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The Regis Film series which in now in its fifth year, attempts to present to those who follow it a path to such a life. It uses the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius as a base for its explorations. The first year we looked at learning how to be spiritually literate by examining the way we feel as a mode of discernment. The next three years looked at the first three weeks of the Exercises. The first looked at how we are trapped and allowed us to discover the life that seeks to free us from those traps. The second looked at the path we could walk to gain more life. The third examines the cost of walking that path. This final set in the series celebrates the new life that is the gift of such a path. The previous sets can be found on the web-site www.discerningthetimes.ca
We hope that as you enter this set of film reflections on resurrection you re-discover in a new way those moments in your life that were truly life giving and transforming, and that the awareness of how resurrection has gifted your life allows you to see the new life that is already now around you waiting to be discovered and celebrated.
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Seanicemanreturns Seanicemanreturns May 15, 2013 16:53 Flag
TRUE fans go to the Match
How many ''fans'' on here have been to Anfield?
and don't give me the usual excuses that its too far, too expensive or its on the other side of the world.!
unless your a keyboard fan that has never experienced a live game and what it TRULY meansSort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
LFC_Armchair_Supporter LFC_Armchair_Supporter May 17, 2013 18:38 Flag
Yea well there's some people like myself who've got panic attacks.. so going to a crowded area is like hell.. Don't you think I'd liove to watch my team play? Of course I would.. but I never will due to my condition.. Don't ever belittle LFC fans.. if we love the club we love it whether or not we see our club in person.. The way I see is this if you buy LFC merchandise be it shirts etc.. you're a LFC fan.
I been going since 1949. In my 20's and 30's it was virtually every Home game and as many away as I could afford. I even been to Goodison Park too.....but only when we played there! Admittedly its not so often these days but what point are you seeking to make???? Curious? I'm also curious to know which particular live game it was that you attended?
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Seanicemanreturns Seanicemanreturns May 20, 2013 17:19 Flag
RonJ, fair play to you..............my point is this, it is very reflective in peoples, not only football opinion, but also one of their own team. Those that go the match have a much more balanced view of how their team is actually playing, as opposed to those that watch MOTD and read the paper. Journo's are normally biased, MOTD has editing and pundits, those that go the match make their own mind up instead of being fed or blinded by what they ''want'' to see
read through these comments, it shows what I mean
Pretty lame attempt at a wind up I reckon. Obviously targetting some of our overseas posters.
I would think that every fan would realise that a club needs more than the people through the gate. For a club like Everton, for example I think that would be more critical than ever as they struggle to fill the shed every week. Their shortage of cash is also well publiscised.
Oh and in answer to the question, yes I've been to Anfield several times. I was fortunate enough to see a derby too. Special day, special place. Sadly I missed the chance of standing in the Kop before it became all seats


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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
English Muffins (Bread Baker's Apprentice Challenge)
20 comments:
- Brandy said...
Heh, I have fresh tomatoes picked this morning. I know what I'm having for breakfast tomorrow. Kind of looking forward to it. Wish I had an English muffin... but I think the top half of the ciabatta I just finished should be appropriate enough.
- July 21, 2009 at 9:29 PM
- Morta Di Fame said...
These look amazing!
- July 21, 2009 at 9:50 PM
- Barbara Bakes said...
Your English muffins look perfect! I've been wanting to make them too.
- July 22, 2009 at 12:30 AM
- Mags said...
Brandy: Ciabatta would work well too.
Morta: Thanks!
Barbara: Thank you, and yes, you should make these.
- July 22, 2009 at 4:30 AM
- Mustang Terri said...
Your english muffins look great. I like the idea of peanut butter and tomato sandwich. Don't you love friends who force you to try something new while forcing you to drink too much wine. Lifting a glass to you and your friend.
- July 22, 2009 at 5:06 AM
- Bethie said...
I want to make the english muffins. I have had a recipe tagged, but never got around to it, after seeing your, I bumped it to the front. I love a good garden tomato sandwich. I had one yesterday, but guess what I am trying today! LOL!! I adore peanut butter, so it has got to be a win win combo. :)
- July 22, 2009 at 6:26 AM
- Guy Snape said...
Just tried the peanut butter and tomato combo. It really shouldn't work but it does! I'll be having that again when the toms in our garden have ripened.
- July 22, 2009 at 8:20 AM
- stephchows said...
PB and tomato??? I need to tell my mom about this... she loves tomatoes :) And I didn't know you fry english muffins first!! who knew!
- July 22, 2009 at 8:33 AM
- Cindy said...
Those english muffins look so professional. Great idea to add some whole wheat flour. I plan on doing that too. I will definitely give the PB and tomato a try. Do you recommend smooth or crunchy?
- July 22, 2009 at 9:10 AM
- Mags said...
Mustang Terry: thanks for the kind words and the toast!
Bethie: You're going to love it, trust me.
Guy: YAY! A convert! Thanks for reporting back.
Steph: Yes, tell your mom. She'll thank you forever.
Cindy: I'm a smooth gal myself, but I'm sure chunky would work just as well.
- July 22, 2009 at 9:35 AM
- Poncho Wearer said...
what does the inside of the english muffin look like? i really like them holey.
- July 22, 2009 at 10:05 AM
- Moogie said...
Huh, fry english muffins. Who would have guessed?
- July 22, 2009 at 12:15 PM
- susies1955 said...
Ok how did you make these SO very perfect?
I also never knew that these were fried. :)
I plan on making these again and again WHEN I find time. It was so fun.
Great read,
- July 22, 2009 at 12:28 PM
- Mags said...
Poncho: Honestly, I would have liked them more holey, but they tasted delicious.
Moogie: We old broads still can learn something new every day, eh?
Susie: Aww shucks...you think they're perfect? Thank you. That means a lot coming from you!
- July 22, 2009 at 12:37 PM
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
They are perfect and look so beautiful!
- July 22, 2009 at 2:43 PM
- The Missing Piece said...
I agree... those are perfect looking muffins! Well done Mags! I hope mine come out half as nice as yours.
- July 22, 2009 at 10:36 PM
- Mustang Terri said...
I had your pb and tomato combo for breakfast yeasterday. I loved it. Will definately adopt it into future breakfasts. Thanks for sharing.
- August 1, 2009 at 10:57 AM
- Mags said...
Terri: Glad you enjoyed it!
- August 1, 2009 at 12:34 PM
- Nancy/n.o.e said...
Not so sure about that pb and tomato combination, although I grew up with peanut butter and bacon and loved it!
- August 5, 2009 at 7:33 AM
- June said...
These look gorgeous Mags! As for PB&T, my brother in law loves PB and ketchup and here I thought he was just "weird".Now I know he's not alone. LOL
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Arlington, Va. – The Space Potatoes rocketry team from Bellevue, Washington, bested 100 of the top student rocketry teams in the country to claim first place at the 2016 Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) National Finals.
The five-student team outscored nearly 5,000 students on 789 teams that participated in this year's competition from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Space Potatoes, comprised of Mikaela Ikeda (12), Larry Jing (13), Karl Deerkop (14), Srivatshan (Sri) Sakthinarayanan (13) and Stephanie Han (13), were awarded more than $20,000 in scholarships and funds for their school.


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Q I fear harm to me and my shiny Prius. So, I merge onto our NASCAR freeways with sweaty palms. I wait for a gap and will stop in the merge lane until there is one.
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KANSAS CITY – Unseeded LSU-Shreveport answered No. 8 University of Pikeville at every turn and held on for a 91-87 win Wednesday night in the 2013 Buffalo Funds-NAIA Division I Men's Basketball National Championship.
With the loss, UPike's season ended at 26-7, tying for the fifth-most wins in a season since becoming a four-year school with the 1955-56 season. The Bears also fell to 8-6 in seven trips to the national tournament, a record highlighted by their 2011 run when they became the first school to beat five seeded teams en route to the championship.
Pikeville shot 50.7 percent from the field, thanks to 20-of-36 (55.6 percent) in the second half. The Bears were 26-of-40 (65 percent) inside the three-point stripe, but were only 9-of-29 (31 percent) from outside it. That figure was further complicated by an 8-of-18 (44.4 percent) performance from the free throw line.
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Pikeville led twice early, including at 7-5 when senior Terrance Saintil scored in the paint with 18:22 to play. But the Pilots took control of the game by scoring the next 13 points. They give five from junior guard Tevin Hall, and when he hit a jumper with 14:36 to play, the lead was 18-7.
UPike had an extended run late in the half. Senior Jamar Briscoe kicked it off with eight points and junior P.J. Jenkins added eight more, and when he nailed the second of consecutive three-point shots with 1:51 to play, Pikeville had used an 18-7 run to pull within a basket at 37-35 with 1:51 to play.
Shreveport (25-6), however, scored the last seven points and took a 44-35 lead to the half.
The lead was 10, 72-62, with 6:26 to play before the Bears made another run. They scored 11 of the next 12 points, and when junior Josh Whitaker hit a jumper with 2:58 to play, the game was tied at 73.
But only 11 seconds later, senior Rodney Milum made his seventh three-point shot to put the Pilots in front to stay.
Jenkins, who had a high of 10 points since joining the Bears at midseason, nailed 6-of-7 from the arc to finish with 26 points. He added five rebounds in the loss.
Briscoe followed with 14 points to go with five rebounds and four assists, while Whitaker and senior Trevor Setty fired in 11 and Saintil finished with 10 points and six rebounds.
For Setty, the MVP of the 2011 national tournament, the 11 points gave him 1,812, a total that has him tied for eighth on the all-time scoring list with Hoskins Carroll. With 613 points during his senior season, Setty moved from 19th to the tie for eighth on the all-time scoring list.
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CORPUS CHRISTI – Throughout the summer and into the early fall semester, GoIslanders.com will talk with members of the Islanders men's basketball team to give you more insight into the ins and outs of the basketball program. Today, we visit with sophomore forward Jordan Pope-Didier.
As a freshman, Pope-Didier played in 28 games with three starts, averaging 1.5 points and 1.7 rebounds per game. His best game saw him go 3-for-4 from the field in a 49-47 win at Central Michigan in the Sears Bracketbusters on Feb. 18.
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KITTERY, Maine — Police are asking for help finding a woman who used fraudulent credit cards to purchase goods at the Kittery Trading Post.
The woman, described as a "younger female," was traveling with three other people in a silver Toyota Camry, according to police. Attached to the car were New Hampshire license plates previously reported as stolen.
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In the 1980s, Volvo had become a major global manufacturer, especially with the purchase of the truck assets of the American truck manufacturer White Motor Corporation.
Creating the first fully global truck
The product programme of White was very modern (having been introduced between 1975 and 1980) but it was clear that there was a need for new truck ranges in the 1990s, both for Europe and the rest of the world and for North America with its unique tradition of truck design.
It was a natural progression to study in order to create the first fully global truck range, covering the wide range of transport applications of both F trucks and Conventional trucks.
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In about 1985, the final plans were made for the Volvo trucks of the 1990s. For a variety of reasons it was natural to plan for introduction dates from 1993 to 1999. This was in order to utilize the existing modern truck ranges to the full while at the same time making full use of the design and laboratory facilities.
It was natural to start the design work with a successor to the F10/F12/F16 range, which had been around (in its first model) since 1977. Thanks to several upgrading measures it was still fairly modern, but really in need of a successor to face the late 1990s and the new century.
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The resulting FH truck (with either 12 or 16-litre engines) has become a major success. Major design work had taken place to minimize wind resistance, thereby improving performance and minimizing fuel consumption. Good aerodynamics also means higher average speed and more stress on the brakes so a radical engine brake (VEB/'Volvo Engine Brake') was designed and patented by Volvo.
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South Tahoe High School seniors Emily Barnett and Tyler Myers will travel to Moscow next week to present their field research project at the 9th annual International Junior Foresters' Competition.
The U.S. Forest Service's International Programs Office selected the project, which explores the effects of fire and forest thinning on the understory plants in the basin, to represent the country in the competition hosted by the Russian Federal Forestry Agency.
This is the first year the U.S. will participate in the event, and Barnett and Myers will join 58 other youth from 32 countries who will present their projects to an international panel of 15 forestry experts.
The two teens started working on their project that combines field work, data analysis and a 20-page paper during the 2011-12 school year. It grew from their participation in the Generation Green Program, a student club advised by teacher Maria Luquin and Lake Tahoe Management Unit Conservation Education Specialist Joy Barney.
In 2011 both worked as summer interns with the LTBMU and were members of the Youth Conservation Corps. When school started again in the fall, the two assumed leadership of the Generation Green Club.
They started designing the project that year when they learned about the competition.
"At first it was just another idea we would longingly joke about, but as time went on, we started to talk seriously about it and started making plans," Barnett said.
The students' participation in the competition is part of an ongoing collaboration between the Forest Service and the Russian Federal Forestry Agency. The two agencies have collaborated for more than 50 years on research, technical cooperation, and policy issues. Like the U.S., Russia contains temperate and boreal forests that share similar species, forest health problems, and common threats.


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The best and brightest students in South Carolina are staying right here and not leaving the state for college.
News 12's Meredith Taylor is on your side with how the lottery is behind their decisions.
Four years ago, Augusta native Nick Kelch decided to stay in South Carolina for college.
"I love SC, and I love the community where I'm from," Nick says.
The now soon-to-be USC Aiken graduate admits it was because of money.
"I thought about it, they'll be paying me to get an education, I be, it won't have to come out of my pocket very much for my own tuition, and I can go to a great university in SC," says Nick.
Nick got one of 5 lottery-funded scholarships in the state--the Life Scholarship.
"So we have a lot of students getting that scholarship, I don't have hard numbers to stay in SC, but it certainly appears that way from the numbers," says Deidre Martin, vice chancellor at USC Aiken.
According to a South Carolina Education Lottery spokesperson, some of the best and brightest high school graduates from the Palmetto State are choosing to go to colleges here because of lottery-funded scholarships.
"Without those scholarships numbers, it would be a harder choice for some people," Martin says.
When the Education Lottery first began in South Carolina in 1998, so did the Life Scholarship.
300 students got it that year at USC Aiken, now more than 700 qualify.
The Hope started in 2002; just over 150 have it.
The top state scholarship, the Palmetto Fellows, first drew in 3 people to USC Aiken; but now, lottery funded, 37 people here get it.
"These are kids that could go anywhere because they're the top of the heap, have the best SATs, but to see that many stay here in SC and at USC Aiken is impressive," says Martin.
Nick considered leaving, but is thankful for the people helping him stay in the place he loves.


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Upon her arrival in India to begin filming The Mighty Heart, Angelina Jolie realized she had underpacked. She sent a fashion SOS back to the states to get more pairs of her favorite J. Brand jeans shipped to her (the 14″ cigarette leg in Ink and Jett). Who knew I had so much in common with Angelina — I, too, am a terrible underpacker and addicted to J. Brand jeans. I have three pairs now — the 10″ skinny in Ink(wearing them tucked into boots right now!), the 12″ in grey, and the exact 14″ jeans in Jett as Angelina (well, we don't exactly wear the same size). The 14″ (ankle circumference) perfectly bridge the gap between the super-skinny jeans and my old beat-up bootcuts. Each pair has the perfect amount of stretch and no logos or branding on them — even celebrities want a little bit of anonymity in their lives. A word of warning: wash the black jeans before you wear them with a white shirt. And yes, I did learn that the hard way — hope Angelina didn't have to, as well! — Melissa Liebling-Goldberg
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Conveniently located within the pedestrian area of the city's historic conservation area, Cathedral Mews has a contemporary design and provides high specification accommodation. The building where Cathedral Mews is situated boasts medieval oak beamed ceilings dating back to 1345 AD.
The interior of the property has been meticulously thought out with original artwork, light oak furniture and crisp cotton bed linen. All modern comforts are provided making this apartment not only luxurious but homely too. A unique feature of Cathedral Mews is the stunning views of the cathedral and the pretty tiled rooftops. This magnificent backdrop is prominent from every window in the apartment and also from the beautiful French doors which lead out from the spacious open plan lounge/diner onto a private roof terrace, the perfect place to sit and relax before or after a busy day's site seeing. There is also a pretty communal garden which adds to the feeling of space and exclusivity.
This self catering apartment is accessed through a historic oak entrance doorway with antique iron fixings leading off from Mercery Lane to a well lit, contemporary entrance reception. Following the stairs up from here, you will find the apartment facing the pretty communal gardens and stunning cathedral.
The front door to the apartment opens into a light and spacious hallway with an oak console table. Here you will find an assortment of information on places to visit, dine and generally make the most of your stay.
Just off the hallway is situated the master bedroom, with an impressive walnut bed and matching side tables with coffee and cream coloured silk lamp shades. There is also a matching dressing table, mirror and stool. The large window is dressed with antique white shutters which can be fully opened to allow light to completely fill the room. There is a large built in wardrobe with ample floor and hanging space.
The light and airy second bedroom has oak twin beds with under bed storage, and a side table with extra lighting. There is an attractive matching dressing table, stool and mirror and again the large window is dressed with antique white shutters.
The family bathroom is fully-tiled with a modern cream suite incorporating a bath and separate over-head shower, WC, basin, large mirror and a contemporary stainless steel heated towel radiator.
At the end of the spacious corridor is a large open-plan kitchen and living/dining area, which is exquisitely interior designed with contemporary furnishings, white walls and a matt lacquered oak floor which creates a very light and roomy area. The modern and very stylish kitchen area has a high white gloss finish with black granite worktops and is fully fitter with fan oven and extractor, gas hop, microwave, fridge, freezer, dishwasher, wine fridge, waste disposal and tap with integrated drinking water filtration system.
In the dining area there is a large oak table with matching chairs and bench which can comfortably seat four people. The living room area features ample seating on two chocolate leather sofas complete with sumptuous cream and pink silk cushions grouped around a beautiful oak coffee table. On the walls hang artwork by Adam Barsby as well as a mounted TV with freeview along with a matching blue ray DVD player. The charming French doors have been thoughtfully dressed, again with antique white shutters that have been designed to show the magnificent view of the cathedral at all times. These doors lead out onto the private terrace which is semi enclosed by a tall ivy border with pretty flower beds containing lavender, herbs and fuchsias. There is a wrought iron table with matching chairs and cushions. The communal garden has blue/black slate and hardwood decking, LED lighting and has lots of colourful plants and trees in the surrounding borders.
The apartment has gas central heating. There is no private parking available; however, Canterbury offers plenty of parking facilities that are just a 4-5 minute walk away from the apartment.
Children welcome from age 5.
the apartment was beautiful and perfect central location. Loved the back deck looking at the cathedral. It was great for our 84 yr old father to get out in the middle of town without having to walk far. The worst part is the parking problem and cost, but we found a local pub manager who offered up his second parking spot to us for free. This was one of 8 self catering units we stayed at throughout our vacation and by far the best. No other unit came close to hitting a perfect score.
By Car: if you need to unload/load heavy luggage you can do this before 10.30am and after 4pm. You must then move your car to one of the city's numerous car parks. Further directions are provided by the owner.
If you carry (or wheel) your luggage then the best option is to head for Longport car park which is a 5 minute walk away. This is also a 24 hour stay car park. Follow the signs to the city centre in an anti clockwise direction. You will notice a left turn into Whitefriars centre/car park. (This car park is nearest to the apartment but is slightly more expensive and is only a 12 hour stay but could be an option if you have arrived outside the loading/unloading hours). Continue forward across the roundabout into Upper Bridge Street and at the next roundabout take the right exit into St Georges Place. Continue forward to the traffic lights. Take the slip lane left into Lower Chantry Lane, past Ivy Lane, Longport is situated to your left.
To arrive at the apartment, by the roundabout proceed left along Longport towards the city, this road curves into Monastry, then left into St Pauls. This brings you to Lower Bridge Street which you cross using the pedestrian crossing. Directly in front is Burgate, proceed along this lane and you will find the entrance to the Cathedral. Take a left turn into Mercery Lane. The apartment is situated at the bottom of the lane to your left.
By Rail: The city is serviced by two railway stations; Canterbury East is approximately 500 metres away from the apartment and Canterbury West 800 metres away. Taxis operate at both stations and will be able to take you to the Cathedral gates at the end of Mercery Lane.
By Bus: The city's bus station is only a 5 minute walk from the apartment. Make your way into the high street and keep forward until you reach Mercery Lane between Mr Simms sweet shop and The Pret. If you have heavy luggage there is a taxi service that will take you to the Cathedral gates at the other end of Mercery Lane.
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The wandering restless soul of Steve Irwin has taken up residence in Wales Coach Warren Gatland it was revealed yesterday.
The over-exhuberant Aussie entertainer died in 2006 as a result of over-provoking a stingray and had been assumed to have passed over to the other side, or come back as a water vole or whatever. The revelation that he has been occupying Gatland and exerting his will on the possessed will come as a shock to many – particularly those who firmly believe that once you die, you just sort of turn into a mulch of insects and bile.
However, those who watch Gatland closely – and there probably is a HND course in it somewhere – are now piecing together curious past behaviour and presenting the startling evidence that Irwin has been manipulating the silver-haired antipodean bulldog for a long period of time.
The assertion in 2009 that all his players 'hated' the Irish (and not just the socially acceptable revulsion of Ronan O'Gara) ahead of a daunting trip to Croke Park is, according to those who knew the Australian wildlife buffoon best, 'Classic Irwin'.
"Stevo would go looking for the naaaastiest beasts out there" said a friend, "The really evil ones that could bite you on your toe and within seconds your organs would be exploding out of every hole. Stevo would find one and poke it the arse with a stick, call it a poof in front of its mates and laugh in its face when it got mad. What a fella!"
The latest in a series of "What is he doing?" moments came this week when Gatland decided to publicly point out to unlikeable liability Dylan Hartley that he is unlikeable and a liability. Experts agree that in the remaining days before the Wales v England game, even slow-thinkers like Hartley will make a significant effort to take such criticism on board, react to it positively and insert it – neatly packaged – firmly into Gatland's fundament. Again, "Classic Irwin" says the Aussie lunatic's cameraman.
"Everyone loved Stevo's guts", he reminisced. "Making a croc or a snake mad is the sort of telly everyone loves, and boy could he make 'em lose it. What no-one saw was the bastard give it gas when the snake went mental, leaving me and the sound guy to lose another finger. Classic Irwin!"
Wales supporters are braced for expert predictions of more forthcoming 'Irwinisms'. "Expect Gatland to claim the Scottish back row are a bit laboured, the Italians poor scrummagers, that O'Driscoll fella to be past his best and the French a big bomb of ill-discipline ready to go off at any point in a shower of yellow cards, garlic and poncey cigarettes. For him, it's all about finding the biggest thing that can bite you, poking it with a stick, then finding the best seat in the house to watch your mates get chased by it for 80 minutes".


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Local hospitals not taking ER reservations
New approach being put in place across the nation
February 8, 2013
PARKERSBURG — While some hospitals across the U.S. have started using reservation systems in their emergency departments, local hospitals said they are not doing so at this time....
I have been shot!!! can you work me in at 8pm?
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camden clark "medical" hospital...YOU have unhappy customers no matter what!
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I could see how having a reservation system would be beneficial. Instead of going there and waiting for several hours in basiclly a germ factory you could register online or overr the phone and show up at a designated time for non life thretening issues.
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I can't tell you how many times I have made an appointment to see a doctor at a specifed time and then had to wait for an hour or more to get in. If hospitals go to a call in system will it still be called a waiting room?
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I agree Jarhead (by the way SemperFi :), if you aren't real sick going there you will be after sitting in a room with germy people for 4 - 8 hours.
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If an emergency dept has a fast-tract, and enough help to staff it, no one should have to wait 4 to 5 hrs to be seen. This is strickly poor management at best. As much as one pays, the hosp. needs to hire more help. And don't worry administrators, pretty soon everyone will have insurance, as it will come out of the working class pockets. If you are such a large corporation, and quit lining you're pockets with incoming funds, you could afford to do something with St.Joe. You could at least keep the ER there, plus a day-care unit to hold bad patients over to transport. Again, bad management!!
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Oh yes, and if it is a real "Emergency Dept", no one should have to call and make an appointment. An emergency is an emergency. If someone has the time to call to get an appointment, it might not be consider an emergency. Call you're doctor, or go to a "care clinic" somewhere.
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Although this unfortunate thing has not thankfully 'hit" WVA yet, I am afraid it is going to happen,given that the lazy bums can go there for free thus tying up prompt service for nonessential emergency treatment as wll as exposing all to germs. Emergency treatment should and will take priority. Having a headache due to stress,sniffles or a sore throat,the reason the bums go to the er is NOT a real emergency,and these folks should be going to a clinic.
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What brilliant person thought this up... I don't know but when I see Emergancy Room... that makes me think that is where I need to go in case of an emergancy.. when something unexpected happens.. If it were something other than that you go to the doctor/clinic/drug store Let them start a clinic and leave the emaergancy department for what it intended for.. NOT APPOINTMENTS
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You mean today? Don't think a doctor referal will knock any time off your wait time. I will go to Marietta for ED treatment any day even though my family doctor works out of CCMH. My choice not theirs.
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Take note that MMH is happy to quote an average wait time but you won't see cc quoting an average wait time. They don't want to see their average wait time of many, many hours in print. Borrowing a quote from another poster on a different article - it went something like this: "when you visit the emergency room at Camden Clark, you need to take your calendar rather than your watch."
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When I had a stroke a couple years ago, I went from MedExpress in Vienna to CCMH. They were already waiting for me in CAT scanning. Two nurses walked me from scanning to the ER so fast, I could barely keep up with them. Within 10 minutes, I was on my way to my room. Thank the Good Lord, my stroke was not life threating, but it was serious.
Some things are more important than others~~stroke, heart attack, car accident, etc. Going to the ER because a bug bit you, or you have a scraped knee, should be triaged to the end of the line.
The nurses and doctors, I'm sure, are doing all they can. CCMH is not a metropolitan~type hospital like OSU or Cleveland Clinic.
Also, it takes time for blood work, X-rays, etc., to get processed.
Hopefully, we will get more doctors and nurses to fill the void.
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I understand those of you who would drive to a hospital in another city. If I had done that when I had the stroke, I could have died, or been seriously impaired for the rest of my life.
I don't believe a doctor in an ER would let someone die just because someone fell down and bumped their head.
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Beans you made a very important point......PROACTIVE. unfortunately it doesn't happen enough.
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Coolbeans, I don't disagree with you about using the ER for life-threatening emergencies but sometimes the ER doc wants you to return to check/remove stitches, check wound, etc. Those are the things I think of when I think of the need for an appt.
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Published: Thursday, November 29, 2012 at 6:31 a.m.
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BATON ROUGE — Lottery officials say the winning tickets in Wednesday's $550 million Powerball drawing were sold in Arizona and Missouri and there were winners in the Louisiana Lotto and Easy 5 drawings.
The next Powerball drawing on Saturday will be worth an estimated $40 million.
In Lotto, the winning $250,000 ticket was purchased in Baton Rouge. The next Lotto drawing Saturday will be worth $250,000.
The next Easy 5 drawing will be worth an estimated $50,000 after a winning ticket was purchased in Amite for Wednesday's drawing worth $160,000.
Lottery officials say there was a Powerball Match 5 winning ticket purchased in Slidell for Wednesday's drawing. It's worth $1 million.
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Health care changes will affect Alabama
Published: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
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MONTGOMERY | New insurance markets called exchanges are set to open this fall as part of the new federal health care law. But Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has said the state will not set up an exchange, which means Alabama's will be run by the federal government. How the changes might affect Alabama:
Q: How many people are uninsured in Alabama?
A: About 660,000, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Q: How many Alabamians are served by Medicaid and how many more will be served if Alabama chooses to expand Medicaid?
A: About 900,000 are served by Medicaid in Alabama. Bentley has decided not to expand Medicaid.
Q: How much money has Alabama received so far from the federal government to do the initial work in setting up an exchange?
A: Alabama was authorized to receive $9.6 million, but spent less than $3.5 million, said Jennifer Ardis, the governor's press secretary.
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As in life, in astrology, one¿s birthplace has a shaping power. When you¿re born arranges the planets into signs and degrees. Where you¿re born drops them into particular houses. It assigns you an altogether different celestial citizenship than someone born at the same moment in another part of the world.
So who is Venus really? She's more than sheer femininity. She presides over many of life's good things. Sure, she's the happy, flawless girls in beer commercials. But she's also a sensuous drip of chocolate, a lusty, carefree laugh. She's a string of diamonds, a deliciously lazy afternoon.
I expected a dozen, maybe twenty or thirty brave souls would reply. That number would surely dwindle once they saw my questionnaire with 32 open-ended questions probing into all facets of the Venus experience-love, relationship, aesthetic tastes, creativity, finances, sex, sorrows, and happiness.
So who is Venus really? She's more than sheer femininity. She presides over many of life's good things. Sure, she's the happy, flawless girls in beer commercials. But she's also a sensuous drip of chocolate, a lusty, carefree laugh. She's a string of diamonds, a deliciously lazy afternoon.
As a beginning astrologer, I found Moon signs, aspects, and house positions far more compelling than those for any other planet. The Moon tells the juiciest stories. Aspects to the Moon describe our interpretation of mother's mothering, whether we experienced her as comforting and supportive or smothering and resentful.
For it wasn't until the last hundred years that Sun signs became so popular. Sun sign astrology was invented-by a Sun-ruled Leo, of course. Born in August 1860, William Frederick Allan, who later renamed himself Alan Leo, is considered one of the first modern astrologers.
As the planet of language, Mercury is both a Magician and a Trickster. There's magic in Mercury's words. Through prayer and sacred mantras, words link us to the gods; through the power of naming, words encourage our mastery over chaos; through language, we communicate with others; we invent, build, change minds, and reshape our world.
Mars craves a mission. And the Mars in our charts is no different. We can look to the Mars sign or house to name this mission, but more often it comes from elsewhere, just as warriors generally take their marching orders from more authoritative powers.
Saturn does bring lessons. And teachers are authorities (a Saturn word). But "teacher" and "Saturn" just weren't emotional equivalents for me. Here was another elementary astrology rule I had apparently missed. Nor was it the only time I'd find these two planets fully capable of dancing in each other's shoes.
To have Uranus in your chart means it's your occasional destiny to be shattered. Maybe you were picked last for the 3rd grade kickball team. Or kids laughed when you wore the dress your grandmother sewed because your mother was too poor or too obstinate to buy the fashionable kind. Just when you made a few friends, your family moved again.
When transiting Neptune strode into my 5th house of romance and conjoined my North Node, I found my "soul mate." He was a man with Neptune on the Midheaven, a former co-worker I hadn't seen in years. Sean called me out of the blue and the moment we first saw each other again, Neptune was hovering on the western horizon-conjunct the Descendant
Pluto's gravitational force may leave other celestial bodies undisturbed. But his appearance in the chart, by aspect or by transit, definitely shakes up people's lives on planet Earth.Pluto stories often begin with an unhappy surprise. The underground middle of the tale can last a few days, a few weeks, or stretch into long months, depending on the choices made.
The Moon's North and South Nodes are sensitive points, indicating where the Moon's path around Earth crosses the ecliptic (the belt through which the Sun and planets appear to travel from our perspective on Earth). Western astrology and Vedic astrology view these points differently. I present the Western view.
People often ask why I have devoted so much study to Moon phases. Initially it was an act of insecurity. I figured Moon phases were something every astrologer knew about, except me.
Astrology can help, but it can also make us cocky. We know when it's a New Moon. What's more, we have New Moon charts that can tell us what's coming. We can energize new goals by coordinating them with the house in our chart where the New Moon falls. I used to especially favor the goal approach. Then one Aquarian cycle I got my come-uppance and my paradigm changed.
Things have settled down since the New Moon's excitement. It may even seem that not much goes on. Nonetheless, our Crescent choices will have a deep effect. Ultimately they drive the subtle mystery of why our lives don't change, even though we swear we want them to.
Crisis isn't a particularly happy word. It suggests a heart-pounding moment when change is inevitable, and likely perilous. At such times, it's nice to recall how the Chinese language carries crisis and opportunity in the same ideogram. This dualism also holds at the quarter Moons: outcomes can go either way.
Gibbous takes us from the tension of the Sun/Moon's waxing sesqui-square (135 degrees) to the discord of their quincunx (150 degrees). Not surprisingly, we often find ourselves pitched between a rock and a hard place in Gibbous. It's tough to go forward and hard to go back.
The dog was not my opponent, but an ally, bringing enlightenment. He was a mirror, reflecting the jittering, complaining, insecure, lonely state I'd been denying in myself for weeks. That night I was illuminated: There could be no outer peace in my life until first there was an inner one.
In the Disseminating phase we work our magic with consciousness, with the power of meaning. After receiving our Full Moon revelation, we absorb its significance and send it out at this phase, affecting the world, transforming ourselves. Like magic!
Quarters neither buoy us with the fresh-start feel of a New Moon, nor do they dazzle us with Full-Moon-style illuminations. At the First and Last Quarter Moons, we're at a half-way point in the waxing and waning hemi-cycles. The Moon is half-lit, which means the Sun and Moon are at right angles, in the astrological relationship known as a "square". This is no resting place. Squares mean change - or you'll fall out of rhythm with a turning world.
Balsamic begins with the waning Sun/Moon semi-square. The Moon is a slim Crescent, forty-five degrees behind the Sun. Moonrise comes in the pre-dawn hours, when most of us are sound asleep, in the theater of our most vivid dreams. Right brain processes are at their peak this phase, having gathered momentum since the Full Moon. Instinct and intuition are high. Rest is imperative.
Look deeply at the Moon and you'll find more than the Moon. You'll find yourself and all the planets. You'll discover a rhythm that has permeated earth's life forms since the earliest cells washed ashore in the primordial high tides twice a day, or since the earliest animals fit their activities to the monthly round between Full Moon light and New Moon dark. You'll discover patterns of birth, growth and decay, patterns that spiral throughout your chart, past, present and future. Know the Moon and you'll know a lot. In this final installment of the Moon Watching series, we'll look at a few more secrets Moon phases can tell.
Zero Aries, that point when the north-climbing Sun crosses the equator, marks the beginning of the tropical zodiac and launches spring in the Northern Hemisphere. It brings warmer days, renewed vitality, new growth and new optimism. Where Aries appears in your chart, you have a gift for beginnings, for blazing new trails, for leaping where spirit wants to take you.
Hercules finds his target without delay, subdues the beast without struggle, and patiently rides it home. We like our heroes to charge out, wield clubs, and dominate their opponents, but those are masculine values and Taurus is a feminine sign. Its goals are simplicity, security, and peace. Its virtues include receptivity and acceptance.
The wind was a trickster. It was quick, clever, playful; also restless, noisy, unpredictable, and infuriating. If the desert wind were a zodiac sign, there's only one it could be: versatile, elusive, inventive and scatter-brained Gemini.
The doe is a formidable quarry - but also sensitive and vulnerable (as are we in our Cancer house). One critic has suggested the hind is reminiscent of Sibyls and ancient priestesses who were incapable of issuing prophecies in anything less than a harmonious environment. Their delicate sensibilities required seclusion, being protected from anything unpleasant, harsh or upsetting. To unfold the sensitive powers of Cancer is what Hercules' mission is all about.
Just look where Leo resides. In Leo's house, with our Leo planets, and through Leo's ruling light, the Sun, we're called to a special destiny, something only we can do. It's Leo that makes us hope and wonder: Are we the One the world is waiting for?
Sadly, people are often disappointed to learn they have planets in Virgo. By comparison, its opposite sign Pisces is so transcendent and mystical that Virgo descriptors can sound rather dull. Pisces is intuitive and imaginative. Virgo is analytical and practical. Yet Virgo couldn't tackle a disorganized desk, a cluttered room, or a broken world without some belief in magic.
Airy Libra inspires our visions of prince or princess Charming, our "ideas" about relationship, but without the passion of fire to send us into the other's arms, or the emotionalism of water to bond us in all our vulnerability, Libra can sit in the netherworld of indecision for a long time. A friend with a Libra Moon is always wondering if she's really in love, if this one's The One. "How do you know?" she keeps asking me. For a Libran it's sometimes hard.
This sign's clichés are creepy. Pick up a pop astrology book and you'll find that having Scorpio planets can make you secretive, controlling, vengeful, power-mad, paranoid, obsessive, and over sexed. They can also bring you passion, determination, resourcefulness, and a keen intuition - but these positive Scorpio traits aren't on the tip of most people's tongues.
In the Sag Zone, you feel as fit and cheerful as an Alpine hiker. With a philosopher's wit and the barefoot stride of a spiritual seeker, you're eager to head out and read the Vast Book of the World! You might find God on a crowded Bangkok sidewalk or in a musty volume from a forgotten library shelf. Words like "justice, freedom, integrity" make your heart pound. If you see wrongs, you want to right them. When it's dark, you're full of hope. If life gets inscrutable, answers fall to the tip of your tongue. In the Zone, you happily leap to your soapbox to preach to your friends - but strangely, they draw back in horror.
Obey the rules. Be responsible. To gain respect you've got to earn it. Work hard and you'll go far. Capricorn is conventional, dependable, practical, and disciplined. It's ambitious too, but prefers climbing the stairs of existing structures. Its success generally follows traditional routes. Being a sixties - hippy at heart, I worried about Cap Pluto's approaching hey-day, never imagining how shiny its virtues would appear in a post-millennium world. I'm now delighted that Capricorn keywords like "respect," "integrity," and "effective leadership" are making a comeback.
Capricorn kings inevitably get stuck in their own ideas and can't relinquish their own authority. Creativity is stymied. Problems pile up. Fortunately, the limitations of every sign always take us to the next one's gifts; so Capricorn leads us to the genius in Aquarius. Altruistic, progressive and unconventional, Aquarius brings the leap in consciousness that keeps our world from getting hopelessly mired in old dung.
Clinging to Virgo virtues, I've spent years demonstrating my inability to understand my Pisces mates—poets, musicians, alcoholics, liars and dreamers. How many times I've peered into their nebulous world and thrown up my hands: "What d'ya mean you just 'forgot' to meet me when you said you would?! You lost your keys for the third time this week?! Go ahead. Give me one good reason why I should believe your promises now!"
A popular columnist with The Mountain Astrologer since 1991, Dana Gerhardt is an internationally respected astrologer.She has lectured extensively and written for numerous astrology websites and publications.
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I still remember the bodies of the slain laying in a neat row under yellow police tarps on a grassy median in front of Oikos University. They were nursing students and an employee of the Korean Christian-based school in Oakland whose lives had been snuffed out in an instant by a former student with a gun.
Before the theater shooting in Aurora, Colo., and the elementary school slaughter in Newtown, Conn., we had our Bay Area version of the national mass shooting madness. Six people who were studying to be nurses and one school employee were fatally shot.
In January, an Alameda County Superior Court judge found the accused shooter One Goh, a Korean immigrant who is a naturalized citizen, mentally incompetent to stand trial.
Tuesday will mark the anniversary of this tragedy. As the victims' families and the Bay Area community remembers those who lost their lives, we ask ourselves again as we did on that fateful Monday morning, why? What would possess someone to commit such a horrific act? School administrators have said that Goh, a former nursing student, had previously clashed with administrators when the school would not refund his tuition after he dropped out.
A magazine article in The New York Times published to coincide with the timing of the anniversary of the killings, offers another explanation for what may have helped trigger Goh's violent behavior. Jay Caspian Kang interviewed Goh at Santa Rita Jail a week after the Oikos shootings. In "The Other School Shooting" (Read it here: http://nyti.ms/10kWwGC) Kang -- himself a Korean immigrant -- suggests that Goh's traditional Korean upbringing could have helped cause the rage that eventually erupted, leading to the Oikos killings.
According to Kang, large numbers of people in Korea feel a hopeless sense of despair and anger at the injustices of the world that they keep repressed. It so often leads to violence -- against others or self that there's a name in Korean for this cultural anger. They call it han and hwabyung, a clinically diagnosed mental illness.
Kang argues that it may have helped push Goh over the edge as well as Seung-Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech shooter. Cho, who was a Korean immigrant, fatally shot 32 people and wounded 17 others on a two-hour rampage on the university campus before committing suicide.
The New York Times writer is not the first to link the two Korean mass shooters and suggest that their culture may have been a violence trigger. After the Oikos shootings, Winston Chung, a Bay Area psychiatrist wrote a blog post "Korean Rage: Stereotype or Real Issue" (Read it here: http://bit.ly/I0meIG) suggesting that hwabyung -- which means literally "fire anger" -- may have been a factor in both massacres.
"Individuals from any race, culture, gender or creed are capable of emotional violence and by no means are most Korean people prone to fits of rage," he wrote. "There may, however, be specific temperaments and ways of coping with and expressing emotions that are associated with certain cultures."
So, Korean culture makes people suppress violence which later makes some of them prone to fits of rage that leads them to commit mass murder?
This would differ from American culture how exactly?
I mean isn't that pretty much the story behind all the mass shootings that take place on a far too regular basis in this country?
Cho and Goh happened to both be of Korean descent but most mass shooters in the U.S. are white men.
Why should we connect the Virginia Tech and Oikos shooters just because both happened to be Korean and infer that some cultural mental flaw made them do it?
I'm not aware of repressed rage that explodes in shocking violence being unique to any particular culture.
What is unique is American's gun crazy culture that makes it so easy for just about anyone to get their hands on firearms.
Goh didn't buy a hot gun off the street.
He was able to legally purchase the .45-caliber semi-automatic weapon that he used in the Oikos killings -- despite the fact that court psychiatrists now say he is a paranoid schizophrenic.
Therein lies the problem, not his Korean ancestry.
The sad thing is, I can almost guarantee you that there are people who will read this and say that the real problem is the Oikos victims weren't also armed with guns.
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Plain and simple. I am a biker, and carrying things is easy, cause I am on a bike, with compartments for food and snacks, pump, computer, lights, and water bottles. But how do you carry water while running? And even more importantly, do I even need to carry water while running? Where is the threshold between when I should not need to carry water with me, and when I should definitely take some with me? 30 minutes? 1 hour? Certain number of miles? I see people on the greenways while I am biking who have fanny packs with water bottles on them, but that seems like it would bounce too much. Are those just for walkers and hikers? And what about those belts some runners wear, that have like 5 or 6 miniature bottles? Is that for hydration, or medication? Just kidding. I just did W2D1 and noticed how thirsty I was when I was finished. Was that because I didn't drink enough before I started? Or because the pollen in the air is choking me to death? Or should I be carrying water, even for these 20 minute intervals? I know this is more than one question, but I think they can all be summed up into one answer. Thank you so much in advance.
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YES ;-) But seriously, you should be hydrated before running. It doesn't take much to dehydrate yourself and depending on your fitness level it could be as little as W2 D1. On a hot day the body loses upto 4 gallons of water per hour outside, so if you add running to that, you go past a safe threshold pretty quickly. An easy way to see if you are hydrated is your urine color, the clearer the better. An old soccer coach told me, if you are not peeing every twenty minutes then you aren't drinking enough. A little harsh, but it got the message across. I have had heat cramps due to a situation I was in and it really is pretty scary. I hope this helps.
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I generally follow the advice of Bob Glover and it has worked well for me, both now as I am losing weight as well as 20 years ago when I was a runner who did 10k.
First it is important to stay generally hydrated in your everyday activities, which means as a base about 8 cups of fluid everyday of which at least half is plain water. I actually drink 10-12 cups of which 8-10 is water, but I am a big guy so I need a bit more. Exercise hydrating is in addition to this.
1-2 cups of water about 10-15 minutes before exercising.
During exercising you really don´t need any water if you are exercising 30 minutes or less. If you go more than 30 minutes then you should be taking a cup of water about every 10-20 minutes depending on how much you sweat. The bigger you are and if you are male you should drink at the high end of the scale. If you are exercising an hour or more than you should also use sports drinks like gatorade to help replace electrolytes. If you are exercising more than 90 minutes you should start eating some carbos while you run, such as energy gels, bananas or fig newtons.
1-2 cups of water after exercising.
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I dunno, I consider myself a pretty hydrated person, I go through about 3L of water a day, but I still find that I wind up needing water when I work out. Especially running outside, my mouth gets really dry and almost filmy feeling if I don't drink halfway through, and I only just finished week 1 (had to redo a couple days because I had to stop early a couple times cause of my knee). I always just figured it's because I am outside, and have the sun beating down on me, that I need to drink something.
Your issue is that you are not hydrated enough. The pollen and hot/humid weather really sucks the water out of you. The fanny packs you are talking about are "Fuel Belts" and are only really necessary for long distances - beyond an 8K - or if you are asthmatic or diabetic so need to carry necessary items. The most important thing is to hydrate before running. You should be drinking at least 45 oz. of water a day but ideally up to about 64 oz. If you think about your average nalgene, it's a lot, but this becomes even more important as we enter summer. You should be fine to run without water as long as you drink lots during the day. Drink at least one to two glasses as you wake up and get ready for the day, then keep drinking by utilizing a reusable water bottle and refilling it throughout the day. Don't drink more than a few sips right before you run, but make sure you drink afterwards. If you feel you're appropriately hydrated but still thirsty, try running along paths where you know you can find public water fountains. Many designated trails will have these, or, if you run along the streets, stores will have water fountains inside or nearby. Generally, though, I would say you should be fine without water while you run as long as you drink a LOT during the day.
Thanks everyone for your input. It's great to have the variety of answers, where most of them follow pretty much the same philosophy, to a point. I will keep doing what I am doing, and make sure I drink plenty before and even more after, and once I get to the longer runs, I will consider carrying water with me, but that will be a last resort. I saw online that some people use Camelbak backpacks. I have 2 of them and use them for biking, but I would think they would bounce around a lot and get annoying. I could be wrong though. I guess I will just have to tighten down the straps and try it sometime to see for myself. If that works, when i get to the longer runs, I will use my CamelBak. I just need to remember to take all my bike gear out of it first though so I'm not carrying unnecessary weight. What would I do with a bike tube, and a mini pump on a run anyways? Ha Ha.
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One of the threads I had been following in the Newbie Cafe had a post with a photo of a nice little water bottle with a hand strap. The person who posted said that the strap kept it in her hand without really having to grip it, and she was very happy with it. I am only up to running 5K, and here on the Oregon Coast where the weather is usually 50 degrees and drizzling, I haven't felt the need to carry water. I do hydrate before I go, and I do want a drink when I finish, but I don't really need to carry anything. On the other hand, if I was living in the desert and the weather was a little warmer, I'd probably need more hydration. If I can find the photo of the water bottle, I'll post it here.
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I have a two bottle belt and it does not bounce around at all.
No matter what the temperature is I always carry water or cytomax for runs over 5 miles, & I drink every 2 miles.
I also am always well hydrated all the time, and that really helps a lot.
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Doh! I should have cut and pasted the whole post...
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I have a 2 bottle fuel belt that I run with. I live in Florida, so I'm bringing water with me.
Yes, that hand held bottle is the one I now swear by. It holds about 20 ounces and is perfect for me. I am about 1/2 way through C25K so I am not running a lot, but I am oh so thirsty through out and I need that water! HIGHLY recommended! They also make smaller ones too if 20-22 ounces is too much.
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I hydrate well before all my runs and I take water with me on every run. I have a Nathan hand held bottle that I take on my short runs, a 2 bottle fanny pack for moderate runs, and the hydration back pack for my long runs. I have had no problems with any of them as far as bounce goes. The back pack took a little getting used to, but now I don't even notice its there. The nice thing about all three is that there are pockets for key's, gels, money etc.
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Thanks guys. I am going to start with the CamelBak idea, just because I own one already. I am going to try it today and I will let you know how I like it.
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I'm up to W8 now so running for around half an hour. I make sure I'm well-hydrated before I go and don't, at this stage, feel the need to carry anything with me. I am not overly thirsty when I finish (though it's worth bearing in mind that I don't live somewhere very warm - this will likely change as the weather heats up and I sweat more). As I increase my runs for more than three miles I am going to get one of these: http://www.jjbsports.com/run%20365%20runners%20oval%20waterbottle%20/running-accessories/shop/fcp-product/10929#BVRRWidgetID
There are so many variables that it is impossible to give a one-size-fits-all answer. But generally speaking, unless it is VERY hot and humid, you can probably run at least 30 minutes before you need water. For example, most runners don't take water in a 5K race. Even in a 10K (about an hour of running) I don't take water unless it is very hot.
I live in Georgia, so I know about running in heat and humidity. Here are my general water experiences that work for me. Most of the time I run at a park with a 3 mile loop so I can leave water bottles at the beginning of the trail and take a quick water break when I come around. That saves me having to worry about toting it. Another park where I run is out and back but they have water fountains along the way. NICE!
For long runs - and I'm talking about 2+ hours - when it is warm and I don't have water along the way, then and ONLY then I carry a hydration belt. But that is absolutely the last resort. Think about it, you don't even need water until about an hour into the run, but then for that first hour you're carrying the extra weight of that water around your waist. I've never tried a camelbak, but I'm guessing its about the same. I pretty much use any other method to avoid carrying water. Exception....sometimes I grab a disposable bottle of water along the way if I know there will be someplace to throw it away when I'm finished. That way I only have to carry it a short time.
Keep in mind that in races you WILL have water stations, so its not like you have to train to carry water. It is closer to the race experience if you stash your water somewhere along your route for when you need it.
Hope this helps!
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Barton Health and the City of South Lake Tahoe will present the inaugural Lake Tahoe Lifestyle Festival on Saturday, Sept. 8.
The festival combines Barton's Family Health Day with the city's Bijou Bash and will provide free health care assessments and screenings. The event is designed for all ages and abilities and aims to provide a free day of interactive activities to show the community and visitors how they can improve their lifestyle.
According to organizers, the hope is to encourage attendees to get moving by riding their bikes to the festival, get educated by learning about wilderness appreciation and get inspired about Tahoe. Healthful foods, mountain bike tours, a nature appreciation walk, yoga and fitness moves, tumbling for kids, a balance bike obstacle course, sit-down crafts and face painting will all be part of the event. BlueGo will also provide free bus rides on route 53 for the day and will stop at Lake Tahoe Community College and South Lake Tahoe Police Department.
The event will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Bijou Community Park.
All proceeds from sponsors and vendors will benefit underprivileged children in support of the city's Recreation Youth Scholarship Fund.
For more information, contact Leanne Wagoner at 530-543-5537, Sue McLaughlin at 530-543-5615 or visit www.cityofslt.us/ltlifestylefestival.


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WHen I installed ps3ms on my mac (running Lion) I got the configuration screen were you can add directories plugins etc etc. Now when I start the server everything works fine but I have no idea how to add directories. The PS3 see the 2 directories I added, but other than that how do I get to the configuration screen?
I am sure I am missing something simple but there is nowhere to select any options, it doesn't show up in system preferences...I am baffled how to get it to show up. I just in-installed and reinstalled the software (I am on ps3 v 1.52) and same thing.
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Theree weeks ago I have bought Qcad 126.96.36.199 using it with K/Ubuntu 6.10.
All worked great.
I have now updated my computer to K/Ubuntu 7.04 and Qcad doesn't print anymore.
My two printers are not listed as available on print dialog; an empty bar is present.
All other KDE programs are printing regularly.
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Southwest sharp-shooting guard Jordan Epling turned in a solid performance for the Trojans as they downed East Newton in a regular season contest on Tuesday. Epling, who led the Trojans with 23 points, did most of his damage from the free throw line where he knocked down 13-of-15 shots to help preserve the Trojans' win.
After a slow start had the Patriots trailing 9-3 at the end of the first quarter, they came alive with 17 points in the second and trailed 22-20 at the half. They remained within six points late in the fourth quarter until they were forced to foul. At that point the Trojans stepped to the charity stripe and knocked down their shots to put it away.
"We played hard and did some good things defensively," Patriots coach Kyle Fields said. "They've got some good shooters and they knocked down their shots."
Sam Swartz topped the Patriots in scoring with 17 points while Rocky Liveoak tossed in eight, Bryce Zimmerman seven and Colby Thomas and Payton Cook four each.
The Patriots (1-3) travel to Sarcoxie for a 6 p.m. tilt on Thursday.
Meanwhile, East Newton's junior varsity knocked off Southwest, 33-28. Thomas Cooper led the Patriots in that one with 10 points.
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In celebration of "National Puzzle Day," Melissa shares some background on how our passion for puzzles began!
Today is National Puzzle Day, which brings me back to the early days of puzzles and why puzzles were not only our VERY FIRST category of wooden products, but the dearest to my heart!!! I am convinced that EVERY CHILD needs puzzles in their young lives for proper development, as puzzles are one of the key building blocks to early learning. Here are a few reasons why:
- Manipulating the pieces of a puzzle develops the small hand muscles of children. Fine motor skills are so important to young children, yet take lots of practice and repetition to properly develop, which puzzles encourage!
- Puzzles are also crucial for helping build eye-hand coordination. The need to use visual clues like color, shape, or pattern in order to fit pieces together helps develop this skill.
- Puzzles can also help teach and reinforce early identification and recognition of objects such as letters, numbers, shapes, colors, and animals, and help build vocabulary and descriptive skills.
- Finally, puzzles help build the important skills of memory and confidence. Children love to master completing the puzzle, and then engage in the repetition of putting the puzzle together faster and faster, since puzzles are self correcting and only fit together one way. Completing the puzzle again and again gives children a tremendous sense of accomplishment and builds their confidence!
Our first puzzle was a brainstorm based on one of Doug's and my favorite childhood books, Pat the Bunny. We loved the tactile, sensory aspect of the book, and believed that incorporating texture into a puzzle would be appealing to young children. Thus our first two puzzles, the Farm and Jungle fuzzy puzzles were born!
Here's a bit of trivia: At one point we had over a dozen fuzzy puzzles, including fuzzy faces and shapes puzzles!!! Twenty-two years later, we have freshened up the graphics, but our two original themed farm and jungle (zoo animals) tactile puzzles are still in the line!!!
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By Michael O'Sullivan
Friday, November 2, 2012
Here's what the reviews would say if "Wreck-It Ralph" were an actual video game and not a video-game-themed movie: Great concept and graphics, weak story mode.
The 3-D animated comedy is the story of a goofy bad guy out of a retro arcade game who "game jumps," leaving his cloistered universe -- and prescribed role as the heavy -- in search of fulfillment in other games.
It's a clever and original idea, with lots of cute sight gags. (One of the ghosts from "Pac-Man" is the leader of a support group for misunderstood villains.)
But the narrative itself is overly busy, noisy and unengaging, with little of the charm and heart that won viewers over in the "Toy Story" franchise, allowing that film to transcend its roots in the world of inanimate playthings.
The voice casting here works well. In the title role of a hulking destroyer who's only good at smashing things but who dreams of becoming a hero, John C. Reilly manages to evoke the pathos of the outsider. And Sarah Silverman is pretty perfect as Vanellope von Schweetz, a tomboyish pre-adolescent driver in a kiddie drag-racing game called "Sugar Rush" that Ralph serendipitously finds himself in. Like Ralph, Vanellope aspires to video-game greatness.
Vanellope's world may be almost nauseatingly pink and sugary -- it's overstuffed with product placements for such junk food as Devil Dogs and Nesquik -- but the actress brings an acerbic tartness to the role. That, and the character's salty if juvenile tongue helps cut some of the sweetness out of the setting. Vanellope makes much of the fact that Ralph visited a sci-fi war game called "Hero's Duty" before arriving in "Sugar Rush." (She, of course, pronounces it "doody.")
The unexpected friendship between Ralph and Vanellope is one of the nicest things about the movie. He's a misfit runaway, and she's a "glitch," a character whose digital computer code has begun to malfunction, threatening not just her livelihood as a driver, but also her life. Together they try to realize their own -- and each other's -- dreams.
That, unsurprisingly, involves a lot of frenzied racing and other miscellaneous action. Following Ralph into "Sugar Rush" is his old nemesis, Fix-It Felix (Jack McBrayer), a goody-two-shoes with a magic golden hammer and his own discontents. "Why do I fix everything I touch?" he laments after trying -- and failing -- to break something.
Then there's Calhoun (Jane Lynch), a pneumatic-bosomed warrior who's trying to exterminate the alien "cybugs" that Ralph has inadvertently introduced into Vanellope's world of gum drops and lollipops. (Don't buy Milk Duds at the concession stand or you'll have a sugar crash.)
That's a lot of plot, and that's not even the half of it. That may please hardcore gamers who are used to processing complex, seemingly never-ending story lines, but it's needless clutter in a movie geared toward a young audience. Plus it distracts from the "human" element of the tale, if that's not a contradiction in terms.
It's actually not. There's a kernel of genuine feeling in the relationship between Ralph and Vanellope. Themes of self-sacrifice and being true to oneself also are there, if subtly.
But those themes are largely lost under the film's candy coating, which emphasizes action and eye-popping visuals over emotion.
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My heart always feels a little fuller whenever I get my hands on a classic Southern wedding. But this, my darlings, is classic with a twist. A DIY twist that personalizes this Charlotte affair from the inside out. It's everything I adore about handcrafted weddings wrapped up in one seamless day. See it all from inContrast Images' captures right here.
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kidamnesiac wrote:There's no Subjunk build for Mac and the Zaxtron beta builds don't work well on my machine. Is there any way someone with the file "PS3 Media Server 1.20.412c38.dmg" could upload it somewhere for me to get it? It's been the best build for my hardware combination so far.
I think the file you want is this:
It's says 410c38 but it's really the 412c38, try it.


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