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Do chimps posess the frontal lobe? Can they worship? Can they create? These things set us way apart from all animal life on earth.
I take your opinion seriously on this matter because it appears you have done extensive research on this. So please let me know what you think of that write up in that section.
That is why it will be a lot tougher for anyone to disprove the bible to me, than the avg Christian. Because myself and others who believe like myself see the bible strictly from God's point of view, and not out own, as many others like to do.
It always makes me shake my head when I hear a theist say that God exists outside of time. As if time is a bubble you can jump in and out of. Such monstrous nonsense! - Mainly because it is being claimed about a living being. (I will explain why shortly). Their claim is often coupled with their rhetorical question, how can something come from nothing? But this is a straw-man, to be sure, for whoever said it did?
It was never claimed as a scientific theory that the universe came out of nothing. Time began at the Big Bang. Prior to that, nothing existed but energy and elementary particles. Since time had not yet existed, they are what existed outside of time, if anything ever did. Meaning, something always existed, and never nothing. Putting God in the picture merely complicates things, and it is quite unnecessary.
Therefore, Occams razor is fulfilled by there not being a God. Furthermore, one only needs to observe the First Law of Thermodynamics as to clearly see why it is that there could have never been nothing, and that science in fact claims the contrary. For it states that come on, everybody say it with me energy cannot be created nor destroyed. Meaning, all the energy that currently exists in the universe has always existed, and no god was ever required to create it. That is, under this natural law: something has always existed even prior to the Big Bang.
But here is where the theist and even deist anxiously jump in. But you have not disproved God, they say, happily and proudly stating the obvious.
No, of course I havent. I have only shown his/her/its existence to be improbable and superfluous. Disproving God, on the other hand - is what I am about to do.
The main two aspects of the theistic God are that he has a mind, and was himself not created, as he is the beginning of all things. That is, he is both sentient and the Alpha. But a sentient being cannot be the alpha! All sentient beings have a first thought, a first feeling, a first perception. God would have had to of had a first thought, feeling, perception.
There cannot be an infinite regress of these things. There cannot be an infinite regress of a stream of consciousness. It is a logical absurdity. God, like all sentient beings, would have had to of come into existence. He would have had to of evolved into existence, as all new species do, or he would have had to of been created by a being greater than he/she/it, which means he/she/it wouldnt be God - in the first place.
Therefore, though it is possible for a supreme being to exist, it is quite impossible for God to. And let no one tell you that God cannot be disproved, or that he exists outside of time ever again. Especially since thinking, something God does partake in supposedly, occurs in time, and we have now seen the consequences of that, as there cannot be an infinite regress of thoughts.
It is illogical to us, yes even ABSURD because we all have a start. Some how Jehovah is different. He's never had one. And this much I know about him is, his word the Bible, when understood properly is the most profound truth on the planet.
This conversation would be null and void if someone can just refute the bible, and prove evolution is a fact. But the very things you guys say makes it true, the people who live to study them say makes it not.
There are things in the bible that are indisputable facts. Becuase of these and other reasons, many believe the bible is Gods word. This is not the case with evolution.
You guys say Fossil record, I read on it, and some scientists say the fossil record lends truth to the bible more than the belief of evolution. If it were a fact, than none, I mean NONE could say that. Like who in the scientific world is saying the earth is square and flat? How many scientists are saying that? 0! WHY? BECAUSE IT'S A FACT THE EARTH IS ROUND! WHY ARE THEIR SCIENTISTS SAYING EVOLUTION IS A FARCE? BECAUSE IT DOES NOT ADD UP TO EVERY SINGLE SCIENTIST LIKE AN ACTUAL FACT WOULD HAVE TOO!
So, essentially I'm good to go. Thanks. I'll continue living my life the way I have.
But you're not really good to go as you say. There is a prospect of being alive forever, vs dead forever that everyone still faces. You basically saying you're good to go, ignoring God is what can possibly be your permanent death (meaning no resurrection and possible life forever) Why would you want to be dead forever, when you can live forever?
Overall, I have enjoyed these discussions. It has forced me to dig up information. Knowledge is power my friend.
I thought of something today thinking about this thread.
Lyfe, you make great arguement when you can post those prophecies and show their correlation to the history. Great proof, right?
I'm not saying that the Bible is wrong on these occurences. I'm supporting your notion that the book was indeed right.
However, while these are evidence to the fact that the Bible has truth to it, they in no way serve as proof to any other parts to the bible. Alexander conquering some land as prophesied has NOTHING to do with Jesus being the son of God or any such thing. Because there are correct things in the Bible does not mean the book as a whole is infallible.
There are many things prophesied about in the bible concerning Jesus. He fulfilled all the things concerning those as well. I mean, even the Pharasees and Saducees who had the Hebrew scribes could not argue against the things Jesus did during his life.
All I have ever said my whole time during any of these threads is that one would need to just have an open mind to be taught the true meaning of the bible to have a chance of understanding it. IF YOU DON'T DO THAT YOU NEVER WILL BECAUSE IT WILL ALL APPEAR TO BE A FAIRY TALE.
It is easiest to get people who do not believe to look at the Bible in a different light if you can make them understand some of the truths in it. Like Prophecy and scientific facts that hold up even today. For instance, it seems minute when you think of it, but the bible stating the earth is a sphere that hangs on nothing begs to ask a simple question... How would those guys know this for sure? I told my brother once that the bible had such things and he did not believe me. That is because most people are not being properly taught to understand the bible, so most scoff. And who could blame them with the way most bible based religions go about their business of teaching?
Take LJ4PTPLAY for instance. All his life he was made to understand that God puts people in an eternal torture chamber for sinning and ignoring his wishes, for what, a max 70-80 years of human life? AND THAT EVEN DEPENDS IF YOU HAD THE CHANCE OF KNOWING THE TRUTH! What if you were living somewhere where the bible was not prevalent? You were doomed, no way out. But God loves you!
See from that angle, I can TOTALLY understand why people lack faith! Look at what is being taught! But you know who hates it the most? Jehovah himself. In fact, he blames false religion more than anything else to why mankind is in the state that it's in. That is why, very soon he is going to put into the hearts of the leaders of the world to abandon all forms of false religion. If you pay close attention... You could actually see it unfolding now. Mega Churches are losing their luster. Some forms of government are already outlawing certain religious groups. People in general basically ignore religion. Even people who claim to have a religious background!
But I rambled on a bit. Sorry. I get what you're saying about the bible not being infallible, but because of all the prophecies that I understand about, along with historical, scientific and the basic laws and principles found in it, It leads me to believe that a higher source had to be hind this book. There is no way, 40 different writers from a span of over 1500 years of written human history could have been this harmonious and accurate. And most of them have never met each other..
Let's talk about this bible for a moment some are unfortunately behind enough to say is accurate. When it comes to the issue of prophecy it's far to convenient to say well someone wrote something 2000 years ago, and THEN WHEN its re-interpreted to FIT today's context call it a true propechy. Prophecies must be specific.
Edgar Cayce would be a better example to use if you were going to use one. He was specific he gave specific names, dates, years, months, places..etc. He didn't plop down and just say generic things or in some kind of poetic prose code, like much of the Bible uses and people do till this day. Nostradamus wrote thousands of prophecies...how come no church is worshipping him today? How come his writings are not reveared as insight into the eyes of GOD..after all if you believe his works to be truth?
The bible is a collection composing of 62 books not including the Apocrypha. Such a document can't ever be the inspired word of a GOD. For example, Nehemiah, calls for the preservation of racial purity by the prohibition of inter-racial marriages, while Ruth has for its heroine a Moabite woman who married a Jew. As another example, the book of Proverbs extols living the good life which it says is God's reward for righteous living while Ecclesiastes says life is meaningless and prosperity is accidental.
The New Testament stands in an uneasy contrast with the Old. The Old Testament says that the Jews are the chosen people of God. This God may sometimes abandon them as a punishment for their unfaithfulness but the severance was always only temporary. Yet in the New Testament we are shown that the Jews are completely severed from God and are in fact responsible for the murder of his Son.
The Bible is nothing more than a collection of stories crammed in from other cultures, that were given a glossier coating of BS. None of the ideas in it are original, they come from ancient Persia...as well influenced by Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians.
The books of the Bible are books of testimony. Unlike treatises on mathematics and logic, where the correctness of the argument can be inferred from the written sources themselves, testimonials invariable involve a person or persons telling you something actually happened. Thus the integrity of the person giving the testimonial is of utmost importance. For that integrity is what makes us trust what he or she says. The Bible makes testimonies about things that are, by any reckoning, out of the ordinary.
There are testimonials about the appearances of God to some of his prophets, about tremendous miracles such as the parting of the Red Sea and even about a man walking on water! Surely on such incredible testimonies, the integrity of the person telling the stories must be scrutinized very very closely.
Remember the old maxim: extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof.
As a corollary to that, we should demand that the incredible stories demand impeccable integrity on behalf of the storyteller to be believed.
The first step towards examining the integrity of a person is, of course, to know his or her identity. It is therefore not surprising that Jewish and Christian traditions ascribed the authorships of the books in the Old Testaments to well known Jewish kings and prophets: the very characters mentioned in the Bible. To Moses, certainly the most important figure in Judaism, was attributed the authorship of the first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.
In a similar trend, Joshua, Moses' successor, was supposed to have penned the book that has his name as the title. Other important figures in Jewish history, such as David and Solomon, also have books attributed to them.
There is a similar trend in the New Testament. Most books in the New Testament had their authorship attributed to the disciples of Jesus, or at least their immediate followers. For examples the two letters of Peter were supposed to have been written by the apostle himself, while the gospel of Mark was presumed to have been written by one of Peter's followers.
These attribution of authorship were accepted, almost without question, by Christians for close to two millennia. In the 19th century, with the use of the methods critical historical research to the books of the Bible, these traditional beliefs were slowly but relentlessly eroded. The research has reached a point where almost all the books in the Bible are no longer held to be written by the people tradition thought them to be.
This valid discovery, however, is very rarely communicated to the lay public. When it is conveyed at all, it is normally preceded with attempt on behalf of the scholars to cushion the "blow" on the reader. As a result, to this day most lay Christians and (of course) all fundamentalists hold firm to these traditional attribution of authorship.
Just gonna use Genesis as an example....
For many centuries, both Christian and Jewish theologians believe that the stories were given by God and thus owed their origins purely to divine inspiration. However in the nineteenth century, British archaeologists unearthed seven tablets containing the Babylonian myth of creation known as Enuma Elish.
Like the famous Epic of Gilgamesh, archaeologists have assigned the date of composition of this work to around 2000 BC. Although the story differs in specifics to that told in Genesis, the similarities in the general tone has convinced archaeologists that the Genesis account had been fundamentally derived from the Babylonian one. Some of the similarities include:
The reference to the initial state as being a disordered chaos of water.
Genesis 1:1 refers to the darkness upon the face of the deep. In the Babylonian myth, in the beginning there was only Apsu, the sweet water ocean and Tiamat, the salt water ocean. In fact, archaeologists have generally acknowledged that the Hebrew word for the chaos of the waters or the deep, tehom, is actually derived from the Akkadian Tiamat.
The creation of a firmament to separate the waters above from the waters below.
In Genesis 1:6-8 God is said to have created the firmament on the second day of creation. In the Babylonian myth, Marduk, son of the Ea the god of wisdom, killed Tiamat and split her into two. The upper half of Tiamat was fixed onto the sky to keep the waters above in place.
The sequence of successive acts of creation.
In the Babylonian myth, after Tiamat was killed, the firmament was created by Marduk to separate the waters above from below. Then he created the sun, the moon, the planets and the stars. Finally man was created. This order is very closely paralleled in Genesis I where the firmament was created on the second day, the sun, moon and stars on the third day and man on the sixth day.
It thus cannot be denied that the creation myth from Genesis must have been derived from the Babylonian one.
To quote the late Professor S.H. Hooke (1874-1968) an expert on Old Testament Studies:
"In spite of the complete transformation of the Babylonian material effected by the priestly writer, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the original form of the creation story upon which he is depending is ultimately of Babylonian origin".
The Sumerian paradise is called Dilmun. (It should be noted, however that Eden (edinu) was also originally a Sumerian word, meaning plain or steppe.) Dilmun was a divine garden where sickness and death do not exist. We will now follow Hookes paraphrasing of the Sumerian paradise myth;
According to Sumerian myth the only thing Dilmun lacked was fresh water; the god Enki (or Ea) ordered Utu, the sun-god, to bring up fresh water from the earth to water the garden.
In the myth of Enki and Ninhursag it is related that the mother-goddess Ninhursag caused eight plants to grow in the garden of the gods. Enki desired to eat these plants and sent his messenger Isimud to fetch them. Enki ate them one by one, and Ninhursag in her rage pronounced the curse of death upon Enki.
As the result of the curse eight of Enkis bodily organs were attacked by disease and he was at the pain of death. The great gods were in dismay and Enlil [the chief god] was powerless to help. Ninhursag was induced to return and deal with the situation. She created eight goddesses of healing who proceeded to heal each of the diseased parts of Enkis body. One of these parts was the gods rib, and the goddess who was created to deal with the rib was named Ninti, which means lady of the rib.
The similarity between the above myth and that of Genesis is obvious to see. The similarity include:
* The setting- a garden in paradise.
* The watering of the gardens with water from the earth.
* The consumption of forbidden fruits, by Adam and Eve in Genesis and by the god Enki in the Sumerian myth.
* The curse upon the person (s) who ate the fruit.
* The creating of a female from the rib of the male in Genesis and the creating of a female to heal the rib of the male in the Sumerian precursor.
* The name of the female thus created. In Genesis, Eve, or in its original semitic form Hawah, means life. In the Sumerian myth, the word ti from the name Ninti has a double meaning; it could mean either rib or life. Thus Ninti can be rendered as lady of the rib or lady of life.
That is not all, the Babylonian myth, the Epic of Gilgamesh also contains an episode that doubtless also influenced the writers of Genesis. In it Gilgamesh, in his quest for immortality, was told by Utnapishtim (the Babylonian Noah) that there exists a plant at the bottom of the sea that has the property of making the old young again.
Gilgamesh dived into the sea and brought up the plant. However the plant was stolen while he was taking bath. The thief who stole the plant of everlasting youth away from him was none other than the serpent!
That Babylonian myths should influence the stories in the Bible is really not surprising. The Babylonian empires were influential throughout the whole middle eastern region for over three thousand years. The history of Jews is also very closely tied to Babylon. For it was there that the Jews were taken into exile in the year 587 BC.
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Hollywood loves a good heist. Other types of crime are generally frowned upon, but one guy we will always root for is the cool guy in Ray-Bans who hatches a brilliant scheme to break into a vault before retiring to a beach in Tahiti with his supermodel girlfriend. Maybe it appeals to the greedy, anarchistic side of us that admires the outlaw in theory but doesn't actually want to hurt anyone. Maybe it's the Ray-Bans. Whatever the case, I'm here to tell you it's all crap.
I guarded a branch of the Federal Reserve Bank, a popular target in movies like Die Hard With a Vengeance, and I can tell you with a fair degree of certainty that Ray Bannington the Third wouldn't make it to that beach in Tahiti. He wouldn't even make it out the door, because ...
5 Disguises Would Never Work
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Our first example comes straight from the aforementioned Die Harderer, in which Gruber & Co. attack the Federal Reserve by dressing as the Village People. Simon himself lures a bank official right into his trap just by putting on a suit and head-faking security by saying, "Tell him Mr. Vanderflog is here." Totally real-sounding pseudonym, man -- guess Hans really did get the brains. Over and over, we see people in movies simply dressing up as painters or guards and being led right into the vault.
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"I'll let you in, but you don't look like the usual vault plumbers ..."
Stop for a minute and think about that: You have to prove you're you just to deposit a check, right? Why are you letting yourself believe that security at these facilities is so apathetic that they'll let a guy in as long as he kinda looks like he belongs there?
First of all, we'd never let someone in just because they have a uniform. The uniforms go home with the employees, where they can be lost or sold. They're pants. Pants are not a qualification. What we have instead are tightly controlled ID cards that are checked in, checked out, and counted every night. Every store manager has a card that they scan in order to make the pick-up or drop-off, and then they sign it in a specific book. If you lose your ID by accident, it's an automatic termination.
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If you "lose" your ID on purpose, it's an automatic incarceration.
From the front of the building to any room with money in it, there are about five mag-lock doors, and no one goes through them without an escort. Even if I personally know you as a fellow guard, if you're not scheduled to work that day, I can't let you in without an escort. If you're the president of the United States, you're not allowed in without an escort. That also means you have your identity verified and you're patted and wanded down. Which is nowhere near as sexy or as magical as it sounds.
Even in emergency situations, this procedure is absolutely unbendable. We had an issue once when an older employee had a heart attack in the vault, and we couldn't let the EMS guys in with their ambulance, so we had to help them get their stretcher into the vault and then walk them out the front door. Which meant we had to pat them down and wand them until they walked funny on the way in, and then again while they were leaving. All while our guy was having a heart attack. It was literally a life or death scenario, and protocol was still protocol. It gets pretty ridiculous, but the thought is, that guy could fake a heart attack, and when we let the ambulance in, half a dozen bank robbers could jump out of it and hit us pretty hard. Hell, that's probably actually been in a movie already. They just didn't show the part where George Clooney got a metal detector up the pee-hole and went straight to jail.
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Lots of movie bad guys seem to think the best course of action is to intercept the money in transit. Probably the silliest place this shows up is in Grand Theft Auto V. There's a scene where they pull a garbage truck into the middle of the road, and the armored truck just stops there, and wouldn't you know it, they get caught in an ambush. That would never happen today, precisely because it's such a common idea that they've even based video game scenes off of it.
That's also why we no longer let customers jump through our floating coins.
This sort of thing did happen a lot in the late '90s in Philadelphia -- they would stage a traffic accident, the hopper would get out of the truck to see what was wrong, and a minivan would swing up to the side of the truck opening fire. Now when you see something like that start to go down, you throw the truck into reverse, hit the siren, and don't stop driving until you're safe or the engine block becomes so filled with blood that it hydro-locks. It's actually company policy in that case to just plow right through the offending parties. They specifically tell us, "Go ahead and ram that car full speed; we have 30-ton trucks for a reason."
Virtually every scenario is planned for: There's a button in the truck that sends out an emergency signal to every cop in the area, who will show up with guns drawn, and someone in the truck will always be within arm's reach of that button.
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Seriously, rob the Prius behind the truck instead. The driver will just run.
Alternatively, you can throw a bomb on the back of the truck to blow the doors open, which is another thing they do in Grand Theft Auto V. I don't know much about explosions, but I know those are several-inch-thick steel doors. I can't imagine an explosion powerful enough to blow those doors open without completely obliterating all of the money inside. Even if you somehow had a tank rifle or something and shot both guys through the bulletproof glass, all you did is kill the only two guys who could open the truck.
We're well aware that there is no greater vulnerability than two guys in a huge truck labeled "We have shitloads of money," so there's all kinds of things we do about that. If you work the same route every day, you're supposed to change your route constantly. Take three lefts every now and then to make sure no one is following you. Do your banks in no particular order, don't stop at the same place for lunch every day, don't get gas at the same station, etc. This is because people, generally speaking, like their money, and find that keeping it is a good thing. If you've thought of a way to steal it, odds are the folks protecting it have thought about that too.


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If it was breastFEEDING jaundice rather than breastMILK jaundice, the levels would still be going up. It's the trend that is important. If your baby was getting insufficient milk, she would be unable to flush the bilirubin and her levels would just go up and up and up.
I know that the initial uptick in your baby's levels and resultant trip to the NICU (14 days, I can't even imagine...) must have left you feeling very vulnerable to worry. But I think the thing to do is to treat your baby's initial bilirubin spike and her persistent jaundice as two different things. That initial uptick was quite possibly the result of inadequate milk intake, because your baby was premature and probably wasn't a good nurser yet. But the current case of jaundice is probably just normal breastmilk jaundice, because your baby's diaper output is normal and her bilirubin levels are trending downwards.
I would not worry about your baby's current bili level at all. If she had been born on her due date, no-one would be worrying about a 1.5 month-old baby with a mild case of jaundice. And I'm not just saying that because I'm a diehard activist- I truly think that you are in the safe zone.


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DILLONVALE – Improvements proposed for the Night Riders Memorial Park as well as possible funding were eyed during a recent meeting of Village Council.
Council decided to seek funds for another hexagon table for the park, and Clerk-Treasurer Danene Hutkay is to prepare the grant application, which is to be submitted to the JB Green Team by March 4.
It was noted the Jefferson County Recreation Program operated through the county commissioners' office will be coming up soon.
Council decided the village's proposed project will be a sidewalk to the gazebo at the park. Councilwoman Trisha Painter and Hutkay will seek quotations for the work.
In another matter related to recreation, officials received a request from coach Jerry Miller for the use of the Panepucci Field, beginning in March, weather permitting, with games to follow in April. Council members said they had no objection if the Pony League approves, so Miller is to contact Pony League officials.
A motion was approved to accept a quotation of $1,450 from J. Schultz Excavating to repair a plumbing problem downstairs in the municipal building. An earlier quote received from another company was for $4,500.
By a 4-2 vote, council rejected a motion to accept a bid received Feb. 6 for purchase of a Caterpillar 420D backhoe. Some other bids were received later, but technically, the only bid that could have been accepted was the one opened Feb. 6.
Adopted under suspension of rules were two ordinances – one to employ Kristin M. Zimmerman as recreation director, and the other to employ Winona Grimm as a temporary, part-time cleaning person.
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Saliesianum basketball's Donte DiVincenzo is this week's WDEL Male High School Athlete of the Week.
The sophomore scored 19 points in the Sals' 47-42 home victory over Hodgson Saturday.
DiVincenzo says his team learned a lot from a 23 point loss at Howard last month.
"When we play our pace, we're very effective. But when we get into their pace and play with them we get a little shaky at times, but our crowd at home helps us."
Donte doubled his season total with 3 three-pointers in the win over Hodgson. I asked him if there was a specific drill that helped make him a more effective shooter.
"We did a drill at practice with chairs where we had to sprint full court and came down and got your legs tired. You had to use your legs more and more each time, it was exhausting. You keep doing it 15, 20, 35 times you're used to it."
Former Salesianum Coach Mike Gallagher saw Donte's talent early, making DiVincenzo one of the rare freshman to get significant playing time in his program. Donte says he didn't want to let his coach down.
"I do thank him for giving me the opportunity to play. I'm trying to build off of that for him giving me that chance, and try to take it farther."
Donte says his favorite subject at Salesianum is math and that he's interested in getting into math or medical fields, and says the best advice he's ever received is to be level-headed on and off the court.
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Both sides of the case are clear. Sharp pictures resulted with my trial. The phone buttons work fine. It retails or $29, but found one on Ebay for $12.34 shipped. Seller is xabstractx. Had 2 left when I bought mine last week.
Looks like an inexpensive solution for fish photos.
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I agree that these are an inexpensive means to protecting one's I phone from water, both my son and I had purchased one and it did the job as they claim. However, several weeks ago while on a fishing trip, he pulled his out from his fly bag and dropped it in the process of taking a picture. The result was that the phone came into contact with a rock and cracked the face of the I-phone. While it does keep the phone dry, it does not offer an impact protection so one does have to exercise caution as not to repeat my son's situation if using one. I did not want to take any chances with my I Phone suffering the same fate so I made the investment and purchased an Otterbox armor series which cost me about $70 on Amazon. It offers the same submersion protection but also provides impact protection if it slips from my grip and comes into contact with a hard surface. Like the e-case, all the buttons function and it takes clear pictures, just puts me more at ease to know it is protected if I drop it. Furthermore, I do not remove it from the case, I keep it in there at all times as I can charge it, listen to music using the ear phones or without while always remaining in this vault of a phone case. These are obviously more expensive but could pay for itself in the long run.
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I put my I-phone in a Lifeproof case to protect it but after after having my Olympus h20 proof camera fall out of my chest pack into deep water while bending over to release a fish, I decided to put a lanyard onto the phone also. I bought an inexpensive kwick tek dry pak cell phone case for $10 from academy to keep the phone in while fishing. It has a lanyard an d-ring and you can take photos or text and answer the phone through the case.
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Monday, December 7, 2009
Gallbladder Woes?
Last Monday I had the procedure done on my toenails where the podiatrist removed part of the nail down to the quick and then put a solution on them that would prevent the nail from growing back. It's strange that is was almost a year to the day that I had the same procedure done. At one point the doctor was giving me a shot between my toes. It hurt. I found myself thinking "he is not giving me a shot between my toes" and "isn't that what they do to torture people?" I didn't remember it being as painful last year. The rest of the procedure was a breeze. So far they are healing nicely and I find myself feeling proud of them. At least something in my body is going right (knocking on wood).
I did crash from it and spent the rest of the week in bed. It's been only today that I've been up and about a little more.
But it seems that my gallbladder problems have worsened. I don't know for sure that it is my gallbladder. I've stopped eating anything with any fat in it for the past week and today it seems a little spasm was triggered just by drinking water so I've basically stopped eating. Thankfully I'll see a doctor tomorrow. Hopefully she'll order tests right away so I can find out for certain what is going on. I've been stressed at the prospect of possibly having to have another surgery. I keep trying to find that inner place of knowing everything will be okay but find I have all these thought of what could go wrong. I worry about the POTS, my adrenal functioning, etc....It seems that the secondary complications of having this disease never end.
I've been feeling a lot of anxiety in the early morning hours. That's when I have all the worst case scenarios play out. I'm utilizing the amygdala retraining techniques to combat them. I need to watch the video again to remind me. It does help though not a cure.
I'm grateful that some neurological symptoms I was struggling with a few weeks ago have eased up. I'm not having the vertigo feeling or the sensation that I'm on the verge of a seizure. Nor am I having the nausea thank goodness.
Now its just the gallbladder, liver, pancrea section that is really troubling me (along with my regular disease). I'm a little nervous about getting weighed tomorrow. I think I've lost maybe 25 pounds now? I know that weight gain and loss are part of this disease but I can't get my mom's words out of my head. A couple weeks before her diagnosis of stage IV cancer she remarked at having lost 26 pounds. I remember her saying "I've lost 26 pounds now! Whatever I have I'm glad I'm losing weight!" She said it with pride but I could also hear the concern in her voice. She'd been on weight watchers but the 26 pounds was lost in a very short period of time.
Has anyone had their gallbladder out or had chronic pancreatitis? Any tips or suggestions?
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Hi CFS warrior, I had my gallbladder removed in March of this year, I didn't have stones in there but it was necrotic. I started being sick in November last year with EBV- and liver enzymes elevated. It was so painful I needed tylenol3 for a little while. Then another attack in January, then February- In March, what my dr thought was the flu or viral illness turned up to be a terrible gallbladder and I got really sick, stayed in the hospital for 2 weeks.
Here is what I have learnt:CFS and gallbladder problems are quite common. Lots of us need it out. Diet won't change anything, if only alleviate the symptoms. Better have the surgery done when you're well than when the gallbladder is inflammed- mine was terrible and I have a 6 inch scar on my belly. if it's not too inflammed, they will do it under scope (laparoscopy) and the recovery is much better.
Just my 2 cents, hope it helps, and good luck!
- December 7, 2009 at 10:29 PM
- cfswarrior said...
Thanks Katie! That is quite helpful. I've been having pain around the gallbladder area ever since I got sick. It was very mild and more of an annoyance than anythingn else. Now I'm having the whole range of gallbladder attack symptoms. They have progressed over the past week.
That's frightening that you gallbladder got necrotic. Thank goodness you got that out. I can feel that my gallbladder is inflammed when I sit or bend over it hurts.
Hopefully, if it is gallbladder stuff, that I can have it out laparascopically.
Ugh. I'll be glad when this part is over.
Thanks so much for taking the time to respond. It's always helpful to others with this disease have been through surgery.
I'm sorry that you have this disease. You've had it for a year now?
- December 7, 2009 at 10:51 PM
You are welcome, I am glad I can be of help-
The interesting part is usually they find stones in people with gallbladder problem, bu curiously with CFs patients often there is no stones to be found so what they look for (on ultrasound) is signs of inflammation, like wall thickening. You should also get your liver enzymes and bilirubin checked- another sign of problems, but not always there- I would suggest you ask your dr about an ultrasound- if he doesn't suggest it himself.
I have been sick for 13 months now-after my surgery, which was quite traumatic, and I had a large ovarian cyst removed at the same time, I had my first major crash, 3 weeks after being out of the hospital. I couldn't understand what was going on- I was expected back to work 6 weeks after the surgery and kept going downhill- Unfortunately the downhill part is not really over...
Best of luck with your gallbladder, and like I mentioned, better to do it when you're well than not.
P.S. I am on the most common CFS forums (phoenix rising and ME/CFS community under Kati if you want to add me as a friend.
- December 8, 2009 at 11:03 AM
- Pris said...
I haven't had any experience in that area but did have a friend who had his out laproscopically. He struggled for a few days after, but healed quickly. For me, the anxiety of not knowing is the worse. I think our imaginations can be our worst enemies. I'm struggling with vision problems following a reaction to some drops the eye doctor gave me and can barely look at light, focus well, etc. I was in a tizzy over that imagining all sorts to things but see the doctor Thursday and am thinking now that that pain is being prolonged by a massive tmj attack from worrying about it in my sleep. will be thinking about you!
- December 8, 2009 at 12:29 PM
- Renee said...
I have had a couple of tests for gallbladder over the years and it showed nothing. Turns out it is my stomach more than my gallbladder...so I have little advice Terri. Good thing to have it checked out as we have other problems come up too besides CFS!
Glad the foot procedure went well and you have recovered from it~
It is cold here today too...we in the middle of our first big snow storm/blizzard here in the midwest. Makes me thankful for a warm house!
I think I have gained the weight you have lost! Hang in there, Terri...this too shall pass.
- December 8, 2009 at 2:09 PM
- cfswarrior said...
Hi Pris-
Yes, the anxiety over not knowing is the worst part. I know what you mean about our imaginations being our worst enemy sometimes. Mine has been working overtime in the wee morning hours. I'm hoping to be able to change that pattern. It drives me crazy.
Your reaction to the eye drops sounds scary! I'm glad you'll get some answers Thursday.
I saw the doctor today who ordered an ultrasound. Luckily I'm having it tomorrow so hopefully I'll know more soon.
I'll think of you on Thursday!
- December 8, 2009 at 2:52 PM
- cfswarrior said...
Hi Renee-
Having it be this cold makes me appreciate how much work it is for people who have snow and blizzards. As I was getting dressed to for my doctor appointment dawning layer after layer I thought to myself this is so much work!
A warm house is a good thing.
Lol about you gaining the weight I lost.
How did they determine it was stomach and not gallbladder?
I'm hoping if it is my gallbladder that something will show up and then I'll have it taken out. It would be so nice if something were straighforward.
- December 8, 2009 at 2:57 PM
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Hi Kati-
Your surgery sounds quite tramatic and then to have a crash and have this disease. It must be quite an adjustment for you. The downhill part will eventually stop. At least that's what I've found.
My doctor ordered an abdominal ultrasound that I'll have tomorrow. I should know by Friday whether or not its gallbladder related or not.
It's interesting that nothing tends to show for CFS patients. I wonder why that is. Thanks for that piece of information. If no gallstones show up I'll ask to see the report to see if there is any thickening.
I used to post on phoenix rising forums but haven't in quite awhile. I'll look you up!
- December 8, 2009 at 3:03 PM
CFS warrior, funny that you wil get results today and I will too after having some blood tests done this week, they noticed my cortisol was low- so off I go to the endocrinologist today to see if it's serious and where it's coming from. The fastest consultation I have ever had!!!
Hope your test results will explain your pain- nothing more frustrating than not being validated.
Hugs, Kati
- December 11, 2009 at 10:17 AM
I had my gallbladder out one year ago this November. I had lost a fair amount of weight, was nauseated, had the occassional pain to the right and around the sternum area, and vomitting. Grease, fats, etc made it worse but NOT eating them didn't stop the issue either. I had two tests. The first test showed no stones. The second test showed that the gallbladder was not working at all after being injected with the equivant of a meal. I could see that the bright sparkles that were supposed to be the gallbladder sending bile to the stomach were not doing there thing and so the gallbladder was not working. I had the Lap done with Propanofol (the stuff that killed Michael Jackson but is very safe in a hospital) and when I left the hotpital all the odd symtoms were gone. I had a pillow duct taped to my shirt to protect my abdomen/gallbladder area and only taking ULTRACET had NO pain or other problems at all.
I also had weird gas issues (burping, passing gas) after taking a bite of food or a tiny bit of water.
My gallbladder lap was very easy and no pain afterwards and end of lots of stupid problems. Ask for Ultracet as you do NOT need narcotics.
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But What About the Children?
Kids have it hard these days. I grew up in cable's infancy, a time when phones were still attached to the walls. It took a little while for news to spread. And it was a more innocent time, too. Heroes were put up on a pedestal to be worshiped, not to have stones thrown at them. Today, though? Man, it must be rough to be a kid or a hero.
Take Tiger Woods (please!). As if the multiple sordid affairs weren't enough, he's now being dragged into the PED arena as well with the news about his doctor using HGH. And as soon as any news about him hits the streets, it's spread far and wide by the internet. Let's be honest, it's entirely possible that Jack Nicklaus had a stable of pretty young fillies at his beck and call during his hey-day but you never would have heard about it. Stars were protected back then.
The real problem is that we can't seem to find a happy medium. Either we don't know anything (why haven't I seen a Joe Dimaggio/Marilyn Monroe honeymoon video?) or we know way too much (the image of a syringe in Roger Clemens' @$$ is something I'll never be able to forget). Why can't we just know a reasonable amount? Like, if someone is a danger to himself or society (Ray Lewis, I'm looking at you), let us know. But if they're just doing some canoodling on the side, that's his or her business (yes A-Rod, I'm giving you a pass on that one).
Information is power and that hasn't changed. And there is plenty of information on every possible subject out there today. But trying to find the useful stuff is like diving into a latrine to find the quarter you accidentally swallowed and then excreted. It's messy and ultimately just not worth it. Kind of like being a hero.
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I totally agree, stars were extremely protected. The only way to get them off the pedestal was if some huge groundbreaking story came out that revealed something very bad about them. Nice post.
Great entry, first of all. Sadly, there's no happy medium nowadays, in this era of TMZ and other like-minded shows, as to which "dirt" is drudged up on anyone in the public eye. For the folk whose careers are spent in front of the camera – it's all about the power and money tied up in that pristine image. When that image hits the skids, everything that's been built up to that point folds like a house of cards. For example, a discreet dalliance's exposure, whether it harms anyone or not, will wind up costing that public figure more than the present financial tie-in, but will also strain the emotional ties any fans or admirers will have for them as well. Nothing is sacred anymore.
Our society loves to build people up and then bring them down – and watch their heartwarming "comeback" story. It's a sick cycle. Plenty of athletes have affairs and nobody writes about it. But when a major star gets caught, it's a big story and the piling on begins. I don't see it changing any time soon.
I agree with Jane…society is all for the underdog until the underdog actually succeeds, this goes for businesses and sports teams as well.
Nice post :^)
Sometimes I wish there were less information just so I don't have to explain what is wrong with all these people to my kids. Not great examples they are setting. Sad :O(
Ignorance is bliss when you're a kid. With less media, we had more hometown heroes than now, too. I think it's funny when my friends ask me why I don't watch much TV.


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A Makakilo man accused of sharing top secret military information will remain behind bars for now.
A federal judge denied him bail, saying he's a danger to national security.
Fifty-nine-year-old Benjamin Bishop and his attorney were hoping for a favorable decision.
"I agreed with the judge Friday he no longer had access to security clearance and did not pose as a flight risk or danger except for what was in his mind. I don't think that's sufficient grounds to detain somebody," said defense attorney Birney Bervar.
Federal prosecutors say Bishop shared classified military information including nuclear secrets with a 27-year-old Chinese female nationalist he was romantically involved with during parts of the last two years.
They argued the Makakilo resident could still recall and communicate sensitive information based on the amount of security clearance Bishop previously had while working at the U.S. Pacific Command.
"The government gives security clearance and gives access to documents. So anyone who possesses clearance and is charged with violating that clearance by the government's theory should be locked up? For how long? Forever?" asked Bervar.
The Department of Justice has not spoken publicly about Bishop since announcing his arrest last week but said in court Bishop "cannot be trusted."
Bishop's attorney is already discussing an appeal despite the setback.
"He believes he's being treated fairly. He repeats, 'I'm a patriotic American. I believe in the system,'" said Bervar.
Bishop is also charged with one count of unlawfully retaining national defense documents at his residence.
If convicted of the two charges, Bishop could face up to twenty years in federal prison.


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It's no secret that I love apps. I use them all the time on my own phone. I was recently told about new farming apps: eCropScout and FarmLogs
eCropScout is a free app designed to be used by crop consultants, farmers, seed dealers, agronomists and agricultural professionals. It offers scouting sheets for weeds, insects and diseases. Application sheets are available for chemicals, fertilizer and manure. Users can also input planting and harvest data. You can also add maps and create pdfs of each sheet you fill out.
Features of the app include:
The app is free on iTunes for iPad and on GooglePlay. Registration is free to become a silver member, which still offers full use of the app. It also gives you a membership at grainshed.com (Prairie Farm Club). By registering, you get an ID that you input to use the app. Registration very simple and easy and I found the app very easy to navigate and use.
FarmLogs a farm management app available from the FarmLogs company. Using the app, you can log records from the field, in the shop, etc. Log your planting, log your scouting, log your machinery maintenance.
Field activities such as planting, fertilizing and harvesting can be quickly entered and tracked right from the GPS-enabled mobile apps. Multiple team members can track activities and make updates in real time. Any information entered using the app will sync with the online account, so information is accessible anywhere and everywhere.
The app itself is free, and available on iTunes and GooglePlay. However, full use of the app requires a subscription to FarmLogs. The company offers a 30-day free trial. After that, current pricing is 5¢/acre/month or 50¢/acre/year. The price includes unlimited access to FarmLogs (unlimited users for both web and mobile), customer support, automatic daily backups and automatic updates.
Go to their website for more details on the company and subscriptions.
If you use either of these apps already, or want to let me know what you think of it after using it, I'd love your feedback. Comment here or shoot me an email at email@example.com.
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The menu, however, is pretty far from what it used to be. Though thereŌĆÖs only one written account of the first thanksgiving, what it does mention are foods introduced to the settlers by their Native American compatriots ŌĆō venison, duck, waterfowl, corn porridge, cabbage ŌĆō that represented our nationŌĆÖs earliest culinary heritage. Before the Mayflower bumped into Plymouth Rock, depositing the precursors to modern America, Indian nations up and down the country had their own rich gustatory histories that stretched back sometimes centuries and were flavored with the unique ingredients and tastes of each region and tribe.
Today, those recipes have faded into near obscurity, replaced by food brought in by wave after wave of immigrants flocking to the United States since her birth, and more and more by processed foods filling the shelves of big box stores.
Johnnie Sue Myers is trying to change that. Myers is a Cherokee elder with the Eastern Band of Cherokee who is trying to bring back the old ways, one dish at a time. Her cookbook, The Gathering Place, is filled with recipes that were handed down in Cherokee families for generations, interwoven with the influences of German settlers and flavors from other folks who have called Western North Carolina home over the years.
Myers gathered the recipes together, in part, because many of them exist only in the minds of older tribal members, and in just a few yearsŌĆÖ time could be lost completely.
ŌĆ£A lot of those recipes havenŌĆÖt been documented for this area,ŌĆØ said Myers. ŌĆ£These recipes that I use, itŌĆÖs kind of like a basket. TheyŌĆÖre interwoven with Appalachia.ŌĆØ
Indeed, the pages of her book are stocked with regional delicacies that mix traditional Cherokee flavors with techniques picked up elsewhere.
ŌĆ£Salt pickling was brought to us by the Germans, and other different nationalities moved here as well,ŌĆØ said Myers, and pickle dilly, a cured, pickled, salted concoction of corn, green tomatoes, cabbage and green beans, is still being made in Cherokee thanks to their influence.
Though her recipes are not exactly what youŌĆÖd find in your average Jamie Oliver or Betty Crocker tome, Myers says that most of the ingredients can be found in every cookŌĆÖs pantry, or gathered locally. Since gathering and publishing the collection, sheŌĆÖs seen a spike in interest in traditional Cherokee eating.
ŌĆ£People have started cooking,ŌĆØ said Myers. ŌĆ£They want to cook like their grandmother cooked, or their husband has decided that heŌĆÖs going to start hunting now. There has just been a lot of interest sparked in the last five or six years.ŌĆØ
That kind of interest, especially from a younger generation of budding cooks, is exciting to Myers, because it perhaps signals a move to healthier eating, and a move away from the drive-through and back to the family table.
ŌĆ£I think that families need to start becoming a unit again, especially at mealtime. At mealtime, you find out who likes who, whoŌĆÖs doing what in school, if you just listen, thatŌĆÖs where youŌĆÖre going to get any information you need to know about your children. To me thatŌĆÖs one of the most important times,ŌĆØ said Myers.
In fact, her own talent and passion for cooking blossomed from a desire to have just that. Myers was the child of a father often away working, and a mother she describes as a workaholic, so as a young girl, she was charged with caring for her two sisters.
At 7, she began to frequent the neighborŌĆÖs house with her sisters, and was fascinated by what she saw there.
ŌĆ£I would sit and watch, and as long as we were quiet and didnŌĆÖt touch anything, we could watch,ŌĆØ explained Myers. ŌĆ£I think thatŌĆÖs probably the thing that prompted me to start cooking. I liked the family unit. ThatŌĆÖs what I wanted, and I found it.ŌĆØ
She then raised five sons with her husband, Sony, and is now teaching her grandchildren to cook, as well.
To be sure, many of MyersŌĆÖ recipes do require a bit of work ŌĆö learning to identify and gather berries or traditional sochani, seeking out wild ramps, getting the hang of basic pickling and canning techniques ŌĆö but to Myers, these arenŌĆÖt skills that are born, theyŌĆÖre simply taught and refined.
ŌĆ£You know what makes a good cook?ŌĆØ asked Myers. ŌĆ£Practice. ItŌĆÖs like anything else.ŌĆØ
And with the economy still putting a strain on many families, reclaiming some of the old ways could provide a healthier alternative thatŌĆÖs actually cheaper. Myers and her husband barter for many of their ingredients, and hunting and gathering ingredients isnŌĆÖt just a way to feel more connected to your food, itŌĆÖs cheaper as well.
Though her next book isnŌĆÖt going to be a traditional Cherokee recipe book, Myers is glad she took the time to write these recipes down. She also learned much from her grandmother, who ŌĆ£never spoke English but was a very good cook.ŌĆØ But now, itŌĆÖs her generation who are the grandmothers, and many arenŌĆÖt practicing the knowledge, or exposing a younger generation to the rich history (and equally rich flavors) of the Cherokee kitchen.
The interest in her book gives her hope, however. No, itŌĆÖs not normal to eat groundhog or squirrel or even venison, but maybe it could be, and maybe it should be.
ŌĆ£People are interested in the recipes now because they realize that maybe they need to change their eating habits. Processed foods are going to kill you, and we need to get back to the basics,ŌĆØ said Myers.
And with her book stocking the shelves of more and more kitchens, and a cooking class on the calendar this spring in Franklin, sheŌĆÖs doing her part to show people the way.
Candy Roaster Pie
by Chef Johnnie Sue Myers, Author, "The Gathering Place"
1-9" deep dish frozen pie shell
2 Cups of pureed candy roaster
2 Eggs slightly beaten
3/4 Cup sugar
2 and 1/2 oz. evaporated milk
2 tbs of Cinnamon
1 tsp of Nutmeg
Pre-heat oven to 425 F
Mix all ingredients well, pour into frozen pie shell and bake at 425 F for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 F and bake 1 hour or until filling is firm.
Check by inserting a tooth pick into the filling, if it comes out clean, the pie is done.
Let set 30 minutes before cutting.
Serves 6 to 8
Candy Roaster Squash - "This heirloom winter squash was originally developed by the Cherokee people. The name 'Candy Roaster' was probably a rough translation of a traditional Cherokee name for the species.
Candy Roaster squash comes in many different sizes (from 10 to 250+ lbs), shapes (round, cylindrical, teardrop, blocky, etc.), and colors (pink, tan, green, blue, gray, or orange), yet the most common varieties have fine-textured orange flesh. This variety enjoys continued popularity, particularly in the southern Appalachian mountains ..."
Sweet And Sour Venison Meatballs
by Chef Johnnie Sue Myers, Author, "The Gathering Place"
If youŌĆÖre looking for something to do with that buck you snagged on your last hunting trip, venison meatballs can make a nice addition to an otherwise turkey-heavy table.
ŌĆó 1 Lb. ground Venison
ŌĆó 2 Tablespoons Lemon Juice and Extra Virgin Olive
ŌĆó Oil Spray
ŌĆó 1- 8 oz jar grape jelly
ŌĆó 2 teaspoons of Seasoning salt
ŌĆó 1- 8 oz. jar cherry jelly
ŌĆó 1 teaspoon salt
ŌĆó 1 cup hot ketchup
ŌĆó 2 eggs beaten
ŌĆó 1/2 Cup chili sauce
ŌĆó 1/2 Cup fine chopped onions
ŌĆó 1/2 Cup of corn starch
Preparing the meat:
Remove ground venison from original packaging and place in freezer bag, place in refrigerator overnight or for at least eight hours so ground meat can bleed out.
This is an excellent way to thaw and to bleed out excess blood at the same time. Removing excess blood does not remove any of the nutrients.
In mixing bowl place meat, add 2 teaspoons of seasoning salt and 1 teaspoon salt and a pinch or two of black pepper, 2 beaten eggs and cup of fine chopped onions, mix well.
Pinch off enough mixture to form a small ball, (I usually gage my meatballs by pinching enough to fill the cage my fingers make when my hand is closed and all five fingers come together.)
Deer meat has a lot of water in it so you will notice shrinkage after cooking.
Pre-heat oven to 350 F
Place the meatballs on a cookie sheet sprayed with Extra Virgin Olive Oil to prevent sticking.
Cook 15 minutes.
Remove from oven and place in slow cooker. Cover, setting on low.
The meatballs can also be fried in 2 tablespoon of Extra Virgin Olive Oil, but you must turn often to insure proper cooking. By cooking in the oven this gives you time to prepare the sauce
Sweet and Sour Sauce:
Place Cherry Jelly and Grape Jelly in cooking pot with setting on medium, stirring constantly to prevent scorching, melt to liquid stage.
Add lemon juice, hot catsup and chili sauce.
Mix enough water with the corn starch to dissolve into a thin paste pour into the jelly mixture stirring constantly until the sauce thickens. Turn down heat and let simmer for 5 minutes the corn starch needs to cook.
Pour gently over the meatballs in the slow cooker, replace lid. Let simmer for no longer than 1 hour, Please do not over cook, the meatballs will be very dry with no flavor. The meat balls can also be kept warm in the oven in a baking dish, cover with foil after adding the sauce, do not over cook.
Tip: This meatball receipt makes great meatballs for spaghetti. Just add to your favorite sauce.
To see more, visit MyersŌĆÖ website, www.cherokeecooking.com.


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October 19, 2011
Volunteers Tackle a Big Project with Teamwork
For the 11th consecutive year, Yellowstone National Park rangers welcomed the energetic, dedicated ARCH Yellowstone Volunteers, working with military veterans, and other friends, for an intensive week of service in mid-September. After successful past corral rebuilding efforts at Lamar Buffalo Ranch, Snake River, and Tower, the team set its sights on its most ambitious project yet: much-needed improvements to the West Corral, near the park's West Entrance, in a mere five days.
Although seldom seen by the public, the West Corral is one of the largest corral operations in Yellowstone. It provides vital support to backcountry rangers and other park staff who require mules and horses to pack supplies for projects ranging from fisheries research, to bear management, to trail maintenance. The primary goals of the project were to rebuild three corrals to withstand severe winter conditions, replace gates, and add a 60-foot diameter round pen for training and working the horses.
With great gusto, a team worked together to bring the vision to reality in record time. The volunteers consisted of 11 members from ARCH Venture Partners, led by Clint Bybee – ARCH co-founder and Yellowstone Park Foundation (YPF) Advisory Council member; eight veterans from Wounded Warrior Project; some intrepid YPF staff and volunteers; two local citizens; and 16 National Park Service staff. Thanks to the generosity of the ARCH volunteers, their donations to YPF's Ranger Heritage initiative made supplying the materials and equipment the project's easiest task.
By the time the volunteers arrived, Yellowstone staff had already removed the rotting posts and sagging rails, and had re-designed the corral layout for efficiency and safety which led to extensive rebuilding and enlargement of the corrals. On Day One, after a safety briefing by rangers, the volunteers began by demolishing the old feeding trough, and staging posts and rails for constructing the new fence.
Next, the grueling work of installing posts. Smaller groups self-selected to dig 3.5-foot-deep post holes for the treated posts that would support new rails. Other groups devoted their muscle to puzzling through the geometry of creating fence corners and then carefully placing posts and bolting rails in a uniform pattern.
By Day Five, the dedicated crew had installed more than 700 linear feet of fencing and had constructed a West Corral entrance, complete with a carved wooden sign. After toiling side-by-side for long days of problem-solving, sweat, and laughter, the volunteers and NPS staff are immensely proud of what they accomplished in 900 intense volunteer hours. And like other ARCH Yellowstone Volunteers and Wounded Warrior Project collaborations, participants left the Park feeling like Yellowstone had given them just as much in return.
"It was a wonderful experience for all of us that were lucky enough to attend. [It] made me proud to have been able to serve with my fellow veterans, as well as all others involved," said Paul Horton, a Wounded Warrior Project member from the Boston area. "[It] helped us to prove what a few disabled veterans can do, with the right people behind us."


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We cannot do global child development and neglect our own families. God would not be honored if we poured ourselves into the world's children and neglected our own.
"If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church?" – 1 Timothy 3:5, NIV
Listen to Mark Hanlon, Senior Vice President of Compassion USA, talk about the importance of cherishing our families.


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Related Reading
DNS & Bind Cookbook
Editor's Note: Here's a sampling of the recipes you'll find in the recently released DNS & BIND Cookbook. The author, Cricket Liu, has selected five recipes from Chapter 5 on "BIND Name Server Operations." The problems and solutions in this excerpt range from how to determine the amount of memory a name server needs to how to modify zone data without restarting the name server.
Creating zone data and configuring a name server is just the beginning. Managing a name server over time requires an understanding of how to control it and which commands it supports. It takes familiarity with other tools from the BIND distribution, including
nsupdate, used to send dynamic updates to a name server.
This chapter includes lots of recipes that involve
ndc and
rndc, programs that send control messages to BIND 8 and 9 name servers, respectively. These programs let an administrator reload modified zones, refresh slave zones, flush the cache, and much more. The list of commands the name server supports seems to grow with each successive release of BIND, so I've provided a peek at a few new commands in BIND 9.3.0 for the curious.
In the brave new world of dynamic zones, an administrator may have to make most of the changes to zone data using dynamic update, rather than by manually editing zone data files.
You need to figure out how much memory a name server will require.
While this answer may seem like a cop-out, the only sure-fire way to determine how much memory a name server will need is to configure it, start it, and then monitor it using a tool like
top. After a week or so, the size of the
named process should stabilize, and you'll know how much memory it needs.
The reason it's so difficult to calculate how much memory a name server requires is that there are so many variables involved. The size of the
named executable varies on different operating systems and hardware architectures. Zones have a unique mix of records. Zone data files may use lots of shortcuts (e.g., leaving out the origin, or even using a
$GENERATE control statement) or none at all. The resolvers that use the name server may send a huge volume of queries, causing the name server's cache to swell, or may send just sporadic queries.
You want to test a name server's configuration before putting it into production.
Use the
named-checkconf and
named-checkzon programs to check the
named.conf file and zone data files, respectively.
named-checkconf reads /etc/named.conf by default, so if you haven't moved the configuration file into /etc yet, specify the pathname to the configuration file you want to test as the argument:
$ named-checkconf ~/test/named.conf
named-checkconf uses the routines in BIND (BIND 9.1.0 and later, to be exact) to make sure the
named.conf file is syntactically correct. If there are any syntactic or semantic errors in
named-checkconf will print an error. For example:
$ named-checkconf /tmp/named.conf
/tmp/named.conf:3: missing ';' before '}'
named-checkzon uses BIND's own routines to check the syntax of a zone data file. To run it, specify the domain name of the zone and the name of the zone data file as arguments:
$ named-checkzone foo.example db.foo.example
If the zone contains any errors,
named-checkzon prints an error. If the zone would load without errors,
named-checkzon prints a message like this:
zone foo.example/IN: loaded serial 2002022400
Once you've checked the configuration file and zone data, configure the name server to listen on a nonstandard port with the
listen-on options substatement, and not to use a control channel:
controls { };
options {
directory "/var/named";
listen-on port 1053 { any; };
That way, the test name server won't interfere with any production name server you might already have running. Check the name server's syslog output (which should be clean, if you ran
named-checkconf and
named-checkzon) and query the name server with
dig or another query tool, specifying the alternate port:
$ dig -p 1053 soa foo.example.
Once you're satisfied with the name server's responses to a few queries, you can remove the
listen-on substatement, add a real
controls statement and put it into production.
Even though
named-checkconf and
named-checkzon first shipped with BIND 9.1.0, BIND 8's configuration syntax is similar enough to BIND 9's that you can easily use
named-checkconf with a BIND 8
named.conf file. The zone data file format is exactly the same between versions, so you can use
named-checkzon, too.
You want to view a name server's cached data.
rndc dumpdb (BIND 9) or
ndc dumpdb (BIND 8) to dump the cache to disk, then look through the dump file.
BIND 9 name servers only dump the contents of the cache to disk by default, but BIND 8 name servers dump both the contents of cache and authoritative zone data to disk, so you'll have to find the cached records in the file.
To determine which records in a BIND 8 database dump were cached, look at the TTLs and the contents of the comment field. Authoritative zone data will have the nice, round TTLs you configured, while cached records will have had their TTLs decremented by the number of seconds they've been in the cache. Cached records will also have "
Cr=" as a comment at the end of the record, giving the credibility level of the record (an indication of the quality of the cached record). For example, these records were cached from an authoritative response from the name server at
. 518380 IN NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ;Cr=auth [184.108.40.206]
518380 IN NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ;Cr=auth [126.96.36.199]
518380 IN NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ;Cr=auth [220.127.116.11]
518380 IN NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ;Cr=auth [22.214.171.124]
518380 IN NS H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ;Cr=auth [126.96.36.199]
518380 IN NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ;Cr=auth [188.8.131.52]
518380 IN NS G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ;Cr=auth [18.104.22.168]
518380 IN NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ;Cr=auth [126.96.36.199]
518380 IN NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ;Cr=auth [18.104.22.168]
518380 IN NS J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ;Cr=auth [184.108.40.206]
518380 IN NS K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ;Cr=auth [184.108.40.206]
518380 IN NS L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ;Cr=auth [126.96.36.199]
518380 IN NS M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ;Cr=auth [126.96.36.199]
Remember that dumping the cache to disk has no effect on the contents of the cache. If you want to flush (clear) the cache, see Flushing (Clearing) a Name Server's Cache.
You want to flush bad records from a name server's cache.
If you run a BIND 9.2.0 or newer name server, you can flush the cache with
rndc flush. With older name servers, you need to kill the name server and restart it to flush the cache. You can do that in one fell swoop with
rndc restart or
rndc exec.
Clearing the cache is really a side effect of killing the name server, since BIND name servers only store cached data in memory. Since restarting the name server takes time, especially if the name server is authoritative for many zones,
rndc flush is a better option.
If you run multiple views on your BIND 9.2.0 or newer name server, you can flush the cache in only one view using
# rndc flush internal
BIND 9.3.0 will support flushing all of the records attached to a particular domain name with
rndc flushname. For example:
# rndc flushname cnn.com
You want to modify your zone data without restarting the name server.
Make the change to the zone data file. For BIND 9, run:
# rndc reload domain-name-of-zone
For BIND 8, run:
# ndc reload domain-name-of-zone
If you've modified multiple zones, just list them after
reload. For example:
# rndc reload foo.example bar.example
Remember to increment the serial number in your zone's SOA record after changing the zone data. The primary master reloads the zone regardless of whether you've incremented the serial number, since the file's modification time has changed, but your zone's slaves only have the serial number to tell them whether the zone has been updated.
Reloading individual zones, as shown above, was introduced in BIND 8.2.1 and again in 9.1.0. With older versions of BIND, just use
rndc reload or
ndc reload, as appropriate. That takes a little more time, since the name server checks all zone data files to see which have changed.
If you're reloading a zone that exists in multiple views on a BIND 9 name server, specify the view with
rndc reload domain-name-of-zone class view. For example:
# rndc reload foo.example in external
Unfortunately, you can't leave out the class, even though you're unlikely ever to reload a non-Internet class zone.
Telling a BIND 9 name server to reload a dynamically updated zone has no effect, since the name server doesn't expect you to update the zone manually. Telling a BIND 8 name server to reload a dynamically updated zone may work--or you may lose your manual changes.
Dynamic update is, of course, another way to update zone data without restarting the name server; see "See Dynamically Updating a Zone" in Chapter 7 for details.
Related Reading
DNS & Bind Cookbook
Cricket Liu is the co-author of all of O'Reilly's Nutshell Handbooks on the Domain Name System, "DNS and BIND," "DNS on Windows NT," "DNS on Windows 2000," "DNS on Windows Server 2003," and the "DNS & BIND Cookbook," and was the principal author of Managing Internet Information Services.
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Me building a wooden lavvu.
This is me at Universal Studios Florida in June 2012 on my honeymoon. Right now I'm trying to lose about 100 lbs so I'm not such a cow.
This is me in my fancy-dress get-up for the Halloween celebrations last night. I went as 'The Phantom' (of the Opera), since the costume was really cheap to put together. Got this 'liquid latex' stuff that when you put it on your skin with toilet paper ruffles or something can make some very cool looking scars and wounds. Tried to make the Phantom's disfigurement with it. I don't think the pics quite do it justice, but hopefully you get the idea:
(Don't have the mask on cos it wasn't half as fun as the messy face!)
UNLIMITED POWAAAAAAAAAAAA! *swings arms around making lightsaber noises*
Edit: Some things could have be interpreted in ways I did not intend, so I switched it up.
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Nice job with the costume
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