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NCAA Championship Extravaganza

9:00 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />  <br /><div class="MsoNormal">Hola casual and fanatical sports fans! It’s time once again for the NCAA Men’s Championship Game. This year it features the Louisville Cardinals against the Michigan Wolverines. As usual, I’m here to break the game down for you scientifically. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Drink every time …. </b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4W5Q1wgq6gPVkqTO712S3ur8zqO_8VssdjdPe7uWIJBqM901pGsHo1X09I4gmxGz87wiZx3L7RekM3n1hy9T2xjc4b40ZzD41hnKEqo7GFjAmP6CUN8IejnMb7z7K2q4ooIRzvCIJePg/s1600/Kaley-Cuoco-Boobs-Cleavage-BBT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4W5Q1wgq6gPVkqTO712S3ur8zqO_8VssdjdPe7uWIJBqM901pGsHo1X09I4gmxGz87wiZx3L7RekM3n1hy9T2xjc4b40ZzD41hnKEqo7GFjAmP6CUN8IejnMb7z7K2q4ooIRzvCIJePg/s320/Kaley-Cuoco-Boobs-Cleavage-BBT.jpg" width="248" /></a>1. CBS shows Kevin Ware<br />2. Someone misses a free throw. Wait, drink when they MAKE one. I want you to live.<br />3. Clark Kellogg makes up a word like “Suprtability”<br />4. Jim Nantz reads a promo for a CBS show. <br />5. There’s a controversial charge/block call. <br />6. They talk about how “young” Michigan is.<br />7. CBS shows a Master’s promo<br />8. Someone dribbles the ball off his foot out of bounds. <br />9. They talk about a players “length” <br />10. There’s a timeout called, either by a team or a TV timeout. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Chug an entire beer if…</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">1. A player actually hits BOTH free throws. <br />2. NEITHER Jim Nantz NOR Rick Pitino cheat on their wives this weekend. <br />3. Doug Gottlieb tells a race joke. <br />4. The game is over before 11:30 pm ET. <br />5. CBS shows a Big Bang Theory promo featuring Kaley Cuoco’s Big Bang Boobs! </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>If you just don’t care for basketball or just can’t stand the squeaky sneakers, you have other entertainment options:</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Read <i>“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”</i> by Louisville’s own Hunter S. Thompson… </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-xHqRCDY0w8a1tUycsr3zr4hv6coSFF7YNDZBbD-Y-BdZeZkncopo4OAcCtGHVZsTpvYTiSss4PPKxWLNauR6j-_UnziJfo5bCAzg2Q5L9W0wCFjFTs42XBMbEjSCecjewzjHZvogcM0/s1600/Fear+and+Loathing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-xHqRCDY0w8a1tUycsr3zr4hv6coSFF7YNDZBbD-Y-BdZeZkncopo4OAcCtGHVZsTpvYTiSss4PPKxWLNauR6j-_UnziJfo5bCAzg2Q5L9W0wCFjFTs42XBMbEjSCecjewzjHZvogcM0/s320/Fear+and+Loathing.jpg" width="203" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Read <i>“Death of a Salesman”</i> by University of Michigan alum Arthur Miller … </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjklW_VWp4d8g4EFu0RzhDkKt7vJ8wcPRcQ9QFuPko_-QsHztmyOGzgXPESbrMxyfyKxqGr5oCb0Mv2RiRLNmRr6qoaCihG1hrjk2Jt0ueeHkWBfcXcD8spNZfsfT2rsOTCc4GKMI9tacc/s1600/death+of+a+salesman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjklW_VWp4d8g4EFu0RzhDkKt7vJ8wcPRcQ9QFuPko_-QsHztmyOGzgXPESbrMxyfyKxqGr5oCb0Mv2RiRLNmRr6qoaCihG1hrjk2Jt0ueeHkWBfcXcD8spNZfsfT2rsOTCc4GKMI9tacc/s320/death+of+a+salesman.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Watch <i>“Return of the Living Dead”</i> which is set in Louisville, KY…</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRMNa9k2llGg41KhPOpB_yqzzzjxOLwugW2QLLLDs10O8KGYc40_BMq2N56Kdn8ZTEkMFMzOyyqqs9O8ynfVZuvgUGh7DOm2FqpUNdSjNl1klZkf1-U1jFtpcuoVfY-t6KraDXCXfa67s/s1600/return_of_the_living_dead.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRMNa9k2llGg41KhPOpB_yqzzzjxOLwugW2QLLLDs10O8KGYc40_BMq2N56Kdn8ZTEkMFMzOyyqqs9O8ynfVZuvgUGh7DOm2FqpUNdSjNl1klZkf1-U1jFtpcuoVfY-t6KraDXCXfa67s/s320/return_of_the_living_dead.jpg" width="206" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Watch <i>“The Bill Chill”</i> as all the main characters met while attending the University of Michigan… </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsOGT0xbIKvXOrLsdr3QH9aTpLpif8mzo8Of7o21Jjy439BnBU9ajPxxxTmT2PRFE6d0_vOqMH5WO7IdM-e6eybsZkG2lYZpE0ATd2VYGgcjJ1lYgTs1ZSOgAJfggZBjoBa9wru4L-oR4/s1600/Big_chill.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsOGT0xbIKvXOrLsdr3QH9aTpLpif8mzo8Of7o21Jjy439BnBU9ajPxxxTmT2PRFE6d0_vOqMH5WO7IdM-e6eybsZkG2lYZpE0ATd2VYGgcjJ1lYgTs1ZSOgAJfggZBjoBa9wru4L-oR4/s320/Big_chill.jpg" width="203" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Let’s see what the late, great Nipsey Russell has to say about this game .. </b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>“Louisville and Michigan will get it on for the title<br />Speed, experience, shooting and coaching are all vital<br />Look for the Cardinals to pull away late<br />And leave UK fans stewing in their bowl of hate.”</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>And what does legendary basketball analyst Dick “Dickie V” Vitale have to say…</b> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>“Well I tell ya, this is going to be an absolute war out there. You’ve got all the Diaper Dandies for Michigan against Louisville’s Glue Guys who are so disciplined and go so hard for forty full minutes. It’s down-right scary how well these two teams match up with each other. It’s unbelievable how many P-T-P-ers there will be on that floor Monday night. And of course we’re talking about two of the real legends of college basketball coaching this game. Both are all-timers. I don’t know who’s gonna win, but IT’S GONNA BE AWESOME BAY-BEEEE!” </i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>As for my pick? Vegas installed Louisville as a 3.5 point favorite. I say take the points and run .. </b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Louisville 79<br />Michigan<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>68</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Enjoy the game everybody. Or don’t. 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NCAA Championship Extravaganza

Hola casual and fanatical sports fans! It’s time once again for the NCAA Men’s Championship Game. This year it features the Louisville Car...

Book Talk: Lincoln Center Inside Out

5:00 PM Tukiyooo 0

<a href="http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2013/04/10/architectural-explorations-books">On Tuesday, April 9</a>, Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio and Charles Renfro of Diller Scofidio + Renfro along with MoMA's Barry Bergdoll will discuss the redesign of Lincoln Center at the New York Public Library (6-8pm, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, South Court Auditorium). The event is happening on the occasion of a new book, <a href="http://www.damianieditore.com/en-US/product/320"><i>Lincoln Center Inside Out: An Architectural Account</i></a>, published by Damiani.<br /><br /><img alt="lc-nypl1.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/lc-nypl1.jpg" title="Book cover" /><br /><br />From the <a href="http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2013/04/10/architectural-explorations-books">NYPL event page</a>:<br /><blockquote><i>Over the past eight years, the interdisciplinary design studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) transformed the fifty-year-old modernist citadel into a porous and democratic campus. The new monograph </i>Lincoln Center Inside Out: An Architectural Account<i> is the first comprehensive document to feature the extensive redevelopment in its entirety. Through a combination of photographs, drawings, renderings, archival records, texts and interviews the book describes the innovative strategies that have dissolved the public/private divide and effectively turned the campus inside out, extending the spectacle of the performance halls into the Center’s mute public spaces and surrounding streets.</i></blockquote><img alt="lc-nypl2.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/lc-nypl2.jpg" title="Book spread" /><br /><blockquote>Lincoln Center Inside Out<i>, conceived as a cross between an art book, a scholarly record and an architectural diary, is comprised entirely of gatefolds. The book is a series of inside out spreads, in which the exterior pages of each feature large-format photographs by Iwan Baan and Matthew Monteith, among other acclaimed photographers. Tucked behind these lush photos, is a series of “back stories” that reveal the evolution and unexpected afterlife of the same spaces. The book can therefore be read in two ways as a photo essay documenting the construction process and the completed campus, or as a collection of rich and experimental ephemera.</i></blockquote><img alt="lc-nypl3.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/lc-nypl3.jpg" title="Book gatefold" /><br /><blockquote><i>Copies of </i>Lincoln Center Inside Out: An Architectural Account<i> (Damiani) are available for <a href="http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2013/04/10/architectural-explorations-books">purchase and signing at the event</a> after audience Q&A.</i></blockquote><b>US: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8862082444/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=8862082444&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" target="_blank"><img alt="Buy from Amazon.com" border="0" src="http://www.archidose.org/books/buy-from-tan.gif" /></a> CA: <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/8862082444/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=8862082444&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" target="_blank"><img alt="Buy from Amazon.ca" border="0" height="28" src="http://www.archidose.org/books/buy-from-tan-ca.gif" width="90" /></a> UK: <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/8862082444/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=8862082444&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" target="_blank"><img alt="Buy from Amazon.co.uk" border="0" height="28" src="http://www.archidose.org/books/buy-from-tan-uk.gif" width="90" /></a></b>

Book Talk: Lincoln Center Inside Out

On Tuesday, April 9 , Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio and Charles Renfro of Diller Scofidio + Renfro along with MoMA's Barry Bergdoll...

Derm Organics Review

12:34 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-961kMDiYgak/UWHJpiekPRI/AAAAAAAAHfs/CbusoLOkwvA/s1600/derm+organics+logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="62" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-961kMDiYgak/UWHJpiekPRI/AAAAAAAAHfs/CbusoLOkwvA/s320/derm+organics+logo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During the winter my skin gets dry and itchy from it being cold out even during the Spring as well!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's crazy!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've tried many lotions and hair products so my skin won't be dry and most importantly my hair won't be a big frizz ball!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While browsing on the net one night I came across this wonderful company by the name of <a href="http://www.dermorganic.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=15">Derm Organic</a> and they make all kinds of products ranging from hair products to skin.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are made with argan oil and will keep your hair and skin from drying out!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I saw their products I thought to myself I just have to try them!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I wrote them an email asking them if I could possibly review their products.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Was so excited when I heard the news that I was going to be doing a review on their products!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I couldn't wait to try them!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is what I received in the photo below.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--y5A5IGpdCs/UWHI57n4Q8I/AAAAAAAAHfU/yuj_o-alAz8/s1600/derm+organics+samplers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--y5A5IGpdCs/UWHI57n4Q8I/AAAAAAAAHfU/yuj_o-alAz8/s320/derm+organics+samplers.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>Argan oil hair treatments:</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vZgaN4_rRms/UWHJMsu-q5I/AAAAAAAAHfc/bqGAbu1DDMg/s1600/derm+organics+hair+treatments.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vZgaN4_rRms/UWHJMsu-q5I/AAAAAAAAHfc/bqGAbu1DDMg/s320/derm+organics+hair+treatments.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Daily Conditioning shampoo-</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What's great about this shampoo is that it's safe for color treated hair,  makes your hair have a healthy looking shine due to the argan oil of Morocco.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Intensive Hair Repair Masque:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This product right here is great for dry damaged hair and it smooths and softens as well as strengthens hair making it more manageable to brush.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Leave in Treatment:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Speeds drying up to a whopping 30% and also protects hair from thermal damage such as a blow dryer etc.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also repairs hair making this an outstanding product!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>Skin Care Sampler:</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9pJDU43Jeq4/UWHJXOjgfrI/AAAAAAAAHfk/1d3RLUZGiQ4/s1600/derm+organics+skin+care+samplers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9pJDU43Jeq4/UWHJXOjgfrI/AAAAAAAAHfk/1d3RLUZGiQ4/s320/derm+organics+skin+care+samplers.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eek in the photo the brown bottle isn't supposed to be in this pic! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Soap-less facial cleanser:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">dry flaky skin?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 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Today's archidose #664

8:30 AM Tukiyooo 0

Here are some photos of the <a href="http://www.robbrechtendaem.com/projects/urban/market-hall">Market Hall and Central Squares</a> (2012) in Ghent, Belgium, by <a href="http://www.robbrechtendaem.com/">Robbrecht & Daem</a>, photographed by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/klaasfotocollectie/">Klaas Vermaas</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/klaasfotocollectie/8624185920/" title="BE gent stadshal 05 2012 robbrecht & daem_v hee mj (braunpln) by Klaas5, on Flickr"><img alt="BE gent stadshal 05 2012 robbrecht & daem_v hee mj (braunpln)" height="427" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8101/8624185920_95a99842e0_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/klaasfotocollectie/8624186444/" title="BE gent stadshal 03 2012 robbrecht & daem_v hee mj (braunpln) by Klaas5, on Flickr"><img alt="BE gent stadshal 03 2012 robbrecht & daem_v hee mj (braunpln)" height="427" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8387/8624186444_ebd181f933_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/klaasfotocollectie/8624186666/" title="BE gent stadshal 02 2012 robbrecht & daem_v hee mj (braunpln) by Klaas5, on Flickr"><img alt="BE gent stadshal 02 2012 robbrecht & daem_v hee mj (braunpln)" height="427" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8110/8624186666_c5b11891e6_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/klaasfotocollectie/8624185620/" title="BE gent stadshal 06 2012 robbrecht & daem_v hee mj (braunpln) by Klaas5, on Flickr"><img alt="BE gent stadshal 06 2012 robbrecht & daem_v hee mj (braunpln)" height="427" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8252/8624185620_8613d6a1f8_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br />To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just:<br /><blockquote>:: Join and add photos to the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/archi-dose/">archidose pool</a>, and/or<br />:: Tag your photos <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/archidose/">archidose</a></span></blockquote>

Today's archidose #664

Here are some photos of the Market Hall and Central Squares (2012) in Ghent, Belgium, by Robbrecht & Daem , photographed by Klaas Verma...

EUROPEAN “SHADOW STATE” FACES GROWING RESISTANCE

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<br /> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLYvJ9IHUzQJ2BlveV1quOKzHEWzwq-ioN4SZGjEC2dODfeSdi_ciWVQEMyuapktSHqBr8AOwEKNrYp6JxUJQ2w0lkKIX6pGjQyPSp3z_HPaiHCBsQpPZS2hHGviaUHRVNWsOtF0zTf0Yx/s1600/What-is-the-Troika-456x300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLYvJ9IHUzQJ2BlveV1quOKzHEWzwq-ioN4SZGjEC2dODfeSdi_ciWVQEMyuapktSHqBr8AOwEKNrYp6JxUJQ2w0lkKIX6pGjQyPSp3z_HPaiHCBsQpPZS2hHGviaUHRVNWsOtF0zTf0Yx/s400/What-is-the-Troika-456x300.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-no-proof: yes;"><br /></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">WHICH CRUEL RULER IS CONTINUALLY FORCING NEW ROUNDS OF AUSTERITY MEASURES ON SOUTHERN EU STATES? – NOT GERMANY - BUT THE  EUROZONE’S SHADOW STATES? </span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">via Deutsche Welle </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amid the EU’s lack of a strong central government to enforce common fiscal policy, a “shadow state” has emerged – a patchwork of agencies that is facing growing criticism as undemocratic and illegitimate.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Which cruel ruler is continually forcing new rounds of austerity measures on the GREEKS? And which dark power managed to break the resistance of CYPRIOTS? The answer is not GERMANY. It is the EUROZONE’S shadow state.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It sounds like something from science fiction or fantasy, the Star Wars saga or Lord of the Rings. But the term “shadow state” in reference to the euro crisis does not come from a conspiracy theorist, but rather a well-known economist: senior Deutsche Bank advisor Thomas Mayer.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #cc0000;">SHADOW GOVERNMENT: THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL</span> </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Within this euro shadow state is a shadow government, the European Council,” Mayer said at a recent lecture at the Academy for Civic Education in Tutzing, southern GERMANY. “There’s a shadow executive, the EUROGROUP. And there’s a task force to implement discipline that was grossly infringed upon. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">That’s the troika.”</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The euro would not be viable without this shadow state, Mayer says, because there are only two ways to organize a monetary union. The first is to create a central bank that is truly independent and tasked with nothing but maintaining the stability of the currency. In this case, the member states are sovereign but adhere to agreed-upon rules. That was the original idea behind the Maastricht Treaty, which established the euro as the currency of the EUROPEAN UNION.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">THE END OF INDEPENDENCE</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLEq6l0Mm2cDN5ML8zwTx9EO3mxRRzMJPd5JbTy_ZdcL1dUNp_APGYbvDTmKSMOoYpKnwnYgwtbBxcSQpso1nOSnKYcMPQ8e90ipNx7Iu8VwVlKe2iw17vhNESItrwncq_N7jJZCrulMgG/s1600/PA-12529068-390x285.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLEq6l0Mm2cDN5ML8zwTx9EO3mxRRzMJPd5JbTy_ZdcL1dUNp_APGYbvDTmKSMOoYpKnwnYgwtbBxcSQpso1nOSnKYcMPQ8e90ipNx7Iu8VwVlKe2iw17vhNESItrwncq_N7jJZCrulMgG/s320/PA-12529068-390x285.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In reality, no one adhered to the rules, leaving only the second path to a currency union. Under this model, the European Central Bank (ECB) is no longer an independent currency guardian, but rather a political agent. That was made clear when it refused to grant banks in CYPRUS further emergency funding until the government in Nicosia could come up with a plan to partially finance its own bailout. It was also made clear upon the earlier announcement of ECB President Mario Draghi that the bank would buy unlimited amounts of government debt from countries hit hard by the euro crisis.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“If the crisis-hit countries don’t recover and win back their competitiveness, then the risk premiums will rise regardless of Draghi’s promises,” said Friedrich Sell, economics professor at Bundeswehr University Munich. “In that case, Draghi will eventually have to negotiate – that’s when things will get exciting.” Exciting, because the ECB would have to pump so much money into the market that inflation would inevitably increase.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The ECB has become a political central bank financing the debts of its members, and the euro has become “public debt money.” For these reasons, according to Thomas Mayer, the ECB needs its own state to fulfill its duties. “If it doesn’t have a state, and unfortunately that’s the situation in the EUROZONE, then they could end up constructing a euro shadow state,” he said.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SHADOW STATE FACES GROWING RESISTANCE</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">People in countries like CYPRUS are increasingly unhappy with the balance of power in the EU</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That’s exactly what Mayer argues has occurred in recent years. The basis for the euro shadow state comes from treaties that many EUROPEANS have never heard of. Does anyone know what the “two-pack” or “six-pack” agreements are? Is anyone sure of exactly what the “fiscal compact” does? “This network of treaties diminishes national sovereignty and imposes a degree of discipline on states so that they can operate in the system of public debt money,” Mayer said.</span><br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt;"><b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Related articles on EUROPE : </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/08/the-us-turns-its-back-on-europe.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/08/the-us-turns-its-back-on-europe.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/04/feindbild-deutschland.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/04/feindbild-deutschland.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/austerity-threatens-eu-competitive.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/austerity-threatens-eu-competitive.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/cyprus-and-germany.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/cyprus-and-germany.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/european-democracy-at-crossroad.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/european-democracy-at-crossroad.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/12/europe-spain.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/12/europe-spain.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/france-chooses-path-of-austerity.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/france-chooses-path-of-austerity.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yet the shadow state and its rules are coming up against increasing resistance. The government of CYPRUS strongly opposed the conditions of its bailout, indirectly threatening the EUROZONE with its own bankruptcy – although it eventually relented. And ITALY recently voted out a government that was never elected in the first place – a rejection of the shadow state, Mayer said, and its representative Mario Monti.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Since those elections in ITALY, there has not been a clear majority coalition in parliament, making the country essentially ungovernable. Unemployment in the EUROZONE is increasing, the economy is shrinking and protests against austerity measures are a near-daily occurrence in GREECE, SPAIN and other debt-burdened countries.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mayer said the EUROZONE’S problem is that it is functioning in a system with public debt money and a central bank, but no functional state to go with it – a problem with a historical precedent set in the former SOVIET UNION.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NORTH AGAINST SOUTH: IS THE EUROZONE IRREVOCABLY DIVIDED?</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After the collapse of the USSR in 1991, the former SOVIET republics attempted to keep their common currency, the ruble. However members of the “ruble zone” failed to agree on a supra-national governance structure that would keep their economic and fiscal policies in line with each other. States then began to compete in extracting credit from their national central banks, resulting in high inflation. The ruble zone began to collapse in 1992 as the Baltic states became the first to abandon the common currency. RUSSIA’S own exit a year later solidified the currency union’s ultimate failure.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SHOWDOWN WITH ITALY – THE EUROZONE’S THIRD-LARGEST ECONOMY – COULD SPELL THE END OF EUROPE’S COMMON CURRENCY</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnpXfHR1Bqfm6p14BX8nMM932QuPFs1HwsMfvmyK7r8ghlUPjX6HxyIpnR_bSYdlrGwCGdUMOTfh-IiwngXLPhGzAngdM60RdVdFWDqYKJc8gBrXUqsS4HEUfvWCfmllD0u0DK5rAFKdXX/s1600/20110716_ldp002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnpXfHR1Bqfm6p14BX8nMM932QuPFs1HwsMfvmyK7r8ghlUPjX6HxyIpnR_bSYdlrGwCGdUMOTfh-IiwngXLPhGzAngdM60RdVdFWDqYKJc8gBrXUqsS4HEUfvWCfmllD0u0DK5rAFKdXX/s320/20110716_ldp002.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“If we don’t manage to uphold the authority of the shadow state, then we’re threatened with the fate of the ruble zone,” Mayer said. This is also why Brussels prevailed against Cyprus’s reluctance in agreeing to harsh bailout terms, Mayer added, and why a showdown with ITALY – the EUROZONE’S third-largest economy – could spell the end of Europe’s common currency.</span></div><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b></b></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span>

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Update on my health issue

5:14 AM Tukiyooo 0

<div align="LEFT">Below is an email I sent this morning to my friends, family and coworkers. I thought it was easier to just post this here too for my few friends I have out in the blog world. <br /><div align="LEFT"><br /><div align="LEFT">Thank you for your kind emails. I haven't been very good about responding to anyone. I'm sorry. I'm sort of in a tizzy with everything happening so fast. <br /><div align="LEFT"><br /><div align="LEFT">I'll post once I'm home on Wednesday or Thursday. <br /><div align="LEFT"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;">********************</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Hi everyone,</div><div style="text-align: left;">Thank you for your kind words and thoughts. I really appreciate it. </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">I've been debating on how much to tell everyone about what's going on with my health. I've decided to give you some details since I told a couple of you there was a chance of cancer. If you don't want to know any of this, you should stop reading now. :)</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div align="LEFT" style="text-align: center;">********************<br /> </div><div align="LEFT" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">In January I started having some lower abdominal/pelvic pain. Mostly cramping with some stabbing pains. It went away after a week so I didn't think much about it. </div><br /><div align="LEFT">About two weeks ago the pain started again, but this time it was worse, and it didn't go away. Every day the pain became a little more intense. In the last week and a half I've had a CT scan, an ultrasound, and a biopsy of my endometrium (lining of my uterus in case any guys are reading this). The biopsy was negative. However, there was a large mass growing in my uterus (they thought it was a fibroid, but not sure). They couldn't biopsy it because they didn't know where the cancer might be growing inside of it. They would have to remove the fibroid to biopsy it. My gynecologist discussed this with the gynecologic oncologist in Seattle and they thought it was best if I saw the oncologist to review my options (which turned out to be very limited). <br /><br /><div align="LEFT">After four hours of being poked and prodded Friday by the oncologist, she said she "thinks" what I have is a large, rapidly growing fibroid. Fibroids are usually not cancerous, but the ones that are cancerous are the rapidly growing ones. Since there's a possibility of cancer and since it's growing so fast (it actually increased in size since the Tuesday ultrasound), the gynecologic oncologist felt it was best if she does the surgery, a total abdominal hysterectomy.<br /><br /><div align="LEFT">The oncologist won't know if the fibroid is cancerous until she removes my uterus with the fibroid intact, and has it biopsied while she keeps "working on me". If it's cancer then my ovaries and lymph nodes will also be removed. She can't do the surgery laparscopically since the fibroid is so large, as she put it, the size of the head of a 32-week old fetus (or a very large grapefruit). She can't take the risk of the fibroid falling apart as she removes it because if it is cancerous the cancer cells would be released into my bloodstream and cause cancer to develop elsewhere. I thought that was interesting. I didn't even know that could happen. <br /><br /><div align="LEFT">Unfortunately, the abdominal incision will be vertical and about seven inches. She said she has to do the surgery this way since things are "abnormal" (I heard that word over and over). This is because of the size of the fibroid and how my uterus is pressing into my other organs and displacing them. She said it will be tricky to remove my enlarged uterus and not damage the surrounding organs. No worries on the incision because my bikini days are long gone, so this is the least of my problems. <br /><br /><div align="LEFT">My surgery is tomorrow, April 8, at 8:45am at the Seattle Virginia Mason Hospital. The surgery usually only takes an hour, but my oncologist said mine could take two to three hours since it's a bit more complicated than a normal hysterectomy. I'll be in the hospital for two or three days, then home for three to four weeks, depending on how the surgery goes (cancer versus no cancer).<br /><br /><div align="LEFT">I'm sure I don't have cancer. I don't feel like I do. :) Even if on the very remote chance it is cancer, it would be treatable so I'm not worried. Just another chapter of my already crazy life.<br /><br /><div align="LEFT">If anyone asks about me, feel free to share any of this information. As you all know, my life is an open book.<br /><br /><div align="LEFT">I'll update you once I'm home from the hospital. Take care, and I'll see all of you in a few weeks. <br /><br />~Diana</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>

Update on my health issue

Below is an email I sent this morning to my friends, family and coworkers. I thought it was easier to just post this here too for my few fri...