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I was eagerly awaiting my new yogurt maker. So I boiled the milk and once cooled I added the yogurt starter and was ready to go. It wasn't until then that I realized that the yogurt maker was BROKEN. I would not heat up.
Although I must say that if it would have worked, I would have been able to use different sizes of glass bowls or jars due to the flexibility of the design.
Well, I didn't want to waste all of that organic milk and starter, so I made my own homemade yogurt in my own homemade yogurt maker!
I got the idea from Breaking the Vicious Cycle's website. Their directions can be found on this page. (Currently there are no photos at the website, but there once were.)
1 - Stainless steel pot with a heavy base and lid
2 - Foil paper
3 - Heating pad
4 - Instant read thermometer
5 - Kitchen towels
- Preheat heating pad to the Low setting.
- The only yogurt started I found that was legal based on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet was one by Yogourmet. Make sure that it doesn't contain any form of Bifidus (Ellaine makes this recommendation).
- I used whole organic milk (2 cups) and organic half-and-half (2 cups). The purpose of the half-and-half is to keep the yogurt creamy even though the yogurt has to ferment for 24 hours.
- After boiling milk mixture to 180 degrees and allowing to cool, remove 1 cup and add starter. Mix well and then add back to what remains in the pot.
- Place pot onto heating pad and cover with foil.
- Insert the thermometer so that you will be able to easily read it throughout the process. The most my thermometer read was 109 degrees. The suggested maximum is 110 degrees.
- In the beginning, especially if this is your first time to make this apparatus, continue to read the thermometer to test temperature. I recommend that you start early in the day, so by bedtime, you will feel confident in leaving your yogurt overnight. The temperature was always stable, unless I made changes to the configuration.
I know it doesn't look pretty, but it actually works out really well for me because I can vary the temperature by adding/removing the kitchen towels and the pot lid. I've actually used this setup twice because I'm still contemplating whether or not to purchase a yogurt maker. I will have to get one that doesn't turn off automatically because it must ferment 24 hours and most yogurt makers turn off between 8 and 12 hours. Also, I'm only limited to the amount of yogurt by the size of pan that I use.
Note: I also tried this using plain stainless steel bowls and the steady temperature kept at about 104 degrees. So the heavy bottom of the pan I originally used did heat the yogurt to a higher temperature. But I was satisfied with the output of both configurations.


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- Find your ID information for the adapter
- Edit the registry entry for your MAC
- Disable the adapter
- Enable the adapter
Here are the steps in a little more detail:
- Find your ID information for the adapter
- Open a command prompt (Start --> Run --> CMD)
- ipconfig /all
- Note the Description and Physical Address information
- Edit the registry entry for your MAC
- Start --> Run --> REGEDIT
- Go to...
- There will be a bunch of entries, one for each adapter, so go into each field and check "AdapterModel" to see if it matches your Description from step 1.3 and then confirm the MAC address from step 1.3 matches NetworkAddress.
- Right-click on the adapter folder that matches your device --> New --> String Value --> "NetworkAddress" (without any "'s).
- Change the Value data field of the new entry and enter a new MAC address. For example, DEADBEEFCAFE.
- Disable the adapter
- Enable the adapter
Check your MAC address by running IPCONFIG /ALL ...
HINT: A neat trick I've employed is to rename the NetworkAddress entry in the registry to .NetworkAddress when I won't be using it but it's then easier to find with a search later.

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I need to create a google chrome browser add-on that will read your [login to view URL] for a time period and dump your travel log to a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet can be a google spreadsheet, or a downloadable CVS file that can be read into MS-Excel. The Spread sheet should contain the following columns:
DATE, TIME, LOCATION, "Driving" (Distance) then the next DATE, TIME, LOCATION, DISTANCE. Just as it appears in the timeline. It would be ideal if you could select a date range, however, if you have to extract the data from one page at a time, that would be OK as well.
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I think about my childhood a lot these days, now that I'm getting older. I remember a lot of happy times before I got all wrapped up in worldly ideas. My family was good to me, cared for me and taught me to appreciate the many good things life has to offer.
When I got older and ventured out on my own I was unprepared for a lot of the difficulties I faced. I wanted to get married and have my own children, do good work and continue to enjoy life. I was always willing to do as much as I could to make other people happy, had a good work ethic and looked forward to many things that seemed to me to be perfectly within reach.
I tried to pursue the "American dream" the way it was presented to me by my friends, by teachers, by television; but I have found that a great deal of what I had been taught about life was contrary to reality as I understood it. I assumed there was something wrong with me since I didn't seem to be as secure as the people around me. I couldn't conceive of the idea that other people were just as insecure as I am, worried about their lives, worried about their mortality, frequently disillusioned and often plagued by disappointments in spite of very good intentions as well as their own best efforts. I would look around, see all the things that people were doing in order to create a sense of "normalcy" and assume that they knew precisely what they were doing, that everything they did was with good reason, that wise and time honored traditions upheld everything in society for a host of good reasons.
I used to look at religious groups and admire the fact that they seemed to have such a strong sense of community and dedication to high moral principles. When they tried to teach me about religion, however, and when I made my own investigations, read their books, attended their services and so forth, though, I could not find the connection between their beliefs and their behaviors. Virtually all of what they tried to impress upon me about the Bible, Jesus, God and the churches made no sense to me at all. I didn't rebel against their teachings, was merely profoundly confused. I blamed myself for being unable to find the "logic" that they understood which was supposed to tie their beliefs together with principles like charity and self-sacrifice. I believed in the principles and still do.
I continued in my pursuit of the "good life", marriage and family, honest work and so forth; but one thing after another collapsed. I gave as much as I could to my first marriage--more than I should have, I believe. I fell into financial ruin more than once. I became estranged from my children. I missed my family, but, like so many people I know, felt obliged to "make it on my own." I wound up in psychiatric care several times, was perscribed a series of different medications, developed problems with my health, went through a phase where I drank heavily and wound up seeking help from doctors, therapists and groups like AA.
Eventually I turned to religion as the only solution I could concieve of to all of the problems I was dealing with, since none of my best efforts to adapt to the world around me were doing any good. When I began to move in this direction and talk to other people there were, of course, many, many people in the recovery movement and in organized religious groups who highly encouraged me and promised with great fervor that I was making the right choices, that I was finally on the correct path, that I would be happier and more fulfilled than I ever had been, even in my childhood, and more than I could possibly imagine. There were so many people eager to persuade me that religion was the right choice that, once again, I assumed that if many, many people agreed about it that they could not be wrong, misguided or dishonest about it, and that if I continued to have personal problems it could only be because of my own inability to grasp what everyone else understood and correctly apply it.
Eventually I became a Christian. I was motivated partly by faith, partly by fear. At first I was very happy. I felt as though I had finally made a connection to other human beings based on love, mutual acceptance and understanding. I looked forward to all of the mystical experiences, revelations, miracles that were undoubtably going to occur in my life. I worried less about mortality, about the concepts of success and failure, financial insecurity, about having to devote my time to the pursuit of any kind of knowledge other than what was required in order to convey my new found beliefs, ceased worrying so much about the human condition in terms of our impact on the world around us and more in terms of our spiritual condition as individuals. Life seemed more simple for a while, though I continued to have many of the same problems, or worse, with regard to my security, finances, relationships and so forth, though not for lack of trying, as I always had, to do my best. At least I was able to find a way to escape the anxiety by assuring myself that it was all happening for a good reason, that somehow, on a grand scale, it was all for the best.
As time went on, however, my anxiety returned. I began to feel more and more restless and concerned that I was once again the only fellow on Earth who didn't have a good bead on things since none of what was promised seemed to be coming to pass. I was in a constant state of tension, worrying about offending a God I could not seem to stop fearing and a devil who also seemed to have the upper hand, to be constantly there to undermine my best efforts to be humble, faithful, charitable, and who seemed to be causing disaster in every corner of the world where violence and hypocrisy seemed to reign.
During this time I took the idea of self-sacrifice to such extremes that very often my peers tried to convince me I was taking the concept too literally. I was giving in actuality more of my meager income to several churches, to charities, to needy people than I could reasonably afford. I actually gave my money and possessions away to the extent that I had to panhandle more than once when stranded. I gave nearly all of my time to volunteer activities. I brought people home with me and shared everything I had. My family and friends were often concerned about me and worried that I was taking terrible risks. No amount of good deeds, however, nor personal risk seemed adequate to me though. I was simply trying to follow the literal teachings, as I understood them, of Jesus; and they seemed to be rather obvious: give away everything and trust God.
My confusion grew deeper and deeper over the fact that no one at all seemed to support this concept. My family, of course, were alarmed that I was not taking good enough care of myself. My secular friends, who believed as much in the idea of charity as any religious people I knew, were eager to assure me that I was a decent human being, that I didn't need to go to such extremes. Religious people were even more baffling since on the one hand they agreed that I was going to unnecessary extremes, and on the other admonished me for being too "prideful" and attempting to "earn my salvation" rather than simply admitting I was a sinner, that only an unquestioning belief in a series of stories about Jesus' immaculate conception, power to perform miracles and resurrection could ever bring me redemption and peace and encouraged me as much as everyone else to stop being so charitable.
I couldn't stop. I couldn't imagine a "compromise" between total self-sacrifice, the very definition of love, supposedly the very core of Chrisianity, and self indulgence. How was I supposed to set some boundary there and just go back to the good old "American way?" How was I supposed to ever feel good about just making and spending money, ignoring the needs of other people, especially since I had spent so much time and effort dealing with people who had such serious problems first hand? How was I to just put that out of mind and not feel like a total hypocrite?
Eventually I became more and more estranged from my religious peers who were so friendly at the outset but grew more and more critical of me the more familiar they became with me. The more I spoke from my heart, the more I endeavored to be as honest and open as I could be, the more I admitted my shortcomings--the more I applied everything I was being taught--the more estranged I seemed to become from the entire group. I didn't seem to be able to speak the same language anymore. In one sense, I seemed to know what I should say and do in order to be accepted by my religious peers, but on the other I couldn't help but try to be honest. I seemed to offend other religious people at every turn.
I remember attending purity meetings as well as bible studies many times each week. The purity meetings were baffling to me. The idea was to talk about sex problems and learn about chastity (a very confusing concept since it is supposed to be a condition of absence of lust, but not necessarily celibacy). Men and women met in seperate groups to discuss their problems and seek solutions from the Bible and other religious books. I found, however, that none of the other men in my group could even admit that they masturbated, would talk about electronics, work and all sorts of subjects which had nothing to do with sex in any way. I took the leader of the group aside and expressed my confusion about this. I told him that I was perfectly willing to talk openly about all of my sexual experiences, no matter how emberassing, because I believed that, though many of my experiences were sordid and "sinful", they were completely common. He agreed and encouraged me to speak openly; but, since even he thoroughly avoided talking in any detail about his experiences and concerns I didn't feel secure enough to share my own. I wasn't afraid to be honest, but was afraid of being ostracized further. I just couldn't bear to sit there and have these men pretend they could not completely relate to my telling the truth because they were not as secure about themselves as I had become due to thorough and honest self-examination and confession of every detail of my history prior to attending the group.
Finally, if there is anything I can't stand for very long it's being afraid all of the time. There comes a point for me where I would be willing to suffer the worst kind of pain in order to shed the torment of always being afraid and uncertain. I simply could not stand the state I was in, worrying about "salvation", worrying about all of the crazy contradictions--especially the idea that I should follow the teachings of Jesus, do what he said to do and be completely charitable, but at the same time stop being so charitable because it was vanity. I couldn't win, couldn't do the right thing, think the right thing, believe the right thing, since at every turn the rules kept changing.
I got sick of being afraid. I got tired of being the "only one" who didn't "get it." I could no longer continue to blame myself for a lot of really bad treatment on the part of others who always seemed to be convinced they were right about everything, were quick to criticize, who seemed to be getting away with everything contrary to what they were telling me to do without appearing to be as conflicted, self-conscious and self-negating as I was. Finally, I grew willing to challenge even God himself to put an end to the misery.
That's when I began to thoroughly question everything I had been exposed to in great detail but never analyzed. I started listening more objectively. I reread the Bible again, cover to cover, and allowed for at least the possibility that it was fallible. I set aside my fear of "offending" God in this fashion and really searched myself for honest answers about what I believed.
I listened to sermons where priests and pastors paraphrased things in terms that made no literal sense at all. They described things that everyone arround me seemed to regard as common sense but that, to my ears, were completely nonsensical. When I reread the Bible and paid attention more deeply to the things that really troubled me I found that they also made no literal sense. There are passages, particularly in the New Testament, for example, that I simply can not believe, due to the extreme variation in the style of narrative, are supposed to have been written by the same hand during the same time frame. For example, anyone who reads Acts and doesn't have serious reservations about whether this was written anywhere near the same era during which the other chapters were supposed to have been written or that it contains any believable "historical" accuracy must be working very hard to suspend their disbelief.
To make a long story short, I'm glad I went through these troubling times and became thoroughly apostate. I have come to realize that I have on the one hand misunderstood a great deal about life and people since I could not comprehend that everyone else is just as confused about the times we live in as I am but afraid to admit it (lest they too become ostracized for being completely honest), that a whole host of the problems we face are of our own making, are arbitary and contary to living in harmony with our environment and each other, that a lot of our very "best" ideas are harming ourselves, each other and the planet we live on, and on the other hand have been seeking an escape from the human condition by various means ever since I ventured away from my family and struck out on my own.
I am not afraid to be different anymore. I'm not afraid to follow whatever path in life makes the most sense to me. I'm not afraid to be myself. I'm not afraid of being misunderstood. I'm not afraid of dying--and, especially, even if there is a God, I don't believe that means I am so important, nor that any of my experiences (though I treasure my fondest memories, especially of loved ones and friends and all of the one of a kind and irreplaceable experiences I have had) are so important, that when I die I must somehow become immmortal and my selfhood preserved for all eternity. When I die I may cease to exist and never experience the perfect bliss that Christians promise I would have in their imaginary Heaven, but on the other hand I will also certainly know no pain, no loss, no fear, no worry, no regret, no loneliness, no sorrow. I welcome oblivion. Also, if by chance whatever matter and energy that has been a part of me becomes a part of some other living creature of any kind somewhere in the universe that has its own consciousness and life to live, no matter how inhuman the creature happens to be or where it lives in the wide universe, though near eternity should pass in the meantime, it will be only an instant between one life and the next.
My life, my loves, my experiences are important to me. I cherish all of the good things I have experienced and look forward to more; but when I am gone I will be simply irrelevant, along with everything I have ever felt or thought or known. Life is for the living. Death is the end of life. I don't need religion to escape from this inevitability anymore because I no longer find it horrifying to completely face and accept it.
I have found, finally, the freedom I have been unable to find for so long in my adult life from a great deal of uncertainty which has prevented me from making choices I can live with no matter the outcome and forgive myself for the fact that life most often does not go according to plan. I don't have to pretend that I have any idea what is best for anyone other than myself. I don't have to hide the truth about myself from other people, nor have to apologize for myself at ever turn. I don't have to believe anything at all just because billions of people swear by it. I can believe that billions of people can be thoroughly wrong about a great many things, especially since we are all here for but a very short time, too short to find all the answers to every question in life. Finally, I don't much care about "beliefs" in general since they are definitely not facts, are by definition not facts and have absolutely no power to change things in any way all by themselves, only inhabit the mind. Frankly, I heard the word "believe" so often as a Christian that I am thoroughly sick of it and strenuously avoid using it anymore myself.
I am still afraid of all sorts of other things, like being left out in the cold by other people if I don't conform to popular beliefs and behaviors that I can not accept for myself. I wish I could be myself and honest at all times and expect to be welcomed by many people much of the time, but understand that in this life I will have at best a handful of people in whom I can fully confide, that they will come and go and sometimes disappear forever. I wish I could share everything I have with anyone who needs some portion and expect the same; but I know I can not expect the same and will go hungry if I try. These are things I can not change and must accept. If I were God I would certainly change all of that. If the Christians were right about the God they believe in I expect God would have changed all of that already as well. There is no reason whatsoever that the God they describe would lack the power to change everything; and there is simply no logic to support the ridiculous notion that "He" wouldn't do so if "He" was the all powerful, infinite, perfect, infallible, omnipresent and omniscient creator of all things "He" also permeates, as well as the embodiment of love.
All of the mental gymnastics in the world can not equate Christian beliefs with reason or sanity. It makes me sad that so many generations of people have been victimized by this insanity, that the people who fall under the sway of Christian institutions for generation after generation exist to serve those institutions rather than the other way around. I find it so sad that people are in such full flight from reality that they are willing to martyr themselves in order to perpetuate these institutions and even expand their influence to include people in places around the world where Christianity has been mercifully absent. It is worse than an opiate. It is a plague on humanity.
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The recently published Papal encyclical on the environment has much to teach about the way we treat the planet and each other. Pope Francis emphasises the importance of community and stewardship of the earth for future generations. The document has much relevance for the community in which we live in Wanstead.
It is striking here that there seems to be a contrast between those interested in looking outward, embracing the environment and building community and those set on a more insular approach involving incessant building upward and outward whilst adopting a distinctly inward looking personae. The latter group do not seem concerned with anyone or anything beyond their own front doors.
So there are the environmental activists who grow their own food in gardens and allotments. They seek renewable energy sources like solar and PV panels to provide their energy. They encourage bees with the planting of flowers around tree basins. They support sustainable transport systems and enjoy our green heritage in the form of parks and gardens. There is an emphasis on the common good of the community as evidenced in activities like those of the Wanstead Playground Association with its effort to raise funds for the playground area on Christchurch green.
Then there are those seemingly totally devoted to a materialistic path that really has little concern for anyone else. These people pollute with incessant car journeys. They have no regard for the integrity of the built environment, seeing their own dwellings as at best a shelter from the outside world, at worst simply an investment opportunity. They build up and out or totally rebuild altogether, regardless of anyone else in the vicinity.
Yet in this area we have a great environmental balance with green spaces in the forms of parks and public greens, bordered by, for the most part, buildings that match the architectural heritage passed on by past generations. There is strong community. It is a great heritage with which our generation has been trusted. The duty now falls to us to be true guardians of that heritage, building an environmentally sustainable community that can be passed on to our children and children's children. Let's not squander that heritage in the name of short term material gain
* Wanstead &Woodford Guardian - 2/7/2015
* Ilford Recorder - 25/6/2015
* Wanstead &Woodford Guardian - 2/7/2015
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Biophilia- The Elements Museum Exhibit
Wiener Museum of Decorative Arts
Friday, February 16, 2018 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EST)
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The Christopher Marley ǀ Biophilia exhibition at the Wiener Museum of Decorative Arts continues the artist dialogue with art, nature and science with highlights from the museum's extensive collection of ceramics and glass. Biophilia means love of life which Marley demonstrates with his lovingly preserved specimens of butterflies, birds, reptiles and sea creatures. At WMODA, they are presented in the context of the four classical elements of earth, air, fire and water, which ancient philosophers believed were the fundamental building blocks of nature. Biophilia – the Elements also explores how the four elements of earth, air, fire and water have been harnessed and transformed to create the Fired Arts of ceramics and glass.
Christopher Marley Biophilia – The Elements is open at WMODA from December 6, 2017 to March 30, 2018.
Exhibition open during regular business hours
Monday – Friday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Exhibit price includes general admission to the museum on the 2nd floor.
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The Wiener Museum of Decorative Arts (WMODA) is a worldclass museum in South Florida celebrating the fired arts of ceramics and glass. The museum features thousands of works from the world's most renowned ceramic and glass artists. In addition to a vast collection of 19th and 20th century British pottery and porcelain from factories, such as Wedgwood, Minton and Royal Doulton.
The Wiener Museum of Decorative Arts displays works by contemporary ceramic artists from the UK, USA, and South Africa. A spectacular collection of Dale Chihuly's work is exhibited in the Hot Glass gallery at WMODA along with works by other great glass artists such as René Lalique, William Morris, Stephen Rolfe Powell and Toots Zynsky.
The Wiener Museum of Decorative Arts hosts an exciting program of changing exhibitions, which focus on different aspects of the fired arts. Current installations include the newest exhibit Christopher Marley | Biophilia - The Elements and The Art of Tea, which celebrates the ritual of afternoon tea. Elegant tea parties with fine English china are a highlight of the events program at WMODA.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — After 40 years of working for presidents from both parties, Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he's learned that it takes bipartisan support to succeed in national security and foreign affairs.
What worries Gates as he prepares to step down this month as Pentagon chief is how partisanship is seeping into those areas.
Gates says he's not sure what can be done about partisanship. He says maintaining a civil dialogue between the executive branch and the Congress can help.
President George W. Bush appointed Gates in 2006, and President Barack Obama persuaded him to stay on after taking office in 2009. He has been defense secretary for 4½ years.
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Hi I had a few initial questions about usig eCart.
1. If I were to use the server behavior Insert Checkout Form it generates the code that has "eCart Local Checkout" on the checkout page (together with the "checkout with PayPal express button". I noticed that this page errors and located it on line 253:

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Why would it generate this code since its causing the error?
2. Also with regard to the Insert Checkout Form server behavior. Obviously it generates the code for local checkout and the Checkout with PayPal Express button...but the PayPal Express button is non functioning - what would be the appropriate direction to get this button functioning...since i would require the customer to enter the billing and shipping details from the form on this page (I want to store both billing and shipping details in the website database)...I ask this because using the main eCart Checkout wizard does a completely different approach.
3. Again with the Insert Checkout server behaviour...since it adds the server behaviour "eCart Local Checkout" on the checkout page...would I also place the "Create Email Message" and the "eCart Store Details" and "eCart Store Summary" on this page...or would I still need to place those on a confirm.php file that I need to create? Reason why I ask is that on the main eCart Checkout Wizard the "eCart Local Chceckout" is generated on the confirm.php page rather than the checkout.php page.
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The Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) is organising a second international conference on climate engineering, aiming to once again bring together the research, policy and civic communities. The conference will be held in Berlin, Germany, from October 9 – 12, 2017. It will address approaches for both Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) and Solar Radiation Management (SRM, also known as Albedo Modification), situating them within broader discussions of climate change and, in particular, mitigation and adaptation.
The conference will address technical, ethical, and social aspects of climate engineering via disciplinary research, interdisciplinary collaboration, and transdisciplinary engagement.
In disciplinary research, specific questions are addressed from a single disciplinary perspective at a high level of specialization and depth.
In interdisciplinary collaboration, specific questions are addressed simultaneously from different disciplinary perspectives.
In transdisciplinary engagement, new approaches that merge more traditional disciplinary perspectives with input from different stakeholder communities, such as academics, NGOs, the media, and policymakers, provide new frameworks for discussing issues of collective interest and relevance.
Sessions may have multiple conveners, and collaborative proposals are encouraged. Key aims are to reflect the heterogeneity of the field and to better understand how SRM and CDR intersect with each other and with mitigation and adaptation strategies. Sessions can be organised around traditional formats such as standard presentations and panels, but conveners are strongly urged to choose one of the more innovative session formats from the list below. Alternative suggestions for innovative session formats are also welcome.* The deadline for session proposals is extended to March 10, 2017.
Sessions will be selected by the conference Steering Committee and Advisory Group based on quality of submissions, thematic fit and available slots. This call for session proposals will be followed by calls for contributions to individual sessions, to be issued by the session conveners. At a later stage in the planning process, there will also be the opportunity to submit proposals for posters and other media.
The Steering Committee will inform prospective conveners about the acceptance of session proposals by April 10, 2017. Due to limited time slots they may propose that similar sessions merge. Calls for contributions to the selected sessions will then be composed by the session conveners, and published by the end of April 2017. Deadline for submissions to individual sessions will be June 30, 2017. The selection of session participants will be the responsibility of the session conveners in close collaboration with the Steering Committee, and should be concluded by July 31, 2017.
To prepare a session proposal, please fill in the submission form provided below. We look forward to receiving your session proposal at
Panel sessions are a great way to get more than one expert opinion on a topic in a short amount of time. Panels consist of three-to-five people with preferably contradictory opinions discussing a specific topic in a conversation moderated by a session chair. The session should be framed around a clear question, which is introduced by the chair. Each panel member then has 3 – 5 minutes to give a position statement introducing their opinions. The chair should then facilitate a question and answer session among the panel members (max 1/3 of the session time) before inviting questions from the audience.
Fishbowl Session
Four to five chairs are arranged in an inner circle. This is the fishbowl. The remaining chairs are arranged in concentric circles outside the fishbowl. A few participants are selected to fill the fishbowl, while the rest of the group sits on the chairs outside the fishbowl. One chair is left empty in the fishbowl. The moderator introduces the topic and the participants inside the fishbowl start discussing the topic. The audience outside the fishbowl listens in on the discussion.
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Campfire Session
Campfire Sessions begin a lot like a traditional presentation, with a speaker (or multiple speakers) at the front of the room presenting an idea to a group of people. After 15 or 20 minutes, however, the focus shifts from the presenter to the audience. The goal is the creation of an open forum in which the attendees generate the majority of the discussion and knowledge sharing. For the remainder of the session, the presenter becomes a facilitator, inviting responses to comments and questions from those around the room and letting the audience dictate the ultimate direction of the conversation. Campfire sessions allow attendees to drive their own learning, listen to multiple perspectives on the same issue, and share experiences with individuals throughout the room. Campfire sessions also lend themselves to networking.
World Café Session
The World Café is a format designed to encourage a flow of conversation between participants, facilitate broad audience participation, and enable a more sustained discussion. Attendees are seated at tables with four-to-six participants per table in an informal, café-style setting. The process begins with a brief introduction and a "big" question, which attendees are asked to discuss (generally for about 15 minutes). Once time is up, all-but-one of the participants from each table move to a different table and repeat the process. The person who stays functions as a "table host" and reviews what was discussed during the previous rounds. Following two-to-three rounds of discussions, key points from each table are presented to the whole group for a final collective discussion.
Speed Geeking Session
A large room is selected as the speed geeking venue. All the presenters are arranged in a large circle along the edge of the room. The remaining members of the audience stand at the center of the room. Ideally there are about 6-7 audience members for each presenter. One person acts as the facilitator.
The facilitator rings a bell to start proceedings. Once proceedings start, the audience splits up into groups and each group goes to one of the presenters. Presenters have 5 minutes to introduce their work and answer questions. At the end of the five minutes, the facilitator rings a bell. At this point, each group moves over to the presenter to their right and the timer starts once more. The session ends when every group has attended all the presentations.
Open Space Session
The approach is most distinctive for its initial lack of an agenda, which sets the stage for the session's participants to create the agenda for themselves. Typically, an "open space" session will begin with short introductions by a single facilitator of the general theme of the session and the "self-organizing" process called "open space." Then the group creates the working agenda, as individuals post their topics on a physical or electronic bulletin board. Each individual "convener" of a breakout group takes responsibility for naming the topic, posting it on the bulletin board, assigning it a space and time to meet, and then later showing up at that space and time, kicking off the conversation, and taking notes. These notes are usually presented back to the group in a final plenary, and or compiled into a proceedings document that is distributed physically or electronically to all participants.
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Melanie Wong and I invite you to a Chowdown at New Loi's Pho restaurant this next Thursday at 7 PM.
Figure about $10-12 per person max (depending on how curious we get). Example: a small bowl of plain chicken Pho is about $4.50 and is plenty for one person. BBQ meat versions are closer to $7 a bowl.
You can respond to my email above.
(they're closed on Tuesdays, so I'll re-post tomorrow and let you know if we can bring our own wine)
They are on the Northeast corner of Taraval and 19th Ave., in SF (the "L Taraval" stops right in front). Street parking only.
Here are a couple of links for reviews of their delicious Pho and other Vietnamese specialties.
My favorite is a medium bowl of Pho with BBQ'd shrimp and chicken combo. Smoky, savory, rich and wonderful.
Link: http://www.fudcourt.com/newlois.html


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I love being nosy at the library. To my left a woman with a cute purple purse is reading intensely. To my right, another woman has self-help books surrounding her: Highly Effective People Who Make You Shut Up and Sit Down in 8 Easy Steps kind of stuff. Some guy behind me has really kickass boots and an ascot is taking a little snooze with a magazine resting on his lap. Yeah.
I got my San Francisco Library card today. Turns out visitors can get them for three months. Awesome! I quickly located the poetry section and found some books I've been meaning to read. I also hopped on the wireless while I wait for the reading to start at 6pm. The RADAR Reading series has Diane di Prima reading tonight, which works out oh-so-perfectly with my study of the Beat poets. I even took public transportation here for the first time, and as a girl from the suburbs who loves her car so very very much it was a nervewracking experience. Once I get used to it I'll be golden. Maybe even start taking the bus more when I'm back in the burgh, since you know, it's free and all for Chatham students.
I've also decided to do Blogathon this year along with my friends Daisybones and Nyelarebirth. Seems that the real Blogathon is down for the summer, but people quickly began an AltBlogathon site to fill in the gap. I'm still thinking about what charity I'm choosing. Considering: Pittsburgh Public Libraries, Center for Inquiry, Pittsburgh LGBT organization or perhaps something BP oil spill related. Ideas?
I'm off to the reading! I'll let you know how it is.


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Hey guys, just in case you weren't aware, I wanted to mention the Action Kivu Fundraiser that Handmade by Alissa is doing. Having been to Africa twice now I can vouch for what an incredible difference a small donation makes! Action Kivu is such a great cause, I hope you will consider donating even just $10. And the prizes are INSANE! It was double motivation for me to get my name in the drawing. Today is the last day!
Anyway, I did indulge in a few goodies last week. I really wanted the whole line of Anna Maria Horner's new Field Study line (except for the leopard prints....not my thing I guess) but I forced myself to chose just a few of my favorites.
I hate to admit that I have some more new fabric acquisitions to show off (what?! this is a tough time of year for me with all the gorgeous new fabric lines coming out!) but I'll save them for the next post since I really should be packing up the kitchen right now.


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Late Wednesday, The Rock/Dwayne Johnson/The People's Champion shared a video of himself on the phone. Quick background info: Johnson is starring in a Hollywood adaptation of Baywatch, playing Mitch Buchannon, the character made famous by David Hasselhoff in the original show's 11-season run.
So anyway, on the other line in the video, on FaceTime, is David Hasselhoff, being asked if he's ready. "C'mon, man, Rock and The Hoff, I was born ready," answers The Man Who Also Starred in Knight Rider.
"He was born ready," confirms Johnson, grinning-ear-to-ear. "There ain't no Bay without the Hoff. Baywatch—get ready, world."
The Brahma Bull had more to say on Facebook:
"'I WAS BORN READY!' Pleasure to officially welcome the original #BAYWATCH gangsta himself David Hasselhoff to our movie! #BAYWATCH is the most successful TV show of all time and from the day we announced we were turning it into a movie, 'The Hoff' has been our greatest supporter. Especially once he knew our RATED R movie was going to be a combination of AVENGERS meets ANCHORMAN....
Hoff's a cool dude who's down to have fun and here's the best part.. He's been training his ass off and gotten in the best shape he's been in in years! (cue slo-mo running and glistening chest hair.. wait, why the f*ck am I even thinking about Hoff's chest hair!?) World get ready.. #RockAndHoff #ThereAintNoBay #WithoutTheHoff
Last month, Pamela Anderson told Entertainment Tonight, "I haven't turned it down completely yet, but I have turned down what they offered me." So far, the Baywatch movie's set to feature Alexandra Daddario, Priyanka Chopra, Zac Efron and Hannibal Buress.


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I'm thrilled to have author Barrymore Tebbs on the blog today. It's always a fun and informative day when he drops by the blog to share his knowledge and experience about all things Gothic. After you read the interview, check his new release out--The Haunting at Blackwood Hall. It's a historical gothic romance, and I think you'll all enjoy it.
Where did your love of Gothic and writing Gothic start?
I've been into Gothic since I was a kid. I was about ten-years-old when I first saw Dark Shadows. As a teenager I watched a lot of old horror movies on the weekend Creature Feature shows. Horror movies were more atmospheric in the 1930s-1960s. From there I went on to read both Gothic Romances as well as the Gothic Horror classics like Poe and Lovecraft. I always wanted to write Gothic, but it took thirty years for the stories to start coming out.
What is Psychological Gothic?
For the past ten years or so, most of my pleasure reading has been psychological thrillers. I really enjoy the suspense, the plot twists, and the disturbed individuals who people the novels of writers like John Connolly and Jeffrey Deaver. These are the types of books I want to write, and because I have such a love for the atmosphere and motifs in Gothic fiction and film, I tried combining the two, and they seem to work well together. Defining my stories as Psychological Gothic has helped me carve out a unique niche which falls somewhere between Gothic Romance and Gothic Horror.
Where did you come up with the characters and ideas for The Haunting at Blackwood Hall?
The main characters, the Fenn siblings, the psychic Luna Summerhill, and the governess, were holdovers from a NaNoWriMo project I did a few years ago. When Lisa and I met while finishing the first drafts of our first novels (Magnolian and Night of the Pentagram) we spent a lot of time talking about all things Gothic. She has this master list of tropes on her Gothicked blog, and when I decided to try write a Gothic Romance like the ones popular in the 60s and 70s, I pulled out every trope I wanted to explore and used those existing characters to form the basis of what became The Haunting at Blackwood Hall.
Your books are generally set in the Victorian/Edwardian era or the 1960s. Do you have an affinity for those time periods and why?
The love for the Victorian era goes back to my love for old Gothic horror movies and Dark Shadows, but I've also had enough interest in that era throughout my life that when it came time to research, I was like a hog in mud. I have some fun books filled with facts about Victorian life.
As far as the 1960s, I was eleven-years-old in 1970, so I was just coming into consciousness as a young adult and the events of the late 60s have had a lasting effect on me. There seems to be a lot of nostalgia for that era, both through Classic Rock and also with the popularity of the TV show Mad Men which takes viewers on a tour of the fashions, politics, and social mores of the time. I have another Edwardian story and another 1960s set story coming out toward the end of this year.
There is a lot of drug use in your books. Why is that?
Don't they always tell us to write what we know about? All kidding aside, drug abuse has been around since the dawn of time, and people with deep psychological issues are often driven to addictions of various kinds. The LSD and pot smoking was essential for a story like The Yellow Scarf to be true to the characters and the era, but I think the opium use in The Haunting at Blackwood Hall is one element that takes that story to a level which wasn't possible in the books published fifty some years ago.
The Haunting at Blackwood Hall has a striking cover. How did you create it and some of your other book covers?
The image on the cover is a rendering of a 3D model I built in a modeling program called Bryce. It's based on a house called Barrington Court in England, which reminded me of that type of old baronial hall that you see in The Hound of the Baskervilles movies. I made the inverted Hollywood star for the cover of Night of the Pentagram while I was writing the book, and had no idea that I would eventually self-publish and use the cover. I took a community college class in Adobe PhotoShop about fourteen years ago, and know quite a few tricks. It comes in handy, and saves money from having to hire a cover artist!
Thanks for letting me stop by, Lisa. We always have fun shooting the breeze about Gothic in its many forms. Through independently published books, there is a noticeable reemergence of Gothic based fiction. It's a good time to be a Gothic writer!


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Subject description: Do not get past orange screens
I have a old laptop which is giving me a lot of trouble. It does not boot from usb and will not boot from an external CD drive, eventhough it is supposed to. (Many other people have the same problem)
Windows runs incredibly slowly so I just want to get a lightweight linux distro running on it so that it can be used, ideally with a few basic apps already in the distro like word processors etc. It has "256mb ddr sdram (fixed)" and a 1ghz Transmeta Crusoe processor.
I am reasonably handy but have no idea mostly how linux works. I first tried to get the latest macpup running, but I got a PAE error. So someone recommended I try puppy 528. With this I also got the puppy logo picture up but then it gave some error about that it was looking for files. I do not know if I am totally messing up somewhere when trying to install it.
Because usb/CD booting does not work, I am using the docking station that came with the laptop that lets you connect to its hard drive with a usb cable like an external hard drive. I have been trying to follow this guide:
I get the first few dialog screens when starting puppy uni installer and then some of those orange/yellow screens asking to wipe the drive/partition and then after that is completed I get nothing.
I dont get to this dialog box at all
or this one either
If anyone can help I would really appreciate it, I have no idea whats going wrong. thanks. I just tried wary puppy linux 5.5, but I get the same problem, when booting up it says "searching for puppy files... puppy_wary_5.5.sfs not found etc" It almost makes me think it doesnt install the puppy linux at all?
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If you're getting that message when the computer tries to boot, then I think Puppy got installed. Did you create a swap partition? With only 256 MB of RAM, Puppy might need some virtual memory to run in that computer (swap memory is virtual memory). 512 MB would be enough. Alternatively, you could install more RAM.
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Yes exactly like the tutorial here said http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653
That part worked 100% like they said. I gave it 550mb for the swap partition. It says (fixed) so it sounds like the ram isnt upgradeable. Though it worked fine in the beginning so Id prefer not to spend anymore, on a tight budget too.
It looked to me like it got installed too because of the picture boot up screen, But the fact it looked like it was struggling to find the right files looked bad, on top of the fact that I never get to those dialog boxes I put pictures up of - they look like theyre an important part of the process.
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Hi buftox,
Welcome to the forum.
Seeing as how I've never installed Puppy on
, much less a hard drive located on another PC, I'm probably not the best person to answer this. But since three days have gone by without a new post on this thread, I thought I'd see if I can help. Maybe if I ask the right questions someone with experience at installing Puppy will have an idea what is wrong.
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Because usb/CD booting does not work, I am using the docking station that came with the laptop that lets you connect to its hard drive with a usb cable like an external hard drive.
First, I'm not sure I understand your setup. Am I correct in assuming that you are using another PC to install Puppy to the hard drive on your old laptop?
When installing, what partition (e.g., /dev/sdb1) did you install to?
Now let's see what got installed.
Using the same setup that you used for installing, click on the partition (at the bottom of your desktop) to mount it. If it mounts, a window should open showing the files in the top directory. Immediately after the window opens, press your
(grave accent) key to open a terminal window, and enter the following two commands:
find . -xdev -name "puppy*.sfs" -o -name "vmlinuz" -o -name "initrd.gz" -o -name "*linux.cfg" -o -name "menu.lst" -o -name "grub*"
(The second command should be typed as one long line, even though it may display as more than one line in your browser window.)
Now copy the resulting contents of the terminal window into your next post. (If you don't know how to copy and paste from the terminal, just ask. Or you can simply copy it by hand.)
Perhaps that information will give me or someone else a clue as to what went wrong.
I'm thinking that Puppy may be confused by one or two things: You installed it via USB, but you'll want it to boot from an internal drive. So when you try to boot from your old laptop, the bootloader may be trying to boot from the wrong partition, or the
boot parameter may be set to "usbhd", telling Puppy to search for files on a USB drive when they are actually on the old laptop's internal hard drive.
If either is the case, it shouldn't be hard to fix. And perhaps neither is wrong, if the universal installer knew exactly how to handle your unusual installation setup.
Do you remember what you chose for the media when you reached the dialog window shown in
of CatDude's guide?
Anyway, the fact that the laptop begins to boot and look for the Puppy .sfs file indicates that at some point you managed to install some sort of bootloader, and probably initrd.gz. I cannot explain how you did that if the Universal Installer didn't get beyond the first few dialog windows. Perhaps you are seeing something remaining from a previous installation.
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latest macpup running, but I got a PAE error.
Here is a logical error in the beginning. Puppy is small but it does not mean that any multicoreSMP-2.6.30.x or later kernel might work on that machine. Firefox is heavy and likely would fill your RAM and SWAP soon and causing freezes due too little RAM and HDD speed.
On the other hand the newest initrd.gz might work better for your setup to search for the puppy files, but is not compatible with the old naming convention ( today puppy_precise_5x.sfs, old pup-400.sfs ) .
According to rcrsn51, normally an incorrect cheat parameter at bootup ie puppy pmedia=usbcd might work. Press F2 when the boot logo shows for more help information or open the help.msg file in a texteditor.
There are different older versions of puppy to try out :
has Puppy from 2.x up to 4.x
might be an alternative too.
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I concur with the previous comment, go for an older version of puppy. Don't give up, as the benfits will make the extra effort worthwhile.
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A judge in the US has sided with Google in a high profile legal dispute with Oracle, after ruling that application programming interfaces (APIs) cannot be copyrighted.
Oracle had sued Google in 2010, claiming that the firm's Android mobile software infringed both the copyrights and patents it had obtained in the acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
But Judge William Alsup ruled late on Thursday (May 31) that the 37 APIs for the Java programming language used in Android were not covered by copyright, thus clearing Google of infringing Oracle's intellectual property.
"Google has violated no copyright, it being undisputed that Google's implementations are different," Alsup said.
Google welcomed the judgement, saying that it would ensure developers were free to make their code more widely available across multiple software programmes.
But Oracle, which had been confident of securing a billion dollar settlement out of the trial, said that it would "vigorously pursue an appeal".
"This ruling, if permitted to stand, would undermine the protection for innovation and invention in the US and make it far more difficult to defend intellectual property rights against companies anywhere in the world that simply takes them as their own," the firm said.
In his ruling at a court in San Francisco, Alsup said that he was unable to support Oracle's application as it would restrict innovation in programming.
"To accept Oracle's claim would be to allow anyone to copyright one version of code to carry out a system of commands and thereby bar all others from writing their own different versions to carry out all or part of the same commands," he said. "No holding has ever endorsed such a sweeping proposition."
However, the judge did say that the order "does not hold that Java API packages are free for all to use without licence".
He added: "Rather, it holds on the specific facts of this case, the particular elements replicated by Google were free for all to use under the Copyright Act."
A jury in the case said on May 7 that Google infringed eight of Oracle's APIs, but could not reach agreement on whether Google was covered by "fair use" provisions in US law.
Alsup said that without the jury verdict on that question, California-based Oracle cannot seek damages, estimated at $1bn, from Google.
The same jury had ruled on May 23 that Google's Android did not infringe two Java patents, but it did find that Google infringed Oracle's copyrights for nine lines of codes.
Oracle can seek around $150,000 in statutory damages for that verdict, but the trial has already cost both sides millions in legal fees.
Fresh from its victory over Oracle, Google has raised a regulatory complaint against Microsoft and Nokia, accusing the two firms of illegally feeding mobile patents to a technology 'troll' looking to rake in billions of dollars.
The complaint, filed with the European Commission, US Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission, focuses on the sale of 2,000 wireless patents by Microsoft and Nokia to MOSAID Technologies last September.
MOSAID feels that the patents could generate licensing fees of around $3 billion over the next decade. But it has been suggested that MOSAID is a 'troll', a term used for a company that earns money from patent royalties instead of innovating in new technology.
Microsoft shrugged off Google's complaint as the 'desperate tactic' of a firm already facing regulatory questions about its dominance of online search advertising.


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This is a simple salad made of mixed beans like ed Kidney beans(Rajma),Cannelini and moong with a tomato basil dressing.The dish is very simple yet hearty and healthy as a side.The recipe is from Tarla Dalal's cookbook but adapted as per availability of items.Ingredients:
Mixed beans: 1/2 cup
(I used red kidney beans(rajma),cannelini beans and whole moong (green gram))
Onion: 1 medium finely chopped if possible in rings
Tomato: 1 medium finely diced.
Fresh Basil: few leaves
Lemon Juice
Olive Oil
Garlic: minced 1 clove
Salt & Pepper
Presoak and cook the beans together.I did not soak moong beans.Mix the cooked beans and finely chopped onions and diced tomatoes.If interested remove the tomato pulp and then mix it with the beans.Mix all the ingredients in the dressing including salt & pepper and add it to the bean onion tomato mixToss/Mix well.Serve the salad chilled or at room temperature garnished with fresh basil and optional salt and pepper.
This is a basic recipe for a simple salad.You can add or remove ingredients and even use other available fresh herbs like coriander,rosemary,mint etc.
The simplest salad is on way to take part in MLLA -13th helping started by TheWellSeasoned Cook Susan and currently hosted by Sunny SunshineMom


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Just a quick update before I head back to work...
WE HAVE ONE HEALTHY HEART BEAT!! :) It was detected so early so I have a strong one according to my Dr. I commented that my child will be a runner/athlete like me & my donor. :) The little bean measured exactly where it should be too. I am so very happy that I am blessed with one healthy babe!! That is what I really wanted, esp. for a first time SINGLE mother. It really is a sigh of relief!! I think it is a true blessing. Someone was looking out for me. My Dr. was very relieved there was only one because you know they frown upon multiples. LOL!! That is the first thing she said to me! "Yes, we have one, that is what we wanted!!" LOL!! A twin pregancy can be very high risk as you know.
Now 2-3 years from now I will try for a 2nd with my 8 frozen embies. I got an U/S pic of the little one with YIPPEE typed right next to it. LOL!! My Dr. is too funny. I will scan it as soon as I can get to a scanner. I cannot tell you how happy and relieved I feel right now that everything is just going wonderfully with my little one. Whatever sex, I will be happy with, even though I am hoping for a boy. :) The strongest embryo made it and it was meant to be.
Thank you all for your sweet words of support/encourgement. I can't tell you howm much itmeans to me!! :) *hugs*
Hi Aimee,God bless you!!!! That is who is watching over you. I am so happy for you!!!! I can feel the excitement coming from your post!!! That is truly amazing!!!! You have to put your lil buddy's first pic on here so all of his cyber aunts can fuss over him. He is going to be as cute as a button if he looks anything like you. Oh my gosh for some reason I am referring to your bean as a boy. We shall see. Congratulations again!!!!!Mega hugs and healthy baby prayers for you!!!!Oh what did they say about your OHSS?
I am heading to my appt. but I had to pop in and check in you Aimee.Woo Hoo! I am sooooooooooooooo happy you got to hear the heartbeat, that is just awesome news. I bet you are on cloud nine! I will write more later, after my appt. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;DTake careHugs,Liz
Aimee congratulations!! I am so happy for you and the lil belly bean. Getting the picture of both the little one and the graph of the heartbeat is the best!! I am so glad things are going well now you can relax a little and enjoy (if you figure out how to do that let us know!)liz - hope your appointment went wellhelen - so you are guessing girl for liz and boy for aimee - what are your thoughts for me?
Good morning ladies -Aimee -Have you come down off the celing yet? :) What wonderful news you had. You know I just had this feeling that you would hear the hearbeat. I have no idea why, just had a feeling. You must be very excited! Did they tell you what the hb was per min? My appt went well, I didn't get my u/s I wanted so I am a bit bummed. I have to wait till 10/27, 2 more weeks. We did listen to the hb, which was very strong (163) and very consistant. Everthing looks good. I get so confused with when the end of your first trimester is. It seems to be different with every doctor and everything you read, imagine that. Anyway I asked the pa yesterday when is the official end of your first trimester she says, well it is different everyone you ask (no kidding) but for us we always go by 12 weeks. Ok, so I am out of my first trimester, or am I? Who knows, all I know is if I am not there I am close!!I am officially allowed to start exercising again and I am once again allowed in the bedroom with dh! I feel like crap from not exercising and it feels like forever since I was permitted to be intimate with my husband. I am a fond believer of "good things come to those who wait." although I do get tired of waiting sometimes. lolLila -I hope you are having a good time in Chiago, watch out for the snow!Helen -My email is still wacky, did you get my email last night? I just want to make sure, I know you worry about me and I give you gray hair. lolTake care Mommies to be and my special Mommy and soon to be Mommy again! ;)Liz
Happy Friday the 13th!! I hope no one is susperstitious?? Helen- Thanks!! I am sure I will have a cute babe. :) I would be happy with either sex, whatever was meant to be you know. Somehow I think it might be a girl because my donor's dad had 4 girls and he is the youngest. Also, I saw some gal post on line and she was saying that higher BETA's are girls?? Is that true?? It can't be..Lila- I did not get a graph of the heart beat. I do not think my clinic does that on a 6 week appt.? I assume your fertility clinic does this?? I ask my nurse why I did not get a heartbeat count and they told me that is not necessary as long as we can see one loud and clear. I will ask on the 26th when I go in for my 8 week scan.I can't tell you how relieved I am to have one and not two. It will be very hard for me to handle two!! I am a working single mother. I am very happy to have 8 forzen embryos for 2 FET's in the future. :) I hope to have a man by my side in the near furture. ;) A father figure would be nice for my children.Liz- I am above hitting the ceiling right now!! Definitely on cloud nine!! ;) Sounds like your U/S went well!! That is wonderful!! I am so happy for you!!I was forced to tell 3 of my directs here at work that I was pregant because we are in the midst of moving and I am not getting all stressd out. The first trimester is crucial.I hope you all have a great weekend. I need to get back to work!! TGIF!! ;)*hopeful hugs* for all!! :)
Hi Aimee -Happy Friday! Since it is Friday the 13th I decided to just stay home (I don't work on Friday's) and clean. I don't know my luck has been going so good lately I hate to jeopordize it. lol Dh called today, he is having a really rough day at work he told me that everything that could possibly go wrong has. I told him to make sure he leaves it there! lol I am usually not superstitious, but you never know right?Cloud nine is a good place to be! ;D I love it up there in the clouds. ;DI would not worry about not getting a count or the graph. Like you said each clinic is different. I got my first graph with the heartbeat at my 8 week appt, although I did get the count at the 6 week 5 day appt. It all depends on the office. The good news is the heartbeat is strong and you got to hear it! Yeah! I remember when I first heard the heartbeat, I think I was in shock I just layed there, dh said are you ok. I of course was, I think I was just trying to keep myself from crying like a baby in front of the tech. As soon as I got in the bathroom to change it came flowing. :)I can understand you being thankful for just one. You are an amazing women to be doing this alone. Your little one is very lucky to have a Mommy like you. I admire you for everything you have done to get where you are. You are an inspiration Aimee :)I hope your directs are being understanding at work. I can understand your need to tell them. I told the women in my office (only 3) because I knew they would wonder what the heck was going on with me, not to mention all the appts. They have been great. I guess maybe it is time to just make the announcement for me or maybe I should just let the men keep guessing. ;)Well I am going to go, I think it is time to curl up and read my book! Have a great rest of the day.Hugs,Liz
Hi buddies,Lila, I have a feeling that you are going to have a lil boy sprout also. How do you like the weather here in Chicago? I hope you bundled up because we have snow!!!!! Ugh!!! How have you and the sprout been? I you are taking it easy. I forgot when you next appointment was. My mind has been mush with all of us being sick here. Give your sprout a belly rub from me. Aimee, I have heard the same thing about the girls heart rate being faster. I know from my pregnancies that we did the heart rate prediction and it was right each time. My doc told me that when I was having Holly. I guess we shall see. Did they give you an answer with your OhSS? How have you been doing on cloud nine. I like Liz love it there also, such a wonderful place!!! 8). I hope to be visiting there soon, I could really use it right now. I hope your co-workers back off now and give you some room to grow!!! LOL They should give you a break now. I don't think they realize how deadly a hormonal pg women is. Take care of you lil buddy and give him a tummy rub from me.Liz, I hope you are enjoying your book and your down time. You have to feel like a grade school kid with your 3 day weekend now. I know I look forward to CHristmas break more then Holly does. I can't tell you the last time I sat down and read a book, hmmmm I think it was before the kids. Yep it was, so enjoy. Heck I don't think I can complete a whole sentence or a thought anymore. You shall see. I think I need to go back to school to be retrained. LOL. Mega hugs and healthy baby prayers to all!!!!P.S. Liz you are now officially in your second trimester!!!!! Yiphee!!! Now the fun begins!!!!!Helen
Hi Helen, Lila & Liz :)
Well, I am suffering from bad head congestion and allergies at the same time. ugh.. Feel like crapola!! I will definitely take it with easy today.
Helen- You know my hometown is Illinois. The Champaign Urbana area. My Aunt, Uncle & cousins live in Oak Park which is near Chicago. I lived at Scott Air Force Base for a few years as well. It can get very cold in the Winter time!! I remember going running when it was below zero and my lungs hurt so bad for days!! It was horrible!!
My OHSS has to be dealt with according to my RE. She told me my ovaries are still the same massive size. I have to wait it out a little longer, like another month. ugh.. That is fine, my OHSS seems to be evening out and not getting any worse thank god.
Liz- Thanx so much for your sweet supportive words. Yes, it will be hard to be a single working mom but it is really worth it to me!! ;) I am ready to face the difficulties & challenges that may arise.
Yes, my directs are quite understanding and supportive with my pregnancy. I am very thankful for that. I am sure the word will get around soon. Oh well, no worries. lol
Well, I am going to have some hot cream of wheat and lie down. Than take the doggies for a walk. I hope you all have a super Sunday.
Talk to you all laters!!
*hopeful hugs*
Aimee ;)
Hello Ladies -Aimee -I am sorry to hear about your allergies. When I read your post my heart sank for the simple fact I know some women do better with their allergies when they are pregnant. I unfortunatly am not one of them, they are 100% worse while pregnant. I was hoping you were going to be a lucky one! Are you taking anything? Did your re give you any explanation as to why they can not do something to relieve your OHSS now instead of waiting it out? I know with me my ovaries were enlarged (not to the extent of yours) but it was uncomfortable for me and it was at the 10 week u/s that they told me they were looking normal again. Did you tell your Sis yet about your wonderful news? I am doing well today is 13 weeks. Every Sunday we celebrate a bit since I have another week under my belt. ;D If I could have one thing right now that would be for my allergies to get better! I am suffering pretty bad especially at night. I have trouble sleeping when it is this bad!Lila -I hope you had a nice weekend in Chicago and kept warm. How are you feeling? When is your next appt? I think it might be this week?!Now your girls have to help me, I seem to forget how far along you both are. Can you remind me, please! :-[Well, I must run and get dinner started. Not that I am really in the mood, but we must eat. ;)Take care, hugsLiz
HI Liz :) I am sorry you are dealing with allergies too. :( Mine are pretty bad right now with severe head congestion. I have to sleep with my head propped up. It helps a tad. I am taking alot of Benadryl. According to my nurse I am allowed to take it. I am taking it like every 4 hours. I hope that is ok and there is no harm done with the fetus.When you told me that allergies get better when you are pregnant, I started to think something is wrong with my pregnancy. My RE tells me it is better to wait out my OHSS than to have fluid drained. Having fluid drained can be more harmful than good, you have to find the proper balance.I have 3 sisters. 2 full sister's, we are all a year apart and I am the middle child. I have a have sister from my mothers 2nd marriage, she was 40 when she had Ashley, who is now 18. You can see my sisters on my site. http://www.harmsrealty.co
will tell my family after my 8 week scan. :) Oh my, I can just imagine thier mouths opening! LOL!! Now that I was forced to delete my blog (due to nosey stalker coworker dude) I am sure my family has alot of questions for me.Congrats on making it to 13 weeks!! Yes!! That is a big step!! I hear after you get past the first trimester the less chance of m/c. Some say 8 weeks though. Today I am 6 weeks and 3 days pregnant. Thursday marks 7 weeks. A week from Thursday on the 26th I go in for my 8 week scan. I wish I cold come over to your house for dinner. I am still using the microwave. The contractors still have my place in a war zone. I wish they would pick up the pace and start working!! It has been over a month now!!Well, time to nuke a TV dinner. LOL I hope you have a great nite and I will chat witcha laters..Aimee :)
Good morning, Happy Monday yeah right. Wish it was the weekend already. ;)Aimee -I checked out your site, that is awesome! Where did you get your beautiful red hair? It seems like you have a wonderful, supportive family. That is really wonderful.I am sorry to have scared you by starting my email that women sometimes get better with their allergies during pregnancy. I should have started with the oposite in not to scare you. Sorry. I had asked my ob about it and they told me it depends on them women, some women claim their allergies nearly disappear others (apparently us!) the allergies get worse. My problem with medicine is I get too used to it. After several days my body just stops reaacting to it and nothing helps. I found myself rotating between medicines in order to get some relief. On my list of ok sinus meds are Tylenol Sinus, Cloratrimiten (sp?), Sudefed and Benedryl. I seem to be a little better with the Benedryl but the Cloratrimiten does work for me. 6 weeks and 4 days today! That is great news. You are moving right along! Yeah ;D I am not real happy with my ob office but I also don't think I am up for switching. The office I go to is gyn, ob and also re. Since I have been through so much with them especially my re I hate to switch. I don't know what to do, it is a tough decision. The house is coming along. Yesterday I was filling the cracks around th windows with insulation. Boy is that a longgggggggggggggggggggg tedious job. I stood their with a butter knife poking insulation in to a 6' deep crack, well not crack it is just the space between the window and the wall if you know what I mean. I was also trying to match our stained front door stain to paint the tonge and grove for the celing on covered porches. That is not fun either, very hard to match. Well, I must run and get some work done.Have a great day.Liz
HI Liz- ;DThanx for the compliments on my site. I have no idea where my redhead came from. My sisters had me believing for the longest time that I was adopted. :-\My pregnant coworker in the office next to me has not had nausea and she is due in a couple months. So not all women will have nausea. I will not freak out if I do not have any and think something is wrong with my pregnancy. LOL!!So you take Sudafed? My nurse told me not to. SHe told me that these were ok to take for sinus congestion: Benadryl, Claratin, Chlor-Trimeton, Robitussin. It says definitely no Sudafed or Tavist D. But I have heard from other women that Sudafed is ok to take?? ??? I too am getting tolerant to Benadryl and it gets worse if I stop taking it. ugh!! I do not want to get dependant on meds!! Not during this time!!I was going to go to my gyn/ob office but I wasnted a change even though I have been goin gthere for years. I am nto too happy with them. I am going to an all women OB office and from what I heard they are very good with what they do. Even my RE has heard of my OB. :) I guess I picked a good one.Sounds like yuo had fun filling cracks yesterday!! Good Job Liz!! Yesterday I was busy doing chores and boy I got worn out fast. I hung out with the dogs in the park for awhile while they chased squirrels up trees. LOL!!Speaking of dogs, I need to go. It's lunch time & I need to go them them out. :) I hope you have a great rest of the day!!Talk to you soon,-Aimee :)
Good morning Ladies Aimee -Sounds like you had a nice Sunday. The weather was beautiful here as well. I washed my car and dh's truck I still have his daily car to go but I got to tired. The truck was unbelievably dirty because of the house, it needed a bath bad and my car.. well I could't see out the windows anymore. Ok, so it wasen't quite that bad, it was pretty bad.I don't take Sudefed often, I tried it but it just didn't work so well for me. It is really amazing how you get different answers with different doctors. How are we sopossed to really know what is ok? I find it quite anoying. Thats great you found an office you really like. I think I am just a little to particular but after what I have been through I think I am entitiled. I doubt if I will change just because I am so established but if it dosen't get any better I may have to re-evaulate the situation.I had nausea but not the vomitting. I actaully vomitted twice and both times I had no idea it was coming. It came and went very quickly. I think I started feeling the nausea on and off all day beginning around 5 weeks and still have it at times although it is a great deal better. I would not worry about it if you do not feel nausea, you just might be one of the lucky ones. I have numerous friends who never had a day of nausea so again its one of those things that can go either way.When is your big move at work? This week, I think. I hope you are taking it easy and letting the others do the carrying. Hows the OHSS? I must run, time to go to work. yeah Have a great day! It is sopossed to rain here all day sounds soggy. :(Liz
Hi buddies,Sorry I have been MIA. I have been a full time nurse here. I think I have more patients now then when I used to work at the hospital. LOL Dh is the biggest patient. The kids sick or not are still bouncing off the walls but not dh he is dragging himself everywhere. I have to laugh. If it is me sick or damaged I have to pick up my worn body and go but not him. I would love to see a man carry a baby and give birth. I am sure that would be an awesome t.v. series.Aimee, Oak Park is a stone throw away from me. Oh my gosh what a small world!!! I know all to well about the wonderful (ugh) winters here. My dad said that we were named the Windy City because of the politicians but I don't think so. I stood outside Holly's school the other day and watched this tree that had to be about 100 years old been like it was wire. Amazing how powerful God is. I am glad to here your OhSS is not getting any worse but I know you are still uncomfortable. I don't blame you for wanting to wait to have something done I wouldn't take the risk either. I would suffer and make everyone miserable around me. I only had morning sickness with the twins not with Holly. In fact with Holly it was like I wasn't even pg. The twins on the other hand just made me nauseated all day long. I guess they couldn't figure out what they liked. They are the total opposite of each other so I know why I was so sick. I never threw up though which made me happy. I just never liked anything the first 12 weeks. Even when my appetite picked up I craved both spicy and sweet at the same time. I told dh that I was possessed for the next 9 months and he agreed. LOL You take care of buddy and throw in many naps if you can.Liz, what do you think you are doing????? Slow down!!! You seem like you are on a cleaning frenzy. It will get done. You sound like you have the same weather that I have here. Isn't it just lovely, yuck. You take care of the bean and I will talk to you later.Lila, how are you?? Did you like lovely Chicago? I wish I could relocate to another predictable warm state. I hope you are feeling well and that your sprout has been easy on you. Take care and rest up.Mega healthy baby prayers to all!!!!!!!Helen
Hi Liz,You finally put your bean ticker up!!!!!! Yiphee, now I can see what the lil one is up to!!!!!!!!Take care,Helen
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George A. Wolf, 86, of Woods Edge Drive, Niles, Michigan, died at 1:15 a.m. Thursday, August 17, 2006, in Lakeland Hospital in St. Joseph, Michigan, following an extended illness.
Mr. Wolf was born on May 9, 1920, in Ashtabula, Ohio, to Leroy S. and Eva Abigal (Stockberger) Wolf. He had lived most of his lifetime in Niles. He retired in 1982 after 27 years of service from National-Standard Company in Niles.
Mr. Wolf was a veteran of World War II, having served in the United States Navy. He was a member of the American Legion Post #26 in Niles and the Loyal Order of the Moose Lodge #599 in Elkhart, Indiana. George was a ham radio operator and enjoyed camping, fishing and hunting.
On November 28, 1942, In Akron, Ohio, he first married Catherine E. (Gron) Wolf, who preceded him in death on July 16, 1975. George later married Patricia H. (Chmiel) Wolf on July 28, 1978, who survives. Mr. Wolf is also survived by two sons, G. Dennis (Kathy) Wolf of Midland, Michigan, and Scott G. (Shelley) Wolf of Statesville, North Carolina; two stepdaughters, Sandra J. (Kenneth) Lane of Mishawaka, Indiana, and Brenda L. Thiel of Orlando, Florida; four grandchildren, Sarah Hug of Baltimore, Maryland, Jeff Wolf of Indianapolis, Indiana, Thomas Pawlak of South Bend and Jack Grittani of Orlando, Florida; three great-grandchildren; and one brother, John D. Wolf of Niles.