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Our Daily Thread 5-29-15

Good Morning!

You can’t see me! 🙂

And it’s Friday!!!

Here’s more of the peahen. 

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On this day in 1453 Constantinople fell to Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, ending the Byzantine Empire.

In 1721 South Carolina was formally incorporated as a royal colony.

In 1912 fifteen women were dismissed from their jobs at the Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia, PA, for dancing the Turkey Trot while on the job.

And in 1986 Colonel Oliver North told National Security Advisor William McFarlane that profits from weapons sold to Iran were being diverted to the Contras.

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Quote of the Day

“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.”

Patrick Henry

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Today’s music is all about troublemakers apparently….. 🙂

First up, well I just had to know……

And on this day in 1913 Igor Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” premiered in a ballet in Paris. It also provoked a riot among the audience. 😯

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Anyone have a QoD?

38 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 5-29-15”

  1. First?!? Good morning, fellow wanderers! I just wanted to let y’all know we haven’t floated away. We live almost an hour north of Houston in a ‘burb called Spring, and our area has thus far been spared any significant flooding.

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  3. Ann, so glad you are OK. I trust all else is going well?
    I will have another condo open at the beach today. BG and some friends will be at the beach too, so they will drop by. I may treat them to lunch at Sea N Suds. She is also supposed to spend the night with me tonight and I told her we would do something tomorrow. I don’t know what yet, but something.
    We are on the countdown now to Miss Lulabelle Bad Dog going away to camp for two weeks. Her human really needs to go with her, but they don’t train humans, just dogs. Amos is going to spend next weekend with with ex-husband, so he won’t be left alone when we take Lou to Lucedale, MS. I haven’t been to or through Lucedale in years. My great-grandmother used to live there. She had several acres and a catfish pond. That pond is where we were when my father told me to be still and not make any noise. Finally I had to break my silence and let him know that, “Daddy, the ants are in my belly button now and are stinging me:. Perhaps we will have time to swing by and take a look. It just hasn’t been the same since The Coffee Pot Diner closed and was reopened as a Chinese Buffet. New Times in the Old South indeed.

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  4. Good morning. I put a few comments in late last night.

    Adding to the discussion about possible ailments that Mumsee’s Mike might have: my friend Karen has a tumor on her parathyroid gland. Somehow it causes a lot of things to go crazy because the body misreads calcium levels. She has lost a lot of weight and is miserable with pain. She is waiting on an appt. with a surgeon. If Mike has not been checked for that possibility you might consider that. My friend said she had all the symptoms that were listed online so you could at the least check on those.

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  7. Hi Peter. I just got back from the Y about 20 minutes ago. Drinking coffee now and checking up on you guys.

    “The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.”

    I thought it was Hillary Clinton who said that.

    😆

    Good to see you back Ann, we were wondering about you. But somebody said they saw you on facebook.

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  8. This morning I was up “early” (for me), before 7:00. I saw flashes of orange over near our garage and grabbed my camera in time to get some photos of the male oriole. (I don’t know if he was chasing a rival, if his mate was down there too initially, or what. It sure looked like more than one bird, but I didn’t pause to sort it out before grabbing my camera and going into the kitchen for a closer look.)

    After photographing the male oriole, I stepped out on the deck in the early morning light to see if I could see and hear any bird activity. It was so peaceful, and as far as I could tell birds weren’t scared away by my presence. Whether they didn’t see me, they’re used to seeing me inside the house and were willing to see the front deck as “inside,” they were too hungry to care as long as I kept my distance, or what, I don’t know. But I ended up seeing two kingbirds, male and female cardinal, male and female oriole, and some other birds. And I could hear birdsong all around. Almost enough to get this night owl out of bed earlier again!

    I’m assuming the orioles must have a nest, since they chose to stick around–I have seen one or both nearly every day this month, though generally at a distance or high in the tree, as they were this morning. But I don’t know which tree it is in, and we have so many tall trees it’s hard to know where to start, and vertigo-inducing, to look into trees to find something as small as one nest. (We have several cottonwoods–their tree of choice in the past–but also some sycamores.) I can be content with seeing the parents, though, and knowing we’re giving them a great nesting site.

    We should be seeing baby bluebirds any day now, too, I think, though the parents aren’t hanging out here as faithfully as they did last summer, and this year’s nest may be farther away than last year’s.

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  10. Hey, question for anyone who might know: Have any of you ever cooked with raspberries?

    Years ago I had pork with raspberry sauce in a little restaurant attached to a cooking school in Chicago, and it was excellent. It occurred to me I might be able to make a raspberry sauce that could make my baked pork chops even better . . . but the recipes I found online all used raspberry jam, not actual raspberries. Well, it might come out tasting just the same, I don’t know. But the whole reason I looked up a recipe is that sometimes I get raspberries inexpensively, and I thought it would be fun to have a non-dessert recipe I could use them in. I haven’t checked my cookbooks yet, but I can do that if no one has such a recipe. I’ve really never done anything with berries except either eating them raw or making a pie with them. . . .

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  11. Thanks, Janice, the thyroid tested as fine. The MRI reports are in, all looks good there with a bit of degeneration in the neck. Blood tests are back and all is well with inflammation levels slightly elevated. However, the same test, given two weeks later, indicated extremely high elevations. Looking into that discrepancy.

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  12. Always miss Annms when she is not here!♡

    Teachers, at least those who teach in public or private schools, as Peter does, always get that wonderful summer break. I use to envy an apartment mate who taught. My accounting work was year round, but she always got that wonderful break. Then later as a preschool teacher I got to know what it was like except that I was homeschooling at the same time and that was pretty much year round with doing math catch up work through the summer usually.

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  14. Absolutely and not at all. We appreciate all of the input. It would be nice to know what we are dealing with, though we know Who is doing the dealing and can trust Him to see us through.

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  15. Cheryl, i have only used raspberries in a wonderful dessert cookie bar. And it was jam with pecans mixture over a shortbread base. Really good but a bit gooey. A friend from work buys fresh raspberries at Sam’s to add to her yogurt.

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  16. Mumsee, it is the blood calcium levels that show up as high that indicates parathyroid trouble. It is different from regular thyroid testing. My husband has hypothyroidism and it is not the same indicator.

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  17. Some scandalous music happening here. I can’t believe Peter linked to an Alice Cooper song! 😆 The riot over the Rite of Spring probably had as much to do with the shocking costumes and wild dancing than the actual music. In those edgy days, the artistic world was seeking to rediscover their pagan roots and enjoying scandalizing the respectable public in the process. In comparison to the classical composers who followed him, Stravinsky’s music sounds pretty traditional now. Classical music became increasingly esoteric throughout the twentieth century, allowing the rock and pop industry to appeal to the public; and had it not been for film music, the work of the classical composers might well have been forgotten by the public. Did you know big film composers like Elmer Bernstein (The Magnificent Seven, To Kill a Mockingbird) or Erich Wolfgang Korngold (The Adventures of Robin Hood) also composed in traditional forms like symphonies, operas, and concertos? The heady intellectualism of 20th century music nearly killed the tradition. Even now, orchestras struggle to make a profit. Stravinsky is fiendishly difficult to play, and it was nice to see young people with the skill and dedication to play it.

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  19. The Real, that calls for a link. Korngold later attributed the commission of writing music for ‘The Adventures of Robin Hood’ for saving his life. He was an Austrian Jew, and getting the commission required him to move to America with his family, just before the Anschluss and the following Nazis extermination of his friends and neighbours. Here is the wonderful music he wrote:

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  20. Here is one of Korngold’s most famous classical pieces, his violin concerto. Several of the themes of the concerto were used in various films. The final movement’s theme, starting at 17:18, was used in ‘The Prince and the Pauper’ another Warner Bro’s adventure film starring Errol Flynn.

    https://youtu.be/8gV5IBDA1BY

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  21. I remember studying Rite of Spring in a college music appreciation class I took.

    Linda, keep us posted on dates.

    I’m off to write up a story about a unique species of marine roly poly pillbug discovered on our coastline. At least this week seemed to go quickly since it was a short one.

    After all these years, though, I still miss summer vacation, though. work-work-work. 🙂

    I need to get over to visit my friend Norma tomorrow, she’s decided to skip church “for now,” is hoping to still feel good enough to start going in mid- to late-June when we switch to the 3 p.m. Sunday service for our facilities remodel. But I’m not sure she’ll be able to come then either, that’s still nearly a month away and she is getting so, so tired … 😦

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  22. This may be the last of the comments. I’d forgotten how many friends are dealing with odd illnesses. The commenters included a doctor, dietician, two amazingly horrific “victims” of weird diseases and a young relative who has been felled by an autoimmune disorder in a terrible way.

    It’s also made me consider if I need to alter my diet yet again . . .

    Michelle Ule, if he’s having really similar symptoms, but is sero-negative for rheumatoid arthritis, one important blood test is this one: http://labtestsonline.org/unde…/analytes/hla-b27/tab/test/ Some people have ALL the symptoms of the disease, but with a negative serum result. If HLA-B27 is present, that will help the doctors know what to do next.

    HLA-B27: The Test | Human Leukocyte Antigen B27
    Describes how the HLA-B27 test is used, when the…
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    R Fresh ginger helps with pain n inflamation…Cayenne pepper too…just to help while he figures it out…but i agree with diet comments above…get sugar out!

    L: I’d echo D, an anti-inflammatory Paleo diet. Robb Wolf’s book, The Paleo Solution would be a great start!

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  23. Cheryl, I do not think a raspberry sauce would be difficult to make. I have made jellies, jams and syrup. You are just doing it on a smaller scale. If you are on Pinterest, there are many recipes you can use. I easily found two–one using the microwave and one for the stove top. Both used fresh or frozen berries.

    Basically, the recipe is 2 cups of berries, 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup water, the zest and juice of one lemon. Add all to a medium size pan and bring to a boil using medium high heat. Boil 10 minutes or until it is thickened enough to coat the back of a spoon. Pour into a blender and blend for 10 seconds. Some people like to strain out the seeds. You can use less sugar and just a tablespoon of lemon juice. I suppose cornstarch would work, too, but would take some experimenting.

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  24. Lots of peafowl near where I live, but they’ve become a nuisance, too. Some guy has actually shot a few of them, authorities are still trying to identify and catch him. 😦

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  26. Thanks, Kathaleena. The recipes I did find all assumed a dessert use . . . and I didn’t know if it would be made the same way. If I google “raspberry sauce for pork chops,” then I get recipes that start with raspberry jam. If I google just “raspberry sauce,” then I get some recipes starting with fresh or frozen berries, but all of them say how wonderful theirs is on waffles or ice cream, but they never mention meat.

    Thing is, my husband loves the chicken-with-mango recipe, but as a rule he doesn’t like meat and fruit, and I have a hunch he won’t be crazy about this one, either. So I’d at least like to get it right the first time and give him a good chance to like it! Plus, if he actually dislikes it, I may only get one chance, unless I like it well enough to make some with raspberry sauce (for me and the girls) and some without. But he tasted the little bit of lemon zest in some gingerbread cookies I made, and that ruined them for him, and he doesn’t especially like it when I add orange juice to the barbecue sauce to bake chicken, and so on. One daughter likes “new” foods a lot, and I’m inclined to do a little bit of experimenting beyond my husband’s comfort zone, but I can’t push it too much.

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  27. Entemology Today is kind of snobby. They describe where the bug was found on our coastline as “a dirty, little, rocky beach at the very southernmost tip of the city of Los Angeles.”

    Humph.

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  29. Hey Chas- The link to the funnies is right under the video. Sorry, I forgot to put it in bold. The color of links on this blog blends in too well with the rest of the colors. It needs to be a darker green so I don’t have to remember to make it bold. Oh, and don’t worry. I’ll be around ost of the summer except for a probable trip down South in August.

    Roscuro: To day was the teacher’s half day to get things ready for summer. And guess what someone in the office did? At 12 noon they played th Alice Cooper song over the loud speakers!

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  30. Donna, sorry – I forget exactly where you are. Are you close enough for a visit in Fountain Valley (I’ll be working at Hyundai, if you know where that is)? I’ll be there the evening of the 8th until the morning of the 12th. I’d love to meet you.

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  32. Thanx Peter. The first was funny, the second was ironic. I just finished reading Clinton Cash. An interesting book, but not a fun read. I mentioned before that the title of the first chapter, “The Lincoln Bedroom Goes Global” describes the rest of the book.
    The closing paragraph of the next to last chapter summarizes it.:

    ” In the meantime, the rubble-strewn streets of Port au-Prince are still populated by those who saw their homes destroyed in 2010. These victims’ net worth hasn’t changed but that of the Clintons and their associates surely has.”

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  33. A LOT of helpful friends:

    Sjogren’s syndrome can have an RH factor and be a culprit in all kinds of problems. It’s an auto-immune disease that masquerades as a lot of other things and can be very hard to diagnose. My mom’s docs said it was likely responsible for the rare blood disease she developed and the resulting pancreas and kidney diseases. It can take years to diagnose and damage vital organs.

    C:Jones Google “leaking gut” syndrome. As stated above, chronic inflammation is a common symptom. Also parades as depression, lupus, and more. My motto: healthy gut, healthy body. Drop sugar, processed flours & add probiotic foods, high fiber fruits & veggies, occasional whole/sprouted grains. (Daniel Plan or 17-day Diet)

    G: Go on an anti-inflammatory diet immediately. Fresh organic fruits veggies and nuts. Fresh organic chicken and some fish and red meat. all should be farm raised no hormones. No sugar, caffeine ,breads, white anything. Take eggs out at first to double check any sensitivity. When added they should be farm fresh. In a week or two add brown rice. Check for sensitivity. Basically I know someone who had excruciating pain and she was better in one month on this. I tried it and my joint pain went away almost completely. worth a try! God Bless him!!

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  36. raspberry and chocolate
    raspberry and chipotle
    raspberry and jalapeno
    Probably the last two for going with meat. Boil the berries with a bit of sugar to bring out the juices, stir in some hot pepper, thicken with corn starch or arrowroot.

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  37. Mumsee, that’s an excellent suggestion. Only problem is, my husband would probably tolerate the raspberry (but not be excited about it–he’d rather have his fruit separate from his meat), and I wouldn’t tolerate the hot spices, and so the three of them would share the meat and no one would eat the leftovers.

    Otherwise it was a good idea. 🙂

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