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i KNEW that you would not be able to get by without throwing something in the mix. lol for the record, i was quite balanced out growing up. mom being korean and dad being from the south, it was a common thing for our dinners to consist of fried chicken, rice and gravy, kimchee and greenbeans. btw, a little chihuahua as an appetizer will help eliminate some of that kimchee smell. and ginger, don't forget about that. edited to add: overalls, dave. they're not "bibs", they're "overalls." and...OREN! LA! where are you guys??! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

walt, kimchee is definitely an acquired taste and it's not for everyone. "normal" grocery stores have crap kimchee. seriously. that stuff isn't worth the jar it's packed in. do yourself a favor before totally writing it off and go to an oriental grocery and buy some there. if in doubt, stick to the groceries that have "kim" or "choi" in the name. kim bros in tampa rocks. anyway, a good rule of thumb is if there are words misspelled on the jar then you can bet it's gonna be okay. koreans spell phonetically so good luck with that. kimchee is made to eat as a side dish with rice (real rice that's starchy, not uncle bens) and whatever. i prefer kal-bi (short ribs) with my kimchee and rice. :) anyhow, kimchee can also be made into a wicked good soup called kimchee chigae (pronounced "JI-gah"). when done correctly, this isn't for the faint of heart. take the spiciness of kimchee and then thermally heat it with left over stuff (pork, rice cakes, green onions, tofu) into a tasty almost stew-like soup. Oh. my. god. i could live off this stuff - but people around me would drop like flies. oh yeah, not mentioned before - if you eat enough kimchee you'll reek of it for a day or so afterwards. and another thing - if you don't like the kimchee, don't let it discourage you from eating korean food. it is NOTHING like other asian cuisine. the seasonings are different and of the tons of friends i (and oren and laura, the filipino/a) have introduced to korean, i know of 2 that didn't like it so much. my recommendations if you find a korean restaurant: bulgogi - thinly sliced beef, not spicy at all, sweet marinade kal-bi (sp) - short ribs. YUMMY. kimchee pancake - lots of green onions in there but it's really good. yakimandu - the REAL eggroll. these are similar to the japanese "gyoza". thing is, these recipes are like kimchee - each person makes it a little different. use the dipping sauce. kimchee chigae - that soup i spoke of above. kimbap - these look like sushi rolls but have daikon radish, egg, bulgogi, carrots inside. make sure to get the YUMMY dipping sauce for it (made of soy sauce, sesame oil, red pepper, etc). this shit rocks. ...but not all of this at one time...unless you're in a group. we eat out at the korean restaurant average once a month and leave as poster children for gluttony. kamsahamnida, a p.s. if you're ever in FL near deland or zhills, we'll make sure there is a contingency to introduce you to korean food if you haven't done it by then. of course, i might be a touch biased...although most of my round-eyed friends love it almost as much as i do.

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there are as many different kimchee recipes as there are people that make it. my mom would use the crushed red pepper that you buy at the oriental market. it comes in 1-lb bags. if you try to used "crushed red pepper" that you buy at the local grocery store, it'll taste like crap. my mom's kimchee was different than my grandma's kimchee. oh yeah, no ginger in ours, thankfully. but then again, i'm not a big ginger fan. also she'd let the chinese (napa) cabbage soak in a brine for a while. this apparently helps with the flavor absorption. whatever the hell she did worked great because she made the best kimchee EVER.

*tool - aenima *NIN - pretty hate machine (and all the rest) *live - throwing copper red hot chili peppers - BSSM STP - any Staind - break the cycle violent femmes - add it up the matrix soundtrack queensryche - operation mindcrime alice in chains - dirt cult - wildflower matchbox 20 - yourself or someone like you the flys - holiday man godsmack - godsmack incubus - drive jane's addiction - nothing shocking linkin park - hybrid theory carl cox - the one that has "50000 watts of power" james taylor - greatest hits DJ little C - kyle's get the F outta school * can't live without those 3.

sara asked me to post this. I've removed the phone numbers for obvious reasons, so PM me and i'll send them to you. thanks, a ----------------------------- The family and friends of Chad Zielinski would like to invite you to join us in a celebration of Chad’s life on Sunday, March 5th, 2006. The memorial service for Chad will take place in Perris, CA at Perris Valley Skydiving. The address is 2091 Goetz Rd Perris CA 92570. Casual attire is suggested, service will be held outdoors. We would like to request your arrival at 2:30pm for commencement of the services. 3:00-4:00pm Designated Speakers 4:00-4:30pm Memories of Chad 4:30-5:00pm Memorial Ash Skydive 5:00pm Food will be served Following Dinner there will be Party to celebrate and honor Chad. Please RSVP by 02/28/06 to Sara Bratcher at cloud9scbATyahoo.com with the number of guests attending. If you have any questions please call Sara at xxx-xxx-xxxx or Pamela Hamlett at xxx-xxx-xxxx. Food will be provided, so we will require an accurate head count. In lieu of flowers, we would like to request that donations be made to a trust fund that has been set up for Chad’s two daughters, Christina and Lyndsey. Donations may be made via PayPal or check. PayPal To Pay via PayPal go to https://www.paypal.com and click the "Send Money" tab at the top of the screen. Directions for becoming a member (free) are there & it will walk you through the payment. You would be sending money to the email address: [email protected]. The PayPal account is being administered by Tim Smith. If you have any questions, please call Tim at xxx-xxx-xxxx. By Check The check must be made out exactly as follows: Avon K Zielinski In Trust For Christina & Lyndsey Hansen IMPORTANT: Please note on check memo line “Donation” Check should be mailed to Chad’s mother at the following address: Avon K. Zielinski 30078 Skipjack Dr. Canyon Lake, CA 92587 For those traveling from out of town, the closest airport to fly into would be Ontario CA (ONT). We would recommend staying in Canyon Lake, Murrieta or Temecula. The following hotels are recommended: Canyon Lake Inn (group rate for Chad Zielinski Memorial) 31820 Railroad Canyon Road Canyon Lake, CA 92587-9493 (951) 244-1164 http://www.canyonlakeresortinn.com Comfort Inn & Suites 41005 California Oaks Rd. Murrieta, CA 92562 951-894-7227 Embassy Suites 29345 Rancho California Rd Temecula, California, United States, 92591 (951) 676-5656 http://www.embassysuites.com enter city: Temecula CA Thank you for all of your support. Chad was loved dearly by many people and we would like to embrace them all. “Ciao for now” Sincerely, Sara Bratcher ========================

congratulations rosa on a very successful fundraiser.

i'm thinking pic 1 might be john schoffner. pics 2 and 3 are stanley p, pic 4 is janine hill, pic 5 is bob healy, and the last 2 i think might be rat (from SA), but i'm not 100% sure. these guys were the ones responsible for putting the original swoop pond in at the hills before steve mottski decided it needed to be expanded to what it is today. ....and you can just cool it on the "young kid at the time" comments.

here ya go sweetie: http://www.skydivecity.com/phpgallery/photo.php?id=149 =======================

ditto that, nigel. zhills has the easter boogie. the beauty of it is that you can jump at zhills, fly in the tunnel, visit mfgrs if you want, visit other dzs as well, and never have to drive more than a couple hours at most to any of them. :) but the zhills easter boogie ROCKS. go there.

...or liquid fence (but i think this stuff contains alot of the aforementioned ingredients)

Kind of like my dick with head and shoulders on it. i KNEW you wouldn't be able to help yourself. you're hired.

Maybe I should take this act to a talent agent? yeah, just don't let 'em talk you into the casting couch. that thing is really uncomfortable and it hurts your ass a bit....

Ok. Have your wife come out and piss and shit in the yard. Then you piss and shit in your yard. Then have the kids and neighbors come out of their houses and piss and shit in the yard. Then everyone slide through the piss and shit like a slippy slide. Walk around and wipe the piss and shit on trees, etc. Then have your neighbor's pregnant cousin who has morning sickness come out and throw up in your wifes mouth. After she swallos the vomit she will in return vomit all over the grass. Seeing her do this and the smell of all the piss and shit will cause everyone else to vomit in the grass. Then they can slide through the vomit like a slippy slide . Then they can walk around and wipe the vomit all over the trees. Than have Bob Saget and the Olsen Twins come in and slide through the vomit, piss and shit. Force the Olsen Twin with the eating disorder to eat the vomit, piss and shit. Then everyone tell Bob that he really wan't funny on America's Funniest Home Videos. i thought that the one olsen twin experienced a little bit of anal seepage but, hey, it would only help the mix, i truly believe. so after they've told bob the truth about america's funniest home videos and then burst his bubble about not utilizing his comedic potential on full house, they can all take a dump on his head (during a drum roll, of course) and take it to a talent agency. TA-DA!!!!!!

i believe you should've also included the neighbor's pregnant cousin who has morning sickness... ...or bob sagat.

You flamed someone, baby. I can't remember who...although I may go back and look. rwieder? Blues, Dave

just wanted to bump this up with the information on john's memorial. i just found out from a friend that we're gathering around 10-ish and john's family (parents/sister) should be at the dz on saturday morning around 11-ish. it'd be nice for them to see what sort of extended family john has in the skydiving community.... i'm sure zhills will give john a pretty memorable going away party... bring your stories and your drinkin' hat and a bit fat dose of "him! him!" (and maybe a cow video).

thanks for the eye-candy, rhonda. all i can say is "god bless brent." yummy. Buff bad boy You scored 50% masculine, 64% athletic, 45% exotic, and 31% refined! You like your men with a boyish or feminine face but a manly body. You like him to posess bad boy looks while still maintaining some innocence. He looks like the all-American kind of hunk and I bet you love someone like.......Travis Fimmel. But let's face it, the whole point of this was to look at a bunch of hot guys. If you liked what you saw, please rate my test! i also had to look up who travis fimmel is, but glad i did...he's yummy too.

mich called to give me the news this morning. that's so terribly fucked up. john and lady have been around zhills forever, it seems. my heart goes out to everyone at zhills. hard to believe we've lost another friend. what's gonna happen to lady? guess i'll be seeing you guys again this weekend for another memorial. john, i'll miss you, bro. with love...and i'll cya on the flipside, asshole. fyi: there's a pic of john during the halloween boogie on the skydivecity website gallery. he's dressed in while religious garb standing with hans, bickner as a milk carton(happythoughts) and vinny as the viking(anvil). http://www.skydivecity.com/phpgallery/photo.php?id=149

the separate ways video was the reason i started wearing mini skirts.

a nice little journey into the 80s...

as you wish.

no worries. i just thought it was pretty cool that they were trying to disprove what they ultimately discovered to be the case. sorta makes me think that sometimes the simplest solutions work the best - and are right under our noses. it's always nice to hear about treatments that won't cost the patient tons of money.

how skewed do you think this study (and publication of study results) really is? i see this stuff and post it simply because i think it may inform some people (someone may have friends or family recently diagnosed), but having folks like yourself that have worked directly in this field definitely will help lend credit to or discourage some of the stuff that's put out by these studies. are these types of studies as skewed in the medical industry as the media does "everyday" stuff? what i got from this is that folks that are HIV positive who have never received treatment before may now have an alternative to the "old standby." i guess my line of thinking is that even having an alternative is better than nothing - hence the post.

http://www.medpagetoday.com/InfectiousDisease/HIVAIDS/dh/2512 **Advise interested patients that current treatment guidelines suggest that either regimen can be used to initiate treatment for patients newly diagnosed with HIV and not previously treated with antiretroviral drugs. **Note that this study suggests that the regimen of Viread (tenofovir DF), Emtriva (emtricitabine), and Sustiva (efavirenz) is more effective and less toxic than Sustiva plus AZT and 3TC (zidovudine and lamivudine). **Specifically note that the risk of lipoatrophy appears to be less with the newer regimen. Review BALTIMORE, Jan. 18 - A simple once-a-day HIV antiretroviral regimen does a better job of suppressing the virus and restoring immune function than the long-standing gold standard for initial treatment of HIV, according to investigators here. The new kid on the block is a combination of Viread (tenofovir DF), Emtriva (emtricitabine), and Sustiva (efavirenz). In the first year of a three-year randomized trial, it proved significantly more effective and less toxic than a regimen consisting of Sustiva plus AZT and 3TC (zidovudine and lamivudine). The Viread/Emtriva/Sustiva combination did a better job of reducing viral load and increasing CD4 cell counts, Joel Gallant, M.D., associate director of the AIDS Service at Johns Hopkins here and colleagues reported in the Jan. 19 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Both regimens are recommended in current treatment guidelines as possible first choices for treatment for a person newly diagnosed with the virus, but this is the first head-to-head analysis comparing the two, he said. The results of the study will "drive new prescribing" for patients newly diagnosed with HIV, Dr. Gallant predicted. Also, he said, fewer patients treated with the regimen withdrew from the study because of adverse events, although overall the same proportion of patients in both arms reported unwanted side effects. "The number of people who dropped out of the study because of side effects was significantly different," Dr. Gallant said, "and that's what drives the difference in efficacy." Dr. Gallant and other members of the study group reported that they have consulting fees, lecture fees and grant support from the makers of the some of the drugs in the study, while other members of the study group are employed by Gilead Sciences, which makes Viread and Emtriva. The researchers enrolled 517 treatment-naïve HIV patients and randomized them, in an open-label fashion, to one of the two combinations. The primary endpoint was the percentage of patients who were able to maintain fewer than 400 copies of viral RNA per milliliter of blood. Secondary endpoints were the proportion whose viral load was less than 50 copies per milliliter of blood, differences in CD4 cell counts, and the proportion of patient who stopped treatment owing to adverse events. The study was designed to show that the Viread/Emtriva/Sustiva combination was not inferior to the other regimen, but in fact, Dr. Gallant said, the study showed it was superior: 84% of patients in the Viread/Emtriva/Sustiva arm were able to maintain a viral load of less than 400 copies, compared to 73% on the other regimen. The result both excluded inferiority and was significantly better at p=0.002. 80% of patients in the Viread/Emtriva/Sustiva arm had a viral load of less than 50 copies, compared with 70%. This also excluded inferiority and was significantly better, but at p=0.02. Patients treated with Viread/Emtriva/Sustiva had a mean increase from baseline of 190 CD4 cells per cubic millimeter, compared with 158 cells for patients in the other arm. The difference was statistically significant at p=0.002. Only 10 of the 257 patients in the Viread/Emtriva/Sustiva arm dropped out owing to an adverse event, compared with 23 of 254 in the other arm. The difference was significant at p=0.02. The main reason for dropping out was severe anemia, experienced by 14 patients in the AZT/3TC/Sustiva arm and none in the Viread/Emtriva/Sustiva arm. A common problem in regimens containing AZT, Dr. Gallant said, is so-called lipoatrophy - fat redistribution that significantly changes the body shape of the patient. In this study, patients in the Viread/Emtriva/Sustiva arm had significantly more limb fat at 48 weeks than those in the other arm. Unfortunately, he said, baseline data on limb fat was not collected, making it difficult to quantify changes. However, a preliminary analysis of 255 patients who have been treated for 96 weeks suggest that the difference persists and may increase over time, he said. If so, that may prompt some patients who are currently doing well on AZT/3TC/Sustiva to switch. A central factor in long-term suppression of HIV, Dr. Gallant said, is the ability of patients to follow sometimes complicated drug regimens. Both of the regimens in this study, however, are relatively simple, although the edge goes to the Viread/Emtriva/Sustiva combination, which can be taken once a day. The Viread/Emtriva combination is now available as a single pill, dubbed Truvada, which reduces the so-called pill burden to two a day. AZT and 3TC are also formulated as a single pill, Combivir, but are taken twice daily, while Sustiva is taken once daily. Dr. Gallant said the advent of the Truvada combination has increased the popularity of the Viread/Emtriva/Sustiva combination; a further simplification is expected soon, in which Sustiva will be combined in a single pill with the other two drugs. "We'll have gone in 10 years from some incredibly complex and toxic regimens to one pill once a day that's relatively non-toxic," he said, "which I think is certainly a sign of progress in therapy." Primary source: New England Journal of Medicine Source reference: