Table can Seat 10 to 12 people and opens to 132 inches with 3 leaves.
Description: New high end American made and custom designed mahogany dining table. This classical American revival double pedestal table was manufactured in great detail. The finish is perfectly transparent and the grain catches your attention from accross the room. The table sparkles when you look into its finish. We designed this table to have a slightly offset mahogany banding on the outside border and we used black white pinstrip separators between that border and the field. The Veneers were carefully matched to give the table an appearance of one solid graceful mahogany pattern. The beauty of this table is its simplicity. Careful attention went into its color as well. Its is a perfect blend of walnut and mahogany color and the color falls right in the middle of those two common colors. Table should work with any range of brown. This table is called a 'D' shape table. It has soft turning corners and a soft radius end, unlike a straight end table.
We import Duncan Phyfe saber leg pedestals for all of our double pedestal dining room tables. This Americna made table sits on our own imported components, which are better and stronger than any other pedestal we can offer. American made pedestals would add to the cost of the table and we can do that if you want 100% American origin.
We added a few picture of the table slides, which are wood slides. In this product page, we highlight the construction of the tables apron which is a strong point of this table's construction. See all of the pictures, some have notes in them.


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Experience historic and culturally rich Belfast and Crumlin Road Gaol, with our legendary Belfast Mural and Crumlin Road Gaol Combo Tour – a five-star rated tour and one of the most popular black taxi tour in Belfast Northern Ireland.
Previously featured on British, European and US Television, this is a Belfast political mural tour where passengers get to explore and experience the famous West Belfast murals from the comfort of a Belfast black taxi or executive vehicle, with a local tour guide providing political and historical background information and local knowledge about the murals of Belfast and 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland.
The tour finishes with a tour of Crumlin Road Gaol Belfast "colloquially known as the Crum", a former Prison situated in North Belfast found on the Crumlin Road and the only remaining Victorian-era prison in Northern Ireland, and now a visitor attraction. Some of the prisoners included were De Valera and Ian Paisley, and these men spent time in this prison.
There were 17 men who went to the execution chamber and were hanged and buried in the prison. You now have the opportunity to go on a guided tour of this prison, and it is now one of the main tourist attractions in Belfast.
As you make your way along the Loyalist Shankill Road, Republican Falls Road, and the 'Peace Walls' that separate them, the Belfast Mural Tour guide explains the history of each West Belfast mural and the stories behind the murals you see.
This amazing transport-based tour of Belfast's murals provides ample opportunities to stop, exit the vehicle, take photos and ask any burning questions about the tour. There is even the opportunity to sign your name on the world-famous Peace Wall, that has divided catholic and protestant communities in Belfast for years.
Book your Belfast Mural Tour and Crumlin Road Gaol tour and experience first-hand the raw side of historic Belfast City, and its colourful history, with local guides who have lived through the troubles and have many stories to tell. We are the only Black Taxi Cab Tour company in the city of Belfast that's jointly owned by both a Protestant and a Catholic.
This puts us in a highly unique position for giving all customers a fair and unbiased Belfast Political and mural tour, allowing passengers to hear both sides of the stories and events that we call 'The Troubles'.
Please Note: Cab Tours Belfast have a unique relationship with Crumlin Road Gaol, which offers an entrance discount. This offer will soon be available to purchase as an add-on when booking your Belfast Mural Tour.
For larger group bookings & special rates for children please do not hesitate to call us on 028 9558 2072 or email us at [email protected].
We are more than happy to accommodate your requests to continue providing the best Belfast black taxi cab tours.
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Jurys Hotel, Street Victoria Street,or Belfast City Hall
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Tours run every 30 minutes from
9:00am – 5:00pm, 7 days a week.
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Crumlin Road Gaol Tour: What to Expect
Our award-winning black taxi Belfast Mural Tour has been now been made extra special with the addition of a visit to the truly unique Crumlin Road Gaol.
From the comfort of a black taxi cab or executive vehicle, passengers can enjoy a 1.5-hour journey back in time, with local guides who have knowledge, stories, and experiences to share about 'The Troubles' and the famous wall murals nestled deep in West Belfast's Shankill and Falls Neighbourhoods.
Passengers get to experience the real Belfast, with cabbies who grew up in West Belfast, living through the troubles. All our cabbies know the city well, offering honest viewpoints and intimate details on the Troubles, political murals, and local culture. To top it off, they will also enjoy a tour of the famous Belfast jail to learn its rich history.
Cab Tours Belfast is Northern Ireland's top black taxi cab tour company, recipient of the TripAdvisor Certificate Of Excellence Award, and ranked number 17 in the world on TripAdvisor.
And top 4 in the uk .
During this tour passengers will stop at the following murals and attractions:
Crumlin Road Gaol Entrance
Gaol Landings
Gaol Landing
Gaol Chimney
Condemned Cell
Gaol Tunnel
Stop 1Shankill Road
Your Belfast Murals Tour begins in the Shankill Road area of Belfast which is (Protestant/British), where your Black Taxi Cab driver will explain a detailed history of the area. We begin in 1690, when King William the 3rd arrived in Ireland to defeat King James the 2nd at the famous Battle Of The Boyne. There will then be an explanation about the recent troubles, which started in 1969 and ended when the peace agreement was signed in 1998.
You will go for a short walk around the area, where your black taxi cab driver will explain the loyalist murals Belfast has in the area and what they represent. You will have the opportunity to take your own photographs of the Belfast murals.
Stop 2Peace Walls
The peace walls were designed to separate the Catholic (Nationalist) and Protestant (Unionist) populations in Belfast. The first 'peace lines' were erected, following the outbreak of violence in 1969 in Northern Ireland.
They were built as temporary structures, meant to last only six months. Due to their effective nature, they were built higher, longer, and made permanent and are still here today. The peace walls are adorned with art and messages of hope from tourists.
Stop 3Falls Road
You will visit Clonard Martyrs Memorial garden in Bombay Street in the black taxi cab tour. Bombay Street in Belfast is where some say the modern troubles began, when Catholics were burnt out of their homes. This is also where the Provisional IRA was formed. Each section of this garden will be explained in detail and the reasons it exists.
The next stop on the tour will be Sinn Fein press office, which is the site of one of the most iconic Falls Road murals of the Bobby Sands mural. You will hear about the history of Bobby Sands and the Irish hunger strike in the Maze Prison in 1981.
Stop 4The International Wall
The final stop will be the International Wall, where you will see a variety of different murals in Belfast. The murals have a general theme of 'highlighting oppression' – from the race riots in America in 1969 to current events in Palestine.
How much does this tour cost?
Prices start from £47 for 1 – 2 people.
For peace of mind, you can request an invoice to pay in advance. You can also pay with cash on the day of your tour. The choice is yours.
How long does the Belfast Mural Tour last?
The Belfast Political Mural Tour typically lasts for 90 minutes.
Are the cabs wheelchair friendly?
Yes, wheelchair friendly cabs are available. If you have any additional needs, please make us aware at the time of booking. Cabs can take up to 8 passengers.
Where are the pickup and drop off points?
Are free pickup – And drop of points are Belfast City Hall and jury's inn hotel, Additional fee for pickup at other locations Please inform us of your preference at the time of booking.
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1Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. 2Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her. 3His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady. 4Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, "Get me this young lady as a wife." 5Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came. 6Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him. 7The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; a which thing ought not to be done. 8Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife. 9Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves. 10You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it." 11Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give. 12Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife." 13The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister, 14and said to them, "We can't do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us. 15Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised; 16then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people. 17But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone." 18Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor's son. 19The young man didn't wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father. 20Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying, 21"These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters. 22Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised. 23Won't their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us." 24All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city. 25It happened on the third day, when they were sore, that two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males. 26They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went away. 27Jacob's sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. 28They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field, 29and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house. 30Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house." 31They said, "Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?"
1Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valor. 2He had a son, whose name was Saul, an impressive young man; and there was not among the children of Israel a better person than he. From his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people. 3The donkeys of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. Kish said to Saul his son, "Take now one of the servants with you, and arise, go seek the donkeys." 4He passed through the hill country of Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they didn't find them: then they passed through the land of Shaalim, and there they weren't there: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they didn't find them. 5When they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, "Come, and let us return, lest my father stop caring about the donkeys, and be anxious for us." 6He said to him, "See now, there is in this city a man of God (Elohim) , and he is a man who is held in honor. All that he says comes surely to pass. Now let us go there. Perhaps he can tell us concerning our journey whereon we go." 7Then Saul said to his servant, "But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? For the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God (Elohim) . What do we have?" 8The servant answered Saul again, and said, "Behold, I have in my hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver. I will give that to the man of God (Elohim) , to tell us our way." 9(In earlier times in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God (Elohim) , thus he said, "Come, and let us go to the seer;" for he who is now called a prophet was before called a Seer.) 10Then Saul said to his servant, "Well said. Come, let us go." So they went to the city where the man of God (Elohim) was. 11As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, "Is the seer here?" 12They answered them, and said, "He is. Behold, he is before you. Hurry now, for he has come today into the city; for the people have a sacrifice today in the high place. 13As soon as you have come into the city, you shall immediately find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat; for the people will not eat until he come, because he blesses the sacrifice. Afterwards those who are invited eat. Now therefore go up; for at this time you shall find him." 14They went up to the city; [and] as they came within the city, behold, Samuel came out toward them, to go up to the high place. 15Now TheIAM (Yahweh) had revealed to Samuel a day before Saul came, saying, 16"Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint (mashach) him to be prince over my people Israel; and he shall save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked on my people, because their cry has come to me." 17When Samuel saw Saul, TheIAM (Yahweh) said to him, "Behold, the man of whom I spoke to you! this same shall have authority over my people." 18Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, "Please tell me where the seer's house is." 19Samuel answered Saul, and said, "I am the seer. Go up before me to the high place, for you shall eat with me today. In the morning I will let you go, and will tell you all that is in your heart. 20As for your donkeys who were lost three days ago, don't set your mind on them; for they are found. For whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you, and for all your father's house?" 21Saul answered, "Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? And my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then do you speak to me like this?" 22Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the guest room, and made them sit in the best place among those who were invited, who were about thirty persons. 23Samuel said to the cook, "Bring the portion which I gave you, of which I said to you, 'Set it aside.'" 24The cook took up the thigh, and that which was on it, and set it before Saul. Samuel said, "Behold, that which has been reserved! Set it before yourself and eat; because for the appointed time has it been kept for you, for I said, 'I have invited the people.'" So Saul ate with Samuel that day. 25When they had come down from the high place into the city, he talked with Saul on the housetop. 26They arose early: and it happened about the spring of the day, that Samuel called to Saul on the housetop, saying, "Get up, that I may send you away." Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad. 27As they were going down at the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, "Tell the servant pass on before us" (and he passed on), "but stand still first, that I may cause you to hear the word of God (Elohim) ."


Lamptron FC5v2 design is simple and neat. Front panel is made of a chunk of aluminum 4mm thick. FC5v2 dimension involve controller installation inside 5.25″ bay of you PC case. As you may already mentioned, we have received version with black anodized front panel.
The controller boasts greatly of its new significantly enhanced (compared to version V1) LCD display. Similar devices offend display information in two colors (black/white), whereas Lamptron FC5v2 does it with multiple colors, although each can be selected one at a time. The 12.6 cm display is sunk inside the front panel by 2mm and covered with dust proof tape.
Below it, there are four dials for fan speed adjustment corresponding to four fan channels. The distance between dial is about 22mm which is quite enough to set the speed preciously without changing setting for neighboring fan channels.
All the electronics of Lamptron FC5v2 is located on two PCBs. The first one includes LCD control components, while the second one hold the electronics for fans control channels. The last also features all the power (4-pin Molex) and fan (3-pin)connectors.Each of fan connectors has a power transistor located near it. Note, that there are no heatsinks on power elements bearing in mind each channel can hold at 30 W o, which means developers did a great job on component andschematics selection while making this device. We could not identify the model of power elements Lamptron uses for FC5v2, because the manufacturer has erased the marking of the chips deliberately.
As we said, the back PCB featuresfour 3-pin (P1, P2, P3, P4) fan and one main 4-min Molex (P6) power connector. Besides that, there are other controls.
The backlight of display is even which make all the figures acer clearly readable on the screen. Specified colors names correspond to the real ones almost completely, however, white includes some of purple tint. On the other hand, the backlight is so strong that even screen ends covered with light absorbing material still show the light through. One can fix it by filling the ends with a permanent black marker.


Mary Kaye welcomes us back from the bye with her weekly Ladies Who League column, talking Membership, injuries, New Zealand and #oneinarow. Find more of her work at ladieswholeague.com.
Whenever the Parramatta Eels have the bye, I always feel like something is missing from my weekend. Whilst it is always good to get a guaranteed two points, it's never the same as putting on my Parramatta Eels scarf, heading out to Pirtek Stadium and joining my Parramatta Eels family to help cheer on the team.
The community feel of being a member is just one of the reasons why my Parramatta Eels membership is something I would never give up. I sit in Bay 50 and the people that sit around me very quickly become my family for the duration of the NRL season. We are all so passionate about the Eels and get such tremendous joy from watching the boys play every week. It's something I think is very special.
This week we have a tough game ahead of us. The Warriors are one of the dark horses of this year's competition and always play well in front of their home crowd. However, the Eels have proved time and time again this year that they are not a team to be underestimated and I have no doubt, following a disappointing last 2 rounds that the boys will be hungry to cement their spot in the top 8.
I'm looking for Willie Tonga to step up as he has been named captain for the weekend. We should also be looking to the likes of Chris Sandow, Semi Radradra, Isaac De Gois, Darcy Lussick and Corey Norman to lead the way.
At the moment, the Eels sit just outside the top 8 based on for and against, so we have a couple of very important weeks coming up as September creeps closer.
On another note, I hope everyone has enjoyed this year's State of Origin season. As a proud Blues fan, I am still not tired of tweeting #oneinarow. The Blues should be very proud of what they have been able to achieve this year.
I have especially enjoyed watching Jarryd Hayne play this series as he has demonstrated what a talent he is and how much State of Origin success means to him. Now that he has won a State of Origin series, hopefully the next item on his NRL bucket list is winning an Eels Premiership!
All the very best to the boys this weekend - hopefully we can leave New Zealand warm and with the 2 points! I also just wanted to make mention of my brother who is currently living in New Zealand. He will be at the game, flying the flag for my family.
Finally, I also wanted to extend my best wishes to Lee Mossop who this week announced that he will need shoulder surgery and will not be playing for the remainder of the season. We wish Lee all the best in his recovery and look forward to seeing him in the Blue and Gold next year.


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Pat Cleveland is an international modeling icon. She has worked for the most prestigious fashion designers including, Armani, Halston, Stephen Burrows and Valentino, both on and off the runway. Ms . Cleveland has also been seen in the work of important photographers including, Avedon, Helmut Newton, Horst and Steven Meisel.
Throughout her illustrious career, Pat has appeared on the pages of the world's most prestigious fashion publications such as, Ebony, Essence, Interview, W Magazine and Vogue. Her beauty has not been overlooked by the art world having sat for Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali. She has done numerous commercials and advertising campaigns, the latest being Mac make-up in September this year. She is mentioned and quoted in more than 50 books.
As a Fashion Ambassador, Ms. Cleveland has traveled extensively representing the United States and the United Kingdom on trips to China, Italy and Russia. In 1989 Pat represented the city of Barcelona as a fashion icon for the Summer Olympics in Spain. Recently she was the recipient of the "The Thurgood Marshall Award" for being a Fashion Icon, The Huffington Post 100 Game changers and was honored at the Metropolitan museum of art for her contribution in Versailles 73.
In addition to modeling, Pat has performed, singing and dancing on stage in Let My People Come on Broadway; acted in several foreign films including "Rio Babilônia" (Brazil), "Iago Shakespeare" (Italy), "Sotto il vestito niente" (Italy) and "Hair, The Musical" (Mexico); and has appeared in cameo parts for The Devil Wears Prada, "Sex and the City: The Movie" was a guest judge on "America's Next Top Model" and most recently on "The Face." She was also featured in numerous documentaries the most recent being; "Versailles 73", "Ultra Suede in search of Halston ", " About Face" and " Scatter my Ashes at Bergdorf".
A superstar in Italy, Pat has recorded original lyrics written for Joe T. Vanelli and published a book of poems, In The Spirit of Grace, also published in English.
Pat resides in the US, currently writing her autobiography. She lives with her husband Paul Ravenstein and has two children, Anna & Noel.


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President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a campaign rally at the Amsoil Arena on June 20, 2018, in Duluth, Minn.
I would like to think that Donald Trump has finally told one lie too many. He searched high and wide for someone to blame when his policy of taking children away from parents caught surreptitiously crossing the border backfired, big time.
Before throwing in the towel and ending the practice with a scratch of his pen, Trump said Democrats had to clean up the mess. Their legislation created it, he claimed.
The fact is that Trump feels no need to prove even his wiggiest claims. Still, I've gone on doggedly hoping that the sheer magnitude of his lies would eventually give his supporters second thoughts.
The number of Trump's false or misleading claims reached 3,251 by May 31, according to The Washington Post's fact-checker database. Shortly thereafter, the Gallup Poll found that 87 percent of Republicans gave him a favorable rating.
To me, that means the time has come to look the data square in the eye. It accords with what history teaches: What one person sees as an obvious lie appears to another as an undeniable truth.
How do I know? The Bible tells me so. Christians read the New Testament account of Jesus being born of a virgin as literally true. Jews, whose ancestors produced the Old Testament, find the idea incredible, and Muslims deny Jesus' crucifixion.
That suggests a general rule: When hearing about a subject to which we are emotionally committed, we often don't judge it against the standard of objective truth. We accept it if it's compatible with ideas we hold sacred, and reject it if it isn't.
Nazi Germany offers a case in point. Hitler came to power by preaching that Germans were the "master race." That entitled them to seize control of nations inhabited by the inferior beings. Yet the Fuhrer and his buddies didn't look like super men. Hitler had a funny little mustache that gave him the appearance of a clown. Charlie Chaplin so satirized him in "The Great Dictator," giving movie audiences giggling fits.
But Germans didn't see the reality of Hitler's gang. Mesmerized by the pack of lies he was feeding them, they marched into Russia. There millions perished, many wearing summer uniforms in a bitter-cold winter. Hitler said they'd be home before the snow fell.
To grasp Trump's hold over his followers requires focusing less on his lies themselves than the story into which he has woven them. By that worldview, ordinary Americans have been hoodwinked by a snobbish elite that has profited at the expense of workaday folks. He's their champion.
A handful of supporting examples to lend just enough credence to his worldview.
For example, pundits have decried Trump's broadsides against NAFTA. The last three letters of the acronym stand for "free trade agreement." Yet Canada imposes astronomical tariffs on milk imports. Why shouldn't an American dairy farmer cry, "Liar, liar pants on fire!" when hearing the word NAFTA?
The lie ringing in the ears of his supporters is that free trade is a fair fight. You're not likely to win that person over no matter how many holes can be knocked into the rest of Trump's story by wielding an ax of truth.
Be that as it may, just throwing that up against Trump isn't likely to win an election. People need something to believe in when they step into a voting booth.
They want to hear a compelling story.


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The Golden LEAF Foundation has awarded $200,000 to Moore County Partners in Progress to support the USGA's project to establish Golf House Pinehurst.
In early September, the USGA announced its plans to establish "Golf House Pinehurst," a campus and innovation hub in Pinehurst that will feature a new equipment research and testing facility, museum experience, welcome center and offices. The USGA has also committed to host five U.S. Open Championships in the Pinehurst area by 2047.
The total $25 million investment over the next several years includes the construction of two buildings on the campus of historic Pinehurst Resort that will house 50 full-time USGA staff members. Construction is anticipated to start in 2022 and be completed by 2023 year-end.
The USGA's new facilities will include the Research and Test Center, a laboratory dedicated to testing golf balls and clubs for conformance to the Rules of Golf. It will replace the current Test Center at the USGA's headquarters in Liberty Corner, New Jersey.
The Golden LEAF award to Partners in Progress will be used to purchase some of the more than $4 million in testing equipment that will be used by the new center in Pinehurst. This award is part of a larger project that leverages funding from the state as well as other public and private partners.
The USGA Test Center is the only facility in the U.S. that has the official responsibility to test all golf equipment – primarily golf balls and clubs used by all golfers in the recreational and competitive game – for conformance to the Rules of Golf. It receives roughly 2,500 equipment submissions from manufacturers around the world each year. This includes nearly 500 models of golf balls and more than 2,000 other pieces of golf equipment such as clubs, clubheads, shafts, gloves, tees, and other devices. In addition, the Test Center's staff monitors the global game and how equipment advances are affecting its evolution. They study performance statistics, conduct scientific studies of both professional and recreational golfers, and compile detailed research about the technology of golf equipment.
"Through this award, Golden LEAF is an essential partner in bringing Golf House Pinehurst to fruition," said Pat Corso, Executive Director of Partners in Progress. "We greatly appreciate Golden LEAF's support of this transformative project that will generate a tremendous, long-term economic impact well beyond Moore County. We are excited about the benefits this project will bring to North Carolina."
"Golden LEAF is pleased to be one of the partners on the new research and testing center," said Scott T. Hamilton, Golden LEAF President, Chief Executive Officer. "This project will not only bring 35 jobs but also significant regional economic impact through major U.S. Open events."
"We are thankful for the generosity extended to us from everyone throughout North Carolina, and are excited to move forward with this great news," said Mike Davis, CEO of the USGA. "The new USGA Test Center will become the most advanced, innovative golf testing facility in the world, and we are proud to firmly establish it in Moore County."
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The popular live and on-demand internet streaming service Sling TV releases its Windows 10 app. With this service, you can watch live or on-demand sports, lifestyle, family, news and other genres from ESPN, Disney, AMC, Comedy Central, HGTV, TNT, TBS, Fox and NBC (select markets only), A&E, VICELAND and CNN. Its plan starts at USD20.00 per month with add-on or "Extras" for USD5.00 per month for genre-based channels like Sports, Kids, Comedy, Hollywood, and more. It also offers a 7-day trial. The UWP app takes advantage of the Windows 10 features like Live Tiles and Cortana Voice Integration. Although the app is UWP, it is not yet available for Windows 10 Mobile. Note that the service is for the United States only.
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Q: Python - ImportError: Could not find 'nvcuda.dll' i just want to make object recognition from inception pre trained model using tensorflow & i am using this code:
from __future__ import absolute_import
from __future__ import division
from __future__ import print_function

import argparse
import os.path
import re
import sys
import tarfile

import numpy as np
from six.moves import urllib
import tensorflow as tf

FLAGS = None

# pylint: disable=line-too-long
DATA_URL = 'http://download.tensorflow.org/models/image/imagenet/inception-2015-12-05.tgz'
# pylint: enable=line-too-long

class NodeLookup(object):

  def __init__(self,
               label_lookup_path=None,
               uid_lookup_path=None):
    if not label_lookup_path:
      label_lookup_path = os.path.join(
          FLAGS.model_dir, 'imagenet_2012_challenge_label_map_proto.pbtxt')
    if not uid_lookup_path:
      uid_lookup_path = os.path.join(
          FLAGS.model_dir, 'imagenet_synset_to_human_label_map.txt')
    self.node_lookup = self.load(label_lookup_path, uid_lookup_path)

  def load(self, label_lookup_path, uid_lookup_path):
    if not tf.gfile.Exists(uid_lookup_path):
      tf.logging.fatal('File does not exist %s', uid_lookup_path)
    if not tf.gfile.Exists(label_lookup_path):
      tf.logging.fatal('File does not exist %s', label_lookup_path)

    # Loads mapping from string UID to human-readable string
    proto_as_ascii_lines = tf.gfile.GFile(uid_lookup_path).readlines()
    uid_to_human = {}
    p = re.compile(r'[n\d]*[ \S,]*')
    for line in proto_as_ascii_lines:
      parsed_items = p.findall(line)
      uid = parsed_items[0]
      human_string = parsed_items[2]
      uid_to_human[uid] = human_string

    # Loads mapping from string UID to integer node ID.
    node_id_to_uid = {}
    proto_as_ascii = tf.gfile.GFile(label_lookup_path).readlines()
    for line in proto_as_ascii:
      if line.startswith('  target_class:'):
        target_class = int(line.split(': ')[1])
      if line.startswith('  target_class_string:'):
        target_class_string = line.split(': ')[1]
        node_id_to_uid[target_class] = target_class_string[1:-2]

    # Loads the final mapping of integer node ID to human-readable string
    node_id_to_name = {}
    for key, val in node_id_to_uid.items():
      if val not in uid_to_human:
        tf.logging.fatal('Failed to locate: %s', val)
      name = uid_to_human[val]
      node_id_to_name[key] = name

    return node_id_to_name

  def id_to_string(self, node_id):
    if node_id not in self.node_lookup:
      return ''
    return self.node_lookup[node_id]

def create_graph():
  # Creates graph from saved graph_def.pb.
  with tf.gfile.FastGFile(os.path.join(
      FLAGS.model_dir, 'classify_image_graph_def.pb'), 'rb') as f:
    graph_def = tf.GraphDef()
    graph_def.ParseFromString(f.read())
    _ = tf.import_graph_def(graph_def, name='')

def run_inference_on_image(image):
  if not tf.gfile.Exists(image):
    tf.logging.fatal('File does not exist %s', image)
  image_data = tf.gfile.FastGFile(image, 'rb').read()

  # Creates graph from saved GraphDef.
  create_graph()

  with tf.Session() as sess:
    softmax_tensor = sess.graph.get_tensor_by_name('softmax:0')
    predictions = sess.run(softmax_tensor,
                           {'DecodeJpeg/contents:0': image_data})
    predictions = np.squeeze(predictions)

    # Creates node ID --> English string lookup.
    node_lookup = NodeLookup()

    top_k = predictions.argsort()[-FLAGS.num_top_predictions:][::-1]
    for node_id in top_k:
      human_string = node_lookup.id_to_string(node_id)
      score = predictions[node_id]
      print('%s (score = %.5f)' % (human_string, score))

def maybe_download_and_extract():
  """Download and extract model tar file."""
  dest_directory = FLAGS.model_dir
  if not os.path.exists(dest_directory):
    os.makedirs(dest_directory)
  filename = DATA_URL.split('/')[-1]
  filepath = os.path.join(dest_directory, filename)
  if not os.path.exists(filepath):
    def _progress(count, block_size, total_size):
      sys.stdout.write('\r>> Downloading %s %.1f%%' % (
          filename, float(count * block_size) / float(total_size) * 100.0))
      sys.stdout.flush()
    filepath, _ = urllib.request.urlretrieve(DATA_URL, filepath, _progress)
    print()
    statinfo = os.stat(filepath)
    print('Successfully downloaded', filename, statinfo.st_size, 'bytes.')
  tarfile.open(filepath, 'r:gz').extractall(dest_directory)

def main(_):
  maybe_download_and_extract()
  image = (FLAGS.image_file if FLAGS.image_file else
           os.path.join(FLAGS.model_dir, 'cropped_panda.jpg'))
  run_inference_on_image(image)

if __name__ == '__main__':
  parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
  parser.add_argument(
      '--model_dir',
      type=str,
      default='/tmp/imagenet',
      help="""\
      Path to classify_image_graph_def.pb,
      imagenet_synset_to_human_label_map.txt, and
      imagenet_2012_challenge_label_map_proto.pbtxt.\
      """
  )
  parser.add_argument(
      '--image_file',
      type=str,
      default='',
      help='Absolute path to image file.'
  )
  parser.add_argument(
      '--num_top_predictions',
      type=int,
      default=5,
      help='Display this many predictions.'
  )
  FLAGS, unparsed = parser.parse_known_args()
  tf.app.run(main=main, argv=[sys.argv[0]] + unparsed)

i find this code from this repo when i simple run this by giving command in cmd "python classify.py" then it show me this error

Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "C:\Users---\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\platform\self_check.py", line 62, in preload_check
      ctypes.WinDLL(build_info.nvcuda_dll_name)
    File "C:\Users---\Python\Python36\lib\ctypes__init__.py", line 348, in init
      self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
  OSError: [WinError 126] The specified module could not be found

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):   File "obj_recog.py", line 41, in

      import tensorflow as tf   File "C:\Users---\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\tensorflow__init__.py",
  line 22, in
      from tensorflow.python import pywrap_tensorflow  # pylint: disable=unused-import   File
  "C:\Users---\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python__init__.py",
  line 49, in
      from tensorflow.python import pywrap_tensorflow   File "C:\Users---\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\pywrap_tensorflow.py",
  line 30, in
      self_check.preload_check()   File "C:\Users---\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\platform\self_check.py",
  line 70, in preload_check
      % build_info.nvcuda_dll_name) ImportError: Could not find 'nvcuda.dll'. TensorFlow requires that this DLL be installed in a
  directory that is named in your %PATH% environment variable. Typically
  it is installed in 'C:\Windows\System32'. If it is not present, ensure
  that you have a CUDA-capable GPU with the correct driver installed.

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BY Kristen Schott | July 8, 2019 | People
Michael Urie is directing Bright Colors And Bold Patterns during Studio's inaugural SHOWROOM series, which delivers limited-run, cheeky shows this summer.
Actor Michael Urie (think Ugly Betty) has found a second stage home in DC this summer. He makes his local directorial debut at Studio Theatre with Bright Colors And Bold Patterns, from July 9 to 28. Part of the boundary-pushing SHOWROOM series, the one-man comedy follows Gerry (Jeff Hiller) as he attends his friends' de rigueur same-sex wedding. "I'm always interested in characters who overcome adversity," says Urie. "When a character is met with a problem and has to adjust... it's compelling." Perhaps that's why he's also reprising his title role in Hamlet with Shakespeare Theatre Company's Free for All event. Here, he acts it out. Tickets $20-$55, individual memberships $300-$15,000, Milton Theatre, 1501 14th St. NW, studiotheatre.org
So, what do you really think of bright colors and bold patterns? I love [them]. In our apartment, we aren't afraid to put blue and yellow and green together, and my favorite chair is a patchwork rocker.
In all seriousness, the play shares truth through humor. When I first saw [writer and actor] Drew Droege perform... it spoke to me in a way I was not expecting. Hilarious, yes. But also an incredibly insightful take on what it means to be a gay man in a postmarriage equality world. Just because we suddenly have the right to get married, doesn't mean we retroactively have a lifetime of dreams of [doing so].
It must be a rewarding play to direct. Working with Drew and Jeff has made me a better actor—their ability to tickle an audience is expert. I'm no stranger to solo comedy, having done Buyer & Cellar a billion times, but I got to play all the roles. They have to create a world, and other people, with only one character.
And why is Showroom the perfect stage? Being in the 'gayborhood,' performing in a space where the audience feels as if they're on the patio with Gerry and the others, is a very exciting prospect. I think the effect will be that they've wandered into a party without an invitation.
That speaks to the District's performing arts scene, don't you think? DC has the greatest audiences around: smart, eager, focused. I always feel like they 'get' it.
Now, it's our Feast Issue, so: Where will you be dining out while you're here? China Chilcano, Jack Rose for whiskey and Columbia Room for cocktails.
Any top stops for preshow snacks? The [area] around STC has the best ramen I've ever tried [from Daikaya]. Not my usual preshow ritual, but Hamlet burns a lot of calories!
Photography Courtesy Of: Michael Urie


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Garbage Video (también conocido como Home Video), fue una producción lanzada en 1996 en formato VHS y video CD de la banda estadounidense Garbage, que incluía todos los videoclips promocionales de la agrupación hasta esa fecha. Garbage Video fue dirigido por Karen Lamond y producido por Luke Copeland de Oil Factory Films.

Garbage Video fue la última gran producción hecha para promocionar el álbum Garbage y fue distribuida por Almo Sights & Sounds/Geffen en Norteamérica y por Mushroom Records en el resto del mundo. A diferencia de otras compilaciones de videoclips, Garbage Video nunca fue re-lanzado en formato DVD. Esta producción fue sucedida años después por la compilación en DVD titulada Absolute Garbage en 2007.

Lista de canciones
 "Vow" – 4:30
 "Only Happy When It Rains" (U.S. Version) – 3:56
 "Queer" – 4:36
 "Stupid Girl" – 4:18
 "Sleep" (Bonus track)
 "Milk" – 3:53

Lanzamiento
Garbage Video incluye imágenes rodadas del concierto de la banda el 21 de marzo de 1996, en el Barrowland Ballroom de Glasgow, y tomas descartadas y producciones de los videos de "Only Happy When It Rains", "Queer"y "Stupid Girl", que posteriormente fueron remezclados por Rabbit in the Moon, Danny Saber y Red Snapper. La compilación también incluyó un mini-clip del b-side "Sleep" (del sencillo "Only Happy When It Rains") grabado en Smart Studios en Madison (Wisconsin).

Garbage destinó el lanzamiento en video para mostrar su "identidad visual muy fuerte", y subrayó que su obra cinematográfica determina que seguirían el próximo año, llevando "muy duro a las barreras convencionales asociados con los videoclips de la banda".

Créditos y personal
Directores de Videos musicales
 Samuel Bayer ("Vow", "Only Happy When It Rains" y "Stupid Girl")
 Stéphane Sednaoui ("Queer" y "Milk")
 Garbage ("Sleep")

Remixes
 "Queer": Danny Saber y Rabbit in the Moon
 "Stupid Girl": Danny Saber y Red Snapper

Charts

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Sitio web oficial de Garbage

Álbumes de Garbage
Álbumes producidos por Butch Vig
Álbumes en inglés
Álbumes de rock alternativo
Álbumes de 1996

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How to Troubleshoot No Hot Water Pressure in a Bathtub
By Chris Deziel Updated December 19, 2018
Poor Water Pressure After Installing a New Hot Water Heater
How to Replace Kitchen Sink Cutoff Valves
How to Repair Copper Pipe Soldering
How to Fix a Plumbing Air Hammer
How to Repair a Water Bib at the Bottom of a Toilet
A bathtub isn't much good without a steady stream of hot water for soothing your tired feet. If the stream has been reduced to a trickle, it could be a sign of a problem with the water heater, deposits in the pipes or the faucet, or even an air lock. In most cases, you should be able to make whatever repairs are necessary yourself, but first, you have to diagnose the problem.
Open Valves, Increase Pressure
The first thing to do is to determine whether there is low pressure at other fixtures besides the bathtub. If there is, try the hot water heater valve; it may not be open all the way. If the cold pressure also is low, the main valve may be partially closed or -- more likely -- the pressure regulator may be set too low. You can increase the pressure by turning the valve stem on the regulator clockwise.You'll probably need a wrench to do this. If no adjustments work and you have galvanized plumbing, suspect corrosion inside the pipes. You may have to replace them.
Check Faucet Controls
If only the bathtub has low pressure, you probably can restore it by disassembling and cleaning the faucet. If it's a single-handle faucet, however, you first make sure its temperature limiter -- if it has one -- is properly adjusted. Do this by removing the handle using either a Phillips or hex-head screwdriver to remove the set screw. The limiter should be connected to the valve stem, and rotating it to the left increases the hot water output. If there's no limiter or it's properly adjusted, shut off the water and continue disassembling the faucet.
Flushing the Pipes
Your faucet may have collected mineral deposits that traveled down the pipes from the water heater. After removing the valve from its housing, you may be able to brush off the deposits, but if they're growing in the valve itself, soak the valve in white vinegar to dissolve them. If you think there are more deposits, flush the pipes. To do this, shut off the hot water heater outlet valve and open the main water valve. Then open the hot water valve for five to 10 seconds, and shut off both valves. This procedure works for both single- and double-handle faucets.
Dealing With Air Locks
If the pressure at one or more faucets suddenly drops, it could be because of an air lock in the pipes. To locate the air lock, determine which faucets are affected, then find the pipe that services those faucets. The air lock usually is in a bend in the highest section of the pipe. You may be able to get it out by tapping on the pipe while all the affected faucets are open. If not, try connecting the hot and cold washing machine valves with a hose, opening both of them, shutting off the hot water outlet, then opening the tub faucet. The higher-pressure cold water should blast out the bubble causing the air lock.
Water-Heater-Repair-Guide.com: Low Hot Water Pressure
Chris Deziel has a bachelor's degree in physics and a master's degree in humanities. Besides having an abiding interest in popular science, Deziel has been active in the building and home design trades since 1975. As a landscape builder, he helped establish two gardening companies.
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Why Is There Low Water Pressure in the Bathroom?
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Date: Saturday 30 May 2015
de Havilland Canada DHC-8-315Q MPA
Operator: Japan Coast Guard
Registration: JA727B
First flight: 2002-04-30 (13 years 1 months)
Total airframe hrs: 16204
Engines: 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PW123E
Location: Sendai Airport (SDJ) ( Japan)
Nature: Training
Departure airport: Hanamaki Airport (HNA/RJSI), Japan
Destination airport: Sendai Airport (SDJ/RJSS), Japan
A Bombardier DHC-8-315, JA727B operated by the Japan Coast Guard (JCG) took off from Hanamaki Airport at 13:58 local time for a training flight. The captain, who was an instructor, sat in the right seat and the trainee in the left seat for training to obtain the type rating for First Officer certification in the Japan Coast Guard.
The final part of the training was a flap up landing at Sendai Airport, Japan. The captain and the trainee completed the flap up landing checklist just before the arrival at Yuriage (a visual reporting point of Sendai Airport) and the captain told the trainee that if the pitch angle (nose-up angle) exceeded 6°, corrective control would have to be performed by pushing the control column forward. Vref (reference speed for landing) was 126 kt. The aircraft entered the traffic pattern of runway 09 and landed around 15:58.
Although the trainee made the main landing gear touch down near the aiming point marking for the runway 09, he felt it took a great deal of time to lower the nose. This time the captain on the right seat pushed the control column forward since he feared a tail strike. Then the nose landing gear touched the ground with stronger impact than usual (+1.47 g). In. Both the captain and the trainee were not aware of irregularity of the aircraft in landing roll, therefore they continued taxi and the aircraft arrived at the apron at around 16:05.
After the engines were shutdown, the nose landing gear was found to be damaged in post-flight inspection by the on-board mechanic. Afterward, detailed inspection was conducted, which revealed abrasion marks on the lower part of the nose landing gear, damage on components of the nose landing gear, and deformation of the forward fuselage skins of the airframe.
PROBABLE CAUSES: "In this accident, it is probable that the nose of the aircraft suddenly downed and the nose landing gear strongly touched down on the ground after the main landing gear touched the ground in the landing, therefore the components of the nose landing gear were damaged and the fuselage skins of the airframe was deformed.
Regarding the fact that the nose landing gear of the aircraft strongly touched the ground on the ground, it is probable that it was because that the captain who considered worry of tail contact performed the sudden and large control for moving the nose downward, when the nose-up attitude tended to be too excessive after the nose landing gear touched the ground once and the nose upped again."
Investigating agency: JTSB
Duration: 1 year and 2 months
Accident number: AA2016-6
Distance from Hanamaki Airport to Sendai Airport as the crow flies is 144 km (90 miles).


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Proteomic cellular signatures of kinase inhibitor-induced cardiotoxicity
Yuguang Xiong, Tong Liu, Tong Chen, Jens Hansen, Bin Hu, Yibang Chen, Gomathi Jayaraman, Stephan Schürer, Dusica Vidovic, Joseph Goldfarb, Eric A. Sobie, Marc R. Birtwistle, Ravi Iyengar, Hong Li, Evren U. Azeloglu
Friedman Brain Institute
Mount Sinai Institute for Systems Biomedicine
Black Family Stem Cell Institute
Medicine - Nephrology
Drug Toxicity Signature Generation Center (DToxS) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is one of the centers for the NIH Library of Integrated Network-Based Cellular Signatures (LINCS) program. Its key aim is to generate proteomic and transcriptomic signatures that can predict cardiotoxic adverse effects of kinase inhibitors approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Towards this goal, high throughput shotgun proteomics experiments (308 cell line/drug combinations +64 control lysates) have been conducted. Using computational network analyses, these proteomic data can be integrated with transcriptomic signatures, generated in tandem, to identify cellular signatures of cardiotoxicity that may predict kinase inhibitor-induced toxicity and enable possible mitigation. Both raw and processed proteomics data have passed several quality control steps and been made publicly available on the PRIDE database. This broad protein kinase inhibitor-stimulated human cardiomyocyte proteomic data and signature set is valuable for prediction of drug toxicities.
Dive into the research topics of 'Proteomic cellular signatures of kinase inhibitor-induced cardiotoxicity'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Proteomics Mathematics 100%
Inhibitor Mathematics 87%
Toxicity Business & Economics 81%
Signature Mathematics 65%
Drugs Business & Economics 57%
drug Social Sciences 47%
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US Senate Democrats Lack Unanimity on Biden's Social, Climate Package
Democrats in the U.S. Senate appear to have one key holdout in their push to pass a major social and environmental bill before next week's Christmas holiday.
The Associated Press, Reuters and other news organizations reported Wednesday that based on information from people familiar with ongoing negotiations, Senator Joe Manchin is objecting to a piece of the legislation that extends an expiring child tax credit program for one year.
He told reporters Wednesday that he has "always been for child tax credits" and that reports about his opposition to including them in the legislation were "a lot of bad rumors."
Manchin has expressed his opposition to the total size of the package of programs advocated by President Joe Biden. Democrats initially pursued a $3.5 trillion plan before cutting it to about $2 trillion to try to ease passage.
The proposals include expanding health care programs, universal prekindergarten, clean energy investments, and cutting prescription drug costs. Democrats want to pay for them with tax increases on big corporations and the wealthy.
With only a narrow majority in the Senate, and Republicans opposed to the package, Democrats need all members of their caucus to support it.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer had set a goal of getting approval by the Dec. 25 Christmas holiday.
White House deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters during a briefing Wednesday that the Biden administration is still hopeful of meeting that goal.
"We are optimistic that we will get this done before Christmas, and that is our focus, that is our hope, and that's what we're working towards," Jean-Pierre said.
She said Biden and Manchin have had "two great conversations" this week.
When asked Wednesday if he believes the bill will be passed before the end of the year, Biden told a reporter: "I hope so. It's going to be close."
The child tax credit up for extension is an expanded program that sent families monthly checks beginning in July. Most received $300 for each child under the age of 6, and $250 for children ages 6-17.
Without an extension, the program would revert to its previous form, a credit of $2,000 per child when filing annual tax returns instead of receiving monthly checks.
Senate Democrats are also considering whether to prioritize voting rights legislation, which Republicans also opposed, as the year comes to a close.
"If we can get the congressional voting rights done, we should do it," Biden told a reporter when asked about the issue Wednesday. "If we can't, we got to keep going. There's nothing domestically more important than voting rights. It's the single-biggest issue."
Some information for this report came from the Associated Press and Reuters.


So I've learned something about my mom. She's a radical! Well – not radical, but definitely politically engaged. A couple of weekends ago, she and her book club friends staged a rally in downtown Kirkland. The rally was titled "Babes for Obama". That might seem odd (it did to me anyway), but apparently it's based on the name of the book club (The Literary Babes, or something resembling that).
Anyway, the rally was a big success despite Senator Joe Biden and Governor Christine Gregoire opting for a rally in Tacoma instead (apparently Tacoma is 'redder' than Kirkland, so better to try to shore it up).
The big surprise for me was picking up the local weekly and being greeted with my mother smiling on the front page.
That's her sitting over on the right.
How would it make you feel if your mother called herself a "Babe"? I never thought I'd run up against this question myself. Still, I'm proud to be her son – even if she's a Babe.
The Runner Mumbles is the monthly newsletter of the Eastside Runners, very well produced by my friend Bob Wismer. It's received praise as possibly the best running club newsletter in the northwest, as determined by the folks at Northwest Runner magazine.
The articles in question are on pages 7, 8, and 9. I wrote the first one as a big "thank you" to the folks in the club, who did so much for my family and I during the first two months of recovery. The second one is a nice article written by my friend Landy, centering on the first days in the hospital when everyone was coming together to help out. The last is a thank-you note from my parents and brother to the club.
I've written race reports for the Mumbles before, and have really enjoyed swapping stories about various marathons all over the country with my ESR running friends. You can read the back issues to get a sense of these stories. Check out Spring 2006 (Mardi Gras Marathon in New Orleans), Summer 2006 (Sunflower Iron Event), Winter 2007 (Marine Corps Marathon), Summer 2008 (Free State Trail Marathon in Kansas) for a sampling. These stories help to pass the miles when we're out on the trail together. They also helped form the friendships I've enjoyed so much.
Being out on the trail together for several hours gives you a chance to get to know people pretty well. And still, those people can move you with their grace and kindness.
As a result of the bike accident, my bite is screwed up. My right side top/bottom teeth no longer touch when I bite down. I mentioned a while back that I'd thought I'd have the braces for about six weeks, around the time of surgery. The braces would complement the correction from the oral surgery, and my bite would return to normal fairly quickly.
I went to see an orthodontist this morning. His recommendation is that the braces would be on for two years, with oral surgery occurring about halfway through. That's a little bit different than what I'd heard before.
The other thing that's annoying is that I need to contact my medical insurance company to see whether or not this work can be covered under medical insurance. If not, the nearly $7K worth of work would be largely out of pocket. By the way, that's a lot of money.
I am also surprised that the orthodontic folks could not give me a straightforward yes or no answer to my question about the coverage. I find it hard to believe that they haven't dealt with accident victims like me before.
I did anticipate this issue a while back, and it's popped up again with respect to the plastic surgery I'm exploring for my head. I'm really hoping that the insurance folks draw a distinction between truly optional procedures, and ones that simply get my head and teeth back to the way they looked and worked before this guy hit me.
Surprises like this tick me off.
This morning I walked from home down to physical therapy in Redmond. I packed some clothes into my mesh backpack, and set out for the four mile walk. There are many things I like about going on foot. First, it feels good to get my blood flowing. Second, it's a whole lot cheaper than having to fill the tank in my car up. Third, it forces me to think carefully about what to carry along, because no one wants to carry more than they need to on a long walk.
There's a great metaphor to live life by in there. When you need to go from point A to point B, it pays to focus on what's really important. No need to bring excess baggage along. It's stuff you don't need, and only serves to slow you down.
Over the past few days I've had a lot on my mind related to the accident. The tinnitus and back pain I've been experiencing had gotten me down. Intellectually I know these feelings are normal parts of recovery. I also fear that these conditions may be with me for life, which stinks. Ergo the down feelings.
The only thing I know how to do when I'm feeling like this is to focus on things that can get done. In my recovery, that means making sure I've scheduled all necessary appointments, getting to them, working my healing body out as much as I can, and making the most of each day.
This doesn't fix everything that hurts. But it's impossible to always do that, isn't it?
I started out this morning with little time to spare to get to my PT appointment. It felt good to be outside, and great to walk briskly. I got to PT with just enough time to schedule next month's appointments before changing into my bathing suit to do a 3 mile run on the pool treadmill.
While running this morning I felt pain in my low back again, especially when doing the sideways running I like to mix in. I had Matt work on the back issue as a result – which meant I got to do some of the muscle energy exercises that my friend Katie (a skilled PT, not currently practicing) had introduced me to several years back.
Then, it being a full day of medical appointments, I grabbed some lunch and Kris drove me into Seattle where I met with a plastic surgeon. I mentioned several days back that I felt a bit self-conscious about the hollowing around my left temple. I also wanted to ask about the (unlikely) possibility of reanimating the muscles in that area.
This was a good visit. We discussed either using a synthetic material or grafting in some tissue from my forearm (I wouldn't have guessed that location). He also mentioned the possibility of improving the scarred area on my head, including transplanting hair to the semicircular area on the left side of my head. I'm going to get a second opinion, but am pretty convinced I'll have someone do this work ASAP.
Then it was back to the eastside for a CAT scan (needed by the surgeon), followed by an appointment with my internist about the tinnitus.
The word on my ear ringing is that (as anticipated) it may or may not resolve itself. He expressed that this sort of thing is not unusual following a severe head injury, and could be the result of nerve damage. He did not have an answer as to why this would have just started within the past week. A quick check by the doctor led him to believe that I would probably not require amplification (hearing aids), but he's sending me to an ENT specialist to take a look.
Anyway – it was day so full, I didn't get to work. The trick will be figuring out how to make the time up given that I've got a 2-4 hour appointment scheduled for Thursday afternoon as well.
Definitely lots to think about here though. As always, the trick will be to focus on the essentials and not 'carry more along' than I need to.
Over the past six weeks or so, I've been walking a bunch. Sometimes I'll choose to walk to an appointment, sometimes it will be just for the sake of getting a workout in. I've developed two short-term goals over time : to walk up Mount Si on Christmas Eve, and to walk to Seattle Half Marathon on Thanksgiving weekend. Note that this has nothing to do with celebrating holidays per se, but it has everything to do with celebrating good health, both on the physical and emotional side.
One week I walked about 36 miles, but more often I'm closer to 20-25 miles. While walking doesn't provide me the higher heart rate workout, it does help to develop stamina, and definitely provides a sanity break similar to running. It's done wonders for my mental health, and has definitely helped hasten my recovery along.
This morning found the whole family doing the "Pumpkin Push" 5k down in Seward Park. The original motivation was that Kayla's cross-country team was wrapping up their season by going out and doing a 5k (longer than the distance they'd run in their meets). It turned out that the whole family did the distance. And this was Rachel's first 5k!
Kayla set a new 5k PR for herself. I surprised myself by walking each mile just under 13 minutes. Kris and Rachel did the course in under 20 minutes per mile (the first mile was under 15 minutes!).
Being active is a great way to work through adversity. I was just talking with my sister in law on the phone about how great it is to invest in yourself in such a healthy way. It's good for your physical health. But don't overlook how central it is for your emotional health too. Even getting out for a 15-30 minute walk each day will help you feel about a thousand percent better than before.
I woke up feeling creaky in my low back, and feeling down about my tinnitus … three and an eighth miles later the malaise had faded a lot. Part of that was because I got to watch lots of people physically challenging themselves this morning – which is definitely inspiring. Being in the 12-13 minute per mile part of the pack is different for me, and I got to see more people doing their first 5k, or working hard to go the distance. Watching an event from a different vantage point definitely feels inspiring. Also though, when you challenge yourself in a new way (this was the first race I've walked), you can find new things to appreciate within.
why the pain and nuisance ?
So in the midst of all of this recovery, I'm feeling some pain and discomfort than wasn't so bad before. I'm confident that both of these examples are related to the accident.
For the past three days or so, I've had noise apparent in both ears. In the months before, I've had a lot of fluid in my ears, which definitely hindered my hearing a bit. But the tinnitus is really annoying. It's beginning to affect my sleep. The literature online is not very encouraging. It tells me that tinnitus can occur as a result of head injury or ear infection, that it affects millions, and isn't necessarily curable.
The other thing that's annoying is a pain in my very low back, along the inside edge of my sacrum. My chiropractor checked it out earlier this week, and he speculated that I may have had a fracture there as a result of the accident, because the bone is skewed off to one side (ergo the pain). If there was a nasty injury there, it's possible that this is pain I'll have to manage for a lifetime. This one is really annoying because if it hurts when I walk, it could hurt more when I run. Having a limiting back injury would really stink.
I recognize that this sort of bellyaching isn't positive, but the frustration is real. Actually, things aren't too bad now, but I'm concerned that these things won't resolve, and that I'll have to deal with them for the long term. That's where the attitude comes from.
I wear a hat most of the time now. In part, it's habit. A while back, my surgeon told me to wear one to protect my head. Now we all know that wearing a baseball cap doesn't provide much protection, but put that aside for now.
The second reason is that I'm still self-conscious about the asymmetry that the cranioplasty left on my head. I'm speaking to a reconstructive surgeon about it next week, but it will likely be a while before anything can be done. In the meantime, I've been wearing hats. For the most part, I've worn baseball caps.
But one evening last week there was a package waiting for me when I got home. It was a nice cap, very much in the style I'd wanted to buy. And it's red. Thanks Dad!
I like the hat. It's a great conversation starter. On the other hand it does potentially draw attention to the place (my head) I'm not wanting to talk about so much. Although you can't see the injury so much under the hat, it can be hard to control self-conscious feelings. All of that said, what I enjoy about the cap is that it's a chance to converse about something that's not related to the accident. That's an interesting challenge to my self-conscious feelings.
The hat is very comfortable, and will be handy now that the weather is turning cooler. So – I've been wearing it a lot.


Jesus Christ: Eternally God's Son?
One of the most natural mistakes commonly made with regard to God's nature is in the assertion that the Logos became God's Son at the time of his human birth. This is a natural mistake because human beings find it easy to grant a state of affairs that they can explain from experience. In the context of human experience, nothing is more understandable than sonship through physical birth. One may even find some scriptural justification in a hasty reading of some well-known passages. For example, an angel announced to Joseph that Mary was pregnant by the power of God's Holy Spirit, and that she would bring forth a son. The angel added that he "shall be called the Son of the Highest" (Luke 1:32). If he shall be called the Son of God, then perhaps his Sonship is connected with his human birth.
The proper beginning place for studying this subject is not the analysis of human sonship, but the fact that Christ was the Son of God during his earthly ministry. This is believed and granted by both sides – by those who think that he has eternally been the Son, and by those who believe that he became the Son through his human birth. With that as a common starting point, the New Testament can be used to shed further light on the question.
In John 8:58, Christ said, "Before Abraham was, I am." The speaker here was the Son of God, and he was saying that he was in existence prior to Abraham's birth. The present tense "I am" is as abrupt in Greek as it is in English. It is intended to avoid "I was" and "I will be." John was making the point that the Son of God exists before Abraham.
The present-tense expression occurs in other passages of John's Gospel – see, for example, 8:24 ("that I am," not "that I am he"), 6:20 ("I am," not merely "It is I"), 18:6, etc. In each instance, it was the Son of God who was speaking. It follows that his Sonship is not assumed to start with the incarnation or his human birth.
In light of his existence before Abraham was even born, Jesus made statements that can be understood in only one way. In John 16, he says that he "came out from God" (verse 27) and that he "came forth from the Father" (verse 28). The phrase "came forth from the Father" says that the relationship of Father and Son existed before Christ became man. The Son of God, who existed before Abraham was born, came out of God (or came forth from the Father). In so far as he came out of God, he was God, and in so far as he came out of the Father, he was the Son. From the standpoint of both descriptions of his procession, he was the Son of God.
One cannot argue that the expression "came forth from the Father" means to convey the thought that he "came forth from the mother (Mary)." This would be incorrect because the expression "came forth from the Father" is also worded "came out of God" – and Mary was not God.
Hebrews 1:3 says that the Son is "the brightness of his glory." The literal translation of the word for brightness (apaugasma) is reflected radiance. This description of the Son should be closely analyzed. The word apaugasma consists of the preposition apo (from) and auge (bright light, as of the dawn). Perhaps an illustration can serve to show this point. At dawn, one sees the reflected radiance of the sun even before the sun is visible. This announces that the Son of God has a source. He is, by his very nature (as the Son of God), generated by the Father, just as the radiance at dawn is generated by the sun. He is the result of the Father's radiating glory – what is generated by the Father. This description is in terms of a divine Source and a divine Outcome, or a divine Generator and a divine Generated. Whatever the wording, the meaning is a divine Father and a divine Son. In this sense, the Son had glory with the Father before the world was – because he was the reflected radiance of the Father. As the brightness of the dawn is constantly being generated by the sun, so the Son is constantly generated by the Father.
The sun cannot be what it is without its radiance, neither is the sun's radiance possible without the sun. Similarly, the Father cannot be without the Son or the Son without the Father. (This is the meaning of hypostasis.) Of course, the same is true of the Holy Spirit; but the issue, at present, is the status of the Son of God before his human birth.
The Son of God was the brightness of God's glory (Hebrews 1:3). This was the glory that he had with the Father "before the world was" (John 17:5), before Abraham was even born (John 8:58). As God, he had timeless existence, which is expressible in terms like "I am" (without past or future). As the Son of God, he was sent to be born of a woman and to be under the law (Galatians 4:4), but neither his human birth nor his being under the law was the source of his Sonship (he was already the Son of God). This sending out is described, in the New Testament, as coming "out of God" and as coming "forth. from the Father," because he was already the Son of God. It is the eternal coming forth from the Father that makes him the Son of God – not the fact that he assumed the nature of man.
People who have asserted the wrong view have not meant to deny the Son's preexistence. At the same time, intention is one thing, the formulation of an explanation and the language in which the doctrine is couched is another. The formulation and the doctrine may entail a direction that is not intended. The truth is that Jesus was the Son of God by virtue of his divinity, not by virtue of his humanity.


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Review: Cowboys and Aliens
Western meets Sci Fi.
I can't quite put my finger one what Cowboys and Aliens was missing. I had higher expectations for this film, but it wasn't great. It wasn't a bad movie either, it was just lacking, and I wish I could explain what it is I wanted from the film.
Jake (Daniel Craig) wakes up in the middle of nowhere with no memory of what has happened to him. He's injured and has a strange bracelet strapped to his wrist that he cannot remove. He makes his way to a village only to find out he's a wanted man. While tangling with a powerful man, Woodrow Dollarhyde's (Harrison Ford) son (played by Paul Dano) they soon find themselves under attack by aliens. They take many people from the town, Ella (Oliva Wilde) seems to be the only one that regonizes these creatures and she knows that Jake is the key to help.
There were some pretty interesting action sequences in this movie. Obviously technology is different from the 1800's old west and the aliens, so you can imagine who has the upper hand. Thankfully Jake's bracelet allows him to kill the aliens. Otherwise this war would've been very one-sided. Ford and Craig are their normal badass selves, but the script is too cliche for them to do anything original. Side characters played by Paul Dano and Sam Rockwell are very underused, and the pacing hurts the movie when the ending is so predictable. It's not to say that the film is horrible, the music is great and I liked the effects. When you look at the people who made this, I guess I just expected a bit more. I've never read the graphic novels they are based on, so I'm not sure if a lot of substance was just left out or if there was none at all. Nonetheless, it's one of the better popcorn flicks this summer.
Recommended: Yes. Matinee, perhaps.
Memorable Quote: "Don't pull on it. It's not your pecker." - Meachum (Clancy Brown)
Candice Frederick August 8, 2011 at 6:59 PM
oh man. i really enjoyed this. it was exactly what i was expecting. a real action/western/cheesy/alien film. and i thought it delivered.
Dan O. August 13, 2011 at 10:35 AM
Nice review. When you go to see a movie called 'Cowboys and Aliens,' you don't expect high art, and that's fine by us. But if the film itself has problems with taking itself too seriously, that spells trouble, mainly because when you have five writers that's never a good sign. Still somewhat fun entertainment.
download free movies September 18, 2011 at 2:17 AM
I like the movie and enjoyed it a lot.It fills all expectations which I had from this movie.It has some brilliant action scenes.Story of the movie is also good and fine performance by Craig.I think that's what you call entertainment is.
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So what's the deal with potatoes?
Hi, I'd really like some advice on your bog standard white potato as I've seen conflicting info. I've been told that although they are seriously starchy they don't seem to raise insulin levels. My other half has also gone paleo but has lost WAY too much weight so we need to bump up his calories and I thought maybe potatoes would bulk him up?
Add coconut milk. If someone already avoids milk or doesn't drink much I don't think adding more milk is a good idea. At least coconut milk isn't a drug like cow's milk. Cow's milk is for baby cows, I stand strongly against cow's milk!
Why do you eat sweet potato after your workout? Not only is the use of post exercise carbohydrates non contributory to the increase in protein synthesis brought about by protein intake after exercise, it can actually be counter productive. Taken from: http://www.qfac.com/articles/dipasquale/post_exercise_supplements.html Give it a read, I sure don't want a burst of insulin halting my HGH production..
Would have thought you'd need protein to add lean body weight not starch. The only veg I eat is the occasional brussell sprout, cabbage, cauliflower etc and I'd like to drop some more fat yet but the muscle and lifts are building so I'm not complaining.
Here in the UK we can still get lots of old variety potatoes - Ratte (1872), King Edward (1902), Arran Victory (1918), Pink Fir Apple (1850) - and lots from the 1920's onward. You can probably get heritage potato seed potatoes and grow your own? Same nutrients as grandma - and great great grandma too!
Do you think potatoes really feed candida?? Paul Jaminient thinks otherwise. I have yet to make my conclusion.
good answer. bottom line for me was that without starch i maintained pretty lean physique. But i never had that much gas in the tank. So, once i started working out with heavy weights i couldnt perform as i thought i should. Adding starch (from sweet potatoes but its all the same) kept me from dropping any more weight and has helped me add body weight. I think that one of the reasons that im still moving linearly with the workouts is prolly the starch, too. Might just be the added calories, not necessarily that they're coming from starch, but whatever - theyre tasty and they seem to be workin.
Basically though, if you eliminate them for 30 days (which you may have already done) re-introduce them and just see what happens.
I think potatoes will indeed help your husband, but its prolly just a calorie thing: he needs to eat more.
Doesn't have to be starch. I think he could eat twice the amount of meat that he is now, for example, and get a good extra dose of cals that'd prolly keep him from losing bodyweight. But if he or you wanna go to starch for those cals, go for it.
I always use starch as my variable when eating: meaning that if im feeling good, performing well, keeping good body weight ill prolly skip them; thinking like youre saving them for when you need them kinda thing; after intense workouts, etc. Silly maybe but its worked for us. They're a tool.
Another general principle i find useful with starch is essentially just that if one is already healthy (active, happy, fit, etc) then eat them up. That they are a whack of starch doesn't matter if you are healthy and your body can handle it. If one is not in shape like this, then avoid them till one is.
The reason my hubby and I don't eat them is because they aren't the same potatoes that our great grandparents ate - the ones of today have been genetically altered to be bigger, more starchy, and have less nutrients. Likewise, i do believe they spike our insulin in our bodies as we had some mashed potatoes and both of us were so tired (and then hungry) that We feel there is a better choice nutritionally that can be made. We go for sweet potatoes instead. That's just our personal choice.
Do you guys eat dairy? (Paleo-laco or "primal") my suggestion is to add milk or kefir to up the calories that's what the CrossFit Football program does. I believe SO delicious makes a coconut milk version of kefir if you don't want cows milk.
Potatoes in their natural state (ie potato chips don't count) support healthy populations in many parts of the world and paleo eaters generally feel various tubers were a natural part of early human diets. Some paleo eaters rely on them for increased energy and exercise recovery. However, for those people already damaged by years of poor eating and/or ill health, some find they do better not eating them.
But, I will say I prefer the taste of the sweet potato. I think I will alternate for a while.
For thin people, Matt Lalonde says eat the potatoes, just peel the skins, which contain antinutrients. Or just go for yams and sweet potatoes, which most all paleo types say are fine. Paleo isn't necessarily low carb. For people like me it has to be, but for metabolically healthy people, tubers are yet another great whole food.
If your o/h isn't exercising already, or is but isn't following a specific plan, show him the StrongLifts 5x5 plan. Lots of big compound exercises 3x45mins a week will bulk anyone up. If he's still having trouble he could also try the StrongLifts GOMAD plan.
Added benefits: he gets fitter (benefit for him) and sexier (benefit for you)!
I'm of the opinion that for a given level of carbohydrates, it's better to have more starch and less fructose. I've switched from about 100g of carbs a day of fruit to 100g of sweet potatoes and then from that to purple standard potatoes. It's a recent change, but my appetite is a lot less, which I take to be a sign of more favorable metabolic response.
One other upside is that you are far less likely to exceed your carb goal with potato vs sweet potato or fruit because they simply don't taste as good unless you're dumping tons of salt and whatnot on them.