![]() The remaining phosphate level, which is found in the blood, is very important for muscle and nerve function. Phosphate is closely associated with calcium in bone development and is primarily found in the bones. Uric acid levels may be increased during kidney failure, with certain tumors, and as a response to stress and alcohol. A number of drugs, particularly diuretics and salicylates (aspirin), may also increase uric acid. Patients with gout may develop arthritis and or kidney stones. Diets high in purines (present in sweetbreads, kidney, and liver) may worsen the condition. Gout is a condition that occurs and affects men more than women. Uric acid levels are useful in the diagnosis of gout. A low glucose level may also mean that the blood sample was not handled properly after it was drawn. ![]() Low blood glucose, on the other hand, may be seen with certain tumors or with liver disease. For example, high glucose levels after 12 hours of fasting may suggest diabetes. Glucose is the chief source of energy for all living organisms however, abnormally high or low blood glucose levels may be a sign of disease. Always consult your doctor regarding your laboratory tests. These descriptions are not intended to be a complete listing of all conditions medically relevant to each test. You should not rely on this information for diagnostic treatment. These descriptions will help you to better understand your laboratory test results so that you may have a more meaningful discussion with your doctor. What follows is a brief description of the typical tests that may be included in a testing profile. A person’s own result is the best baseline for monitoring any change that takes place in the future. Each person has his or her own baseline “normal”. When a result is normal, it not only helps to rule out disease, but it also establishes a baseline for you. A normal result does not mean that the test was unnecessary. Sometimes test results will be abnormal before you have any symptoms, and when you have symptoms, laboratory test results help confirm that a problem does exist.Ī normal test result is just as significant as an abnormal result. You and your doctor can learn a great deal about your health by testing a sample of your blood.
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![]() It re-emerged as a magnet and cradle for talent and creativity, punching above its weight in music, art, literature, technology, medicine, alternative lifestyles, and stupendous business success. They never mention that San Francisco rebuilt itself, heroically, after the 1906 earthquake and fires that had leveled it. San Francisco is home to beat poetry, hippies, gay libs, Big Tech, Nancy Pelosi, political correctness, and pricey and beautiful architecture that made its critics’ own pale hometowns look like dumps-so now is the time to avenge all that. Too many seem to gleefully dance on what they hope will be the grave of a city they always resented for the scary things it represented politically, sexually, artistically. As the city loses tax base and tourist revenues while gaining pathologies and street crime, they predict the end is near. Ron DeSantis, and many other critics persistently push an exaggerated portrait of the city as a hellhole, where car thefts and fentanyl deaths, corporate flight, and retail closings fuel a so-called Doom Loop. Of course, parts of downtown San Francisco do face huge social problems-homelessness, drug addiction, shoplifting invasions. It’s important to remember the things that made, and make, San Francisco great-not for the sake of nostalgia or adolescent literature, but to ensure that a dark fog of disdain doesn’t block out everything else. I fear that San Francisco has gotten such a bad rap-borne of an often brutal, and mainly conservative, narrative about the city-that people have lost sight of its unerasable allures, and its irreplaceable spot in American history and culture. It’s a depiction that pushes back against the rampant San Francisco bashing in vogue today. The little paperback’s romantic portrayal of the City by the Bay grabbed me and never let go. Whitney, led me to develop an affection for that distant, hilly city on the Pacific coast: San Francisco. One book in particular, Mystery of the Green Cat by Phyllis A. Children’s and young adult literature let me imagine independence-meeting new people and exploring different places on my own. My family often visited nearby Manhattan but that was still off-limits for solo wandering. Those novels took me places, out of my crowded, insular hometown. ![]() I read them in bed or in a park, on winter nights or summer days. Best of all, they usually had nothing to do with schoolwork. A few weeks later, paperbacks arrived at school in wondrous boxes. I would carefully select books from a paper form distributed in class. Temperature for much of the week will be in the 30s and 40s for highs with overnight lows in the 10s and 20s.For a young bookworm like me in 1960s New Jersey, almost nothing was more exciting in elementary school than ordering my own paperbacks from the Scholastic Book catalog. This means the daily chance of low stratus/ patchy fog and poor air quality.Ī couple of weak disturbances could produce and increase in clouds and a few showers across northwest Montana, but they do not appear strong enough to break up the inversions. Starting Tuesday, valley inversions will start to develop. By the afternoon, this disturbance will start moving out, and high pressure will begin to build. Additional snow accumulation of 1-4" could be seen in our mountain regions, and as a result, Winter Weather Advisories are in effect for parts of the area through Monday morning.Ī quick burst of snow, polar air and gusty easterly winds will slide into northwest Montana early Monday morning. Travel slow, and be safe as black ice on roadways could increase into Monday morning's commute. Travel has been difficult for many parts of the area, and that will continue through the night. Scattered showers, primarily snow except in the southern Bitterroot Valley, will continue into the evening. Additional snow accumulations up to 4 inches. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY until 4 AM Monday for the Clearwater Mountains. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY from 11 PM Sunday until 11 AM Monday for the West Glacier Region. Additional snow accumulations up to 3 inches. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY until 5 AM Monday for Bitterroot/Sapphire Mountains and Lower Clark Fork Region. Additional snow accumulations up to one inch. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY until 5 PM Sunday for Gallatin and Madison County Mountains and Centennial Mountains-Northwest Beaverhead County, including the following locations: Big Hole Pass, Raynolds Pass, Dewey, Targhee Pass, West Yellowstone, Big Sky, Wise River, Wisdom, and Chief Joseph Pass. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY until 5 PM Sunday for the Butte/Blackfoot Region. So much so that I have started really paying attention to where these canned tomatoes come from. The key to this Tomato Macaroni and Cheese recipe is (of course) the canned diced tomatoes. They are so convenient and tasty that we use them frequently in recipes. Perfect for a weeknight, a busy night or any time! Tomato Macaroni and Cheese then takes 15 minutes to make on the stove top and then bakes for 10 minutes. A garlic breadcrumb topping is an optional, but delicious addition. To give it the tomato and herb twist, I look no further than my pantry to find a can of Hunt’s diced tomatoes and Italian herb seasoning. Tomato Macaroni and Cheese is made using a few ingredients that I have on hand at all times – pasta, canned tomatoes, cheese, evaporated milk and an egg. There are so many delicious possibilities! With its simplicity and fresh flavors, this Tomato Macaroni and Cheese recipe may have become our new favorite! Using just a few simple ingredients, my simple mac and cheese recipe can be transformed into a whole new dish, like this Pulled Pork Mac and Cheese and this Spinach Macaroni and Cheese. I make a healthier version, from scratch, that is delicious on its own but is also very versatile. One of our favorite weeknight dinners, that is especially popular with the kids, is Macaroni and Cheese. Thank you to Hunt’s Tomatoes for sponsoring this post. I also tweaked the sauce, and added some English mustard powder, like mum does, and this was a truly delectable dish, filled with nostalgia as well as an unctuous cheese sauce.Tomato Macaroni and Cheese is a healthier, from-scratch macaroni and cheese recipe with a tomato and herb twist that is easy to make in less than 30 minutes. So, the recipe I am sharing today, is for my version of Macaroni Cheese, as we call it in the UK, with tomatoes and onions, but also some bacon. What I loved about this recipe for Mac and Cheese, was the addition of tomatoes and onions……such a great way to incorporate vegetables into a protein rich dish. Searching around in my pantry and fridge, I discovered that I had all the ingredients as well as an opened packet of smoked bacon lardons…….Hmm……why not add some crisply fried bacon to the dish as well I thought, for a really filling complete meal. You can browse all of Enriching your Kid’s recipes here: Recipe Box. ![]() I knew that I was going to make the Mac and Cheese, as soon as I saw the recipe, but I was also tempted by these other recipes: Mozarella Cheese Cutlets, Fish Cutlets, Bread Pudding and Makai ki Roti/Corn Flatbread. My baby has grown up and flown the nest now, but for those Lavender and Lovage readers who still have babies or young children at home, there are lots of recipes for baby food there, which must be a real boon for those mums who need a bit of inspiration now and then. They started the blog in a venture to chronicle their mom’s recipes and experiments with cooking for the family”…. Visiting their “About Me” page, I can tell you that they are….”Clinical Psychologist by profession having practised a good number of years, they settled to be a home maker when they had their kids. So, when I visited my assigned blog for November, as part of The Secret Recipe Club, I was pleased to see that Mac and Cheese was one of the recipes in Enriching your Kid’s recipe box. I would love to tell you more about the author of Enriching your Kid, but I couldn’t find her (or his) name anywhere, suffice to say that they have an interesting site with healthy recipes on there, as the title indicates. It amused me then to read, on one of my social media platforms, that I was now a “true American” when I shared some photos of the dish recently! Now, I DO know, having lived and worked in the USA, that “Mac’n’Cheese” is extremely popular there and you can even buy it in boxes, but, I never thought of it as an American recipe……I could be wrong, but I always assumed that it was a “nursery style” meal for harried cooks (or nannies) and people on a tight budget, and very British too! I remember this was one of my favourite meals to come home to from school when I was growing up……Mum always made it with mature Cheddar cheese for a real bite and English mustard powder too, of course, in the sauce. 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![]() Audio can either be recorded live, or imported from several common formats, including AIFF, WAVE, and MP3. ![]() Melody Assistant doubles as a simple digital hard disk recorder. Be careful to set the quantize settings correctly based on the music you’re recording otherwise the result will be surprisingly different. Input quantizing is set by default, which is critical for recording legible notation. Melody Assistant also accepts MIDI input from a keyboard or other controller. (It’s under the Staff Menu, by the way.) With the right settings and the right reduction, the output is legible, although I’d like the ability to adjust spacing on the page in order to avoid collisions between notes and accidentals. The program also defaults with measure numbers off, and finding the place to activate them isn’t easy either. In the print options dialog box, for example, the option marked “Don’t cut staff blocks” is not selected, resulting in staff systems splitting in the middle across pages. Partly, it’s just a matter of a poor choice of defaults. ![]() Ultimately, a score editor is only as good as its printed output, and Melody Assistant needs a little work in this area. The basic sound database provided can be upgraded to the “extended” version over the Internet the sounds themselves are nothing spectacular, but the free extended sound database is a slight improvement over the basic set. Melody Assistant comes with its own set of patches, which the program compiles in real time. This option is preferable as only a few measures are visible on screen, and I would prefer it to be a default in Melody Assistant, as it’s common to most sequencers. To specify scrolling playback, go under the Score menu. Followed by the Music That You Hearīasic playback functions are provided on a toolbar. If you intend to work with a particular combination that’s not provided, such as a mixed chamber group, or an otherwise unusual combination, you can create and save your own models. Next, select notes, rests, and other markings from the tool palettes and place them on the piece by clicking where needed. Basic templates, such as solo instruments, orchestra, choir, string quartet etc., are provided along with some synth combos that look rather strange on paper-Space Model, for example, consists of Fantasia, Goblin, and Strange Voice. To set up a new piece, choose either a default document (a basic pop chart of piano, bass, guitar, strings and drums), a single staff labeled “melody”, or one of the preset templates (called “models”). Those shown on the screen above are only about half the total number available the complete list can be found under the Windows menu. The interface is straightforward, and the only drawback is the sheer number of toolbars needed to accommodate the wide variety of markings. Note values (or their equivalent rests) are selected from tool palettes and placed on a staff key and time signatures, dynamics, and expression markings are added in the same way. ![]() The on-screen note entry method is very similar toįinale’s Simple Note Entry function. Melody Assistant is a score-based music editor with MIDI playback. Myriad software had this user in mind when they released Melody Assistant, a $15 shareware program that combines basic aspects of all three. Such applications are expensive, perhaps too much so for the hobbyist who only wants to make music for fun. Requirements: Mac OS 7.5 or greater, with at least 8 MB of RAMįor a professional musician with a computer, three software applications are considered vital: a sequencer, a digital hard disk recorder and a notation program. 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Power then distributes to the lower thermostat where it heats the lower element. This thermostat then shuts down once the water in the top half of the tank reaches the required temperature. When the water tank has cold water in it, the upper thermostat will heat the upper element. In a dual elements system, heating occurs in one element at a time, never simultaneously. When there is a problem with the thermostats/element feature, then a water heater may not provide enough hot water. The thermostat is what connects to an element. Most electric water heaters in Saskatoon have two elements, upper and lower. Here is a look at water heater thermostats and elements. It will also be easier to call for specific plumbing services when you notice a problem. Understanding the functioning of a water heater will aid in providing it with the care it needs. Saskatoon homeowners have to deal with various problems that heaters face during their lifetime. 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Let the vinegar soak for at least 6 hours and reopen the valve. After you drain the tank, close the valve and pour a gallon of cider vinegar into the tank. Just like you use vinegar in your kitchen to naturally clean it, you can use vinegar to prevent scale buildup in your water heating element. ![]() The water that initially comes out might be very hot, so use safety precautions or ask a professional at Master Plumbing to do the job. Check the bottom for the tank draining valve, connect a hose to it, and let it drain. ![]() If you want the water to drain quickly, turn on a sink or even a bath close to where your water heater is. ![]() Start by turning off the electricity or gas connected to your water heating element and close the cold water supply. Most homeowners with hard water have this done twice a year. Flush Your Water Heating Elementįlushing your water heating element can help to remove all of the mineral particles floating in the tank. 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Add in 1/4 cup of sugar to the bottom of pan and about 3 inches up the sides, tapping the pan to ensure even distribution. DO NOT OVER BEAT OTHERWISE CAKE WILL BECOME HARD AS A BRICK ONCE FINISHED BAKING! Grease a bundt cake pan. Blend in some of the dry ingredients followed by some of the buttermilk in alternates. Beat in eggs, one at a time, making sure that each egg is thoroughly blended before adding the next egg. Continue to beat until light and fluffy (approx. In a large separate bowl, beat butter until very fluffy (approx. Sift together cake flour, salt, baking powder and soda. Please use my Vanilla Almond Glaze recipe to complete this cake! Drizzle glaze over the crunchy top portion of cake. (this step is very important otherwise your cake will continue to bake and will become very dry and completely stuck in the pan). Use a knife to scrape the sides if cake becomes stuck. ![]() Let cake cool for about 10 minutes, then carefully remove from pan, making sure that the sugary coconut side is faced upward. Bake for about 50 minutes to an hour or until a wooden skewer inserted comes out clean (if it comes out wet, bake another 10 minutes or so, if it comes out crumbly, you over baked the cake). ![]() I used a non stick angle food spring formed tube pan. This is a way to ensure that the ingredients are being thoroughly blended together - For example add dry mixture followed by buttermilk, dry mixture, buttermilk dry mixture - so on and so forth - DO NOT OVER BEAT OTHERWISE CAKE WILL BECOME HARD AS A BRICK ONCE FINISHED BAKING! ![]() |
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