stratification, and Winter sow others.
I store mine in baggies, stuffed in a vase out in my garage for the Winter. Late next month or in April, depending on the weather, I'll bring them inside and attempt to start some in flats.
I have Rue, Button bush and Bronze Fennel to plant this year.
It's always exciting growing something new.
Thanks leaf head,
Yes, that is lobelia..while I understand I can find what works best for me, I do have nearly 3000 milkweed seeds to sow. While I can accept failure on some fronts my goal is to provide seeds for the monarchs next year (especially since they are not native here).
Thanks again.
With limited time, space, and soil, I would wintersow most of your seeds. It's the closest to nature, but with protection. I wouldn't worry about the roots being disturbed in seedlings. You may lose a few, but your overall success rate will be better.
Hi there,
Do you know what kind of milkweed seeds you have? Some are annuals in colder climates, while others would be perennial. For instance, Tropical Milkweed or Asclepias curassavica is an annual in more northern climates.
Some milkweed seeds could be sown outside now--they would need the stratification to break dormancy.
Asclepias incarnata is not too fussy about getting moved after being planted, just need some attention until established.
Thank you for taking care of the Monarchs. Maybe you could share some with like-minded people in your area or go plant in areas that are neglected?
Thanks bernergrrl for the response and sorry I am slow responding.
I don't know exactly what variety of most of the milkweed i have. They were obtained during a trade and labeled as "common" milkweed.
I have winter sowed some in the containers I have all the rest between damp paper towels in the fridge. Hopefully I they will take when I direct sow them.
I appreciate all the help. Since monarchs are not native here my goal is only to harvest the seed (a lie as I know native BF
s will like it!) I am currently clearing a 300ft X 60ft area for these seeds... Will be pretty if most take!
Thanks again
Thanks Leafhead, Was the only one I seen last year, hope more come this year as I planted a few host plants. The flower is a Benary's Giant Zinnia. Thanks for the tip on the hostas.
The hummer was the only thing not impressed with the moth.
Flower is Nicotiana.
YES! we have had the same heat wave, 2 weeks ago -30C and +10C right now. Most of our snow is now gone making for a very mucky, yucky spongy mess. I am so ready for spring!!
Here is to warm thoughts.
The butterfly feeding trough in front of my shop last year.
oh Yeah WAH!!!...
My planting style is to plant enough that the weeds don't stand a chance or you don't see them.. The blue/purple is lobelia from the initial picture. Deadheading is done with shrub shears....sometimes....
another for warmer thoughts
Thanx, SCG...Beautiful White Admiral
It's 50 here, the birds are singing and the snow is melting :-) YAY!! We're due a week c six out of seven highs above freezing and lows on the 20's. I think the icy back of Winter is finally broken. I'd be quite surprised-and put off-if we saw any more nights below zero. We'll undoubtedly see more snow, but it will melt off rapidly.
Lol I posted the wrong picture. That Loquins Admiral is on aster ( nice guess too!!)
Yeah we have been in the low 40's F for the past few weeks with more snow doubtful. While we can still get frost till nearly June I usually have to mow a few times in April. Yay! For spring!
Wish I could access my hard drive with all my butterfly pictures. One almost feels warm looking at them. Oh well how about a skipper?
Too melting days!!
Ahh, again so close...it is a Ochlodes sylvanoides or "woodland skipper" the absolute most prevalent here.
I really am needing access to my HD now as this is becoming fun....from photo bucket library...
A "matrix" theme.


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