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I wanted so much to go to labor room so that i can be assured what i felt was contraction. Since no machine was present, i had to rely to the nurse to confirm for me. The pain increases as time past by. For me, the pain revolve around the cervix area. None felt at waist, stomach, backbone or any area. Hence, the confusion. I dont remember how painful it is now, but i remembered tossing and turning left and right while reciting ' la ila haila anta subha na ka inni kuntum minazzolimin...'Everytime the nurse did vaginal inspection and i cringe, she will say sorry but i always tell her it's not painfull as the most pain i felt is the contraction. Other then that is considered not painful. Not even episiotomy or the stitches. So, thats the best way i can describe for the contraction pain.
Everytime i turn to my right or left side, it got more painful, i will call to the nurse... 'rasa nak berakkkk' and she will come to inspect and said its not yet 10cm. At one point, she got doubtful and asked me ' betul ke nak berak?' Huhuhuhu
Finally after what felt like f0rever, it was 8cm.. and she asked me ' nak saya tolong bagi cepat?' Mesti la nakkk... i nodded. Then it was 9cm and 10cm came shortly after. She teached me how to push,i practised and then i can push on the next contraction. There were 2 nurses, 1 at the front and 1 on my left. Q on my right. i did not hold Q's hand but asked him to hold my head instead. During the pushing,i had to lift my body and touch my chin at the chest which i was afraid i wont be able to do so.
1st pushed, fail. 2nd push, fail. 3rd push, failllll... arghhh.. sorry baby mommy is such a looser. I dont remember at what push finally baby's hair is visible. They called Q to see and he got teary. Thehee... after that, i pushed for almost 1hr, but no further progress. I dont know why, but suddenly the contraction is not so painful anymore. It is so shortlived that pushing is useless. According to the nurse, u need to feel the pain to facilitate the progress. She keep asking me, do u feel the pain? To which i reply no. Then she said we can't let the baby be in that condition for long as she can't get oxygen there. But i am not faking it, i really do not feel any pain. So, they decidednto drip me. A method to induce pain. And i said OK. Whatever pain i need to take to take my baby out, i'll do it.
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Fast, easy and totally delicious pasta dish for hungry game day enthusiasts.
|1 Pkg
|700 grams fresh mushroom ravioli. as a variation you may use squash ravioli
|1 Pkg
|400 grams Maple Leaf Prime Canadian Farm Raised Oven Roasted Turkey Breast Strips
|1 Pkg
|375 grams Schneiders smoked bacon with each strip cut in half
|2 cups
|fresh marinara sauce (commercial)
|.5 cup
|heavy cream
|leeks, cleaned, halved, chopped into .5 inch pieces
|fresh ground pepper to taste
|.25 cup
|minced parsley (optional)
|salt to taste (in water)
Heat large pot of salted water to boiling and set to simmer.
In a large pan, place the bacon on medium high. Turning to make sure all sides are done, cook for 10 minutes or until partly cooked.
Add the chopped leeks to the bacon and cook for another 15 minutes, turning regularly to ensure even cooking.
In a saucepan, heat the marinara sauce to a simmer. Slowly add the cream, stirring. Bring to a light bubble and reduce heat to minimum.
Place the pasta into the salted, simmering water, turn up until it reaches a boil again. Cook for about 6 - 8 minutes. Strain gently.
While the pasta is cooking, add the package of turkey breast strips into the pan with the bacon and leeks, toss, cooking for another 10 minutes until all ingredients are cooked and the turkey is hot.
Add the strained pasta into the pan with the bacon and leeks, gently fold the bacon and vegetable mixture into the pasta.
Place into a serving bowl. Spoon the Rose Sauce over the pasta. Add pepper and parsley if desired.
Serve immediately.
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Monitoring the health of Taitung's coral reefs, cleaning beaches on the island of Penghu and maintaining wetlands in Yangmingshan (陽明山) are among the working holiday activities offered by the Taiwan Environmental Information Association (台灣環境資訊協會, TEIA) for volunteers who want to give something back to mother nature.
An independent nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the country's natural and cultural resources, TEIA has made the establishment of conservation trusts its main goal since its inception in 2000. A conservation trust involves environmental NGOs taking control of a piece of land to prevent it from being developed. Currently, there are no such trusts in Taiwan.
The idea of protecting land from development by conservation trusts sounds promising, though is perhaps a little premature.
"When [TEIA] first started and hoped to protect the environment through land conservancies, most people probably didn't know what was happening to our environment," says Wen Yu-hsuan, (溫于璇), project manager of TEIA's Environmental Trust Center.
To raise awareness of environmental issues, TEIA set up an online news center (e-info.org.tw) to publish daily news, feature stories and conservation bulletins. Wen says that having studied and participated in conservation actions taken by similar organizations abroad such as the United Kingdom's conservation charity National Trust, TEIA's conservationists found that as land trusts mostly depend on volunteers rather than paid staff, working holidays are becoming an effective way to utilize volunteers and encourage public participation, according to Wen.
Since the program began in 2004, TEIA has held different types of working holidays across and beyond Taiwan. Volunteers have worked in Erziping (二子坪) and Yonglai (雍來), both located in Yangmingshan National Park (陽明山國家公園), to clear invasive plants that have been growing in the marshes since 2005. In Cigu (七股), Greater Tainan, participants erect bamboo bars in lagoons to help stop beach erosion.
On the marine front, the group has worked with Chen Chao-lun (陳昭倫), a professor and researcher at Academia Sinica, to regularly monitor and report on coral reef health. Since 2009, TEIA and its volunteer divers have conducted surveys on several islets and in different coastal regions, including Green Island (綠島), Lanyu (Orchid Island, 蘭嶼), Siaoliouciou (小琉球) and Penghu, where coral reefs are most abundant.
Using a standard method adopted by the Reef Check Foundation, a Los Angeles-based international organization dedicated to the conservation of reef ecosystems, TEIA submits its annual reef report to the foundation as part of the global conservation effort.
Wen says that working with locals is essential if conservation work is to succeed.
"Even though the idea of land trusts has yet to be put into action [in Taiwan], we think it is important to learn how to manage lands through practices and experiences," she says. "We have always sought opportunities to work with local residents, groups and communities, and it is through such collaborations that we are able to gain experiences in caring for and protecting local environments."
For example, when visitors go to the Amis hamlet of Pisilian in Taitung to clean beaches and monitor marine debris, they are introduced to local traditions, music and way of living. On the other side of the country, volunteers in the fishing village of Cigu are given a chance to visit oyster farms and learn how to mend fishing nets.


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A rod mill is an ore grinding mechanism that uses a number of loose steel rods within a rotating drum to provide its attrition or grinding action. An ore charge is added to the drum, and as it rotates, friction between the tumbling rods breaks the ore down into finer particles. Although similar in operation, a rod mill is often more effective than a ball mill as it requires lower rotational speeds and less steel to achieve the same results. It is, however, limited to maximum rod and drum lengths of approximately 20 feet (6 meters) and is generally only used for wet grinding processes. The rod mill also tends to suffer from accelerated drum liner and lifter wear due to the increased weight of the rods.
Mills of various types have been used for centuries to break solids or coarse particulate materials down into finer finished products. From the humble mortar and pestle through animal, wind, and water driven mills to the giant electrically driven versions common in modern industrial applications, all share one common characteristic: mechanical attrition or grinding. All mill types utilize a grinding process of one or another description to gradually reduce the size of the initial charge of material. In older mills, for example, this action was achieved by placing the coarse material between two mill stones and turning one against the other to produce a finer end product.
Modern rotary mills make apply the same principle by tumbling loose grinding elements around in a closed drum to which the charge material is added. Common examples are rod and ball mills, both of which are of the rotary drum type which rely on internal grinding agents to achieve their milling action. Unlike the ball mill which utilizes a large number of hardened steel balls to impart the grinding action, the rod mill uses steel rods lying within the drum and parallel to its axis. When the drum rotates, these rods roll around inside it, thereby crushing the feed material between them.
The rod mill is generally more efficient than the ball mill due to its more effective cascading action and the greater bearing surface offered by the rods. This means it can operate at lower speeds and with less grinding agents and producing less undesirable slimes byproduct. Rod mills do, however, require more attention during operation to prevent rod tangles and are generally ineffective at dry milling operations. They are also limited to a maximum rod length of approximately 20 feet (6 meters) which means they are generally smaller than ball mills. Rod mills also exhibit more liner and lifter wear than other mill types due to the comparatively high weights of the rods.
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For those playing along in the 'what shit has fallen on Judith's head this time' stakes at home, the last three months have been pretty off the wall. I went manic and lost everything, is the short version. The long version is considerably longer!
About four months ago, mania reared its ugly head, with its favourite companions restlessness, agitation, and hypersexuality. This went about as well as can be expected, and as of July 1st I lost my husband. I had to start my life over again, and that was hellishly expensive. All the debt I'd crawled out from under in my time of being married fell on me again like a tonne of bricks. So I'm . . . fiscally challenged, shall we say. But I still had my job, so there was a way through this.
'Had' being the operative word. I parted ways with my employer on September 22nd. I'd had some inkling something was wrong, but it was still unexpected. I now have a few weeks to find a job, before my savings run out and I lose my apartment. I don't know what happens from there. It's a 13-week stand down for the dole, and I don't have 13 weeks of savings. Perhaps I should chuck in the apartment now and go live in a hostel where it's cheaper? That would stretch my savings further.
On the child front, the child that I got the hellishly expensive apartment as a sanctuary for has decided that she doesn't want to live with me any more, but she wants me to fly down every 2-3 weeks to see her . I have a bunch of flights already booked and paid for, but once they are done I don't know if I have the resources to keep doing that. It all depends on me getting a good job, fast. Which in turn involves the investment of money – I need to get my hair dyed back to a natural colour, from blurple. It's not as easy as just colouring over or lifting the dye out – I need to get it professionally done or I'll turn green.
The other child? Oh sweet mother of Jesus. Her new diagnostic papers have her with Valproate Syndrome, ADHD, and a provisional diagnosis of being on the autism spectrum. Holy shit. It feels like a weight has been lifted, as something I've been saying for years is vindicated, and then dropped back down, as I realise that she's not just a little special, and she needs a lot more help than she's getting. On the school from they're putting a 'behaviour plan' in place as she gets more and more unmanageable in the wake of the split. How far that is from disciplinary action is not entirely clear, but her teacher seems to be of the opinion that she's deliberately defiant, not just not understanding. This may be true, but on the other hand, with the autism diagnosis, what new things do we need to understand about her? What new ways do we need to devise to deal with her? These are important questions, and I feel like they're already not handling the ADHD diagnosis well, so I worry about how well the school can really cope with her. We have referrals to child mental health for her in the works, maybe that will help? She was also kicked out of after school care for the rest of the term, but with any luck she will be ok when she goes back next term, because otherwise I'll have to be a mother from 3-6pm every day, and that's not ideal for getting a job.
On top of all this, I had a series of seizures, after about 5 years seizure free, and now I'm back to not being able to drive and trying to get my anticonvulsant medications right again.
In better news, I'm seeing someone, who is rather sweet and lovely. I don't know how this will play out, as there are significant challenges in our future, but this sensible, sweet man is who I need to stay grounded in this moment.
So that's what's new in my world. The shit hit the fan, and it's currently still spraying out in all directions. I'm waiting for the next blow. Death of a friend or family member? Inability to get a job? Child kicked out of after school care, or worse, out of school? Troubles with the other child? There's so many ways the shit could splatter, most of which I haven't even thought of yet but will kick myself for not foreseeing earlier. I just have to roll with it and hold on, hoping that it gets better.


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Lupus is the least known major disease of our day. Those with the disease struggle with a multitude of changing symptoms, pain, and not knowing what is happening to them, for an average of five years, before even being diagnosed. Imagine waiting for anything for 5 years, let alone an answer to what's hurting you! What's more, lupus affects each person differently, making the lupus journey a very lonely path.
The 2017 Walk to Shine the Light on Lupus is more than a fundraiser. It's a pledge to thousands of Central New Yorkers that they are not alone. We are walking with and for them, to provide the help and hope they need to be strong and to live their best lives. We are advocating, raising awareness and funding research for earlier detection, better treatment and, ultimately, a cure.
Your contribution will help provide vital resources, new patient orientations and support group meetings, free of charge, for lupus patients and their loved ones. With your help, we can shine the light on lupus and light their path.
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A woman close to the man charged with killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman High School warned the FBI he had rifles and said, "I know he is going to explode."
That's according to a transcript of the Jan. 5 tip to the FBI's call center, which was obtained Friday by The Associated Press and NBC News. The FBI has acknowledged it failed to investigate the tip about 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz. But the transcript, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, provides new details.
The woman described Cruz's short temper and said he had the "mental capacity of a 12 to 14 year old."
She said Cruz posted pictures of weapons on social media, writing, "I want to kill people."
The woman told the FBI, "I do believe something's going to happen." Cruz is accused of killing 17 people at the Parkland school last week.
"He's thrown out of all these schools because he would pick up a chair and just throw it at somebody, a teacher, or a student, because he didn't like the way they were talking to him. Um, I, I just think about, you know, getting into a school and just shooting the place up," the woman said.
The caller claims Cruz was cutting up frogs and birds, saying at one point, "I want to see what's inside."
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Are you looking for fun things to do this summer? If you live-in or are visiting the Southern California area, you can find lots of fun activities at these top Southern California Amusement Parks.
The Disneyland Resort is one of Southern California's top vacation destinations. You can visit Disneyland, Walt Disney's original theme park, or Disney's California Adventure Park. Both parks offer fun and exciting experiences for the whole family.
At Disneyland, you can visit Main Street, U.S.A.; Fantasyland; Tomorrowland; New Orleans Square; Adventureland; Critter Country; Mickey's Toontown and Frontierland. Packed with so many rides, shows, and adventures, you'll understand why Disneyland is known as the "Happiest place on earth!"
In Fantasyland, you will find Sleeping Beauty's Castle and you can meet the heroes and villains of your favorite Disney stories. Take a spin in a tea cup, fly over to London with Peter Pan or sing along with a classic song as you sail past the elaborate spectacle of It's a Small World.
Would you like to visit the Pirates of the Caribbean on a swashbuckling adventure and get a glimpse of Mr. Jack Sparrow himself? Or maybe you're interested in a spooky encounter with 999 ghostly residents of the Haunted Mansion. You can do all this and more in Disneyland's New Orleans Square.
For the tiny tots and the young at heart, visit Mickey's Toontown and experience a miniature interactive metropolis full of architecture and sculptures. Hail a wacky taxi for the ride of your life on Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin or ride Gadget's Go Coaster. Don't forget to visit the houses of Mickey, Minnie, and other classic Disney characters; it's where some of your favorite Toons call home.
Looking for a thrill ride? Look no further than Big Thunder Mountain Railroad in Frontierland, where you can ride over the mountain on a runaway railroad car. While in Frontierland, don't forget to visit Tom Sawyer Island and the Golden Horseshoe Stage.
See one of the most beloved critters in Critter Country when you take a stroll through the Hundred Acre Woods on The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. Looking to make a splash? Look no further then Splash Mountain, hear the rumble of railroads and waterfalls, plus a chorus of critters singing "Zip-A-Dee-Do-Dah."
There is so much more to see and do at Disneyland, but remember to carve out some time to visit Disney's other park, California Adventure!
Visit this exciting place where classic Disney stories are told with California's optimistic spirit. Enter through Sunshine Plaza and experience the best of California. At Disney's California Adventure, you will find so many places to experience fun, like Hollywood Pictures Backlot; Paradise Pier; Golden State; A Bug's Land; the Downtown Disney® District; Disney Fun for Southern California and live outdoor entertainment. Truly something for everyone at Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure!
For more information and park hours visit the website: disneyland.disney.go.com
The park has nine amazing world-class roller coasters! With a lineup that includes everything from kiddy coasters to action-packed scream machines, Knott's Berry Farm is a coaster lover's dream come true.
For all of those thrill ride seekers, Knott's Berry Farm has them! From rocking, rolling and rotating to being turned upside down, dropped suddenly or thrust upward at 50 mph, a thrill-seekers delight!
You'll find the ultimate in children's rides at Camp Snoopy, a favorite playground for the children in all of us! Camp Snoopy is full of rides and attractions for kids of all ages, including many for Mom and Dad to enjoy as well.
For guests who prefer milder thrills, a variety of relaxing rides await you. Every member of your family is sure to find one that is just right for them.
Knott's Berry Farm also has water rides, the cool cure for those hot summer days. From a gigantic tidal wave to churning rapids, Knott's Berry Farm has several water rides sure to cool you off!
Don't miss the high-energy musical shows ranging from the biggest hits of the superstars, to great rock classics and even some great shows just for kids.
Hungry? You've never tasted anything as succulent as the world-famous Mrs. Knott's Chicken Dinner Restaurant. You'll also find great park favorites along the midways at the many quick service locations!
Knott's Berry Farm also has a water park, Soak City. Explore acres of intense water adventures including tube slides, body slides, wave pool, lazy river, family funhouse, kid's water-play area, and Pacific Spin!
Located adjacent to Knott's Theme Park is the Marketplace, a memorable and truly unique shopping and dining experience awaits you.
Be sure to check the Knott's Berry Farm website at knotts.com for park hours and more information.
LEGOLAND California is home to more than 60 rides, shows, and attractions. Just inside the entrance to the Park, you can't miss the bright red welcoming dinosaur, Bronte, standing nine feet tall and 34 feet long from his nose to the tip of his tail, made completely from LEGO® bricks!
New, guests can now enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Guests will be further immersed into the Star Wars experience as they pose with life-size LEGO models of Chewbacca, R2-D2 and Darth Vader.
Miniland USA is the heart of LEGOLAND® California. A dedication to the ultimate expression of the LEGO® art form, Miniland USA includes reproductions of seven areas of the United States; all constructed with 20 million LEGO bricks in 1:20 scale that can be seen from many places in the Park.
Explorers can dig for fossils, soar on a junior roller coaster, climb inside "Megga-Egga-Saurus" or lie inside a life-sized dinosaur footprint to get an idea of the enormity of these amazing animals.
Visit Pirate Shores and come aboard for an incredible, swashbuckling adventure. Guaranteed to shiver yer timbers, Pirate Shores includes water attractions with captivating high-seas adventures that will thrill buccaneers of all ages.
Castle Hill creates the illusion of a romantic time in history when kings and queens reigned supreme, and knights rescued damsels in distress.
The humorous and stimulating environment of the Imagination Zone epitomizes LEGO® creativity, and the many free play building opportunities are designed to make youngsters imagine some new designs of their own.
There is so much more to see and do at LegoLand California. For additional information and park hours, check out their web site: california.legoland.com.
Spend a day and experience fun shows like the Shamu Show; Believe; Shamu rocks; Blue Horizons; Sea Lions LIVE; Sea Lions Tonite; Pets Rule! Sesame Street Presents Lights, Camers, Imagination; Into the Blue; Cirque de la Mer; The Shamu Story and the One Ocean show.
Enjoy the fun rides like Journey To Atlantis; Shipwreck Rapids; Wild Arctic Ride; Bayside Skyride; Skytower; Elmo's Flying Fish; Oscar's Rocking Eel or Abby's Sea Star Spin.
Don't forget to save some time to visit the exhibits. You will be amazed at the Shark Encounter and
Wild Arctic exhibits. Take a look at the Rocky Point Preserve, Shamu: Close Up, and the Penguin Encounter. But that's not all, you can also see the Forbidden Reef; Turtle Reef; Sesame Street Bay of Play; California Tide Pool; Pacific Point; Freshwater Aquarium; Aquarium de la Mer and the World of the Sea Aquarium.
With so much to do, you will want to remember to visit the Seaport marketplace, Flamingo Cove and Coco Loco (Arcade and Games).
For more information and park hours, visit the website: seaworld.com/sandiego
Are you looking for massive monster coasters, awesome adventure rides and fun family attractions? Well, look no further than Six Flags Magic Mountain. If you are looking for thrills, you've just found them. In fact, you've found some of the fastest, tallest, wildest, heart-pumping rides in the country-including a few record-breakers.
For parents of children less than 54" there is "Parent Swap." This allows one or two parents to wait in a designated area, while the other parent rides. Once the ride cycle is complete, the parents swap places and the other parent rides.
You will find the following thrill rides at Six Flags Magic Mountain California: BATMAN The Ride; Colossus; Déjà Vu; Dive Devil; Goldrusher; Goliath; GREEN LANTERN; Ninja; Revolution; Scream; SUPERMAN; Tatsu; The Riddler's Revenge; Viper and X2
(Please note, not all Rides may be open on all days, check the website for more information.)
You can find the following "Kid's Rides" in BUGS BUNNY World: FOGHORN LEGHORN'S Barn and Railway; Merrie Melodies Carousel; PEPE LE PEW'S Tea Party; SYLVESTER'S Pounce and Bounce; Taz's Trucking Co.; The LOONEY TUNES Lodge; TWEETY'S Escape and YOSEMITE SAM's Flight School. Be sure to check the website for height requirements.
For more information and park hours, visit the website: sixflags.com/magicmountain
Go behind-the-scenes on the Studio Tour to explore where Hollywood movies are made. Get the full back-lot experience from the comfort of the new trams with built-in state-of-the-art HD monitors. Don't miss the award-winning King Kong 360 3-D Created by Peter Jackson - the world's largest, most intense 3-D experience. See the War of the Worlds wreckage and witness the special effects of the Fast and the Furious. Pass the legendary Bates Motel from the movie Psycho and watch out for that famous shark from the movie Jaws, and so much more.
Experience the following rides, shows and attractions at Universal Studios Hollywood: Studio Tour with King Kong 360 3-D; Revenge of the Mummyâ" – The Ride; Jurassic Park® – The Ride; Terminator 2®: 3D; House of Horrors; Universal's Animal Actors; The NBC Universal Experience; The Simpsons Ride; Sherk 4-D™; The Adventures of Curious George; Water World and the Special Effects Stage.
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It's rare that I find myself moved by anything Christopher Hitchens has written, but this story, about a soldier killed in Iraq who had been motivated in part by Hitchens to enlist, is incredibly powerful.
My idea had been to quote from the last scene of Macbeth, which is the only passage I know that can hope to rise to such an occasion. The tyrant and usurper has been killed, but Ross has to tell old Siward that his boy has perished in the struggle:
Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt;
He only lived but till he was a man;
The which no sooner had his prowess confirm'd
In the unshrinking station where he fought,
But like a man he died.
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Michael Lohan Claims Lindsay Lohan is Pregnant as Her Fiance Moves Out
Following a very public calling out on Instagram and Twitter, Linday Lohan's fiance Egor Tarabasov was spotted moving his things out of La Lohan's London flat.
And according to her father, the drama doesn't stop there. Apparently Lindsay told him she's pregnant.
When asked about the alleged pregnancy, Michael Lohan told Us Weekly, "She's saying she is, so I believe her. She told me that she was."
A claim which she also made on Twitter amid her weekend drama, where she accused her fiance of cheating on her with a prostitute.
"I am pregnant," wrote Linsday on Twitter, along with a photo of the actress wearing a fake baby bump in the 2009 film Labor Pains.
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A close up view of the top of the Sun as seen in profile shows thousands of little spurts, like small blow torches, shooting out all over the Sun. The movie shows just an average day's worth of this kind of activity as seen from the STEREO spacecraft (Ahead) in extreme ultraviolet light (August 3, 2007). These spurts are called spicules. With STEREO's 2048 x 2048 image resolution and an image every 10 minutes, we can zoom in on features like this with no distortion. Spicules are plasma jets that shoot through the Sun's atmosphere or corona at about 90,000 kilometers per hour. Discovered in 1877 by Angelo Secchi, they remain largely unexplained, in part because observations are difficult for objects with a brief life (about 5 minutes) and relatively small size (diameters of just 300 miles/500 km). They are caused by shock waves formed when sound waves at the solar surface leak into the solar atmosphere. More than 100,000 spicules occur at any given time on our star's surface.
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Topic 456 – Student Loan Interest Deduction
You may be able to deduct interest you pay on a qualified student loan. Generally, the amount you may deduct is the lesser of $2,500 or the amount of interest you actually paid and it is subject to a phaseout, which means the amount of the deduction gradually decreases and phases out completely if and when your modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) amount reaches the annual limit.
You claim this deduction as an adjustment to income so you do not need to itemize your deductions on Form 1040, Schedule A (PDF), Itemized Deductions .
You can claim the deduction if all of the following apply:
- You paid interest on a qualified student loan in tax year 2014
- You are legally obligated to pay interest on a qualified student loan
- Your filing status is not married filing separately
- Your MAGI is less than a specified amount which is set annually, and
- You or your spouse, if filing jointly, cannot be claimed as dependents on someone else's return
A qualified student loan is a loan you took out solely to pay qualified higher education expenses. See Publication 970. Tax Benefits for Education . and the Form 1040 Instructions (PDF) to determine if your expenses qualify.
If you file a Form 2555 (PDF), Foreign Earned Income . Form 2555-EZ (PDF), Foreign Earned Income Exclusion . or Form 4563 (PDF), Exclusion of Income for Bona Fide Residents of American Samoa . or if you exclude income from sources inside Puerto Rico, refer to Worksheet 4-1, Student Loan Interest Deduction Worksheet in Publication 970. instead of the worksheet in the Form 1040 Instructions.
If you paid $600 or more of interest on a qualified student loan during the year, you will receive a Form 1098-E (PDF), Student Loan Interest Statement . from the entity to which you paid the student loan interest.
For more information about the student loan interest deduction and how your MAGI affects the deduction amount, refer to Publication 970.
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Philadelphia City Council passed Bill 171109 and Resolution 171134 which will amend the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter with a provision of mandatory annual sexual harassment training for all City officers and employees. Introduced on December 14, 2017 by Councilwoman Reynolds Brown in partnership with the 'Women of City Council', the new Bill will require mandatory annual training for all exempt, non-exempt, civil service, City officers and employees regarding sexual harassment in the workplace. The administration may conclude for certain employees and departments that non-annual training is most appropriate and effective for the prevention of sexual harassment in the workplace. In these circumstances, sexual harassment training must be offered to those employees and departments at least once every three years.
"This legislation is a significant step in the right direction to ensure that the City of Philadelphia is fostering a workplace environment free of sexual harassment," Councilwoman Reynolds Brown said.
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The other announcement, not quite as big though, is Gmail tasks are now available for iPhone and Android users, and can be accessed from any xhtml phone. Like the Gmail computer version, tasks can be added/deleted with ease. Make sure to check out the official Gmail blog for a very funny way of promoting their new tasks addition.
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Fluorine Silverlight AMF interface thread safetyDavid | June 20, 2009
Here's a tip for using the FlourineFX AMF interface with Silverlight, specifically the public void ResultReceived(IPendingServiceCall call) in the Fluorine Silverlight sample code. After you've received a response in your callback it will be running in a different thread. If you don't use a thread safe way to access the UserControl then you might see the following:
A first chance exception of type 'System.UnauthorizedAccessException' occurred in System.Windows.dll. If you examine the details of the exception then you will see the following:
System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Invalid cross-thread access.
You need to make a call in the UI thread, but first you need access to it. Try the following. In App.xaml.cs, create a static class, variable and get/set methods for the dispatcher. On application startup, save the RootVisual.Dispatcher in that static variable.
private void Application_Startup(object sender, StartupEventArgs e) { UIThread.Dispatcher = RootVisual.Dispatcher; } /* * Provide global access to to the UI thread. Useful for callbacks that * run in a different thread. */ public static class UIThread { public static Dispatcher Dispatcher { get; set; } }
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The Daily Planet received a copy of this letter, reproduced in part, addressed to officials at the California Department of Toxic Substances Control:
Regarding the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Petition to restart highly radioactive tritiated mixed waste treatments under a treatability study exclusion:
We are writing this letter as a follow up to Ms. Pamela Sihvola's phone conversation earlier today. As was indicated, it is our understanding that the LBNL has no stack monitoring devices that would monitor Tritium Labeling Facility stack emissions containing hazardous chemical constituents, including dioxin. According to LBNL's "Tritiated Mixed Waste Treatability Study Report: 3/15/99" : methylene chloride and chloroform are present in LBNL's mixed waste, and when oxidized contribute to the formation of dioxins as does the presence of benzene.
Other chemical compounds mentioned in the LBNL 9/20/01 petition, and used at the NTLF tritiation operations, include pharmaceuticals, pesticides, biological compounds etc. We therefore ask you to request LBNL to provide information pertaining to how the NTLF stack emissions are monitored for the presence of these compounds and other hazardous chemicals and dioxins, and to provide you with such data. We also request that your agency is provided with information and data pertaining to monitoring of the hazardous chemical constituents of the large tritium groundwater plume at LBNL, since it now appears that NTLF stack emissions may contain hazardous chemicals as well.
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Well, I had intended to keep up with this blog thing but I have been AWOL! Actually, I have just been busy creating, being a mom and suffering with my shoulder injury from the indoor skydiving thing I did with my hubbie for our anniversary. I am just about caught up on my creating. I got an order for 2 first year baby books and an 8x8 wedding book along with another 8x8 baby's birth book. It was really fun to do the baby books since my kiddos are getting way beyond babyhood. One of my friends and a crop club member shared with me the crystal laquer she had recently purchased from me for TAC crop club. Yes, even I still learn new things and find new products to use. This stuff was way cool. I die cut some vehicle shapes for the boy baby book from the Cricut, painted them with acrylic paint and then put this crystal laquer stuff over them. Wow, they looked awesome. Who needs to buy pre-made embellishment when you can create your own unique stuff that totally works with your album layouts.
Well, now I just have to finish my mom's scrapbook. It's been a long haul with this one as I ended up having to scan in a lot of pictures and try to restore them as they are old and have lots of damage. It was a learning process since I just got Adobe Photoshop Elements for my birthday back in November. Thankfully, I am on the last leg doing embellishments and final touches. She will be out here in April so I still have plenty of time. Next up will be doing a heritage album for my late grandparents. Gotta start going through the pictures and doing some scanning again!
January has come and gone but in that time, I worked on my goal setting. I am working on trying to get to doing up to 4 albums per month in any size. January's goal was easily met but February isn't going to be so good. My goal is acutally to work up to doing 4 per month by the end of the year so I still have work to do and can give myself a little break. It will mostly come in spurts anyways.
Part of my goals is to have a planner and plan and prepare better. I will have to put blogging in my planner so I make a point of getting to it. Habits are hard to create but they can be so useful in the end.
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Graduation is in the air! Which for me means absolutely nothing at all as far as academia goes, BUT means a great deal as far as my job at LifePoint goes. This Sunday is Senior Recognition Sunday where we recognize all the graduating seniors in front of our church family during our Sunday worship times. The exciting part for me is that I will be leading our Worship in the Auditorium in the 9 o'clock and 10:45 hours. If you are having deja vu right now it may be because of this post.
I loved it last year and I am sure I will love it even more this year! Can't wait until Sunday!


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Bikram Baral gave fabulous performance in Nepal idol
Osnepal, Kathmandu, 6th December, Nepal has full of talent and creativity. We need to identify the talent and provide proper platform. Ashok Darji is current sensation of social media. He is not a new name for audience who are active on social media as Ashok Darji has created a storm over YouTube. His most of the interview are on trending and his first recorded song is also in trending. Ashok Darji who is from a poor family has become a star on social media. Watch the latest episode of Nepal Idol season 2. Where Bikram Baral gave fabulous performance.


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I added a short, quick list to the conversation on Geek Resolutions over at the Propeller Geeks Group, so here are some relevant things I want to get done in 2009:
1) Install/learn a Linux operating system on one of our home computers and bid adieu to Windows.
2) Beat Zelda: Twilight Princess. I'm sooooooo close, but I've been stuck for a bit and adamantly refuse to look up advice or hints.
3) Find someone to write a foreword for "Collect All 21!"
3a) What the heck – find a publisher for both "Collect All 21!" and "Crossing Decembers."
4) Tackle another book-length fiction project.
5) At the other end of the spectrum, land a few more Thaumatrope submissions and some stuff for the upcoming Everyday Weirdness.
6) Be here (in the Propeller group) more. This will be easier when #1 is don because Propeller really slugs up the computer.


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Ultimate Frisbee: Identifying My Management Style
Posted by juettj in PR/Comm/Branding on May 31, 2011
The Topic
Today is easily one of the hottest summer days I've experienced during the time I've lived in Central Indiana. By luck alone my southern upbringing makes such an occurrence less of a shock to my system, but no less bearable. The weather at the Indianapolis 500's 100th year anniversary- record breaking by most accounts- wasn't even this sweltering! Why am I complaining? I've been thrust into an exciting leadership position and must lead troops through to victory under these oppressive conditions.
UIndy Ultimate Frisbee Club, established in the Spring of 2011, is a competitive college club from the University of Indianapolis. We had a successful Spring and decided to take our energy into the Summer League realm. Unfortunately, our team captain had an extensive prior commitment and couldn't make the first part of Summer season. I've been placed as captain for the sake of organization in his place, and it is a different ballgame.
In this post I'd like to discuss how I've recently discovered a few unique things about my own personal management style, how it differs from that of convention, and what I consider to be the positives and negatives of each. This unique opportunity has allowed me to rethink and restructure how to approach management in a way that is both true to who I am personally and what is most effective for the team I'm leading.
5 Communication Principles Rock Taught Me
Posted by juettj in PR/Comm/Branding on May 25, 2011
The Idea
This summer provides me an excellent and exciting opportunity: the chance to get back in the swing of things with my sometime band The Sages. Founded way back in 2008- at the behest of my best friend, go-to drummer, and roommate Mack- the Sages have brought the south side of Indianapolis (and the University of Indianapolis in particular) hours of enjoyable, original rock and roll and blues at a cheap rate. After some struggling with band line-up and focus we hit a stride about 6 months ago, but effectively disintegrated as everyone's schedule got in the mix and we geared up for graduation. This was more than disconcerting.
Papaw on MLK: Historical Memory
Posted by juettj in Personal Musings on May 10, 2011
Here's an exciting fact: On Saturday May 7, 2011 I officially graduated from the University of Indianapolis with a BA in Communication (nothing cum laude.) Per usual, the graduation ceremony was filled with an electric anticipation and a general sense of relief. I even lucked out and got a spot in the first two rows, just by taking one extra Spanish class. (Let that be a pro-tip to you up-and-coming learners who may be reading this: take what you're good at and lots of it, you may end up with a BA and a first class seat at graduation.) The excitement is compounded when you consider we were part of the University's largest graduating class ever, including over 940+ recipients.
The only disappointment: Our commencement speaker was someone I had NEVER heard of…ever. The Reverend Dr. Kent Millard- I came to find out via the program- was a graduate of Boston University's seminary and was a local United Methodist minister. After receiving the honorary Doctor of Divinity degree- graciously granted by the University of Indianapolis- Dr. Millard proceeded to address the graduating student body with a speech entitled "Passion+Vision=Transformation." In the allegorical address, he related to us a winded story about his efforts with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Alabama, where he helped the Civil Rights movement advocate for voting rights for black citizens in the south.
Admittedly, I was not interested in this speech. The story itself was labored, and Dr. Millard was a bit too stentorian for my taste. He even relayed a story to us that he himself admitted had nothing to do with the topic. All I wanted to do was graduate, not listen to how someone had mistaken him for Rudy Giuliani on a plane. I apologize Dr. Millard, I'm sure your services are enthralling on Sunday mornings, but I wasn't feeling this at all.
After a surprisingly quick distribution of diplomas- marked by back-flips, animal calls, and an explosive audience- I regrouped with my family to get ready to go have lunch. I was very fortunate to be able to share the day with my father-who is currently working in the United Arab Emirates- my mother and sister, who live in Wisconsin, and my paternal grandparents who drove up from southern Indiana. We all scattered to our vehicles and headed towards Greenwood to enjoy some City Barbeque. I got paired up with my step-grandfather (whom I refer to as Papaw) and we set off.
The Commercialization of Mom
Posted by juettj in Personal Musings on May 8, 2011
Hello everyone! I want to start by wishing you all a happy Mother's Day, and I hope you're getting to enjoy it with your loved ones. I'm currently enjoying the festivities with my beloved mother and grandmothers, so I won't write much today. I just want to make a brief commentary on the history and transformation of Mother's Day from unifying, somber national holiday to commercialized kitsch.
5 Ways Immortality Made Jesus a Jerk
Posted by juettj in Personal Musings on May 5, 2011
Alright, I'm going to come out and say it now, in an attempt to preface this post. For those of you whom I don't have the pleasure of knowing well in person, there is something crucial you should know about me before reading this: I'm not a terribly religious guy. Shocked? Didn't think so. The middle-class son of a pro-feminist, ordained southern Baptist mother, and a left-winged, federally employed, neo-liberal father, I didn't have much choice in the matter.
Of course- as is typical of all preacher's kids- I was at church on Sunday every week, earlier than everyone else, and stayed later to help clean up. I've seen the dirtier, grittier, hands-on side of organized religion, and let me be the first to tell you, it isn't pretty. There are a multitude of antiquated, invisible power structures in play, all working against one another, pushing and pulling and contorting the inherent sanctity of religious faith. In most cases, religious organizations and groups- churches most especially- only serve as an auxiliary component of our heightened political and human bureaucracy, rather than as proponents of individual spiritualism and growth.
It is my solemn belief that all people should have for themselves a system of spiritual guidelines and rules, personalized to meet their needs and provide for them a better standard of life. Most of the world's major religions offer such systems of beliefs in the altruistic effort to make us all a little more holy. Unfortunately, organized religion tends so often to stray from this path, instead offering its followers and blind believers a series of ultimatums, suppressive traditions, and narrow minded perspectives in an effort to subdue them.
American Unity is Dead
Posted by juettj in Personal Musings on May 4, 2011
Let me preface with this:
Now, let's take a quick survey–
Did this video bring to mind fear and worry for our troops?
How about the Cold War?
Did you disregard the "liberal media" in favor of a formal presidential announcement?
(from a man you probably don't believe is American.)
Or did you, perhaps, react like the thousands of Americans on Twitter and in our nation's capital who decided to celebrate (and in many cases inebriate) over the death of our most hated enemy?
Chances are you've been lead to this post via your favorite social media outlet, and it is to you I bring up these points for discussion. There is no doubt that the Twitter Revolution scooped all the major news outlets and the White House press itself. The power of our generation is apparent…and foreboding.


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Positives and Negatives of the Confident Leader – May 22,2009
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Everyone loves a confident leader – yet confidence can be baseless. When is it good for a leader to show confidence, and when is it bad? And how can we tell the difference? Guests include Melissa McFarlane, CEO of Electric Kites Success Coaching (www.electrickites.com) and Suzanne Bates, President and CEO of Bates Communications, Inc. (www.bates-communications.com) and author of "Speak like a CEO" and "Motivate like a CEO".
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Elected politicians, however, undertake political battles not as principals, but as the agent of actual or potential constituencies. What they can get done is a function of their constituency's capacity to act collectively. Obama's playing a jilted bride because he doesn't want to call attention to the fact that he'd suddenly emerged as a born-again deficit hawk because he was trying to speak for enough independent voters freaked out by the public debt and runaway entitlements to get himself reelected. (See Elizabeth Drew here.) Yet he could only push things so far in that endeavor without exciting rebellion in his Democratic base. The "big" debt-ceiling deal he was seeking was a way of threading the needle.
Friday's press conference was Obama's admission that Boehner wouldn't let him pull it off. Apparently having determined that he couldn't afford to be seen capitulating to Boehner over taxes, the president has now apparently deputized Harry Reid to do his capitulating for him. How else can you interpret Reid's latest proposal of more budget cuts than Obama was offering and no tax increases at all, as long as Republicans consent to extending the debt-ceiling enough to get us past the next election.
We hear, endlessly, about Boehner's being kept on a short leash by the obstreperous Republican House caucus, especially the tea party faction that resists raising the debt-ceiling under any circumstances. Jonathan Chait, for example, has decided that the leash is so short that Boehner hasn't any room to maneuver at all:
"Between members who hate raising the debt ceiling and members who hate taxes and members who hate cutting a grand bargain with Obama (however favorable the terms), [Boehner] can't do anything. So the default plan, as it were, is to do nothing: Keep the debt ceiling hanging around, don't make a deal, don't raise taxes. Boehner's plan seems entirely designed to minimize objections within his caucus."That's one way of looking at things. Notice, however, that Boehner's the guy who's reportedly getting his caucus geared up for not one, but two debt-ceiling-raising votes, apparently on the theory that he can secure enough Republican votes for deal that trades modest revenue increases folded into tax reform for a Democratic buy-in on entitlement cuts. Reid, on the hand, is the guy who apparently doesn't think he can hold his caucus together behind tax increases or modest entitlement cuts in the run-up to an election in which control of the Senate hangs in the balance. It doesn't look like red-state Democratric incumbents will buy into the former, or blue-state incumbents will buy into the latter. If Reid had control of his caucus, the Senate would already have passed a budget.
Does that sound to you like Boehner's the guy on the shorter leash?


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The Minister for Social Affairs Minister Brennan has announced that the annual Respite Care Grant is being increased from €1,200 to €1,500 from this month.
The Grant is available to all carers providing full-time care and attention to an older person or a person with disability, regardless of their means.
The Respite Care Grant will benefit almost 40,000 carers. Over 29,000 people in receipt of the Carer's Allowance and Carer's Benefit support schemes will receive the grant. An estimated 10,000 additional carers will also qualify following the extension in 2005 of the support measure to full-time carers who previously did not receive the grant, for example because they did not satisfy the means test for Carer's Allowance. The estimated total cost of the scheme is almost €12.9 million.
The grant is paid automatically to carers in receipt of schemes such as Carer's Allowance and Carer's Benefit (administered by the Department of Social and Family Affairs) and domiciliary care allowance, (administered by the Health Service Executive).
Minister Brennan said: "Carers make a valued and valuable contribution to Irish society through their dedication and sacrifice. I want that work to be recognised and acknowledged through increased benefits and practical support measures. In this regard, a break from caring is one of the greatest needs identified by family carers. By increasing the Respite Care Grant to €1,500 we are going some of the way towards giving carers a badly needed break and also recognition for their commitment and compassion."
Minister Brennan said that a survey completed by his Department of the Respite Care Grant had shown that many people used the grant to take a holiday while a family member took over their caring role. In other cases it was possible for the carer to bring the person they are caring for on holiday, while other carers used the money to employ a carer, perhaps for a few hours a week, rather than taking a long break. The importance of family and friends in enabling carers to get a break was also evident – 73% of respondents indicated that respite care was provided in their own homes and 65.7% indicated that is was organized with family or friends.
Minister Brennan said that also later this year, in one of the most fundamental reforms ever undertaken of the welfare system, he will be introducing an entitlement allowing Carers to retain a full social welfare payment and to receive, in addition, up to half rate Carers Allowance. This will boost the income of an estimated 18,000 Carers by up to €109 per week.
Minister Brennan said: "Abolishing the old rule that says you cannot get two welfare payments means that for the first time people who are caring can have some real recognition of their caring duties. It means under this new dual payment system we will be starting to recognise the Carers Allowance less as a welfare payment and more as a support for caring duties. I consider this reform to be an extremely important step forward."
The Minister said that that these extra benefits that have flowed from the welfare reforms agreed as part of Budget 2007 are in addition to the increases this year of €20 per week to recipients of Carer's Allowance under 66 and recipients of Carer's Benefit. Carer's Allowance recipients over 66 received an increase of €18 per week.
Minister Brennan added: "I am determined to work for carers and with carers to continue to deliver substantially increased benefits, proper recognition payments and the services and supports which provide practical help for those people who devote their time and energy to improving the quality of life for others. We have made substantial progress but there is a great deal yet to be achieved. Our next step forward will be to achieve our vision of a coordinated, comprehensive, accessible and sustainable system of delivering services and supports in the community to people who need care while at the same time rewarding Carers and making sure that we care for the Carers"


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home security systems are often taken as less important than an Office Camera Security System, but in terms of installation installing those cameras at home can be more complicated than installing a commercial Security System. Running wires through confine attic spaces with extreme temperatures, drilling on hard concrete walls, fishing wires through walls, and setting up all together to see your cameras remotely from your Phone is a Job that won't deserve to be matched with a cheap, low quality Camera System, and can not definitely be done using the cabling that comes with most DIY Cheap Camera System packages.
When installing cameras in a two story home is often necessary to run conduit to reach the desired locations, and place the cameras in the best spot. Taking in count these and many more details no one could say that a home user should be expected to do their own Security Camera System Installation, So why Buying a Cheap DIY Security System?
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The Revolutionary War forces a sheltered but determined boy to come of age.
The year is 1779; the Revolutionary War is underway. Sixteen-year-old Noah Daniels, frustrated by his crushed foot and patronized by strong-willed women, wants nothing more than to prove himself and honor his late father. He joins the militia as Benjamin Tusten's assistant in the bloody Battle of Minisink but finds himself wounded and befriending "Scar," a wounded Mohawk soldier allied with the British—but only after brutally beating the man. Noah's narration, weaving between flashbacks and his current predicament, evokes the disjointed terror of a nightmare, mocking his heroic fantasies. War, he learns, confuses everything, and Mann demonstrates that chaos throughout. The self-deprecating humor of Noah's relationships with women leavens the mood, yet the sympathy it fosters also intensifies such horrors as scalpings and a boy choking on his own blood. Noah, intuiting that the Mohawk are also fighting for their freedom, wonders, "Wasn't that the same thing I was fighting for?" The somber ending provides no easy answers. An epilogue gives background on the real Battle of Minisink—including a vague mention of a Colonial soldier "probably" buried by Indians, on whom this book is presumably based. An appendix gives brief biographies of the real soldiers who appear in the book.
A sobering characterization of not only a historical battle, but war itself. (bibliography) (Historical fiction. 10-14)


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guest post: nicole trilivas, girls with good appetites (the connection between food and sex)
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover girl, Kate Upton is the newest bombshell to devour a burger by American fast food chain Carl's Jr. in their not-safe-for-TV advertising campaign, which has previously featured Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, and (the ever-so-slightly more appropriate) Padma Lakshmi of US version of the competitive food show, "Top Chef."
The commercial is as much about burgers as the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is about swimsuits (which is to say, not at all). Instead, it's all about the sex appeal. It would be so refreshing to see a woman enjoying food without the palpable sexual innuendos.
You really don't have to try so hard, Carl's Jr.: it's pretty noticeable that food can be sensual. Foods evoke sex and sexual organs in shape, taste, and smell [i.e. oysters, durians, truffles (and some of these examples double as aphrodisiacs)].
Italian director Federico Fellini was attributed with saying: "Never trust a woman who doesn't like to eat. She is probably lousy in bed."
Why is a good appetite viewed as sexy? We talk about food with religious diction. It's divided into bad and good: you are tempted, or guilty for indulging; chocolaty desserts are so good they're "sinful;" etc. Is it sexy when a woman "indulges" because she is doing something she's not supposed to, because she's being naughty?
While researching this piece, Google inevitably kept plucking up websites on appetite suppressants, thereby showcasing that a woman's appetite is often greatly overshadowed by means to restrain and contain it.
As a woman, I think it's healthy to see girls with robust appetites (even for sometimes unhealthy food). That's why so many people adored the Italy (a.k.a "eat") section of Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love, and why this meme was reposted on Facebook thousands of times. We like to see a woman enjoying herself, allowing herself pleasure, not withholding or depriving herself. And all of these turn-of-phrases could double, and reign-true in sex-speak.
But it's not this single-faceted: If Kate Upton wasn't a supermodel, and instead was overweight or obese, there would be a fat shaming reaction. On the other hand, because she is a supermodel the commercial's comments sections are speckled with quasi-jokes and remarks about bulimia. It goes to show that a woman's appetite may be sexy, but not without terms and conditions.
This was a guest post by the Nicole Trilivas, author of one of lip's more recent favourite books, Pretty Girls Make Graves. You can read out interview with Nicole here, purchase her book here (please do!), and visit her blog to read more of her musings.


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One of the most challenging things about being a mother, to me, is having to feed another person. I mean, given what I ate today, I am not so sure I should have this responsibility and I find dinner to be the hardest because by then, I am tired from working all day and I don't want to think, none-the-less cook. And yet, I made the choice to make all my own baby food.
I do this for a lot of reasons but convenience is at the top of the list. Before you think I am crazy--how could cooking be more convenient than opening a jar--hear me out. I have 3 rules and a system that I think can work for you, too.
First, I have some tools. Second, I have a routine. Third, I ignore the tools and the routine if that makes my life less stressful that week.
Here is what I do:
I bought a book, Super Baby Food, not because I wanted recipes but because I wanted rules about freezing, when to introduce foods and how best to get them mushy. I did not follow it as a bible, I used it as a reference and while I didn't make the weird cereal she makes, I did learn that avocado was an amazing food to feed my baby and what is easier than mashing an avocado? Even opening the jar takes more work.
Read more in ¿Qué más?: Why you must feed your baby this Latino superfood
I make as much at once as possible and freeze it, using my oven, stove and baby food cooker all at once. Here is how:
I wake up Saturday morning, feed everyone breakfast and when it is nap time, I get in the kitchen. I put the oven on to 350 degrees and I put 2 or 3 big sweet potatoes and one large butternut squash (halved and seeded) on a sheet pan lined with foil and rub them with a little olive oil. I put them in the oven to roast, which takes about an hour (you know they are done when the house starts to smell sweet and you can stick a fork through them easily).
This is a conventional rule of baby food making I break. The books say that you should steam everything to keep all the nutrients in but if you steam, then you have to peel and chop--who has time for that and squashed can be hard to work with. Just don't boil and you should be fine.
Then I peel and cut apples and pears and put the pears to steam in the baby food cooker (I love my baby-food cooker but if I am going to get this done during nap time I have to use as many pots as possible) and apples to cook down in a pot over medium heat on the stove. (See I have 4 kinds of food going). Then I either make carrots or green beans or Spinach--depending on what I have in the house and what my freezer is short on. (Green beans--ugh--they may not be worth the effort--pounds of green beans gets you very little baby food where as apples and sweet potatoes get you a ton!).
I puree the pears because they are already in the cooker. I pour them in to 2 or 3 ounce containers that I got cheap at the baby store and let them cool.
Next I puree the carrots (or spinach or whatever)--I don't worry too much about getting the food cooker clean because the left over pears add a little sweetness to the veggies and that is exactly what baby food jars do. I portion them out, and then I do clean out the cooker because veggies in the apples don't taste so good.
When the apples are done, you should be ready to take the sweet potatoes and squash out of the oven. The skins will peel right off and you can scoop all the nice soft flesh out in to the baby cooker (again, don't worry about left over apples, they help) and done. About 2 weeks of baby food in about 1.5 hours. I swear!
Now that my son is older, I am no longer pureeing veggies but I am still making and freezing meals for him so that I don't have to cook every night. Now my Saturday routine consists of 2 pots of soup and a pot of beans. My freezer is INSANE!
P.S. I buy prunes in the pouch because, seriously, who is making prunes. And my mom actually cooks the beans but that is neither here nor there. And sometims, especially if we had to go out, we used pre-made baby food. Remember rule three: don't stress yourself out.
Do you make or buy baby food? What do you like? Tell us in the comments section below
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Hi everyone, I wish I could be writing a happier post but now is not that time. My older daughter has Truncus Arteriosus (to learn more about her and her heart read this post).
Just to give a background, she was diagnosed when she was 7 days old and had her first open heart surgery at 11 days old, this surgery repaired her heart but it was not a permanent fix. The piece they placed in her heart does not grow with her body so naturally, this is what needs to be replaced. She has also had 2 heart Caths.
We usually see her cardiologist every 9 months or so to see how things are going, well we saw him in January and found out that it is time for her to have her replacement. So surgery is scheduled for the end of March, and along with the surgery, she will also have a cath.
Now I know nothing could ever prepare me for this, it's just one of those things that you never want to happen. I have been in this position before, and with the experience, I know what to expect. I will tell you that no I am not ready for them to take her away from me, I am not ready for the update telling me she is cooled down and ready to go on bypass, I am not ready to hear that she is in fact on bypass. From this point forward I know that until I get the news that her body is warm and her heart is beating again, I will not be able to take a deep breath.
Then once the surgery is over, I have to prepare myself to see my daughter who loves horses and all animals, who is looking forward to her Make a Wish trip to Hawaii and
swimming with dolphins, lying in a hospital bed with a machine breathing for her. She is such an amazing girl and to see her so helpless…………words just can't describe.
What is new this time is that I now have my younger daughter, during this time she cannot get attention from me, she will be away from her mother and best friend, yes I will have family around her to support her, but it can't be me, and this kills me.
I know once this is over I will be grateful to be on the other side of surgery, to know that we are set for a few more years. We will no longer be at the edge of our seat at every cardiology appointment, that I can't wait for. But as for everything else, it could never happen, and I would be happy…
So if you see me, and I don't look okay, know that I am not. I am in fact teetering on the edge of a breakdown, I am using all my energy to keep it together. But also know there is nothing that can be done, this is life, this is my life, this is my daughters' lives, and now this is my Fiance's life. We will all get through it, and it will hurt like hell, but there will be a brighter side.


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Date(s) - 12/20/2018
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$18 adults, $10 ages 12 and younger.
2-8 p.m. Wed.-Fri., noon-7 p.m. Sat.-Sun. Dec. 9–Feb. 17. "Yuck" and "gross" are the normal desired reactions from a normal museum exhibit but The Disgusting Food Museum is not a normal museum. Brave souls can even try samples at the grand finale tasting bar. True to its name, this museum serves up displays of some truly disgusting foods; Escargot, aka snails, might be the tamest food on display (most are not for the faint of heart even just to mention). This is the type of exhibit for those who like the challenge of getting grossed out over food – or who enjoy seeing other people repulsed by food. Did we say that this is not or the faint of heart? It's not for the faint of stomach either. Needless to say, parental discretion is advised.


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I encountered the word I am searching for in R.C.Robertson-Glasgow's Crusoe on Cricket; but, since I do not have the book, nor online access to it, I cannot search for that word.
The meaning is roughly "to watch an act over and over and over again in mind's eye" and in the context he mentioned of a cricket match that can be watched over and over before going to bed.
Any help?
Edit: In response to comments, I checked the list of all the words starting with "auto" and could not find it. If that is the case, then it could be a word, he coined.