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It might have been a much more tense conversation: Carrie confronts Mike about his continued meddling in the CIA's terror investigation. She knows all about where he's been snooping. She even knows about the affair with his best friend's wife.
That friend, of course, is Brody. And, you know, Brody and Carrie have something of a romantic entanglement themselves. Carrie opts for an emotional appeal, asking Mike to step back for the good of the woman he cares about, and he agrees. It's not easy to let go, she says, "not when you've chosen someone." So whose relationship was the subject of this conversation again?
Episode 7 of Season 2 proved momentous for nearly every character, but to a large degree, it also served as an explainer (presuming we take the characters at their words). Carrie is really stuck on Brody; he thinks she's using him but he likes it. Saul may be compromised by his loneliness. Jessica's sense of rectitude is an obvious reason why Brody hasn't been able to level with her.
Plot lines that have been in motion since the start of the season came together, offering the writers an opportunity to explore some of the underlying parallels and broader motivations. And yeah, sometimes they lay it on thick, but it's a Sunday night and we're tired.
The episode shifts between a fundraiser for presidential candidate Walden, where Dana threatens to derail his bid for executive office, and a federal prison where Saul works a convicted terrorist (and minor season one character) for information.
Compared to all the neck-twisting, a hand-stabbing, hit-and-running, and storefront ambushing that's been going down, things were pretty quiet -- though an attack on America seems to be growing closer.
Hosted by a wealthy Vietnam War veteran, the fundraiser takes place in a lush country home complete with woods, pool, and stables. The Brody and Walden clans are both in attendance, as was David Estes for some reason.
The host, Rex, doesn't think much of Walden, but wants to see Brody taken along for the ride as the vice presidential candidate on the ticket. Brody nods politely, and comes off as genuinely sad about the fact that his days as a congressman and potential vice presidential nominee are numbered.
Contemplating his grim prospects in the stables with a rehabbed horse (who should have, apparently, been sent to the glue factory long ago), Brody gets a call from Carrie, who is hiding in the nearby woods to say hello and provide some vague spy-related information.
There isn't really much to say, and within a few minutes these two are making out. From the looks of astonishment on both of their faces, it seems we are supposed to think that this was a genuine moment of connection, rather than an attempt by one to further manipulate the other. But hey, these are spies we're talking about.
Meanwhile, the kids are busy spoiling a perfectly nice fundraiser with their lingering hit-and-run angst. From the minute the motorcade pulls into the estate, Dana is haranguing Finn to join her in confessing their crime to the parents.
She finally spits it out, but as soon as the story is half way told, Mrs. Walden is already promising that she will "take care of it" – it, presumably, being a cover-up. Jess is horrified, and in a rare moment of engaged joint parenting, the Brodys determine that they will defy the Waldens' advice and go to the police.
It's an interesting development, in contrast to Brody's moral gyrations in his multi-layered secret life. Here, the "right thing to do" seems to crystallize for both Brody and Jessica without any need to balance priorities.
But when they pull up to the station, Carrie has beaten them there, somehow having gotten wind of the planned confession by way of Estes. She talks Brody out of letting his daughter come clean, since alienating Walden would risk the CIA's mission and render Brody less useful. Dana walks off in disgust as she realizes that her dad has been compromised by his political ambitions (true, just not in the way she thinks).
Meanwhile, Saul pulls up at a rural Pennsylvania prison to see if inmate Aileen can provide information about the mysterious shooter from last week's episode. The year has not been good to Aileen, who has been in solitary confinement and looks like dog food.
Aileen says that she will help, but first Saul must jump through hoops to get her reassigned to "a cell with a view." His attitude may be big-city and his grooming "devil-may-care," but Saul does come through. Unfortunately, Aileen feeds him false information and takes advantage of the distractions provided by her interrogation to commit suicide.
But not before he brings her bread, wine and cheese, dishes about his failed marriage and reminisces with his prisoner about the good times they had driving across country together. At the end of the episode, he admits that he let emotions affect his handling of the interrogation.
By the way, in case anyone cares, Quinn is fine and back to being a jerk. Galvez is not doing as well, and is expected to die. We expect a more action-packed, less brooding episode next week, judging from all the yelling in the preview.


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Traditions That Make A Family
YES! staff and friends shared their traditions, rituals, habits, and quirks for What Happy Families Know, the Winter 2011 issue of YES! Magazine.
Join the conversation by clicking "Comment on this article" below.
Family Food
Every year, my family's Christmas Eve dinner consists of cheese, crackers, sardines, shrimp dip, and wine. That's it. In 1978 our car broke downin Needles, Calif. on the way to spend Christmas with friends in Salt Lake City. That year our Christmas Eve dinner came from a gas station. We have continued the tradition. –Wendy Call
It's a family rule not to leave one meal without discussing plans for the next. –Donna Bernstein Schmidt
My family has always shared meals. So, whenever we are apart, our favorite way of keeping in touch is by texting snapshots of the food we are eating. Even from afar, "eating together" makes us feel closer (and sometimes jealous of each other's meals)! —Alexandria Abdallah
Growing up, my family ate together nearly every night, and we'd linger at the table long after we were done eating. I loved it, but I remember high school friends leaning over to whisper, "Um ... why are we still sitting here?" —Brooke Jarvis
Vietnamese fish sauce, nuoc mam, as a secret ingredient in everything, from spaghetti sauce to scrambled eggs! — Lynn Boland
Sunday night supper is popcorn, cheese, apples, and juice. A meal an eight-year-old can prepare, so other cooks get a break. —Loree Monroe
Blessings and Celebrations
At birthdays, we sing six versions of "Happy Birthday," including one that asks you to "stand up and take a bow--wow, wow!" and another that declares, "you are beautiful, you are strong... you're a loving song." My sister brought this song contagion home from a cousin's house when we were teenagers. Once our whole family started we couldn't stop. One song comes rolling uncontrollably after another. It's akin to hazing when we celebrate birthdays of newcomers to the family. –Alyssa Johnson
We like to have a "lights out party". When we lose power we stop whatever we were doing and have a party with games and stories. –D
Our family—myself, partner, daughter, three stepsons, ex-partner, partner's ex-husband, new girlfriend, girlfriend's daughter, and my mother (11 at the table when all are present for family dinners!) always say a special grace before any meal we are fortunate enough to share. Originated by my partner, my grace calls on each of us to say what we are grateful for, who or what we want to send special energy to, and where we wish for peace. Gratitude, blessings, peace. We share this grace with all who come to break bread with us. Amazing things happen.—Jill Bamburg
My family sings a birthday dirge to the tune of Volga Boatmen (Agony and despair, people dying everywhere ... BUT, Happy birthday). Also, traditional joke with my kids: If you don't know what to say in Confession, use "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die."
—Cathy Sherwin
We have the "Watterson goodbye" in which we continue waving to leaving visitors until they are literally out of sight.—David Watterson
Taking Time
As coordinator of a nonprofit I adjusted my schedule to spend a weekday with my son as he was growing up. We would go down to the shore of Puget Sound and explore. Over the course of hundreds of visits, he got to know one natural environment intimately, and it has been such a joy to watch that understanding—that relationship really—grow and develop.—Glen Gersmehl
We play games at top volume, especially when we have visitors. And we integrate smooching and hugging into every day life.—Angela Park
We formed a five-piece orchestra—even the five-year-old plays a part! Beatles to Sousa, we'll play anything we can.—"teledyn"
I'm a widow with a farm who was about to give up on all the work. Then my daughter and her husband came to live with me. They took the stables on one side of my 200-year-old log house and turned it into their house, with trees cut on the farm, barked and milled here. Their two boys have the run of gardens, sheep meadows, woods, and streams, and are in and out of my house all day. My daughter raises her own meat, I have a large organic garden, and we share laying hens and a ridiculously affectionate pet turkey. The oddest thing we do together is fight the spreading of municipal sewage sludge ... my daughter and daughter-in-law have become the local experts, on, well, poop, and what to do with it. —Holly Dressel
My partner and I start the morning sitting on the couch with our first cup of coffee or tea, watching the sun rise. –Sarah van Gelder
I grew up in Longview, Washington, a town of some 22,000 people, in a stable extended family that included my grandparents on both sides and the families of my father's two brothers and their children plus at one point the two sisters of one brother's wife and their families. We all lived within a one-mile radius of each other, except for my mother's sister who lived maybe five miles away, and we gathered frequently for family events. Until I went to college, I rarely traveled more than a 100 miles from home.
Throughout our 48-year marriage, Fran and I lived nowhere more than five years until we moved to Bainbridge Island from New York City in 1998. Our two daughters grew up with us in Managua, Boston, Manila, and Jakarta, at the least a continent away from any other relative. They now live in Tennessee and Virginia far from each other and connected to relatives only by phone and e-mail. To my recollection in the last 15 years the four members of our immediate nuclear family have gathered in the same place for a family reunion just three times. Not a single relative by blood or marriage remains in Longview. The elimination of geographical barriers has expanded our horizons, but at a high price in terms of relationships with family and place. –David Korten
You Had to Be There ...
The Panek Family Cake Cutting Competition occurs on the occasion of any family member's birthday and always includes a strawberry angel food cake (with filling). Each participant chooses a name and nationality. Mom always ended up being Dagmar from the former East German Republic. The contestant attempts to cut his/her piece of cake with as much skill and artistry as possible. Other family members provide sports commentary, as in: "Dagmar is back in competition after healing from a severe wrist injury last season that thwarted her hopes. Heartbreaking!" The cake cutting competition was a great reflection of my family's inbred goofiness and playfulness. Oh–and when a contestant removes the piece of cake from the platter: that's the dismount. –Stacey Panek
If anyone gets underwear for Christmas, they have to wear it on their head.—Kate Elmer
The first holiday I spent with my partner's family, I was introduced to raucous late nights of Boggle, cards, trash-talking, laughter, wine-drinking, and cookie-eating. The most unique of the games was invented by my partner and his brother: "flaming midnight croquet," played only on New Year's Eve, with a croquet set and luminaria (which invariably catch on fire).—Madeline Ostrander
Before big dinners my great uncle says the prayer in Norwegian then my grandma, aunt, and dad yodel! (I can't do it yet!) —Sarah Crumrine
X's and O's
As a six-year-old raised in a small southern rail-road town, I took the warning to heart and lived in dread of being caught, flayed and eaten by a hobo with long yellow teeth and black fingernails; served up with the communal pot of pork and beans, watermelon rinds, or missing family pets. Even in late 1960s Kentucky, every small crime was initially laid at the feet of the nameless hobo, even after the true culprit had been caught and convicted.
Our turn-of-the-century home stood close by a thick belt of overgrown woods, beyond which lay the fearsome train-yards where the freights rumbled like thunder, rattling loose window-panes.
On a very rare occasion, my parents were out of town, my brothers away, and my grandmother was here to babysit. I loved it; cinnamon toast for breakfast, frozen fried shrimp for dinner, and, for the first time in my young life, a Coca-Cola float with vanilla ice cream for dessert. This was heaven for the youngest of five much older siblings, and, bloated from my unaccustomed feast, I sat with Grandmother in the swing on the screened in porch: she to continue her perpetual needlepoint, me to digest.
She told the best stories; stories of the nearby Mississippi river flooding so that whole houses floated away, or Charles Lindbergh making social calls to a friend of hers, or going dancing to Duke Ellington when his band played at a local ballroom.
The sudden crashing sound of a freight train limbering up to begin its long trek, north to Chicago or south to New Orleans, brought me back to the hobos that haunted my imaginings.
"Boo," which was the grandkids' name for her, "did you ever see a real hobo?"
She chuckled before answering me, a soft bubbling laugh like a deep river. "I have, many a time," she said.
"It wasn't so long ago that we'd have a man come up from the tracks every couple of days to get a little food."
"For dinner too?" I was incredulous, picturing my parents' dining room table surrounded by bearded, toothless unkempt men.
"No, they would bring a pail for food. This was in the Great Depression, long before you were born," she said, while in my mind I lumped this epoch in with the Civil War, the Declaration of Independence and Adam and Eve.
"Lots of people didn't have work, and there was no money to spare, so they'd ride a train to another town to try their luck elsewhere. Several times a week there'd be a knock at the back door, always the back door, and there'd be a nice man asking if there was any work. We were luckier than most, my father being a doctor, and had more than enough for ourselves, so I'd find something for him to do, like chopping some wood or hoeing in the garden. Then he'd hand me his pail and I'd fill it with whatever we had."
"What if you didn't need anything done?"
"There's always something. It didn't matter what, but it was important to these men. It would offend a man to offer him a handout," she looked down at me to see if I understood, and I nodded like I did, though I didn't. I would be perfectly happy with a gift and no strings attached.
"In fact," she said, looking towards the yard through her bright brown eyes as though seeing people and places that were no longer there, "they would put a mark on a post by the gate to let the others know what kind of person lived there. There were different marks for bad dogs, doctors, and people who'd help. They had their own alphabet."
"On the gate post in our backyard, on the side and out of sight, there was an 'X' and an 'O'."
"Why X and O?"
"I don't know, son. I'm just thankful we were there and could do something, however little. As fat as people live these days, you'd never know it, but not so long ago a lot of good people were one stroke of bad luck away from being homeless."
I stopped my questions, having more to digest than I could easily manage, and Boo returned to her needlepoint before the mid-summer light faded.
I went inside and found my cigar box full of crayons and took out the black one.
We didn't have a gatepost or fence, but there was a bird feeder on top of a wood post in the side yard. I went to that, scrawled my 'X' and 'O', then went back inside and waited.
–Richard Hefley

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Ray Allen Shubert and Marilee Davis Shubert
at Bob & Judy's wedding
April 4, 1964
Shortly after moving back to Nashville from Ashland City, Tennessee
I have found many tombstones with the symbols of Freemasons in cemeteries where I have trekked looking for an ancestor or just visiting in order to take pictures for my cemetery blogs, Cemeteries with Texas Ties and Cemeteries of the Covered Bridges. They are varied and beautiful, indicating that the person memorialized there was a member of the Freemasons during his lifetime.
Since Dan Brown's books, "Da Vinci Code" and "Demons and Angels", were published in 2006 there has been a flurry of interest in the Masons. I've had questions about the institution's symbolism, philosophy, and history since then and have discovered several direct and collateral ancestors who were members of the Freemasons.
What I have been surprised to learn is that my late father-in-law was a Mason, but left the organization in 1988 after being affiliated with them for thirty-four years.
Ray Allen Shubert
DIMIT No. 9 from Ashland Lodge No. 604
The document indicates that he asked in writing to be released from his membership in the Ashland Lodge. Not knowing what a "DIMIT" was and what it implied, I decided to do some research about the origin of the word.
In 1873 Albert G. Mackey, M. D., a 33 degree Mason, wrote and published in London, England "An Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and its Kindred Sciences." He did so because he felt that "few men had the means, the time, and the inclination for the purchase of numerous books, some of them costly and difficult to be obtained, and for the close and attentive reading of them which is necessary to master any given subject." It was that thought that suggested to him many years prior to writing and publishing his encyclopedia, "the task of collecting materials for a work which would furnish every Freemason who might consult its pages the means of acquiring a knowledge of all matters connected with the science, the philosophy, and the history of his Order."
On page 204 Dr. Mackey defines the word Demit. "A Mason is said to demit from his Lodge when he withdraws his membership; and a demit is a document granted by the Lodge which certifies that that demission has been accepted by the Lodge, and that the demitting brother is clear of the books and in good standing as a Mason."
In the body of my father-in-law's Dimit it says that he was in good standing "and having paid all sums regularly charged against him, was dimitted at a regular meeting of this (Ashland No. 604) lodge."
Mackey continues with "To demit, which is the act of the member, is, then, to resign; and to grant a demit, which is the act of the Lodge, is to grant a certificate that the resignation has been accepted. It is derived from the French reflective verb se demetire, which, according to the dictionary of the Academy, means 'to withdraw from an office, to resign an employment.'
The application for a demit is a matter of form, and there is no power in the Lodge to refuse it, if the applicant has paid all his dues and is free of all charges. It is true that a regulation of 1722 says that no number of brethren shall withdraw or separate themselves from the Lodge in which they were made, without a dispensation; yet it is not plain how the law can be enforced, for Masonry being a voluntary association, there is no power in any Lodge to insist on any brother continuing a connection with it which he desires to sever.
The usual object in applying for a demit is to enable the brother to join some other Lodge, into which he cannot be admitted without some evidence that he was in good standing in his former Lodge. This is in accordance with an old law found in the Regulations of 1663 in the following words: 'No person hereafter who shall be accepted a Freemason, shall be admitted into any Lodge or Assembly until he has brought a certificate of the time and place of his acceptation from the Lodge that accepted him, unto the Master of that limit or division where such Lodge is kept."
In looking at Mackey's definition of Dimit, he writes that the word is "a modern, American, and wholly indefensible corruption of the technical word Demit. As the use of this corrupt form is beginning to be very prevalent among American Masonic writers, it is proper that we should inquire which is the correct word, Demit or Dimit.
For almost a century and a half the Masonic world has been content, in its technical language, to use the word demit. But within a few years, [as of 1873 when Mackey wrote the Encyclopedia] a few admirers of neologisms - men who are always ready to believe that what is old cannot be good, and that new fashions are always the best - have sought to made a change in the well-established word, and by altering the e in the first syllable into an i, they make another word dimit, which they assert is the right one. It is simply a question of orthography, and must be settled first by reference to usage, and then to etymology, to discover which of the words sustains, by its derivation, the true meaning which is intended to be conveyed."
Mackey further writes, "to demit, in Masonic language, means simply to resign. The Mason who demits from his Lodge resigns from it. The word is used in the exact sense, for instance, in the Constitution of the Grand Lodge of Wisconsin, where it is said: 'No brother shall be allowed to demit from any Lodge unless for the purpose of uniting with some other.' That is to say: 'No brother shall be allowed to resign from any Lodge.'
To dimit is derived from the Latin dimittere. The prefixed particle di or dis has the effect of off from, and hence dimittere means to send away."
After finding Dr. Mackey's definitions of the words demit and dimit, which is found on my father-in-law's document from the Ashland City Lodge, I wasn't sure whether he was allowed to resign or whether he was "sent away."
The back of the document gave the dates of his initiation into the Freemasons in 1954, and his affiliation into the Ashland Lodge from the Nashville Doric Lodge #732 in March of 1962. I know that the Shuberts moved from Nashville, Tennessee to Ashland City, Tennessee around 1961 and then back to Nashville a short time later, around 1963. Whether or not he returned to the Doric Lodge and his fellow Masons in Nashville, we don't know. I have not found documentation that he did.
Ray Allen Shubert
Freemason Ashland Lodge No. 0604 Membership Card
Mackey, Albert G., M. D., "An Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and its Kindred Sciences," Google Book Search, (Online: Books, Google.com) [Original published by Moss & Co. and A. G. Mackey, 1873 and 1878], pp 205, 211-213, <http://books.google.com/books?printsec=frontcover&id=ophIAAAAYAAJ&output=text&pg=PP1> accessed December 11, 2009).
Dimit No. 9 "To all Freemasons throughout the World" Ashland Lodge No. 604, dimit of Brother Ray Allen Shubert, June 6, 1988, John T. Bradley, Master. Original in private collection of Robert Allen Shubert.
Ashland Lodge No. 0604, Free and Accepted Masons, Membership Card, Ray Allen Shubert. No. 168, W. C. Jackson, Jr., Secretary. Original in private collection of Robert Allen Shubert.
PhotographsMarilee and Ray Shubert, Mineral Wells, Texas, April 4, 1964. Digital format. Original black and white in private collection of Robert Allen Shubert.


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This week's Q&A is a special topical edition focusing on breastfeeding. I have nursed all 10 of my children so far, but not without a few bumps along the way. I learned a lot from my mom's experience – she nursed 14 children, though her twins required supplementing. I'm hopeful that my own experience can help some of the other mothers out there.
1. Heather makes a good point that I want to start with: How about posting about not judging mothers who can't breast feed because they survived breast cancer. I hate when other mothers assume I'm lazy.
The last thing I would assume about a mother who chooses to bottle feed is that she's lazy. I think it's much harder than breastfeeding, and often wonder why so many mothers choose to feed their babies the hard way! But you are not talking about a choice at all, are you? If a mother is incapable of breastfeeding for physical/medical reasons, then of course she must bottle feed – or use other methods that are even more difficult.
The real issue here is when we jump to conclusions without information, especially when it's not our business to begin with. Is it sin to bottle feed a baby? Is it sin to bottle feed even if your breasts are perfectly functional? I don't think so, and while I might look for a way to tactfully inquire about a friend's decision to bottle feed, I would not jump to conclusions about the motive and character of anyone who popped a bottle in her baby's mouth.
2. Michelle's question makes a good follow-up to the last one: If, for some reason, you were unable to breast feed, what would you do? Formula, make your own, donor breast milk?
I have not yet faced this question, though I thought it might come to that with Bethany. While I have not done any research at all, I probably would have turned to an inexpensive commercial formula first, then learned about alternatives based on how my baby reacted to the formula.
3. Lois suggests, I think you should share what is hardest for you about breastfeeding, and how you overcome whatever that issue is.
Generally speaking, I have become quite used to breastfeeding, so I don't think of it as hard at all now. In the earlier days, I did find it a little frustrating to have my wardrobe limited by near-constant breastfeeding. Since I have always nursed into the first trimester of pregnancy, I am literally always breastfeeding, pregnant, or both. I own very few dresses because they are nearly impossible for me to wear. My wardrobe is skirts and tops.
A very different sort of issue is that of training little ones while nursing a baby. Almost without fail, the toddler will wait just until a desperately hungry infant latches on and will choose that very instant to test boundaries, make demands, or otherwise act up. There's no way around this problem, so I try to face it head-on: requiring consistent, first-time obedience even (or especially) when it's least convenient is the only way I have found to deal with this, and it does work. If the 2yo knows that you will lay a hungry, wailing infant on the couch to answer his challenge, you are on your way to more peaceful nursing sessions. Of course having older children around makes this scenario infinitely easier to deal with. 🙂
4. How did you manage the home while nursing a baby? How did you manage nursing a baby while keeping an eye on other small children?
Like above, I simply resolved to do what was necessary. Sometimes the baby had to wait a few minutes or tolerate in interrupted feeding. I think it was good for the baby to learn to wait a minute or two rather than training her to instant gratification. I also learned to hold a nursing baby in one arm while I wandered about the house with one free arm to put away dishes and toys, hold a book that I was reading to the others, wipe a dirty face, and start the VCR. Yes, VCR. These were the old days.
5. From Ashley, Not strictly bf related, but wondering about those post partum cramps that bfing seems to intensify. (I know they're good bc uterus is shrinking faster, etc) have you found they are worse with subsequent pregnancies? Any tips on relief?
Ashley, I call those afterpains. I had them worst after my fifth and longest labor, even though most of the labor itself was very mild. Those nightmarish pains sent me into tremors that wracked my body every time I nursed, almost worse than labor itself. My midwife at the time explained that a long labor can seriously deplete your calcium stores, and she recommended liquid calcium. That magical elixir has become my post-partum drug of choice ever since: a tablespoon or two at the beginning of each nursing session for the first few days after delivery does so much more than ibuprofen or tylenol! I never take painkillers after delivery now, because I simply don't need them. I know I don't need it anymore when the cramping becomes so mild I forget to take the liquid calcium.
6. From Josalyn, How long it took to become pregnant while exclusively breastfeeding.
I have never become pregnant while exclusively breastfeeding, although I know a few people who do. I think I've read that exclusive breastfeeding reliably prevents pregnancy for about 97% of women. I have always found that my own fertility returns when two things happen consistently: the baby sleeps through the night without waking, and the baby is eating more than she nurses. Of course this varies a lot from one person to the next, and having your cycles return does not necessarily mean your fertility has returned with them.
7. Jennifer wants to know, Were you able to nurse while pregnant? My milk dried up really quick. I was fine with weening before the birth of baby three, but not as soon as it happened! I was not emotionally prepared!!!
I always get pregnant while still nursing, although the baby has begun eating a fair amount of solid food by then. I try to continue nursing as long as I can, because it takes the edge off the nausea for me. It also makes me even more tired and I do find that I have less milk, so weaning happens naturally at some point during pregnancy. I think the longest I nursed into a pregnancy was 4 or 5 months. I wish I could say I had experienced tandem nursing, but I've never done it. Now that the intervals between my pregnancies seem to be lengthening, it looks unlikely that I will ever add that particular notch to my maternal belt. Joking, I'm joking! I don't have a maternal belt to notch!
8. Angela wants to know, Do any of you find you have less milk as you get older/have more kids to keep up with, especially as you start solids?
I definitely find that my milk supply reflects my own health, diet, water intake, and current level of exhaustion. Age is probably a factor, too, although it could just be that I'm more prone to exhaustion as I get older.
Starting solids is probably the single biggest factor, though. As baby becomes aware that there is an alternative to Mom, demand can very easily drop off and supply drops off accordingly. This can happen gradually without anyone noticing at first, and then one day I stare at the rest of the family and say, "When is the last time I nursed the baby?!" Of course it depends largely on how long you wait to start solids. I don't bother at all with baby food, so solids are introduced directly from the table as the baby is ready for them. This means that baby is old enough to depend heavily on those foods, and it's very easy to wean informally and unintentionally at this point.
9. Janelle has a list of questions: If you've ever had supply issues…as someone else said, how long does it take for your fertility to return while exclusively breastfeeding? How about how you handle discipline with your other littles WHILE breastfeeding? How long do you typically breastfeed for?
Janelle, I think I have answered most of your great questions already except the first and last:
Aside from Angela's inquiry about supply, I also had trouble one other time. Bethany was, I think, slightly tongue tied. She didn't latch properly when she was newborn and didn't get enough milk in the first 2 weeks. This wasn't strictly a supply issue since I probably had the milk available for her, but she wasn't getting what she needed and my supply probably decreased in response. The answer for us was nipple shields, which guided her into a proper latch while allowing me to heal from the extremely painful damage she had done already.
And you ask how long I typically breastfeed: All have nursed for at least 12 months, but I find that my babies are nursing for longer as I get older. I think this is probably because I have more help now and am able to nurse more often, in a more leisurely fashion. When it's easier to find time to nurse, it's also easier to keep it up for longer. My last baby, Parker, nursed just over 20 months.
10. Diana has a list, too, but I'm going to eliminate the ones I already answered: How long do you exclusively BF/ what cues do you follow to start solids? Baby who slept 8 plus hours for months has suddenly started nursing two time through the night and hard to get down, any ideas? Is this common as he hits different milestones? How do you handle BF at home, especially around your sons? Do you use a cover? Go in a different room? Or just explain that's how Momma feeds the new baby?
As I mentioned above, I don't bother with baby food so I exclusively breastfeed until baby is strongly interested and able to handle foods directly from the table, usually around 6-8 months. They taste food before that, but don't really eat much. If they handle it well (swallow easily, no constipation, excessive spitting up, or other signs of discomfort) they gradually get more and more. Usually by 12 months they are eating lots of solids but also still nursing heavily and regularly.
I shared tips a while back for getting babies to sleep through the night, and several of the ideas relate to nighttime feedings. This Sleeping Babies Q&A also talks about how I handle an older baby who wakes during the night.
To answer your question about whether and when I use a cover to nurse: Away from home I nearly always use a baby blanket as a cover for nursing. To be honest, the cover is mostly to a courtesy to avoid making other uncomfortable, if that makes sense. I have enough experience nursing babies that I can nurse without a cover pretty modestly so it's not as though my anyone is going to see my exposed breast. I think many onlookers would assume that I was exposed and (hopefully) avert their eyes, so they wouldn't realize that my shirt was a sufficient covering. Rather than make them uncomfortable, I use a cover that is probably otherwise unnecessary. You can also make the case that the cover draws unnecessary attention to the fact that breastfeeding is happening, and I wouldn't argue with you. I used to nurse in public without a cover, and had many people admire my babies without ever realizing they were nursing. If you tuck your shirt around your baby's cheek, it really does look as if they're just comfortably snuggled onto mom's chest for a nap.
At home, I nurse with or without a cover, taking care either way to keep my breasts covered. The cover is mostly to keep the baby accustomed to the cover so he/she doesn't fight the cover when we're in public. My sons know how moms feed their babies, so there is no mystery there. 🙂
11. Lauren asks, How to get a bf baby to take a bottle if you try introducing it past 3 months or so. None of my bf babies would drink from a bottle. We just went straight from breast to straw sippy cup, but there were some stressful days at around 6 months when my kids would refuse a bottle.
For my first 7 or 8 babies, I kept a bottle and an unopened can of formula just in case of emergency. I have never once needed them, so I finally gave up the practice. If an emergency like that does arise someday, somebody will just have to make a trip to the store.
I'm curious why you were stressed that your 6mo babies refused to take a bottle. Why was it a problem to just use the sippy cup if you were gone or felt they needed more fluids? None of my children have taken bottles as babies; they just sip from a cup if they need something other than the breast, and it has worked perfectly. They have all run into bottles at one point or another as toddlers – usually when someone else's baby hands them one – and they know exactly what to do with it.
12. Rebecca says, My husband is military and will be gone for the birth of our 4th child. our 3rd is 2 yrs old and VERY attached to me especially since his daddy left. Any suggestions on how to not make my 2 year old feel replaced or neglected while I'm nursing our new little one in a couple months?
I have found that those feelings often don't originate with the toddler. Instead, they can come from helpful friends, family, or even mom. "Is he feeling replaced? Oh, he's acting up – he's jealous, isn't he?" So my first suggestion would be, don't worry about it and ask others not to comment in that direction. Your 2yo will probably be just as excited about the new baby as you are.
Share the excitement with him, and let him interact with the new baby as much as he wants. Don't worry about germs. Let him touch the baby, hold the baby, show the toys to the baby, help you change the baby's diaper. Let him kill 15 minutes trying to put a sock on the baby. It will thrill him and keep him out of trouble. It's a great way to keep him near you and under your supervision so you don't have to go find out what he flushed down the toilet while you were busy getting the baby dressed.
An added bonus: his learning curve will be significantly shortened. The more you let him interact with the baby, the sooner he will learn what is appropriate and what is not.
I don't want to suggest that toddlers never feel replaced or neglected, though. A common cause of genuine feelings like these is overprotective adults who won't let the older child near the baby for fear the baby will get hurt, scared, or germy. Again, just including your toddler as much as possible is the easiest way to avoid this.
13. Leslie wonders, Why do my armpits tingle/itch when I let down some times?? Just me? Common?
I get the same thing, so I googled your question and learned that milk ducts extend into the area under your arms.
14. Lori asks, Any tips for that lovely time when baby starts sleeping for longer stretches at night, you wake up ENGORGED, and baby GORGES herself, only to spit up all over the place?
Deanna was a wonderful sleeper from a very young age and did that very thing All The Time. Maybe you already know this, but I learned that one very helpful factor was feeding her in an upright position. If I fed her while we lay in bed, I think she swallowed more air and the resultant turbo-burp was enough to bring up the entire meal with it. Along similar lines, just stopping a little more frequently to burp the baby could help. If baby is extra hungry because she slept extra long, and if you are extra full so the milk flows extra fast, she's just going to need a few more breaks to get rid of extra pressure or something bad will happen – like projectile vomiting of fresh milk that requires a full sized bath towel and a new set of sheets for the bed. Trust me on this.
15. From Elizabeth, How and when do you wean?
My weaning method has evolved naturally, and I've never found it difficult or traumatic for me or the baby. I've shared my weaning procedure here.
16. Amy asked, I started weaning my 14 month old a few weeks ago and cut her bedtime feeding 4 nights ago. She's been waking up the last two nights around 3:30 w/ a fever & out of habit & sleepiness I just nursed her. Realized today she's cutting molars… Am I crazy for trying to wean her now? If not, do you have any suggestions for helping her at that early hour w/o nursing her?
Crazy is a strong word, but if it's bad enough that she has a fever I would probably relax a little about weaning for right now. If you can easily get her back to sleep without nursing, by all means do it. A cup of milk, or water? A quick snuggle? A back rub to sooth her back to sleep? A dose (or a half-dose) of ibuprofen, if she's really miserable? But if she's really uncomfortable, you and she might both be better off if you wait and try again a little later. That doesn't mean you need to go back to full-fledged breastfeeding if you don't want to; just ease in and out of it enough to keep you both happy. I have found that simply breaking the routine works wonders: if you already phased out the bedtime feeding, a 90 second feeding in the middle of the night could be very relaxing to her and won't be a big setback in the weaning process.
And of course, this is just what I would do. I don't know you or baby, so I can hardly tell you what would work best for you. If you take free advice for what it's worth, you can probably get your money's worth out of it.
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Youths Face the Holocaust
Through an organization called Facing History and Ourselves, young people confront tough moral questions. What would you do if you witnessed an act of violence? When should you stand up against a bully or your government?
Students meet people who have witnessed injustice, like artist and Holocaust survivor Ava Kadishson Schieber (pictured here telling her story to students at Chicago's Lyons Township High School). They watch films about homophobia and read first-hand accounts of refugees.
Facing History provides resources on history and values to more than 25,000 educators worldwide and runs a school in New York City, which just graduated its first class in June.
When history came alive for actor Matt Damon
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During the Priority Mars mission, after your transport docks you are attacked by an increasingly more armoured enemy force.
I've shot my way through wave after wave of attackers, yet they never seem to end, then I run out of ammo and get my head handed to me.
Do the waves ever end or is this a case of progress or die?
I was able to pass the area by rushing the door but I'm concerned I may have bypassed an upgrade by not taking my time to explore.


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Make KMD 4:18:4 a fun and unforgettable day with the delicious buffet at Tangkrogen.
Achieve a fun day with exercising and fun with friends. Family or colleagues by buying a delicious buffet with guaranteed table space in the KMD 4:18:4 tent.
The Buffet includes:
2 drink tickets (beer/water)
3 types of meat (pork, sausages with beef and pork, BBQ chicken)
Salad bar
Potatosalad with fresh herbs
Thousand island and spicy dips
Bread and butter
Fresh sliced fruit (melon, pineapple, orange)
Additional drinks can be bought at the event
Sign up for the buffet
To sign up for a buffet ticket incl. drinks, just add this purchase in the registration link, when signing up for the race.
The buffet ticket costs 250 DKK per. person (incl. tax)
Invite your friends, family and neighbor to the buffet.
A buffet ticket can be bought independent from a KMD 4:18:4 ticket. Just add the amount off buffet tickets you'll need, on your own registration for the race.
Opening of the buffet
The buffet will open when the first athlete has crossed the finish line.


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A First Look at SQL Server Everywhere
For years Microsoft-oriented developers have struggled with the problem of what to use for a database in single-user applications with modest data storage requirements. The choices for this embedded database problem space have boiled down to Microsoft Access or MSDE (or its current replacement SQL Server Express), or to non-Microsoft applications such as SQLite or SQLBase. On the one hand, Access and SQL Server Express are rather heavyweight when all you want is a simple storage engine that's easy to redistribute. On the other, the non-Microsoft alternatives require bringing another vendor into the picture and worrying about such issues as long-term support and compatibility with the changing landscape of development tools coming from Redmond.
Starting this fall there's going to be a new alternative: Microsoft SQL Server Everywhere. SQL Server Everywhere provides an extremely lightweight (under 2MB disk footprint), easy-to-redistribute, free database from Microsoft with a syntax that's a subset of full SQL Server Transact-SQL. While it does have some limitations, SQL Server Everywhere is an ideal solution for the simple application that just needs to store a bit of data for a single user, and it's worth adding it to your list of potential tools for the future.
Not Really Version 1.0
You can download the first CTP build of SQL Server Everywhere right now, but don't let the version numbering confuse you: this isn't actually the first release of this product. Even though this is the first ever build of SQL Server Everywhere to be released to the wild, this is not a new product. Rather, Microsoft has taken the SQL Server Mobile codebase (which has been around for a number of years as a product for Windows Mobile) and rebuilt it for the desktop.
Or rather, they've publicly rebuilt it for the desktop. It turns out that their internal testing used desktop builds all along. So what we have here is a relatively mature database engine, and an executive decision to finally give it away as a means to give Microsoft an instant presence in the small-footprint embedded space. On the one hand this gives them a database that you can use consistently across anything from a PocketPC to (if you really wanted) a clustered Windows server; on the other, it provides an engine with at least rough-and-ready compatibility with full SQL Server. And of course, these days, it's .NET-programmable.
Understanding the Architecture
So what do you get in this little package? For starters, you get a compact database engine that supports a respectable subset of SQL Server's T-SQL language. That is, while you shouldn't expect every query you can write in the full version of SQL Server to run on SQL Server Everywhere, you should expect any query you write in SQL Server Everywhere to run fine on full SQL Server if you ever find yourself upgrading a database or migrating data from an embedded database to a server environment. But because of the product's roots in the mobile environment, you get more than that - in particular, there's a nice connectivity architecture for synchronizing embedded databases with server databases.
Whether on a mobile device or a desktop, a SQL Server Everywhere database can use HTTP, with or without ActiveSync, to replicate data with a full SQL Server database via IIS. You get full programmatic control over this connectivity, and can use it for both always-connected and occasionally-connected scenarios.
The new release also sports good integration with Microsoft's current developer toolset. This means a data provider for use with the .NET Compact Framework and support for ADO.NET on the desktop, management with SQL Server 2005's SQL Server Management Studio, and Visual Studio 2005 integration, among other things. If you already know how to use, say, SQL Server 2005 data with .NET, you should have no trouble making the transition to SQL Server Everywhere.
Let's See Some Code
After installing the SQL Server Everywhere CTP, fire up Visual Studio
2005 and create a new C# Windows Forms application. Add a reference to
System.Data.SqlServerCe.dll - this is the main SQL Server Everywhere
engine, which is necessary for your application to use SQL Server
Everywhere databases. Having done this, you can make the rest of the
code a bit simpler by adding a
using statement:
using System.Data.SqlServerCe;
The first thing you'll probably want to do is create a SQL Server
Everywhere database. Like Access databases, SQL Server Everywhere
databases are just files, with (by convention) the extension .sdf. You can
create one by using the
SqlCeEngine object:
SqlCeEngine eng = new SqlCeEngine("Data Source='zoo.sdf';");
if (!(File.Exists("zoo.sdf")))
After you've got a database, your existing ADO.NET knowledge will come
in handy. The
System.Data.SqlServerCe namespace contains
SqlCeConnection and
SqlCeCommand objects that
behave as you'd expect. For example, you can create a new table:
SqlCeConnection cnn = new SqlCeConnection("Data Source='zoo.sdf';");
SqlCeCommand cmd = cnn.CreateCommand();
string CreateTableString = @"CREATE TABLE ZooAnimals
(AnimalID INTEGER IDENTITY (1,1) PRIMARY KEY,
AnimalName NvarChar(50))";
cmd.CommandText = CreateTableString;
Insert a row of data into the new table:
SqlCeConnection cnn = new SqlCeConnection("Data Source='zoo.sdf';");
SqlCeCommand cmd = cnn.CreateCommand();
string InsertString = @"INSERT INTO ZooAnimals
(AnimalName) VALUES ('Giraffe')";
cmd.CommandText = InsertString;
And get the data back out:
SqlCeConnection cnn = new SqlCeConnection("Data Source='zoo.sdf';");
SqlCeCommand cmd = cnn.CreateCommand();
string SelectString = @"SELECT * FROM ZooAnimals";
cmd.CommandText = SelectString;
SqlCeDataReader dr = cmd.ExecuteReader();
while (dr.Read())
string AnimalName = dr.GetValue(1).ToString();
You'll also find the
SqlCeDataAdapter object in the
namespace, making
DataSet-based programming possible. The net
result is that if you've done any work with Access or SQL Server in .NET,
a few minutes work with IntelliSense or the Object Browser will get you up
and running with equivalent functionality in SQL Server Everywhere.
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Hello and thank you very much in advance for your help. I have designed an experiment where each trial within a block corresponds to a series of stimuli (example trial 1 features an isi followed by cue then sound from particular side, then picture from same side, then another ISI and finally a respond now page). The idea is that participants are supposed to focus on a fixation point and then when presented with an image on either the left side or the right side and a sound on the left side or the right side at the same time, they had to choose whether the sound came from the left or the right. It's a ventriloquist experiment replication. So in my first block, I have 1/4 left sound-left image, 1/4 right sound-right image, 1/4 left sound-right image, 1/4 right sound-left image. In the other blocks the fractions change. The problem is randomizing these blocks which there doesn't seem to be a way to do. Is there a way to solve this or a way around it? I was thinking stimulus list but I'm not quite sure.
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I am using Superlab 4. As for the stimulus list question, how would I combine an image and a sound to happen at the same time? Admittedly I am not too strong on the stimulus list part.
In the SuperLab 4.5 manual within Chapter 6, there is a section titled, "Presenting a Sound and Visual Stimulus at the Same Time." It has detailed instructions how to set this up in your experiment. The PDF version of the manual can be found from the following link: http://www.superlab.com/manual/
Thank you very much and I did that. It's more like I want a way to randomize specific blocks. Also another problem has come up where when I set up sounds in audacity and export them into a .wav format, when using Superlab, they get clicks at the end. How would I go about resolving this? I've tried editing the sound in audacity, and doing all sorts of fades in and outs. I've checked the speakers. It seems that superlab adds that clicking sound.
There was a bug in an earlier version of SuperLab 4.5 that had this type of problem. If you are not using SuperLab 4.5.4, please download it from the following link: http://www.superlab.com/v4/downloadit.htm
If you do have the latest version and you continue to have issues, I think posting your experiment would be helpful. Please post your experiment as an Experiment Package. This can be found under the File menu within SuperLab.


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The decision means 57 of the factory's 129 workers will lose their jobs. Remaining workers will provide services to existing customers.
Strikes have ensued, and unions and the regional government are pushing for an agreement to reinstate workers once the economy and turbine demand recover from the current crisis.
Nevertheless, in an internal statement, GE tells workers: "Exporting wind turbines from Spain to serve other markets in Europe does not make sense for GE, as our main site in Germany is able to fulfil the demand." However, as one worker confides: "That has always been the case."
The factory was set up ten years ago with GE "making promises to stay in the region in order to clinch contracts with local wind developers whose projects are favoured if linked to local jobs", he adds."Now GE is using the economic crisis as an excuse to break that promise and rationalise its business."
In its internal statement, GE cites temporary factors, such as "a dramatic decrease in demand in Spain" due to "the current economic climate".
That downturn is also due to a six-month paralysis in processing. Still, the Spanish wind industry expects to install at least a further 23-27 GW to reach 40-44 GW by 2020.
GE should secure a reasonable part of that, with an annual share over 2008 of 8.5% and a cumulative market share of 6.2%.


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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's government borrowed slightly more than expected in December as the economy continued to struggle, thwarting efforts to erase a large budget deficit and adding to pressure on the country's top credit rating.
Just over a month after official borrowing forecasts for 2012-13 were revised, economists said the figures showed the Chancellor, George Osborne, was almost certain to miss his new annual target, further endangering a deficit-cutting drive that is already running two years behind.
The government's preferred measure of public sector borrowing rose to 15.419 billion pounds in the month from 14.848 billion pounds a year earlier, just above a forecast of 15.2 billion pounds.
It was mainly due to a poor growth in revenues, which will bolster criticism that the government has cut too hard and too fast in the public sector to allow the economy to grow.
But there were also worrying signs that, with unemployment rising, spending is growing faster than expected, by 5.4 percent on the year compared with a 3.6 percent rise in revenues.
There are a number of windfalls likely to flow into state coffers before the financial year ends in early April, but the most-used measure of borrowing is already 2 billion pounds short of the 2012-13 target set in December.
"We're still trying to work out how the government believes they're going to meet their borrowing requirement this year," said Tom Vosa from National Australia Bank in London.
"They still seem to be some way off from the target announced in (December)."
The Office of Budget Responsibility, a budget watchdog, said after the data it was still hopeful that the target it set in early December could be met.
It hopes for 3.5 billion pounds from the sale of 4G mobile phone frequencies and another 11.5 billion pounds from the transfer of coupon payments on gilts (bonds) bought by the Bank back to the finance ministry.
But while tax receipts in coming months will be bolstered by income tax returns, the OBR's hopes of a faster rise in revenues than seen so far are set against growing speculation that the economy may be slipping back into recession.
Deutsche Bank economist George Buckley said his calculations showed the deficit would overshoot by 22.5 billion pounds to reach 131 billion pounds if fiscal performance did not improve in the final three months.
Excluding another one-off effect — the absorption of Royal Mail employees' pension savings — the target most economists are using for borrowing stands at 106.5 billion pounds, up 7.3 percent this year.
Osborne, the chancellor of the Exchequer, had imposed tough spending cuts and tax rises in a bid to eliminate Britain's structural budget deficit — the shortfall that would remain if the economy were operating at full steam — by the next election in 2015.
But feeble economic growth has derailed that plan and pushed back the deadline to 2017. There is widespread speculation among financial market analysts that Britain in the meantime could lose its triple-A credit rating after the budget announcement in late March.
That would risk raising the cost of servicing debt, which now amounts to 70 percent of Gross Domestic Product and as much as twice that taking account of banking bailouts.
"The question is how long the UK can hold onto its AAA status," said James Knightley, economist at Dutch bank ING.
"With the United States and France having been downgraded by one ratings agency, another disappointing borrowing number and a widely expected contraction in fourth-quarter GDP on Friday will intensify the threat of the UK suffering the same fate."
While there remains a strong consensus in favour of cuts to the public sector — and indeed on the right for deeper cuts — a raft of economists believe that Osborne should have held off with some of the austerity until other sources of growth for the economy had more time to recover.
"I think the Chancellor is overly aggressive in his plans on austerity at present," Adam Posen, a policymaker at the Bank until his departure in August, told a parliamentary committee.
"But you have to take the lesson from Japan that when times get good again...you have to consolidate. You have to pay attention to the (economic) cycle, which cuts both ways."
Additional reporting by David Milliken and Li-mei Hoang. Editing by Jeremy Gaunt.


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The Williamsburg Regional Library has eight divisions that carry out the work of the library. The tabs below describe the work of each division.
Adult Services
Adult Services Director
Melissa Simpson, 757.259.4053
The Adult Services division provides collections, programming, and reference and reader's advisory services for adults. Programming includes popular offerings like book discussion groups, computer classes, and the Thursday Afternoon Film Series. The division collaborates with Outreach Services to extend service beyond the walls of the library's buildings to adult care communities and homebound users. The division is also responsible for interlibrary loan services.
Circulation Services
Circulation Services Director
Alicia Phinney, 757.259.4063
The Circulation Services division is responsible for the library's check-out, check-in, and shelving operations. Circulation Services also registers users for library cards, pulls items that users have requested, and handles library fines and fees.
Finance and General Services
Finance and General Services Director
Carrie Binsfeld, 757.259.4047
The Finance and General Services division is responsible for all financial, administrative, and facilities operations at the Williamsburg Regional Library.
IT Services
IT Services Director
Mark Lutner, 757.259.7739
The IT Services division develops and maintains the library's technology infrastructure. The IT specialists support staff and public PC's and peripherals. The Library Systems Administrator is responsible for all aspects of WRL's Integrated Library System (ILS). The Network Administrator is responsible for the staff and public networks at both library buildings and servers that are not associated with the Integrated Library System.
Program Services
Program Services and Security Director
Rob Haas, 757.259.4071
The Program Services division plans and promotes adult and cultural arts programs. Program Services manages the Williamsburg Library Theatre and associated adult programming, meeting rooms at both the Williamsburg and the James City County Library, and the library's overall publicity and promotions efforts. Program Services is also responsible for library security.
Special Projects & Technical Services
Special Projects & Technical Services Director
Barry Trott, 757.259.7747
The Special Projects Division is responsible for developing, implementing, and evaluating complex projects that extend across library divisions. The Special Projects Director leads the implementation of system-wide improvements and initiatives, ensuring that they are aligned with the strategic directions of the Williamsburg Regional Library; provides state of the art thinking about the future of public library collections, programs, and services and current best practices in the field to the Library Director, senior Library management, Library Board, and others as appropriate; and develops and oversees library communication strategies, including press releases, publicity and promotion, library website, social media presence, and mobile applications. Examples of special projects include orchestrating a unified, library-wide approach to the delivery of digital library collections, programs, and services; developing and implementing library-wide staff training models; and coordinating the library's participation in emerging communication technologies. The Technical Services department is part of Special Projects, and is responsible for acquiring, receiving, cataloging and processing all library materials. In addition, Technical Services staff members update and maintain the cataloging and acquisitions databases.
Youth Services
Youth Services Director
Sandra Towers, 757.259.4054
The Youth Services division provides collections, programming, and reference and reader's advisory services for the youngest children learning to read and older children reading to learn. Programming includes author visits and entertainment that is both enjoyable and educational. The division collaborates with Outreach Services to extend service beyond the walls of the library's buildings to preschools and elementary schools.


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Alpenglow Winter Film Series | Greg Hill's 2 million reasons – and the Manaslu Disaster
OLYMPIC VALLEY, Calif. – Alpenglow Sports presents Greg Hill in the second installment of their annual Winter Film Series on Thursday, Dec. 13.
In 2010, Greg Hill attempted his greatest challenge to date; to climb and ski over two million vertical feet in under 365 days. Greg's slideshow takes us on his journey of strength and determination set in some of the wildest places on earth. Experience summits, struggles and huge descents with Greg as he undertakes his adventure.
A Quebec native, Hill's adventures include having summited and skied over 190 mountains, pioneered the Northern Monashee Traverse (a 21-day traverse with 21 summits), and has climbed and skied nine of the 10 highest peaks in the Selkirk Mountains, to name a few. His 2 million vertical feet in 2010 averaged 5,500 feet per day, climbing 71 mountains, skiing 1,039 runs in four countries.
In September, Hill was on an expedition on Mt. Manaslu and witnessed the avalanche that swept through Camp 3. Hill speaks to being a part of the rescue effort, reflects on the events of the disaster, and begins to decipher the lessons learned that deadly morning in the second half of the evening in a slideshow and Q-and-A.
All shows in the Alpenglow Winter Film Series are free and designed to motivate, inspire, and educate. Amazing prizes from our generous sponsors Salomon, Arc'teryx and Black Diamond will be raffled, with the proceeds to benefit the Sierra Avalanche Center.
Please note the Alpenglow Sports Winter Film Series has a new venue, Squaw Valley's world-famous Olympic Village Lodge. Drink specials are available; show begins at 7 p.m. Call Alpenglow Sports at 530-583-6917 with questions.


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Bryce Harper Joins Vick, Ochocinco On MusclePharm Roster
Special to NYSportsJournalism
May 23, 2012: Bryce Harper, rookie outfielder with the Washington Nationals, has signed a deal with MusclePharm, becoming the first MLB player to officially endorse the nutritional supplement company.
Financial terms of the pact were not disclosed.
The 19-year-old Harper joins a roster of MusclePharm endorsers that includes NFL players Michael Vick (Philadelphia Eagles), Patrick Willis (San Francisco 49ers) and Chad Ochocinco (New England Patriots); several bodybuilders; and several mixed-marshal art athletes from the UFC, where MusclePharm is the official nutritional supplement supplier.
Harper will appear in marketing for the company. But due to the fact that MusclePharm is not an official partner of MLB or the Nationals, they cannot show him in his official baseball uniform. On the company's Web site, the deal was unveiled with the text, "MusclePharm signs Bryce Harper, pro baseball star" over a photo of Harper in a nondescript baseball uniform.
"Harper's immense baseball talent, likable personality and broad appeal to a key demographic made this the ideal partnership for MusclePharm," Cory Gregory, the Denver-based company's co-founder and svp, said in a statement "We've had our eye on Bryce for nearly two years, because I really thought he fit our brand perfectly . . . It is icing on the cake that he is already using MusclePharm products."
"I have been using MusclePharm products for more than a year, and I fell in love with the brand after first being introduced to it."
According to Harper, "MusclePharm products have been certified to be used in professional baseball, and I know they are safe and effective because of that. I have been using MusclePharm products for more than a year, and I fell in love with the brand after first being introduced to it. Their entire product line is outstanding, and they do an amazing job helping me recover correctly, while allowing me to perform at a high level. I am truly excited to be working with MusclePharm in this capacity."
Harper was the No. 1 over pick in the 2010 baseball draft by the Nationals. He made his pro baseball debut on April 28.
Added Gregory, "Bryce fits into our main demographic perfectly, and we are beyond thrilled to have him on board as one of our main athletes. He trains extremely hard and has a tremendous work ethic, and we are excited to welcome Bryce to MusclePharm in a big way."


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Dopyaaza Recipes
Indian-Style Pearl Onion Confit Upside-Down Tart (Tarte Tatin de Petits Oignons Perles a l'Indienne)
The tarte tatin (upside-down tart) was originally made with caramelized apples. It was created by the Tatin sisters at the beginning of the century. The two demoiselles Tatin, Fanny and Caroline, ran a little eatary in a hotel in Sologne, in the countryside of France near Orleans. They were famous for their apple tarts. One day, one of the sisters clumsily forgot to place the puff pastry dough and put the caramelized apple layer first and that's how a fortunate mistake created the trendy dish.
A French way to make an onion confit would be with caramelized onions that were previously boiled in milk but I had some leftover curried pearl onions called do-pyaaza. It's cooked in a generous amount of ghee, yogurt and flavored with ginger-garlic paste and several Indian spices. My fusion result is called a tarte tatin de petits oignons perlés à l'Indienne.
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Diese Nüsse is a typical Naketano hoodie with an extra portion of style. Nice!
Derived from the ancient Germanic term Naket", meaning nakedness in the sense of undisguised or personal appearance. Very fitting for a brand aiming to make a statement with their slightly edgier style. Be true to who you are, and don't be afraid to show it. Words that we live and learn by every day."


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The Harvard softball team with Grace and Paige Potvin (Photo courtesy: Harvard Softball).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard Athletics will celebrate its second annual Friends of Jaclyn Day on Sunday, May 1. Events will be held during Harvard softball's doubleheader against Dartmouth (2 p.m. start) and baseball's twinbill against Dartmouth (1 p.m. start).
The softball team will sponsor a raffle to raise funds for the organization and will also be accept donations throughout the day's events. First prize in the raffle is a pair of Red Sox tickets located behind home plate. Raffle tickets will be on sale for $10 apiece. Fans can also make donations or purchase raffle tickets even if they are unable to attend Saturday's games by emailing assistant coach Brandi Gordon at email@example.com.
Friends of Jaclyn (FOJ) is a charitable organization that improves the quality of life for children with pediatric brain tumors and their families. FOJ matches a child in need of love, support and friendship with a sports team based on geographic basis. The child becomes an extension of the team where a unique bond is formed between the team members, the child and the family.
Grace and Paige Potvin, ages 10 and 11 respectively, joined the Harvard softball team through a program called Safe on the Sidelines. This program is an extension of the Friends of Jaclyn program and serves as a support program for the siblings of children already in the FOJ program.
Paige and Grace's brother, Nathan, was adopted by the Harvard men's hockey team through FOJ, which helped connect Paige and Grace to the softball team. By attending Harvard athletic events together, baking holiday cookies and exchanging valentines, the friendships that have formed between the players and Paige and Grace have positively impacted the entire Harvard softball program.
For more information about the Friends of Jaclyn Foundation, please visit its website at: http://www.friendsofjaclyn.org/


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S&T team to compete in EPA sustainability challenge
Posted by Linda Fulps
Six students from Missouri University of Science and Technology are headed to Washington, D.C., this month to compete in the 10th annual Environmental Protection Agency People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) Awards Competition and National Sustainable Design Expo.
Missouri S&T students will present a project that demonstrates a way to cool homes using smart sensors, which indicate the best times to maximize a home's energy efficiency using solar shading devices and natural ventilation.
The competition will take place at the USA Science & Engineering Festival April 25-27. Forty college teams from across the United States will showcase their ideas to solve the nation's greatest environmental problems as they compete for a P3 Award and a grant of up to $90,000 to turn the idea into a business, or implement it in the community.
The projects are intended to benefit people, promote prosperity and protect the planet — the three components of sustainability. Scientists and engineers from nonprofits will also be on hand to showcase their contributions to advancing sustainability.
More than 250,000 attendees are expected to attend the free festival, which is the world's largest STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) outreach event. The event will include 3,000 hands-on exhibits, experiments, concerts and talks from leading technology entrepreneurs, Nobel Prize-winning scientists, celebrities, Fortune 500 CEOs and others.
"We are excited to see this year's P3 student teams exhibit their innovative designs and ideas at the USA Science & Engineering Festival," said Lek Kadeli, acting assistant administrator of the EPA's office of research and development. "These projects not only represent a passion for creating sustainable solutions by these young students, but also reflect a vibrant future for this nation's ability to address some the world's most challenging environmental problems."
The following students are representing Missouri S&T at the event:
- Nicole Annis, a Ph.D. candidate in civil engineering from Rolla
- Melody Elder, a sophomore in geological engineering from Waynesville, Mo.
- Danielle Jensby, a senior in architectural engineering from Rolla
- Joshua Jensby, a graduate student in electrical engineering from Olathe, Kan.
- Timothy O'Connor, a senior in architectural engineering from Rolla
- John Tegtmeyer, a junior in computer science from Florissant, Mo.
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Roly-poly bread & butter pud
Nutrition and extra info
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal779
- fat42g
- saturates22g
- carbs93g
- sugars49g
- fibre1g
- protein15g
- salt1.32g
- 85g very soft butter, plus extra for the dish
Butter is made when lactic-acid producing bacteria are added to cream and churned to make an…
- 350g raspberry jam
- large fresh unsliced white bread loaf (about 800g)
- 4 eggs
The ultimate convenience food, eggs are powerhouses of nutrition, packed with protein and a…
- 400ml double cream
- 400ml milk
One of the most widely used ingredients, milk is often referred to as a complete food. While cow…
- 85g caster sugar, plus a little extra
- 1 tsp vanilla paste or seeds scraped from 1 vanilla pod
The sun-dried seed pod of a type of climbing orchid, vanilla has an inimitable soft, sweet…
Butter a deep 2-litre baking dish. Dollop in half the jam and spread over the base of the dish. Trim the crusts and rounded top from the loaf so that you are left with a rectangular block of bread. Cut into 4 thick slices of bread. Whizz the crusts and left over bread into crumbs and freeze for later.
Spread the butter over one side of each slice of bread. Flip the slices over and spread the un-buttered sides with remaining jam. Roll up the slices from the short sides, jam-side inwards, to make 4 fat Swiss rolls. Halve each so you end up with 8 short, squat Swiss rolls. Squish these snugly into the baking dish, cut-sides up, so you can see 8 jam swirls.
Whisk together the eggs, cream and milk, then sieve into a jug with the sugar and vanilla. Give a good stir, then carefully pour over the bread swirls – you may have to do this in stages, letting the custard soak in bit by bit. Let the dish stand at room temperature for 30 mins so the custard continues to soak in.
Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Scatter some more caster sugar over the pudding, then bake for 1 hr-1 hr 15 mins until the top is golden and the custard is gently set. Cool for 5 mins, then serve.


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Covering the Bases: Game 25
FIRST: Should he stay or should he go? That was the question Fred Lewis had running through his mind as he sprinted around the bags in the seventh inning of Saturday's 4-3 loss to the A's.
The Jays' offense had struggled for most of the game and was finally putting together a rally. There were two outs, though, and Lewis drove on into the right-center gap for a sure double.
Lyle Overbay scored on the play to cut Oakland's lead to one run. If Lewis holds up at second base, he's likely a single away from scoring. If he legs out the triple, a wild pitch or passed ball ties the game. There was a catch, though…
"It's like I was telling my third base coach," Lewis said. "Out there in the gap, you can't see the ball with the sign out there. So I told him, I said, 'If we had that dark out, I probably would've pulled up.'"
There are video boards built into the walls in the right-center and left-center gaps at Rogers Center. For years, players, coaches and managers on both sides have complained about them. In short, the complaint is that baseballs disappear when they fly in front of the signs, making it hard for runners to properly track the ball.
This is what happened with Lewis. He said he could not tell where the ball was. As it turned out, right fielder Gabe Gross was picking it up and making a quick relay to second baseman Adam Rosales. Lewis nearly made it to third, but the throw came into third just ahead of Lewis.
Lewis was out. The rally was over. And the A's went on to win.
"It was one of those tough plays," Lewis said. "It was real bright out there in that gap, I couldn't tell if he had the ball or not. [Third base coach Brian Butterfield] told me they've been trying to tell them about it for years."
SECOND: Dana Eveland wasn't sharp in the early going for the Jays, allowing four runs on six hits over the first four innings. The pitch that hurt the most came in the fourth, when Eveland allowed a two-run homer to rookie catcher Josh Donaldson with one out and a runner on third base.
Congrats to Donaldson, though. Nice way to get your first big league hit.
"I really wish i could have that pitch back," Eveland said. "I was trying to get in. It was a runner on third, less than two out situation. A lot of times, hitters are looking for balls out over in that situation, trying to get a sac fly or drive a ball up the middle. So I tried to get in on him and I threw it inner half and up.
"He can pull the ball — that's one thing I remember about him from when we played in Spring Training a year ago. He hits the ball pretty well to left. He's got some pop. I just didn't get it in enough."
THIRD: Don't look now, but manager Cito Gaston has used five pinch hitters in the past four games (yes, I realize John McDonald's appearance was bases on the rout yesterday). On Saturday, Gaston called upon Lyle Overbay as a pinch hitter with two outs and a runner on first base in the seventh. Overbay doubled to right, helping to continue the rally that later ended with Lewis being thrown out at third base. And, what do you know? Overbay is 8-for-his-last-24. His average has climbed to .181 in the process.
HOME: The bullpen had been thrown under the bus quite a few times in recent days, so now it's time to show some love. Scott Downs and Casey Janssen turned in 2.1 shutout innings in Saturday's loss, giving the bullpen no runs allowed over its last 8.1 innings of work. That's called progress. In their previous 18.1 innings, the relievers combined to give up 21 runs.
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Out or not, Lewis forced Oakland to make a perfect play to get him. I love speed!
Did anybody else notice that Frasor dusted off his good 12-6 curve ball the other night? It's been on the shelf since 2008, but he had great results with it on Friday.
This is what Gaston said about DOC
?He?s not here,? said manager Cito Gaston. ?There?s nothing you can do but move on. He?s never going to pitch here again.
Now i was realling hoping hed come back with us because he is not likely to forget us and in about 4 years time when his contract is up with the phillies we should be contending with flourishing young players and the philles deteriorating with old players
now i know doc will be old but wouldn�t it be great to bring him back for a few season as perhaps a 4th or 5th starter and even then at that age i am sure doc will be shutout, since his stuff is about location and assortment of pitches predominantly
Yer-we must have been looking at a different play because what I saw was the ball was waiting at 3rd when Lewis was 15-20 feet from the bag. I like speed too, but it was a dumb base running error that killed momentum and likley cost the loss, with Hill,Lind and Wells, our 3 top rbi guys coming up.
In terms of Doc, if the Phillies keep sending Doc out there when the score is 10-0 to finish the game with 118 pitches this early in the season, I doubt if Doc will have much left by the time 2015 comes around and he'll be 38. In fact if they keep using him in this fashion, I doubt he makes it to 2015.
goodluckdoc, I think Gaston is referring to the fact Doc will not be here for the next 5 years . When his contract is up with the Phillies and if he has won a ring , Doc may very well be open to coming back to the Jays .
As a true Jays' fan , it was sad to see one of the best pitchers in baseball traded because this team couldn't get him to the post season but as a true baseball fan ( and somebody who works in a business that builds from the ground up ) , I understood the rebuilding process and why he had to be traded . I think if Doc himself had not asked for a trade , he would still be with the Jays this year or atleast a good portion of it and the Jays young pitchers would have had the advantage of learning from one of the best . Who knows what the future holds .
I understand about DOC, its just that I grew up WITH DOC the first year I started to watch and follow baseball was 2003 ..ahem…so basically DOC is that baseball hero we all have and while I am glad he is contending now because he sorely deserves to I want to see him play for my favorite team, the team he grew up with too.
I just hope somehow, some way he comes back to the Jays
and it sucks how i am gonna be missing the return of DOC to rogers center because I will be out of town (the exact timing of that series =.=)
Perhaps he will come back as a pitching coach one day?
and if doc wins a ring or two with the philles does he go into the HOF as a bluejay or a philly?
and GS i agree, keeping him in for 118 when they are clearly going to win at such an early stage was slightly idiotic
lets hope it was only because he was gunning for a shutout
but i am sure Doc can handle it
HOF decides what hat Halladay wears if he makes it to the HOF. Doc gets more coverage now than he ever did as a Jay so it is easier to keep track of him . He reminds me a lot of Greg Maddux so the potential for him to pitch well into his late 30s is there barring any nasty health issues .


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The average cost of running a car in Australia has risen to more than $110 per week.
Research commissioned by Bingle insurance found that the average cost of keeping a car on the road rose from $5379 to $5736 per year between 2012 and 2014.
Bingle's cost of motoring index looks at average running costs including registration, insurance and parking.
NSW had the lowest average running costs on the eastern seaboard, ahead of Victoria and Queensland.
The difference between NSW and Queensland averages was $449 per annum, which was put down to higher fuel and servicing costs but offset by the country's lowest costs for parking, tolls, registration and insurance.
Victoria's higher running costs were partly attributed to motorists spending more on speeding fines, parking and road tolls.
Servicing, registration and insurance fees were found to have dropped slightly in the last year, while parking, tolls and fuel costs rose on average.
Bingle spokeswoman Marcela Balart says the cost of motoring index includes a survey of 1100 motorists who looked to reduce their running costs.
"Cost pressures for Australian motorists are coming from all sides, and while some things, such as petrol prices, are out of our control, there are some things you can do to take charge and reduce your cost of motoring," Balart says.
"In the past 12 months motorists have cut back on servicing and maintenance costs, shopped around for cheaper registration and insurance and even behaved better on the roads avoiding fines."
Average Vehicle running costs:
State NSW VIC QLD
Servicing and Maintenance $953 $1010 $1096
Registration and Insurance $1474 $1232 $1096
Parking and Tolls $298 $311 $181
Fines $54 $106 $70
Petrol $2834 $2979 $3494
Total $5613 $5638 $6062


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I'm suffering from terrible nausea and backpain. And since it's Sunday in Europe, there are no stores open, so that means no wasting money on a pregnancy test. Here is an old photo I was just sent by my sister. She is the little blondie and you can probably find me on the other side of our mom. Don't ask about my right hand.
Happy mother's day!
Sunday, 9 May 2010
An old picture
3 comments:
- Sarah said...
Happy Mother's Day!
I thought of you when I read this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/sports/09marathon.html Have you seen it?
- 10 May 2010 at 01:14
- Ewa said...
I wish more of our stores were closed on holidays. It seems no holiday is sacred here in the US. Actually Poland is not that different in that respect either.
Hope you are feeling better soon.
Happy Mother's Day.
- 10 May 2010 at 02:44
- sea legs girl said...
Sarah, great article! Thank you. I hadn't read it and loved it.
Ewa, I agree. It's nice having a day a week where nothing really happens (besides running). Happy Mother's day to you, too!
- 10 May 2010 at 18:03
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JMan wrote:you should've started LOL.. Now I get to be the first.. darn, Steve beat me too it.. OK the 2nd
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I am Rob, 44, from Staffordshire, England.
Had my left kidney removed at the age of 3 due to it being badly diseased (don't think I was ever told exactly the cause).
Had lots of on going problems with my remaining kidney with constant infections etc.
Finally had a stent fitted when I was 37 due to an unknown blockage between bladder and kidney.
I have the stent replaced every six months.
GFR anything from 18-32 depending on state of kidney.
Creatinine anything from 125 - 292.
My stent is constantly colonising with bacteria and causing infections.
Antibiotics are becoming resistant to these infections.
Looking for advice and maybe support
Really starting to worry now
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