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Discussion in 'Forum Games' started by Chocolate Pi, Jan 3, 2011.
That's a... unique approach to recruitment.
well part of the problem is that because the game turned degenerate I only "sort of" care at this point
though I will try to silence correctly and just end it, so we can finally have our first witch win and start having massive tirades about balance
Golden119, garcia1000, and Prime Intellect have been killed.
garcia1000 the Survivalist and Prime Intellect as Cupid were Silenced.
Witches Win!
Role-list and thoughts incoming.
Unsorted, by original player:
('Sotek', 'Traveller')
('Karrius', 'B.O.D.')
('ChadMiller', 'Silencer (WITCH)')
('garcia1000', 'Survivalist')
('sukaeto', 'Spiritualist')
('Romdeau', 'Leeroy Jenkins')
('Archon Shiva', 'Diviner')
('Prime Intellect', 'Cupid')
('Chumpy', 'Demon (WITCH)')
('Milskidasith', 'Wizard')
('x1372', 'Vampire Hunter')
('turtle88222', 'Vigilante')
('Foo', 'Bard')
('Arkaal', 'D.O.B.')
('RoieTRS', 'Gambler')
('Claytus', 'Medium')
('Ehrgeix', 'Assassin (SPY)')
('bbobjs', 'Priest')
('AlexSierra', 'Correspondent')
('icewolf34', 'Junior Witch (WITCH)')
('acidile', 'Necromancer (WITCH)')
('Bandages', 'Martyr')
('koopatroop', 'Enchantress (WITCH)')
('-Y-', 'Warlock (WITCH)')
('Fry', 'Judge')
('YukiOnna', 'Acolyte')
('Golden119', 'Mad Scientist')
('brainof7', 'Little Witch')
good game well played
Witchhunt Times, 8 February 2011
Witches Win!
Silencer gonna Silence
Reporting by garcia1000
"At least it was over quickly," some guy said.
QT posts pl0x.
Hey how did Bard know how to amp Priest every day
For what it's worth, as my QT will show, I pegged bbobjs as Priest on D1.
Probably because bbobjs and I got into an obvious acolyte/priest fight day 1.
Oh, I wasn't paying much attention to that stuff I think
Neither were witches?
Apparently. Score!
Foo mentioned how he figured it out in deadguy chat. It was quite an amazing read on his part.
Has all the info to figure those two out in it.
Award time (aka comments)!
Best Read: Foobard for picking up on bbjobs and giving him a constant stream of amps. Honorable mentions: Sotek
Yomi level 50 for overthinking it: Chadmiller for crafting crazy gambits when it was just the simplest explanation. Honorable Mentions: Town for way overthinking everything.
The real LEEEERROOOOY: Prime Intellect for the brilliant gamble of mayor-amping the lovers... that didn't exist and stringing town along with him.
Lived way too long: Firewind+his other personalities. HE WAS OBVIOUSLY NECROMANCER, ASSASSIN, or SILENCER. Why else would he blow up AT NIGHT complaining about unclear rules . Honorable mention: brain. he lived like 4 days as a pretty much confirmed witch! Wtf!
Best Town: Ehg was a great spy so he gets my town of the game, especially since the rest of the town kinda dropped the ball. Honorable Mention: sukaeto for his great way of obscuring his role while leaking info to town.
Best Witch: hmmm, hard to say, but I'll go with Koopa for being in coven, but not crazy outed as witch. Chad would get it if he didn't blow up with a silencer. Honorable Mentions: Egh lol. If he wasn't a spy and misleading coven he woulda been the best witch.
Anyways I thought this ruleset was interesting. The power-witch block is pretty shitty, especially since spy can so easily be mechanically confirmed via the witch powers. There's also probably too many info roles floating around which kinda sucks. Beyond that though I thought the amping was cool and the first 4-5 days were really nice with the game being almost entirely centered around reads rather than revealing. People say it got to the end game faster than the other WHs, but it seemed the opposite to me if you go by the # of days that past. Silencer and the witch-power block needs a change, but it seemed kinda neat overall as an outsider.
I don't know but this was what caused that attempt on "Prime Intellect = Priest"
The goofy thing is that my working theory became that PI was traveller d1 and decided he would improvise his "reveal" around whoever he switched with. I then decided that he switched with Sotek the Priest, which was why Sotek freaked out on everyone who tried to pressure him later. successfully blind silencing Sotek the Traveller only made me more convinced we were right.
btw, since garcia asked me in chat: 0 of those silences were double scried. All of them were 1 scried/1 non-scried, except the misses which were 0 scries.
I never got amped twice, I am sad.
after your amp request, I was going to silence you as leeroy if we hadn't already seen to it that no one would live long enough to give it to you. we figured it out pretty much immediately.
So sorry I didn't reveal my priest info earlier. I didn't want to reveal until I had 3+ witches confirmed but by the time I did we were already lynching them so I didn't think I needed to. I was trying to think of a way to make it look like I was bard and spill more info than I intended to but I got lazy and didn't. Plus I didn't think witches would buy that bbobjs bard managed to peg priest. The reason I double checked Sleb is I wanted to get a block and ensure that we had killed at least one witch by that point in the game, it had nothing to do with his gambler claim.
I really wanted to call attention to this post:
...but it was the most obvious trap ever so...
Lesson to learn: bbobjs hates playing priest and isn't all that good at it.
Biggest mistake: Not getting ithaldir lynched on day 3.
wha? witches are going to haunt someone who was already checked?
I had a lot of fun playing as JW, and I think the JW/LW combination can do a lot of damage. I had (I thought) a pretty good system set up for hidden communications with brainof7, although he didn't send me much. I worked out pretty soon that koopatroop was a witch, although I originally thought that Fry was one also. I was positive Roie was a witch that screwed up horribly, and I was just about ready to give up there and then.
brainof7: Why didn't you send me more? Necro information and 1-2 more coven would have kicked ass. I was like, hopping mad after I stuck my neck out for you on D1-2 and the information stopped coming.
Totally called the no-lovers world by the way, but I couldn't push on it too hard at the time. (Sotek said I was reaching, haha.) Would have been lovely to get PI lynched that way. Ironically, I think it was actually ChadMiller that suggested that we do the negative confirmation (I am not a lover or can't disconfirm) rather than the positive one (I am not a lover or can't confirm).
My biggest mistake was a miscommunication on D1 with brainof7. I thought that miniwitches could join at any time, so I kept prodding him to join D1. Then when he lived, he just saw those messages out of context and joined N1 instead, which I thought would end up getting him checked and killed.
icewolf, part of the problem is that JW joining n1 is like super classic spy play and I was freaking out at the idea of someone wanting to send a bunch of coded hints in a game with correspondent
I actually kind of wanted him to get killed, then the bastard goes and runs town around for like four days
and like, brain didnt' tell us who you were at first, because spy, but then we're like "WTF YOU WANT TO TELL HIM WHO WE ARE WITHOUT TELLING US WHO HE IS?" because spy
It was funny. I joined basically to try and send messages to icewolf but ya, kind of tricky. Everyone in town was convinced that I had to be coven witch too, if you look at D1 theories there are a lot of people that just completely discounted me miniwitch. I only joined because I expected to die D2, and the fact that I lived to D4 is just so hilarious.
And yet:
Post 35:
Uh... can I check Prime Intellect twice?
IDK sleb and garcia I guess, kinda hoping for a block here.
Post 36:
blocked and good! (respectively)
Basically at this point I'd hit 4/5 coven members so there was only one possible target that would check 'evil' and I'd rather not hit him simply to avoid slipping up and revealing spy.
Yeah, I was quite proud of helping brainof7 live to d4. I remember I was actually really upset with brain's play up until the end, but then I remember d3 was pretty impressive for some reason (I can't quite recall what he said to get away, don't feel like spelunking). Definitely he went down fighting the hardest of any of the witches so far. Sleb also gained us a very valuable read when sukaeto came out and disconfirmed him. I also think that Alex shouldn't have come out in support of the spy (sorry Alex).
ChadMiller, correspondent wouldn't really have been able to decode brain's code though, right?
Props to Sotek for a bunch of nice reads, by the way. I was so pissed off when witches went and killed Fry, after Sotek had named (Fry/icewolf) as one-of-these-two-are-witches. In the end killing Fry might have saved the game for us though, due to D3 no-lynch.
...I thought GAs got priest check results?
Well, depends on just how elaborate it is. Correspondent would know to watch brain for hints.
And if you were spy, then that's just awful for us. You were actually my #2 spy candidate before everything exploded.
They do. (bluh bluh 10chars)
Fair enough, I did realize that pushing brain to do that kind of play would make me look spy-like. I'm just glad you didn't NK me.
It might also have been a bit selfish -- I really didn't want witches to bloc up unknowingly on brainof7 on D2 and thus sever my only link with the rest of the coven. A JW that gets fed just like 2 coven members and 2 necro roles seems like he would be ridiculously powerful.
Ought to be okay to post QT's, right?
My private QT: http://www.quicktopic.com/45/H/35w38ujW2BY
Short-lived shared QT: http://www.quicktopic.com/45/H/8AmDbDycie8EP
Endgame witch QT: http://www.quicktopic.com/45/H/yQGA63zavkrig
Do you guys mind posting previous coven QTs?
icewolf QT
ok, then I refer you to the other half of my post:
EDIT: like, if ghosts know a guy was already checked, haunting that guy makes like no sense, so apparently bbobjs made a play hoping someone would do something ridiculous that made no sense and it fucking WORKED?
Are they getting posted by CPi later? What's up?
Anyway since you asked so nicely:
btw, talkinator log:
ChadSilencer: my QT should be somewhat entertaining
ChadSilencer: because it's me alternating between my horrible reads and everything I dislike about this ruleset
ChadSilencer: one other thing I didn't lie about: my rolereads are not that great until the endgame!
Soteeek: ehheh
ChadSilencer: here is a funny rules issue that is not immediately obvious
ChadSilencer: so, it's in witches best interest to hide their roles at first
Soteeek: Right.
ChadSilencer: and at least one witch knows the identity of two townies that can't be nk'ed
ChadSilencer: think about what the means for nightkill votes
ChadSilencer: "at least" = "only one"
:: User List: CWheezy, BusyMarine, ChadSilencer, Sotek, ClueMan, Thelo, LoseMouse, Soteeek:
Soteeek: ... ehheh.
ChadSilencer: especially when one witch is afk all game
Soteeek: lawl. D:
ChadSilencer: I had some heat as possible spy after awhile, just because i was doing things like begging the enchantress to claim because i was sick of conditionals, and trying to get acidile lynched out of spite
Sotek: naha.
ChadSilencer: although that's another nutty thing
ChadSilencer: with nerfed sacrifice, you basically can't sac without a spyclaim
ChadSilencer: so if spy just goes afk and town doesn't care
ChadSilencer: wtf do witches do
ChadSilencer: at all
Soteeek: You ... mmm...
Soteeek: well
Soteeek: in theory without spy you should do ok.
ChadSilencer: well the idea is that he's "afk"
Soteeek: right afkcidile. ... mmm.
ChadSilencer: but will poison if it comes up
ChadSilencer: or if town bounces an NK, "sorry was busy, yeah he's a lover"
ChadSilencer: or "oh I wasn't silencing anybody because I was afk"
Soteeek: well bouncing nk on lover isn't horrible. but. yeah, afk witch is horrible.
ChadSilencer: i disagree that bouncing nk isn't horrible
ChadSilencer: one or two confirmed town basically neuter silencer threat I think
Soteeek: Well I mean: if you bounce on lovers, town makes mistaken conclusions probably.
ChadSilencer: I don't see how that helps witches though
Soteeek: and I'ono, silencer was still very scary to me
ChadSilencer: like, witches care a lot about lover bounce vs. ga bounce vs. traveller bounce
ChadSilencer: town whatever, there was a bounce and someone is almost 100% town
Soteeek: yeah but if it's a lover bounce enchantress has potential bullshit endgame that will blindside town
ChadSilencer: so...lovers claim if that might happen?
Soteeek: Town concludes enchantress is dead though.
ChadSilencer: why?
ChadSilencer: oh, I see
ChadSilencer: because barring spychantress or our last night that doesn't happen
Sotek: Yeah.
ChadSilencer: still, I think the sheer number of ways town can survive an NK, thus virtually confirming town without claiming or giving any tells whatsoever, is a big problem
ChadSilencer: it's my feeling about this whole game in general really
ChadSilencer: town has all these passive or low variance ways to get tons of info
ChadSilencer: including guys who are told "this guy is town" at the beginning of the game without even doing anything
:: ClueMan is now known as Chump
Sotek: well the Sotek Vote Analysis Machine has been displaying terrifying results in practice, like hopy shit.
ChadSilencer: and that also
Sotek: (also, *really* brainof7 is miniwitch, what the FUCK.)
ChadSilencer: one or two good town can carry a non-retarded town
ChadSilencer: while like one or two bad scum can just tank scum
Chump: See how the game plays out I guess
Sotek: Yeah.
ChadSilencer: it's like, scum is already higher variance because smaller numbers
Sotek: Hmm.
ChadSilencer: and spy necessitates all these witch roles that are individually even higher variance
Sotek: t'ch, yeah.
Sotek: otoh, man, look at dersehunt
Sotek: that's sotekhunt rules and gog dam.
ChadSilencer: so town can kind of durdle along and wait for things to happen while scum is juggling hand grenades and hoping not to drop one
rofl, I just realized something.
I was dead convinced PI was priest at one point. I think came to the conclusion that PI priest -> Sotek Traveller -> garcia Survivalist
awesome that a completely wrong read led to two correct guesses
Hahaha. Yeah, you're right.
Also while I'm thinking about it: Ithaldir, if you made the knickers comment with some idea that Magi would post it in thread - wow, that was an amazing meta play. Like, if his claim wasn't so super believable, that would've made me start to doubt it.
Here's Observer chat by the way: http://www.quicktopic.com/45/H/iLFvVk8Ytrj
Pretty interesting game bard is a fun role to play(Diviner and bard seem like the most fun roles in the game(then again I do just like to role hunt)). I'm a bit sad bbobjs didn't do anything with that info . If I had amped trav sotek right before he got silenced I wonder how much of a difference it would have made. Should have amped sotek first damn.
lol koopa I thought you were the spy when you said this. Thought you were trying to tell me demon got weird check info, so I amped the same target again.
Anyway I posted some thoughts in my qt but I stopped really looking for roles after I found priest.
btw, nk'ing foo was actually a bad thing for us, because we scried bard right after we found out we'd killed him.
like, I can't believe how much arguing I had to do to convince witches the first two scry targets are DOB, then bard, in that order especially given that demon info proved bard was alive
Yeah everyone thought I was spy. So I must have done something wrong there.
We did have some pretty good reads from hints left. Icewolf called correspondent. Romdeau was obviously leeroy (actual if PI hadn't accidently said that Garcia was amped we would have silenced Romdeau as Leeroy). I was fairly wrong about things because I had thought that Karrius was Bard and Sotek Priest at one point and became fixated on that.
I think I should have revealed no lovers sooner, but I really wanted necro to reveal. Besides PI being cupid sort of fucked that since the only witches who weren't anti-PI were obviously witches by the time they were pressured and couldn't claim lovers anyway. I did not realize that failure to reveal that information would get everyone locked into a PI is priest world that did not make sense to me.
BTW, I think town played wrong and was encouraged to give hints when pressured. There were way TOO MANY role hints in a version in which this was terrible to do. Don't ignore the jiaflu rule.
BTW, I worry that Choc Pi's post-script won't contain the obvious lesson: Spy should gain his witch roles. Also necromancer discourages ALL role hinting and revealing which would be horribly unfun. Other than the Acidile / Firewind nonsense I was ok with the majority of the game (but that made me rage horribly). I actually enjoyed end game more than the rest of the game, but I'm guessing that isn't shared among town folk.
I didn't expect this post to have that kind of result at all.
You could have just said, "silencing DOB means he doesn't get his kill". I was not clear on that. Also, the reason for suggesting priest was to resolve the clusterfuck of theories out there.
This is the post made me think you might be spy:
It's also the only reason I checked you, although I almost ended up checking you day 1 but I figured checking Karrius was basically a 2 for 1 so...
Well, where are those infamous CPi thoughts on how this game turned out.
Yea I thought this was something that should have been obvious. Like I almost typed out "If we don't kill demon they will scry DoB and Bard first" but then realized that would probably be a bad thing to say.
Have fun reading my random thoughts in QT
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Groceries for 4 weeks: $456.77 Sat 4/27-Sat 5/18
Average: $114.19/week
Result: Eating Primal was not more expensive than SAD, was actually cheaper given the fact that we still have about $50 worth of meat still in the freezer.
Fred Meyer:
V8 (not mine): $4.59
Broccoli Crowns: $3.38
Romaine (2): $1.88
Green Leaf (1): $1.29
Mushrooms (3 pkg): $5.00
Bacon (Hormone/Nitrate Free): $9.98 (2 pkg/$4.99 ea - 7 slices ea)
Steak (not mine): $8.67
Onions, Green: $1.00
Eggs (Cage-free/No Hormones/Added Omega 3): $5.38 (2 dz)
Total: $41.17
"Wild cats look their best when they're hungry, so do you." - Ori Hofmekler
Groceries for 4 weeks: $456.77 Sat 4/27-Sat 5/18
Average: $114.19/week
Result: Eating Primal was not more expensive than SAD, was actually cheaper given the fact that we still have about $50 worth of meat still in the freezer.
"Wild cats look their best when they're hungry, so do you." - Ori Hofmekler
This morning I analyzed my weight loss progress for the last 13 weeks.
6 wbm: Lost 12 lbs and 2" off waist in 5 weeks
Paleo (It Starts With Food): Lost 3 lbs and 3" off waist in 4 weeks
PB: Lost 3.4 lbs and 2" off waist in 3 weeks
WD/PB: Lost 1.8 and 0" off waist in 6 days
Basically it boils down to 13 wks/20 lbs lost/7" off waist - for a weekly weight loss average of: 1.5 lbs/wk --- This is healthy, sustainable weight loss, I know this. But it just seems so slow. It's like what, 7 lbs/month? At this speed, I'm still 5 months away from reaching my goal. At least it's not never and it's all going the right direction. In the grand scheme of things, it is a blink of an eye.
I really like analyzing things and making list and stuff, but in truth I'm an artist and free thinker with an adventurous spirit. All these lists and numbers go against my true nature. Not to get all introspective here, but seriously how does an artist turn into a number cruncher? It reminds me of a movie that was my favorite for a good decade called "A Warm, Summer Rain" - a little known movie starring Kelly Lynch and some guy whose name I used to know, it's a slow, mostly depressing love story. But Kelly's character tried to commit suicide and when asked why she did it, her answer was "How does a ballerina become a secretary?" --- not that I'm suicidal in any way, just that life does that to most of us, we compromise and adjust ourselves to fit this or that and eventually get to place where we look back and wonder how we ever got where we are, how we became what we really aren't.
I find it sad that I have been weighing myself everyday, many days multiple times/day, only to find that in the long run there's nothing very exciting that I saw each day. It's a strange phenomenon really to see a scale rise and plummet sometimes in 2-3 lbs from Tuesday to Wednesday, and to feel like I'm really getting somewhere 'this week' and then get to the end of the week on Monday and only come out with a 1 lb loss.
Why I have feared dropping the scale: This will probably sound ridiculous to a lot of you, especially if you've never had a lot of weight to lose, or if you tend to lose weight rapidly. After a number of weigh-ins I know how much more I tend to weigh in the evening versus the morning and so 2-3 lb gains in one day don't freak me out. I also have learned over the course of these 13 weeks that I tend to have a big drop (2-4 lbs) somewhere between Tuesday and Thursday, that magically disappears over the weekend and just in time for weigh-in. What it boils down to for me is fear: fear of wasting time & fear of gaining weight. If I watch a scale, things can't get too far out of my control and I am also not set up for a big let down at weigh-in time. For example, if I weigh myself every day then weigh-in day isn't a surprise really, so no disappointment if the scale doesn't read favorably. The other thing is again dealing with disappointment, I can get it worked up in my head that I've lost a great deal of weight when in fact I have not. So if I weigh myself after 4 weeks (of not seeing the scale at all) and have only lost 5 lbs, that would be quite devastating for me to deal with and I would risk a big relapse.
More thoughts: I am a little disappointed at the reality I'm facing currently, which is that my goal of 145 by June 26th (my wedding) is probably not going to happen. With a 1.5 lb/wk average, I can more safely expect to weigh 157 lbs. I feel so much better health-wise that I will try to focus on that instead and not be in this big weight-loss race. It's just difficult given I have events ahead that I was hoping I could 'make weight' for. I'll shoot for 155 as a goal for June 26th, and maybe my body will surprise me (in a good way).
Am I ready to ditch the scale? I'd like to think so. I think I'm addicted to it at this point... but I'm a bit of a pro at kicking addictions lately, so I should give it a shot. I'll set a goal to weigh and measure myself in 14 days. Maybe freeing myself from numbers will simultaneously free my spirit and 'free the fat'.
"Wild cats look their best when they're hungry, so do you." - Ori Hofmekler
Day Seven: PB/Warrior Remix
Morning Weight: 164.8 - I'll do one last weigh-in tomorrow to get a weekly weight loss number, then refrain for 2 weeks.
Sleep: 7 hrs Nap: 2 hrs
Work: ---
Stress Level: 4/5
Hunger Level: 2
Energy Level: 3
Mood: Frustrated. Head feels foggy. After eating, felt much better and stronger.
(3:10- 2:10) 23 hr fast
1.5 cups steamed broccoli w/olive oil drizzle, salt, pepper
4 oz. NY Strip (Rare)
1 egg fried in bacon grease
Salad with feta and dressing
Mushrooms sauteed in olive oil and garlic
1 Egg fried in bacon grease
4 oz NY Strip (Rare)
A few bites of a baked potato with olive oil and feta
Water Intake:
3 liters
Tried HIT at 22.5 hrs, no strength. Managed some pushups and a plank. I am not ready for this yet. Now that I've eaten, may still get some kind of workout in today.
8:30 pm. Toning.
Neck: Chin ups (30), 5s side/side intervals (10), up/down (10)
Ext Rotator Cuff: a. (12-Lt) b. (12-Lt)
Biceps: Short Range Curls (18-Lt)
Triceps: Reverse Grip Press-down (15-Lt)
Chest: Incline Chest Press (18-Lt), Short Range Chest Fly (18-Lt), Callanetics (50 Pulses)
Waist: Callanetics (100 Pulses each side)
Abs: Callanetics (100 Pulses), Abdominal Breathing (25), Pelvic Tilt (25)
Post Delt Fly: (15-Lt)
Middle Back Row: (15-Lt)
Incline Chest Press: (18-Lt)
Last edited by Brenda_D; 05-19-2013 at 10:03 PM. Reason: Updated Food, Water, adn Movement
"Wild cats look their best when they're hungry, so do you." - Ori Hofmekler
I've got 5 weeks before I have to buy a dress for my wedding. I've dug out my resistance band toning schedule. So for 5 weeks, I'm going to try to hit 4 days of toning each week, minimum 2. The program only calls for 2 days, one for upper body and one for lower body. The 3rd and 4th days are optional and are only for ab work. Attempting to minimize the scale, maximize toning, and eat according to hunger and energy levels is the plan. I'm going to try to back off from research and analyzing during this time... that too becomes an obsession/addiction for me. If I'm going to have to be addicted to something, then I need to make that addiction exercise, water, or playful adventures. I need to LET GO of a whole slew of things that I know distract me or keep me in a frustrated place... it's time to enjoy the journey.
Here are my before pics. I'll be targeting mainly upper arms, abs, waistline, butt, and upper thighs in my toning. It's pretty scary posting these, but part of the reason I'm having to lose weight in the first place is because I started hiding myself. We'll just call this "exposure therapy."
Last edited by Brenda_D; 05-19-2013 at 08:49 PM.
"Wild cats look their best when they're hungry, so do you." - Ori Hofmekler
Day Eight: PB/Warrior Remix
Morning Weight: 164.4 - Official weigh in for week 1
Sleep: 6.5 hrs
Work: 8 hrs
Stress Level: 7
Hunger Level: 1
Energy Level: 5
Mood: Crabby and depressed most of the day, feel okay now (4:15 pm)
(7:45-8:30) 13 hr fast
1/2 cup grapefruit (am thinking this is not the fruit for me... crrraaaaabby)
2 HB eggs about an hour and a half after the grapefruit - didn't stabilize my downward spiral .... despite Ori's advice to eat fruit on an empty stomach by itself, I am thinking that for myself this isn't going to work. I'm already terrified of fruit and now having 2 bad episodes in a row with grapefruit, I think it's either no fruit for me or if I have fruit it has to be accompanied by protein to stabilize the sugar.
11:30 - Del Taco
Dbl Del Burger, a few fries and a few sips of coke. Not the best choice of food, but it was exactly what I needed to help my mood.... hypoglycemia? I think maybe. This (crabby/depressed) happened last time I ate grapefruit by itself, although that time it was in the afternoon.
2 eggs fried in bacon grease
2 slices bacon
8 oz NY Strip (Rare)
1/4 cup potatoes fried in bacon grease
-- a lot of protein, a lot of fat, I feel full but not overfilled, I feel good... I get like a cool sensation that comes over me and I actually feel like I can feel myself getting slimmer... I do wonder if these foods might actually reduce inflammation... otherwise, I'm not sure why I get these sensations, but they're pretty awesome.
I will have 1-2 Tbsp fudge for a late night snack (despite what I said this morning).
Water Intake:
2 liters
Mid-afternoon Toning and PEM:
SR Bicep Curl: 15
Plie: 10
Plie w/tilt stops: 3
Planks - lvl 4: (F) 60s (R) 20s (L) 30s
Pushups - lvl 4: 20
Squats - lvl 4: 20
Pelvic Tilt: 20
C-Abs: 100 pulses
Chin-ups (Neck): 25
AM: Not enough sleep. Woke up a bit bloated. I either read, heard or dreamt that if you get enough sleep you'll wake up with your tummy flat. If you don't get enough, you will be bloated because your body didn't get enough time over night to do what it needed to. Well, regardless if it is fact or dreamworld, it seems to fit this morning. --- Also, digestion feels like it might be off, I'm sure I ate too much chocolate yesterday. I need to control myself a bit better with that indulgence.
PM: Felt much better after lunch, and better after that when I got home. Felt strong and had some energy so took advantage and moved a bit.
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"Wild cats look their best when they're hungry, so do you." - Ori Hofmekler
Woke up after 3 hrs and am having trouble getting back to sleep. Anxiety level is high, I am also too warm and thirsty. I have opened a window and drank some water. I really wish I was good at turning off my thoughts. So, in the midst of my discomfort I am mulling over the idea of going back on Lexapro for anxiety/depression. I have been off it since Sept 2012, but I am so randomly moody and I get paranoid that I am going to cause problems for myself. Not to mention that I just don't like being a moody person. I know it has to do almost entirely with food and hormones, yet I cannot seem to find the balance I need to remain stable. I read a little from "The Paleo Parent" blog yesterday regarding eating an all meat diet. She mentioned that eating all meat had the effect on her of basically making her emotionless... that sounds like Heaven to me. Emotionless and thoughtless.... yep, I think I would like to be a robot at this point.
My stomach is turning, so I am pretty confident I'm flooded with cortisol. I really f*ckin' wish I knew what to eat to keep my moods stable, my anxiety down, and to lose this belly fat. One thing I think I've noticed is consistent in my 'bad days' is that my water intake tends to be under 3 liters, I think my sleep is usually less as well but I'd have to go back and check on that to be sure.
I am depressed along with the anxiety, I am usually not depressed. Although I have been depressed more often lately. I'm in a pretty crappy downward spiral at the moment and am not liking life, my life anyway. I just wish I was someone else and that is probably the suckiest thing in the world. I know it's all just out of whack brain chemistry, but that doesn't make the thoughts or feelings go away.
Downward spirals eventually reach the bottom, and I claim my bottom now. So, pity party is over and it's time to drink more water, open the window a little more, and meditate... and hope that this break in sleep doesn't cause another bad day tomorrow.
Update: 6:30 am - meditation put me to sleep. Feel better right now than I think I would have without the meditation. Still having haunting thoughts and my mood is low. I wish I could stay home, but alas work awaits me... probably at least a 10-hr day. I don't want to 'tolerate' this anxiety that still has my stomach in knots. I will start taking Lexapro today. Given my personal stresses coming around the corner (marriage, appts, visit home, and company visiting me), I will try to stay on Lexapro through Sept to keep myself in check and then see where I'm at when this is all over.
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"Wild cats look their best when they're hungry, so do you." - Ori Hofmekler
I didn't analyze what I ate, how much water I drank, or how much exercise I did yesterday or today. Instead of feeling a little guilty or worrisome that I might want that data, I feel quite the opposite... I feel free and relieved.
I started reading "Primal Body Primal Mind" yesterday and am interested in the content so far. It's a bit of a dry, clinical read but it's informative and that is what I'm looking for.
I feel good overall, despite a couple of not-quite-paleo meals... still going strong on saying no to soda when it's available. I feel physically strong and expend energy when I can by moving and lifting. I'm trying to hold on to a state of gratitude for my health and not worry about the weight loss. I've been listening to meditations before sleeping and I think that is doing a world of good. I have not opted for the anxiety pills (as of yet anyway), the day I planned to take them I forgot about it until I was already at work, so a blessing in disguise. It's been nice being off meds.
Chris and I went to the tattoo parlor a couple of days ago to get an idea on the cost for our wedding tattoos. We haven't decided on the exact images yet, but we are pretty sure we're getting dancing cranes on our lower arms (so the cranes dance together when we hold hands). Still have appointments to make and legal stuff to do. But it's coming together fine, trying to get as much in order as fast as possible to avoid increased stress. I am so glad we're going the courthouse route, I don't think my nerves could take the stress of event planning and people... I'm having a difficult time with the 2 witnesses and 1 photographer being in attendance! I'm not much for verbalizing/displaying emotions/sentiments in public. It makes me quite uncomfortable.
It's depressingly rainy here in Portland and I really miss my break-time walks. There may be a break in the rain on Saturday, so am planning to go on a hike somewhere new.
Well, I guess that's all for today.
"Wild cats look their best when they're hungry, so do you." - Ori Hofmekler
I am overeating! This is the conclusion I've come to while reading "Primal Body Primal Mind." I should only be eating around 54g of protein and I've been eating at least 3 times that most days. I read in so many places how you don't need to count calories and watch your intake of foods, just let your hunger and body guide you, eat lots of protein and tons of fat... well, not so for this chick... at least not yet. My "I'm full" circuits must be broken cuz I can down a 12 oz steak in one sitting and still eat an egg and bacon for dessert. And that right there converts to about 120g protein... ugh! I have made a mess of this system that seems like it should be so easy.
What I should be eating: Conversion break down plan:
4 meal day:
b- 2 deviled eggs using paleo mayo (1 whole egg)
l - Turkey burger (2 oz) and salad (1 cup) with olive oil & lime dressing
s - 1/4 can tuna with 1 Tbsp sunflower seeds
d- Steak (2 oz), broccoli (1/2 cup), mushrooms sauteed in butter (1/2 cup)
Total Protein - appx. 56g
3 meal day:
b- turkey burger (2 oz) fried in coconut oil
l - fried egg (1) salad w/hb egg (1 egg/1 cup lettuce) and olive oil & lime dressing
d - 1 chicken thigh with skin, broccoli (3/4 cup) and carrots (1/4 cup)
Total Protein - apprx 57g
1 meal day:
4 oz steak, 1 fried egg, 2 strips bacon
1/2 cup salad with olive oil & lime dressing
1/2 cup broccoli
Total Protein = apprx 56g
It will be interesting to see if changing these portions has an effect on my weight and mood. Still battling a bit of depression and low motivation. I am also cutting fruit back out completely. I also want to cut potatoes out completely, but I am a sucker for fried potatoes and Chris will still be eating them, so perhaps limiting them to 1/4 cup serving 2-3 times per week is more realistic. The jury is out on the fat-burning fudge... the only concerning thing about it is the honey, but I have no sugar anywhere in my diet, I can't imagine 1 Tbsp honey/day would completely halt weight loss, especially when it's duty is to inform fat cells that it's okay to go ahead and release the fat. ---- I think I'm going to allow myself this indulgence, if I lose no weight in a month then maybe I'll take it out and see what happens.
"Wild cats look their best when they're hungry, so do you." - Ori Hofmekler
10:30: One egg fried in bacon grease
12:30: Turkey burger fried in bacon grease (2 oz) 1/4 cup salad, One bacon strip
3:00: One egg fried in bacon grease
5:00: Turkey burger fried in bacon grease (2 oz)
7:00 planned: NY Strip (3 oz) 1/2 cup broccoli and Fudge
Cal: 924
Prot: 56 -- 38%
Fat: 68 -- 46%
Carb: 23 -- 16%
Sod: 557
Sug: 18
Water: 100 oz
Toning: Upper Body & Abs
Pretty hungry most of the day, especially late afternoon. Added an extra unplanned snack of a turkey burger. I don't see how I will manage higher calories without adding to the amount of protein I consume, unless I can find a way to ingest more fat without adding protein. Avocados come to mind... but I really don't like them. I've tried coconut oil in tea and that didn't work for my body. Perhaps a chicken soup with a fatty broth. That sounds delicious right now.
"Wild cats look their best when they're hungry, so do you." - Ori Hofmekler


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Comments closed – You guys raised enough for a Hope Basket!! I'm rounding us up to $50! I'll make the donation in the morning. Thanks everyone!! I really enjoyed reading all the comments, too. :-)
Merry Christmas!!
Nathan Bransford posted today that he will be donating 50 cents per blog post to Heifer International, "an organization that works to fight hunger by giving needy families around the world and in the United States livestock, training, or other assistance that helps improve their livelihood."
I'm just a po' (read that right…it's po' not poor…there is a difference) school teacher, but I know that people have it a lot worse off than I do, so I figured I'd join in. I honestly can't imagine what some people have to live through and it makes me feel blessed to have what I do. Even if it's only a small contribution, I figure every little bit counts.
For every post I get up until 8:00 pm EST, I'll donate 25 cents $1.00* to Heifer. If I don't get enough comments, I'll still donate as much as I can. I can't imagine it will get to this point, but I will have to close it at 400 comments just because I have to still be able to pay my bills this month! : -P
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SC Salon is to celebrate its tenth anniversary 1 - 4 p.m. April 17.
Owner/operator and hair stylist Erica Meier opened the shop, 130 S. Washington St., with her husband Brad, when he began SportsCuts barbers. The shop has grown to three stylists- Meier, Nikki Ellis and Chelsea Kettlebar - and a nail technician, Nicki Rumschlag, who also does facials and other treatments.
Products will be available to sample at the open house and a 10 percent discount will be available on those products. Prize drawings will be conducted. New clients who make bookings that day will receive 10 percent off.
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SC Salon, 130 S. Washington St., is preparing to celebrate its 10th anniversary. Employees include Nikki Ellis, stylist; Chelsea Kettlebar, stylist; Erica Meier, stylist and owner/operator; and Nicki Rumschlag, aesthetician and nail technologist.
Meier said the current trend seems to be more natural styles rather than emulating a particular style.
"Color is big, we do a lot of color, dimensional, highlights, low lights, all over color," Meier said. "Color is very big. I didn't do as much when I first opened as I do now."
Each stylist has a branch they promote and they set their own hours. Meier offers Redken products, Ellis sells the Big Sexy Hair line and Kettlebar the Aquage line. A client introduced Meier to "It Works," a line of detoxifying skin wraps. SC Salon will be carrying them and there will be presentations about the product during the open house, at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m.
"It makes it nice to have that variety here," Meier added. "We do more with product than we did 10 years ago. There are now different products out for different hair types." The salon also caters to male clientele, she said.
Ellis also has a styling niche with hair extensions, that are in a variety of colors and gaining popularity for everyone.
Rumschlag does manicures and pedicures using shellac nails, which last from seven to 14 days. She also does facials, exfoliation and waxing. She uses Axiom nail products and sells Youngblood mineral makeup.
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In commemoration of the opening of the new UN Depository Library in the region, Incheon Metropolitan City, Republic of Korea, has proposed to host the workshop for UN depository librarians working in the country.
This workshop was co-organized by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Outreach Division, DPI and Incheon Metropolitan City.
The objective of the workshop was to assist and support ten UN depository librarians in the Republic of Korea in transforming their libraries from being passive collectors of UN documentation to become active participants in promoting information on global issues.
The goals of the workshop:
A total of 43 participants from nine UN depository libraries, nine public and university libraries in the area and twelve programme officers and interns from the UN Relations Team, Incheon Metropolitan City Office, attended the workshop.
The UN delegation was chaired by Mr. Eric Falt, Director, Outreach Division, Department of Public Information, and included facilitators (speakers) from the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Mrs. Lorraine Waitman, Chief of Library User Services, and Mr. Anatoli Sidorenko, Coordinator, UN Depository Library Programme. The delegation of the Incheon Metropolitan City included Mr. Ha Hyeng Kwak, Director General, International Cooperation Department and Mr. Byung Jin Khang, Chief, UN Relations Team. Ms. Mirinae Yoon, Programme Officer, Incheon Center for International Cooperation and Exchange, was a host facilitator at the workshop.
Presentations covered discussion of the evolving role for libraries and new directions for depository libraries as partners in promoting global issues and sources of information about these issues. The workshop included presentations on specific research tools related to UN documentation and other UN information resources along with hands-on learning sessions. Group discussions on possible cooperative actions and outreach activities that could be the basis of an action plan were a valuable part of the programme.
A highlight of the event was a ceremony of the official opening of the new, state of the art, Incheon Metropolitan City Michuhol Library, combined with dedication of the UN depository library on its premises. Participants were greeted by the Mayor of Incheon Metropolitan City, Mr. Sang-soo Ahn, and given a tour of the impressive facilities at the Michuhol Library. Mr. Eric Falt, Director, Outreach Division, DPI, officially opened the workshop, spoke on behalf of the UN at the opening of the Michuhol Library and presented a gift to the UN depository library from Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the UN.
In their feedback on the results of the workshop the participants have found it very useful, especially practical hands-on sessions on United Nations databases, advanced search skills, tips and technique on the effective UN information retrieval
Outcome and Recommendations:
Participants shared ideas about possible outreach activities. The focus was on ideas that would promote interest in global UN issues and encourage the use of UN information for purposes of multiple groups.
Some of the ideas put forward include:
* Closer and more frequent cooperation among depository libraries in Korea
* Lectures or speakers coupled with displays
* Student debates
* Book displays
* Tie library events to other public efforts (examples: Seal the Deal, Earth Day and UN special days) and invite participation around a theme.
* Partner with other institutions that share a theme – publishers and other libraries
* Work with Model UN participants
* Programmes for young children
Support to be provided from UN:
* List of UN days, commemorations and other events
* Posters or other public relations materials on desired themes
* Interactive online training, when available.
* Provide a web guide to key UN publications and online services
* Review the dissemination of materials to depository libraries in order to ensure a more timely and targeted approach.
This is the sixth workshop since 2006 that has discussed with depository libraries a change in the role of UN depository libraries to include a greater partnership role. The immediate feedback from all workshops has been favorable. The UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library will follow up with participants to determine what impact the programmes have had in their management of the collections, their promotion of the information resources and if there has been a resulting increase in contact and cooperation with UN offices in the regions covered.
After review of the depository library programme and the discussions from these workshops the DHL would work on an action plan that will suggest possible changes to the distribution methods, propose improvements in the communications with depository libraries and increased and targeted partnerships.
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We measured serotonin2 receptors and serotonin uptake sites in prefrontal and occipital cortex of schizophrenics, patients with chronic schizoaffective disorders, nonpsychotic suicides, and controls. Diagnoses were established according to DSM-III-R criteria from medical chart reviews.
In prefrontal cortex, serotonin2 density was decreased in chronic psychotics dying of natural causes, as opposed to psychotics dying of suicide, controls, and nonpsychotic suicide victims. Serotonin uptake sites were decreased in prefrontal cortex of schizophrenics and nonpsychotic suicides, but not in patients with schizoaffective disorder. None of the observed differences were clearly related to antemortem pharmacological treatments. In the occipital pole, no differences were found among the groups.
Selective prefrontal alterations of both presynaptic and postsynaptic serotonin receptor densities are present in at least some schizophrenic patients.
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text: Newcomer Rhian Benson has model looks, a pleasant voice and remarkable luck. Three years ago the Ghana-born investment banker abandoned Harvard to care for her ailing mother in London. While there, she was discovered singing at an open-mike session in a local cafe. Now the 26-year-old neosoul stirrer surprises with a sultry Sade-like sound and lyrics that speak of fortitude and self-reliance: "How does it feel/when I don't say what you think I'm supposed to say?" An ambitious mix of smooth jazz, African beats and groove-propelled R & B, Gold Coast marks a colorful debut.


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Jasmine Guy Joins True Colors Theatre Company as a Full Time Member
We're happy to hear that the wonderfully talented Jasmine Guy has joined Atlanta's True Colors Theatre Company as a full-time member. Broadway World reports:
Guy will fill both an artistic and an administrative role with True Colors, working to further True Colors mission on both the local and national fronts. During True Colors 2010-2011 season, Guy will be featured in the Regional Premiere of Nathan Louis Jackson's comic drama, Broke-ology directed by Kenny Leon; she will direct George C. Wolfe's The Colored Museum and will star in Sam Shepard's haunting story of obsession Fool for Love.


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Julia Sdrigotti is a 17 year old high school student from NYC
Time Magazine, you have exercised reckless judgment by putting Rihanna on your list of the world's 100 most influential people. Why aren't you putting up amazing women who are standing up to violence and corruption in Egypt and Libya, like Tawakul Karman? Instead, you are condoning a woman who is sending a wrong and dangerous message. Ever since she was beaten and humiliated by Chris Brown, Rihanna has failed to step up as the role model she is to millions of young girls who buy her albums. These young girls look up to her and want to be like her.
Her songs explicitly state a yearning to be victimized or play down violence, which is quite simply unacceptable. Domestic violence is no game and Rihanna will eventually be badly burned if she keeps playing with fire. I don't want to support Rihanna and make her richer. I have no respect for a masochist woman who carries a torch for the man who beat her down. Her latest song, Birthday Cake, a collaboration with Chris Brown in which they praise possessiveness, is stupid and vulgar. A month ago, a 27-year old woman, Danielle Thomas, was beaten to death by her boyfriend. Like Chris Brown with Rihanna, Danielle's killer had threatened to take her life. What makes Rihanna think Brown did not mean what he said? Danielle was beaten to death. Rihanna was beaten and is back for more. Danielle thought she could help her boyfriend overcome his violent tendencies, and she paid with her life for this mistaken judgment.
-by Julia Sdrigotti
Mason Dowling is a 19-year-old fine arts student from Santa Fe, NM, currently living in New York
For an abused kid, the graduation from Columbia University was a tremendous success. So too was the acceptance to University of Florida Law School and thejob at Goldman-Sachs. Yet on June 25, 2012, Jason Bohn, 33, murdered his girlfriend, Danielle Thomas, 27, in their Queens home, using text messages to her friends to give himself time to escape.
Neighbors remembered hearing Thomas scream many times as Bohn beat her including the night she died. "He's going to kill me!" they heard. They did nothing. A social phenomenon known as the bystander effect posits that the greater the number of people who witness an emergency, the less likely it is that one will report it, since each bystander assumes a smaller percentage of responsibility.
The police, too, knew about the abuse: Thomas filed a complaint just weeks before her death. At the time, she was on crutches, her face terribly bruised. While at the police station, Bohn had the effrontery to threaten her, saying that he would "make her life impossible" and hunt her down "like a dog in the streets."
The couple met in Florida when he was in law school and began a long distance relationship when he moved back to New York. Though Bohn had already beaten her several times, she got a job as a senior financial analyst at Weight Watchers in New York and moved in. The two fought, and Thomas's friends in Florida tried to convince her to move back home. "Where would I go?" she reportedly said. "I have nowhere to go."
She lasted three months.
As someone who has never lived with domestic violence, I have to force myself not to blame the neighbors, the cops, Hohn and even the victim. Throughout Hohn's childhood, he said, his father was "addicted to drugs," beating both the boy and his mother. When the mother left their family, the boy felt that she was "addicted to success" and did not value him. He channeled the fear of being deserted into his relationship with Thomas, becoming fiercely jealous. Bohn had several domestic violence convictions even before meeting Thomas, and in my opinion he knew, from his past episodes of violence, what he was capable of.
Thomas, on the other hand, was raised in a loving family; her upbringing was one of sharing, kindness, and respect. She was unable to comprehend the fact that someone she loved could be a danger to her life and sanity. Her grandmother called her "just beautiful inside and out." Thomas seemed to think that she could help Bohn to overcome his past and move into a new phase of his life.
I believe that one of the most important ways we can react to such tragedies is, as a community, to look for weaknesses and flaws not in individuals, who we are powerless to change, but in our society. To me, this is not just another story of a childhood of violence and abuse manifesting itself in adult life, but a situation in which the elements of our society we trust to protect us: police, legal system, teachers, community, family-have signally failed.
Bohn's journey from a violent childhood to a top investment firm was celebrated by the Jewish Child Care Association, a group that gave Bohn access to opportunity. They pointed out the "tremendous odds" he had overcome to succeed. To me, this seems an admirable sentiment but a dangerous one. It is one thing to celebrate success but another to assume that financial success precludes violence. Bohn himself reported that he had been "physically violent" against schoolmates but was "a very good student despite my behavior". His teachers remarked on how "amazing" they found the juxtaposition of Bohn's behavior and academic performance. Bohn said that inspirational figures helped him see that getting his "behavior and emotional issues under control" would help him to eventually "make it." He saw changing himself not as a social responsibility, but as one that would help him navigate the system.
Well, now he's navigating a different system. Bohn left notes at the crime scene saying, "It was an accident," claiming that he was drunk when the murder occurred. He surrendered in Florida and was charged with murder. The cause of death of the woman he claimed to love was determined to be strangulation and blunt force trauma. In other words, she was beaten to death.
What is our responsibility as bystanders?
-by Mason Dowling


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XOMA said the fixed-dose combination (FDC) of perindopril arginine combined with amlodipine besylate, licensed by the company from Les Laboratoires Servier, proved in a Phase III trial to be statistically significantly superior to either compound alone in reducing both sitting diastolic and sitting systolic blood pressure after six weeks of treatment.
In results of the 837-patient PATH trial (perindopril amlodipine for the treatment of hypertension) disclosed by XOMA, the company said the perindopril/amlodipine FDC appeared to be well tolerated in the trial, and there were no unexpected serious adverse events reported.
The most common adverse events included mild to moderate edema, cough, and headache, which are known side effects of the individual components of the FDC.
"We believe that based upon our previous conversations with FDA, the positive PATH results combined with the body of existing clinical data for this FDC will support an NDA submission," XOMA CEO John Varian said in a statement. "We are extremely proud of our team for completing this trial ahead of schedule and now will be working to identify appropriate potential ways to move this FDC forward to the U.S. market."
He said XOMA does not intend to directly market the perindopril/amlodipine FDC, but to sublicense it to a third-party organization dedicated to commercializing cardiovascular products.
XOMA acquired U.S. rights to the perindopril/amlodipine FDC and the rest of the perindopril franchise in January 2012 from Servier, XOMA's partner for its lead antibody product candidate, gevokizumab (formerly XOMA 052). Servier markets the fixed-dose combination product under the name COVERAM® in 91 countries outside the U.S.
The perindopril/amlodipine FDC is the first product candidate XOMA elected to develop from a portfolio of three fixed-dose combination product candidates where perindopril is combined with other active ingredient(s). The perindopril in each of the combination product candidates is patent-protected until 2023.
"We expect a partnership at some point in 2013, approval in 2014 and royalties to XOMA starting soon thereafter and going until 2023," Cowen & Co. analysts Simos Simeonidis, Ph.D., and Yatin Suneja said in a note to investors this morning.
While positive data, licensing, and eventual approval could translate into royalty stream for XOMA, the analysts said investors are more closely watching two Phase II and three Phase III gevokizumab trials under way, with data to be released between now and the first half of 2014. Data from the Phase II proof-of-concept trials in acne and erosive osteoarthritis of the hand are expected by year's end and mid-2013, respectively, while the three Phase III uveitis trials are expected to read out between the end of 2013 and mid-2014.
Perindopril, an angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor, has been studied in seven landmark clinical trials involving more than 54,000 patients assessing its impact in treating essential hypertension and stable coronary artery disease.
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Make your cakes petal-perfect with instruction from Nicholas Lodge, sugar artist extraordinaire.
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Bountiful Brown Rice Raspberry MuffinsJulieVR
It's no secret whole grains are great for you – we're particular fans of brown rice around here, and I often have leftovers in the fridge. Luckily cooked rice reheats – even freezes – very well. It makes great fried rice, as the grains separate after cooling completely. Some mornings I stir cooked brown rice into my oatmeal, or add plenty of milk and a spoonful of brown sugar and simmer in a saucepan until it turns into thick rice pudding. When I came across these brown rice muffins with fresh raspberries, making them was a no-brainer – I love grainy muffins, especially with raspberries. (Psst: they're great with blueberries, too.)
Having all the ingredients at room temperature before baking produces the lightest, tender muffins. Muffins are always best when freshly baked – they should be eaten the day you make them, or wrapped individually in plastic and frozen for up to 1 month.
Bountiful Brown Rice Muffins
3/4 cup (175 mL) toasted, finely ground pecans
1 cup (250 mL) cake and pastry flour
1/2 cup (125 mL) whole wheat flour
1-1/2 tsp (7 mL) baking powder
1/2 tsp (2 mL) baking soda
1/4 tsp (1 mL) salt
1 cup (250 mL) cooked U.S. short grain brown rice
1 tbsp (15 mL) orange zest
1 cup (250 mL) buttermilk or plain yogurt
1 egg
1/4 cup (50 mL) melted, unsalted butter
1/4 cup (50 mL) packed brown sugar
1 tsp (5 mL) vanilla
1 cup (250 mL) frozen raspberries
Preheat the oven to 375F.
In a large bowl, whisk together pecans, flours, baking powder, baking soda, salt, rice and orange zest. Set aside.
In separate bowl, whisk together buttermilk, egg, butter, sugar and vanilla. Pour over dry ingredients and stir just until moistened. Fold in frozen raspberries.
Fill lightly greased or paper-lined muffin cups 2/3 full and bake until golden on top and inserted toothpick comes out clean, about 15 to 20 minutes. Transfer muffins directly to cooling rack and serve warm.
Makes 12 muffins.
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I coined this phrase in 1996. "Man, that chick's ass looks like a horse." "Yeah, She's got a donkey ass." I believe the hip-hop culture bastardized that prase tobedonkeydonk. I'll take credit for that.
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Someone who's buttox resembloes that of a donkey's.
Dude, she is such a donkey ass!
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Adj. Cheap, poorly made, ghetto.
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Skate It Review
Unless you're willing to put up with the game's control flaws, you're better off waiting for Skate 2 to come out next year.
If you can put up with the frustrating controls you'll find that Skate It is a little bare bones in the features count. Once you've created your skater, male or female, the career mode is where you'll spend most of your time. Here you start off as a lowly skater in the fictional city of San Vanelona, which has been riddled with more disasters than Newcastle United Football Club. It's deserted, which allows you to skate about uninterrupted with pro-skater Giovanni Reda filming and snapping your exploits (you never actually see him, but you constantly hear his annoying voice throughout). As you complete the various challenges on offer, which are all trick-based, you'll gain respect and end up warping to various cities across the world, like London and Paris (also mysteriously deserted), and meet up with real life professional skaters who set you increasingly difficult challenges.
Skate It carries with it the subtlest whiff of open world gameplay. You're able to warp at any time to any of the game's zones via a world map, and then skate about each zone in a freestyle sense, ignoring the challenges and just having fun exploring the nooks and crannies of each spot. But if you want to progress in the career mode and climb the ladder to full sponsorship and recognition in Thrasher Magazine, you'll have to complete the game's challenges to unlock new ones and new areas. So, essentially, Skate It provides a number of predetermined challenges cleverly disguised as sandbox gameplay.
Beyond the career mode, there's a Freeskate option, which allows you to, as you'd expect, freeskate around the various spots with the skaters you've unlocked via the career mode, a My Spot mode, which is a basic spot editor of sorts, and a Party Play mode that allows for two to four local players to pick from four challenges: Best Line, Best Trick, Hall of Meat (perhaps the best one - you've got to cause as much damage to your skater as possible - a bit like PAIN on PS3) and Best Time. While this is fun, the lack of any online multiplayer seems like a real oversight, one especially glaring when you consider that online competitive multiplayer is in the DS version of Skate It.
Usually graphics and audio are among the best things about EA games. Unfortunately that's not the case with Skate It. The environments are barren and full of horrible textures and the skaters are deformed (our female skater had ridiculously disproportioned long arms and huge hands). On the plus side, the trick animations are solid. The track list is a mixed bag, with some decent classic ska and hip hop spoiled by some awful nu-metal punk rock. The sound effects, though, are excellent, with weighty grinding and board landing noises. You'll wince, too, when your skater lands in a crumpled heap from a particularly brutal crash.
Skate It is better in theory than it is in practise. We can forgive the awful Wii Balance Board controls because you're not forced to use Nintendo's Wii Fit peripheral to play the game. But we just can't get away from the fact that EA's focus on creating a hardcore skater sim has resulted in a frustrating experience, for no other reason than the Wii itself isn't built for that kind of game. You might say practice makes perfect, but when it's this difficult, practising is too much of a chore. Unless you're willing to put up with the game's control flaws, you're better off waiting for Skate 2 to come out next year.


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2005 Federal Sentencing Guidelines
Chapter 2 - PART A - OFFENSES AGAINST THE PERSON
§2A4.1. Kidnapping, Abduction, Unlawful Restraint
(a) Base Offense Level: 32
(b) Specific Offense Characteristics
(1) If a ransom demand or a demand upon government was made, increase by 6 levels.
(2) (A) If the victim sustained permanent or life-threatening bodily injury, increase by 4 levels; (B) if the victim sustained serious bodily injury, increase by 2 levels; or (C) if the degree of injury is between that specified in subdivisions (A) and (B), increase by 3 levels.
(3) If a dangerous weapon was used, increase by 2 levels.
(4) (A) If the victim was not released before thirty days had elapsed, increase by 2 levels.
(B) If the victim was not released before seven days had elapsed, increase by 1 level.
(5) If the victim was sexually exploited, increase by 6 levels.
(6) If the victim is a minor and, in exchange for money or other consideration, was placed in the care or custody of another person who had no legal right to such care or custody of the victim, increase by 3 levels.
(7) If the victim was kidnapped, abducted, or unlawfully restrained during the commission of, or in connection with, another offense or escape therefrom; or if another offense was committed during the kidnapping, abduction, or unlawful restraint, increase to --
(A) the offense level from the Chapter Two offense guideline applicable to that other offense if such offense guideline includes an adjustment for kidnapping, abduction, or unlawful restraint, or otherwise takes such conduct into account; or
(B) 4 plus the offense level from the offense guideline applicable to that other offense, but in no event greater than level 43, in any other case, if the resulting offense level is greater than that determined above.
(c) Cross Reference
(1) If the victim was killed under circumstances that would constitute murder under 18 U.S.C. § 1111 had such killing taken place within the territorial or maritime jurisdiction of the United States, apply §2A1.1 (First Degree Murder).


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J.J. Johnson was born James Louis in Indianapolis on January 22, 1924. At the age of 9, he studied piano with a church organist and became very interested in music during his second year at Crispus Attucks High School. The only school instrument available to him at the time was a baritone saxophone. J.J. played this instrument for a very short time and, at the age of fourteen, picked up the trombone, playing in the high school band as well as the brass marching band of the YMCA.
By the time he was eighteen, J.J. left home to play with Snookum Russel's band, of which Fats Navarro was also a member. He went on to play with other legendary jazzers Benny Carter (from '42-5), Count Basie (from '45-6), and Illinois Jacquet (from '47-9). The earliest recordings of J.J. are with the Benny Carter Orchestra, although he functioned only as a section player. Johnson's first recorded solo, only twelve measures long, was with this group on the Capitol label on the track Love for Sale.
In 1944, he played at the very first concert of Jazz at the Philharmonic. J.J.'s fluid style and rapid fire technique on the trombone soon gained him notoriety. His technique on slide trombone was so clean, in fact, that most people at the time swore he was playing valve trombone. J.J. has stated that his ". . . original influences were Pres and Roy, then Diz and Bird".
In October of 1951, J.J. joined an all-star sextet led by bassist Oscar Pettiford for a USO tour of Korea, Japan, and Southern Pacific islands. However, this group encountered internal problems that resulted in Pettiford leaving the tour early to return to the United States. In 1953, J.J. left the music business to work as a blueprint inspector for Sperry Gyroscope, performing only occasionally. On April 20th, he recorded for Blue Note with the Miles Davis sextet on the titles Tempus Fugit, Ray's Idea, C.T.A., and Johnson's own compositions Kelo and Enigma. It wasn't until the next year, 1954, that he quit his job at Sperry Gyroscope and started playing with fellow trombonist, Kai Winding. This led to the formation of the Jay & Kai group, which stayed together for the next couple years and enjoyed critical acclaim.
The New York Classical Jazz and Classical Music Society comissioned J.J. to compose a piece for solo brass instruments and brass ensemble. This resulted in his piece Poem for Brass, which was recorded in October of 1956. According to Schuller, this music was "third stream", his term for music that combined the jazz and classical idioms.
Late 1959 saw J.J. reorganizing his sextet, keeping prior members Cedar Walton on piano, Albert Heath on drums, and Clifford Jordan on saxophone. To this, he added Freddie Hubbard on trumpet and Arthur Harper on bass. After working steadily for nine months, the group recorded one of J.J.'s best albums, J.J. Inc. This album included seven original tunes- Shutterbug, Fatback, Aquarius, In Walked Horace, Minor Mist, Mohawk, and Turnpike (this was not issued on the original vinyl album, but was included when the album was re-released on CD in 1998).
J.J. disbanded the sextet in September of 1960 so he could work on his compositional skills. From this month on to March 1961, he worked on a composition entitled Perceptions, written for orchestra and comissioned by Dizzy Gillespie. The six-part work was recorded on May 22, 1961 with a large orchestra under the direction of Gunther Schuller. Schuller had this to say about J.J.:
"His compositional abilities and his range of expressions . . . have expanded with each new work through the years. Beyond all externals of form and technique, this music combines an eloquent musical imagination with a strongly disciplined mind, producing an enjoyable music of depth, pulsating warmth and infectious spirit"
Johnson spent a year on the road with the Miles Davis sextet. In July of 1964, he joined the Radio Corporation of America's roster of musicians and toured Japan with a sextet including Clark Terry and Sonny Stitt. In 1968, J.J. was comissioned by Robert A. Boudreau, Music Director of the American Wind Symphony Orchestra, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The resulting piece was Diversions for Six Trombones, Celeste, Harp, and Percussion.
J.J. moved from New York to L.A. in 1970 to write music for movies and television. Some of his first work was a little orchestration work for The Adventurers and composing music for Barefoot in the Park. He was later assigned to write music for four popular television shows, Mayberry R.F.D., The Danny Thomas Show, That Girl, and The Mod Squad. His movie credits (either orchestrating or writing the music) include Man and Boy, Top of the Heap, Across 110th Street, Cleopatra Jones, and Shaft. Oddly enough, J.J. was winning polls as the best jazz trombonist at this time, even though he wasn't actively playing.
Around the time he was recording for Antilles, he and his wife, Vivian, moved to his hometown Indianapolis. Sadly, several years later, Vivian passed away. J.J. dedicated an album to her, simply entitled Vivian. Eventually, J.J. started performing more frequently for the public. In 1988, he played the Village Vanguard in New York, where Slide Hampton made his way onstage and presented him with a scroll signed by many grateful trombonists in show of their gratitude for his contribution to jazz.
In the June 1997 issue of Downbeat magazine, J.J. announced his retirement from live performances. The next few years were spent in his hometown of Indianapolis, IN, composing works on his Macintosh Quadra and occassionally offering input to the J.J. Johnson Mailing List. A book also came out written by Joshua Berret and Louis Bourgois III entitled The Muscical World of J.J. Johnson.
Tragedy struck the jazz and trombone community when on February 4, 2001, J.J. Johnson passed away. Only now are we able to see the number of lives that he has touched in a positive manner. In addition, J.J.'s legacy will continue to inspire new trombonists.


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Howdy all,
Have another trendy situation tonight AND once again it is not a popular side pick but what the hell!!!
The Canucks are 1-4 as a ml road fav this year with thier only road fav ml cover being agst Col as a mere -102 so not much of a fav at that. On the other hand Phoenix is a nice 6-0 as a home dog and 4-1 coming home off a road loss.
So obviously I am going to put a decent wager on Phoenix (+120) in hopes both these trends hold up for one more game!!
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My name is Stewart Barlow and I am running for re-election to the Utah House of Representatives District 17. First and foremost I want to take this opportunity to publicly thank you for your willingness to serve as a delegate. This is a time consuming process you have agreed to participate in and it can be exhausting. But it's a good process, a process I believe in. The fruits of the caucus system are clearly good--we live in the one of the best managed states in the country with one of the best economies.
I am proud to say that I have had the opportunity to make a significant difference at the legislature over the last few years. With my expertise as a medical doctor and as a business owner, I have become one of the go to voices among my legislative colleagues on issues related to health care, business and economic growth.
Over the next few weeks leading up to the April 12th convention I intend to talk personally with every county delegate in the district. As a life-long resident of Davis County and having just spent the last two and a half years representing LD17 I feel like I have a pretty good idea about what makes this area great and what is important to LD17 residents, but I don't know everything. I want to hear your ideas. I want to hear your opinion on how you would deal with issues such as common core, how to successfully shrink the government, improving our business climate and improving education in our state. I know I will not be the only one asking for your support but I promise you one thing; no one will spend more time or effort working to understand what is important to you and how best to represent you. Together we can deal with the important issues that face our state.
Stewart E. Barlow M.D.