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I've experienced such a "light bulb moment!"
In response to a question I posed to a friend (from the Anchored by Hope online Bible study I joined last fall) regarding what to do about grief-strained relationships, she related to me a situation of her own lost friendship. Her friend had been by her side, very literally, through the loss of her daughter. Because of that, so much of her daughter was tied into that friendship. Consequently, when the friendship ended, she felt that she had lost a piece of her daughter's memory.
For the last couple of months, I've been thinking (and re-thinking) about the hurt I experienced when I felt that two of my closest friends had forgotten my awful week of anniversaries in August. My feelings about the situation have run the gamut, from sorrow to anger and just about everything in between. I won't go into further detail about the situation, but suffice it to say that one side of it has gotten increasingly more complicated.
I've wondered if I was being unreasonable in feeling hurt that these individuals did nothing to acknowledge that week in August. Anything would have been gratefully accepted...something as simple as a short e-mail, a text message, a facebook comment. But there was only silence, a silence that spoke volumes to me.
I've bounced back and forth from thinking that I must be a complete heel for having such expectations to feeling very justified in my disappointment. I've been mad...at others and at myself. I've held my tongue when I really wanted to lash out. I've had stomach aches over the repercussions of it all, lost sleep and shed tears of frustration. It was only after my Bible study friend put words to the anguish in my heart that I realized WHY this whole situation was so deeply troubling.
In different ways, both of these friends were very much tied to Kristen...through my pregnancy, Kristen's birth, her surgery, her death and the aftermath I faced as my world seemed to crumble around me. These people are a part of her story, and their silence felt like part of that story had been ripped away. As I was remembering the loss of my daughter, I seemed to be losing (two different) parts of my connection to her.
I fully believe God brought these friends into my life years ago. Is He now guiding the paths that once moved in tandem to places that are no longer meant to be together? Or is He simply using the situation as it's come to be to show me what I need to work on in my own life? I honestly don't have an answer right now. But I'm still listening, still seeking.
The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed,
a stronghold in times of trouble.
Those who know your name trust in you,
for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you.
-Psalm 9:9-10


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Maax Rounded
This font is the rounded version of the well known font Maax designed in 2012 by Damien Gautier.
As Maax, this font contains usefull different stylistic sets with alternates letters. Each creates a specific rythm and colour of the text.
Designer: Damien Gautier
Date: 2013
Cuts: Roman, Italic, Medium, Medium Italic, Bold, Bold Italic.
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1. involvement in enjoyable recreational activities; see also play therapy.
2. the extent to which mechanical movement is available.
joint play the accessory movement available within a joint, which is not under voluntary control but is needed for proper functioning of the joint.
play therapy
1. a technique used in child psychotherapy in which play is used to reveal unconscious material. Play is the natural way in which children express and work through unconscious conflicts; thus play therapy is analogous to the technique of free association used in psychoanalysis of adults. The therapy is done in a playroom containing toys such as dolls, a doll house, and furniture; blocks; art materials; toy animals, cars, trucks, guns, soldiers, and telephone; and games. As the child plays he expresses his fantasies and gives the therapist clues about his family relationships and unconscious conflicts. For example, the child may be unable to verbally express hostile feelings about a parent or sibling but be able to act out these feelings playing with a doll. The role of the therapist is nondirective. The therapist provides an accepting, understanding adult relationship that allows the child to work through his conflicts and to experiment with new ways of relating to himself and other people.
2. in the nursing interventions classification, a nursing intervention defined as the purposeful and directive use of toys and other materials to assist children in communicating their perception and knowledge of their world and to help in gaining mastery of their environment.
Etymology: AS, plegan, sport
any spontaneous or organized activity that provides enjoyment, entertainment, amusement, or diversion. It is essential in childhood for the development of a normal personality and as a means for physical, intellectual, and social development. Play provides an outlet for releasing tension and stress, as well as a means for testing and experimenting with new or fearful roles or situations. It is an indispensable part of the nursing care of children, especially in the hospital. It helps relieve the tension and anxiety of being in unfamiliar surroundings and separated from parents, and it gives the child a sense of security and a means of expressing fears and fantasies. Play also offers the nurse one of the most effective methods of communicating with and gaining the trust of the child and helping him or her to understand treatments and procedures. Kinds of play include active play, associative play, cooperative play, dramatic play, parallel play, passive play, skill play, and solitary play. See also play therapy.
1. To perform or participate in an activity for recreation or amusement.
2. General term for individual or group activities engaged in for fun or recreation.
[O.E. plegian]
1. Involvement in a sport, amusement, or any form of recreation, esp. an activity other than that in which one is usually engaged as an occupation. From the medical standpoint, it is important that the recreational activity be enjoyable and that participation in it be safe and satisfactory.
2. Unimpeded motion, as of a joint.
Patient discussion about play
Q. i play basketball and i suffer from bad knee, what can i do to make it better and still i'll be able to play??
A. What you describe may actually be "chondromalacia patella" - damage to the cartilage of the knee due to overuse injury. It's usually treated with physiotherapy (mainly strengthening the quadriceps and hamstrings muscles) and supporting devices.
However, I'm not very keen on making diagnosis over the net, so you may want to consult a doctor (e.g. orthopedic surgeon) in order to diagnose it and receive the appropriate treatment.
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However, I'm not very keen on making diagnosis over the net, so you may want to consult a doctor (e.g. orthopedic surgeon) in order to diagnose it and receive the appropriate treatment.
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Q. what is a sentimental abuse? in what ways does it show? i think my boyfriend is abusing me and playing with my emotions , does it call "Sentimental Abuse" , who do i need to see to get over it ?
A. In any situation any kind of abuse is wrong... If he is playing with your emotions sometimes it is good to see a councellor or someone you can talk to to get your feelings out in the open, sometimes it works sometimes it don't.... I just got out of an abusive relationship although it was not my emotions he was playing with it still helped to seek out someone that will listen maybe give suggestions on how you can either get out or fix the problem.
Q. How can some one make his sexual play long still erecting?
A. an erection is formed when two muscles clamp the vain taking out blood from the penis. then it fills up the penis until it gets hard. but eventually the blood must flow ..and after maximum 30 minutes - the muscles start to loosen up.More discussions about play


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Employee Was Singled Out for Firing Based on Age, Federal Agency Charged
GREEN BAY, Wis. - A federal judge in Green Bay has entered a consent decree resolving an age discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against Computer Systems LLC, of Shawano, Wis.
According to the EEOC's suit, Computer Systems chose Sharon Passon (age 60) as the billing specialist whose job would be eliminated in an April 2010 reduction-in-force and instead retained a younger (age 34) and less qualified billing specialist. Passon had worked at Computer Systems for 38 years before being fired.
Selecting an employee for termination based on her age violates the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA). The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
The consent decree settling the suit (EEOC v. Computer Systems LLC, No. 2:11-cv-1178), entered on Friday, October 26, 2012 by U.S. District Judge William C. Griesbach, provides that Computer Systems will pay Sharon Passon $32,500 and prohibits future discrimination. Also, if the company, which was sold in November 2010, resumes operations, it will be required to train its managers and supervisors regarding an employer's obligations and the rights of employees under the ADEA.
"In recent years, the economic slowdown has led some companies to base employment decisions on an individual's age," said John C. Hendrickson, regional attorney of the EEOC's Chicago District Office, which is responsible for EEOC litigation in Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota. "Sometimes we need to reinforce, through litigation, the message that older individuals are productive workers and should be rewarded for their loyalty and hard work. We appreciate Computer Systems' willingness to provide relief for Ms. Passon and to ensure that discrimination does not recur."
Computer Systems LLC formerly engaged in retail billing, operational support, and accounting software and data processing services for telecommunications companies. In November 2010, Computer Systems sold its assets and operations, but not its liabilities, to National Information Solutions Cooperative (NISC) of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Lake Saint Louis, Mo., Mandan, N.D. and Shawano, Wis. NISC has no responsibility for Computer Systems' decision to terminate Passon's employment.
The EEOC's litigation efforts were led by Senior Trial Attorney Dennis R. McBride of its Milwaukee Area Office and Associate Regional Attorney Jean Kamp of its Chicago District Office.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting discrimination in employment. Further information about the Commission is available on its website at www.eeoc.gov.


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Welcome to Adobe® Flash® CS4 Professional software. This document contains late-breaking product information, updates, and troubleshooting tips not covered in the Flash® CS4 Professional documentation.
Flash CS4 Professional system requirements are located here.
Do one of the following:
- Insert the DVD in your drive, and follow the on-screen instructions. If the installer does not launch automatically, navigate to the Adobe CS4 folder found at the root level on your disk and double-click Setup.exe to start the installation process.
- If you downloaded the software from the web, open the folder, navigate to the Adobe CS4 folder, double-click Setup.exe, and then follow the on-screen instructions.
- Insert the DVD in your drive, and follow the on-screen instructions. If the installer does not launch automatically, navigate to the application folder found at the root level on your disk and double-click Setup Mac OS to start the installation process.
- If you downloaded the software from the web, open the folder, navigate to the application folder, double-click Setup, and then follow the on-screen instructions.
If you are installing as an upgrade, the installer will check your system to find the valid upgrade product. If it cannot find it, it will ask you to input the serial number of the product being upgraded. You can also install the software in trial, then input your new and previous serial numbers in the serialization screen shown during launch.
Note: In order to install additional components or reinstall your software after your original installation, you will need access to the original installer (CD, DVD or the download from the web).
Before you uninstall, close all applications currently running on your system--including other Adobe applications, Microsoft Office applications, and browser windows. Then do one of the following:
- In Windows XP, open the Windows Control Panel and double-click Add or Remove Programs. Select the product that you want to uninstall, click Change/Remove, and then follow the on-screen instructions.
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Enter the serial number you received when purchasing the software in the serialization screen when launching the application. You can enter a serial number for the application itself or any Creative Suite® serial number that contains the application. If the product you purchased is one of the Creative Suites, you can enter it in any of the applications contained in the Creative Suite. Other applications installed as part of the same Creative Suite will recognize the new serial number the next time the applications are launched.
Only applications running as a trial will recognize the new serial number. If any of the applications have already been serialized with a different serial number, it will continue to use that serial number until you remove the older serial number using the Help > Deactivate > Erase my serial number. Then on the next launch of the application, it will recognize the new serial number.
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Volume licensing customers cannot purchase from a trial directly, however a volume licensing serial number can be entered in the trial product. Please contact your reseller or authorized Adobe licensing center to place an order for a volume license. To find a reseller in your area, go to http://partners.adobe.com/resellerfinder/na/reseller.js.
This product is offered subject to your acceptance of the license agreement included with the media and to limited warranty terms. See the Adobe Software License Agreement for details. The software may automatically attempt to activate over the Internet. No personally identifiable information will be transmitted, except to the extent that IP addresses may be considered personally identifiable in some jurisdictions. To learn more, visit the Adobe web site at http://www.adobe.com/go/activation.
Note: If you want to install the product on a different computer, you must first deactivate the software on your computer. To deactivate, choose Help > Deactivate.
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In order to support the display of all characters of the Chinese standard GB18030 on Windows XP systems, Adobe recommends the installation of the Microsoft GB18030 Support Package followed by the Flash GB18030 workaround.
The Microsoft support package will update an XP system with, among other things, fonts and input-method-editors (IMEs) to correctly support GB18030. The support package is available as a download from the Microsoft website. (#BG061690)
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SAN JOSE LAS FLORES, Guatemala - Gilberto Ramos wanted to leave his chilly mountain village for the United States to earn money to treat his mother's epilepsy.
His mother begged him not to go. 'The better treatment would have been if he stayed,' Cipriana Juarez Diaz said in a tearful interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday. When he wouldn't relent, she draped him with a white rosary for safe passage.
A month later, his decaying body was found in the Texas desert. Now, the boy has become a symbol for the perils faced by a record flood of unaccompanied children from Central America who are crossing illegally into the U.S.
Authorities said Monday that Gilberto was 11, which would have made him one of the youngest known children to die crossing the desert. But his parents said Tuesday that Gilberto was 15.
The parents explained that they had taken several years to register his birth because of the remoteness of their village in Guatemala's northern mountains. When they did, they had forgotten Gilberto's actual birth date, so they listed the same date as his younger brother.
The boy was shirtless, having likely suffered heat stroke, but still wearing the rosary.
'He was a good son,' Juarez said. 'May God give me the strength to endure.'
Teenage boys seeking work have long been part of the stream of young men heading north from Central America to escape poverty and gang violence. But the number of unaccompanied immigrant children picked up along the U.S. border has been rising for three years.
Migrants tell of hearing that children traveling alone and parents traveling with young kids would be released by U.S. authorities and allowed to continue to their destination. Gilberto, too, had heard in Guatemala that if he got in, he would be allowed to stay, his family said.
He was born and grew up in San Jose Las Flores in a modest wood and sheet-metal home in the Cuchumatanes mountains of Huehuetenango province along the Mexico border. At 6,600 feet above sea level, the exuberant beauty of deep-green hills and canyons, shrouded with clouds and floral bursts of purple and yellow, is a stark contrast to the extreme poverty.
There is no running or potable water and only a latrine in the family home. In the kitchen, there is food, tortillas or wheat atole, an oatmeal-like drink, but never enough.
The cluster of homes where Gilberto lived is accessible only by foot, a difficult walk of nearly a mile (about 1 1/2 kilometers) along a rocky and often muddy mile-long path through the canyons. Gilberto took that path each way to school, where he went as far as third grade before dropping out.
'He had to work to help the family,' said his teacher, Francisco Hernandez, who remembered that Gilberto loved to draw.
More than half of 50 schoolchildren attending now raised their hands Tuesday when asked if they had family in the U.S., shouting, 'I have eight,' 'seven,' 'three!'
Gilberto and his father, Francisco Ramos, hired themselves out to harvest and clean corn. Things improved when the oldest son, Esbin Ramos, reached Chicago and started working in a restaurant. He sends $100 to $120 a month when he can afford it, allowing the family to build a two-room home out of cement block to replace their wooden shack and paint it bright red and green. Gilberto slept on a piece of foam on the floor.
Short, quiet and humble, he stayed close to home. But he grew despairing and bored, Esbin Ramos said. Meanwhile, their mother got sicker. The older brother suggested Gilberto come to Chicago, where he could return to school and work at night and on weekends.
Gilberto set out May 17 with a change of clothes and a backpack along the same path as his brother, walking the rugged road to the center of town and then hitching a ride to Chiantla to meet up with the smuggler, known as a coyote. He left his cowboy boots behind because he didn't want them to get ruined, his father said.
The trip cost $5,400, and the family had borrowed $2,600 of that, paying $2,000 the first week of the journey and another $600 the week before he died. They still owe the debt.
Esbin Ramos said Tuesday that he didn't know much about how Gilberto reached the Mexican border city of Reynosa. Esbin went the whole way in the back of a semitrailer. He said Gilberto told him he arrived by bus.
'I'm OK, just the deposit money,' Gilberto told his father as he was about to cross into Texas.
Then Gilberto and the coyote disappeared. His parents tried to call the coyote. Four days passed, then five, then six. By the eighth day, Esbin Ramos was worried. He called the Guatemalan consulate in Houston and officials in Guatemala seeking help, he said.
Then he got a call from a woman McAllen, Texas, from what agency he doesn't know, telling him his brother was dead. They had found the body June 15, authorities said, and Esbin's phone number on the inside of Gilberto's belt buckle, a tactic many migrants use to hide information from drug traffickers who are looking to extort money from their families.
The Guatemalan consulate in the United States notified the family on Tuesday that Gilberto's body would be returned soon, whenever there is an available flight. His father is already preparing his grave site in the local cemetery.
His bedridden mother stumbled to her feet Tuesday to pray at the altar adorned with wildflowers, arranged where he slept. There are no photos placed there because the family sent most of them to the U.S. to identify the body.
'The coyote told me that he was going to take him to a safe place and I believed him,' Francisco Ramos said. 'But that was the fate of my son.'
---Associated Press writer Katherine Corcoran in Mexico City contributed to this report.


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Comcast CEO Thinks Its Customer Service Problem Is Mostly A Matter Of Scale
from the lack-of-competition-makes-bad-companies-even-worse dept
Comcast, which frequently makes yearly Worst Company in America lists, is trying to address its public image -- that being one of a corporate monstrosity borne from a lack of competition that extracts as much money from its customers as possible while offering the minimum it can, service-wise, in return.
In a recent interview, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts asserts the problem isn't so much that Comcast is an awful company, but that the size of its customer base makes even a small percentage of complaints seem like a never ending cascade of screwed customers.
"What unfortunately happens is we have about … 350 million interactions with consumers a year, between phone calls and truck calls. It may be over 400 million and that doesn't count any online interactions which I think is over a billion. You get one-tenth of one-percent bad experience, that's a lot of people – unacceptable. We have to be the best service provider or in the end, this company won't be what I want it to be."Roberts is right. Even small pockets of discontent in a large customer base both exaggerate the size of the problem and are, as he puts it, "unacceptable." But this isn't simply a problem with scale. (A problem that will only exponentially increase if Comcast decides to purchase Time Warner Cable.) Comcast has made several moves over the years that have been fairly antagonistic towards its customer base.
And while the CEO is doing a bit of a goodwill tour, his company continues to makes moves that make Comcast seem even more evil.
First off, Comcast is looking to alter Nielson ratings in order to charge a premium for ads inserted into repeated episodes of TV shows -- a move aimed at capturing the "binge" viewer market.
"Comcast, the nation's biggest cable provider, wants to count viewers who devour multiple episodes of shows, while giving the most current episode a ratings lift. The Philadelphia-based company is working with Nielsen to roll out on-demand commercial ratings, or C3, for participating networks."All well and good, except that the same article quotes Matt Strauss, the senior vice president of video services, as saying Comcast customers can kiss their DVR fast-forward button goodbye.
Basically, Comcast wants to flip the current advertising system upsides-down and have older episodes of primetime shows carrying the same commercial load as the most recent episode. Right now, Nielsen gives ratings credit only if the commercial ad load remains identical to the original episode.
While digital video recorders and services such as Dish's AutoHopper infuriate programmers because they allow for fast forwarding of ads, Comcast's video on-demand services disable fast forwarding.We can argue the semantics of using the word "lost" to describe something advertisers failed to capture all day long, but the bottom line is this: most customers hate commercials and they don't like them any better when they're made unskippable by cable companies. People pay a premium for DVR services. Telling them they can't do the one thing they'd most like to do is only going to increase the percentage of complaints.
"The money being lost by people fast-forwarding commercials is in the billions," said Strauss.
DSLreports also points out that Comcast is still continuing its stealthy push towards capped broadband.
Comcast has slowly but surely been expanding their usage cap trials, predominately in less competitive Southern markets. Portions of Maine and Augusta, Georgia appear to be the latest market to face caps and overages. Augusta locals tell the local media they were surprised to suddenly see they had a 300 GB cap and had to pay $10 for every 50 GB they travel.As usual, this is accompanied by spokespeople "informing" reporters that "most people" don't use that much data and that sneaking in usage caps is the "fairest" way to make sure data hogs don't use up all the internet (paraphrased). Of course, these caps have nothing to do with managing bandwidth. It's just a way to make users pay more for their services. Comcast may find that many people don't hit 300GB/month in usage now, but that's likely to change in the future as streaming services like Netflix increase in popularity, as well as console manufacturers making active pushes for digital delivery.
In the short run, this activity hurts Comcast's reputation while increasing its income only slightly. But if the foot's in the door, it can rake in huge amounts of cash once these users switch towards data-heavy streaming services. It's a long game, but one Comcast feels is well worth playing. Customers? Not so much. There's a dearth of competition in the broadband market, and providers will very likely adopt usage caps even in competitive markets if any provider has already proven they can be instituted with minimal effect to its customer base.
Comcast's CEO may be stinging a little from his company's poor reputation, but expressing a little concern in an interview doesn't do much towards mitigating the damage done by years of customer-unfriendly tactics. And, if these recent stories are any indication, there will be much more damage done in the future.
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Season 2 of "Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown" premieres Sunday, September 15 at 9 p.m. ET with the host and crew making their first trip to Israel, the West Bank and Gaza.
(CNN) -- "It's easily the most contentious piece of real estate in the world, and there's no hope -- none -- of ever talking about it without pissing somebody, if not everybody, off."
So says Anthony Bourdain about the magnificent, contentious lands of Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza.
The host and crew of CNN's "Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown" traveled to this divided land for the Season 2 premiere on September 15 (9pm ET/PT).
No doubt the political situation is often tense between all the peoples living in these areas, as Bourdain can simply see by crossing between Israeli-controlled and Palestinian-controlled lands.
Even when Bourdain concentrates on the rich history, food and culture of the region, spending time with Muslim and Jewish chefs, home cooks and cookbook authors, the answers are debated over and over. Where does falafel come from? Who makes the best hummus? And a non-food question: Is it a fence or a wall?
"The question of food appropriation or who owns the food is massive here," says Jerusalem-born chef Yotam Ottolenghi, now a London restaurateur and co-author of the cookbook, "Jerusalem." Ottolenghi escorts Bourdain through distinct neighborhoods of Jerusalem, taking him to a typical falafel stand. "It can go on forever here."
"Gaza Kitchen" cookbook author Laila El-Haddad takes him on a hunt for a watermelon salad made just 30 minutes outside Gaza City, also showing him the three distinct cuisines of Gaza City, its villages and the seafood of the coast.
Just outside of Jerusalem in the Judean Hills, he sits at Majda, a restaurant run by a husband and wife team who are a mixed-faith couple. Michal, the chef, is Jewish and Israeli; Yaakov, who grows much of the food, is Palestinian and Muslim. They cook him a meal from their shared food traditions. And it's vegetarian.
The same land, often the same ingredients, cooking for family and friends, welcoming Bourdain to the table. Is it fanciful to think that these struggling peoples, "locked in such an intimate of deadly embrace, might somehow, someday figure out how to live with each other?" he asks.
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Many of you know that we have wanted kids for a long time and officially started trying to have a family this summer. After two months with no success, my doctor did a blood test and determined that I had been preventative for so long that my body hadn't started ovulating again. He offered two options - keep trying and wait for my body to get in gear or take a round of Clomid and let that jumpstart the process. We researched the side effects of the medication and found that it only had a 10% chance of twins - what are the odds??? We were so ready for kids that we decided to go with the Clomid and I took one round while we were on our cruise to Alaska in July. A few short weeks later on Monday, August 17th, we found out that we are pregnant!! At our first doctor's appointment on August 26th, our doctor confirmed the pregnancy and did our first sonogram. He immediately said that he saw "owl eyes." We had no clue what he was talking about, but when he showed us the image, we were pretty sure he was pointing at two babies.
He asked us to come back a week later to be sure. We went to dinner after the visit and ate in almost total silence. The only words we spoke were "two babies, two cribs, two late night feedings." We were definitely overwhelmed but so grateful that God had blessed us with 1 baby, possibly 2. We spent the next week in prayer that God's will would be revealed and sure enough on September 3rd it was revealed LOUD AND CLEAR!!!
What appears to be a ghost is our two babies in two different sacks. Dr. White said that if I was only carrying one baby, my due date would be April 28th, but he estimates it will probably be about three weeks earlier. Our new prayer is that our twins will be healthy and stay inside until 36-37 weeks. I am almost 7 weeks now. It still seems completely unreal, but we are so very excited. We go back on October 2nd to hear the heartbeats!


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Wait a minute...Zion? Since when does Zion National Park have volcanoes? Since about 125,000 to 1.4 million years ago, actually. The western edge of Zion includes the Hurricane fault zone and a series of associated basalt flows and cinder cones. Firepit Knoll (above) and Spendlove Knoll (below) are two nearly symmetrical cones dating to around 220,000-310,000 years ago.
The park also has an outstanding example of an inverted stream. A flow filled North Creek and erosion removed the surrounding softer rock, leaving the former stream bottom as a prominent ridge.
It's a bit tricky to see, but cliffs drop off both sides of the road, which was built on the surface of the basalt flow. From higher up, the ridge is more obvious (below). The flow emanated from the Firepit/Spendlove Cones.
Where are these features, and how do they get missed by 95% of the park visitors? They can be viewed by following Kolob Terrace Road to Lava Point. The park brochure mentions the road, but I guess there are so many exciting things to see down in the canyon that folks don't set aside enough time to explore this road into the high country. It's both a shame and a blessing.
A blessing because I don't like crowds, but a shame because people are missing out on a very scenic and geologically interesting road. The road climbs 4,000 feet in 21 miles from the village of Virgin to Lava Point, one of the highest points in the national park. On the day we were there last week, the temperature dropped from 104 degrees in the valley to 78 degrees at the lookout. Aspen trees lined the last mile of the drive (most of the road is paved, except for this last bit, but the road is smooth).
The road begins in the Triassic Moenkopi Formation, and quickly ascends the lava flows to exposures of the Jurassic-aged Navajo Sandstone. This is the same unit that forms the spectacular cliffs of Zion Canyon. Without the vertical canyon walls, the Navajo weathers into a bewildering variety of beehives, castles, spires, domes, and whatever else your imagination conjures up.
The road crosses the park boundary several times, and passes through beautiful park-like meadows.
At road's end, we discover why the spot is called Lava Point. Columnar basalts form a cap on the edge of the plateau. At nearly 8,000 feet, the area is covered in a fir and aspen forest.
In a meadow near Blue Springs Reservoir, I caught a horse hanging out with a little friend catching flies on his back.
There is a small campground set a few hundred yards from the edge of the plateau. There were a few people camping there, and all of six other cars at the viewpoint. It was cool, shady, quiet, and beautiful; a distinct contrast to the normal tourist haunts in Zion Canyon.


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Facebook's First Investor Pays Teens to Not Go to College
(PALO ALTO, Calif.) -- 19-year-old Indian immigrant Diwank Singh Tomer has an impressive resume. The accomplished hacker and startup founder who initially enrolled in college in India quickly decided he would learn more by moving here and immersing himself in the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial scene.
And one of the world's most famous entrepreneurs agrees with him.
For the third year running, Peter Thiel, Facebook's first investor and the co-founder and former CEO of PayPal, is giving about 20 teenagers $100,000 each to drop out of college and launch a business.
The German immigrant's Thiel Foundation mentors the young entrepreneurs during the two-year fellowship as they pursue new advances in everything from robotics to fashion. But there's a catch. The recipients cannot be enrolled in school or employed during that time without special approval from the foundation. The idea is for fellows to immerse themselves entirely in the world of innovation.
There are some skeptics who point out that not every one of Thiel's fellows succeed. Some fail miserably. But the beauty of the tech world and those who reside in it is the ability to iterate quickly. Failure and the determination to try again is a huge part of that.
And besides, Thiel would argue that many of his fellows do succeed in spectacular fashion.
In the past two years, the fellows have launched more than 30 companies and raised more than $34 million in outside funding. The new crop of fellows was selected from a pool of more than 500 applicants from nearly 50 nations.
"When we created the fellowship more than two years ago, our intention was to help a small number of creative people learn and accomplish more than they might have otherwise," Thiel said in a statement. "To their great credit, they have exceeded our expectations, and inspired people of all ages by reminding them that qualities like intellectual curiosity, grit, and determination are more important than a degree in determining success in life."
The idea that a college education is highly overvalued sounds controversial. Everyone from the Obama administration to high school counselors seem to push students toward a university degree. And study after study shows that college graduates make more money and advance further than people who don't attend college.
But it's not necessarily for everyone, the Thiel Foundation argues, particularly with many students racking up student debt to pursue degrees that may never be worth the expense.
Thiel Foundation Vice President of Grants Mike Gibson said he can see technical certificates that confirm someone knows how to code, for example, being valuable. But this idea that a college degree makes someone qualified or that someone cannot be qualified without one, is bogus.
Tomer agrees.
He had been at college in India for less than a month when he decided "he had nothing to lose" by dropping out. He'd already launched a startup to help people learn to code, and the computer science major knew he could continue to teach himself how to code.
So, he bought a ticket to San Francisco, hopped on a plane and only called home to tell his parents he'd left for the United States when he landed.
"To drop out in India means failure," he said. But failure doesn't scare Tomer. In fact, he thinks it's an important part of the growing process.
The key to learning, he said, is to ask lots of questions, something he doesn't think traditional schools promote.
"Schools force you to appear smart," he said. "It's bad to ask questions."
People learn best, he said, when they have access to mentors and the ability to learn in a way that suits them. The Thiel Foundation is big on mentors - each fellow meets with them throughout the two-year fellowship.
In Tomer's case, that approach has produced something interesting. The biking enthusiast is using his foundation funding to launch a new interactive learning environment based on his earlier coding venture.
He wants to launch a site that will allow people to learn about different topics - he's focused on coding and applied sciences - at their own pace with the help of his program. He's developed an algorithm that will respond to the user's actions. If someone wants to learn about a small area of coding and then do a deep dive into it before moving on, the program will prod the user in that direction by taking cues from the ways they interact with the site. If someone wants to get a breadth of knowledge before focusing on depth - Tomer's preferred style - that's fine too.
He thinks he'll need to hire a couple of engineers and a designer, but says his ability to code means he's capable of remaining at the helm.
Although he's only been in the Bay Area about eight months, Tomer plans to stay for good. He lives in a "hacker house" in Palo Alto with a bunch of other like-minded young people looking to strike entrepreneurial gold.
Tomer wouldn't say so himself - but he's an example of what a young entrepreneur with perseverance and a high tolerance for failure can accomplish by taking an unconventional path. The worst thing that can happen is that he has to go home and back to college. With that knowledge, Tomer said, coming to the hotbed of innovation was worth every bit of risk.
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Matt Lauer sat down this morning with Tommy Jordan, the dad from North Carolina who killed his daughter's laptop with a gun in a video he actually posted on YouTube last month.
He tells the Today show's Lauer that despite being "outed" and receiving a lot mail about his actions, he still stands behind what he did:
"You couldn't have gone in the living room and had the same discussion with her without the camera, shot the laptop in the backyard but done it privately and kept it a family matter?" Lauer pressed.
"Possibly, in hindsight, considering all the CPS (Child Protective Services) and DSS (Department of Social Services) involvement and that sort of stuff. Maybe that was the right thing to do. However I can't change that. I did what i did, I stood behind it and I still do."
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Witches, demon sheep, one tough nerd – top costume choices for this Halloween?
Maybe, but at the moment these are just a few of the topics in political ads this midterm election cycle. Opening an ad for Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell of Delaware with the words "I am not a witch"?
Perhaps "brilliant," if you believe to CNN's "Spitzer/Parker" cohost Eliot Spitzer. Perhaps not, if you look at the polls, where Ms. O'Donnell still trails by some 20 points.
But one thing is for sure – outlandish, outrageous, downright kooky ad material, which not too long ago would have been banished to the catchy-but-unthinkable file, is pretty much all over the place.
And, says senior Republican strategist David Johnson, it is here to stay.
The political culture is adjusting to changing viewer and reader habits, he says. With so many sources of information, from TV to the Internet and mobile devices, it's harder than ever to stand out.
"The more extreme, the more colorful your ad is to draw attention you will stand out," he says. "It is very much like reality TV. The way to stand out is controversy."
California Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina cast her primary opponent, Tom Campbell, as a demon sheep. Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Snyder, who has staked himself to a large lead in the polls, has characterized himself as "one tough nerd" in ads. Kentucky Democratic Senate candidate is running ads about a college prank in which opponent Rand Paul allegedly demanded that a blindfolded woman pray to the "Aqua Buddha."
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Consultants know they only have a single shot at your attention, he points out. Moreover, the real goal these days is to get picked up by other media – from the evening news to YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. "The goal is to be so controversial that the 'Today Show' and 'Good Morning America' will replay the clip endlessly and comment on it, keeping the candidate front and center for millions of viewers," says Mr. Johnson.
In the case of Ms. O'Donnell, he says, this national coverage provides the additional bonus of delivering her message to fellow tea partyers far beyond her own geographical constituency. "That certainly helps with her fundraising," he adds.
Increasingly, many ads are not even produced to run as TV spots, but rather are released on DVD or on a website for the sole purpose of being replayed – all at little cost to the campaign. This has allowed campaigns to change the format, as well, says Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism at the Pew Research Center.
"You are no longer just on TV, so you can do ads on YouTube, you can do ads longer than 30 seconds that can go viral," he says. "You can target specific audiences, and that opens up the kind of storytelling and ads you can do."
The number of political novices and outsiders in Election 2010 has also spiced the rhetorical stew, says Joe Erwin, former chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party. "The field is full of nontraditional candidates this time, and that changes the kinds of ads we are seeing," he says.
Entertaining, yes. But successful?
But Mr. Erwin points out that media attention doesn't necessarily translate into votes.
He heartily disagrees with Spitzer's positive spin on the O'Donnell ad. "If you have to start out by telling people you are not a witch, you are in big trouble, sister," he says with a laugh, not because it's true, "but because it means you are playing the game on your opponent's turf."
While a rise in negative ads is predictable in the home stretch just before a vote, there really are more this season. According to the Wesleyan Media Project, 20 percent of ads this year attack the personal characteristics of opponents. In 2008, that figure was 14 percent.
Where can it go from here? Mr. Johnson expects the trend only to grow.
In a current Georgia statehouse contest, one of the candidates had been in an altercation with his girlfriend. His opponent got the police record and used the mug shot to put out a direct mail flier that called the candidate an attempted murderer.
"This is the kind of stuff that grabs your attention," he says. "It's really bad, but it's what we're going to see more of."


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City of Vidor considers regulating 'eight-liners'
In its meeting Thursday, Nov. 8, the Vidor City Council heard the first reading of an ordinance meant to deter illegal gambling utilizing amusement machines and keep game rooms' patrons safer, according to Vidor Assistant City Attorney Frank Messina.
"Eight-liners" is the term commonly used to describe coin-operated amusement machines or slot machines. The eight-liners used in illegal gambling rooms are only supposed to be used for amusement, not gambling. Legally, players can be offered prizes in value up to $5. Any amount over that or anything paid out in cash is not legal.
Ordinance No. 1172 would amend Chapter 14 of Vidor's Code of Ordinances to add Article XI, Amusement Redemption Machines, which would "provide for the regulation of amusement redemption machines commonly described as eight-liner or slot machines; requiring a regulatory enforcement license and occupation tax permit; requiring the city to perform inspections to determine if the permittee and/or licensee is complying with the ordinance; providing penalty not to exceed $500, permit/license revocation, and sealing for the violation of the ordinance. …"
Chief Dave Shows of the Vidor Police Department said at a Town Hall meeting at Vidor City Hall in October that his office knows there is illegal gambling going on in his city, but his department could not afford the expense of an investigation. Shows said the game room operators kept the doors locked and without probable cause, he could not forcibly enter the premises. At that time, Shows said he thought one way to combat the game rooms and their proprietors is to hit them where it hurts – in the pocketbook. He said he was planning on proposing a tax of $250 per month per machine on the amusement machines to the Vidor City Council in order to deter illegal gambling and to help the city economy.
"I know illegal gambling is going on in this city and I am taking steps to make sure the city does well from it," Shows said. "My ultimate goal is to get them to leave."
The new ordinance, if accepted, changes the playing field quite a bit. Changes include the addition of new fees for game room operators. Sec. 14.452 (a) of the ordinance states, "An owner, operator, or lessee of an amusement redemption machine game room shall be required to secure a regulatory enforcement license annually. An amusement redemption machine game room shall be required to secure a regulatory enforcement license by paying to the City an annual inspection and regulatory enforcement license fee of $800.00 for each amusement redemption machine. The regulatory license fee is implemented to cover the costs to issue the licenses, regulate the amusement redemption machine game rooms, and to determine whether the provision of his ordinance are complied with."
Messina said the licenses would likely be decal stickers placed on each machine similar to the state-issued permits already required. The ordinance also adds a $15 occupation tax permit fee for each machine. Messina said the city with the help of Chief Shows approximated the cost of enforcement when calculating the $800 license fee.
"We anticipate it would cost around $870 per machine to enforce," Messina said. "We don't want citizens to pay a penny of that out of their taxes."
Another change game room operators would have to make if the ordinance is passed would be to the shuttering and blacking out of windows of the buildings. Sec. 14.453: Transparent, Uncovered Windows Required (a) reads, "Every game room shall have transparent unobstructed windows or open space on at least one (1) side so that the area is open to view by the general public passing by on a public street. The owner, manager or employee of a game room shall not permit any obstruction of such public view by the use of drawn shades, blind, partitions, tinting or other structures or obstructions." The requirement may be waived if the structure is deemed to have historical or architectural significance.
Messina said he agrees with Shows that game rooms operating illegally are a problem in the city.
"It's a real issue in Vidor," Messina said. "Chief Shows said he conservatively estimates there are 130 machines in Vidor. … People find ways to skirt that law in every way. Some of them give out gift cards instead of cash. That is still illegal. The 'fuzzy animal law' was originally designed to allow operators to give out prizes, like stuffed animals."
Messina said the city originally looked into the ordinance after hearing stories from patrons of game rooms who said they were locked into the game rooms.
"We have a lot of concerns with the fire safety codes," Messina asserted. "The impetus behind this is that we heard about people being locked into these places. … That could be really problematic if there was a fire. … The fire marshal will be inspecting these places and the police officers and code enforcement will be going frequently. We think it is warranted."
The second reading of the ordinance will occur during Vidor's next City Council meeting Thursday, Dec. 13, at 7 p.m. at Vidor City Hall, 1395 N. Main St. Messina said if the ordinance is passed in later vote, it would take effect in January 2013.


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WASHINGTON – Peggy R. Mastroianni, Associate Legal Counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), has received the 2009 "Federal Labor and Employment Attorney of the Year" award from the American Bar Association (ABA), the EEOC announced today.
Mastroianni, who has led the EEOC's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) for much of 2009, was selected for the award by the ABA's Section of Labor and Employment Law. This distinguished award recognizes a federal attorney whose professional achievements exemplify excellence of legal work in the field of labor and employment law.
According to the ABA, the award winner must have demonstrated a strong commitment to government service; demonstrated outstanding contribution to the legal profession through sustained excellence in the quality of his or her work; exemplified the highest level of integrity and dedication to the law and government service, as well as leadership both within his or her federal agency and beyond; and contributed significantly to the advancement of labor or employment law.
"I am personally honored to present this award to Peggy Mastroianni," said Nora Macey, Chair of the ABA's Section of Labor and Employment Law. "Peggy embodies the ideal of federal service through her more than thirty years of dedication to the enforcement of federal laws providing for equal opportunity in the workplace. Beyond the excellence of her work, Peggy's career is exemplary for her willingness to listen to the real life concerns of the labor and employment law bar and to provide clear and well considered guidance on the meaning of federal law as it impacts our clients."
EEOC Acting Chairman Stuart J. Ishimaru said, "Peggy has devoted her life's work to advancing the cause of equal employment opportunity and to upholding the highest ideals of federal service. She inspires the employees under her supervision, and commands the utmost respect from those who work with and for her. She also has given invaluable counsel to numerous EEOC Chairs on a variety of complex procedural and substantive matters, and is a tremendous resource to our field offices and stakeholders."
Mastroianni has worked as an EEOC attorney for more than 30 years. She has served as OLC's most senior civil servant for more than a decade, leading the office for several periods when no political appointee was present. She has led and supervised the drafting of EEOC regulations, sub-regulatory guidance, and other interpretive and technical assistance documents under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), the Age Discrimination In Employment Act, the Equal Pay Act, and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (which goes into effect November 21, 2009).
Mastroianni joined OLC in 1991 as the Director of the ADA Policy Division, where she was responsible for developing guidance documents interpreting the then-recently passed landmark statute prohibiting employment discrimination against people with disabilities. She continued to supervise the development of ADA guidance after she was promoted to Associate Legal Counsel – most recently overseeing proposed regulations implementing the ADA Amendments Act – and is a nationally recognized ADA expert. Prior to her work in OLC, Mastroianni served as a trial attorney and appellate attorney in the EEOC's Office of General Counsel.
Mastroianni received the award today at the ABA section's annual conference in Washington, D.C. Prior EEOC recipients of the ABA's Federal Labor and Employment Attorney of the Year award include EEOC Assistant General Counsel Vincent Blackwood and Dallas Regional Attorney Robert Canino. In 2008, Mastroianni was selected for the "Mary C. Lawton Outstanding Government Service Award" by the ABA's Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice.
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Hurricane Irene disrupted the lives of communities and businesses from North Carolina to New Hampshire last weekend. Business owners were hit particularly hard, as power outages forced many to close for several days.
The first 72 hours following business interruption is crucial. Preparation can make a difference, and protect you from having to shut down for good. To kick off National Preparedness Month, the U.S. Small Business Administration and Agility Recovery Solutions will host the first in a series of free disaster preparedness webinars during the month of September.
R. David Paulison, former administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, will present tips on how to be self-sufficient in the days following a natural disaster or other emergency during the webinar on Wednesday, September 7, at 2 p.m. ET.
SBA has partnered with Agility to offer business continuity strategies for entrepreneurs via their "PrepareMyBusiness" website. Visit www.preparemybusiness.org to access previous webinars and additional preparedness tips. Webinars on business and community preparedness, as well as a discussion on best practices hosted by business owners who recovered from recent disasters will be held on consecutive Wednesdays during the month.
The SBA provides disaster recovery assistance in the form of low-interest loans to homeowners, renters, private nonprofits and businesses of all sizes. To learn more, visit www.sba.gov/disaster.
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"What's it like to be ten?" In honor of the upcoming 10th Annual Oxford Film Festival, the University of Mississippi's Media & Documentary Projects Center is teaming up with the Oxford Film Festival to create a documentary film starring 10-year-olds from the Oxford/Lafayette County community discussing the joys and trials of being 10 years old. The film will premiere at the Oxford Film Festival, Feb. 21-24, 2013, and the producers are eager to find 10-year-olds in the community to participate in the project.
The first round of interviews for the film will be held Thursday, Nov. 29 and Saturday, Dec. 1 at the Powerhouse Community Arts Center in Oxford. Interviews will only take 15 minutes and those interested can sign up by emailing the director of the film, Joe York (jayork13[at]me.com).
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"I Like That' Facebook Feature Cuts Comment Load
Being lazy on Facebook just got a little easier.
Last year, the social networking site added mini-feeds, which lets you comment directly on friends' status updates or posted items. Some popular Facebook users, however, are getting inundated with comments about their comments, so Facebook has added a "Like" button that lets people click to say "I like that" rather than actually typing a message.
"Recently, I had a friend write a note about running her first marathon and another friend upload pictures of his new baby. In both cases, they ended up with over 30 comments, all saying: 'Awesome!' [or] 'Congrats!'" Facebook's Leah Pearlman wrote in a blog post. "The aggregation of the sentiment 'I like this' makes room in the comments section for longer accolades."
Pearlman likened the option to a restaurant rating. "If you go to the restaurant and have a great time, you may want to rate it 5 stars. But if you had a particularly delicious dish there and want to rave about it, you can write a review detailing what you liked about the restaurant," she wrote.
The "Like" tags are already showing up on Facebook. Just click the link and a thumbs up with the phrase "I Like This" will pop up. If you click it accidentally or no longer enjoy your friends' triumphs, there is an "unlike" option available too.Originally posted on AppScout.


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BlackLight Tool Training
|Nov 13, 2017
|New York, NY
|Justin Matsuhara & Nathan Mousselli
|Course Status:
|Law Enforcement Only
|Register Now
BlackLight Tool Training is primarily geared toward two groups: current BlackLight users who want to learn more about its capabilities and prospective customers who want to take it for a test run. Nonetheless, the quantity and quality of general forensic knowledge provided in BlackLight Tool Training will make it an excellent fit for any forensic professional who could benefit from a full scenario-based investigative tutorial, regardless of his or her relationship to BlackLight.
Course Description
Over a period of two days, the BlackLight Tool Training course will offer a hands-on investigative approach toward learning techniques for authenticating, analyzing and reporting digital evidence found on computers and smartphone devices. Coursework covers the use of BlackLight, a comprehensive forensic analysis tool that is designed to help investigators conduct digital forensic examinations on all four major platforms (Windows, Android, iPhone and Mac OS X). After a brief introduction to MacQuisition, BlackBag's imaging tool, students will triage a full case and learn the advanced functions of BlackLight though instructor-led exercises and hands-on practical case studies.
2 Days
Course Objectives
At the conclusion of this course, students will have a comprehensive understanding of how to use BlackLight. They will learn by applying the tool to conduct a cross-platform digital forensic examination and create a customized forensic examiner case report using the built-in software reporting capabilities. The course will culminate in an opportunity to take the exam for BlackBag's new Certified BlackLight Examiner (CBE) designation, available only through this course.
Course Requirements
While there are no prerequisites for this course, students should bring a laptop for use during the hands-on exercises, meeting the following specifications:
- Intel-based system
- 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or better
- 8GB RAM or more
- Running 10.7 or later (Mac) or Windows 7 or later (PC)
If potential students are unable to provide their own systems, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com to discuss alternative solutions.
Until further notice, BlackLight Tool Training is available for FREE*.
*Note: Due to a high volume of demand, wait lists are common. Priority will be given to Law Enforcement and existing BlackBag customers.
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Courses have various thresholds for becoming confirmed. When a course is scheduled, it is by default tentative. Once the required number of registrations has been reached, the course will become confirmed. A confirmed course is guaranteed to run. A tentative course will most likely run, but may get cancelled, usually four to six weeks before its start date.
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