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Interesting stuff, rondoman. The information you linked to certainly bucks the majority opinion. Then again, the doctor's background is far from traditional. In our particular case, the doctor says not to be concerned about a daily minimum. He probably figures that it's pretty easy to stumble into an amount that's adequate for this person. Edema (fluid retention) has been under control since aggressively cutting back sodium; it was completely out of control before that. It's possible that the oral medication might be having a positive effect, but I don't think it's doing a bit of good. The only way to be able to tell for sure is to experiment with cutting back on the drug. The doctor has given the go-ahead to try that.

If changing your DNS corrected the problem, I wonder if you were experiencing a provider issue. If you ever have a chance to access the internet via a different provider, you might find it interesting to see how that provider's DNS works. By the way, on a Mac, it's easy to save as many DNS settings as you need. When you have more than the standard "Automatic," a Location submenu will appear in the Apple Menu. All you need to do to switch is check the one you'd like to use.

I took RoCoBrewfan's post the way he meant it to be taken, partly because of the word "seems" and partly because of what he's posted during his long history on the board. You can't really "take exception" to a result of research. It is what it is. You can, however, question the value of the research or the methodology involved. And you certainly comment on the results. But commenting stops short of "taking exception." Statheads will tell you that one season doesn't mean much in the broad scheme of things. However, stats like this make for some good trivia and some good discussion, and that's always fun.

The doctor says that eating a brat at a Brewers' game contributes to "quality of life." Actually, I estimate that a brat on a bun with a squirt of Koop's mustard (but no sauerkraut) amounts to about 1000mg, or 2/3 of a heart patient's daily maximum. There's room if you budget for it. The other night, we brought salad dressing to a restaurant. Based on the server's reaction, it was obvious that she had seen that done before. I think that in the future, we may bring ketchup too. Butter and margarine are a drag. The amount of sodium is OK when you're sticking to one "serving." But it adds up fast when you use it normally at the table. There's unsalted butter and no-salt margarine, but they come in sticks, and sticks tend to be higher in fat than softened alternatives. I made some soft margarine from no-salt sticks. To do this, use two sticks of no-salt margarine, a quarter cup of skim milk, and whip using a hand mixer with a whisk attachment. Aside from being messy, it's an easy process. I covered as much of the bowl as possible with a paper towel to keep stuff from flying everywhere. I can't imagine keeping this very long, so I tried freezing some. I just thawed the frozen container, but I haven't tried using it. You use less product if it's softened because whipping adds air and it's easier to spread. Sodium is a non-factor because the skim milk adds a total of about 30mg to the entire 16 tablespoon batch (plus the volume benefit you get from whipping). I picked up liquid squirt margarine, which advertises 0mg sodium and no fat. However, the 0mg sodium is asterisked; 5 squirts would have 15mg. And it actually took 25–30 squirts to cover a piece of toast. That's better sodium-wise than store-bought soft margarine, but given that it's a pain in the butt to use, I'd be surprised if I bought it again. Plus, the stuff isn't cheap.

reillymcshane, do you happen to have data showing where Yuni's 2011 season ranked vs. Tim Johnson?

Locked and superseded by this topic: Ryan Braun calling season ticket holders; Graffito to close

Just to update, Bing has probably been the biggest contributor the (ab)use of our board's resources. support has been working hard to rein it in, including sending a nastygram to Microsoft. Google hasn't been all that well behaved either, although it's apparently been nothing like Bing. Obviously, we want the search engines to crawl the site, but we don't want them wearing out their welcome either. You've probably noticed that some large topics have been split. There are more on the list to be done. Splitting seems to have the immediate effect of causing the new smaller topics to open faster. And it should help overall, as too many large threads drag on the system as a whole. We're still discussing some other measures that we might take. We'll let you know more as things become relevant. I'm noticing a positive difference. Is anyone else?

New topic for a new season: Milwaukee Bucks 2013-2014 Please feel free to use the new thread to continue any discussion from this topic.

Training camp starts at the end of the month, and national anthem auditions are being held in only nine days, so it makes sense to start a new thread for a new season. Please feel free to use this topic to continue any discussion from the previous thread. For those who want to catch up, here's a link to the last two pages of that topic: viewtopic.php?f=67&t=28774&start=700

In addition to the fairness issue, the head principal also succeeded in making the assistant principal look dumb.

"What's Bugging You?" isn't split yet, but this thread shouldn't take forever to load. "What's Bugging You?" is next on the list. The lock icons are back.

I've begun the process of splitting long topics to hopefully improve board performance, starting with this one. Old topics are allegedly closed (according to our moderator controls), but currently, the lock icons aren't showing up for some reason. Splits from the original topic will be linked in the leads and in the final post.

Thanks, support for what you've been doing. I know that this has taken a lot of time on your part, and we'd be in much tougher shape without your help. As support knows, I haven't been readily available to pitch in the past few days. My schedule should improve later in the week. As support says, he's been in contact with DreamHost. Our bandwidth usage was about ten times what our hosting plan is designed to handle. While upgrading to a a higher plan is an option (that wouldn't be all that costly), we've been given some time to maneuver before we make a decision to do that.

A Time Warner technician who came to the house recently said that the "straight from the wall" option will be going away. She said that the product they'll be using won't be a full-fledged behemoth box. She also said there were issues with getting these things to install properly, so hopefully, we don't see this change until the bugs are ironed out. Even without Time Warner making the decision for us, "straight from the wall" cable is becoming less and less viable as households fill up with HD sets. If you don't use a box on an HD television, the picture is pretty crummy. FVBrewerFan, are you sure that you'll lose your Time Warner e-mail if you drop their service? AT&T will let you keep your e-mail if you drop them.

Even though Wendy isn't part of the picture anymore, could she be Miss Piggy?

I've talked to AT&T about Uverse, but the disqualifying factor for television is that they don't offer Extra Innings. The MLB.tv package would be an option for a lot of users, but in our case, the simplicity of getting the games on cable wins out. Still, it's annoying that Time Warner doesn't offer Extra Innings games in HD; MLB.tv would win in that regard.

Whoever has jurisdiction over South 43rd Street either needs to enforce the speed limit or raise it. Or maybe both things need to happen: raise the speed limit to 30 mph and make sure people obey it. It's a joke as things are right now.

MacBook Airs were released in late June, so now is a good time to buy them. Other Macs are currently in need of a refresh. I don't think I'd bother with the extra processor, but as Adam says, I'd go for the extra RAM. For storage, you're probably in a better position to judge than we are. I'd personally want 256GB, but a lot of people are absolutely fine with 128GB. I used to think that I'd like to go beyond 256GB, but with SSDs, the price starts to get high. Plus, if you ever have to restore from a backup, the more data you have, the longer the restoration takes. Keep in mind that the 13 inch model has an SD card slot, so you have the option of expanding storage that way.

Just make sure you upgrade the ram to 8GB since you can't do it later on. Yup. This is important and is worth repeating. The RAM on MacBook Airs and Retina MacBook Pros can't be upgraded later. Other Macs (including the legacy MacBook Pros) still have upgradeable RAM. As Adam says, I'd hold off on a MacBook Pro. An Air should be plenty for most users, though, unless 15" is necessary. In the past, a big reason people have gone with Wintel computers rather than a Mac is initial cost. The cheapest Wintel Ultrabooks are only slightly less expensive than the Air, however, and many cost more.

SSDs are pretty mainstream now; if reliability were too significant an issue, manufacturers wouldn't be using them. A big upside to an SSD is that a mechanical failure is impossible since there are no moving parts. I'd say it's probably six of one and half a dozen of the other once you compare the ways you can run into issues with each type of storage. I switched out the hard drive for an SSD in my 2008 MacBook Pro, and I absolutely love it. The speed boost made it like getting an entirely new computer. Everything is markedly faster than with the old hard drive. New machines use SSDs because the speed bump means that you don't have to rely so much on the processor for speed. Using a processor that's slower than what's needed for a standard hard drive means more battery life. Also, the SSDs in new machines are much smaller than hard drives. That allows the computers to be more portable than they'd otherwise be. Of course, since failure is possible with either kind of storage, everyone should be backing up on a regular basis. Apple's Time Machine is awfully easy to use. All you have to do is remember to keep your backup drive connected whenever it's practical and the backups take care of themselves.

I can easily eat corn on the cob without the pepper. I mentioned that a lot of products list serving sizes that are ridiculously small. I see that Tabasco Sauce is the opposite. A "serving" is one teaspoon, which is a heck of a lot of Tabasco for most people. A teaspoon of Tabasco has 30mg of sodium; I see potential for using it since you get mass quantities of flavor with a small quantity. The main issue I see is that the flavor is so distinctive that if one used it too often, things would taste the same and become boring. Logan, I bet a lot of people out there add salt to their processed foods, so you're probably still ahead of a good segment of the population.

I put pepper on corn on the cob. At home, the pepper comes from a grinder rather than a shaker, but I'm not too snooty to use a shaker when that's the available option.

It's kind of a package deal. The second radio broadcaster is an employee of WTMJ. Uecker, Anderson, Schroeder, and Nelson are Brewers employees. The rest are employed by Fox.

Yeah, it's an older family member. His main symptom is edema (fluid retention). The reduced sodium diet seems to be helping to control that. I stopped adding salt at the table years ago when my grandmother complained that she couldn't taste anything after she was told to do that. I decided that I didn't want to end up having that happen, so I may as well get used to not adding salt. This family member has never added salt at the table, so that's a huge plus. His issue is some of the other junk he likes to eat, so I help him "budget it in" here and there. The big pain is that many things that you want to do work against each other. What's good for the heart is bad for the kidneys (and vice versa), so that has to be balanced. And with food, if you're dealing with cholesterol, you'll find that lower fat alternatives tend to have more sodium than the non-reduced fat versions. I go for aggressively controlling the salt and using common sense with cholesterol.

I'd suggest a 13" MacBook Air. It weighs in at 2.96 pounds, is .68 inches thick at its thickest point, and advertises 12 hours of battery life. Starting price is $1099 for 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage would cost $1399. The main reason for the long battery life would be the latest generation Intel Haswell processor. These processors run at much lower clock speeds than the previous Ivy Bridge generation while still putting out about the same overall speed. Overall, the newest MacBook Airs end up showing a speed increase over the previous generation due to PCIe storage (rather than traditional SATA). PCIe storage is generally reserved for much more expensive machines. Battery life should be bumped further with the release of OS X 10.9 Mavericks this fall.