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Eric Stults (1-0) and five relievers combined on a five-hitter and struck out 14 for the Padres, who had not led in their first two games.
Mets starter Dillon Gee (0-1) returned from shoulder surgery last summer and was nearly as sharp. He opened with a walk, then retired 10 in a row and wound up giving up three hits in 6 1-3 innings.
Stults, who beat the Mets seven years ago for the Los Angeles Dodgers for his first big league win, made an opening-day roster for the first time. The 33-year-old left-hander had only one 1-2-3 inning but kept escaping trouble. He allowed three hits in five shutout innings, walked two and struck out seven -- including four looking.
Brad Brach, Joe Thatcher, Dale Thayer, Luke Gregerson and Huston Street followed. John Buck drove Street's first pitch off the facing of the second deck in left for his second homer of the series, and Street then retired three in a row for his first save.
Gee didn't pitch at all during the second half of last season. He said July 8 he felt numbness in fingers on his right hand, a day after pitching eight innings and beat the Chicago Cubs. Tests revealed a blood clot in his shoulder, and he had surgery July 13 as doctors used a vein from his groin area to widen the artery to prevent future clots.
Outscored 19-6 in their first two games, the Padres rested Carlos Quentin in the day game following a night game and inserted Mark Kotsay in left field. Justin Turner started at second for the Mets in place of Daniel Murphy, and Turner got hits in his first three at-bats of the season.
Gee gave up a run in the fourth after one-out singles by Kotsay and Yadier Alonso put runners on the corners. Gyorko, who made his big league debut Monday, pulled a 1-2 changeup over the third-base bag.
Gee escaped further trouble when Alexi Amarista hit a comebacker that the pitcher turned into a 1-2-5-1 out at the plate, and Cameron Maybin -- playing on his 26th birthday -- flied out.
Jeurys Familia allowed another run in the eighth when pinch-hitter Chris Denorfia walked leading off, Alonso singled him to third and Familia bounced a slider over the glove of Buck, who tried for a backhand grab.
NOTES: The Mets wore caps with orange bills for the first time in a regular-season game, rather than their usual model in solid royal blue. ... David Wright struck out three times. ... Jeremy Hefner starts for the Mets on Friday against Miami's Alex Sanabia. Jason Marquis pitches for the Padres in their series opener at Colorado, which starts Jeff Francis.

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is it worth it ? I mainly want it for tig and stick (I have a mig). I'm not sure about the difference between this and the regular xmt 350 cc/cv. Any info before I agree to buy would be great. Thanks.
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Miller xmt 350 VS good shape - $1100 - good deal or not?
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What do you need to do with a welder?
What types of welding do you need to/want to do? It's not a bad price if you have a suitcase wire feeder already. Look at the face plate to see all the available functions are what you have on your wish list. It's not a good deal if you don't get everything you want at any price.
My main need is to maintain tig welding skills.
I need to keep up my certs for 2 inch 6g carbon and stainless in case they go out during dry spells in work. Other than that it will mostly be used for personal projects. I wouldn't mind having something that I could do aluminum but not sure how much more a machine like that would cost.
Problem is that its a voltage sensing unit, so no 14 pin receptacle. Basically its a construction model. So its live all the time. Thats why you'd need a voltage sensing feeder.
Aluminum might be a problem since you have no contactor or even a way of hooking it up to the machine without a WC-115 with built in contactor.
Not a particularly popular machine, and the price reflects that.
Even though thats an odd ball 350 vs, assuming it not stolen(be sure that model walks off many sites). 1100 for a inverter xmt 350 which will still run any feeder with a contactor is a good price. Be warned, if the case is beat up, it is very possible that welder lived a very hard life, I suggest popping the case off and looking at the internals for corrision.
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Originally posted by Tryagn5 View PostEven though thats an odd ball 350 vs, assuming it not stolen(be sure that model walks off many sites). 1100 for a inverter xmt 350 which will still run any feeder with a contactor is a good price. Be warned, if the case is beat up, it is very possible that welder lived a very hard life, I suggest popping the case off and looking at the internals for corrision.
Let me think about it.
I've also got a broken xmt 304 with 2 bad boards (213664 and 219820d). This was going to be a replacement. I'd like to have both machines (working of course) but the boards were listed as unrepairable and the upgraded cards that they need (240570 and 240500) are more than I paid for it. But it would be nice to have basically an equivalent machine as a replacement .
It's weird to me too...
There are no error codes..I took it to a supposed certified Miller weld repair shop... they told me the 2 boards were bad. When I plug it in , everything appears to work. Just no output.
I have an IGBT tester and all of them checked out.? I also have a bench power supply and physically input power to the IGBT's and SR1 individually and everything checked out there as well. I also have a couple of capacitor checkers and both the big blue capacitors checked out as well. I tested the diodes and the resistors on the little board attached to the IGBT's(desoldering them) and all checked out. I checked the main switch for continuity and good contact along with loosening and cleaning and re-tightening any grounds or cables I could find...no dice. I just don't know enough to find the problem but I think I have the equipment(with the exception of an IC tester) to test and replace anything on the boards. I'm willing to try anything because it's just an "electronic spare parts for a robot" in its current state.
The control board usually gives a Help 6, the output board usually a help7, sometimes the control transformers to run the igbts blow which will also give you a help 7. But you blow a IGBT transformer, you also take out a igbt. Never the less, shoot me the serial# and I can pretty much tell you which Zener is blown.


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The five Wabash men who spoke at the Jan. 27 Chapel gathering about their recent semesters studying in Europe learned enough from experience to teach by example. One by one, they regaled the large crowd of students and faculty with their accounts of the ways in which their Wabash education prepared them to be something more that mere innocents abroad. They shared selected tales of their European adventures, and offered up advice to their fellow students who have yet to set foot on foreign soil.
Sophomore Marty Brown led off by quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson, who thought travel a waste of time since one's burdens travel with him. Brown found, to the contrary, that his travel companion was the enlightening Little Giant ethos, which, among other things, prompted him to invite the group of Australian students in a Spanish karaoke bar to join him for a round of beer after they had vehemently criticized his support of President Bush in the American election last fall.
On a cold Madrid night Brown and a few friends were asked by authorities to leave a bus station where they had planned to spend the night. Ousted and penniless, they used Wabash ingenuity to combine their coats, hats and scarves into make-shift blankets to stay warm on a park bench until morning. "These experiences prepare us to live in the whole world," Brown concluded.
Senior Mark Cross' stay in Northern Ireland caused him to return to campus appreciating Wabash and the United States more than he ever had before. Not that he didn't enjoy his stay. The beauty of the land and the Irish seriousness of purpose impressed him deeply. His affection for our government grew during a conversation with an Irish girl who told him U.S. citizens should be grateful that their vote means something because her elected representative doesn't even have a voice in government.
Sophomores Doug Berry and Joe Martin then explained some of the many differences between Wabash and the University of Aberdeen, where they studied. A major difference was the presence of women, which Martin allowed was a pleasant change of scenery. They traveled throughout Europe as much as possible and reported that Nice has the most beautiful sunsets; Paris the most expensive "public" restrooms; a steady Scottish diet of fish and chips doesn't compare with the deliciously varied American student diet of Steak & Shake, Mountain Dew, and McDonald's; that it is very difficult to live on a loaf of bread and one bottle of water for six days; and, especially, said Berry, "that you need to experience overseas study to fully appreciate Wabash."
Senior Phu Hong had always thought of Europe as a dark and gloomy continent until he arrived in warm, sunny Rome for his overseas study, he reported at the Chapel. With a Latin minor at Wabash, he has studied the Eternal City but was not prepared for the full extent of its beauty. Enthralled as he was, he provided his fellow students with valuable suggestions of what not to do in Rome.
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In Venice, where the pigeons in St. Mark's Square are as infamous as they are numerous, Mr. Hong saw one luckless bird struck by a bus; he tried to put it out of its misery by snapping its neck, a gesture not appreciated for its humanitarian concern by the Italian security guard standing nearby. Neither was his next effort, trying to give the pigeon a decent burial under a little pile of dirt he kicked up with his shoe. Mr. Hong and the guard failed to see eye to eye on the entire matter, but the Wabash man escaped being thrown into one of the Venetian canals and was able to return safely to campus to share his advice at Chapel.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The trustee overseeing the liquidation of MF Global's failed futures brokerage said he expects the more than 28,000 customer claims that have been filed to be fully resolved within the next few months, according to a report filed in court on Tuesday.
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"I really don't know what the draw is," concedes Dorothy Oliver, who paints on hollowed-out crustaceans from her home in Huntingtown in Calvert County. "It's a unique little item. I guess people just like Maryland crabs; they like their Maryland blue crabs."
Using equal parts patience, skill and ingenuity, these painters turn the odd-shaped shells, pointy ends and all, into Santa Clauses and Baltimore skylines, Picassos and van Goghs, Orioles logos and pet portraits. Tom Matarazzo, who paints and sells at his Hampden shop, Razzo, once painted a picture of a customer's black Labrador on a crab shell, complete with a Darth Vader mask.
"That's probably the weirdest one I've ever done," says Matarazzo, a retired city police officer who specializes in custom orders. You name it, he'll paint it on a crab shell. While the canine Darth Vader may have been his oddest commission, the logo of the state medical examiner's office runs a close second.
Only in Maryland. And that, in fact, is one reason for their popularity. For the visitor who wants to take a Maryland memory home, or residents looking for something to demonstrate their pride in the Free State, a painted crab shell is the obvious answer. Thank you, Chesapeake Bay.
"Crabs and Maryland are synonymous," says Jeff Bridner of Westminster. He and his wife, Patty, sell plenty of painted crab shells through their themarylandstore.com website. "Most people know Maryland for crabs; most people that come to Maryland on vacation are certainly going to try crabs."
In other words, if nothing else, taking a painted crab shell home as a souvenir should remind visitors to Maryland of the best meal they've ever eaten.
"People love the crab shells," writes Rebecca Ebert, who paints crab shells and sells them — at $6 a pop — from her website, designsbynoodle.com. "It's traditional Baltimore."
Nobody understands that better than Matarazzo, whose window display on The Avenue in Hampden includes about 100 painted crabs, emblazoned with everything from pink flamingos and hons (complete with black plastic glasses) to the Oriole bird and Ravens logo. He's even got some that don't have an obvious Baltimore connection at all, like Yoda, the Rolling Stones' tongue logo and a reproduction of Edvard Munch's famous painting "The Scream."
"It all started years ago, when I had a customer come in and he brought a couple dozen crab shells," says Matarazzo. "'Hey, we had crabs last week; you think you could paint these up?'"
From that small conversation, a cottage industry developed. Matarazzo paints crab shells pretty much all year, charging from $12 to $20 for the finished product, depending on the crab's size and the painting's intricacy. On a recent afternoon, he was painting a dozen shells in one sitting, half with a lighthouse scene ("They're one of my biggest sellers"), half with a Maryland flag.
Most of his sales, not surprisingly, come during the Christmas holidays, when he stays open seven days a week to take advantage of the crowds that come to Hampden for its famously gaudy light displays. Painted crab shells, he notes, make for a great Christmas tree ornament.
"I've heard from some customers that they have whole Christmas trees with just my stuff on them," Matarazzo says.
At first glance, blue crab shells may not look like the easiest painting surface Mother Nature ever devised, what with the edges, the curved surface and the occasional bump or blemish. But apparently, a crab shell makes for a wonderful canvas.
"There's actually a face outline on each crab shell," says Bonnie Hood, who specializes in putting Santa Claus faces on her crabs, which are sold through themarylandstore.com. "You have the nose, and it has cheekbones on it."
Finding the raw materials is a pleasure; just have a crab feast — or get yourself invited to one — and you're set for weeks.
"I'm probably the only person who will go and say, 'Can I clean up your crab feast?'" says Hood.
The real work comes in cleaning the shell and getting it ready for the paint. Not only does it have to be scrubbed thoroughly, but it has to be soaked in something for a while — usually bleach — to get the smell out.
"The painting process is maybe half an hour," says Hood, who works full time as an administrator at the Carroll County Farm Museum in Westminster. "Your real time is in cleaning them and getting them to that point. I scrape it really good and I try to wash it with a little bit of detergent. Then, after I feel good about that, I put it on the stove, in a pot of water with some bleach, and I literally boil it — just enough to get it going a little bit.
"I leave it sit for a little while," she says. "You don't want to let it sit too long; you're going to make the shell real brittle. Then, once they're out of the pot, I let them air dry. Then I start the process of painting."
Naturally, not all artists do their own prep, so busy are they with the creative process. Matarazzo's wife is his main help.
"She scrapes them out with a paring knife, then scrubs them with a Brillo pad. She gets them sparkling clean. …She does the work," he says with a laugh, "I get the glory."
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The King's Singers are consistently welcomed on the world's great stages today and have been throughout their history. They are ambassadors for musical excellence around the globe and have an ongoing commitment to new music that has resulted in an extraordinary wealth of original works as well as leading to some fantastic collaborations.
The King's Singers were founded on 1 May 1968, when choral scholars who had recently graduated from King's College, Cambridge, gave a concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall at the Southbank Centre in London. Formed in Cambridge, the group had been singing together for some years in a range of line-ups under a different name, but this London debut was the catalyst for a five-decade-long career. Their vocal make-up was, by chance, two countertenors, a tenor, two baritones and a bass, and the group has never wavered from this formation since.
As former members of the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, traditional choral repertoire pulsed through the veins of the founding King's Singers, though what distinguished The King's Singers in the early years was their musical versatility. They were a weekly fixture on prime-time television, celebrating popular music never usually touched by choral ensembles, and their unique British charm, combined with their precise musical craft, captured audiences' hearts the world over. The group has regularly performed at venues from London's Royal Albert Hall to Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall to the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, and the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam.
The King's Singers have accumulated many glowing reviews from the world's great musical publications, two Grammy® Awards, an Emmy® Award, and place in Gramophone magazine's inaugural Hall of Fame, among numerous other awards.
In their early years, the group's sound was informed by the work of arrangers like Gordon Langford, Daryl Runswick and Goff Richards, many of whom had worked extensively with brass bands. Writing for voices with this specific experience helped to develop the blended 'close-harmony' sound that has become a hallmark for so many King's Singers performances and recordings since. In more recent times, individual King's Singers such as Philip Lawson and Bob Chilcott have written music prolifically from within the group. This music sits alongside a panoply of commissioned works by many superb composers of the 20th and 21st centuries – including Sir John Tavener, György Ligeti, Toru Takemitsu, John Rutter, Luciano Berio, Nico Muhly and Eric Whitacre. The group's mission has always been to expand their repertoire with the aim of sharing their new music with ensembles and choirs of all kinds around the world. Much of their commissioned repertoire and arrangements are available in print through the publisher Hal Leonard. Over two million items from their King's Singers collection have been shared with their customers worldwide.
This ongoing commitment to spreading great music incorporates a lot of teaching, both on tour and at home. In 2019, the group will lead workshops & masterclasses across the world as they travel. Week-long residential courses now also take an important place in their annual calendar, when the six King's Singers work with groups and individuals on the techniques of ensemble singing that have governed how they make music to this day. Their next Summer School will take place in the beautiful Cambridge University, the home of The King's Singers, in July 2019.
With 2018 marking the 50th birthday of the group, The King's Singers have been celebrating their GOLD anniversary, which acknowledges their amazing musical heritage, as well as the bright future of vocal music in all its forms as they move into 2019. The world may have changed a lot in the fifty years since the original King's Singers came together, but today's group still aims to radiate the joy that singing brings them every day. The King's Singers are as determined as ever to inspire audiences with virtuosity and their vision for an exciting musical future.
The art of The King's Singers can be distilled into three concepts:
Active Listening, Active Breathing and Vertical Thinking
The King's Singers offer wonderful and sought-after opportunities for ensembles or choirs, who can work with the group and receive feedback and suggestions to achieve the best possible sound. Every member of the ensemble/choir will take something new away from a King's Singers workshop, both collectively and individually.
Working on pre-prepared pieces of music, The King's Singers will take participants on a musical journey in a relaxed and friendly environment, exploring the key aspects of ensemble singing.
Most workshops will end with a short Q&A session. This is a great opportunity for participants to ask any questions and hear an insight into life on the road, and how the King's Singers refer to the skills they have shared in workshops, on a daily basis.
If space is available, The King's Singers can work in pairs with up to three different ensembles concurrently. After a brief introduction, the groups can break off into the separate rooms for up to 45 minutes, before joining all together for the final 15 minutes.


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This duck just kept swimming around our boat and as the sun was going down I liked the light and the reflection of the clouds on the water so at the risk of losing my phone in the water I dropped my hand low and took several pictures as the duck swam by. I used the camera + app to take the picture with hardly any editing.
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Duchess 'Fergie' bows out of Omni event
The Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson (or "Fergie" as the British tabloids used to call her), was slated to appear at Charlottesville's Omni hotel next month as part of the Journey Through Hallowed Ground interstate tourism project. But now that she's admitted to attempting to sell access to her former husband, Prince Andrew, for about three-quarters of a million dollars, her June 22 appearance has been canceled, the Culpeper Star-Exponent reports. (Fergie plans to explain all on Oprah Winfrey's television talk show on Tuesday.)
–the spelling of dutchess was wrong in an early version of this story
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The alimony thing does seem a bit odd considering who are daughters are, and that they can afford a bit more. No, she didn't come from loads of money, but that's no reason.
I don't think that's all she gets in income though, because she still holds her title, and may well still get some income from the register.
I don't think they are all horrible but I certainly don't think it's a lifestyle that easily allows for normal social development and awareness. Being able to do your own thing and find a focus is going to be very difficult because everyone will assume you had money to back your project, when you really might have hustled on your own. I wouldn't want the life.
Paid to breed, then thrown away........
I miss the 90's when my ValueAmerica stock was going OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!
Local lickspittles will be SO disappointed.
And after making the Oprah Tour of Contrition and Excuses/Explanations, there will follow the book deal. Of course. Because that's the world we now live in. Anybody else missing the 70s, when life was different? I was only a kid, but I still miss it. :D
I miss the 70s too. The greed monster that took hold in the 80s has been our downfall.
As to Fergie, her alimony is only $20,000 per year. How is a "faux royal" with "royal" daughters supposed to manage on that? When I think of the way the "royal family" treated Princess Diana and how Fergie is treated, makes me wish the British would get rid of the monarchy. They're a bunch of unattractive, heartless cold fish who sit on billions in assets all because some ancestor convinced others they were better than everyone else. They're a bunch of mean people with the track record to prove it.
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There's no "t" in her title.


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A reader named Tim sent in a video of YouTube user Squidlocks playing through the original Ninja Gaiden for the NES, a game that kicked the ass of a much younger me many, many times. And here she is, playing through the first three levels without getting hit once. Not even the damn birds can touch her.
I beat Ninja Gaiden for the NES eventually. I might have beat it before Squidlocks here was even born. But my victories always came at a price, and that price was little health rectangles dropping like low-flying falcons at a ninja's face.
I'm sure this has been done before, and I'm certain it will be done again. I just wanted to share. Nicely done, Squidlocks. If I had hair I might shave half of it in your honor.
002 Ninja Gaiden (NES) Playthrough Areas 1-3 No Damage !! ~ [YouTube]


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Symantec today widened its cloud-based security service to include Lync, Microsoft's latest instant-messaging client, so that enterprises using Lync can do anti-malware filtering and exert security controls for blocking inappropriate content along with basic data-loss prevention.
Symantec Instant Messaging Security.cloud is a cloud-based service that does not require agent software or any type of appliance on the customer premises, says Nick Emanuel, Symantec senior product manager. And Microsoft Lync is "much more than just instant messaging," Emanuel points out. He notes that Lync's integration with Skype, the acquisition of which Microsoft completed last month, means Lync is emerging as a combined audio, video and IM client that could have wide enterprise use.
Lync not enterprise-ready, claims Microsoft ISV turned rival
The cloud security service Symantec is offering works by having the enterprise direct its Lync IM traffic to a Symantec server in the cloud, where the encrypted Lync traffic stream is decrypted to be inspected.
"Lync uses M-TLS," a version of the Transport Layer Security protocol which is proprietary to Microsoft, says Emanuel, noting this traffic is decrypted based on a Symantec certificate provided as part of the cloud-based service.
Once the Lync traffic is decrypted at the Symantec server point in the cloud, the Symantec content-control engine gets to work. It identities malware that might have made its way into the Lync stream, including attachments, and eradicates it. It's looking for both inbound as well as outbound security threats.
The Symantec service also can be set up to look at Lync content to identity inappropriate content -- offensive language of one sort or another would be a typical red flag -- and block that. Symantec is offering customers predefined templates if they need them. Some basic data-loss prevention capabilities can identity sensitive information, such as credit card data, and block it. The controls can also be set up simply to send an alert to the appropriate manager. Once the Lync traffic is filtered, it's re-encrypted and sent along to its destination.
Through the portal-based control panel, enterprise IT managers can establish the kind of message logging and archiving which may be required in their businesses for regulatory compliance.
The service is priced at $1.80 per user per month, dropping to about $1 based on discounts.
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LT Technologies, a manufacturer and designer of advanced water purification, filtration and chemical treatment systems, has been awarded a contract to supply systems for rain water reclamation and reuse, as well as an ultrapure water production for Georgetown University's new science center.
The new Science Center, projected to be completed by 2011, will be a state-of-the art research and teaching center for biology, chemistry, and physics.
One of the goals set by planners of the new facility was for it to be designed for a Silver LEED rating from the U.S. Green Building Council.
The company will provide rain water harvesting system that will be fully automated and will create clean water for non-potable uses throughout the complex.
"Our rain water harvesting system saves an enormous amount of water from running down the storm drain systems, and instead, efficiently reclaims it and makes it available for an array of uses," said LT Technologies Chief Executive Officer Tom Belmont. "When we started developing our system, we were familiar with some of the older specifications out there. But we knew we could build a better, smaller and more affordable system. Now, with nearly two years of development work behind us, we can offer customers a very advanced yet cost-effective solution. We're very excited about the future prospects of this technology."
Part of the contract will have LT Technologies manufacture a high-purity water system that will be used in the building's laboratory environments.


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Latest Medications News
What You Need to Know About New Weight Loss Drugs Belviq and Qsymia
By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
July 18, 2012 -- Two new prescription weight loss drugs, Belviq and Qsymia, now have the FDA's blessing. Which, if either, is for you?
Both drugs help some people lose weight. Neither drug is for everyone. Yet the two drugs are quite different.
Here's WebMD's FAQ comparing Qsymia to Belviq.
How do you pronounce Qsymia? Belviq?
Vivus Pharmaceuticals says you should pronounce Qsymia this way: kyoo-sim-EE-uh. (The company's preferred name was Qnexa, but that was nixed by FDA as sounding too much like other drugs.)
Arena Pharmaceuticals says you should pronounce Belviq this way: BEL-VEEK.
When will Belviq and Qsymia be available?
Vivus says Qsymia should be available "in the fourth quarter of 2012," which begins in September. But don't look for it in your local pharmacy. Because women taking Qsymia must use birth control (see below) the drug will be sold only through "certified pharmacies." These are likely to be major online pharmacies.
Because Belviq has a potential for abuse (see below), the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration must rule on how to schedule the drug. That process probably began no later than last May. As this usually takes four to six months, Belviq should become available by early 2013. A quicker DEA ruling may speed the drug's arrival.
Why, after not approving any long-term weight-loss drug for 13 years, did the FDA approve two weight loss drugs in one month?
Until relatively recently, most medical researchers considered weight loss drugs to be vanity products. The benefit -- looking better -- was not considered worth very large risks. And early weight loss drugs such as fen-phen carried very large risks, indeed.
Researchers now realize that obesity itself is a disease. Obesity greatly increases all kinds of other serious medical risks, from diabetes to heart disease to depression.
Even though both Qsymia and Belviq carry risks, FDA advisory panels thought long and hard about recommending approval. But the panels were swayed by what most members saw as the much greater risk of untreated obesity.
Do Qsymia and Belviq work the same way?
No. Qsymia and Belviq are very different drugs.
Qsymia combines two currently approved drugs. One is the appetite suppressant phentermine, the safer "phen" part of the infamously unsafe fen-phen diet drug combo.
Phentermine is thought to suppress appetite by triggering release of the brain chemical norepinephrine. This suppresses the appetite by increasing blood concentrations of the appetite-regulating hormone leptin.
The other half of Qsymia is the seizure/migraine drug topiramate. Topiramate causes weight loss in several ways, including increasing feelings of fullness, making foods taste less appealing, and increasing calorie burning.
Belviq causes weight loss by turning on a specific switch that increases levels of the brain messenger serotonin. At dosages intended for weight loss, it does not significantly turn on slightly different serotonin switches responsible for the effects of hallucinogens (such as LSD) and addictive drugs of abuse. Higher doses may trigger these switches, which is why the DEA likely will schedule Belviq as a controlled substance.
Who should and shouldn't take Belviq? Who should and shouldn't take Qsymia?
Belviq and Qsymia are approved for similar problems:
- Obesity, defined as a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or greater.
- Being overweight, with a BMI of 27 or more AND at least one weight-related condition such as type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, or high cholesterol.
Pregnant women should not take either Belviq or Qsymia.
Qsymia has particular risks for pregnancy, as it can cause birth defects if taken in the first months of pregnancy, even before a woman knows she is pregnant. Women of childbearing age must use effective birth control to keep from becoming pregnant while taking Qsymia.
Qsymia should not be taken by:
- Pregnant women
- People with glaucoma
- People who have been told they have an overactive thyroid
- People taking a type of antidepressant called a MAOI
- People allergic to phentermine or topiramate
Belviq should not be taken by:
- Pregnant or nursing women
- People taking drugs linked to valvular heart disease, such as cabergoline (Dostinex)
Belviq should be taken with caution by:
- People taking certain medicines for depression; migraine; the common cold; or mood, anxiety, psychotic, or thought disorders
- Men with conditions that predispose them to erections lasting more than four hours. These conditions include sickle cell anemia, multiple myeloma, and leukemia
- Men with a deformed penis
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Qsymia and Belviq each come with a long list of important safety information, but this list is different for each drug.
Qsymia approval required Vivus to set up a strict Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS). This program includes a medication guide giving patients important safety information, prescriber training, and pharmacy certification.
Which works better, Belviq or Qsymia?
There's no way to know for sure. Qsymia and Belviq have never been tested in a head-to-head clinical trial.
In the placebo-controlled clinical trials that led to approval:
- People taking Belviq had an average weight loss that was 3% to 3.7% greater than people taking placebo.
- After taking Belviq for one or two years, some 47% of people without diabetes lost at least 5% of their body weight. Only 23% of patients taking an inactive placebo lost this much weight.
- People taking Qsymia for up to one year had an average weight loss of 8.9% over those taking an inactive placebo.
- 70% of people taking Qsymia lost at least 5% of their body weight. Only 20% of patients taking an inactive placebo lost this much weight.
These numbers cannot be used to compare the two drugs, as the clinical trials had different designs.
How long would I have to keep taking Qsymia or Belviq?
People are supposed to keep taking Qsymia or Belviq for the rest of their lives, unless they develop side effects or have other reasons to stop.
If I take Belviq or Qsymia, do I still have to diet and exercise?
Absolutely. In clinical trials, the drugs were effective only when given along with a balanced diet and exercise.
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I wonder if products like Seafoam or Marvel Mystery Oil really work on cleaning the
engine ( by adding to engine oil) or the carburator (by adding to fuel). I have used both and can't tell if sludge, etc. is removed. I usually add to the oil, run the engine for a while then drain the oil. A friend tells me I'm just wasting money.


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1. Root
2. Droid X Bootstrap- $2 on Market or free from Koush's website
Download link http://koush.tandtgaming.com//motorola/droidx/DroidXBootstrap.apk
Once app is installed, go to your app drawer and click on it. It will ask for Super User permissions, press yes/ok. This will stop it from booting into clockwork after every manual reboot.
How to backup your system
A backup is a snapshot of your system at that moment. This will be vital should you experience any issues modding your phone.
1. Click on Droid X Bootstrap app
2. Click Bootstrap Recovery, then click OK when it says Success
3. Click Reboot Recovery, phone will automatically reboot
4. Once in the black screen with green writing, you will use the side volume rockers to move up and down and then the camera hard key to select.
5. Move down to backup/restore and select it.
6. Move to Backup and select it
The phone will begin to create a full backup (nandroid) of your system, data, and cache. This will take about 5 minutes to generate. After it is finished it will take you back to the main screen. If you want to move back to previous screens use the back hard key.
7. Select reboot system now.
8. You can view your backups in your file manager. There will be a clockworkmod folder where the backups reside. You can change the name of the file, but do not use spaces or odd characters. For example, use a dash - rather than a backslash / for dates.
How to restore a backup
If you have issues with your setup after a ROM or theme install, you can restore a backup made when the system was running correctly.
1. Click on Droid X Bootstrap app
2. Click Bootstrap Recovery, then OK when it says Success
3. Click Reboot Recovery and phone will automatically reboot.
4. When black screen with green writing appears, select backup/restore.
5. Then select Restore.
6. Choose the backup you want to restore. If you don't change the name of the file, they have the date and time stamp as the file name.
7. Select backup and then the phone will begin restoring the backup.
8. When its finished, it will take you to main screen, select reboot system now.
How to install a rom
1. Click Droid X Bootstrap app, hit bootstrap recovery, click ok, then reboot recovery.
2. Go to mounts
2a. (Optional, read instructions on ROM install) Mount system. If system is mounted, prompt will read "unmount system"
3. Format data, click yes
4. Format cache, click yes
5. Back arrow
6. Install zip from sd card
7. Go to folder where zip is. If you downloaded zip from stock browser and didn't move it, it will be in the DOWNLOAD folder.
8. Click on the zip you want to install, then yes.
9. Once install is finished, back arrow, and reboot.
1. You can have as many backups as you'd like
2. If you get and md5 sum error, its probably bacause you renamed the file with unrecognized characters.
3. Yes, when you manually reboot it will always go to bootstrap recovery unless you do the very first step after installing. Just select reboot system now.
4. If it does not boot into bootstrap recovery, and you need it to, you can boot into stock recovery and do a factory reset and then restore a backup.
How to boot into stock recovery
Hold power button and and home hard key. When M screen appears, release home key. A screen with a small green Droid and an ! will appear. Push search hard key. Use volume rocker to select wipe data/cache then factory reset.
Thank you to the great Android developer Koushik Dutta for this great app. Follow his ramblings at www.koushikdutta.com.


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All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps
JOEY LEON GUERRERO, 35, talks with his wife, DELORA DENISE LEON GUERRERO, 28
Joey Leon Guerrero: The first time we met, I stepped into your office and I asked you to sign one of my papers—I guess it was for my meal card. But we didn't talk at all until we got deployed and I heard that you were coming to Company B.
Delora Denise Leon Guerrero: You sent me a couple of e-mails, but I was there to work. I was focused, driven. I was, like, We're in Iraq. There's no time for romance or relationships.
So we spent four months as friends, getting to know one another, seeing each other at work.
During that friendship phase I heard you talking about your family, and I loved it. I'm very family oriented too. I also noticed your leadership—the way you talked to your soldiers and your supervisors, how you carried yourself, the way you dressed, how your weapon was always clean. You didn't let anything slip by. I liked how driven you were. And as we became friends, I liked how you were opening up to me—you were so honest and real.
Joey: But you gave me the cold shoulder. So I was, like, I'll stay focused on being friends for now. Because I knew one day you were going to change your mind.
Delora: And then the defining moment was when I was about to leave on R&R, but a sandstorm kept me in Baghdad. We were outside, and you were helping me with my bags by the door of the tent. All of a sudden we get indirect fire—mortars started falling. Boom! Boom! Boom! It wasn't the first time I had heard mortars, but it was the first time I was standing outside talking while they were going off.
So I ran to the bunker. Eventually, you came in kind of casually, because you were seasoned. And then we were crouching across from each other in the bunker, waiting for the all clear. I was just looking at you, and it was like a romantic
movie scene where all the visions of the last four months come into play: everything we talked about; how you talked to your kids on the phone; the fact that you called your mother; how you treated me. All of it came together while I was looking at you, and I thought, You know what? Life is way too short to pass you up. And I think it was that moment where it changed from friendship to, I can't let this one go or I'm a fool.
When I went on R&R, I had you on my mind. And when I got back we would walk every night just to get away from the other soldiers and talk. Our romantic moments were walking to the bunkers. Doesn't really sound romantic, I guess: being fully dressed in uniform with a weapon slung on your back . . .
Joey: . . . But from our perspective, we did what normal couples would do. We just did it as a couple in Iraq.
Delora: You picked out a ring online. And when you handed me the box, more mortars hit. We had to evacuate and go back into the bunkers. I thought, Is this a sign?
Later that day, you walked me home.
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Stuart: I flew to Cincinnati, and my plane was delayed in landing. I found myself running down the concourse, hoping to get to the next plane in time. I was running at a pretty good clip, and all of a sudden I remembered the note. I was debating, Should I stop and risk my connection? But I had to see if I could grab that note. So I peeled into the gate area and identified which chair it was. There was a fellow sitting there, wearing a very expensive suit, and I walked over and said, "Excuse me, I think I dropped my pen when I was sitting here previously," and I reached under the seat. I grabbed the note, took off running down the hallway, and got to the gate just before the door swung shut.
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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 10:23 am
Post subject: Test Recipes: Hatch Chile Infused Chocolate Truffles
Invited to a Hatch chile themed food blogger potluck in Austin, I decided to make chocolate truffles infused with Hatch chiles. The exercise didn't go exactly as planned (probably due to procrastination and waiting until the last possible day to make them without any trials beforehand), but it was still fun and I think the truffles turned out pretty well. Here's what I did.
I had previously cooked five mild Hatch chiles in butter after julienning and cleaning them. I had tasted the chiles at that point and found them spicier than I expected with a flavor like a green bell pepper (but with heat). I soaked about one chile's worth of strips in heavy cream in the refrigerator for a full day - hoping to infuse the chile flavor into the cream. This works extremely well with citrus zest and vanilla, so I thought I'd try it.
After the chile had soaked in the cream for a day, I started to prepare for the truffle making. I started cutting 500 g dark chocolate for the ganache, but that soon tired me out. I tried running the chocolate through my blender, but that failed (the chocolate block just jumps around). My large food processor was packed up still and the small one I had available didn't have a shredding disc, so I skipped trying that. Normally, when I
make truffles
, I don't melt the chocolate - letting the cream do that, but that only works if you chop the chocolate very fine. I roughly chopped up the rest of the chocolate, poured it all in a large metal bowl, and fashioned at double boiler by setting that on top of a saucepan with some water.
Gently heating the chocolate, I gradually allowed it to melt. Once all the little pieces were melted and the larger chunks had softened, I removed the bowl from the heat.
After stirring for a bit, the chocolate was smooth as silk.
Meanwhile, I tasted the cream and could barely detect a hint of the Hatch chiles. Odd, since I thought the chiles tasted fairly strong a couple days before. I decided to puree some of the chiles directly into the cream.
Blending the cream was a mistake (but easier repairable). It only blended for a few seconds and then it stopped moving. I took a look inside the blender's carafe and discovered I had whipped the cream to stiff peaks. I scooped it out into a small saucepan to melt - it really looked like Hatch chile ice cream. At this point, I thought "why didn't I decide to make Hatch chile ice cream instead?". Too late - I gently heated the whipped cream until it melted.
It still wasn't flavorful enough, so I kept adding more chiles and blending (since it was warm/hot the cream didn't set up like before). I wanted the truffles to be subtly flavored, but I was also concerned that the other people at the potluck would have eaten a whole meal based around Hatch chiles so they might not taste the chile if it was too subtle. In the end, I pureed all of the chiles that I had into the cream.
After scalding the cream, I let it cool for a few minutes, then poured it through a fine sieve to keep any Hatch chile bits out (the skin is notoriously chewy) and ensure the ganache would be uniform and finely textured.
I stirred the cream into the chocolate while chanting "don't seize, don't seize, don't seize". It's been a while since I've practiced confectionery and this is the first time I've worked with chocolate in this particular kitchen (which is at a higher altitude, higher temperature, and high humidity than where I cooked for my whole life) - so there was a certain amount of fear that it wouldn't come together.
I set aside the solids that were strained out (and mixed it with some spices and seasoning into ricotta cheese to use for a cheese and cracker appetizer).
Once I had mixed the ganache until it was smooth, I poured it into two bowls to chill for a couple hours in the refrigerator. (I tried it after an hour and it was too sticky to work with, so I slipped it back into the fridge and chilled.)
Using a disher, I scooped out "balls" of ganache (it was more like clumps) onto a large sheet of parchment paper. I normally work on Silpats, but they're still packed up.
They don't look so good...
I then took a few ounces of Ghirardelli dark chocolate drops and melted in a small saucier set over a small saucepan (with some water).
I then slowly cooled the chocolate until 88 degrees and held it there by moving it over a warm pan of water and taking it off while stirring to moderate the temperature. I managed to do this for about five straight minutes.
I then attempted to one of the ganache balls in the tempered chocolate, but it became tacky and the chocolate coating was spiky from sticking to my hands. Normally, I use vinyl gloves which help keep the chocolate from sticking to the fingers, but those are packed away too. In addition, the temperature of the room (a bit over 80°F) was a bit too high to efficiently work with the chocolates. I transferred the ganache clumps from the parchment paper on the counter to a sheet of parchment paper set over a cookie sheet (I couldn't just slide the parchment paper I had been working on onto a sheet pan like I normally work because (a) my sheet pans are all packed away and (b) this particular house has a side-by-side refrigerator which wouldn't have enough shelf space to fit a sheet pan) and chilled it for fifteen minutes. Afterward, I rolled the clumps into rough balls.
At this point, I had to reheat my chocolate a little - losing my temper. (That's ambiguous: I didn't lose my temper - the tempering that I had performed on the chocolate was lost.) I tried to coat the truffles by hand again, but my hand is not non-stick without gloves on and it just wasn't working very well. I then ripped off a square of parchment paper and placed that in my hand and tried rolling it on the paper with the other hand, but that got chocolate and ganache all over the other hand and not much on the actual truffle. Finally, I ended up rolling the ganache in chocolate using a silicone spatula with the parchment paper lying on the counter. This seemed to work fairly well - but by now I was running low on chocolate since I lost a whole bunch with each failed trial (a lot stuck to my hand and got washed down the drain as I washed them between attempts).
Not wanting to deal with it any longer, I decided to just coat the ganache in Ghirardelli ground chocolate powder. This was actually what Tina told me to do from the beginning but I wanted to chocolate coat them. This is a good reason to listen to your wife - often it's the easier solution.
Finally, I finished coating all the truffles. I chilled them for 30 minutes and then set them in individual cups. I didn't have confectionery cups, so I resorted to using muffin cups (which, luckily, were in a box that was already opened). I ran out of muffin cups and only had one truffle left - so I ate it. It had a smooth, creamy interior with a hint of Hatch fruitiness followed by a mild tingle on the tongue and back of the throat that lasted just a few seconds. Pretty good, I thought to myself. I stacked them in a couple of food storage containers, creating a multilayer stackup where I could drop ice bags on top for the hour or more of transportation time (I currently reside twenty miles south of Austin and the pot luck is in North Austin).
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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 10:32 am
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I should probably also explain that we're in between moves. We moved a few months ago and will be moving again in a couple months - so we want to unpack or open as few boxes as possible. Some of the problems could have been avoided had I just opened a few more moving boxes, but I managed to produce the truffles without busting anything open, so, at least in that respect, this was a success!
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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 10:41 pm
Post subject: Your Blender
Hi Michael--is that a Blendtec or VitaMix (or neither)? I am in the process of trying to upgrade our blender, and I'm certain that I could convince my husband if I knew what you had. Thanks!
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:01 am
Post subject: Re: Your Blender
rebecca wrote:
Hi Michael--is that a Blendtec or VitaMix (or neither)? I am in the process of trying to upgrade our blender, and I'm certain that I could convince my husband if I knew what you had. Thanks!
That one is a VitaMix. One of the lower end models. I would prefer to have the model with the variable speed dial, but, since this one works really well, I never got around to buying another.
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:27 am
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These were SO. GOOD.
My mouth is watering just looking at these photos.
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Chris L
Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 3:29 am
Post subject: Tricky!
I've made truffles for Christmas the past few years. Getting the temperature just right seems to be the tricky part. One year I easily coated the ganache with melted chocolate, another year it was just awful.
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Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 2:24 am
Post subject: Desset and appetizer both!
Using the solids that you strained out of your Hatch mixture for crackers is a genius idea!
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Post subject: cooking questions
Hi all!
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Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 1:30 pm
Post subject: Tongs?
I've run into that problem making peppermint patties, and a method that worked reasonably well is dipping the with tongs or setting the truffle on a fork and lowering it into the chocolate until covered, and then slowly bringing it back up, letting the chocolate run through the tongs. Great job anyways!
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If you guys could put together a printed cookbook for purchase, that would be awesome. Thanks.
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Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 3:11 pm
Post subject: chile truffles
I'm drooling - I spent most of my adult life about an hour's drive from Hatch, NM, before moving to the Netherlands 2 years ago. Here, you can't even get canned green chiles, let alone Hatch chiles. I miss the smell of chiles roasting all over town in August. Anyway, they look fantastic, but I thought I'd put in my two cents. I like to roll truffles in cocoa and THEN coat in chocolate. The cocoa takes away the stickiness of the ganache (I do it all bare-handed), and you can work with them at room temp very easily. Favorite truffle flavor: caramel with fleur de sel.
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Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 1:32 am
Post subject: peppers and cream
I don't know where I've read it, (perhaps in the book Peppers: A Story of Hot Pursuits, by Amal Naj), but in some cultures with peppery cuisines, drinking milk is a common way to tame the heat. (Eating bread is another method, but that is besides the point.)
I've often used milk or other dairy products to repair anything made unbearably spicy or hot. Sour cream is my favourite fix. (Ever wonder why burritos are served with sour cream?)
Dairy's ability to extinguish might explain why your fiery peppers failed to sufficiently spice up the cream.
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