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Reset & Perrysburg Volleyball

"Reset" (specifically Reset Arcade) is a popular retro arcade bar and restaurant concept in the Greater Toledo area. While there isn't a physical Reset location directly within the Perrysburg city limits, their primary location featuring massive sand volleyball courts is right next door in Rossford, Ohio (only about a 5-to-10-minute drive from Perrysburg). [1, 2] If you are looking to play sand volleyball specifically inside Perrysburg or at Reset, here is how the options bre

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14 hours ago2 min read

Sine qua non yoga

Yes. The wording is more interesting than it first appears because “sine qua non” turns the sentence into a statement about necessity and causation, not merely about whether yoga is useful. 1. What does the sentence mean? “The efficacy of yoga and its methods is a sine qua non for its successful practice.” In ordinary English: “For yoga practice to be successful, yoga and its methods must actually be effective.” Or even more literally: “The effectiveness of yoga is a conditio

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2 days ago5 min read

Basho trail

Yes—but Kumano Kodo and Bashō’s route are mostly different journeys, and I would not treat the Kumano Kodo as a way of “following Bashō.” There is one important historical/geographic connection: the Kiiji/Kumano pilgrimage road ran from the Kyoto/Osaka region south toward Kumano, whereas Bashō’s famous 1689 journey went east and north from Edo, then through Tōhoku and the Hokuriku coast before ending at Ōgaki. The two journeys on a map Kumano Kodo: Kyoto/Osaka → Kii Peninsula

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3 days ago6 min read

Tar and pud

Yes. This is a particularly good example of Nicholson making a very compact English equivalent for a Persian textile metaphor. The Persian is much more concrete than the English sentence initially makes it seem. The key phrase is: دست در کن هیچ یابی تار و پود dast dar kon, hīch yābī tār o pūd? Literally something like: “Put your hand to it—do you find any تار و پود (tār o pūd)?” The surrounding couplet is: زان شکار و انبهی و باد و بود دست در کن هیچ یابی تار و پود and Nicholso

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3 days ago4 min read

Yogurt recipes mango lassi

Homemade yogurt is the best problem to have. Here are some good ways to burn through a lot of it, with a few less obvious ones: Biggest yogurt-burners: - Labneh - strain it overnight in a cheesecloth, then roll into balls and cover in olive oil with herbs. Uses quarts at a time and keeps for weeks. - 2-ingredient flatbreads - roughly equal parts yogurt and self-rising flour, pan-fry. Great for wraps, pizzas, everything. - Yogurt-marinated chicken or cauliflower - 2 cups yogur

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3 days ago1 min read

Perrysburg PB Y yoga

Yes — your friend appears to be talking about the Fort Meigs YMCA in Perrysburg, and I found good evidence that SilverSneakers is accepted there. Fort Meigs YMCA is at 13415 Eckel Junction Rd., Perrysburg. The YMCA of Greater Toledo officially says its branches offer SilverSneakers to people with participating insurance plans. More importantly, I found a pickleball-specific listing for Perrysburg Fort Meigs YMCA that says: Indoor pickleball 2 courts Monday, Wednesday & Friday

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5 days ago1 min read

Flying with two wings

Yes. This passage is much richer in Persian than the English “knowledge vs. opinion” makes it appear. The key is that Rumi is not simply saying “facts are better than opinions.” He is talking about the transformation of knowing itself—from conjecture into certainty. The Persian gives us a very good way into it. 1. The actual Persian words Rumi says: علم را دو پَر، گمان را یک پَر است ناقص آمد ظن، به پرواز ابتر است ʿelm-rā do par, gomān-rā yek par ast nāqeṣ āmad ẓann, be parvāz

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5 days ago5 min read

Gratitude

Yes. What you are noticing in the Rumi passage is not an isolated Islamic idea. There is a remarkably broad comparative-religion pattern: gratitude, contentment, generosity, and recognition of what has been given are repeatedly associated with increase, blessing, prosperity, or a sense of inner wealth. But there is an important distinction: the traditions do not all mean “gratitude guarantees that your bank account will increase.” Often “increase” means that what one already

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5 days ago5 min read

Making yogurt with the rice cooker

Yes. I found the official Comfee MB-FS5077 manual, and this model is particularly easy because the Yogurt program is specifically designed to put the milk directly into the inner cooking pot. For your 1½ gallons of milk 1. Heat the milk Put the 1½ gallons of whole milk in a saucepan. Heat to 180°F, stirring so it doesn’t scorch. Let it cool to 115°F. The manual specifically calls for 115°F before adding the starter. 2. Add your starter Add your approximately 1 cup of plain yo

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5 days ago2 min read

Making yogurt

Yes — that is basically the right traditional controlled-temperature method, with a couple of important adjustments for 1.5 gallons. For your 1.5 gallons of whole milk Heat milk to 180°F (82°C). Stir periodically so it doesn’t scorch. Hold around 180°F for 5–10 minutes if you want a thicker, more reliable yogurt. This denatures whey proteins and improves the set. Cool to about 110–115°F (43–46°C). Don’t add the starter while the milk is still near 180°F; that can kill the cul

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5 days ago2 min read

The focusrite scarlett 4i4

Yes. For your Scarlett 4i4 4th Gen, I would install the Focusrite software first, before doing the rest of the setup. In fact, Focusrite’s current setup procedure is designed around doing this. The important point is: don’t download every piece of bundled music software yet. Do the Scarlett itself first. I would do it in this order Connect the Scarlett 4i4 to your Mac USB-C from the Scarlett’s USB port to the Mac. You don’t need to connect your keyboards yet. Install Focusrit

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5 days ago2 min read

Tendon changing

Yes. In this context, “tendon-changing” (yijinjing / 易筋經) does not mean literally changing the tendons. It refers to traditional Chinese exercises intended to condition the connective tissues, tendons, ligaments, fascia, posture, and whole-body coordination. The term is associated with several different traditions, including Daoist and Buddhist exercise systems, so there isn’t one universally standardized “tendon-changing” routine. What is especially interesting for you is th

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6 days ago4 min read

50+ volleyball

Yes. Given gym → PB Saturday, PB Sunday, then swim + sauna + PB + tennis Monday, your legs have had four fairly active days with a lot of repeated lateral movement and pushing off. Since there’s fatigue but no injury, tomorrow can be useful—but I’d treat 50+ volleyball as a readiness test, not another hard training day. Tonight: recovery Eat enough protein: aim for roughly 30–40 g at dinner, plus another protein serving earlier/later if needed. Carbohydrate is useful tonight

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6 days ago2 min read

Polly Williams

Yes. I can identify the missing branch as Polly Williams, wife of Thaddeus Rockwell (1782–1874) in the tree you showed. I dug into the Ohio/New York evidence, and there is an important distinction between what is documented and what is merely appearing in online family trees. What I can establish Your Polly is the woman who: Polly Williams born about 1785/1786 died September 6, 1841 married Thaddeus Rockwell was living in New York before coming to Greenfield Township, Huron C

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Sep 273 min read

Maretts on Jersey

Yes. I found some very interesting Jersey material, and it makes the Marett line potentially quite deep. I also found an Ohio record that appears to match the Francis/Frank Marett in your tree. What the Jersey records tell us The Marett surname is genuinely an old Jersey/Norman name, not simply an English surname that happened to arrive in Jersey. Jersey Heritage says: The name is probably Norman and certainly French in origin. It is recorded in the 1274 Extente of Jersey as

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Sep 263 min read

What is today’s phantasy?

Yes—but I would make your interpretation a little more precise. Rumi is doing something deeper than saying, “everyone wakes up with an obsession for the day.” The key is the sequence: Guarded Tablet → intellect reads → phantasy/desire arises → person acts → people mistake their different pursuits for objective truth. 1. The “morning lesson” is a metaphor for how destiny becomes psychologically operative When Rumi says: “Like the Angel, the intellect receives (reads) every mor

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Sep 265 min read

2012 prius

Yes — I would seriously go look at this one in Perrysburg. The combination is unusually attractive for the kind of inexpensive second car you’ve been looking for: 2012 Prius c Three 71,686 miles — very low for a 14-year-old car $10,000 2 keys No reported accidents Warranty included And importantly, this is the Prius c, the smaller hatchback, not the larger regular Prius. The listing’s AI description appears to have incorrectly called it a “Prius c Four”; the actual descriptio

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Sep 252 min read

Making yogurt

Yes — and I think your revised memory actually makes the project much more interesting and simpler. What you remember sounds very much like the traditional household method: heat the milk, cool it to roughly the right temperature by experience, add yesterday’s yogurt, cover it, leave it overnight, and refrigerate it in the morning. And since you have several gallons of milk right now, I’d experiment before buying an expensive yogurt maker or exotic starter. I would approach t

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Sep 254 min read

Greek homemade yogurt

Yes — what she was doing is a very traditional and completely legitimate way of making yogurt. In fact, the details you remember are quite consistent with how generations of Greek and Balkan households made yogurt without a yogurt maker. The interesting part is that the long 24–36 hour room-temperature incubation can work, provided the conditions are right. What was happening She boiled the whole milk This wasn’t merely for sanitation. Heating milk to around 180–190°F (82–88°

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Sep 252 min read

Pranayama

Yes. There is fairly good modern evidence that slow, controlled pranayama-type breathing can produce measurable physiological and psychological benefits, although the evidence is much stronger for some effects than for the broader traditional claims. The Shiva Samhita passage you quoted is specifically describing alternate-nostril breathing with breath retention—essentially a form of nāḍī śodhana/anuloma-viloma, though terminology varies by tradition. What modern research sup

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Sep 252 min read