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That moment when you realize just how much awesome you have coming up that you're not sure you're going to survive it? Yeah, that.
It's nearly time for the second half of the year conference season, and it looks like my schedule is starting to fill up. I've three conferences and 5 speaking engagements in the coming weeks, so for those interested in Stalking Crell here's where you'll be able to find me:
Aaron Winborn is a longtime Drupal contributor and friend to the community. Since his diagnosis with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Aaron has been trying to enjoy time with his family, to remain productive in his work and to live as normal a life as possible.
As time passes, however, the disease has made his life increasingly difficult as it attacks his nervous system. To cope with the mounting costs of treating his condition, Aaron has set up a special needs trust, and you can make a direct donation from his web site.
As a show of support for Aaron and his family, for the rest of this year, my co-authors and I intend to donate all of our royalties from sales of Drupal 7 Module Development to the special needs trust. You can read reviews and order a copy at Amazon.com.
Not only can you get one of the top books on Drupal 7 development, in so doing you can help out one of the people that has helped to make Drupal as powerful as it is.
On Friday, Dries merged in the first major work from the Web Services and Context Core Initiative (WSCCI). In short, it means we are now making use of all of the Symfony2 Components that we've pulled into core in the past few months.
It is also step one in the biggest change in Drupal's design since Drupal 4.7.
If you're like me, you've probably read a dozen or two articles about PHP performance in your career. Many of them are quite good, but some are simply flat out wrong, or misinformed.
One of the old truisms that has been repeated for as long as I can recall is "don't use readfile() if you have big files, because it reads the whole file into memory and your server will explode." The usual advice is to manually stream a file, like so:
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There's just one problem with that age-old truism: It's not true.
As Dries has already reported, we held a summit meeting at the Acquia offices in Boston last week. It was a good sprint for a couple of reasons. For one, a large number of leading core developers got more clearly on the same page about the direction of Drupal core. For another, we were able to break the "too big to swallow" logjam that has been plaguing the Web Services and Context Core Initiative (WSCCI).
You mean you aren't already attending what will likely be the largest web developer conference in the Western US this year? What are you waiting for? Not sure if it will be worth it? It will be. Oh, it will be...
If you still need some convincing, or if your boss still needs some convincing, here's the top ten reasons you want to be at DrupalCon Denver:
As Drupal is in the process of considering how to restructure code to best leverage the PSR-0 standard, I figured it would be wise to take a quick survey of how some other major projects organize their code bases. This is not a complete rundown of every project, simply roughly comparable notes for those areas Drupal is currently discussing. I am posting it here in the hopes that it will be useful to more than just Drupal.
Note: This is based on one evening's work of poking around. If you work with one of these projects and have more information to provide or want to correct a mistake I made, please do so in the comments!
As we begin a new year, it seems appropriate that the discussion of backward compatibility has come up yet again in Drupal. It's a perennial question, and you can tell when a new Drupal core version is ready for prime time when people start complaining about lack of backward compatibility. It's like clockwork.
However, most of these discussions don't actually get at the root issue: Drupal is architecturally incapable of backward compatibility. Backward incompatibility is baked into the way Drupal is designed. That's not a deliberate decision, but rather an implication of other design decisions that have been made.
Drupal developers could not, even if they wanted to, decide to support backward compatibility or "cleanup only" type changes in Drupal 8. It is possible to do so in Drupal 9. If we want to do that, however, then we need to decide, now, in Drupal 8, to rearchitect in ways that support backward compatibility. Backward compatibility is a feature you have to design for.
Last week I was at DIG London, in London, Ontario. It's normally a gaming conference, but they've added a web track and asked me to come speak. It was a fairly good experience, helped in part by their keynote, the infamous Jeffrey Zeldman talking about responsive design and related topics.
One of the points Zeldman made was that users want content their way, not the way we (web designers, web authors, and web devleopers) want it. Visually impared users want content read to them, or resized. Color blind users want a different color scheme that they can actually read. Smartphone users want content in a narrow column, without a dozen sidebar blocks. Mobile users want content offline, so they can read it on a plane. Many users want just the content, no design, and so use tools like Instapaper to strip out everything but the text of an article. RSS feeds have been around for a decade, and are now growing rapidly thanks to mobile devices, and those are generally (mostly) layout-free. If you're doing responsive design, then you're not making a design but the framework of a design that will change, and possibly mostly disappear, under certain circumstances.
Of course, that to me begs a very important question. When I asked it during Q&A, even Zeldman didn't have an answer. (Yes, I stumped the King of Web Standards. Woohoo!)
In the modern web, does web design even matter?
(At BADCamp, several people were asking me to explain what the heck the Web Services core initiative was trying to do, so I got to practice my elevator pitch. This is essentially that pitch in written form.)
Drupal today is very page-oriented. Every request that comes in is responded to with a full HTML page. It is possible to return something else, and finally in Drupal 7 there is, sort of, native support to do so with delivery callbacks, but by and large any non-page response is an after thought at best and a hack at worst. The entire system is built around the assumption that we're returning an HTML page. Why else would we still load the theme system and form system for an auto-complete callback?
In the past, that hasn't been a major issue. The web was a series of pages, in practice, and Drupal is one of if not the most flexible page-generating machine on the web today. Drupal 7 is, arguably, the pinnacle of this page-oriented world.
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The Klarälven river was used for logging up until 1991. But now it's just plain sailing or rather drifting for timber-rafting enthusiasts who drift down-river past rural villages, forest and farmland without a care in the world.
You just need a bit of hard graft to build your raft (or the pampered can get a ready-made one) and off you go a-rafting down the river Huckleberry Finn style.
This is beaver country. And a river hopping with fish. So bring your binoculars and a fishing rod.
Nights are spent in a tent on a well-moored raft or on land. Meals consist of provisions you have bought prior to setting out on the journey.
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My son is 9 months old and eats three meals a day. He eats a LOT! A sample meal: whole large bannana, 1/2 cup applesauce w/ cereal, and then a vegg or another fruit approx 1/4 cup. I do not feed him juice in a cup only water. I am signing with him and he indicates in is own way more or all done and he fusses when he is done. He can just eat and eat and eat. Am I feeding my son so much reducing my milk supply? He BF at 7AM, 10AM, 2PM, 5PM, and 7PM.
On another note; I am getting very worried about my BF releationship with my son, he doesn't seem too interested any more during the daytime nursings. And if he doesn't nurse for at least 5 mins my milk will not letdown? Therefore I worry that the mid day nursings he isn't getting anything.
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Romney's problem is his moderate policies don't match his conservative rhetoric, and never have
By Barry Gordon 11/01/2012
The election is just around the corner, but its outcome is still very much in doubt. Undecideds, which political scientists refer to as low-information voters (with apologies to the few high-information undecideds left), are bouncing around like ping-pong balls, trying to find something on which to finally make their decision. So let me weigh in and try to help by asking one simple question:
Why would anyone in his or her right mind ever votea for an abject liar — a liar so bold he lies right to your face and assumes you won't know the difference because you're politically ignorant? A liar willing to tell you anything you want to hear and hope that you'll swallow it?
Like it or not, my friends, that person is Mitt Romney.
I'm far from arguing you shouldn't vote for Romney because he's too conservative. Although he seemed so during the primary, I have no idea whether he's truly conservative. I'm not asking conservatives to reject him because he's too moderate, because the only evidence I have of his moderation is his career in Massachusetts, during which he ran to the left of Ted Kennedy in a failed attempt to win his Senate seat, and, as governor, passed and signed some moderate-looking legislation handed to him by an overwhelmingly Democratic state Legislature. I'm not saying that moderate Mitt isn't the real Mitt — I simply don't know.
His latest "big speech" clinched the deal (or non-deal) for me. It could have been written by Obama's speechwriters, talking about the need for student loans, fighting for the middle class, covering people with pre-existing conditions. The problem is that if you go to his Web site or listen to those acknowledged to be independent analysts, his policies don't match his rhetoric.
And that's the problem. Most people don't go to Web sites. They listen to the rhetoric and are generally impressed with the last thing they hear. So it may well be that Romney's genius resides in his understanding human nature. It's not a very flattering understanding. We can try to find nice words for it like "pivot," or "evolving," but when someone stares me in the face and tells me the opposite of what he told me two weeks ago, I recognize it for what it is — lying. And I don't believe we should reward that kind of behavior in a Democrat or a Republican. If we do, elections are reduced to contests about tone and style rather than substance. It's easier that way, but it does our electoral system a deep disservice.
Which brings me to California. This year, we're engaged in a great experiment to make politics less polarized and more productive. Our disdain for politics led us to vote for an open primary system in which the top two vote-getters, regardless of party, moved on to the general election, pitting Democrat and Republicans against their own. The hope was the candidates would have to attract voters from the opposite party and, therefore, the more moderate of the two stood the best chance. We hoped if we pushed candidates more toward that utopian "center" we prize so much, they would become more willing to cross party lines to accomplish great things and we could all hold hands and sing "Kumbaya," having fixed an admittedly broken system.
I've visited the Web sites of several of these same-party congressional candidates to see if there was a dime's bit of difference between them where it counts — on the issues. One would assume, for example, that a more moderate Republican candidate needing to attract Democrats would show more flexibility on the need to raise revenue in order to really reduce the deficit, or might be a bit more liberal on social issues. Frankly, I see no evidence of a change.
If anything, the factors that could decide the winners in these races have become even pettier and more deceptive. Just as with Romney, the rhetoric changes but the policies do not.
I have no crystal ball, and the experiment is admittedly in its earliest stages. Still, as a Democrat, I probably speak for a lot of my fellow progressives when I say that in a race between two virtually identical Republicans, I am far more likely to skip the down-ballot race than I am to hold my nose, flip a coin and vote for the slightly-lesser-of-two-evils. I'd much rather have a Democrat on the ballot, even one with no chance of winning, so we could have a true debate about how to fix the economy or how to deal with climate change.
Do we value conviction, integrity and truth-telling or not? We certainly do when we deal with each other in business or in our family lives. But are we willing to hold our political leaders to the same standard? Hopefully on Tuesday we'll provide the right answer.
Barry Gordon is an adjunct professor at Cal State LA.
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It's one of the best music festivals around the world. This year the best stars from the music world attended the festival. It is Rock In Rio Madrid, and there have been Rihanna, Bon Jovi, Miley Cirus, David Bisbal, Shakira, Amy McDonald and much more. The highest rock journey happened on the closing of the festival with such rock legends as Metallica, Motorhead and Sober.
Rock in Rio is based at Arganda del Rey, in the outskirts of Madrid, a big enclosure in middle of the fields, trying not to annoy anybody. Up to there, arrive hundreds of buses loaded of young people. Boys and girls just wanting to enjoy the music and see their best artists live.
The festival has converted this year into a competition between singers and artists, in which the winners will be those who get the audience more excited. Rihanna and Shakira appeared in front of more than 85.000 people in their sexiest version, loaded of sensuality, and dressed with gorgeous models. And Miley Cyrus wasn't so far behind…
During these days more than 30 millions people have been at the festival, and like every year, famous faces have been there mixed with a lot of unknown faces, but all of them with really curious street styles. The star look was Jeans and T shirt, but some girls just want to bring up people attention with uncomfortable models for this event.
Mini dresses, boilersuits with flower prints or jeans combines with navy shirts are setting the trends this year at the concerts. As top complements, we have boats, romans slippers, and high heels and XXL size handbags too. Every style is valid.
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July 8, 1996: The Hubble telescope has been used successfully to measure the diameters of a special class of pulsating star called a Mira variable, which rhythmically change size. The results suggest these gigantic, old stars aren't round but egg-shaped.
Knowing more about these enigmatic stars is crucial to understanding how stars evolve, and may preview the fate of our Sun, five billion years from now. Due to their distance, the stars are too small for their disks to be resolved in conventional visible-light pictures, so astronomers used Hubble's Fine Guidance Sensors to measure the widths of two Mira variables, R Leonis and W. Hydrae.See the rest:
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I think the defense will get a little worse (can't really sustain what they did this year) and the offense will get better (can only go up anyway).
Agree about Kavienga. Lotta hype but he never really stood out to me.
I think the defense will get a little worse (can't really sustain what they did this year) and the offense will get better (can only go up anyway).
Agree about Kavienga. Lotta hype but he never really stood out to me.
BYU 1984 National Champs.
Preston Hadley is probably going to be the biggest loss. Never got beat, and was a great tackler for being a CB. I dont know who will replace him.
Love that guy. I don't know that I would pick him in the first round in the NFL draft like he is being projected, but I hope he kills it.
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Hope so. I would seriously debate turning it off if Riley Nelson trots out there. I'm done with the Riley Nelson era.
Holy cow, thews WAC vs MWC matchups are un watchable.
Make jazzfanz UGLI Again
Congrats to BYU on the win.
Van Noy is a beast! He will make an NFL team happy.
I've never understood why Ziggy Ansah plowed up the NFL draft charts ahead of Van Noy. In a sane world, Kyle is the first round draft pick and Ziggy is a 3rd or 4th round gamble.
I said earlier in this thread I didn't think Van Noy was going to leave this year. After tonight's game, I changed my mind. That was freaking incredible. He's gone for sure.
Gobert or go home
Wow Lark is 100x better than Nelson.
Having said that...
While Nelson receives most of the criticism for this year, I personally think that it's debatable that he actually wasn't the worst player on that offense.
That O-line is horrible. I'm not sure I've ever seen a worse offensive line. If Nelson was thee worst player out there then several of those offensive linemen were right there with him.
Last point on that offense, Doman really needs to go. That playcalling was just awful. I loved how the announcers (both in game and halftime) made fun of BYU's offensive playcalling. How often did they criticize BYU running the option? How often did they criticize that lil bubble screen WR pass which never worked? I remember once the announcer said, "You can't run this play when the defense plays man to man." LOL. Essentially saying, "Doman, what the hell are you calling?"
I want Webber and Doman gone.
Lakers Suck.
Any GM who takes Ziggy ahead of Van Noy needs to be fired on the spot.
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By Anthony Marshall - Newcastle United Club Reporter
At the Sports Direct Arena
Newcastle United 0
Manchester City 2 (Toure 70, 89)
Newcastle United suffered only their third home defeat of the season, as they went down 2-0 at the hands of Manchester City on Sunday.
A second half Yaya Toure brace was all that separated the sides at the Sports Direct Arena, as the Magpies put up a brave fight against the Premier League leaders but were unable to come away with anything to show for their efforts.
The hosts created some good chances, with Hatem Ben Arfa forcing a fine save out of Joe Hart, and Demba Ba twice being unable to hit the target before the break, while after it Papiss Cisse sent a near-post header wide.
But Toure curled home from distance for his first before capping a fine breakaway late on to put the result beyond any doubt.
The opening exchanges were understandably tense, with both sides keeping possession well but failing to make any impression. Only a couple of long-range Man City efforts - blocked by James Perch and Yohan Cabaye before they could get anywhere near goal - were all that either side had to show for their endeavours.
The visitors went closest to breaking the deadlock just after the ten-minute mark, when David Silva found himself with a couple of yards of space inside the area, but his low drive across the face of goal was parried away to safety by United stopper Tim Krul.
City were beginning to turn the screw, and on 17 minutes Krul had to be down smartly to keep out a low Sergio Aguero shot after Silva had weaved his way past a couple of challenges and fed the Argentine international.
The pressure continued and Krul was once again called into action midway through the dive, gathering Carlos Tevez's 25-yard free-kick at his near post after Hatem Ben Arfa had been booked for a foul on Gael Clichy.
It took United 28 minutes to muster their first chance of the afternoon, and it came through leading scorer Demba Ba. Out wide on right, Ben Arfa beat Joleon Lescott to a ball on the touchline, before racing forward and cutting it inside to Ba.
The big Senegalese front man turned and fired a left-footed shot goalwards, only to see it fly narrowly over the top of Joe Hart's goal.
That was the spark the Magpies needed as they suddenly began to spark into life. When Jonas Gutierrez robbed Pablo Zabaleta deep in the City half, it led to first Ba's shot being blocked, before Hart pulled off a fine save to keep out Ben Arfa's strike from the rebound.
Yohan Cabaye then dragged a low effort well wide, while Ba headed Ben Arfa's left-wing delivery over the top with five minutes of the half remaining.
But City came back at them and only some superb last-ditch defending prevented Newcastle from falling behind. As the ball was cut-back low inside the area to Barry, his first shot was blocked by Fabricio Coloccini, before the same player then struck again, only to see Davide Santon clear off the line.
The first chance of the second half when the way of the visitors, but Yaya Toure was unable to keep his 25-yard free-kick down, and United escaped conceding a set piece in a dangerous area.
Just past the hour mark City introduced Nigel De Jong from the bench in place of Samir Nasri, and the Dutch midfielder entered the pitch to a loud chorus of boos - United fans still angry at his tackle in October 2010 which left Ben Arfa with a double leg break.
And that man Ben Arfa came inches away from breaking the deadlock on 65 minutes. Ba received the ball on the edge of the box and, having held off the attentions of his marker, spread it wide to the right. Ben Arfa turned Clichy inside out but could only send a rising right-footed shot agonisingly the wrong side of the upright.
City introduced big striker Edin Dzeko from the substitutes' bench in a bid to boost their attacking power, and within seconds had taken the lead - but it came from a midfielder.
Receiving the ball from De Jong, Toure played a neat one-two with Aguero around 25 yards out before curling an inch-perfect strike past the grasp of Krul and into the bottom corner. It was an outstanding finish which sent more than 3,000 visiting fans wild as they took another step closer to clinching their first Premier League title.
Newcastle boss Alan Pardew responded with a double change - Ben Arfa and Perch replaced by Shola Ameobi and Shane Ferguson - but it was the visitors who continued to create and Aguero should have doubled their advantage with a simple chance.
He broke the offside trap to race on to Silva's dinked pass over the top, but somehow side-footed wide when one-on-one with Krul.
United's response came from the head of Papiss Cisse. Coloccini and Ameobi combined on the edge of the area, with the latter chipping a cross towards the near post, and although Cisse rose well and got a firm connection he was unable to direct his header on target.
Ameobi looked close to salvaging a draw with only a couple minutes remaining when he connected with a fierce volley from 18 yards, only to see Micah Richards deny him with an outstanding block, throwing his body in front of the ball.
And City promptly went straight up the other end and made it 2-0 in the 89th minute through Toure again. As the visitors broke at pace, the ball was worked from right to left.
Clichy cleverly slipped the ball into the path of Toure six yards out, and from there he made no mistake with a composed finish which put the seal on proceedings.
Newcastle United (4-4-2): Tim Krul; James Perch (Shane Ferguson 74), Mike Williamson, Fabricio Coloccini (c), Davide Santon; Hatem Ben Arfa (Shola Ameobi 74), Cheick Tiote (Ryan Taylor 82), Yohan Cabaye, Jonas Gutierrez; Demba Ba, Papiss Cisse
Subs not used: Rob Elliot, Dan Gosling, Sylvain Marveaux, Gabriel Obertan
Manchester City (4-2-3-1): Joe Hart; Pablo Zabaleta, Vincent Kompany (c), Joleon Lescott, Gael Clichy; Gareth Barry, Yaya Toure; Samir Nasri (Nigel De Jong 62), Carlos Tevez (Edin Dzeko 70), David Silva (Micah Richards 85); Sergio Aguero
Subs not used: Costel Pantilimon, Aleksandar Kolarov, James Milner, Adam Johnson
Referee: Howard Webb (Yorkshire)
Attendance: 52,389 (3,200 Man City)


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Both movies, produced by RKO Pictures, begin with the company's standard logo: a tall radio tower on a rotating globe, transmitting a message in code.
Lofton can read the code. (The message, in Morse code, is "VVV. A RKO Radio Picture. VVVVV")
That's because, during the Vietnam War, he was what was known in the Army as a "ditty bopper."
"I was at a top-secret base in Hakata, Japan," he remembers. "Of course, there wasn't much secret about it, because it was a small building surrounded my acres and acres of radio antennas."
A ditty bopper was a person trained to listen and decipher high-speed messages transmitted in Morse code by the North Vietnamese and Chinese military.
IN 1968, to avoid the draft—which almost always meant being deployed to Vietnam—Lofton agreed to a four-year stint with the Army Security Agency (ASA).
After basic training, he spent the first year in radio intercept school, learning code, learning to type, learning the intricacies of a shortwave radio receiver.
"I spent 10 hours a day with earphones on," he says. "At the end of the year, I could read the code at 25 to 30 words per minute. It's amazing how a country boy can learn to type that fast. Today, I can only type about 10 words per minute."
When he enlisted, his recruiter said that if he signed up for ASA, "I can almost guarantee you won't go to Vietnam."
Lofton spent his three years on a narrow peninsula north of Hakata on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu. To the south was Hakata Bay; to the north, the Sea of Genkai.
He lived off-base with his wife, Patsy, in a dwelling that realtors today would describe as...rustic.
"We lived in the middle of a rice paddy," he chuckles. "We didn't have running water, no air conditioning, the bathroom had a hole in the floor. It was an inside outhouse."
The home didn't have a door, so Lofton found one, installed it and painted it yellow.
"All the time we lived there, our Japanese neighbors called it 'the house with the yellow door.'"
When he was off, the couple would spend time on the beach, a five-minute walk. While the Japanese would swim and sunbathe on Hakata Bay, they left the north shore of the peninsula alone. "There were only about four American couples who used it. It was as if we had our private beach."
However, the couple valued their privacy, Lofton's task was to eavesdrop on the privacy of radio messages when he was at work.
"There were about 20 of us in four rooms. For 12 hours a day, for seven days straight—we were young; we could take it—we would sit at a console with four main receivers, tuning around the band, hunting for signals," he says.
Those who have never learned to listen to Morse code have a difficult time understanding what ditty boppers mean when they say they learned to recognize individuals who were transmitting. It is known as learning their "key."
The best way to explain it is that in a crowded room, filled with people talking, people can recognize the individual voice of someone they know.
"How they send a message is their personality, their fingerprint," he explains.
Armed with this technique, Lofton learned to recognize the "key" of numerous people sending signals from North Vietnam and China.
"Eventually, I could listen to three or four signals simultaneously. I got to know the unit and where they were." With direction-finding equipment, other ASA men—known as "duffys"—could pinpoint a transmitter sometimes as close as 100 yards.
A high degree of accuracy, considering the Hakata base was 1,700 miles from Hanoi and 890 miles from Beijing.
"I remember listening to one guy, he had to be a kid, sending coded messages back to his main base," Lofton recalls. "I could tell from the terseness of his answers that he was really unhappy." The interchange continued for minutes, the operator in the field continually interrupting the messages from his command base.
"Funny thing," Lofton says, "he just disappeared. I never heard that field operator again."
His timing was lucky. He began his tour of duty after the Tet Offensive and finished before the South Vietnamese surrender.
"Sometimes, you would intercept a message and think you had found the golden egg," he says. Even now, four decades removed, he can't talk about some of his "golden eggs" of intelligence.
If his ability to read code has diminished over the years, his memories of his time in the house with the yellow door remain brilliant.
"There was a middle school nearby, and every afternoon all these students, all dressed in the same uniforms, would come to our house to practice their English."
The students returned the favor, teaching the Loftons Japanese.
"At first, I thought they were swearing at me, saying 'damn it.' But they were saying 'da-me,' which means 'don't do that' or 'no, that's not right.'"
Lofton says he considers his time spent in Hakata as priceless, admitting that he wishes the United States would adopt some kind of mandatory service time for high school graduates.
"What they would experience would be invaluable," he says, noting how so many people enlist as youngsters but return to civilian life as adults.
At the end of his time in Hakata, facing a long flight on Flying Tiger Airlines back to stateside, Lofton mentioned to his commanding officer that when she flew to Japan to meet him, Patsy was airsick.
"Oh, we can take care of that," the commander promised.
The couple returned by Presidential Shipping Lines.
"The first week was from Yokohama to Hawaii," Lofton says, "the second was from Hawaii to San Francisco.
"We went under the Golden Gate Bridge. It was...emotional."
Lofton keeps up with some of his former ASA buddies by Facebook. "Funny, but we've never had a reunion," he says, somewhat sadly, adding that he has never returned to Japan, except by computer.
"I look on Google Earth where I used to live," he says. "The base has been turned into a recreation park. Where I used to live, way out in the country, is a strip mall."
This January, at 68, Lofton will retire after 14 years in the banking business in Beeville.
Pausing for a moment to lean back in his chair and to gaze out his office window, he answers a question before it is asked.
"It was a part of my life, and I wouldn't trade it for the world. I'm not sure I would want to do the military part again, but I would."
He laughs.
"You would have to be young to do it. But, I still could handle that beach."
Bill Clough is a reporter at the Bee-Picayune and can be reached at 358-2550, ext. 122, or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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#210580 - 04/22/13 06:31 PM Not just a camel
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I googled bactrian, to make sure I'd remembered the correct number of humps, and to my surprise found this:
The Bactrian language (Bactrian: αρια, arya), also known as Altbaktrish,[1] is an extinct Eastern Iranian language ... Bactrian was natively known as αρια or "Arya" language. Because Bactrian was written predominantly in an alphabet based on the Greek script ... Among Indo-Iranian languages, the use of the Greek script is unique to Bactrian.
From wikipedia
Edit--shoot, sorry about the numbers; I don't know how to make the true depiction show here.
Edited by Jackie (04/22/13 06:32 PM)
#210581 - 04/22/13 07:06 PM Re: Not just a camel [Re: Jackie]
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Arya: source of Aryan???
Arya: name of main character in "Game of Thrones"._________________________
----please, draw me a sheep----
#210587 - 04/22/13 10:35 PM Re: Not just a camel [Re: Jackie]
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Not sure, Jackie, but something is wrong with your account.
(Bactrian: αρια, arya) ... Bactrian was natively known as αρια or "Arya" language.
Anyway, yes Arya is an Indo-Iranian term (Sanskrit, Old Persian/Avestan). It's an ethnonym, but suffered from misuse in the last century by some Germans and other folks. Some more from Wikipedia:Quote:Bactria (from Βακτριανή, the Hellenized version of Old Persian Bāxtri; Bactrian: Baktra; Persian/Pashto: باختر Bākhtar; Tajik: Бохтар; Chinese: 大夏 Dàxià) is the ancient name of a historical region located south of the Amu Darya and west of Gandhara._________________________
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
#210606 - 04/23/13 08:31 PM Re: Not just a camel [Re: zmjezhd]
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ethnonym Thanks! So I guess the people who lived there were called Bactrians also?
#211073 - 05/22/13 03:58 AM Re: Not just a camel [Re: Jackie]
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Hi Jackie- Semi-related but not as profound as the comments delving into Arya language, the way I remember camels and number of humps is easily solved thus: Bactrian (like its starting B turned side-on with two humps) and Dromedary (like its starting D turned side-on with one hump)
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NEW WATERFORD – Howard T. Fitzsimmons, 64, died at 7:20 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013 at Hospice House in Poland.
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Skip to comments.Suspect in Navy Yard Attack Previously Arrested in Seattle for "Anger-Fueled" Shooting (Felt Dissed)
Posted on 09/16/2013 6:03:41 PM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
Aaron Alexis, the man identified by Washington D.C. police as a suspect in this mornings tragic attack on a US Navy Yard, was previously arrested by Seattle police in 2004 for shooting out the tires of another mans vehicle in what Alexis later described to detectives as an anger-fueled blackout.
Because Seattle police have received numerous inquiries about the incident, we are posting the details, detective logs, and the original report for the May 6, 2004 case.
At about 8 am that morning, two construction workers had parked their 1986 Honda Accord in the driveway of their worksite, next to a home where Alexis was staying in the Beacon Hill neighborhood.
The victims reported seeing a man, later identified by police as Alexis, walk out of the home next to their worksite, pull a gun from his waistband and fire three shots into the two rear tires of their Honda before he walked slowly back to his home north of the construction site.
Officers responded to the scene but were unable to locate Alexis, and no one answered the door at his home.
When detectives interviewed workers and a manager at the construction site, they told police Alexis had stared at construction workers at the job site every day over the last month prior to the shooting. The owner of the construction business told police he believed Alexis was angry over the parking situation around the work site.
Following his arrest, Alexis told detectives he perceived he had been mocked by construction workers the morning of the incident and said they had disrespected him. Alexis also claimed he had an anger-fueled blackout, and could not remember firing his gun at the victims vehicle until an hour after the incident.
(Excerpt) Read more at spdblotter.seattle.gov ...
He should have moved to Chicago and no one would have noticed a thing.
I'm just surprised that there was construction going on in Seattle...
Construction worker's crossed his red line and he did not have a cruise missile.
I thought he fired into the ceiling of his apartment because someone upstairs complained about the volumne of his music or he didnt like theirs...
Is this ANOTHER time ???
I thought he fired into the ceiling of his apartment because someone upstairs complained about the volumne of his music or he didnt like theirs...
Is this ANOTHER time ???
It was Sudden Buddhist Syndrome.
So, did this guy vote for 0bama or not?
Uh oh.
Somebody failed to "connect the dots".
Coming to the MSM in 3...2...1...
The media will hide that he is black
RAMBO Buddhist!!!
Al-Qaida leader calls for attacks inside US [Obama's "allies" in Syria]
Daytona Beach News Journal ^ | 13 sep 13 | MAAMOUN YOUSSEF
Posted on Friday, September 13, 2013 6:21:50 AM by xzins
Al-Qaida's leader on Friday marked the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks by calling on Muslims to strike inside the United States, with big attacks or small, using any opportunity they can to "bleed" America financially.
In an audio message released two days after the 12th anniversary of the attacks, Ayman al-Zawahri said America is not a "mythic power" and that the mujahedeen - Islamic holy warriors - can defeat it with attacks "on its own soil."
Al-Zawahri, the successor to Osama bin Laden, used the anniversary to argue that the United States can be defeated by targeting its economy. At the same time, he also addressed the ongoing upheaval in the Arab world. Pointing to a power struggle going on within the rebellion against Syria's regime, he warned jihadi fighters in that country's civil war not "compromise" with more secular or moderate rebel factions, who he said would eventually turn against the al-Qaida-linked radicals.
Al-Zawahri, who is believed to be hiding in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border regions, said al-Qaida sympathizers should stage small attacks or a "big strike" against the United States, similar to the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington, leaving America in "a state of tension" about when and where the next hit would come.
"We should bleed America economically by motivating it to continue its huge expenditure on its security as America's weak point is its economy,
On Syria's civil war, al-Zawahri addressed al-Qaida-linked jihadis - including many foreign fighters - who have taken an increasingly prominent role in the fight against President Bashar Assad's regime.
"I warn my brothers in Syria against any compromise with those factions. They have to learn the lesson of Egypt," al-Zawahri said. He was referring to the army-backed overthrow of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood.
Two MSM liberal sources I checked (Yahoo and CBS) prominently featured his pic - it's pretty obvious.
Buddhist extremist. Who knew?
it won't get the massive media coverage for the next month that it would gt if he were a white male
It was workplace violence.
He didn't like all the noise apparently.
This guy had at least two prior arrests, plus a disorderly conduct charge in the Navy, and the FBI needs help from the public for info on him? What the hell?
Following his arrest, Alexis told detectives he perceived he had been mocked by construction workers the morning of the incident and said they had disrespected him.
Oops. Thinking about the OTHER time he fired in anger.
How hard is that to figure out?
Actually Washington Courts lists more than that...
1 Alexis, Aaron
Defendant Thurston Superior 07-2-22209-7 Available 10-18-2007
2 Alexis, Aaron
Defendant Kcdc-east Div (sho) I04210401 12-07-2004
3 Alexis, Aaron
Defendant Kcdc-west Div (sdc) 204022684 06-04-2004
4 Alexis, Aaron
Defendant Skagit County Dist I04220743 08-02-2004
Anger fueled black out. Hmmm, and all this so soon after the Co vote. (puts tin foil hat on)
Okay, here's more...
Buddhist extremist? What's the chance of two of them?
MSM and the WhiteyHut are working like Whirling Dervishes to make sure the mooselimb truff don't get out.
Best line from "A Fish Called Wanda" ...
'The central theme of Bhuddism is not every man for himself'.
You have Jews that follow Buddhism and are called JewBoos.
Then you have Jews that follow Hinduism and are called HinJews.
Now you have a Muzzie that studied Buddhism which makes him a MuBu!
Of course depending on the transliteration and language, it could be Moslem and Fo Ti which would make him a Mo-Fo.
"Two MSM liberal sources I checked (Yahoo and CBS) prominently featured his pic - it's pretty obvious."
Obviously he was an Obama voter...
What he did have was a past that should have been a warning for those he dealt with. Two gun infractions, yet he evidently was still able to buy the shotgun he used. Sounds to me like he is the product of a justice system that is broken. All the gun laws in the world don't do you any good if you don't enforce them.
I had one of my sailors who married a psycho mexican girl. She was literally nuts. He called the police one night because she went wacko. In the end he pled guilty with her on a minor domestic to avoid having her go to jail. He finally divorced her after she put on her wedding dress one night and buried a knife in her own stomach.
My sailor jettisoned the psycho, but he was stuck with a Lautenberg problem and can't own a gun, meanwhile the Navy Yard shooter has two arrests involving reckless gun use and evidently was still able to purchase the shotgun.
At one time I think he was stationed at Fort Lewis, but I've got something even better on Muhammad and Malvo. The two of them were living in a homeless shelter up in Bellingham. Border Patrol picked up Malvo for illegal immigration and put him into the immigration court system. Not deported, went on to help Muhammed kill a bunch of people. I still think Muhammed would have done what he did without Malvo, but Malvo should have been deported. There should have been red flags over the two of them hanging out together anyway, not being related.
He didn't join the military until 2008, I think....WHY did they let him join?? WHY was he given ANY kind of Clearance?? Because he's BLACK??
I was just listening to a man who was formerly in charge of approving security clearances for the federal government in DC. He said that there are two main problem areas:
First, he said that contractor clearances are problematic because they give the clearance to the contracted business. It's on that business more than the government to do an extensive background check on their employees. Many businesses obviously fail to do this.
Second, he said that the federal government encouraged him to be more lenient in passing people in DC on their security clearance. That's because, as he put it, DC has a high percentage of high school dropouts and people with arrest records who would not pass a standard security clearance. So, as to lessen DC unemployment and not to appear discriminatory in their practices because most of the candidates who would not qualify are black, they give clearances to lesser qualified candidates. So, yes, the shooter being black likely did play a part in why he was given a clearance despite his arrest records.
Political correctness kills.
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MONTICELLO, NY — There were dozens of professionally printed signs on display at the Sullivan County Government Center on November 21, urging the legislature to turn over the Apollo Plaza property to the Sullivan County Funding Corporation (SCFC) as another step in the process of selling the land to developer Butch Resnick and the Resnick Group.
The overwhelming sentiment of those who spoke during public comment was that the legislature should move forward with selling the property to Resnick, who has made many investments in Sullivan County, and has a solid reputation as a businessman and developer.
Businessman Les Kristt was typical of many who urged the legislature to act "now" to turn the property into a place that would begin to pay property tax and that would generate sales tax for the county.
No one questioned the ability of the Resnick group to do what they have said they would do, which is create a grocery store and attract other retail outlets to the location, and as part of phase two also perhaps build a truck stop. But a few people questioned whether the legislature should be turning over responsibility for the rest of the deal to the SCFC.
Alternative energy consultant Dick Riseling asked, "Will you consider having some control over the final development of this project? Currently your resolution calls for none that I can see."
Legislator Alan Sorensen echoed that thought, saying, "As a legislator, I'm being asked to sign off on a resolution that in effect delegates the authority that I have as a legislator solely to the SCFC… There is nothing in this resolution, as I see it, that commits the SCFC to set a minimum sales price, to require a certain level of development, to prevent or preclude the property from being flipped or transferred."
Ira Steingart, who has chair of the Industrial Development Agency (IDA) has worked more closely on the deal than the other legislators, said he was "offended" a "lack of trust in the IDA or in this case the SCFC… that they don't trust the deal they are going to make."
On a related matter, Sheriff Mike Schiff asked that the deal be tabled for a month, and he also asked that the building known as the ARC Building on about three acres, be carved out of the deal. That building is now being used to house the new voting machines, and was mentioned in the past as a location of the Sheriff's Road Patrol, which is currently located in a structure dating back to the 1850s called the Bushnell Building, and according to Schiff is unsafe. In 2009, renovations were begun in the ARC Building, with the intention that the road patrol would be housed there. But Resnick has reportedly said that he can't go forward with the deal if that building is not part of the package.
To that issue, legislator Jonathan Rouis said, "Do we really want to take prime developable commercial real estate and house county functions? My answer to that is I don't think so." He said the road patrol faces "deplorable" conditions, but he said there is an opportunity to "take a hard look at somewhere right on Broadway, and put that road patrol right in the center of the county seat, where they can make a difference."
Ultimately, the board voted seven to two to turn the property over to the SCFC. There are two phases to the deal, with phase one being the front of the property, which will include Apollo Plaza and will be sold to the Resnick Group for $600,000.
Phase two will include the ARC Building and acreage that was purchased by the county to be used for the expansion of the landfill, which never occurred. County taxpayers are still paying off the bond for the land. Resnick will have an option to buy the property for $2 million.
Some in the community have questioned whether the price should be renegotiated now that the casino resolution has been approved and it seems quite likely that a casino will be built just a couple of miles from the site, but the legislature decided to stick with the original terms of the deal.


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A.A. Milne, Spinning in His Grave
As the hysteria over swine flu (H1N1 as those in the biz call it) recedes but before it evaporates entirely, I'd like to point something out. The Kansas City Royals are the flu's baseball equivalent.
For the past couple years the Royals have started off red hot. Like the heat that was generated by all the pundits jabbering away about the possible pandemic. It's kind of the same thing. People think that this is finally the one, finally the year when it happens. And both have all the markings and possibilities of pulling through.
For instance, they say great pitching wins championships and no one is pitching better than Zack Greinke right now. The Royals have great young talent just like the swine flu has a great new genetic makeup. And as if there weren't already enough eerie similarities, the Royals haven't really had any success since the mid-80's while the swine flu last came a knockin' in the mid-70's.
But the sad part (or happy, depending on which one you're talking about) is that soon enough, just like the flu, the Royals are going to be shown up for the hyperbolic hoax that they are. It's not their fault. Small market teams, like poor little Piglet in the picture below, really just can't compete in the current market.
If you ask me, Pooh is pretty much dead on. And soon enough, someone is going to follow his suggestion and put the poor Royals out of their misery. However, there is a bright side and I think that's where we should focus. Bacon anyone?
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Zack Greinke… I love that kid. He's gonna be a future CY Young winner. But I totally see your point about the Royals being like the Swine Flu.
Fan-freaking-tastic. I think small market teams can compete, they can. Maybe not year in and year out, but for a single season or two. Just not crappy ones like the Royals. They're benefitting by being in a down division, and they – like the upstart Pirates – are getting very nice pitching performances.
But neither is sustainable. Once the weather heats up, so do MLB offenses, historically. And it's unlikely they're going to continue to play out of their heads as the season grinds on. And on. And on and on and on. Hats off to both of them for doing so well this early, but it just isn't going to last.
Come on lets hope it will last, so we can have another I 70 series and the Cardinals can get even and win this time.
That is terrible Allen.
I hope the Royals don't continue like this, obviously. They may be the real deal though. I guess we'll see.
Well, other than the fact that Sidney Ponson is their fourth starter, the bullpen is anchored by the likes of Kyle Farnsworth and Horacio Ramirez, and their defense is as crappy as ever, the Royals do actually have a pretty good team. And, sadly, it's possible that none of those things will keep them from winning the division this year.
I can't believe I wrote about the Royals and didn't even mention Farnsworth! Man, I must be losing it.
RR15, I think you're dead on. The Pirates and Royals are getting great pitching to start off the season but I just don't think it's going to last.
Allen is a bad boy. Tee hee.
Royals = swine flu. Got it. But Greinke being 6-0? That could be a the real deal, as in a total global meltdown.
You know, I really didn't like Pooh much before. But now? Pooh totally rocks! ;O)


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Im currently in the middle of my first oral cycle. The past week I've been dealing with some high blood pressure. Ive cut out the caffeine thinking that was the root of it, but it didnt help much. I haven't actually had a blood pressure reading, but I know it's high. I know how my body reacts when it is. I don't have anything major going on, just enough to know that's what it is.
My question for you guys is this: what kind of supps have you used that actually work for high bp. Im taking hawthorne berry now, and bought garlic today. Ive read alot today and came across some other ideas, but its 50/50 with people saying if they work or not. Id like to hear the things you've used that show results.
From herbal products I like celery seed extract more than hawthorn berry.
Haha id rather be dealing with a boner problem than a bp problem, ill look into that. Which research brand of that do you guys vouch for as legit?....I read alot of good things about the celery seed extract as well. I was planning on picking some of that up.
My personal fave is BlueSky. I use it every day. But most any on this board is good.
You should give blood first to get it down, them keep it down with cialis.
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Damn, I just put an order in with Blue Sky on friday. I shouldve asked for advice sooner. Thanks guys
I think CoQ10 should be used as well along with another supp such as cialis, etc.....D-bol always spikes my BP even at 30mg dont know exactly why, maybe just how I react.....
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I just bought some CoQ10 on my way home from the gym, going to start using that . I bought red yeast rice too, but now I read that can be rough on the liver, which I dont need while on an oral cycle
I have a genetic predisposition to high blood pressure. Even when I was 205, 8%bF @ 6'2" I had high blood pressure, and I'm talking age 24... I know your asking about natural supplements but... A Beta Blocker could do you worlds of good. Propranolol is cheap with insurance and almost any doctor will be willing to prescribe it to you... When my BP is really up I take Lisinopril, a diuretic that is a generic too along with the Beta Blocker. It brings me to 110 over 70, even under stress. Go and see your physician; if for nothing else but to get an accurate BP reading and to get checked out. Both medications are shown to be very safe and have been around/in use a long time. My prescriptions run $8 each per month. That's cheaper than a month supply of the CoQ10 I thought about trying before I went to the doctor. You asked for things that we know will work to bring your BP down to normal. I can vouch for both medications and I have had zero side effects from them... except for losing some excess water from the Lisinopril.(a damn good thing on steroids in my opinion)... Best of luck to you bro! Let us know what works...
Thanks guys. The past day and a half, ive felt good again. Im going to order some cialis, just to have on hand if I feel shitty again
Clonidine and hydroclorothiazide has worked well for me but you have to be careful as they both come with dangers. Specially beta blockers, such as clonidine and propanolol as mentioned above, as your body gets accustomed to the and may then have trouble regulating BP on its own. For this reason I'm actually looking to move away from these and try to get control through less drastic means.
So far been using Coq10, magnesium, taurine, and lots of water. Unfortunately this has not been enough. Thinking about adding HW Berry.
The cialis concept is clever haha. I never thought of it but it makes sense. Are there any significant risks with daily use of cialis? Specially to the baby maker... Thinking priaprism (sp?) risks??
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Brother you need to give blood to get it stabilized them supplement. I use cialis with great success, but cialis wouldn't bring mine down once It was real high. You give a pint and you are good to go. Then work on keeping it down.
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s2h- My guinea pigs doc told him to take half clonidine tab in the morining (50mg) and half at night to minimize risk or rebound bp. I then added htcz at 25 mg (small dose) because the beta blocker alone wasn't cutting it and I was afraid to go too high with the betas. I will unfortunately say that the aggressive protocol is partly bc for the first 15-20 years of cycling, my guinea pig was very negligent about bp issues and swept it under the rug. Now that he is older, it really worries him. Plus my gp is doing tren and fina is the worst offender in the bp dept.
How's losartan working for you? How do you take? Doesnt it have a short half-life?
Guys who give blood, are you allowed to give on a cycle? If not, is it awkward giving blood when everyone can tell you are on something and you walk in there acting natural like you just sipped a bunch of muscletech to get that way?
Mattsf- my bro says he has good benefits from arginine. Personally I don't believe it's effective (at least in this context). But maybe it's something that works for you. I am with s2h that the herbal remedies don't do much particularly in the context of AAS driven bp. But if you can stay away from the beta blockers by donating blood and/or taking boner pills, I would really urge you to do so my friend. Big old Fucker like me unfortunately has tried everything ( except giving blood or cialis) and only real meds work..
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Where do you go to donate blood? Wait for a blood drive or is there actually blood banks you can go to anytime?
as for giving blood..i give 3-4 times a year..my bp meds are scripted..you can also get a script to give blood..where it is not reused for any purpose and the center is aware of that..
my bp is fine on those scripts...my condition is hereditary so it doesn't matter too much on my physical condition as too what my bp is..
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HamHands- the portion you quoted, while maybe not clear or eloquent, was mean't to say that your body gets used to beta blockers and you are not supposed to stop their use abruptly. Any doctor monitoring your beta blocker use will tell you that you need to taper before coming off, precisely because your body gets accustomed to, or dependent on, the beta blockers. This is from my doctor and the package insert of the meds. Just google beta blocker and taper and you will find a lot of legit sources explaining this phenomenon. Coming off can be tricky and dangerous if not done right- although much may depend on genetics and length of use, etc.
So the takeaway to the OP was meant to be that beta blockers usually work well while on cycle imo, but there are some possible side effect considerations that one needs to make. I would be reluctant to self medicate beta blocker (maybe just personal pref), but if you and your doc decide they are appropriate for your circumstances, my experience has been that it usually works well on cycle- tren and drol being the exceptions as they sometimes spike my bp even with some meds.
Of course, everyone's experience is different, but it's good to hear folks' different experiences.
Hope this helps.
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This all depends on what is causing the bp. If it's vascular, vasodilators are recommended. If it's genetic and/or related to heart function, beta blockers could help, but you have to be very self aware because your bp won't increase under exertion and you can really fuck yourself up if you overwork yourself. With anabolics, your cholesterol could be very high. Either way, lower sodium, lean meat, and increase fish oil are the obvious responses, but mostly get a lipid panel done, and talk to your doctor, not us.
Btw increased enzymes from high anabolic activity can overwhelm your kidneys. High protein and creatine metabolism is a good culprit. One of my professors asked me if I was on creatine when he noticed my resting bp was 140/90...dead accurate.
i like clondine but it will for sure cause withdrauls when you stop it they give it in rehab it helps drug withdrawls a lot some how but you have to be weaned off off the clondine. but i use daily dose of cialis now i tryed giving blood but pass out all 3 times idk why i hate it but i really need to bad. my top number stay a little high but not much maybe like 130-135 over 80 and 120 over 80 is perfect. so for now i am using cialis daily .
I just gave blood two days ago and they always check(or should) your vitals. What was weird was my bp was 130/78 and my heart rate was 98bpm? I asked the nurse about that and she said that was not to high (bpm). She also said there cut off is 100bpm and they will not let you donate. I have no clue why my heart rate was so high, kind of unnerving..
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98 is a pretty fast resting heart rate IMO, is that normal for you? I know one guy with a fast normal resting rate, when I was in "good shape" for being 250 pounds mine was 52.
Cutting coffee does help even if its not noticed (OP), coffee doesn't kill your BP all day long so I don't know if you drink 10 cups or what. If you drink coffee, are dehydrated, and then test within an hour or so it will be higher than otherwise.
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Pictures from Spring Training 2010 Trip
Hi everyone! I've been so busy that I have not had a chance to make a new post since Sunday. I have a lot of picures but here are some from our trip to Camelback Ranch:
We got on the road very early in the morning. This picture is going by Yucca Valley, close to Joshua Tree where they have lots of windmills.
Ahhh… we arrived free of any speeding tickets. Here is a welcome sign at the CVS across from Camelback Ranch that reads "WELCOME LA DODGERS BASEBALL FANS"
See those beads we are wearing? Well, we bought them in the giftshop but after putting sunblock, my friends noticed that my neck was bleeding Dodger Blue! But is a cute necklace. See, is not beads but little baseballs!
Pictures from the following morning. Manny Mota, as usual on his bike. Later on inside, prior to the game, he threw me a ball and after juggling it, I was able to catch it!
The other Manny, as usual,with Rafael Furcal. Here he is talking to fans.
The famous Roberto of VinScullyismyhomeboy blog.
Andre Ethier!
Matt Kemp.
My Loney!
No more beard for Casey Blake! I actually liked the beard! I can't say "Stay Thirsty my friends" from the Dos Equis beer commercial.
Frank McCourt. Notice Josh Rawitch to the left. One fan asked Frank "how is the wife?"
I just noticed my earring came out in that picture! Thank you LuvetheDodgers23 for my beautiful earrings!
More pictures on the new two or three posts. I got so many pictures!
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Who is this famous Roberto? lol🙂
LOL Roberto! You know you are famous!
Are you going to the Salcedo event?
How's your wife? LOL!
Glad to see you're having such a good time! The pictures are great.
Can't wait to see the rest. Give a shout to Manny for me.
Love the windmill pic at the beginning… glad you explained that you bought and paid for the beads or mini baseballs…I was wondering for min….
Now was Frank selling his autograph to help pay for the Divorce…..
Looks like fun was had by all….
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Manny is in Taiwan with Torre, Hu?, Kuo, Loney and the res that made the trip there, but when he comes back I'll give him a shout! I could not believe the fan that said that to Frank but it was FUNNY!
I know! I love the windmills too! LOL about the beads! Yes I bought them and what I did not say was that I had bought a Spring Training Dodger shirt so when my beads were staining me I pulled the shirt off the plastic bag to isolate the beads. I also had the hard cover book of Sandy koufax (just in case…). Later on I pulled the sunblock only to discovered that the the spray bottle was empty. My shirt was all stained smelling of sunblock and my book was stained. But I still love my baseball/bead necklace.
No! Frank was not selling the autographs! It was Free!!
Sounds like you had a great time Emma! As usual, I love the pics! I noticed on ITD you said that you have more pics but that you'll get them in the next few posts – because of a theme! Can't wait for these! I'm sure I don't have to ask you, but I'm SURE you have a great picture of Kersh, huh??? 🙂 Love the story about the beads/mini baseballs!
Kersh was scheduled to pitch at the Cub's ballpark but it got cancelled because of the rain or else we would have had lots of pics of him but I do have a couple from the trip. I love Kersh! Hey we love all our boys in Blue.
Great pics, Emma! Looks like you had a wonderful time. I can't believe that fan yelled "How's the wife" to McCourt! LOL. I'm sure he loved that one.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing! Also, I'd say Mr. McCourt is dressed to impress (or shall I say "court") with that fly pink shirt w/ the buttons open up top. Bam!
Hey Emma, I can't make it that day. Are you going?
Glad your having a good time @ Camelback. If all works out I will be in Albuquerque this summer to check out the Isotopes. I have also added you on my link list . Nice pics.
Nice clear pics! Looks fun, warm and dry! (Unlike Ohio) Rain, snow and cold😦 lol
I could not believe it myself! It was funny!
Did not noticed until you mentioned it😉 just like I did not noticed my earring came out in that picture. My friend took that picture!
I am going to see if I can make it. Right now is up in the air. I know I can buy a ticket tomorrow. It is so so sad how he passed away.
For those that might wonder what Roberto and I are talking about, here is an isert from The San Gabriel News:
"Salcedo, 33, was murdered Dec. 31 in Gomez Palacio, Mexico while visiting his wife's family there. He and his wife Betzy were at a late dinner with a group of her friends when gunmen entered the restaurant. The gunmen forcibly removed Salcedo and five men in his group from the restaurant.
Their bodies were found near a canal the next day. Salcedo was killed execution-style with a single gunshot to his head, authorities said. "
I got back late Monday night. Thanks! I do want to make to Albuequerque one of these days.
Read more: http://www.sgvtribune.com/rds_search/ci_14644400#ixzz0i7Roj6R0
Hey Emma!
I forgot that Clayton was supposed to pitch on the game that was rained out. Well, I'm looking forward to what you have! 🙂
I could have bet that Frank wouldn't make an appearance this year. But I was wrong.
Now, will Jamie make an appearance?
Check Rob's blog for a nice pic of Kershaw. He also sent me a very nice one that I'll use in my next post. Thanks Rob!
I saw a whole bunch of fans surounding someone and was surprised that it was Frank. Don't bet on Jamie! Save your money!
Glad we share a love for Loney! He is shy and is part of his charm!


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My pumped milk recently looks very thin and has a green tint to it. Should I call my doctor?
My pumped milk recently looks very thin and has a green tint to it. Should I call my doctor?
what have you been eating? seriously, different foods can tinge your BM. Also milk pumped at different times of day can be different consistencies.
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- my surprise baby: the one and only D-Man born 3 weeks late (5/5/08) at 9 lbs 14 oz and 21.5 inches, and
- the shock H-Girl born about a week late (10/7/09) at 8lbs 15oz and 20.75 inches.
If I am here I am covered in baby (probably two) and fighting for control of the keyboard.
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Wondering if you have PPD? Take the screening and see your doctor. You deserve to feel better.
I dont think its anything to worry about. I remember having blue milk alot. Milk can vary alot in color.
Prenatals do this often. If I pumped just an hour or two after taking mine, it would be very green. At other times just a tinge of green.
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GRANITEVILLE Ingrid M. Kennedy, 74, of the Quarry Hill Apartments on the Graniteville Road, died Friday, December 28, 2012, at the Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin.
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My daughter is 11 months old...she's been walking since 9 months. I was told by a lady at Gerber that because she's already walking I should give her more calories since she's burning more than most babies her age. She won't eat from a spoon anymore so baby food is out - I never really gave it to her to begin with. I was making baby food and still have lots frozen, but she won't eat it. She won't eat cereal either.
My real issue is, I feel like I spend 90% of my time trying to get her to eat. I've always been the first person to tell a mom - she/he will eat when they get hungry, but don't seem to be able to take that advice myself. I also get stressed out when she refuses to eat something b/c I feel like I'm wasting money and my husband and I are living pay check to pay check at the moment. I know that shouldn't matter, but it's one of the stress' in my life. I feel like he's going to fuss at me for wasting food. (another story for another day ! )
So, my question is, what foods can I get that will cover all of the nutrition that she needs, that she can eat (she's got her bottom front teeth), that I can make enough of to use throughout the week. She was eating scrambled eggs w/ cheese but now she won't eat that - that was the only source of protein she was getting. If this doesn't make any sense, please let me know...I'm just really stressed and don't know if I'm putting it into words correctly.
Also, I am hopefully going to be starting a job soon and she won't take a bottle - do I pump and try to see if she'll take bm out of a sippy cup? or do I just have the preschool give her something else?


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Indianapolis Expects Empty Seats For Brickyard 400
INDIANAPOLIS (AP)—The Indianapolis Motor Speedway president and CEO says ticket sales for this year's Brickyard 400 are "soft" and it's likely there will be more empty seats this year than last year.
Jeff Belskus spoke to The Associated Press on Tuesday. Belskus believes declining interest has been spurred, in part, by the economy. But he says the 2008 tire fiasco also hurt sales.
The event had the lowest attendance in its 17-year history in 2010. However, Belskus says the Brickyard will be back on the NASCAR schedule next year.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar/news?slu ... ardtickets


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