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Back in the beginning of June, during our Hopinions series, I asked Pete for some help with my hop vines which didn't want to grow too much. While my hops have decided to stay small, and are essentially a failure, Bill Velek stepped up and provided some very useful information. You can follow the link I provided before, or just read below.
I just happened across your blog, so I hope I'm not too late to help. I have 24 plants, most of which are thriving. I don't know if "Dr. Greenthumb" is a member of my Yahoo 'Grow-Hops' group, but I'm pretty sure that the professors who taught him are. ;-) Our current membership of 3,046 members includes many commercial growers, as well as home-growers who have grown hops for many years. If you can't get nearly immediately responses to urgent questions that you post on our forum, we have a searchable archive of 9,054 messages. We have hundreds of links to excellent hop-growing articles, files, photos, etc. If you join and don't want the heavy email traffic, you have the option of receiving a single daily digest or to not receive any emails at all. To join us, please visit my website for more info.
Now, before commenting upon your question about watering, my first reaction is a question about the picture of your hops; you appear to have mulched with wood chips, or perhaps bedding material for hamsters and such. Is that redwood? … cedar? … or perhaps pine that has just been dyed? The reason I ask is that I'm wondering if it has affected the pH of your soil. I don't know how long it would take to do that, if ever, but it strikes me as a possibility. One of the recent posts in our group discusses how to test your own soil pH, which you can do with a regular brewing pH meter, and I _suppose_ that you ought to also be able to use pH paper that you can get from a brew shop. Or you could submit a soil sample to your county cooperative extension office. I will also comment that wood, as it decomposes, draws nitrogen out of your soil — although the hops in your picture do not show any signs of nitrogen deficiency; I do not recommend using wood-chips as mulch, but using well-rotted compost instead. The 'fabric' that is made for use as a weed barrier is also good, although you probably already have that underneath your wood chips.
It does not look — in the picture — like you have formed a mound for your rhizome. This is _recommended_ although probably not absolutely necessary, considering that no one builds mounds for wild hops. The purpose of the mound is to facilitate draining after watering, which will happen in the wild without mounds so long as it is the right type of soil on enough of a slope to naturally provide the same effect for typical rainfall. Without mounds or those conditions, it is possible that your rhizomes are rotting from too much moisture.
It is also possible that the variety of hops you've selected will not grow well in your particular area. For instance, my Fuggles and Cascade do very well here in Arkansas and are huge and loaded with cones; my Centennial do marginally okay; my Magnums struggle — and I've had one die — and I will probably replace them with something else next year. All varieties grow under the exact same conditions, but obviously the Magnums don't like it in Arkansas.
Now for the watering; until the past couple of days, we have been having a drought in my area. Temperatures usually in the mid to high 90's, sometimes over 100 degrees, practically no rain for close to a month — and substantially less than normal since early spring. I water twice per week, but with good long, _DEEP_ waterings, and of course all of my plants are in mounds. That has worked well for me. Some growers use drip irrigation; I have wanted to do that, but have never found the time or money. I also apply some Miracle Grow every couple of weeks; be careful to not over do it with fertilizer because too much nitrogen will cause a lot of leaf growth but reduce your yield of cones.
I hope that helps a little.
Bill Velek
Bill is apparently a wealth of knowledge when it comes to growing hops and I have to give out a link to his site. Everyone who homebrews and wants a source for hops growing information (and other homegrown brewing items), visit Bill's website:
Grow Hops…and Brewing-Herbs and Barley
By the way Bill, Dr Greenthumb is a Cypress Hill reference, but I don't think they were growing hops. And if you're ever in Santa Rosa, I owe you a beer.


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Sebastian S. Kresge was the founder of the S.S. Kresge dime store chain. Therefore, the K in Kmart stands for "Kresge" even though Kresge retired as president of the company in 1929, long before there was any such thing as a Kmart. However, his name continued to grace the firm's stores.
Kresge died on Oct. 18, 1966. In 1977, S. S. Kresge Corporation changed its name to Kmart Corporation.
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The carcass of a rare two-headed dolphin washed up on a beach in Turkey. It was discovered by a vacationing gym teacher, who was walking along the shore, according to Fox News on Aug. 12.
The carcass of the two-headed dolphin calf was quite the find, it is a rare occurrence, much like conjoined human twins. Turkish scientist have taken custody of the dead creature and they plan to study its remains.
The vacationing gym teacher found the creature with two heads on a beach near the town of Dikili, which is near the Aegean city of Izmir. It was a surprising find to say the least.
According to MSN News today, the marine biologists at Akdeniz University will do research on the dolphin with two heads. While that has been reported in the various media news outlets today, it seems that the university knows nothing about receiving the creature's remains.
Marine biologist Mehmet Gokoglu from the Akdeniz University denies having the creature, but said that the university would be happy to have it on display. Gokoglu has no idea where the remains of that two-headed dolphin ended up, according to the Independent. It appears that the two-headed dolphin has a new mystery brewing, which would be its location!
Once they get that mystery sorted out by locating the fish then someone is bound to do some type of probe involving such a rare specimen. It would be a shame to let it go to waste when the scientific community could put it to good use with research.
This is not the first two-headed water dwelling creature to pop up in recent years. A two-headed shark was discovered in March of this year by fisherman in the Florida Keys. They discovered a two-headed bull shark, which is reportedly the first of its kind to be found.
This was a bit of an eerie discovery as the fisherman caught a bull shark and opened it up to find two live fetuses and one of them had two heads. This was the first time a bull shark with two-heads was discovered and in it was in the nation's own backyard of the Florida Keys.


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This is a Pampered Chef recipe that features a tender crescent roll crust topped with herbed cream cheese and crispy, coloful vegetables. Make it ahead of time so the flavors can mingle.
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- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons mayonnaise
- 1 clove pressed garlic
- 1 teaspoon dried dill weed
- salt and pepper
- 2 cups assorted fresh vegetables, chopped (any combination, e.g. broccoli, green onions, bell peppers, mushrooms, carrots, and tomatoes)
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- Cool completely.
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Tasty! I used dried basil instead of dill since I didn't have any on hand. I think it would have been better with the dill :D
I've made numerous variations of this recipe over the years. I really liked this one the best. I like that there's only 1.5 tsp of mayo - most have way more. This consistency is better. I doubled the recipe for a baby shower and it was a huge hit. I used broccoli, cauliflower, green onion, red pepper and cheddar cheese for toppings. The red pepper really put a nice accent in it. I made mine the night before, and easily cut it into small squares with a pizza cutter - it was delish! ****made again and still deserves 5 stars. I'm sorry but I think it's unfair to give a low rating because you didn't like something if you added your own ingredients like a packet of ranch dressing [yuck]. I like the simplicity of the dill with the cream cheese as written. Thanks again!


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SEATTLE - The Bethune-Cookman Wildcats (22-29) scrapped out a three-hitter at sixth-ranked Washington (34-11-1) on Friday night at Husky Ballpark, falling in a 4-0 shutout despite holding the typically heavy-hitting Huskies.
Starter Montana Durapau (9-1) took his first loss of the year while pitching a seven-inning one-hit gem; exiting the contest after reaching his pitch count. The Huskies picked up an early unearned run off Durapau, as center fielder Braden Bishop scored in the first on Robert Pehl's RBI groundout, after reaching on an error. UW added another in the fifth after Austin Rei evaded the tag on a rundown and crossed the plate on Bishop's sacrifice bunt.
Facing reliever Christopher Waltermire, the Huskies added two more in the eighth, with Andrew Ely scoring on an outfield throwing error, and Kyle London coming home on Chris Baker's full count RBI walk.
The Wildcats held the Huskies to just three runs in the game. With UW batting .294 on the year, only ninth-ranked Oregon has held the Huskies to fewer hits this season.
On offense, the Wildcats were limited by starter Jared Fisher (5-3), who pitched five innings for the win, recording only three hits in the non-conference contest. Of B-CU's six runner's left on base, three were stranded in scoring position.
Bryant Munoz, Eric Sams and Shaun McCarty each recorded hits for the Wildcats.
The three-game series continues on Saturday with a doubleheader at Husky Ballpark, beginning at 1 p.m. PT. At the conclusion of the series, the Wildcats will travel directly to the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Baseball Championships, which begin Wednesday (May 14) in Norfolk, Va.
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CityArtist Ward Serrill's "Catching Fire"
Pictured: Ward Serrill
Ward Serrill is a documentary filmmaker from Seattle, who is known for films such as The Heart of the Game (Miramax), and Something in the Water (PBS). His most recent film, Catching Fire follows Vashon's Island's Peter Scott on his quest to save the forests and women of Africa through the invention of a simple cook stove. He received a 2014 CityArtist grant for this project, and we got to chat with him about his influences, going to Africa, what he loves about making films, and much more. Watch the trailer and read more about Ward Serrill below!
Annie Holden: First off, I wanted to say – talking about these stoves is an important story to share, so thank you for telling it and allowing me to learn about it!
Ward Serrill: Thank you. Who would have thought that a simple invention of a stove might save the forests of Africa? And that it is a story that originated right here in our front yard, on Vashon Island. Telling this story can have a big impact. Over 3 billion people–half of the world–cook every day on open fires or inefficient stoves. Cooking on these fires and inefficient stoves is deforesting major parts of the world and is killing 4 million people a year, from the indoor smoke—mostly women and children. That's more people than die from Malaria and AIDS combined.
AH: So why do you think this issue isn't so well known?
WS: I think there are three reasons. First, it's hard to see the immediate effect of the deforestation. It is not a few huge logging companies cutting huge swaths of forests, it is billions of people hacking away slowly at the fringes of the forests and millions of small producers making charcoal. Second, the health effects of smoke inhalation take years to develop, and the childhood pneumonia and other respiratory diseases that eventually kills people, is not seen even by the victims as coming from the smoke in their own homes. And third, unfortunately, I think is basic sexism. If it were four million men dying every year, and those men were Americans, rather than women and children in developing countries, it would be headline news.
Ever since "The Heart of the Game" I've always seemed to do films that revolve around women's empowerment and women's issues-I don't seek them out, they just come along. CNN has just hired me to do a film on the women's prison here in Gig Harbor for instance.
AH: What were some of the reactions of women in Kenya receiving or using the stoves?
WS: It was very dramatic. Women in Africa have to spend a great part of their family income on cooking fuel, firewood and charcoal. Peter Scott's stoves save them nearly 50%. When women save money; it usually goes into their family's health or education. Also Peter's stove does not emit any smoke, so that amazed them.
AH: How did you meet and come to work with Peter Scott, the man who invented the "Burn" oven and the subject of Catching Fire?
Pictured: Peter Scott
WS: My wife and producer, Sophie, and I were friends of Peter and his wife Olivia before the film; we knew each other from living on Vashon Island. We were working on "Tree Story," a documentary that explored relationships people have to trees around the world, and Jannat Gargi, a local producer suggested that we focus an entire film on him because the story was so dramatic.
AH: How has your friendship with Peter impacted the film?
WS: The director Albert Maysles said recently in an interview that he approaches all of his films as acts of friendship, and after I read that, I realized that's how I approach my films. I always try to make friends with the people whose story I'm telling, because they have to literally trust you with the telling of their life. So, being friends with Peter before that process began made it even easier. It's all about gaining trust. It's weird as well. You are friends, but you also have to stay a bit detached in order to film and to make the movie.
Peter as well had to build trust with the women who would eventually use his stoves. One of the things that makes him unique is that he went to Africa and spent years working with the women to determine the kind of stove they needed and how to create one that hold up the hard use they were put through. He's been working relentlessly on this project for 20 years. He's absolutely committed to saving the world in his way.
AH: Although the film takes place in Africa, you mentioned that there were local ties to this project – what are they (other than just from being here)?
WS: Yes, Peter Scott developed his stove at a design lab he created on Vashon Island called Burn Design Lab. That's where he set out to create his "stove army". His idea attracted interns from around the world as well as CEO's of Fortune 500 companies who left their jobs to work with him. As well Vashon Island is a reservoir of latent talent, full of retired brilliant engineers, inventors and executives who have all been drawn to Peter and his passion for this work.
And we followed him to Africa for a month to film. Peter has built the first factory of its kind in Nairobi Kenya and has hired women to work in the factory in Kenya—50% of the factory employees– which is unheard of over there.
AH: What have been your favorite moments working on this project?
WS: The favorite part of any film to me is the filming itself and the editing. But on this project being invited into the women's homes in the slums of Nairobi and filming them using their stoves. I don't know how big the room you're sitting in now is, but I'm sitting in a 10x12ft room, and in this amount of space they have everything – kitchen, four, five beds, living room, and for them to trust us to go into their house, meet their families and let us film with them was so beautiful and so humbling.
AH: What got you into documentary filmmaking?
WS: I'm fascinated by life. I watch a lot of things – when I lived in Alaska, I used to watch nature, waterfalls, wind through trees, waves, everything really. This fascination with nature expanded to a fascination of people, where I'd love to watch people, I'm drawn to remarkable characters doing powerful work. Everyone is on a hero's journey; every film you see has components of this journey. People's lives are characters living out their stories, and I want to capture that active heroism. I'm stunned by real life stories.
I'm completely in awe of people like say, Lynn Shelton and others who are able to make up characters and stories in their heads and make them into films. I'm not wired that way. I just follow real life, follow a few wild animals, and hope those stories occasionally shine some kind of illumination to inspire other people. It's a crazy way to live, because you can work on a story for years and not have it pan out. But when it does, as with The Heart of the Game, you can end of being part of a magic show.
AH: What are your favorite documentary films?
WS: If I listed them all, we'd be talking for another hour! I'll just start with ones I've seen in the last two months. You have to see the documentary short that just won the Academy Award – The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life. I also loved 20 Feet from Stardom (which just won the Academy Wward for Documentary Feature), Stories We Tell (which was my favorite documentary from last year), Blackfish and The Square. But before that, anything Errol Morris has done. Anything Alex Gibney has done, Joe Berlinger, Steve James of Hoop Dreams fame, on and on. I love Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock because they brought entertainment to the world of documentary making: getting people to laugh and then unveiling difficult subjects for them to take notice.
AH: When will Catching Fire be screened?
WS: There will be 2 screenings, one in Seattle on Sunday, May 30th, and one on Vashon in April. Seattle's primary audience will be the Kenyan community who live primarily in South Seattle, Renton and Tukwila, and will be shown in the basement of the Kenyan Interdenominational Church in Rainier Valley. The Vashon Island screening will be in mid April, and will draw the community who know Peter, who are friends and family of his stove army as well as people who know me and who've helped with the process in the last 4 years.
AH: What's in the future for Catching Fire?
WS: KTCS via the Northwest Film Forum, gave a small grant to help us start it and has shown interest in developing the short into an hour long documentary so I'm very excited about this possibility. We also got a grant from 4Culture and of course from the City.
AH: Congrats on your grant, and thank you for talking with me!
WS: Thank you — this could not have happened without the Office of Arts & Culture!
All images and video courtesy Ward Serrill.
The CityArtist program supports the development and presentation of work by independent Seattle-based artists. The Office of Arts & Culture will post/share stories about the CityArtist's works in-progress based on interviews and site visits by staff members Annie Holden and Irene Gómez. Learn more about the CityArtist grant here, and read more CityArtist stories here.
Posted: March 12th, 2014 under Art Beat, CityArtist.
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Ajay Xavier
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posted 10 years ago
I am a beginner in socket programming. I wrote a sample program to echo the contents received from the client.
server program:
public class TestServer implements Runnable{ ServerSocket serverSock = null; Socket clientSock = null; public void run() { while(true) { try { clientSock = serverSock.accept(); System.out.println("conected and the socket returned is"+clientSock.getLocalPort()+clientSock); TestReceive receive = new TestReceive(clientSock); Thread receiverThread = new Thread(receive); receiverThread.start(); } catch(Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } } public void execute() { try { System.out.println("socket to be created"); serverSock = new ServerSocket(5522); System.out.println("waiting for the client to conect"); Thread testThread = new Thread(this); testThread.start(); } catch(Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } public static void main(String[] args) { TestServer test = new TestServer(); test.execute(); } }
This programs opens a server socket and waits for client connection. "testThread" is used to serve multiple clients. For each client a seperate thread is spawn to echo the contents. The code for that thread is
public class TestReceive implements Runnable{ Socket sock = null; BufferedReader br = null; public TestReceive(Socket sc) { sock = sc; } public void run() { try { br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(sock.getInputStream())); System.out.println("Socket in receive is"+sock); while(true) { System.out.println("got inside the loop"); String readLine = br.readLine(); System.out.println(readLine); PrintWriter os = new PrintWriter(sock.getOutputStream()); os.println(readLine); } } catch(Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } finally { try { br.close(); sock.close(); } catch(Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } } }
The client program is
public class TestClient { public static void main(String[] args) { Socket socket = null; PrintWriter out = null; try { socket = new Socket("127.0.0.1", 5522); System.out.println("This is on the client side--- socket created"); out = new PrintWriter(socket.getOutputStream()); out.println("this is my first socket program"); System.out.println("The data has been written to the server"); BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream())); System.out.println(br.readLine()); } catch(Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } finally { try { out.close(); socket.close(); } catch(Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } } }
there will be many clients like this.
Running this code produces the following output
for Server
socket to be created waiting for the client to conect conected and the socket returned is5522Socket[addr=localhost/127.0.0.1,port=3981,localport=5522] Socket in receive isSocket[addr=localhost/127.0.0.1,port=3981,localport=5522] got inside the loop
for client
This is on the client side--- socket created The data has been written to the server
Once the data is written at the client side the server is not picking this data and echoing it back.
Please identify where the problem is .
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Here are the facts about me. I am 49 and had kids at 40. (Twins—better living through chemistry.) I am chronically sleep deprived. I never exercise. I am five foot eight and have always been 20 to 25 pounds overweight. Never mind what that number on the scale is; I don't know, and I don't want to know. But I've been a size 12, fluctuating to a 14 or even 16, my entire life.
Here's the truth: I never really minded. Having my particular father helped. My skinny father was a chubby chaser; my mother was always fat, and he liked it that way. And you know that when it comes to body image, fathers matter. I was doted on and admired, and I never grew up with the sense that I'd be more appealing if I dropped a few. Undoubtedly there were plenty of men to whom I was invisible. But the world's a big place; I found the ones who accepted, and perhaps even preferred, me the way I was.
But last February my father died, and with him the sense that being pudgy was fine. Maybe the problem was that I didn't feel great. My blood pressure was high (140/90); my LDL cholesterol, while not terrible, was about 130, on the border of problematic. My blood sugar hovered around 105—a little high. Also, I drank too much, or too much for me: maybe 20 glasses of wine or cocktails a week. Nothing that should have sent me scurrying to AA. But the day I realized that my local Manhattan watering hole, Temple Bar, knew me by name—and knew to put a mojito in front of me before I said a word—was the day I began to feel like Norm from Cheers.
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I didn't have grandiose, Biggest Loser dreams. I figured if I could drop two dress sizes in five months and maybe improve a few of those sugar and blood pressure markers, I'd be ahead of the game. I was going to work out; I was going to . . . I refuse to use the word diet, but let's say stop eating spinach dip and chips at midnight. And beyond actually going to the gym, I would find new ways to move. For five months, I'd make myself a veritable swag bag of self-improvement—with a big assist from some helpers More lined up to work with me gratis, so I could see what was possible when money was no object. Here's a record of my adventure.
June 1
Meeting with trainer at the Equinox gym in SoHo tomorrow. Eating M&M's like I'm facing the guillotine.
June 2
My new trainer is Clark Kent. He has another name, Zachary Yurcisin, but as far as I'm concerned, he's Clark. He's six foot three, conventionally handsome, with a long, lean physique, a square jaw and a cape. OK, not really, but the cape is implied.
Clark knows exactly how much of a couch potato I've been. His goal is not only to help me slim and tone but also to increase my flexibility and mobility. I have lousy posture. I am stiff. So I will work with the Superhero for one hour, two or three times a week, an expensive arrangement made possible by Equinox, which kicked in a free six-month membership plus 50 Clark sessions.
Each time we'll follow a similar pattern: mobility exercises (stretching), then aerobic conditioning and weight training. The last two activities are important, since everyone in my family dies of a stroke or heart attack related to high blood pressure. Besides my Zach time, I commit to doing cardio on my own at least once a week.
One problem. Not the soreness or fatigue, though there is that. But from the get-go, I am bored out of my mind by exercise. I have to think of a way to make this interesting.
June 5
When it comes to eating, the fewer choices I have to make, the better. My main problem is that I love to be hungry—and then I love to be a glutton. So I subsist on coffee until noon, then go out for a late business lunch, no holds barred. Or worse, I'll eat nothing but a bagel all day, then have a glass of wine (or three) with my husband and nine-year-olds while they eat their dinners, then wait until everyone is asleep and Jon Stewart and I can dine together on a Cobb salad roughly the size of my head.
When I do sit down to a meal, I don't so much cook as dial (for takeout), and I always overorder. So to jump-start my weight loss, I decide to try different home-delivered meal programs that are supposed to provide a day's worth of meals within a certain calorie count (mine was 1,200 to 1,400 a day). I know that sooner or later I will need to take charge of my eating decisions, but I feel that the meal plans, in addition to being convenient, will train me to recognize what a reasonable portion is—something that I, with my "Everything is better when it's supersized" philosophy, have never mastered.
I start with Freshology (freshology.com) on the premise that if it's good enough for J.Lo (as People has reported), then it's good enough for me. Expensive? I'll say. This national program, which comped me for a month because I'm writing this story, costs $30 to $50 a day, depending on the plan you pick. Here's a typical menu from Freshology: Breakfast is baked eggs with herbs, Canadian bacon and fresh fruit (276 calories); lunch, Greek salad with grilled lamb (462); dinner, BBQ flatiron steak with vegetable medley and roasted sweet potato (504); dessert, pear square (164). The food is really tasty, there is incredible variety, and best of all, I am not hungry between meals. "These dishes contain lots of protein and fiber, a winning combo that keeps your stomach full and your blood sugar steady, fending off hunger," says Nancy Kalish, a certified health coach in Brooklyn.
June 15
At the gym, doing step-ups.
Boring. Boring. Gotta do something. Gotta distract myself. "Hey, Zach . . . are you dating anyone?"
Ahhhhhhh. Pay dirt.
So here's the thing. Zach broke up with his live-in girlfriend about six months ago. She moved to San Francisco. He loved her, but he didn't want a long-distance relationship.
Now Zach has another girlfriend, L. But he has his doubts.
June 25
"Taxi! TAX-iiii!" my son Henry cries, frantically waving his little arm. I wrestle it down. He is indignant. Henry's third word, after mama and dada, was cab, so naturally our sudden efforts to go everywhere on foot have not gone unnoticed. "Just because you want to be thin, we all have to suffer?" he asks, for the sixth time in a week.
This, I explain, is good for all of us. Because I am trying to put into practice a concept I've been reading about lately: non-exercise activity thermogenesis, or NEAT. The idea is that up to half the calories we burn daily come from activities we don't even think about: fidgeting, standing . . . or maybe going up three flights of stairs instead of taking the elevator to our third-floor apartment.
So, much to Henry's consternation, we are walking to school every day instead of taking the train, and we are eschewing elevators for stairs.
July 15
A training breakthrough! Well, not training, exactly. Today there is this:
Zach confesses he has a big crush on someone he sees at the gym. He's had feelings for her for a long time. They got to know each other while training for a running event, and now Zach is obsessing. M. is a tiny, pretty thing, but a little grim and tightly wound.
Despite looks that would make you assume he's a player, Zach is anything but. Beneath that hunky exterior is a Sensitive New Age Guy. Zach and I begin to strategize. He wants to be very correct. We plan the right moment for him to end it with L. and then ask M. out. He is scared. He thinks M. doesn't think of him That Way. Also, he hates to disappoint L. But. "I . . . I can't help it," he almost whispers to me. "It's natural to be attracted to someone else, even if you have a girlfriend, right?"
Reps, schmeps. Now this is a reason to go to the gym.
Late July
Training is all very well, but let's face it: I need a sport, something I can do that is actually fun and maybe even social. Here are a few of the activities I tried over the summer months.
Salsa dancing. Pros: You work up a sweat, and when you get good, you are 500 percent more attractive than you were beforehand. Cons: You have to touch strangers, yet you are not having sex with them. Result: Walked out.
Long-distance running: Please.
Ping-Pong: This is my new sport! And not just because Spin, the place I go, (a) is co-owned by Susan Sarandon and (b) serves drinks. OK, maybe those two things. But there's more. First, for some reason, I'm naturally good at it. Second, Spin is in a dark basement that, I believe, both makes me feel unselfconscious and hides my wrinkles. Third, while ping-ponging, an average-size person burns roughly 273 calories an hour—at a game I can actually play for an hour, as compared with, say, running. The only con here is that I am a little light on friends who share my enthusiasm. Like, none. So anyone in the tristate area who enjoys beating the crap out of a tiny ball while guzzling overpriced cocktails, please contact me.
Size 10 pants I haven't worn since I threw up every day for four months (beginning of twin pregnancy) now fit. Comfortably. This is really good. Husband notes: "Your bottom doesn't jiggle so much." This is good, too.
September 12
Zach takes my measurements. I know I've toned up and lost weight, but I feel I haven't done enough. It's three steps forward, two steps back. I stopped Freshology at the end of July, and after spending August eating and cooking for myself—and, predictably, slipping back into some of my old habits—I switched to the Fresh Diet (thefreshdiet.com), another portion-controlled home-delivery system that I got to try for free for 30 days. Available in 15 cities nationwide, the Fresh Diet program costs $35 to $45 a day, about the same price as Freshology.
But despite being protected from my own eating decisions, I screw up on a regular basis. For one thing, I frequently go out for business lunches and dinners. And then there is my endless bargaining with alcohol. I have two grade-school-age boys; is there a mother out there who can't comprehend the need for a gimlet at the end of the day? The problem with booze, for the moderate drinker, is not the booze. It is the lack of inhibition that booze inspires. So if the Brie and crackers are easy to forgo before the Chardonnay, they start singing a siren song the moment you begin sipping.
September 15
Zach did it. He asked M. to go out with him. And she said yes.
October 1
I buy a pair of size 8 DKNY jeans (Donna Karan understands hips) and put them on. As long as I don't breathe, they fit. My husband congratulates me on having less of an ass. "Not that it matters to me," he adds, just in time.
Drumroll, Please
All right, maybe a kazoo squeak would be more appropriate. Because this is a story of succeeding despite not rigorously sticking to a program. Even partial changes can give you good results.
After five months of exercising and controlling my food intake, I lost 15 pounds. (And I liked the meal plans so much, I ended up paying for a couple of months myself when the freebies ran out.) I went from a tight size 12 to a supertight (but breathable) size 8.
Aside from a week of illness, I worked out—cardio and/or weight training—two to four times a week. I could have done more, but I didn't. Nonetheless, I lost eight inches around my waist, hips, thighs, arms and chest. I stand straighter, though I still have to think about it. I have much more energy, which is a very pleasant surprise; at night my children and I dance to Lady Gaga. At last count, my blood pressure was 120/70. My fasting glucose level has fallen to 91. My LDL cholesterol is now a healthy 102. My numbers weren't terrible to begin with, but now they are clearly out of any you-gotta-be-careful zone.
Have I changed my habits? I think so. I am never, ever going to be cooking three balanced, small, tasty meals a day for myself, so the transition to eating on my own versus accepting deliveries is difficult. But I make a point of eating something with a little protein in it three times a day, whether it's a bit of peanut butter in the morning or my current favorite, a shake containing Dr. Morrison's Daily Benefit Daily Detox Powder, a 160-calorie rice-based cinnamony concoction. (For stores, go to daily?benefit.com.) And I'm continuing with a trainer. Now that this is on my own nickel, I've strong-armed a friend into joining me for a group session, cutting costs and reducing my chances of being bored.
I think I can live like this. I am cautiously optimistic. But ask me in a year.
There was one goal, though, that I am very happy was attained. This weekend, Zach reported, he and M. told each other, "I love you."
How The Numbers Changed
Size: 12->8
Waist: 33.5 in. -> 33 in.
Hips: 40 in. -> 38 in.
Thigh: 22 in. -> 19.5 in.
Weight Loss: -> 15 lb.
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Records: The Cougars are 2-1 on the season after defeating Grambling (83-55) and Idaho (70-65) at home following a season-opening loss at Nevada (80-55). The Bulldogs are 2-0 with a season following defeats of Montana (76-61) and Eastern Washington (81-47).
On Deck: It's a doubleheader at Beasley Coliseum Saturday when the men's team hosts Southern and the women's team hosts Eastern Washington. The men open the double-dip with a 1:00 p.m. tip.
WSU COACH PAUL GRAHAM: Paul Graham is in his first season as a head coach...he has a 2-1 record overall and at Washington State...Graham was an assistant coach for seven seasons under Eddie Sutton at Oklahoma State prior to accepting the head position at WSU...he is the 13th former Sutton assistant to land a Division I head coaching job...Graham is the 14th head coach in the 99-year history of Cougar basketball...against Grambling State, Graham became the 11th WSU head coach to win his home debut. Though Graham lost his first game (Nevada) as WSU's head coach, it may not be a bad thing...the last Cougar head coach to lose his first game on the Cougar sideline was George Raveling in 1972, who would later become the only man in WSU history to lead the Cougars to two NCAA Tournament appearances (1980, 1983). WSU AT THE SPOKANE ARENA: The Cougars are 7-3 all-time at the three-year old Spokane Arena. WSU's losses at the facility have come to a pair of defending NCAA champions -- Arizona (1998) and UCLA (1996) -- and to Gonzaga last season. The Cougars and Bulldogs have met three times at the new arena, with WSU holding a 2-1 edge...overall, WSU and Gonzaga have played 10 "neutral site" games in Spokane away from the Bulldogs' on campus home court (The Kennel) and the Cougs hold a 7-3 edge.
WSU AT FRIEL COURT: Washington State's 74-71 victory December 2, 1998, against Portland State was the Cougars' 200th all-time win at Friel Court...beginning with an 80-78 WSU victory against Louisiana State on December 1, 1973, the Cougars have won nearly two-thirds of the games they have played there (.648)...WSU has a 206-112 all-time record in Beasley...milestone wins at Friel:
No. 1 WSU 80, LSU 78, 12/1/73
No. 3 WSU 71, USC 56, 1/5/74 (first league win)
No. 25 WSU 77, Cal 63, 1/8/77
No. 50 WSU 77, USC 57, 1/24/80
No. 100 WSU 75, Oregon 71, 2/14/86
No. 150 WSU 95, Oregon 79, 1/21/93
No. 200 WSU 74, Portland State 71, 12/2/98
BUSH BIG ON BOARDS: Sophomore guard Mike Bush has been WSU's leading rebounder in each game this season...he tied his career high with eight in both the season opener at Nevada and the home opener versus Grambling State...then he broke his career mark with 10 boards in WSU's win over Idaho Saturday...he also had a career-high 15 points versus the Vandals which gave the 6-6 Bush his first career double-double...the Riverside, Calif., native is averaging 8.7 rebounds per game this season, compared to 3.1 his rookie campaign.
SCOUTING GONZAGA: Once a well-kept secret in the Inland Empire, Gonzaga University had a breakout season with last year's Elite Eight appearance...seven players return from that Cinderella team which nearly upset 1999 NCAA champion Connecticut in the quarterfinals...the Bulldogs are a well-balanced team with four players averaging about 14 points per game...Gonzaga also returns three starters from last year's team in Richie Fraham, Matt Santangelo and Casey Calvary...the Bulldogs like the three-point shot as six different players hoisted at least three threes in the Montana win...redshirt freshman guard Zach Gourde has emerged as a new contributor for Gonzaga and currently leads the team in scoring at 14.0 points per game...Mark Few is the third new head coach WSU will face in four games...Nevada's Trent Green and Grambling State's Larry Wright were the other two.
WSU-GONZAGA SERIES: Cougars lead 95-39...In the 1990s: Cougars lead 4-1...this is the 135th meeting of the two Inland Empire rivals...Gonzaga's 70-61 win last season snapped WSU's four-game winning streak... the Cougars have dominated this rivalry lately and have won 18 of the last 22 games...the last five games have been decided by nine points or more...however, the eight games prior to that had been decided by eight points or less...WSU is 108-44 all-time versus current members of the West Coast Conference...Gonzaga is the first of two WCC teams the Cougars will face this season...WSU hosts Portland Dec. 7.
YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS: Washington State opened the season with five freshmen on its roster (David Adams, Nick Graham, Mike Malloy, Milton Riley and Bryan Whitehead) for the first time in 14 years...the last time WSU had at least five rookies on its opening day roster was the 1985-86 season...that year, the Cougs actually had six -- Neil Evans, David Hairston, John Hodges, Anthony Kidd, David Sanders and Brian Wright...five of those six names should be very familiar to the Cougar faithful, Evans (who redshirted the 1985-86 season), Hodges, Kidd, Sanders and Wright all went on to become four-year letter winners for WSU...the 1985-86 Cougars went 15-16 overall and 8-10 in the conference for Coach Len Stevens...this year's crop of freshmen would certainly like to have at least one thing in common with the 1985-86 rookies -- they were the last WSU team to defeat Arizona.
PENGELLY LEADS PAC-10 IN ASSISTS: Senior guard Blake Pengelly has been quite impressive through WSU's first three games...he leads the Pac-10 at 9.3 assists per game...what's more impressive is his assist-to-turnover ration of 4-to-1!...in the season opener at Nevada, he set a career high with nine assists and had no turnovers...he followed that with another career high -- 10 assists versus Grambling State -- and nine versus Idaho...with his first assist during the Grambling game, Pengelly became only the fifth WSU player with 300 career assists...the Eugene, Ore., native needs 54 more to pass Marty Giovacchini for fourth place as Pengelly looks more and more like the player he was his sophomore year when he had 120 assists.
CROSBY CLOSING IN ON 1,000: Senior forward Chris Crosby should become the 22nd member of the 1,000-career point club sometime in the month of December...he had nine Saturday versus Idaho to bring his total to 946 points and needs just 54 more to reach 1,000...at this season's pace of 18.0 points per game, the Littleton, Colo., native will reach that milestone Dec. 7 versus Portland.
MORE ON CROSBY: Pop quiz -- how do you transform a 6-8 shooting guard into a pretty well-rounded inside player? Answer -- Paul Graham...for the first three years of his career, Chris Crosby was a shooting guard inside a forward's body...nearly half of his career field goal attempts (365 of 739) came from beyond the arc...but this season, Crosby has attempted 34 field goals with only 11 coming from downtown. And to those who thought he was just a gunner, check out the box from the Grambling State game, his 29 points were the second-highest of his career, but only one of his 12 FGs was a three...he also had six boards and a pair of steals...Crosby is shooting a blistering 58.8 percent from the field through three games (20-34)...and make no mistake, his three-point shooting is just as good as ever, if not better, he's 5-11 (45.5 percent) from three-point land this season and the inside-out dual threat makes his threes all the more devastating. Crosby is also grabbing 4.7 rebounds per game and setting screens in the offensive set that eventually lead to a lot of open looks at the basket...he could still work on his turnovers, but he had none against Idaho, cutting his season average to 2.0 per game...but if Crosby makes it to the next level, he can thank one man with a reputation for developing big men -- Paul Graham.
IDAHO RECAP: WSU won its 43rd straight non-conference game in Pullman by defeating Idaho 70-65 Saturday afternoon...the Cougars scored the game's first 11 points and never trailed, though WSU had to fend off a couple of Vandal second half runs...Mike Bush was outstanding with his first career double-double...the 6-6 sophomore guard had career highs in points (15) and rebounds (10)...the Vandals bottled up WSU's Chris Crosby (to be expected after he scored 38 against them last year), but Jan-Michael Thomas capitalized with 24 points on eight-of-17 shooting...redshirt freshman forward Milton Riley made his first career start and scored seven points with four rebounds...Blake Pengelly was solid again with nine assists, five rebounds, two turnovers and four points in 38 minutes.
WOW - WHAT A SCHEDULE: For the first time since 1994-95, odds are that WSU will play home games against five different ranked teams...five opponents are currently ranked in the AP poll: No. 9 Stanford, No. 10 Arizona, No. 12 UCLA, No. 16 Utah and No. 25 Gonzaga...and Oregon and USC were listed among the teams that also received votes...in 1994-95, all five teams were from the Pac-10: No. 17 California, No. 23 Stanford, No. 17 Oregon, No. 12 Arizona and No. 15 Arizona State (WSU was 4-1 versus those schools at home)...if one more Pac-10 team finds its way into the top 25, WSU will have home games against six ranked teams for the first time ever.
WSU VS. RANKED TEAMS: WSU currently has eight games scheduled against top 25 competition...the first is Nov. 29 against No. 25 Gonzaga...the last time WSU defeated a ranked opponent was February 22, 1997, when the Cougs beat No. 25 Cal 89-87...WSU also played eight games versus ranked opponents during the 1996-97 season...WSU's last win versus a ranked non-conference opponent was Dec. 26, 1970 -- an 83-80 victory by Marv Harshman's Cougars' over No. 11 Indiana at the Far West Classic in Portland, Ore.
NEW OPPONENTS: WSU will face two opponents for the first time ever this season -- Southern and Texas-Pan American...Utah will visit Pullman for the first time since 1939, it will also be the first game between the two schools overall since 1972...the Cougars also renew dormant rivalries with Nevada (last meeting 1972), Colorado State (1978) and Portland (1990).
OLD OPPONENTS: WSU's oldest rivalry, Oregon State, will reach game No. 260 this season...Washington State and Idaho met for the 255th time this season...the second Oregon game will be No. 254 in the series...WSU and Washington inch toward the 250 mark with games 247 and 248 this season...it was just the second meeting with Grambling State.
THREE FOR THREE: Seniors Chris Crosby, Blake Pengelly and Jan-Michael Thomas all rank in WSU's top 11 in career three-point baskets...combined, the trio has netted 359 career treys. Crosby leads the group with 146 threes (fourth) and looks to close in on the 200 barrier by season's end...Pengelly ranks seventh in three-point baskets (119) and is chasing No. 6 Dominic Ellison (1994-96) with 128...Thomas, in just his second season wearing the Crimson and Gray, is now in the 10 spot after passing David Sanders (1986, 88-90. I WANT MY COUGTV: Washington State will be on the Fox network nine times this season, with the possibility of a tenth game (UCLA - March 9) if that contest has a bearing on the conference title race...three games will be shown nationally (Fox Sports Northwest locally) -- Dec. 11 Utah, Jan. 22 Oregon and Feb. 5 Washington...Fox Sports Northwest will broadcast an additional four games -- Nov. 29 Gonzaga, Jan. 13 Arizona, Feb. 12 Arizona and Feb. 26 California -- to a regional audience...two other road games will be shown in their local market -- Jan. 29 Stanford (Fox Sports Bay Area) and March 11 USC (Fox West 2).
STARTING LINE-UPS: Here's a breakdown of WSU's starting five in 1999-2000:
G1-2 Evans, Crosby, Pengelly, Thomas, Bush
G3 Riley, Crosby, Pengelly, Thomas, Bush


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El-Wood Bar and Grill -- a true Art Deco era diner -- was moved a short distance from its original location to between Comerica Park and Ford Field. Sure, it fills up quickly and thoroughly . . . so they have an ingenious solution. Their adjoining parking lot is cleared for enclosed tailgating space! They have vendors selling snacks, beer and their famous Bloody Marys, garnished with green olives. You can keep out of the elements while having a tailgate experience.
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My eyes have been opened! Have come to the following realizations....
#1 Went thru my entire summer wardrobe... yes, only June but with humidex today is 35 degrees! capris fitting too tight.. I look obscene in them... trying on skirts and have come to realize that even if I were 15 lbs lighter that legs will never look like they did in my 20s or 30s.. approaching 50 and part of accepting that is accepting who I am right now and what fashion wise works and what should be put to bed forever :) No longer want to wear anything that is shorter than knee height.
#2 I was desperate for something to wear happy to find 3 new outfits from Reitmans.. 2 skirts and 1 skort set... no longer will I wear anything too tight... and do you know not only do I feel good/more comfortable but I look thinner too... imagine... just from wearing clothes that fit me... what I look like now!
#3 Tracking food; did not realize how nutrition poor my eating habits were until I started tracking. I really should be eating more fruits and veggies. I buy a watermelon, cherries and cantaloupe daily for my dad at nursing home. Why do I not eat these myself? Why not enjoy the fruits of the season? Snack on veggies & fruit.
#4 Move more. Sit all day at work and then I sit with dad at nursing home all night. Need to move more. Take a walk at lunch. Dust off the treadmill. Nothing too drastic... develop habits that I can stick with for the rest of my life.. in order to be healthy at 90 must start moving now! (I say this but I have been on the couch all morning drinking tea and typing this blog)
#5 Less is more. Less stuff = more living space; Less stuff = cleaner house; less clothes = seeing what u have & loving what u are wearing; less food / not binging on one food item = more choices / full course meal with dessert Less stuff = more time to do what you love best
#6 Yes, I still want to lose 10 lbs but not feeling as desperate now that I have something to wear. Pounds will not disappear unless I do my part; so I am vowing to make these changes and drink less alcohol and more water this coming week and hopefully I can get into last summer's outfits before this summer is over :)
Trying new WW recipe for dinner tonight... chicken mango and spinach salad. Doesn't that sound delicious. Hope everyone has a wonderful week and thanks again for listening.
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Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, present day. The fazenderos are leading their wealthy life in absolute boredom. They have plantations that stretch as far as the eye can see and spend their evenings in the company of the tourists who have come to watch the birds. On the borders of their land, the unrest of the Indians is growing. Forced to live on reservations, the natives have no future ahead of them, and out of despair, they often resort to suicide. It is a suicide that sparks off the rebellion. A group of Indians set up camp outside one of the properties to demand the restitution of their land. While battling with each other, the two sides do not stop studying one another. It is this very curiosity that will give way to a profound relationship between Osvaldo, a young shaman apprentice, and the daughter of a fazendero.
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Surry County emergency services, Elkin Rescue Squad, Elkin Fire Department and Elkin Police Department responded to a house at 211 Elk Spur St. around 5:15 a.m. on Wednesday. The children and two animals were found dead in the front left bedroom of the home, according to John Shelton, Surry County EMS director.
Investigators believe a running generator in the house caused the carbon monoxide poisoning. The generator was found hooked up to the refrigerator in the kitchen, and is believed to have been turned on around 11 p.m. Tuesday.
The Gilliam family moved into the home Tuesday, which didn't have normal power service. Two female friends who had helped the family move into the home returned to the house Wednesday morning around 5 a.m. to find Gilliam collapsed in the hall, the two children dead in their bedroom, and the generator running in the kitchen. The generator was almost out of fuel, according to Shelton.
"The two friends that had been helping [Gilliam] move, came in and found her in the hallway, they cut the generator off, pulled her from the residence, and when we arrived on scene we resuscitated her immediately," Shelton said. "The children were brought outside and put in an EMS vehicle but they were found deceased."
Shelton said an autopsy will not be necessary for the children because the cause of death is obvious.
Gilliam is in critical condition but is stable at Duke University Hospital.
"The information that we have is that the two youth are from our school district, and so we're making our staff aware and we do have our school counselors at the elementary school and a couple of outside grief counselors in the community who are available for staff and students," said Randy Bledsoe, Superintendent of Elkin City Schools.