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Takuya Kimura rushed to the hospital with a subarachnoid hemorrhage
by Gen on Apr.03, 2010 @ 1:19 am, under NPB
=== 4/7/2010 1:42am JST
Kimura is still in serious condition. According to the Giants, they have now received over 8,000 get well messages from fans.
=== 4/6/2010 12:15am JST
No changes to Kimura's condition -- he's still unconscious and is still connected to a artificial respirator.
=== 11:17pm JST
It seems the Giants have received 3,618 messages from fans wishing Kimura luck, as well as 123 e-mail messages.
=== 4/4/2010 7:23pm JST
According to the latest published reports, it seems Kimura's condition is worsening.
=== 4/3/2010 7:27pm JST
No new updates, other than as of 6:45pm (date of the news report), Kimura is still unconscious.
=== 4/3/2010 1:19am JST
This is already somewhat old news, but nonetheless, very distressing to hear.
At about 5:40pm on Friday, at Mazda Stadium, Takuya Kimura suddenly collapsed while hitting grounders during pre-game situational fielding practice.
I was watching footage of it on TV and it was actually kind of freaky. Kimura was just lying on the ground with this glazed look on his face. And at one point, it seems his heart also stopped beating -- they started chest compressions and even brought out an AED device.
Based on the latest news update that I saw, Kimura has been hospitalized and is still unconscious.


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After the legendary rockers promised they would release their music on Spotify– but only if the one single available on the streaming service was played 1 million times — fans flocked to comply.
Earlier this morning, the 1 million goal was met and Spotify held up their end of the deal. Listeners can now enjoy all of Pink Floyd's recordings online, including seminal releases The Wall, The Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, and Division Bell.
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Lizzie's Ruin
As Lizzie walks across the concrete parking lot of the Hinky Dinky to buy three bottles of two-quart Cokes and Ragu spaghetti sauce, a female radio personality with a cobbled voice holds a gray Styrofoam microphone to her face and asks, "What should happen to a person who attempts to assassinate the president of the United States?" Like a child in first grade when her teacher asked her to sing the alphabet song and she wanted to get all the letters correct but stumbled at "o, p, q," she prays to sound knowledgeable, She forgets the great discussion she and her new-found graduate school friend Mary held on the same subject, and she responds, "The same as everybody else."
On the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite has given up-to-the-minute nightly reports about the woman who attempted to shoot President Ford. Lizzie collates in her mind what little else she knows about Squeaky Fromm, the girl who deliberately released a bullet from her gun's cartridge and knew she would not kill the unelected Commander-in-Chief. Still, the news says Squeaky diligently adheres to the teachings of Charles Manson and will follow him to the ends of whatever world they have.
The on-the-scene reporter whisks herself away to another person where she will ask the same question. Lizzie intuits her statement will not be released on whatever radio station the woman works for. Lizzie slinks toward the Hinky Dinky grocery store. The faded orange and green letters protrude from rows of windows as she shoves open a door and dislodges a shopping cart.
Like Yeats's widening gyre where a falcon fails to heed the voice of his falconer, Lizzie's world has begun to unravel. Her center has changed. Her modern drama professor asks the six students in his graduate seminar to write about their gut reactions to Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal.
The black plague ravages through the confines of Europe. Many die while the remaining kill each other in blind fear that this all-enveloping death will soon envelop them. The title refers to a quote from the Book of Revelation. The Lamb—presumably Jesus—opens the seventh seal, presumably a symbol of death. The film is considered a classic.
Lizzie has just finished reading this passage from the journal the professor requires them to keep. "But what the hell does the play say to you about the nature of life?"
She answers, "The disillusioned knight prays to Death in the end, 'Have mercy on us, because we are small and frightened and ignorant.' I often think I am the same."
"You think? Tell me what you feel!"
She doesn't know what to feel, having never been given this command before. "You have your father's temper," Mother often lectured her.
She and Mary trudge down Dodge Street to the Prom Town House Hotel. "He shouldn't have lit into you like that," Mary says.
"I don't know," a deflated Lizzie answers. "Maybe I was wrong."
"There are no wrong answers about literature."
Lizzie recites lines of poetry from Yeats in her mind, The best lack all conviction while the worst/ Are full of passionate intensity.
Tuesdays and Thursdays are the worst for Lizzie. She tries to prepare class discussion questions, which none of her students care to discuss. For example on the first day of class, she prepared a question sheet to lead students into a vague discourse about why they write. What do they hope to accomplish?
A girl answered, "Because I have to." This constituted the only response from the class. Her purple fishnet stockings led Lizzie's eye to the center of the girl's legs. Lizzie attempts to challenge the student: but what does writing mean to you? Who is your audience?
"You are," the girls responds.
Because of the girl's coarse flaming red hair and scarlet lipstick, Lizzie easily memorizes the student's name: Rosalind Jewell.
After this class, Lizzie has the rest of the afternoon free. She thinks she will take the bus to West Roads Mall and order a charbroiled hamburger at the London Grill, where when she says she wants her burger well done, the guy asks, "Don't you mean burned to perfection?" Lizzie's complexion will then turn lipstick red at his flirting.
This day, though, she leaves the library. She walks the loosely leveled steps. A girl with dull blonde hair and uneven bangs tugs at the sleeve of Lizzie's pale green polyester double knit jacket. Her mother bought her two pastel pants suits that no one in their right mind would wear—or at least that's what Lizzie thinks and wishes Mama had given her something fashionable. Still, Lizzie has not done the laundry in a week, so she wears the fashion faux pas to class that day.
"If you have a few minutes, I'd like to ask you a question. It's a survey we're taking."
Lizzie boosts her purse higher on her shoulder. She wavers. A man with stringy, ash brunette hair stands next to the girl. He thrusts a pamphlet into her hands and commands her to take it. She barely has time to read the title, before the guy proclaims to the broad open space in front of the library, "You have a mind. Use it!!"
Lizzie looks down at the lightning cracks in the gray cement. She is not able to make out the first word, but the first word in the title contains the consonants d-n-t-c-s. "This provides a complete guide to mental health. It is YOUR owner's manual." The guy's piercing blue eyes scare Lizzie, and she moves toward the sidewalk, hoping they will not follow. The girl says, "It's just a survey. Nothing more—okay?"
Lizzie holds tighter to her bags, but she stays to answer the questions.
"If there was one thing you wanted to know, what would it be?"
Lizzie remembers one time on a Wednesday night service before Thanksgiving. The preacher asked everyone to tell the one thing they were most thankful for. Lizzie sat with her mother and sisters at the back of the church. When it came Mama's time, she was most thankful for her daughters. Lizzie had to answer next, and to show off her barely basic knowledge of philosophy, she answered, "Life and hope through thought."
This time Lizzie gives a similar response: "Is there a god?"
The girl announces to Lizzie and anyone passing by, "You have asked the right question. This is one of those points of life we consider at length, and still we ponder."
The guy repeats as if he has quoted a Bible verse, "What is true is what is true for you. No one has any right to force data on you or to command you to believe it. If it is not true for you, it isn't true."
The girl shifts her body closer to Lizzie and in a soothingly commands, "Come with us. We will answer your question."
Lizzie directs her attention to the long vista that ends with a view of a monument she has never walked near before. The girl's voice lures Lizzie to feel safe in following them to a parking lot near the car. They trudge up the hill and stop at a red Gremlin, a car whose very name signifies the monster in Beowulf. The guy opens the passenger seat door and contorts his small frame to fit into the back seat.
As the girl navigates past a Bohemian restaurant and then a bar with a statue of a frog holding a platter of drinks and small squares of food, Lizzie can not help but laugh at the name of the bar: Mr. Toad's Library.
Lizzie twists her head and catches a side view of the guy as he scrunches himself into a space designed to hold small children when their mothers take them to their babysitters. And once again, he quotes from memory, "There is nothing unhappier than the individual who attempts to live in the chaos of lies." His assertion reminds Lizzie of the schizophrenic guy in an upper level Milton class. On the day of his presentation, he donned a wizard's cap and a purple robe, and then he rambled incoherently as he recited chants from alchemy. When an individual possessed the philosopher's stone, he could could cause the transition of the base element into gold. Yet because of the human need to claim the stone as his own, he lost the true faith. Thus, the straw remained the same. Lizzie's study friend poked her in the back with a pencil as the student reenacted another chant and sounded like all three witches in Macbeth.
By this point, the girl tells told Lizzie, "My name's Janna, and this is Tommy." Janna pulls the Gremlin over the curb while the guy in the back seat moans. "I never knew my mother who died of a drug overdose when I was three. My daddy drank, and he left me and my four brothers in the hands of relatives. We got so scattered that when I was little I never knew which of my relatives were my brothers and which were my cousins." Lizzie's read newspaper stories about young people like this, but she's never met one before, even though there was Emilee Peters who was adopted and whose mother beat her with a black belt and/or tree limbs when she took too many squares of toilet paper. Emilee's mother committed suicide when she was sixteen, and she wore bright blue eyeshadow that made her look like a whore. No one knew how to help her since the social work lady said children like her were better off in any home rather than no home at all.
Now, the secret compartment Lizzie holds deep inside transmutes itself from cold water into icicles. When she was twelve, thirteen, and early fourteen, her grandmother's husband singled her out to "take the short cut" from her grandmother's house bordering Meacham Field to the Dairy Queen in Saginaw, where he bought malts or milk shakes that they would bring back for everyone. Each time, he positioned her body close to him like a girlfriend and his knobby carpenter hands slid down the front of her blouse as he swerved across the center lane in her grandmother's 1949 pickup.
Janna turns off the ignition, and Lizzie shakes the door open. Tommy pushes the front seat to the forward position, stretches his lank body, and like a lizard, slides out of the backseat. Janna enumerates all the times she has felt abandoned: she moved from foster home to foster home and often worried where she'd spend the next night. When her baby Crystal arrived, more than all the stars in the night sky, she wanted to shield her daughter from a backstreet life.
Lizzie nods in sympathy. She wants to expand herself beyond the graduate school competition to make the most profound analysis of the literature vanishes. She tries to cease fretting about the knight who plays a mean game of chess with Death and who reminds her of the song about the enigmatic horseman riding through the desert on a horse with no name.
"I had to find my dark spot," Janna says as she shakes open the thin-glass door to a storefront painted neon blue. With a bright orange and red outline, the white marquee reads Knopik Galleria of Fine Arte. A girl with stringy strawberry blonde hair hunches on a stool and reads Mademoiselle. Lizzie had never heard of the magazine until Mary explained Sylvia Plath's angst as she wrote her semi-biographical novel The Bell Jar and was befriended by the publisher of that magazine, but later Sylvia cast her benefactress as a power hungry bitch in the novel. Struck by the fact Plath was born in 1932, Lizzie feels more kinship to the writer than to her mama who was born the same year. In Lizzie's mind, her mama wears polyester-double-knit pants with a sewn in crease down the front and marches out of tune with the changing 1970s world.
The bleak photos feature black, white, and muted sepia tones and depict views of aged China men who labored to link one coast of America to the other. Lizzie twists her body away from this current exhibit. Her spine crackles as she walks. Mama blames these strains on the fact that Lizzie limps ands favors one foot over the other. Regardless of her physical distress, she follows the couple up a wavering staircase. Before they start, though, she can't turn away from a picture at the bottom of the stairs of an old lady with coarse black hair streaked with silver lying on a gurney with her stuffed penguin and a Raggedy Ann on the other side. The old woman appears to nurture both the doll and the penguin. In Lizzie's mind, the woman soothes them: "Oh, baby, it's going to be all right." This scene petrifies Lizzie since her grandmother, whom she calls Mrs. Joiner because her daddy called her that, often talks about her husband losing his mind and accusing her of giving favors to other old men at church.
At the landing of the staircase, another girl with thin matted hair splashes paint onto a huge canvas—red, blue, purple, and orange designs that make no sense. She ignores them and sprawls more paint onto the canvas. Lizzie follows behind Janna while Tommy stands in the backdrop, appearing to almost block Lizzie from bolting down the stairs.
The couple lead Lizzie to a shabby room with a cheap, overstuffed, yellow-orange velvet couch. A man with premature wrinkles and hallowed cheeks that look like a pitted pancake sits at a desk. "Dirk, we've brought a friend," Janna announces.
"So you have," a man in a lime-green leisure suit responds as he writes on a legal pad. Next, he shifts the yellowish sparkled satin shirt to make sure it covers his stomach that reminds Lizzie of the rotunda of the Texas state capitol that centers upward to a point. He invites Lizzie to take a seat in one of the two mismatched straight-backed chairs. Lizzie chooses the one closest to the door. He wheels his chair and stares directly into her hazel eyes. "So you want to know if there is a god?"
She recognizes he has not been told her earlier question. As he repositions his chair, he rubs his fingers against her shoulder. With her sensitivity to colognes, her left arm retains the fragrance of his Jovan Musk. She sneezes. He rolls his chair backward to a distance that is intended to make her feel more at ease. Instead, she re-envisions scenes from her past where she retreated from whatever it is that teenage girls crave and transformed herself into a sea creature crawling like Prufrock on the bottom of an ocean floor.
In 1967, Lizzie graduated from Allard's Crossing Community School and began her freshman year at Lindsey High. In health class, Lizzie learned about the perils of syphilis: "it sometimes goes undetected. Girls might develop ulcers in their mouths—or on their private parts. Left untreated in its latent stage, the symptoms disappear, but the disease can still attack internal organs, including the brain." That summer, Lizzie's friend told her about a senior girl who contracted the disease. Her friend called the girl a slut who slept with other girls' boyfriends and who got exactly what she deserved, even if her father was the Texaco distributor and the family put on airs.
"If any of you suspect you might have contracted this disease, tell your parents. If not that, tell someone you trust." Mrs. Leatherwood told the class. Lizzie trusted her teacher . . . there was always a but. Lizzie could not confess her sins to her mother, who had too much to bear—what with Lizzie's younger sister Lana suffering from mysterious headaches.
Even so, Lizzie once lingered at the door as class ended. "Yes, Dear." The teacher looked up from the notes she had for the world history class for second period.
"Nothing." Lizzie stood at the top of the slick stairs, which were arched by that time. Mrs. Joiner had once sat in one of these classrooms and taken geometry notes. Lizzie clutched the wood banister and walked to her algebra class in the other building.
The next weekend, Lizzie's sister Lana almost choked to death at Fort Worth Children's Hospital when she drank a Dr. Pepper. Doctors waited to have her parents sign their names on some vaguely dotted line so they could perform an emergency tracheotomy on the anterior of Lana's neck. After Mother and Daddy signed their names, Lizzie curled up in a chair. Daddy and Mother with puffed eyes and cheeks paced the white ammonia coated floor, and they argued.
This place ain't doing her no good, Daddy must have said.
I've always followed your pace. This time, we need to stay here.
No, we got to do what keeps our little girl alive.
We don't have a promise the Temple hospital will save her. The doctors are just as good here.
Three surgeries to place a shunt in her neck. Now this!! We ain't staying here.
At six in the morning, Lizzie stretched her arms into the sterilized, vacant hospital air. Mother decided Lizzie needed a bath and a change of close before she went to the orthodontist. "Mr. Ferrill is coming to pick you up."
At all costs, Lizzie did not want to cringe into the corner of the door of the old pick-up. But when you're fifteen and the world appears beyond your control, when you don't want to add to your parents' burdens by revealing what you've just learned in health class about syphilis and gonorrhea, when you're driven to paroxysms of fear when the teacher explained, "If you think you have a sexually transmitted disease, talk to someone. And soon." You keep quiet.
Lizzie sat on her side of the pickup, hugging the door handle, determined to open it if she needed to. Before this drive, he had prayed to his God to forgive him. He had said spewed many times as he sat in the living room, "If God forgives me, why can't you?" He could not comprehend how alienated and cut off from the whole wide world Lizzie felt.
He veered out of the near empty garage into the traffic. He almost ran into oncoming traffic; he honked at cars perched in parking lots. Again, he railed, "God forgives the transgressor. Why can't you?" He almost ran over a Mexican kid on a bicycle who threw newspapers onto lawns. "Christ died on the cross," he lamented like one of his Pentecostal preachers. Lizzie stammered, but failed to answer: she could never forgive him: if she did, he'd just start all over again. They arrived at Mrs. Joiner's house next to Meacham Field. Someone—probably his daughter—took Lizzie to the doctor.
And this was Lizzie's ruin. As she contorts her limbs to fit into the plastic orange foam office chair, she envisions Mr. Ferrill in church, patting the side of his thigh and clapping in tune with "When the Roll is Called up Yonder." She changes the words to "When the roll is called down yonder." And for some reason, she also recaptures one specific hot August day when they stood at the white Formica counter and ordered seven malts and shakes at the Dairy Queen. A pimpled boy rushed into the store to start his shift and announced: "There's a shooter in the tower." He was talking about an angry young gunman in Austin, a city far, far away from Meaccham field. Mr. Ferrill lamented, "Armageddon is at hand." Lizzie winced and wished to join the boy—anything far, far away from Mr. Ferrill and being positioned to appear liked his girlfriend.
Dirk directs her to envision a time when she felt surrounded—safely ensconced by happy feelings. Lizzie realizes she has never felt; instead, she has murdered to dissect. "Surely, there had to be a moment a time—perhaps a scene from her childhood that she might have failed to capture." He moves his chair even closer; she inhales his Scope mouthwash; she pulls away. He lowers his voice and murmurs, " We all have times we want to forget, but tell me your story. What is your Lizzie story?"
"I have no story."
He combs the hairs on her left arm. She positions her chair three tiles away from his, but he rolls closer. "You have a story only you can tell."
Because of his Southern accent, she almost confesses—just like she almost decided to confess to her health teacher—and sometimes craves to pull the stop-cord on the city bus as it passes the hospital on its route to Westroads Mall. She holds her secret close and fears too much the results of a blood or urine test that could declare she carries a disease that Mr. Ferrill transmitted to her when he positioned her body next to his and plunged his warty hands down her shorts and into her pubic hair.
Against her will, Lizzie inhales the false comfort of Dirk's Jovan Musk. Once at a Tri-Delta rush, she brought into her lungs the musky remains of the marijuana joint that circled around the barn as the sisters took turns inhaling. She choked and then sneezed four times. A girl ushered her away from the circle—and now she chokes and sneezes because the man's cologne almost transports her back in time.
In no moment has she ever retained a memory, not contaminated with the memories of times past—those moments when, because of his own selfish cravings, Mr. Ferrill transformed every rite of passage into a fear of growing into a normal woman with needs, lusts, and desires beyond Mr. Ferrill's Pentecostal narrow interpretation of the world. Shit, damn, hell, she utters in her mind.
Dirk interprets her fear. "Our system will cause you to transition into the person you were meant to be. We will not detach you from your religious views. No!! We will enhance your belief systems. But you are not quite ready yet. That much I can see from your eyes as they skit away from me. We will meet again."
"When?" she asks. When will she free herself to live in the world of reality? Dirk sounds like Officer Friendly on an after-school TV show Lizzie watched when she was in second grade. "Tomorrow we will handle what needs to be handled."
Bundled with shame for allowing herself to be transformed into a prostitute for a DQ malt, Lizzie shivers. Yes, tomorrow, she will share her burden. Today, she rides in the front passenger seat of the red Gremlin. This time Tommy slams on the brake three lights before they reach the hotel. He throws his arm into the vacant air, but avoids directly cussing at the driver who will not allow him to slide through a yellow light as it turns red.
Janna rationalizes, "Tommy has his ruin, too. His daddy in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, pimped him out to other men, to old women. Anyone who'd pay the price."
Tommy glides through the next light as it turns red. "We've all got to handle what needs to be handled."
In her mind, Lizzie corrects Dirk's awkward use of the passive voice. Still, there remains her secret. She must handle it in her own feeble manner.
When Tommy shoves on the brakes of the Gremlin, Lizzie exits the vehicle, not able to express in words the inner angst of the knight as he attempts to forestall death, but instead experiences God's silence.
God does not direct her when Tommy and Janna with glib gestures move their hands to say good-bye. "See you tomorrow," Janna says. Tommy nods. Lizzie walks into the plexiglass entrance and pushes the four numbers to allow her to enter the hall that leads to her room. She transposes a three and a one and must start over. On the second attempt, she succeeds and heaves a sigh of false release like an actors in her afternoon soap opera.
She enters her room, and hears the phone ringing. It could be her mother, her new friend Mary—whoever it is, she does not want to talk. Why didn't Mama see? Why? Wherefore? What? All questions she can not frame.
She boils water, adds thin noodles, mixes them with Ragu and white cheese—and thinks of eating. But questions haunt her. Tomorrow, she will confess her ruin. She spits up phlegm and pulpy noodles.
She sleeps in the same polyester-double-knit pink pants and flowered blouse. Relieving herself of Mr. Ferrill's ruin appears palpable, even possible. But . . . the next morning she pulls an English muffin apart, toasts it, extracts Smucker's apple butter from the mini-refrigerator in her room, and spreads the jam over both slices. Oops! If this were a process essay she assigned her students, she has neglected to include taking the oleo from the refrigerator. Her life is soggy, complicated by the fact that she over-thinks. She can't enjoy a television show with her parents. "Little House on the Stupid Prairie," she has told her mother.
"Your grandmother loves her books." Neither have to say the author's name. "Don't let her hear you say that. You take the fun out of things." Lizzie's mother doesn't say what things, but Lizzie knows what Mama thinks. People have always known what Mama thinks, and Lizzie disparages ever knowing what she herself thinks without the aid of Cliff Notes to lead her into seeing what the critics say, not that she relies on the printed cheat sheets alone, but they help.
Now as she waits, she muses, "Why can't there be Cliff Notes for life?" A preacher might caution her to read her Bible; it presents all the answers to age-old questions.
The phone rings. Janna says, "I'll pick you up in fifteen minutes."
"I've decided not to go."
"That is your decision. We will talk some other time—when you are ready."
"Yes," Lizzie answers, realizing she will never hear directly from Janna, Tommy, and Dirk's world again.


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There is no registered or legal poison for otters. Any attempt to poison an otter is a crude attempt at solving the problem - why not just trap and relocate them? Also, poisoning is illegal, and a cause of many potential problems. Please don't do it. Even if you have to kill the otter, there are better ways, such as shooting or lethal traps. Although I have to admit that the use of either of those makes me feel pretty bad. But anything is better than using poison.
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The great thing is that there are no registered types of poisons for killing otters, or rodenticides as they are more commonly known, available in the market. These rodenticides are approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for use inside buildings, but not ponds or waterways. Some popular poisons for otters are chlorophacinone or zinc phosphide and warfarin.
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For poisoning otters you have to adopt certain strategies like keeping away all other food sources. After you are done with the cleaning process you need to place the bait by following the instructions written on the package properly.
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If you think that the otters have become immune to the bait at one point you need to rotate it now for the achievement of successful results. Although poisoning otters is a very good option if they have entered your pond through one way or another, yet you should prevent their entrance inside your pond in the first place altogether. For this you need to get rid of any type of garbage outside your lake. The small plantation and even the grass in your front and backyard and near your lake should be trimmed from time to time.
Make sure to keep your children at a safe distance from otters as they can bite them as well. If you are planning to use bait consisting of any of the elements like difenacoum, bromadiolone, brodifacoum or difethialone, make sure that your children and any pet you have are kept at a safe distance from it.
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Channeling the brutal rhythms of the Jesus Lizard and rendering the power-trio format to its very essence is always going to get an approving nod from your truly, but the point where I want to smack you across the face to take notice of the band Metz is almost immediately after the first listen of their self-titled debut.
And what a coincidence! The album begins with the driving "Headache," which perfectly kicks things off with Hayden Menzies' drumming, a man who hammers the skins like a dimwitted cousin of Dave Grohl-and that's a compliment.
Menzies is usually joined at the hip with bassist Chris Slorach who is a one trick pony of quarter notes and piston simplicity-and that's a compliment too.
But the band's creative and chief noise monger is Alex Edkins who manages to sound like his destroying his larynx and his amplifier simultaneously. Nonstop. For a solid half-hour.
Edkins doesn't share Yow's garbled rambles in his own vein-popping delivery. His is very précise and channeled, but as cathartic as his screaming is,
contains a very intentional pop
element. It does little to minimize the very real power these three Metz Toronto residents present
on their full-bodied document, but it does wonders for repeated listens.
They could retire now and feel good about having their only recorded history be a worthy artifact. But let me be selfish for a moment and say, that I hope the band is able to pound the collective Jesus out of this thing on the road and still have something that's at least half as good as this debut.
There's a very clear indication that this band can take their path in any number of different directions. Whatever path happens to be,
will shine bright throughout their career and has the potential to inspire
others to examine the fertile grounds of whiplashed post-punk rhythms and
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�Bradbury-Lambert� -- Jo Frost returns to Britain to help kickboxing couple Stuart Lambert and Laura Bradbury with their three children: Matthew, 5, Tegan-Olivia, 2, and baby Diesel, 5 months. Matthew�s aggressive outbursts leave Laura battered and bruised; he even gives her a bloody lip when he punches her in the mouth! As the stepfather, Stuart is desperate to discipline the karate kid, but Laura won�t allow it; instead, the family is split down the middle with Stuart taking responsibility for his daughter and Mom fighting to control Matthew. Supernanny takes charge and introduces a �work out your anger chart� and �chill-out chair,� and encourages Laura to let Stuart step in. But when Jo Frost leaves, Matthew stages an epic riot, leaving the house looking like a disaster. Can Supernanny save this family? �Supernanny� airs FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET) on ABC.
Hailed by the New York Times as �fascinating� and �required viewing;� praised by Oprah Winfrey, David Letterman and Kelly Ripa; acclaimed by such publications as Newsweek, Hollywood Reporter and The New Yorker; and lauded by parents and nannies across America, �Supernanny� is a hit. Jo Frost, as Supernanny, can tame the wildest toddler, soothe the savage six-year-old and get the most difficult child to overcome problems with behavior, sleep, mealtime, potty training and other challenges that have vexed parents around the world for centuries. After just three episodes of the show aired in the U.K. in summer 2004, Jo Frost became Britain�s hottest new TV star and godsend to desperate parents who were dazzled by her amazing results with misbehaving children. She debuted in America in early 2005 and captivated Americans as well with her practical, no-nonsense style, honed over 16 years of nannying. �Supernanny� is now an international phenomenon; it airs in 47 countries, almost all of them with Frost as Supernanny. Her book, Supernanny: How to Get the Best from Your Children, was a No. 1 New York Times bestseller.
On the show, Jo observes how the parents handle their day-to-day obstacles with their children. Once she�s assessed the pitfalls, she works with the parents, instilling her tried-and-true methods for transforming unwanted behavior. Then, after demonstrating just how well the new style will work and getting unbelievable results from the children, the parents must fly solo with the Supernanny techniques. For several days they try to implement Jo�s suggestions, and she revisits them at the end of the program to help keep them on track for the future. When parents witness Jo�s results and -- even better -- achieve them on their own, they are truly believers in the Supernanny way. Best of all, children and adults alike can enjoy the lasting benefits of a more harmonious family life.
Nick Powell is the creator and executive producer of both the American and British versions of the show. Craig Armstrong is executive producer and Tony Yates the co-executive producer, of the American version. �Supernanny� is produced by Ricochet, Ltd.
�Supernanny� is broadcast with Spanish subtitles via secondary closed captioning. A TV parental guideline will be assigned closer to airdate.


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City of EvanstonHome Menu
Street Cleaning
Street cleaning is conducted from March 1 to December 15 to eliminate litter, debris and leaves from the streets.
2019 Schedule
Parking signage indicates the specific days and times that parking restrictions are in place (i.e. First Thursday of Month, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.). Please park according to the posted street signage. Signs are posted at the beginning and end of each block.
Additional Fall Cleaning Dates Added
New this year, additional fall street cleaning dates have been added for residential streets to ensure debris is cleared in the late fall months. These dates are listed in bold in the provided schedule below. Signage will be posted and parking restrictions will be enforced.
Schedule for Streets with Parking on Both Sides
Primary Routes are cleaned twice per month. Residential Streets are cleaned once per month. View the 2019 street cleaning map and schedule for streets with parking on both sides, by clicking on the link provided below or by clicking on the map.
2019 Street Cleaning Map and Schedule - Both Sides
Horario de limpieza de calles de doble sentido
Schedule for Streets with Parking on One Side Only
Streets with parking on one side only have their own street cleaning schedule, and are cleaned once each month on Mondays, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. View the 2019 street cleaning map and schedule for streets with parking on one side only, by clicking on the link provided below or by clicking on the map.
2019 Street Cleaning Map and Schedule - One Side
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Sign Up for Text/Email Alerts
The City offers courtesy text message and email notifications to remind community members to move their vehicles.
Sign up for text/email street cleaning notifications.
Notifications are sent one to two days prior to the actual street cleaning day. View the maps below to determine which street cleaning zone you live in or call/text 847-448-4311.
Street Cleaning Rules and Information
The City of Evanston's street cleaning season runs from March 1 through December 15. Residents are asked to abide by the street cleaning schedule found on existing street signs.
Parking is prohibited only on the sides and dates indicated on the street signs and on the schedule. Some zones may include business districts that are posted with signs indicating they are swept between 4 a.m. and 7 a.m. The downtown area is cleaned on Mondays between the hours of 4 a.m. and 7 a.m. Parking will be prohibited as indicated and residents are reminded to always check the street signs before parking their cars.
Illegally parked cars in One-sided Street Cleaning areas may be subject to a ticket and towing charge. For all other street cleaning areas, only tickets will be issued. The ticket for violating the street cleaning ordinance is $75. If the vehicle is towed, then there will also be a tow charge of $145 plus storage charges when the resident picks up his or her vehicle from North Shore Towing. The City of Evanston may, from time to time, post parking restrictions for a special street cleaning in limited areas of the city. The ticket and towing laws apply to these special postings as well.
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Residents are also reminded that raking debris into the streets is illegal. Violators will be fined.
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Intuitive Readings
Phone readings available 📞 Walk-ins welcome ✨
Mimosa is proud to offer in-house intuitive readings seven days a week. We have wonderful, experienced readers, each with their own unique reading style. All of our readers act with integrity and perform readings in a positive light. They each have over 5 years of professional experience and have studied in various psychic modalities from credible programs and teachers. Mimosa is confident in its readers and cares about delivering quality services of this nature.
Phone + In-Person Readings at Mimosa: The cost is $2 per minute with a 15-minute minimum.
Please call (608) 256-5432 for exact hours or to schedule an appointment.
Our Intuitive Readers
Mari Powers
Master Tarot and Oracle card reader Mari Powers helps you find guidance from the invisible universe. She has been offering tarot classes since 1980 and has been performing readings for over 30 years. In addition, she is an ordained minister for Circle Sanctuary. Mari is also a Reiki II Initiate and a master in guided meditation. She is a minister, teacher, and a guide and has been giving readings at Mimosa for over a decade. Mari Powers has been our in-house psychic tarot reader here at Mimosa for many years.
Specialties: tarot, guided meditations, weddings, house blessings + other rituals
Parties: Mari usually does tarot readings at parties where 6-10 people will receive readings, though she is flexible and this is not a firm limit. Business and community events also welcome. She offers a choice of decks and reading layouts, and loves to do readings for pets as well as people. Cost: If attendees pay for their readings, the cost is $1/minute. If the host pays, it's $60/hour. There will also be a mileage fee.
Website: Mari Powers
Brenda Hammon
A gifted clairvoyant, clairaudient, clairsentient, empath and natural medium. She can connect with Angels, Guides, and Guardians. This ability comforts and uplifts her clients on their life path. She is also able to channel messages through her writing and art. Clients receive a handwritten message from their guides along with their reading. A lifelong student of spirituality, Brenda enjoys passing on her knowledge and love through her psychic gifts. She will hold your hands, put light and protection around you and call forth messages of the highest good. You can get to know Brenda in this interview.
Specialties: clairvoyant mediumship, guardian angel communication, house clearing, past life regression, spiritual counseling, one-on-one classes
Parties: Brenda loves bigger groups, but is also happy to work with smaller groups. Galleries are a specialty, as well as business and community events. Bachelorette parties welcome! Cost: Will be calculated on a case-by-case basis, depending on travel distance and number of guests.
Jean Anne Jenkins
Jean Anne is an intuitive who uses her unique gifts to see and feel past, present and future. She uses a specialized astrology board and deck to help clients gain deep insights into their life journey, shining light on relationships, love, career, business, family and spiritual growth. Her passion and purpose are to connect with clients in a compassionate and healing way, empowering you to move forward in all areas of your life. She's also a licensed reflexologist and reiki master. You can get to know Jean Anne in this interview.
Specialties: astrology, reflexology
Courtney Paulus
Courtney Paulus uses an authentic process to channel Divine Source for healing. She does this through Spiritual Readings and Energy Healing in the evolution of one's spiritual journey. Courtney shows up to Mother Earth as a lightworker to help move energy in a positive direction. By connecting to her Higher Power, Courtney is able to channel Divine Source to deliver messages from the Universe. She holds her psychic degree from the Madison Psychic Institute. At her core, Courtney is an energy healer and offers many different unique ways to heal and offer you assistance on your Spiritual journey.
Specialties: intuitive channelling, reiki master, oracle
Learn More About Our Readers:
Statement of Ethics:
Mimosa is proud to offer in-house intuitive readings seven days a week. Because we are serious about providing the best experience to our customers, we hold to a strict code of ethics regarding readings.
All readers working at Mimosa have been carefully screened. They must have several years of professional experience, excellent references, and pass both an interview and several test readings with Mimosa's management and owner. We require this level of professional experience not only because it assures our readers have experience doing readings outside their circle of family and friends, but because it means they have the experience to understand their responsibilities as a professional in the field.
Our readers perform their duties to the highest ethical standards, working with a positive spirit toward the highest good. Guidance is offered in a kind and loving way, with no compulsion to behave in a certain way or make any kind of purchase.
- Any messages they receive are presented in a constructive way, as a means to positive change for the client.
- They also respect your privacy, meaning that anything said in the reading room remains confidential (unless they thought you were in danger of harming yourself or others).
- Any readings for minors will be done only with parental permission.
- They will not require that you pay any additional fee to "fix" or "correct" anything discussed in your reading. Our fees are always our flat rates with no surprises or additional cost.
- They only perform services for which they have been trained and have accumulated enough experience to be considered professionals.If the client requires services the reader is not trained in, including but not limited to mental health evaluation or legal advice, the reader will make a referral if possible.
Mimosa insists on the highest standards for our readers, and will not tolerate any unethical, abusive or avaricious behavior. Mimosa knows that the actions and ethics of our psychic readers directly reflect upon our reputation, so we take ethical violations very seriously.


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Welcome to AISTech, visit us at booth #2477
Voith designs, manufactures and services advanced mechanical power transmission equipment. Used in rotating machinery for industrial applications, Voith continues to push driveline reliability and performance to the next level. Products include universal joint shafts (up to 1,300-mm swing), torque-limiting safety couplings, torsional damping couplings, and torque diagnostic/condition-monitoring equipment.
Featured this year is the Voith FlexPad Roll End Hub (REH) designed and proven to greatly increase hub body operational life through a significant reduction in wear.
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Guild Interview - Rise
The Conqueror of Guilds - learn more about them here.
Guild Interview - Rise
As the winners of the Guild Championship and thus the bearer of the unique title: "Conqueror of Guilds", the guild Rise was also promised a guild interview.
We were finally able to do this.
The guild leaders took the time to let us pester them with all kinds of questions on Discord and in the chat.
Guild profile:
Leader: Razayel & Aquatic
Founded: 06.12.2017
Member: 38 / 50
Active members: Approx. 10 players
Guild Level: 51
... learn more about them here.


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FARGO, N.D. — Attorneys for the federal government are asking a judge to throw out a lawsuit by a group opposed to a plan to divert high water from the Red River around Fargo and neighboring Moorhead, Minn.
The Richland-Wilkin Joint Powers Authority in September filed a complaint against the nearly $2 billion project, which would require a staging area south of the two cities during major floods.
The group has said it is not trying to stop the project but wants the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to come up with a cheaper plan that doesn't flood farmland in Richland County in North Dakota and neighboring Wilkin County in Minnesota.
The corps said in its response filed earlier this week that other options were studied and the group has failed to make a valid claim.
"Plaintiffs lack standing to make the claims asserted," the corps lawyer state in court documents.
Nathan Berseth, spokesman for landowners south of Fargo, said Thursday that he's waiting to see how the corps and government lawyers "justify their hopeful conquest to rob the rural land owners of their rights and land for the sake of urban sprawl."
The response by the government denies claims by the Richland-Wilkin group that construction of a planned ring dike around three communities south of Fargo before the diversion is approved by the state of Minnesota will cause "irreparable harm."
The corps says Oxbow routinely floods under existing conditions, and Hickson and Bakke flood in times of major high water, regardless of whether the diversion is built.
The project has been authorized by Congress, which technically allows construction to begin. Federal funding needs to be appropriated each year to cover construction costs, which would be shared by local, state and federal governments.


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Different teams from renowned institutes participate to test their web development skills against a broader and tougher spectrum of students and get to know the most recent developments in the field by the experts. Competing with the tough and challenging opponents will not only provide you a fruitful experience but will also help you to analyse in depth, your weaknesses and strengths, helping you out later in your career. So if you don't want to miss the thrill, sign up and experience the stimulating atmosphere.
Registration Fees: PKR. 2500Sample Question View Complete Details
The Software Competition was the very first event included in the roster of SOFTEC, in its advent in 1995. It has become the core around which the entire SOFTEC event is now arranged. This competition brings together students from across the world to display their software projects for formal judging by a team of experts, providing participants with valuable feedback and experience of real-world evaluation benchmarks. Not only is this a source of erudition for the participants, but visitors to the exhibition are more often than not students seeking projects with the potential for future development, or even I.T. industry professionals looking for promising talent among the participants.
Registration Fees: PKR. 2500View Complete Details
The Programming Competition (formerly the Dynamic Programming Competition) is a challenging arena, attracting bright and sharp minds from all over Asia. Programming under timed conditions tests the skills and grit of the participants involved to the limit. SOFTEC 2019 will provide local participants the opportunity to match their skills with a much wider field of competitors than otherwise available. The international event will gear the participants to perform under pressure and give them an insight as to where they stand in comparison with their counterparts from countries throughout the world. The competition is structured to test participants in the arena of speed programming – coming up with a solution to a complex question in limited time.
Registration Fees: PKR. 2000Sample Questions View Complete Details
Get ready to witness the rise of machines and be enthralled by the steel against steel as SOFTEC introduces the cyber matchups which will see robots take on robots in Robo Rumble. This competition provides an innovative opportunity for tech and hardware lovers to give identity and life to their creations and translates a passion of morphing into reality. We will provide the Coliseum, we will provide the cheering-mad crowd and the tech wizards will provide the machines.
Registration Fees: PKR. 2500View Complete Details
Ideas Xtreme is a competition in which candidates can present their idea based on a specific theme decided by our team, through presentation using any presentation software rather than a model. Given their Idea must be practical and related to science/technology and participants must be able to relate their idea to benefits for people and or the change it could bring for the people, in short application of idea must be presented after presentation of ideas.
Registration Fees: PKR. 1000View Complete Details
The profession of gaming is rapidly gaining ground in Pakistan. No longer is the activity relegated to the fringes of the I.T. industry; it is now recognised as a lucrative career choice in its own right. The gaming competition also draws intense interest from spectators. Spectator arenas are set up to allow people to watch the progress of tournaments. The palpable excitement around these arenas attracts multitudes of curious visitors besides those coming specifically to watch, making the gaming competition one of the most eagerly followed competitions of SOFTEC.
For too long the hardware engineering aspects of I.T. work in Pakistan had been merely an afterthought in professional competitions. With the intentions of changing this attitude, the Engineering Project Competition, a highly anticipated event was launched for the first time during SOFTEC 2007. The exceedingly ambitious hardware-based projects submitted to the software competition in recent years, as well as our institute's steps into the hardware engineering education arena prompted us to initiate this competition exclusively for engineering projects of undergraduate students. The evaluation of entries will follow the same pattern as that of the software competition, with participants' entries undergoing three rounds of analysis by a panel of expert judges.
Registration Fees: PKR. 2500View Complete Details
Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is that they are the most practical of us all. Can you portray your inner dreamer into a poster? If yes, then this competition is all for you. Come to SOFTEC's Graphic Designing Competition and compete with fellow dreamers.
Registration Fees: PKR. 1000View Complete Details
Each year, the competitions at SOFTEC receive participation from students belonging to 100+ institutions all over Pakistan where individual teams compete and earn their reward, bringing their institutions into the limelight. It is a moment of glory for any institution to have their students achieve at such a large and renowned platform. With this in mind, SOFTEC '16 introduced the idea of SOFTEC-IER - the title that will be rewarded to the university declared the overall winner at the event. It's all about escalating the excitement and competitive nature of the event, bringing all the universities of Pakistan head to head in a healthy challenging atmosphere, and giving students the chance to compete in a collective spirit to be their institution's pride. May the best university be entitled SOFTEC-IER 2018!View Complete Details
In the era of smartphones, mobile application development is field which attracts a lot of developers. SOFTEC being the biggest IT extravaganza of Pakistan feels the need of introducing a competition, targeted at the mobile application developers. This competition, when executed, will provide a healthy environment for the students from all over Pakistan to show off their mobile application development skills. You can show off your Android or iOS native application development skills here to a large number of Mobile Application development companies and get a chance to be hired by one of them, along with the prize money.
Registration Fees: PKR. 2500View Complete Details
"Data Scientists are the new rockstars of IT." With the recent popularity of Data Sciences, Softec being the biggest IT extravaganza is introducing Data Sciences Competition this year. If you think you own a mixture of multidisciplinary skills ranging from an intersection of Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Communication and Bussiness then it's the right time to show the world. This competition let you prove your skills not just to the world but most importantly to yourself.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014
What is it?
Network Integration Evaluation (NIE) 15.1 is the eighth in a series of Solider-led evaluations designed to further integrate and rapidly progress the Army's tactical communications network which is a critical Army modernization priority.
The primary purpose of NIE 15.1 is to execute the Follow-on Operational Test and Evaluation (FOT&E) 2 for Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) Increment 2, the mobile backbone of the Army's tactical network.
NIE 15.1 is taking place at Fort Bliss, Texas, and White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, from Oct. 15 through Nov. 2 and includes Soldiers of the 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division.
Why is this important to the Army?
As the Army of the future is designed and built, it is critical for the Army to continuously upgrade, protect and simplify the network being used by the Soldiers to communicate during missions. A globally responsive, regionally engaged Army requires an advanced, versatile and rapidly deployable tactical network to enable expeditionary operations. NIE 15.1 serves as a way-point for delivering this network and setting the conditions for Force 2025 and Beyond.
What has the Army done?
Through the NIE process, the Army integrated and validated Capability Set (CS) 13, which provided increased Mission Command on the Move capability and network connectivity down to the dismounted Soldier for deploying Brigade Combat Teams. Soldier feedback from CS 13 and the NIE led to recent changes to WIN-T Increment 2 to increase reliability and reduce complexity.
What continued efforts does the Army have planned for the future?
The Army Training and Doctrine Command will conduct Force 2025 Maneuvers to support Force 2025 and Beyond. NIEs remain a critical component of this process by efficiently delivering critically needed integrated network capabilities to the Soldier. Another component is the Army Warfighter Assessment (AWA), which is an opportunity to maximize collective resources to assess joint/multinational interoperability, readiness and modernization priorities.
Beginning in 2016, annual NIEs will focus on testing and evaluation of network programs of record to continue to meet testing requirements and validate yearly capability sets for delivery, with other technologies assessed through annual AWA events. The Army will execute a deliberate transition to ensure we continue to reap the many benefits seen since the start of the NIE three years ago, including broad industry participation, improved integration and valuable Soldier feedback. Together, NIEs and AWAs will address the Army's Warfighting Challenges and deliver network and Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership & Education, Personnel, and Facilities (DOTMLPF) capabilities to the Army in support of Force 2025 and Beyond.
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October 2014
Energy Action Month
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
National Cyber Awareness Month: Visit Army CIO/G6
Oct 10: Columbus Day
Oct. 13-15: AUSA Annual Meeting - Visit Army Professional Development Toolkit
Quote of the Day
Being a Soldier is about being part of a team, a family. Sometimes we don't necessarily like our family, but love is always something we always have in a family.
- Sgt. Maj. of the Army Raymond F. Chandler, emphasized the development of strong bond amongst Soldiers who come together in environments such as training or in war, at the Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting and Exposition, at a Living the Army Ethic panel on "Why and How We Serve," Washington, D.C., Oct. 13, 2014
- Army leaders say ethics integral part of all Soldiers' actions
View the complete: 2014 AUSA Video Archive
STAND-TO! is an information paper-based web platform that supports the U.S. Army's strategic communication objectives.
The information papers -- written, approved and submitted by the Army agencies -- provide a broad, objective view of the Army's current operations, doctrine and programs. The "Today's Focus" topics highlight Army Staff initiatives and support Army wide strategic-level issues.
All published editions are sent to subscribers via email and archived daily in the STAND-TO! Archives.
STAND-TO! falls under the management of the Online and Social Media Division (OSMD) in the Office of the Chief of Public Affairs (OCPA).
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Celebrated British brand for infrared outdoor heaters Chillchaser® runs an annual Winter promotion allowing you to enter for a chance to win a brand new Cronus table heater. After his infamous participation on Dragon's Den, MD Eddie Middleton has brought his entire business back to the UK enhancing local manufacturing, reshaping the concept behind eco-friendly heating.
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started as a pre-daddy blog and morphed into a daddy blog
February 20, 2010
Sweet Child O Mine
Then starting last Sunday he got really fussy...super-crazy fussy. And the thing is it affects me a lot because it's at the times that I'm watching him at night when he is at his worst.
Well this Friday night I shared my experience on twitter...so I thought I'd share it with all of you.
I should probably mention that all those tweets came in the moments that Miloh actually slept, I wasn't ignoring him while he fussed and cried.
Next I should say that The Happiest Baby on the Block DVD is total bullshit...you may remember that I did a post about it in which I swaddled my cat. While the method is great, the 5 'S's do calm Miloh, the actual DVD is what I think is misleading.
Here's why I hate it...for some reason when I watched it I was completly mesmorized at how Dr. Karp calmed EVERY baby on the video...I wasn't thinking about the fact that they edited out any time a baby fussed. I also forgot about the fact that Karp is the expert at this...he has just a few more years practicing this than I do. But one of the most important things is, while he does show a couple babies being put down to sleep, they cut away fast...I don't blame them because of course they can't wait 5-10 minutes to show the baby is still calm.
With Miloh we might be able to calm him but once he is put to sleep he often goes nutso within 5 minutes.
However I did learn a couple things Friday night.
Miloh will stop crying if I stand up. I can sit and rock, or just hold him and he may fuss...but if I stand up and do the same he will often calm...and sometimes it's just me standing and not even moving.
I also got some info about Purple Crying from @mommyingaround on twitter. I'm wouldn't be able to do info about Purple Crying justice in this post so I really think you should check out the site if you have a newborn. But the gist is it's about the phase of life where babies cry the most. What's awesome about it is we haven't reached the peak (that's at about 2 months) and that it often lasts 3-5 months total.
It was great to read the info...but what I found really interesting is the section on soothing techniques. A lot of the info is things you hear already, feed baby, burp baby and swaddle baby etc. But there were two things in there that jumped out at me a little. Kiss the bottom of your baby's feet and smile at your baby.
I realize that each of these things can soothe the baby a bit...they like having their feet touched because they are so sensitive and the get calm when you smile. But the untrained psychologist in me wonders if these are really more about you.
I mean if I kiss Miloh's feet I get happy...I'm kissing a totally cute baby that I love. And it's been proven that if you're in a bad or stressed mood if you smile it will help turn your mood.
So what if these techniques work because your baby is getting your vibes? What if Miloh was all crazy this week in part because when he cried I was frustrated that i would get no sleep for work? Perhaps he started fussy but fed off my negative energy.
That could explain the whole thing with him sleeping when I turned on Luna...and as you can see from the tweets I got a good 2 hours of sleep out of him.
I originally played their album Bewitched to him in the womb once or twice because it's music that I love but also stuff I think would soothe a baby. So when he slept I thought maybe he remembered it or he was just soothed by it, and maybe he was soothed.
But maybe it was that I was really calmed by the music. Perhaps he felt that calm and fed off of it.
So I'm going to try things a bit different. Instead of just trying to calm Miloh I'm going to make sure I am calmed...in hopes that he feels some of that and it helps him too.
UPDATE: Jill who writes the Baby Rabies blog sent me a link to a similar post she wrote a while back. Check it out.
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When Mommy is calm, I am DEFINITELY calmer... Take deep breathes, it helps!ReplyDelete
- thenextmarthaFebruary 20, 2010 at 10:26 PM
I feel for you, I really do. I had high anxiety if I heard a baby cry for about 2 years after Tegan. You see he cried for 6 months straight day and night. All I got for you is a stroller ride on bumpy terrain and holding him swaddled while sitting on an exercise ball bouncing up and down. You would have thought I would have had killer thighs after this, but the zucchini bread offset any muscle gain. Stay strong.ReplyDelete
Nellie went through an insane fussy period.. The first week and a half of her life she was great. She'd sleep in 2 hour increments the entire night... Then she rebelled against sleeping in her cradle. I'm going on the second night of a swaddle-feed-burp-change-sleep method. It's worked great so far and I'm hoping she sticks with it.ReplyDelete
Baby definitely feeds off your energy I think so try your best to stay calm and use soothing tones. Also, I've been keeping rooms dark at night and have been interacting very little with Nellie during nighttime feedings.. It's all business. I don't talk or sing to her. I have read that this helps little ones get the signal that it's time for sleep, not play. It's hard, b/c when she smiles at me I want to cuddle and love and tell her how amazing she is but I also want to sleep so I'm a better mommy.
Good luck.. You're NOT alone!
"I'm going to make sure I am calmed...in hopes that he feels some of that and it helps him too." This is so true. Glad you know this :)ReplyDelete
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. FLASHBACKS. Oh, Kenny, I'm so sorry. The exhaustion, the crying, the not knowing WTH to do to stop the crying, the trying to not seem stressed or exhausted for fear the baby will sense that and self combust, oh... I am remembering it all too well.ReplyDelete
Sounds like you've got a good outlook, and you're being proactive. Hang in there! You're certainly not alone, either. I will add, don't be afraid to jiggle. It really helped us once we learned to put Kendall in his bouncy seat and vigorously bounce him. He also settled a bit when I strapped him in the Moby wrap and bounced really hard on my yoga ball. Not sure if it will work for Miloh because, unfortunately for those of us trying to help each other, no two babies are calmed by the same thing, but it's worth a try.
Interesting about the purple crying. Will have to look into that.
It's so cool to see you write about the Period of PURPLE Crying, how it was helpful to you and then linked to the website.ReplyDelete
From what I read, you sound like an amazing dad! Hang in there; this normal crying phase in your baby's life will come to an end soon!
Thanks all...ReplyDelete
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This petition of the Residents Against Western Sydney Airport Association,draws to the attention of the House; the proposed Western Sydney Airport as proposed by the Australian Government Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development under the Airports Act 1996 (Airports Act) (and its associated regulations) and the Airports Amendment Bill 2015 and the following real concerns of; the known health (both physical and psychological) risks to the communities living around airports and under flight paths, The adverse social impact to the communities living around airports and under flight paths, The documented risk to childhood education and leaning plus the deprivation of sleep for those living under and around airports, The social inequity between Sydney Airport and the proposed Western Sydney airport. The Western Sydney airport has no curfew nor flight sharing arrangements, The adverse impact on the surrounding environment, flora and fauna and biodiversity, The risk to the World Heritage status of the Blue Mountains National Park, The risk to Sydney's drinking water from 'floating and wind disbursed' burnt jet fuel emissions and potential fuel dumping, The potential negative impacts on indigenous heritage, The increased risks and costs from the excessive loading of road transport routes radiating from the airport region due to the mass transportation requirement for fuel, cargo and servicing needs of the airport and the transit of passengers and workers to and from the airport, The misrepresentation on the true number 'full time equivalent' jobs. There is no net growth of jobs for Stage 1 as reported in the EIS 2015, The dubious need for an immediate construction of a second Sydney airport given that Sydney airport is not forecast to reach capacity constraints until the year 2033 (Sydney Airport's Master Plan 2033). The proven unreliability and inadequacy of the current EIS We therefore ask the House to: accept this petition to have the proposed Western Sydney Airport permanently quashed.And we request that any new airport be considered in a different location that will not have a negative impact on the health and amenity of the 2 million people identified as living in this Western Sydney area.
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As he has told us his taste is way off, we're buying all sorts of different food to tempt his appetite.
Au is nibbling at Fancy Feast, Whiskas, and other stuff he's never wanted to eat in his life. He seems to like strong smelling food best, so we think his sense of smell is impaired.
Anyhow, although Au is is eating, he is stick thin. These two pics were taken 3 weeks apart. If all goes well, we'll see the vet next week for another check-up.
Bad news is that Boris has a patch of dermatitis. We've seen the vet twice for it and nothing has happened, so we're off for a second opinion tonight.
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Shaw Cross Sharks are just a point above the National Conference League Division One relegation zone after they slipped to a 33-18 defeat to Hull Dockers last Saturday.
The Sharks have chance to regroup as they do not have a league fixture this week before the Conference shuts down for the Challenge Cup Wembley weekend on August 26.
Shaw Cross took a seventh minute lead with a converted try but the Dockers replied to level and led 10-6 at half-time.
Despite having a player sin-binned following a scuffle, the vistirs took control to build up a 32-6 lead after 70 minutes.
George Russell led the way for Dockers as he bagged two tries and kicked a goal.
Reece Lazenby, Lewis Hill, Joe Hill and Steve Milne also crossed, while Daniel Suddaby (two) and Steve Batty added further conversions.
Shaw Cross rallied late on with two tries but Craig Cook landed a late drop goal to secure the Dockers win, which saw them move two points clear of the Sharks, who are now fourth-bottom just a point above Hunslet Warriors.
Nathan Wright, Matthew Tebb and Danny Grainger, were the Sharks try scorers, with Casey Johnson (two) and Callum Barker adding conversions but it wasn't enough to prevent them slipping to a 12th defeat of the season.
n Shaw Cross Sharks Under-14 girls team are preparing for a tour to France next month.
The girlsm will be travelling to take on Clairac, who are based south of Villeneuve in the south-west of France, between September 3 and 6 where they hope to play two games against their hosts.
French exhanges between Shaw Cross and Villeneuve have been going for almost 50 years but this will be the first time a girls team from the club has toured.
The team have been raising funds to help finance their trip with a goal set of £1,000.
The girls raised £256 from a bucket collection held at the Dewsbury Rams game against Sheffield Eagles and held a race night at the Crown pub.
A Just Giving page has also been set up at www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/stacey-archer.


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