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Emily Henry (Editor) May 21, 2013 at 09:27 am
Yes, Ken, it looks like a lot of fun! Here's information about the June 29 Pleasant Hill Family Camp…Read More Out: http://pleasanthill.patch.com/groups/local-connections/p/pleasant-hill-families-to-camp-out-june-29
A Gregory Gardener May 10, 2013 at 04:29 pm
@ Robert--I ABSOLUTELY LOVE that you brought that up!! It segues right into the fact that the…Read More ever-community-minded Sywest has plans for the existing Drive-In theater down the road in Concord involving a large grocery development, I believe. Look for this in the news, or on Concord Patch
.( http://concord-ca.patch.com/articles/drive-in-on-dome-demolishers-list-of-development-projects).
I wonder if the city of Concord will listen to your idea--if the Planning Process is not too advanced, already...! Oh, goody. another battle with Vierra and development-minded city planners. Whoo-hoo... (not).
A Gregory Gardener May 10, 2013 at 05:06 pm
Also, Robert, there is the small matter of the fact that the Dome was centrally located, and within…Read More easy walking or driving distance of a Senior housing community where elders could come to see matinee movies. Not so with the Solano Drive In.
B.J. Britton May 11, 2013 at 01:30 pm
I am a senior citizen Gregory Gardener. I remember and miss the days when the Dome and the mall…Read More were great places to go. The holiday mall was filled with artists and vendors, from whom I bought many a gift at Christmastime. I regularly shopped the other businesses attached to the mall. I do not drive to Berkeley anymore, and will really miss the ease of attending great movies in the Dome. I will not restate my belief that we DO NOT need another sporting goods store.
ROBERT E. FISHBACK May 5, 2013 at 10:21 am
Maybe Josh will give a free analysis on this thread. I don't carry any weight..."Casting all…Read More your care on Him for He careth for you" At least your post was measured and not cruel.
Mick Doo May 5, 2013 at 12:17 pm
Actually J.B. it's really you who need the session. Robert seems to understrand
ROBERT E. FISHBACK April 26, 2013 at 11:16 am
I would be hard pressed to give a synopsis...a conclusion to all of this. Sin is brought into the…Read More light by God's Word and conscious. We know inside when we do wrong and at first, it bothered us. A child who had no religious training training, still knows when he is doing wrong....the neaking aspect tries to hide the deed done. But, it is possible to sin against the conscious so many times, it becomes burned out and no longer flashes a red light. So, there is an awareness of sin that comes from inside apart from any religious definition. I still do not like the word "religious." It is a like painting trash to give it a better look.....like putting a diamond in a swine's snout. Man's nature is corrupt, and we were born that way. We never had to be taught to do bad things, it came to us naturally. Salvation in Christ gives man a new nature to co-exhist with his corrupt nature. It is like Ali and Frazier in the same ring. "Marvel not that I say unto you: "you must be born again" .
Camaro on Cinderblocks April 26, 2013 at 01:07 pm
The text from the different religions kind of makes it hard for there not to be a divide....
John…Read More 1:9-11
Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works.
Allah is an enemy to unbelievers. - Sura 2:98
Ian J May 3, 2013 at 05:16 am
Turns out he's not highly trained at all and unlikely to be scientific in his practice. I looked…Read More into his credentials; he has a "PhD" from a dubious "spiritually-oriented" institution that has very little recognition in the academic community, and lost its accreditation. His PhD is laughable.
Paul May 1, 2013 at 01:53 pm
I have thyroid nodules and I discovered soy and almonds are Goitrogenic foods. They can prevent the…Read More body's absorption of iodine, which is essential for a healthy thyroid. I've been looking at rice milk, coconut milk and hemp milk, but I think I will just go back to organic cow milk.
Kia May 1, 2013 at 02:49 pm
Hi Paul - it is great to avoid goitrogenic foods (especially soy), but almonds aren't high on that…Read More list. Peanuts are, however. Here is a site with a good list of foods to keep to a minimum in your menu planning http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/goitrogens/
Best of health to you! :-) Kia
Carl Petersen III April 21, 2013 at 10:03 pm
Carl Petersen III
5 hours ago
Robert Livesay
2 minutes ago
'ou folks that voted for Liberals need…Read More some lessons in economics.'
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Is lesson one how the Conservative economic policy of the Bush administration crashed the economy?
Carl Petersen III April 21, 2013 at 11:34 pm
Robert Livesay
8 minutes ago
"Herr Carl Petrersen III I have some concerns about your…Read More postings."
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Sounds like someone is a little bit upset over getting proven wrong about his allegations about the cause of our economic crash.
Nicole Mooradian April 22, 2013 at 01:43 am
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Oppelt April 24, 2013 at 01:08 am
Having no knowledge about the book (which sounds like a good read)...we created a floatable (wine)…Read More cork boat with our 5 yo. Or rather, we competed at which team (mom/son, dad/son) could come up with a way to make it float in a bubble bath. Twine, tape, glue, pennies, small shells, a USA flag, you name it were thought (by our son) to attempt to secure or decorate. It took weeks for us all to devise a way that wouldn't break down, float and use all the saved corks he'd set aside for his (not ours) wish of "I want to make a boat". That boat is much more admired, used and talked about than any other toy boat we have (thank goodness). As a creative professional I am concerned about innovation and the loss thereof with everything so matchy-match and kit based if not shiny, packaged and ready. Thus, SCAMPER sounds like a great read for adults that really have a hard time thinking outside the box. Glad you put it together. Cheers!
Napoleon Solo April 24, 2013 at 01:24 pm
If youi need help devising these sorts of things, Marbles the Brain Store has lots to offer. For…Read More example, there is a dice game with a large number of dice having different pictures on the sides. You roll the dice, and have to create a story using the first die's picture, and then the next person has to take the next dice picture and continue the story. Its fun to leave off your story at a difficult point to see how the next person can recover. The store is online and there is one in the Westfield mall in SF that is attached to a BART stop, so you can go there and not even have to go up to the street level.
Rich Buckley April 26, 2013 at 10:28 am
Right on schedule along the hyperbolic curve of increasing human enlightenment : …Read More
http://tinyurl.com/c38dh9h
Global awakening to false-flag terrorism, Copernican revolution
...." my Taurean body just couldn’t stomach such blatant Scorpionic nonsense, hiding secret after secret after secret, a never-ending rabbit-hole of lies our military/industrial government makes up, spouts, and repeats, ad nauseam, over and over, all in the name of “national security.”
"This is a welcome article. I hope Barrett is right, that “at this point, the false-flag meme is just starting to enter the mainstream media.” "....Exopermaculture
Rich Buckley April 27, 2013 at 10:21 pm
I agree with Judge Napolitano that the FBI's Fake Terror Plot History is not the way we should be…Read More using our law enforcement assets, it is leading us down the most dangerous of roads.
When these operations "go live" people die, sometimes by the thousands.
As evidence continues to mount that the Boston Bombers suspects were being "handled by the FBI" the United States government should be investigated for the role it is suspected in playing in the Boston Bombings.
Rich Buckley April 29, 2013 at 12:04 pm
Is It Possible to Predict the Next False ?
How many "Bizarre Coincidences" can our…Read More government fabricate before even the most steadfast stalwarts of big government righteousness realizes there is a secret group in our midst running, planning, directing, and then at vital junctures executing "go Live" terrorism? The answer is 22. That's how many we've participated in at the cost of thousands of lives and Trillions of dollars. Now, when something horrible happens, the first obvious pattern to be seen by the majority of us is our government's own involvement. This suspicion of a rogue element inside the FBI, the CIA, NSA, NASA and our Armed Forces doesn't have to be large, but it does need to be senior enough to have it's imprimatur of authority on the "go live" element of each operation. At some level of operation therefore the evidence can always be traced back to the "when" and the "where" this dark authority is exercised.
Predicting terrorism is making sense out of chaos, "Ordo Ab Chao" making order from chaos. At the very least, law enforcement needs to include in their research, occult symbolism, from numerology to birthdays and high celebration days of even the old WWII Nazi regimes....like Hitler's birthday. "Occult" does not mean evil. It means secret, hidden. There is good occult, referred to often as powers of the light, white magic, in service to others, and bad occult, referred to often as powers of the darkness, black magic, in service to self.
ROBERT E. FISHBACK April 22, 2013 at 10:59 am
SPIRITUALITY: My definition is an awareness of influences that are mysterious and subtle. While I…Read More am a Chrustian by choice, yet, as a child I began to sense there were what I called hot spots where I imagined that some thing was there and it was more than met the eye. In retro, I think much of it was imagination, but it added something to life and I ran with it. When I was twelve, I became attracted to candles, incense, succulants !, quartz rock, old marble mantle clocks.....and my bedroom was filled with these and I had a real shrine going. I also had secret places under large bushes. My walls were covered with maps of the Southwest and I poured over those by candle light. Haunting places with names like Old Woman Mountains, Quartzite, Tortilla Flat. I cannot explain this, but as it was not factual ink on paper or anything else that composed the rules of life, I guess that was my "spirituality" and it was somewhat consoling. I might have been the world's first new ager.
ROBERT E. FISHBACK April 22, 2013 at 11:22 am
I am on a collision course with being resented for posting too much, but, my life seems to be a…Read More string of after thoughts. I just read an article on quartx rock and that science has exloded the myth that quartz has any magical powers. Science is the antithesis of spirituality. Nerdish know it alls poking their noses into magic and miracles. The explanation seekers are trying to analyze a bubble. When they touch it, it disappears..pop..just like that. So, they say bubbles do not exhist..in essence. They DO exhist, enjoy them and quit trying to explain them.
ROBERT E. FISHBACK April 22, 2013 at 02:18 pm
My mind is awash ....looking for a home....so many memories fly like a feather...the wind is up now,…Read More and I need a tether. The paths behind ..like a mish mash stew...till a haloed lamp post whispered: I need you. "Listen, he said as he spoke through the fog.....all this belongs.....on the good Doctor's blog. Go to the Galemore...third floor up....a little glass man in west window sits.....I followed his orders and there he sat .....frozen in glass, but pleasure he begat....".I perfume the aIr..that's all I do...but now that you're here.... good to see you." A waft of breeze through window did sneak. A hot spot for sure....a wonderful peak...the magic of childhood returned in a flick.....as I enjoyed my visit with Mr Wizard Wick....I learned a lesson and on that I did think.. .I found my tether and need not a shrink !!!..
Kia April 16, 2013 at 02:54 pm
Hi Denise - great questions! I'll try to be brief.
Splenda is NOT sugar or food. It is a neurotoxin…Read More that also causes damage to the thymus gland. Also, numerous studies have shown that long term use of artificial sweeteners actually causes weight gain over time. (I'm happy to provide documentation on these statements if you like.)
Dairy is a tricky subject and could be the focus of a multi-volume text. Non-fat dairy products are higher in sugar, and are filled with non-nutritive gums and undigestible fibers to create what the industry calls "mouth feel" after the naturally occurring fats are removed. Basically what you end up with is a highly processed "food" full of damaged proteins and sugar. Instead, opt for organic, whole, unflavored, unsweetened REAL yogurt and add your own fresh or frozen fruit.
The Nature's Path Pumpkin Flax Plus granola has 37 grams of carbohydrate per serving. Let's break that down: on the label they claim 5g fiber and 10g sugar, so where is the remaining 22g of carbs? Those 22g are sugars that occur naturally so they don't have to list them as "added" sugars like the 10g on the label. That means you get a whopping 32g of glucose creating carbs per serving. It's also important to note that the serving size is 3/4 cup and most people don't limit themselves to that. For comparison, a Snickers Bar has 33g of carbohydrate and 27g of sugar.
Happy to have a more detailed conversation if you want to contact me directly 415-813-6183
Denise April 16, 2013 at 03:22 pm
I'm going to have to find time to call and get some tips in person! Thank you for the details above.…Read More I followed a low carb diet to lose 50 pounds about 8 years ago and it worked VERY well for me. Looking at labels was very enlightening. I've managed to keep the pounds off except for 10 that I go back and forth with since menopause. I started trying to just eat much healthier these days with a LOT more fresh fruit and veggies. I really enjoy this way of eating but it requires a lot of trips to the store for fresh items. What I'd like to do is find a good balance with dairy and protien to go with my fresh produce. I would also like to use grains efficiently in as far as avoiding the bad and using the good in moderation. There is an overabundance of information out there and I find it all confusing sometimes. Another thing I'd like to add is honey. Locally grown. But it's another SUGAR thing....sigh. I'm just gonna have to call you.
mikedude March 27, 2013 at 11:57 pm
You're delusional, Julie. If a company cannot make a quality product at an affordable price, they…Read More will go out of business and *deserve* to go out of business. If the quality is not up to par, the company will lose their Medicare accreditation. You clearly have no idea how this program even works.
mikedude March 28, 2013 at 12:03 am
Richard, these are the very same products other insurance companies are paying the very same…Read More suppliers significantly less for. Why are you of the opinion that Medicare *should* be paying up to 3 or 4 times more than retail price or what private insurance pays for the very same product? Again, you clearly have no idea how this program works or are willfully ignorant.
Julie Snyder March 28, 2013 at 12:50 am
OK, once again Mikedue and for that matter Fred, you obviously don't know what's going on. I don't…Read More know what reports you're reading but they are not accurate at all. Most of the distributors don't manufacturer the product. If you think a distributor is going to buy a $400 wheelchair from a high end manufacturer when they can buy it from an FDA china manufacturer for far less then they will. Both chairs are FDA approved so why not buy the cheaper model. Will it hold up as well no probably not but it's approved and Medicare can do nothing about shutting it down. They can't even keep themselves from giving crooks contracts in your precious competitive bidding. We'll see if you get the quality equipment when you need it and heaven forbid you don't like the service you get from the company that has to service you because you won't have a choice so the person on the phone can be as mean and nasty to you as they want to be because patient choice is over. Also if you know so much about reimbursement do you know what it is on a K0823 power wheelchair or a K0001 manual wheelchair because I do. I also know the cost and the profit doesn't even come close to covering overhead, repairs, billing and delivery. Keep in mind these items are 13 month rentals with all repairs, adjustments, phone calls, justification and collections all up to the supplier. Medicare doesn't even educate the MD's on the documentation needed, that is up to the suppliers too.
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