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DDP Today!!!!May 31st 2011 8:55 am
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Oh great meows!!! Better than catnip mice and flying across the curtain rods! I am Diary pick again!!! I am certaining doing the happy cat dance, paws raised high!!
Memory DayMay 30th 2011 6:15 pm
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A special day when my peeplz recognize special peeplz who defended their country. My dad is a war vet, but he had to work today. Suzanne worked, too. Stephanie worked the horses. Siobhan was out of town and Sean took his girl out to dinner. So it was just mom and me (and all my brothers and sisters). Catching me asleep is not too easy, but Mom got these two cute pix of me napping today. Ain't I cute! And I am proud of my beautiful legs!
Tough Evening AheadMay 25th 2011 3:45 pm
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Linus is sick and mom just learned that the terrible storms from the midwest are headed our way. We have had to prepare before, but this time she is taking our carriers to the basement along with extra blankets and water. The man on the news has told everyone to take this seriously and I guess Mom is. We have four carriers and five kitties. Stephanie is turning all the horses out of the barn, they will be better off on their own than having the roof fall on them. Right now it is so sunny and pretty it is hard to imagine it will all change.
We're All Still HereMay 21st 2011 8:28 pm
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Lots of jokes by my peeplz about some guy who said the world was ending, but then it didn't. So, I just wanted to know if that means peeplz have nine lives and they all just used one? Hee Hee Hee.
I Survive the Vet Again!May 16th 2011 9:19 am
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Sneaky family! Mom went a work this morning, so I thought I was safe. Wrong! Stephanie came with Penny (one of my cousin kitties). Penny was in the blue cat carrier, so I was thinking "Better her than me!" I came out to sniff her and tell so sorry 'bout her luck. And while I was saying hi, Steph snuck up on me with a carrier I hadn't seen before and I was captured, too!! At least my comfy blanket was in there. I hid down under it thinking maybe they'd forget about me. But no! And the lights are so bright at Dr. Lisa's and that metal table so cold! I had to get a shot (my last one they say!). And they weighed me. I am now 6 pounds! So Linus only equals three of me! Glad that was the last vet visit for a long time to come!
Making FriendsMay 13th 2011 8:22 pm
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Mom finally got some pix of me and my kitty brothers in the same place. I like following Milo around. He growls, but I know he isn't serious. And when Linus is asleep I grab his tail. And my kitty bros and sisses go outside in the warm sunshine and I watch them from the window. I saw Lucy catch a mole this morning. I practice by chasing crickets and spiders. Wish I had a nice mouse to chase. I also heard mom talking to Dr. Lisa's office. I have to go back on Monday. It's already been a nearly a month since I got my freedom. I have to go back for one more checkup. Mom tells me that nothing will hurt, but that would be a first, so I'm not so sure.
Quiet at last!May 11th 2011 8:20 pm
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Phew, all the peeplz finally went home and my house is quiet. I was really happy to see mom when she got home from work. My my kitty bros and sis were outside in the warm sun all day, so I didn't have anyone to play with all day!
Pretty Ring!!May 9th 2011 8:11 pm
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HA! More happy days. My new friend Jonny, who has been sleeping in my couch-bed, bought Siobhan a very pretty ring. He came and talked to my Dad (Fred) this morning while no one else was around. Then Siobhan and he went off on a trail ride and came back with a pretty diamond ring. Siobhan is all giggly and mom and hugging her and laughing. Everyone is excited. And now Jonny is going be become part of the family in October. Mom calls this getting married. What fun.
Happy Meowther's Day!May 8th 2011 7:00 am
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Happy Meowther's Day to everyone with furbabies here and at rainbow bridge! May everyone have a purrrrfect day!
Derby Day! Derby Day!May 7th 2011 6:25 am
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Wow, excitement around here. Dad is outside cleaning the patio. Mom's making pies that smell so good (be better if they were tuna!). And a new person came to my house last night. And guess what - my couch turns into a human bed. That is where he slept. His name is Jonny and it is okay that he took my couch because he is nice and plays with me. I must be growing up. Mom told me I cannot be around all the people today because if my leg got stepped on it would be very bad. And that's okay. But there are sure curious things going on. Jonny took Siobhan out to a jewlery store this morning. And I can feel that she is really excited and happy. I know something is going on here. And today is Derby Day! All my horse cousins are excited about this, so I guess it is a horsey thing. It seems that the best of them run around in a circle and people cheer for them. Horsey games are a little wierd.
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Many thanks to all those who participated in the Beta Sigma Phi raffle held at the County Fair last week.
A lot of tickets were sold which will enable the ladies to carry out the many charitable projects they conduct throughout the year.
One of the gentlemen who were manning the Gideon Bible booth drew the lucky winners for the great raffle prizes.
Congratulations to Cindy West, Rick Edwards and Ethel Garza for winning.
Cindy won the "Men's Must Have" ice chest full of many things of interest to men.
Rick Edwards won the "Family, Food and Fun" basket full of games, food items and assorted goodies.
The "Ladies Luxury Basket" was won by Ethel Garza, a local hairdresser, who would know just what to do with all the items in the travel bags for women.
The Beta Sigma Phi ladies really appreciate everyone's support and look forward to next year's county fair.


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Background: Cobalamin is released during hepatic cytolysis associated with liver injury. Serum B12 concentration is frequently elevated in patients that receive long-term parenteral nutrition (PN). We hypothesized that serum B12 concentration would become elevated in intestinal failure-associated liver disease and would reflect in disease severity.
Methods: We retrospectively evaluated 13 patients with short bowel syndrome (<200 cm residual small intestine) that included complete terminal ileum resection (3 male and 10 female, aged 42 to 78 y) that had received parenteral nutrition (PN) 6.1±3 years. All 13 patients had received at least 1 liver biopsy for presumed intestinal failure-associated liver disease. At the time of biopsy, patients had received PN between 2 and 7 days a week (4.7±1.9 d). The liver biopsies were evaluated and prospectively scored for pathology using 3 independent scoring systems validated for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease [Brunt, NAFLD activity score (NAS) and Dixon methods], whereby numeric values were assigned to degrees of steatosis, inflammation, and fibrosis. Serum B12 concentration and hepatic chemistries (aspartate transaminase, alanine transaminase, alkaline phosphatase, and bilirubin) were recorded within 1 week of the biopsies.
Results: Thirteen biopsies were available for analysis. Serum B12 concentration and hepatic chemistries were available for all biopsy times. The mean serum B12 concentration was 619±222 pg/mL. The mean daily parenteral B12 dose was 3.3±1.3 mcg. Mean NAS, Brunt, and Dixon scores were 2, 1, and 1, respectively. The Spearman correlation coefficients between serum B12 concentration and liver biopsy scores were 0.15, 0.1, and 0.1 for the NAS, Brunt, and Dixon scores, respectively, indicating that there was no correlation between serum B12 concentration and liver pathology. The Spearman correlation coefficient between the NAS inflammation subscore and serum B12 concentration was 0.02. B12 concentration also failed to correlate with hepatic chemistries. There was surprisingly little correlation between serum B12 concentration and exogenous B12 daily dose through PN (r=0.19, P=0.45).
Conclusions: Elevated serum B12 concentration is commonly encountered in patients who receive long-term parenteral nutrition. This does not seem to be an indicator of hepatic pathology; rather it may reflect the provision of excessive intravenous vitamin B12 and other as yet unknown factors.
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I had sex with a HIV+ woman abt 2 weeks ago. Protected but condom slipped off upon withdrawal. Last week I started to feel pain in my joints (esp knees and fingers, sometimes wrists and elbows). I had a slight fever three times. The pain is annoying (coz never experienced before). Stressed!
Your pain is unrelated to HIV from this situation.
! Thanks for the quick reply. I know that seroconvert is the cause of symptoms, and also that of antibodies. - Then how long after you have symtoms can antibodies be detected? Say, if I take a test now and get negative, can it rule out the posibility that the symtoms are related to HIV?
12/13 weeks when you get your conclusive test. Symptoms or lack of is not an indicator of HIV infection.
Saying symtpoms are not indicator is not relieving - rather, it frightened some worried wells like me. I just started to relate everything with HIV now..... What I suspect is that symtoms will come all at once and concurrently. As joint pain may be the result of some high fever, etc. So does nightsweat. So if you have nightsweat but no fever, it is because of anxiety but not seroconversion. [This is truely relieving if true]. But if you say, you should disregard symtoms. I can't. ......Joint pain comes from nowhere - I haven't experienced it before. How can I not related it to HIV since it happened at such a right time? Not to mention that the woman is HIV+! I had fever sometimes (now my tempereture comes up to 37.4). ...
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Apologetic New Zealander Toby Carroll has been bailed from a Dubai prison and his two girlfriends have revealed new details of the events leading to their arrests.
Danielle Spencer - the British woman caught in bed with Mr Carroll by his knife-wielding ex-lover Priscila Ferreira - was also released on bail yesterday, claiming the pair had "not even had sex".
Ms Ferreira - the 24-year-old Brazilian model who is expected to be bailed today - claims she and the New Zealander had not split up, and were actually planning to marry.
"We hadn't split up, we'd had an argument." she told Britain's Mail on Sunday.
"We had been seeing each other for about five years and were going to get married.
"We used to live in Spain and moved here together a year ago. Obviously I am no longer with him now, but he is still a friend."
Ms Spencer, 31, spoke of becoming close friends with Ms Ferreira since their arrest.
The pair shared a filthy mattress in the notorious Bur Dubai jail for the past 30 days.
"We just had to become friends because it was such a terrible experience," Ms Spencer said.
"All we had was each other for comfort and at night we would huddle together on our mattress, scared out of our lives," she said.
"We were in a stinking room with murderers. I got to know Priscila well and like her.
"There are no hard feelings. I have forgiven her for what she did.
"We have both laughed at the irony of it - I locked myself in the bathroom to get away from her when she went crazy with the knife and now I realise that she is the safest person to be with here in prison."
The Mail on Sunday accompanied Ms Spencer at the time she was bailed, and as she and her mother, Angela, met Mr Carroll, 32, at another Dubai police station.
According to the Mail on Sunday, he greeted Angela Spencer with the words: "I'm so sorry about this, I really am."
The trio's troubles started when Ms Ferreira went to Mr Carroll's apartment in mid-December and found him in bed with Ms Spencer.
She took to the apartment with a knife and Ms Spencer locked herself in a bathroom while Mr Carroll called the police - and all three were arrested.
The case has been referred to the public prosecution office in Dubai.
Ms Ferreira may face charges for criminal damage, while Mr Carroll and Ms Spencer were arrested on suspicion of having sex outside marriage. The pair could be jailed under Dubai's strict laws.
Ms Spencer, who met Mr Carroll at a bar, said: "It has been a nightmare. I did not even have sex with that guy."


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Parts of the left back any opposition to US imperialism around the world dogmatically, without qualification, and with little attempt to examine what the effects and actions of the imperialist power are. Or what the political character of the local alternatives to imperialism are. These leftists might be suprised by the story of the US imperialist intervention in Japan, contradicting as it does, some preconceived notions of how an imperialist power behaves.
Japan's Second World War had the most brutal end. On 6 August 1945 a US Superfortress bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped an atom bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. By the end of 1945 140,000 people had died from the immediate blast, or from disease and radiation poisoning in the aftermath.
Two days later the Soviet Union entered the war against Japan, using battle-hardened troops to rapidly over-run the million-strong Japanese army in China.
And on 9 August the US used a second atom bomb on Nagasaki, killing around 80,000.
Finally, nine days after Hiroshima, Emperor Hirohito announced Japan's surrender. Hirohito told the nation by radio that the Total War, a "holy war" in which the Japanese had been encouraged to "give themselves courageously to the state", had "not turn[ed] in Japan's favor" and that the people must "endure the unendurable and bear the unbearable."
On the eve of the Emperor's announcement military officers from the War Ministry and Army General staff broke into the palace and attempted to find and destroy the recording of the declaration; others set fire to the Prime Minister's house. When all failed and Japan had surrendered around 500 officers and the War Minister, Anami Korechika, committed suicide.
The "unendurable and unbearable" was Allied military occupation — in reality American occupation. Large numbers of US troops began arriving in late August 1945 and the occupation continued until April 1952.
Ruling through Japanese governments, using the existing bureaucracy and maintaining the Emperor, the US achieved a "democratic revolution from above" in Japan.
US imperial power was used to break the power of the fascistic military caste that had dominated Japanese politics in the 1930s to create a stable bourgeois democracy.
The period of the American intervention had three distinct phases: from the 1945 to 1947-8 (when the US turned against the workers, and the Cold War began); from 1948 up until the start of the Korean war in 1950; and the final phase leading up to US withdrawal in 1952. Following a period of reforming zeal at the start of the occupation, the US shifted more and more towards backing and shoring up conservative organisations and parties, including reliance on members of the former regime and those opposed to previous US-directed reforms, while increasingly repressing the left and the pseudo-left Communist Party.
Japan on its knees
Between 1939 and 1945 Japan suffered two million military and 580,000 war-related civilian deaths, or 3.7 % of the population of 71 million (1939).
Most of what was left of Japan's fleet had been sunk at the battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944, and by 1945 three quarters of commercial shipping had also been destroyed. A quarter of all rolling-stock and motor vehicles had gone. Nine million people were homeless. Four and a half million servicemen were declared ill or disabled.
At the war's end one-quarter of the country's wealth had been wiped-out. Sixty-six major cities had been heavily bombed and 40% of these cities had been destroyed. Rural living standards stood at 65% of their pre-war levels; non-rural were down to 35%.
The defeat left 6.5 million Japanese stranded across Asia. In the winter of 1945 nearly a quarter of a million Japanese died in Manchuria alone.
When the Emperor declared the end of the war it was the first time most Japanese had heard his voice. The declaration punctured his status. Post-war most Japanese still believed in keeping the institution of Emperor, but they did so with little enthusiasm. The Emperor had presided over an enormous disaster, leading to the shock and humiliation of foreign occupation.
The Americans decided to keep the Emperor in place because they were concerned to maintain political stability, but the Emperor's role was now set within the framework of a constitutional monarchy.
War crimes trials followed. The trial that attracted world attention was the Tokyo Tribunal. Twenty five senior Japanese leaders, including former prime minister General Tojo Hidecki, faced charges including "conspiracy against peace" and counts of permitting atrocities. Seven were sentenced to death and hung.
Across Asia the British, Dutch, US and others put Japanese accused of war crimes on trial. Excluding the USSR, the Allies executed about 920 prisoners. The Russians may have killed up to 3000 more following short, secret tribunals. Most of those convicted were relatively low-level figures in the military and almost nond of the leading civilian bureaucrats, journalists or politicians were brought to trial. And although there was some popular support for bringing the Japanese war leadership to justice — especially amongst leftists — American justice seemed somewhat arbitrary.
There was a big hole in the US's case. There was no comparable organisation to the Nazi party in Japan, and the only ever-present leading figure throughout the wars of Japanese expansion was the Emperor. If a "conspiracy against peace" did exist amongst the Japanese leadership, then the Emperor was at the centre of it. However the Americans had decided they needed Hirohito — and the US went to extraordinary lengths to protect him, re-inventing the Emperor as a pacifist and democrat.
The Americans bring workers' and women's rights
The first raft of US-directed reforms included the release of political prisoners, the legalisation of the Communist Party, and pro-union legislation (the Trade Union Law, passed December 1945). The Peace Preservation Law (1925) under which thousands of leftist critics of the government had been arrested, was scrapped. The Special Higher Police force — or "thought police" — was abolished.
The vote was granted to women, and the US began a drive to break up the huge zaibatsu corporations and an agrarian reform which would smash the landlord class in the countryside. The state-sponsored cult of Shinto, a buttress of right-wing nationalism, was abolished in December 1945, and the rising-sun flag was prohibited.
Over the next two years the US would abolish laws which discriminated against women, reform the law and purge education, decentralise the police and impose a constitution that committed Japan to democracy and explicitly forbade Japan from resorting to war to solve international disputes.
And the US began to purge members of the old regime and elites. They would eventually prohibit 200 000 individuals from holding public office.
Among many ordinary Japanese there was real enthusiasm for the US democratisation. 2,700 candidates belonging to 363 political parties contested the Diet elections of April 1946. 95% of the candidates had never held office before. Women got the vote for the first time and 39 women were elected.
Encouraged by the changes imposed on Japan, workers, women and students began to organise. A few weeks after the Diet elections on 1 May, two million marched to celebrate May Day – an event that had been banned since 1936.
By the end of 1945 the unions claimed 380,000 members; a year later that figure stood at 5.6 million, peaking at 6.7 million in mid-1948.
Between the beginning of 1946 and the end of 1950 6,432 disputes involving 19 million workers were recorded.
And workers began to occupy workplaces as a mechanism of forcing management to concede to their demands – at first mainly wage increases. At the end of 1945 workers took possession of railways, mines and newspapers, running them briefly under workers' control. Later, workers took over factories belonging to owners who were believed to be sabotaging production as a method of undermining the US's democratisation plans. Incidents of "production control" increased in the first months of 1946, concentrated in the Tokyo area and in particular in the machine tools sector.
Social Democratic and Communist parties expand
Communist Party leader Nosaka Sanzo claimed he wanted to see a "loveable Communist Party", and spoke of the need for a "democratic people's front". He explained that this did not mean "that we are trying to realise socialism by overthrowing capitalism today." The Communists, he said, "are the true patriots and the true service brigade for democracy." Communists and Socialists were elected to the Diet in April 1946. In future years the left would be the staunchest defenders of the changes the US had forced on Japan.
The Socialist-led Sodomei and CP-led Sanbetsu were both founded in August 1946. In October a major industrial offensive was mounted by the CP unions against the threat of job losses on the railways and in the public sector. A general strike, initially backed by all wings of the labour movement, was set for 1 February 1947. Despite assurances from the strike leaders that the movement would not directly affect the occupation forces, and that the railways would continue to run, the US stepped in and banned the strike.
The US opposition to the strike shocked many of the left and union leaders and delighted members of the old ruling class. Ii Yashiro, a central member of the strike's organising committee, said later that this was the point that it became clear that the Americans were "deceiving the Japanese people with democracy only at the tip of their tongues."
In the summer of 1948 US Supreme Commander in Japan, General Douglas MacArthur, banned strikes in the public sector and began helping the formation of anti-Communist organisations within the unions — leading to the formation of a new anti-Communist union federation in 1950.
Beginning in 1949 purges were directed against the left and the Communists. Close collaboration began between occupation officials, managers, and conservative politicians in a drive to break the unions. Eleven thousand union activists were purged from the public sector between the end of 1949 and the outbreak of the Korean war on 25 June 1950.
After the war started the witch-hunt was extended to the private sector.
Alongside the "Red purge" came the return to public life of many reactionaries who had previously been purged "for all time" for association with the old regime.
The Communist Party changed line, ending their "loveable JCP" period and taking up a more militant attitude to the occupation. Following a small confrontation between CPers and US troops, MacArthur ordered the Japanese government to "remove and exclude from public service" the 24 members of the CP's central committee and 17 editors of communist newspapers. Although the CP and its paper were not banned, most of the CP's leaders went underground for the remainder of the occupation.
Land reform and industry
Following obstruction in the Diet from the representatives of the landlord class, MacArthur forced one of the most radical land reforms in world history on the Japanese government. Legislation went through a reluctant lower House in October 1946.
The new law saw the compulsory purchase by the state of all land held by absentee landlords. "Owner-farmers and resident landlords were allowed to retain from 12 cho (about 12 hectares) in Hokkaido, to 3 cho elsewhere, not more than a third of which was to be let to tenants. Everything above those limits was to be sold to the government [… at 1945 rates], which were artificially low and had long since been overtaken by inflation in order to be offered to existing tenants on easy terms… more than a million cho of rice paddy and 800,000 cho of upland was bought from 2.3 million landlords by August 1950 and sold to 4.7 million tenants. Land under tenancy agreements, amounting to over 40% in 1946, dropped to a mere 10%… land committees, each consisting of five tenants, three landlords and two owner-farmers were set up in every village to oversee the operation… the reform made Japan substantially a country of peasant proprietors. Their natural conservatism was to be a key factor in sustaining a succession of right-wing governments, while their improved economic status helped to create a wider domestic market." (WG Beasley, The Rise of Modern Japan).
Over hald Japan's population then lived on the land and in 1945-7 many depended on families in the countryside to get food. The US carried out land reform because it believed a large small-farmer class to be the best bulwark against "communism" and resurgent oligarchic militarism; but it had a huge economic and social impact.
Initially the US's policy was not to "assume responsibility for the economic rehabilitation of Japan." Up until 1948 the US intended that Japan would "stew in its own juices." America did provide $2bn in economic aid, but that was mainly food aid donated for political reasons, designed to head off serious social unrest.
In the first three years or occupation the US confined itself to identifying targets for potential reparations, drawing up lists of capitalists to be purged and identifying "excessive concentrations of economic power" to be broken up.
The big Japanese capitalists were — generally — pleased to see the war end and glad the Americans had removed the "national socialist" militarists who had attempted to impose total control over the economy.
At the end of the war Japanese capitalism was highly concentrated. Ten corporations controlled nearly 50% of capital in mining, machinery, shipbuilding, chemicals, banking and 60% of insurance and shipping.
At first the US intended to radically break up these corporations in the name of "economic democracy". In the end the reforms were mild as the US turned towards re-floating the Japanese economy as a strategic political response to the beginnings of the Cold War.
In December 1948 Washington sent Detroit banker Joseph Dodge to Tokyo with the task of creating a functioning market economy. The "Dodge Line" cut the welfare and education budgets, curbed inflation and promoted exports. Dodge's policy seemed in danger of creating a depression in Japan, which was averted by the start of the Korean war, which led to a war boom in Japan.
The treaty that led to US withdrawal in 1952 confirmed the loss of all territories seized by Japan in the 20th century. The US maintained bases in Japan, and Japan began being re-armed as a Cold War ally of America.
In the final years of occupation America had shifted from reform to reconstruction. But, despite the qualifications, Japan had been substantially re-molded by the US — and for the better.
interesting. my question is,
my question is, how reliable is this information?
at times, it does sound biased. who is Dan Katz?


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- 6 slices wheat toast
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- 1⁄4 cup milk
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
- On the stovetop, turn on to medium heat and use a griddle.
- In a bowl big enough to dunk your bread, add the 3 egg yolks and 1 whole egg and 1/4 cup of milk and with a fork, stir these ingredients.
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- When the griddle gets warm, quickly, put in your slices of bread in the mixture, both sides.
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Very good, but we thought it had too much cinnamon in it. Still really tasty tho!
Very yummy! I think this is much better, only using the one whole egg with 3 yolks, because this makes the toast less "eggy" tasting. Was great with country style maple syrup.
French toast for me has always been an eyeball-it type recipe, and I always did it that way since I learned the basics when I was younger, so this is the first actual french toast recipe I've used before. I made a few changes; sliced french bread toasted, Eggbeaters (3/4 cup to equal 3 eggs), and soy milk for regular milk. I do not tolerate real milk or egg yolks well at all due to IBS. I also added a couple sprinkles of nutmeg, but kept the amounts of the cinnamon and vanilla extract the same. Turned out very nicely, and I liked toasting the bread first. Bread was still soft inside and slightly crispy outside w/o being totally mushy inside. The taste was perfect and my bf also thought this was great. 6 1/2 inch thick slices worked well for the amount of egg mixture. I flipped the slices over and over in the mix to get enough of the flavor. I used our griddle at 350 degrees. Thank you Jennifer Lewis & your grandpa for a super simple, tasty french toast recipe.


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The remarkable find of Machu Picchu, Which means "Old peak" has been regarded as one of the archaeological finds of the century and still to this day baffles archaeologists with its mysteries.
Located in Peru,hidden amongst the dense Amazon rainforest,8,000 feet above sea level nesting between two giant mountains lies Machu Picchu. The hidden city of the Incas covers a landmass of 32,592 hectares stretching over 530 meters in length,
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More Notable But Often Unnoted Women of Utah
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Here's a problem I seen somewhere I thought was kind of fun:
Show that the arc length of sin(x) over the interval is equal to the circumference of the ellipse ".
The arc length integrals are not easily done by elementary means. At least, I don't think so
Very good curvature. That's how I tackled it. Also, the same way it was done on another forum. That is apparently the best way. I will admit, I scratched my head for a little while before it dawned on me to use parametric arc length. Then , it was obvious. Fell right into place
I get the feeling you may think I actually didn't solve the problem, but said I did it that way. Sorry, if it looks that way but I would'nt be that dishonest.
I was thinking maybe someone would show another way besides the parametric arc length method. I won't post anymore problems that way.


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The ´Richard Windsor´ I speak does not exist as it is a fictitious name used by the former head of the EPA, Ms. Lisa Jackson that she used to conduct secret EPA business under an e-mail account known as ´Richard Windsor´.
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We're not talking about some alias to be used for personal correspondence but a totally false identity in whose name official business was allegedly conducted created specifically to avoid federal record-keeping and disclosure requirements.
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November 1, 2012 | Vol. 39, No. 34
Jeanette Ness
At the Oct. 23 meeting of the Petersburg Indian Association Board, Jeanette Ness was appointed to the vacant seat on the board.
Ronelle Beardsly, who stepped down from the board seven months ago due to health reasons, formerly held the position.
According to PIA board mandate, the open slot should have been filled at the meeting following Beardsly's departure.
"I received the next highest number of votes at the last election," Ness said. "I should have been appointed seven months ago."
Ness will only hold the position until the next election, but has thoughts about what she would like to see the board do in her remaining time.
"I would really like to see communication between the board and the tribe improve," Ness said. "Their (the Tribe) voice is the one the board should be listening to."
According to Ness, the Tribe should keep the board on track.
"We represent them," Ness stated. "I would like to see more of the tribe members attend board meetings."
The next election for the PIA Board will be around January and Ness has not decided at this time if she will seek a seat for the next term.
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Democrats grab Senate seatsBy JONATHAN WEISMAN
The New York Times | November 07,2012Democrats snatched Republican Senate seats in Indiana and Massachusetts on Tuesday and were poised to hold control of the Senate, handing Republicans a string of stinging defeats for the second campaign season in a row.
In Indiana, Rep. Joe Donnelly did what had seemed impossible by taking a Senate seat for the Democrats in a deep-red state, just weeks after his Republican opponent, State Treasurer Richard Mourdock, said conception by rape was Gods will. In Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard professor, swept from power Sen. Scott P. Brown, the Republican whose surprise victory in January 2010 heralded the coming of the tea party wave.
Those Democratic triumphs followed quick wins in Ohio, Connecticut, Florida and Pennsylvania, all states where Republicans had harbored ambitions of victory that would propel them to a Senate majority for the first time since 2006.
Republicans lost another state when former Gov. Angus King Jr. of Maine, an independent, won his race to succeed Sen. Olympia J. Snowe, a moderate who is retiring.
In New York, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat, cruised to re-election. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., was also easily re-elected.
The results suggested that for the second consecutive election cycle, Republicans high hopes for a takeover of the Senate were dashed in large part by their own candidates. In 2010 and 2012, the disappointment could be laid at the feet of a very conservative Republican primary electorate that was determined to sweep out the partys centrists.
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LONDON — In some European capitals, they mutter about a Fourth Reich and compare the German chancellor to Adolf Hitler. The French complain about British obstructionism; the British complain about everyone else. In Spain and elsewhere, separatist movements are growing.
But the Nobel Committee chose to take the long view yesterday, awarding the 2012 Peace Prize to the European Union. The panel reasoned that even if economic divisions are tearing at the harmony Europeans have spent decades building, it no longer seems possible that they would kill each other again.
From a handful of countries whose leaders shook hands amid the rubble of World War II, the EU has become a 27-nation club of free trade and travel, with more states pressing to join.
"The union and its forerunners have, over six decades, contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe," said Thorbjorn Jagland, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. "Reconciliation has become a reality."
So has name-calling and finger-pointing. Parties contemptuous of the EU have risen in the polls across the continent as national economies sink into recession. Street protests occur almost daily in hard-hit countries such as Greece and Italy, where angry residents have singled out German Chancellor Angela Merkel for her insistence on fiscal austerity.
In eternally "Euroskeptic" Britain, some want a referendum on whether to get out of the European Union.
There was criticism yesterday of the decision to recognize an institution rather than an individual. In Russia, veteran activist Svetlana Gannushkina, a perennial nominee, called the Nobel Committee's choice "absurd."
"It is a prize that in my opinion goes nowhere," said Gannushkina, a board member of the human-rights group Memorial. "Who gets the prize, the nations of the European Union, or the bureaucratic structure that manages it?"
But precedent exists for picking an organization: The United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency won in 2005, and the charity Medecins sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) was honored in 1999.


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We welcome questions from patients and their family members. Ask your doctor for a referral for palliative care services. Our team is available Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
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The Palliative Medicine and Comfort Care Team works in the hospital and can provide guidance during any phase of illness. Hospice is a program of services that allows a dying person to remain at home or in a home-like setting for the last weeks and months of life. The Palliative Care Team can help with the transition to hospice care, if needed.
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It is widely accepted as historical fact that the first Thanksgiving was held by the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony in 1621.
President Abraham Lincoln made Thanksgiving an annual national holiday in 1863 to be celebrated on the last Thursday of November.
The holiday has been a part of America for centuries.
It has expanded from a day to give thanks for a bountiful harvest to a day of food, family and football.
There is nothing inherently wrong with celebrating today with a turkey leg and spending quality time with family and friends.
But perhaps this year, more than any other, we need to harken back to 1621 and be thankful for this nation's bountiful harvest.
This nation of freedom was built on the foundation created by a group of people that faced hardships we cannot fathom today.
It is estimated that more than half of the pilgrims who journeyed to America died as a result of these various hardships, which ranged from disease, inadequate food supply, harsh weather and Indian disputes.
But these people endured.
Many died, but still they gave thanks.
They, along with our Founding Fathers more than 100 years later, created the greatest nation the world has known.
They craved freedom - freedom to worship as they chose, freedom to speak their minds in public, and the freedom to determine their own government free of taxation without representation.
They knew these freedoms did not come without a cost, a cost that is still being paid today.
These freedoms came under attack Sept. 11, and indeed, many more died as a result.
Let us remember the sacrifices of more than 350 years ago, and also the sacrifices being made today, both at home and in a country thousands of miles away that has never known such freedom.
And as our forefathers did more than 350 years ago, despite these sacrifices, let us be thankful for the freedoms that make us great.
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It's the event that will be making the headlines and setting new precedents for Free Comic Book Day across the world! Have you ever heard of a comic shop with a pair of tigers!?
Your guesses have been correct, and this May we'll be expanding the scope of our Free Comic Book Day Con fesitivities to include one of the most beloved educational facilities in Greensboro, just a short trip down our very own Lawndale Drive, at the Greensboro Natural Science Center!
Our goal here is to reach brand new families who have no idea what Free Comic Book Day is or how it works, or have been intimidated by the sheer volume of fans at the shop over the years!
It's our hope that this new initiative will spread the gospel of comics to residents of the Triad area who might not otherwise be able to particpate, especially with the crowds, as well as providing another opportunity to make FCBD an all day event full of mind-enriching experiences and non-stop fun!
- Pick up a bag of primo books, including a couple of titles not available at the shop, for FREE!
- Meet some Free Comic Book Day favorites and brand new talent and head home with signed books and a personalized drawing from one of your favorite artists, for FREE!
- Costumed heroes, including one of the best Batman's you've ever seen!
- Animania Pet adoption - maybe you'll bring home your next best friend, a super pet!
- Acme Comics has also welcomed Nurse Jolene Cannady's Team Lemon (a local branch of Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation) to host a lemonade stand at this location. No donation is too small and all funds to this stand will benefit pediatric cancer research.
The creators at the Natural Science Center will be:
We'll be set up in the courtyard of the zoo, weather permitting!
We're very happy to have Chris back for Free Comic Book Day after a year off! He's the artist and co-creator of Hero Happy Hour from IDW and we always like to give him credit when it comes to Acme's FCBD explosion. Back in 2008, Chris was the first artist that really took a chance on us, hopped in his car, and made the looong trip from Alabama to hang out and meet the crowd! It was his confidence in us that gave us to guts to keep going bigger and we thank him for it all the time!
Check out is work on Deviant Art.com!
From Michael W. Kellar Inks:
Michael W. Kellar was born August 1971, educated in the Texas school system from which he graduated Killeen High School in 1990. Michael enlisted in the United States Navy in 1991 and served overseas in Desert Storm, 1993 saw the end of his contract. Upon departing the Navy in 1993, Michael entered the world of comic books, inking for Gravitywell Productions until 2001 at which time he joined the Army National Guard until 2006. Michael spent the better part of 2001-2007 focused on his family along with other aspects of life and in late 2006 would come back to the world on comic book inking. March 2007 would see Michael sign with Jolly Rogue Studios/Free Lunch Comics working on "Sky Pirates of Valendor" until August 2008 at which time he would become a Freelance Inker. September 2006 Michael began working for the Department of Veterans Affairs in Salisbury, NC serving the Veterans who so proudly served our great country.
In January 2009, Michael would find another way to serve Veterans by becoming an inker for Heroes Fallen Studios with good friend Clayton D. Murwin. Then, March 2011 would see Michael join the ranks of Inkwell Awards first as a Contributor and then as a Committee Member in June of the same year. Lastly, February 2012 would see Michael elected to the Board of Directors for Heroes Fallen Studios as Comic Industry Liaison and Veteran's Affairs Officer. Michael currently resides in North Carolina where he is engaged to a wonderful woman, Melissa, and they are raising his 3 children and her son together.
Erika was born and raised in Greensboro, and has been drawing most of her life. She was fed a steady diet of cartoons and comics as a child, and currently spends her time off work drawing and making jewelry. She has worked on some educational material and has done a lot of freelance work. She enjoys drawing dinosaurs and anything adorable.
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From Highburn Studios.com!
Michael Watkins is the founder and owner of Highburn Studios. He is mostly known for his work on Sonic the Hedgehog, Femme-Noir, and his creator owned project Guardians. Mike can usually be found at a drawing board, a wacom tablet, or in a gym.
Outside of comics, Mike is an avid Martial Artist, studying Hak Dari Shon Hap Ki Do. After nearly 20 years he still hasn't learned important techniques such as "Wax on, and Wax off", but he knows with time he will get there. Mike also loves to collect vintage Transformers, he says "collect"..others say it's an addiction.
Born in North Carolina, Colby had comics in his hands before he could read. He's been drawing ever since. He is currently working on a creator owned project he hopes to have completed before the end of the year.
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Mon. — Sloppy Joe, cabbage slaw, buttered corn, chocolate ice cream
Tue. — Meatloaf with brown gravy, mashed potatoes, green salad, cinnamon roll
Wed. — Hamburgers, French fries, buttered carrots, fruit cup
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Fri. — Toasted cheese sandwich, molded fruit, buttered green beans, berry cobbler.
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Would it be possible to get some foreknowledge about the Paranoia game happening on Sunday? Is there anything we need to know ahead of time/books to read before hand/anything we need to make/bring?
->really looking forward to it!
You can try this http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/50899/Paranoia-XP or this http://paizo.com/store/games/roleplayingGames/p/paranoiaXP
Why, thank you for volunteering to attempt salvage of that malfunctioning plasma cannon. A noble gesture. Of course, with such a dangerous mission, it would be unwise for you to further risk any of The Computer's valuable equipment by exposing it to any explosion that might result if you should fail. Therefore, I regret you will have to leave all your equipment here with us in the bunker. Yes, I'm afraid that means your tool kit, too.
Oh what fun!!
I'm not in your game but if brought some dice and a sense of humor you should be fine.
'. . . obviously the work of Commie saboteurs . . .'
Thanks for the links, I'll look into getting some of those. I'm definitely looking forward to this game.
Thanks for the links, I'll look into getting some of those. I'm definitely looking forward to this game.
Paranoia is a game most enjoyed the less you know about it as a player, IMHO. I recommend you not read up on it before hand.
Btw, Paranoia rocks! Leave your d&d/Pathfinder preconceptions at the door. This is a different kettle of fish. I envy you - there can only be one first time playing Paranoia.
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As the guy running the Paranoia game, I have this advice:
Trust no one!
Keep your laser handy!
The Computer is your friend!
The mission you have been assigned to will be fun and easy. The chance of dying by zombie attack, blood loss, symbiote infestation, dangerous brain-swapping experiments, or rampaging Frankenstein monsters are absolutely nil! Rumors to the contrary are false and dangerous threats to the peace and security of Alpha Complex doubtless spread by Commie Mutant Traitors. Report them immediately!
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Here we do not drink ... bouncy bubble beverage.
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