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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has a bizarre way of explaining the effect smartphone usage is having on him. "You're actually socially isolating yourself with your phone," Brin said at the TED Conference in Long Beach, Calif., as reported by Wired. "I feel like it's kind of emasculating. ... You're standing there just rubbing this featureless piece of glass."
Not only do Brin's comments carry a whiff of sexism, they're also somewhat self-defeating for a company that develops one of the leading mobile operating systems. While Brin used this description to illustrate why the user interface of Google Glass is better, his PR handlers probably weren't thrilled about his choice of words.


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Though their new project is only a few months old, the musicians of Trhinoceros have all played in the area for years.
Ryan Crowley (guitar, vocals) has performed with, among others, Super Happy Wicked Awesome Fun Time, Azwan and the Savages and World's Greatest Dad. Steve Yarbo (keyboard) is a founding member of the popular Northampton group The Primate Fiasco. Matt Fuller (bass) worked with past Grand Band Slam winner The Devil's Moses. And Dave Keating (drums) has kept time for The Drunk Stuntmen, Big Ugly Wrench and Angry Johnny and the Killbillies.
Now, after initially joining forces for this year's Happy Valley Showdown at the Basement, the guys are ready to turn their brand of "trhino rock" loose on the rest of Western Massachusetts. But just what is a Trhinoceros anyway?
Crowley says, "There was this strange glass sculpture that looked like three-horned rhino, so I made a joke and it seemed to stick. But Trhinoceros to me means an elusive thing that can never be, yet exists in thought and the invisible waves of sound."
Speaking of sound, Crowley describes a typical Trhinoceros show as consisting of "high energy, big sounds and sweet, sweet melodies." How the group creates such material, however, is up for debate.
"I write an outline for a song, then we get together and fill it out with input from everyone," Crowley says. "Then I do whatever I want."
Since Trhinoceros' members have played in so many bands in the Pioneer Valley, it's only natural, perhaps, that they list bands like Smack My Bishop, The Problemaddicts, Fields of Gaffney and more as some of their favorite colleagues to share the stage with. When asked to list their inspirations, the group cites such diverse individuals as Admiral Akbar, comedian Jerry Seinfield and astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
While this list shouldn't be that surprising coming from a group that lists its hometown as "Northampton, Mass., Earth, Sol System, The Milky Way," audiences may have to wish upon a star before expecting an album to come through the pipeline.
Trhinoceros is content to take its career slowly. In fact, the band only plans to record a demo in the next month or so. But for those wanting to see the band live, the wait might be even shorter.
"I just opened up the Thursday music series at Hinge in Northampton, and we're looking forward to having the full band at the next performance," says Crowley.

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SARATOGA SPRINGS >> The longtime director of a local church preschool and day-care program has been let go amidst allegations of child abuse, although no criminal charges have been filed.
St. Paul's Lutheran Church terminated Joan Beaudoin of Clifton Park as director of its Christian Childhood Center in May, following an investigation by the state Office of Children and Family Services and Saratoga County Department of Social Services.
Beaudoin was immediately placed on administrative leave when the allegation was first lodged March 25. She was fired after an investigation by state and county officials substantiated such charges, according to the Rev. Adam Wiegand, the church pastor.
"We can't, in good conscience, allow that person to continue with that on their record," he said.
State regulations that were allegedly violated do not involve allegations of sexual abuse.
"The director was accused of abuse as well as improper discipline of a child," Wiegand said.
Beaudoin had been in her position for 18 years. Previously, there had never been a complaint lodged against Beaudoin or the school, said Wiegand, who has been at St. Paul's since 2000.
Beaudoin declined comment but said she disputes the findings. Her attorney, James Maswick, said Beaudoin plans to exercise her right of appeal with the state Office of Children and Family Services.
He said he has filed a formal request for an appeal, which he expects to take place within 90 days. Maswick has also asked to see Beaudoin's case file, which he hasn't yet received from the state.
"It's a long process," he said. "It's early in the game."
Wiegand declined comment about specific allegations, saying he didn't personally witness the alleged incident, which involved one child.
Beaudoin allegedly violated three closely related violations, according to a description on the state Office of Children and Family Services' website. The first says that corporal punishment is prohibited, which includes any punishment directly inflicted on the body. A second regulation says discipline is not allowed that is meant to frighten, demean or humiliate a child.
A third regulation says, "A center must prohibit and may not tolerate or in any manner condone an act of abuse or maltreatment by anyone under the provider's control."
The case description says that any violations involving all three regulations have been corrected at the school.
Wiegand said he doesn't believe the child's parents plan to press charges or pursue legal action against the church and/or school.
About 100 children are enrolled in the year-round Christian Childhood Center. A search is underway for a new director, Wiegand said.
He said he doesn't know of any parents that have removed their child from the center as a result of the alleged incident.
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A suspended MBTA Transit Police detective is behind bars in New Hampshire after he allegedly shot up a hotel room and pointed a handgun at heavily armed Nashua police officers when they tried to take him into custody, officials said.
Gary McKeon, 47, was arrested around 3 p.m. on Thursday in an unnamed Nashua hotel after relatives contacted authorities to report they feared McKeon might harm himself. Police were called to the hotel after McKeon allegedly fired four shots into the walls of his rented room, police said.
Nashua police deployed its SWAT officers, known as the Special Reaction Team, and during a confrontation McKeon allegedly pointed a firearm at police. He later surrendered peacefully, and Nashua police, citing state laws, would not say if a handgun was recovered.
McKeon pleaded not guilty in Nashua District Court on Friday to four counts of reckless conduct and one count of criminal threatening. Bail was set at $250,000 cash, officials said.
Joseph Pesaturo, spokesman for the MBTA and the Transit police, said in an e-mail that McKeon was placed on administrative leave on Dec. 17 after he was arrested by Chelmsford police on another charge. At that time, McKeon's service weapon was seized by his superiors, Pesaturo said.
The new arrest does not change McKeon's status, Pesaturo said. He remains on administrative leave pending the resolution of the criminal charges against the Billerica resident.


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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Dean Foods Co. and Kohl's Corp. were among the companies that reported earnings on Thursday, while Walt Disney Co. was due to release results after the bell.
Dean Foods DF, -1.63% raised its full-year earnings forecast as the Dallas-based company swung back to a third-quarter net profit. On an adjusted basis, Dean had a profit of 33 cents a share, up from the prior year's 18 cents and ahead of the consensus forecast of 27 cents a share. Quarterly sales fell to $3.14 billion from $3.41 billion a year earlier.
Retailer Kohl's KSS, -0.03% delivered a consensus-beating net profit of $215 million, or 91 cents a share, for the third quarter ended Oct. 27, up form $211 million, or 80 cents, earned in the year-earlier period. Quarterly sales climbed to $4.49 billion from the prior year's $4.38 billion, as comparable-store sales increased 1.1%. Read: Kohl's net profit up 2%.
Monster Worldwide Inc. US:MWW swung to a third-quarter net loss of $194.2 million, or $1.75 a share, which included a restructuring charge. That compared to a profit of $31.8 million, or 26 cents a share, in the same period a year ago. Revenue fell to $221.7 million from $248.6 million. The New York-based company announced a corporate restructuring with the aim of returning the focus to its core business and improving profitability and cash flow. Among other things, management's pursuing a sale of the ChinaHR business. Read: Monster swings to loss.
Other companies reporting results included:
Wendy's third-quarter loss widens; dividend doubled.
Scotts Miracle-Gro's loss narrows on fewer charges.
Duke Energy's results on Progress addition.
After Thursday's bell
Walt Disney DIS, -1.43% part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.64% is expected to report after the close fourth-quarter earnings of 68 cents a share, according to the consensus in a survey by FactSet Research. Disney has limited secular-growth concerns, very strong competitive positions and leading global brands, said analysts at Deutsche Bank in a report.
Nvidia Corp. NVDA, +0.12% is projected to post third-quarter earnings of 30 cents a share. The results are likely to be largely in-line with estimates, said Wedbush's Betsy Van Hees and Ryan Jue in a research note.
A company much in the headlines, Groupon Inc. GRPN, -0.86% is forecast to post a loss of a penny a share in the third quarter. "Based on our analysis of industry data points, we believe there could be modest risk to Street estimates for 3Q, though we believe that risk is largely priced in at current levels," said Aaron Kessler, an analyst at Raymond James.
"We believe shares will remain rangebound until investors become more positive on the longer-term growth outlook and see a reacceleration in the core daily deals business. We maintain our market perform rating," he said in his note. Read more on Groupon.
Nordstrom Inc. JWN, +0.73% is likely to report third-quarter earnings of 73 cents a share.
Sotheby's BID, -0.42% is likely to post a loss of 49 cents a share in the third quarter.
Zipcar Inc. US:ZIP is likely to report third-quarter earnings of a penny a share. "We believe expectations are low given unabated macro headwinds; headwinds that previously weighed on membership additions in 2Q," said analysts at J.P. Morgan in a research note.
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When Hayden Baker walked on at Northwestern last year, he did so with no guarantees.
Other football opportunities at other places may have provided promises of an immediate starting position or more playing time. But for Baker, who anchored Cary-Grove's offensive line on the Trojans' 2009 state championship team, Northwestern offered something more.
Remaining close to home gave Baker not only the chance to continue his football career in a Big Ten environment, but it also placed him in a world-class academic setting. For Baker, who has moved into the role of being the Wildcats' backup center as a sophomore, that was plenty to go on.
"It's a great experience," said Baker, who was an All-Big Ten academic selection last year as a freshman anthropology major. "I cherish every day I get to walk on the field here, and I'm just trying to make the most of my opportunity here."
While Baker hasn't gotten the opportunity to get on the field on a regular basis for Northwestern the 6-foot-2, 190-pound former All-State selection has used his two seasons in Evanston to learn everything he can.
Despite being listed as the No. 2 center on the depth chart, Baker has learned every position on the offensive line. He realizes his hard work has put him in a position that an injury anywhere up front could throw him into immediate action.
"He's kind of our get out of jail for free card," Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald said this week. "If something were to happen, he's ready to go in at any position. Hopefully, if he continues to get stronger, we'll find an increased role on the field for him."
For now, Baker is content to work hard every day, doing everything in his power to continue to mature as a player, making himself a viable option should Fitzgerald need him. He knew when he chose Northwestern that Fitzgerald's program had a long history of rewarding walk-ons, providing him with all the incentive he needed to prove himself on a daily basis.
He has labored in practice and in the classroom, well aware that Fitzgerald can't make him any promises about future playing time. Like with any other walk-on, Fitzgerald guaranteed that Baker would have every opportunity to earn more playing time depending on their attitude and how hard they work.
"All they can do is control what they can control," Fitzgerald said.
For Baker, who exhibited a work ethic at Cary-Grove that has been passed down to his younger brother – Trojans' senior quarterback Quinn Baker, Fitzgerald's offer has made the work he's put in over the past two seasons all worth it.
Baker rarely thinks of trying to formulate a plan that would earn him a full-ride scholarship, knowing that if he pushes too hard and overdoes it, it could take away from his ability to perform in daily workouts.
"Right now, I'm the No. 2 center and right now, I'm a play away [from getting on the field]," said Baker, who holds aspirations of being a doctor one day. "[Getting a scholarship] is something I really don't focus on, but if you work hard and do the right things, the rest of it will come."
Baker and his Northwestern teammates are facing Illinois today at Ryan Field, playing for their ninth win of the season. But at some point during the day, he will think of his alma mater, which will be playing at the same time for a 6A championship against Crete-Monee in Champaign.
Winning the final game of his high school career is a memory he still cherishes and it's one he hopes Quinn Baker and his teammates can replicate. In 2009, C-G finished 13-0, but never dealt with some of the injuries that this year's team has played through - including to Hayden's brother, who missed three weeks with a broken bone in his hand.
Still, the Trojans are one win away from their second state title in four years, leaving Hayden to pull for two victories on Saturday.
"[In 2009] all of the pieces just came together – we had no injuries – it was almost destined," he said of his own championship experience. "We weren't really challenged as much up until the state [title] game and then we played a great game to win.
"It was just a group of guys I had played with my whole career and it was a great way to finish it off."


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BURLINGTON, N.C. – With the game tied at three and the bases loaded, senior catcher Frank Suarez stepped to the plate and launched a bomb to center field to drive in two runs and set the Coker baseball team up for a 7-4 win over the No. 1 seeded Mount Olive on Saturday (Apr. 27). With the win the Cobras improve to 32-14 on the year.
The Trojans struck first in the third inning to take a small 1-0 lead, but Coker answered in the bottom of the fourth when T.J. Giczkowski doubled to right center driving in Zach Loraine for the 1-1 tie.
Both teams would then score a run in the sixth to keep the score tied as the game crept into the late innings.
Mount Olive would take a one run lead yet again in the top of the eighth, but the relentless Coker defense would respond to keep the damage to a minimal.
With the game on the line, the Cobra offense came alive to score five runs in the bottom of the eighth to take a commanding 7-3 lead. Mount Olive would go on to score a run in the top of the ninth, but it would not be enough as Coker would preserve the 7-4 win.
Loraine (4-2) would earn the win on the mound after 2.2 innings of work. The right hander gave up two runs on four hits and whiffed three batters.
Justin Blechle, Keith Wolf, Fico Kondla, Giczkowski (2) and Suarez (2) totaled the seven Cobra RBIs on the night, while contributing to the team's 13 hits.
Coker will move on to play the No. 3 seeded King University in the conference championship on Sunday (Apr. 28). The game will begin at 11:00 a.m.


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In this light, consider the look at the Texas state courts Tom DeLay's case provides. The NYT reports:
One of only seven states to elect all of its judges on partisan tickets, Texas, some critics say, all but invented the million-dollar judgeship.If you don't like DeLay and are tempted to laugh to see someone you loathe getting a harsh deal, remember that concerns about the inferiority of state courts usually arise in a context where the person getting the brunt of the problem is even more unsavory than a member of Congress.
With prosecution and defense objecting to a string of judges, the DeLay case has produced a conundrum: can a partisan Republican defendant appear to get a fair trial from a partisan Democratic judge, as revealed by the political contributions the judge made? Traditionally, the focus has been on the money the judges received.
"Judges in Texas swing the gavel with one hand and take money with the other," said Craig McDonald, director of Texans for Public Justice, a nonpartisan group that tracks the influence of money and corporate power in the state.
Mr. McDonald called the campaign gifts to the judges legal yet highly suspect, and traced the ballooning costs of judicial races to the assault on Democratic power in Texas by the presidential adviser Karl Rove.
Thomas R. Phillips, chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court from 1988 to 2004 and an opponent of partisan judicial elections, linked the trend to events long before Mr. Rove's efforts. "We were probably the first state in the nation to make judicial races as expensive as hotly contested regular political campaigns," he said.
In the prosecution of Mr. DeLay, the powerful Texas Republican and former House majority leader who faces charges involving illegal corporate campaign donations, the question of judicial impartiality was answered in the negative. The judge, Bob Perkins, who was shown to have made about 30 contributions totaling $5,255 to Democratic candidates and causes since 2001, was replaced at a hearing in Austin last Tuesday, setting off a round of judicial hot potato.
The next to be handed the case, the district administrative judge, B. B. Schraub, a Republican, recused himself after a Democratic challenge. The case then went to the chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court, Wallace B. Jefferson, a Republican and perhaps the most partisan of all, who quickly handed off the case to an appointee, where it remains apparently for good.
The last man standing was Pat Priest, a 65-year-old semiretired judge from San Antonio. He is a Democrat, and he acknowledged making campaign contributions himself, but only of $150 each to three candidates for the Texas House last year.
"That's it, I'm a tightwad," Judge Priest said in an interview....
The complaints against the Texas judicial system have a long history. In 1987, "60 Minutes," in a program called "Justice for Sale," showed Texas Supreme Court justices taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations from lawyers appearing before them. Eleven years later, "60 Minutes" found that little had changed.
In 1998, Texas for Public Justice issued its own report, finding that the seven Texas Supreme Court justices elected since 1994 had raised $9.2 million, of which 40 percent came from interests with cases before the court. A survey taken for the court itself, the group said, found that nearly half of the judges themselves thought that campaign contributions significantly affected their decisions.


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Geo, pseudonym of Georges Debuyser, was born in Wolvertem and educated at the Stin-Jans-Molenbeek art school. He started his career in 1954 as layoutman for the Flemish newspapers from the Hoste publishing group (Het Laatste Nieuws, Kwik, De Post and Telstar). He also made political and sports cartoons and illustrations for these publications. Between 1960 and 1967 he made the adventurous comic strip 'Rolfke & Rulfke' for the children's weekly Pum Pum, a supplement of Het Laatste Nieuws.
Geo also drew the realistic newspaper strips 'Het leven van een mulat', 'De olympische 5000 meter van Gaston Reif' and 'De dood van Tom Simpsom' and the comic strip 'Tijl Uilenspiegel leeft in Vlaanderen' (1961). Debuyser then focused on painting.
Book publications of 'Rolfke en Rulfke' came only many years later, when publishers Brabant Strip (1999) and Peter Bonte (2005) began collecting the stories. Debuyser has also picked up his comic activities again, drawing new stories for 't Mannekesblad and Bonte in 2008 and 2009.


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Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, June 27, 2013
- Human Rights Watch has called on China to end forcible relocations of ethnic Tibetans.
- South Korea's President Park is in Beijing for her first talks with the new Chinese administration, in a visit that is seen as increasing pressure on North Korea to return to nuclear disarmament negotiations.
- EU Finance Ministers have agreed on a blueprint on how to deal with bank bailouts, to protect taxpayers against having to shoulder the burden.
- Following the US Supreme Court decisions on marriage equality, questions are raised about what's next for same-sex marriage (OUP Blog) and what's next for the gay rights movement (CNN).
- With Ecuador's asylum decision possibly taking a few months to be finalized, Edward Snowden is reportedly still in the transit zone at Moscow's airport. Maybe he can watch The Terminal to kill some time?


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New Study Suggests Good Reason for NGOs to Hire Photographers
Posted by Holly Hughes on Tuesday August 21, 2012 | Photojournalism
Posted by Holly Hughes on Tuesday August 21, 2012 | Photojournalism
How generously people give to charities is influenced by where they live and how often they see people in need, a new study finds. And that has implications for photographers, and for non-profits who need compelling storytelling to help them raise money.
People earning between $50,000 and $99,999 a year give a higher percentage of their discretionary income to charities than people making over $200,000 do, a new study from the Chronicle of Philanthropy reports. The study notes that while rich people give more to charities in dollar amounts, they give a lower percentage of their disposable income than people who earn less.
That's due to isolation, the study finds. People who live in wealthy enclaves (zip codes where more than 40 percent of households earn $200,000 a year or more) rarely encounter people who benefit from charitable programs; they also give a smaller portion of their income to charity. The study, which includes an interactive map showing how charitable giving breaks down by state and zip code, also shows that the rate of giving goes up among wealthy people who live in more economically diverse communities. (Because it based its report on tax returns that list tax-deductible donations, the study doesn't distinguish between donations made to religious organizations, educational institutions, social programs or other non-profits.) People who see neighbors relying on the local food pantry to make it through the month give more generously than those who never see the impact charitable organizations can have.
"Simply seeing someone in need at the grocery store—or looking down the street at a neighbor's modest house—can serve as basic psychological reminders of the needs of other people," says Paul Piff, a postdoctoral scholar in psychology at the University of California at Berkeley. Piff says the differences in attitude toward charitable giving dissolve when people are simply made aware of poverty. For example, he showed participants in his study a video about childhood poverty.
That means that charities have to do a better job of showing and telling the stories of their clients. Photographers seeking work from NGOs and foundations can use their ability to tell stories of communities–through stills, audio interviews or video—as a sales pitch. The Chronicle of Philanthropy's study can also provide useful insights when photographers are negotiating fees for this kind of work: In-depth stories from and about the community a charity serves can help the organization's fund raising, potentially inspiring bigger donations from the people who have the greatest resources to share.
As Piff says, "Absent that, wealth will have these egregious effects insulating you more and more."
The fact is, it's up to charities themselves to share these stories. Because the media rarely covers poverty.
In an article in the October issue of PDN, photographer Steve Liss explains that he and Jon Lowenstein started AmericanPoverty.org, a non-profit alliance of photojournalists determined "to use visual media raise awareness about poverty in the United States" after their stories about unemployment, homelessness, immigration, criminal justice and other issues affecting the poor were rejected by magazines. As Steve Liss succinctly tells PDN, "Poverty is poison."
AmericanPoverty.org has sought to fill that void by bringing its traveling exhibition to a variety of venues. These now include high schools: Thanks to a grant the organization received earlier this year, they are running workshops for student leaders and enlisting young people in discussions around poverty.
"We can make a difference," says Liss. "I believe in my soul in the power of photography but we haven't been showing it to the right people in the right venues."
(For more on this study, see National Public Radio: Study Reveals the Geography of Charitable Giving)
* Photo, above: Students at a high school in Rockville, Maryland view photos by Steve Liss and Eli Reed in an AmericanPoverty.org exhibit that student leaders mounted during a weeklong Student Leadership Program. © Steve Liss/AmericanPoverty.org
Posted by Conor Risch on Wednesday May 16, 2018 | Awards/Contests/Grants, Photojournalism
Eight photographers have won the first Reuters photojournalism grants of $5,000, the news service announced today. Reuters created the grant program to support "a diverse new generation of photojournalists" who can tell stories from new and different perspectives. Reuters launched the initiative last year at Visa pour l'image international festival of photojournalism in Perpignan, France.... More ›
Posted by Kevin Sullivan on Friday May 11, 2018 | Photojournalism
On the dangers of "poverty tourism." More ›
Posted by Kevin Sullivan on Monday May 7, 2018 | Photojournalism, Social Media/Web
How social media can destroy a photographer's quest for personal and artistic growth. More ›


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You didn't breach etiquette with your ILs; they breached it with you by griping about your not having room for them in your apartment.
They weren't entitled to stay with you. No guest has the right to expect the host to put them up, especially if it results in cramped space. Staying at a hotel is not an indication that the host doesn't want to see the guest.
Topic: people who refuse to confirm plans that involve others making special arrangements really frosts me. I agree with the poster who suggested not making special arrangements for people who can't be bothered to answer a simple question of when they can be expected to show up. Yes, it's up to the host to provide such amenities as are reasonable and possible, but one cannot be prepared for special situations (particular dietary needs, sleeping arrangements, availability for entertainment purposes) if plans are not confirmed.
I agree with this, but what also aggravates me is people who dont lay out their expectations and follow through on them. Like saying, "I need to know by XXX time, otherwise, I am afraid it will be too short notice for me to make arrangements (with a babysitter, to borroy DH's car, to be able to cook, clean, entertain, AND pick you up from the airport, etc)" A simple "Do you know when XXX?" and if they person says "no", DONT LEAVE IT OPEN ENDED (eg. "let me know as soon as you know") Well, what if they dont know until the day that they need you? Then I think it is just as bad on the person that didnt nail something down or let the requestor know her own limitations.
PS this is not a commentary on this thread/the OP, but over and over you (general) see and hear people complaining about stuff like this, and the only response I can really muster is "Did you tell XXX your expectations or limitations (as in, why would they be so rude if they knew that you couldnt drop everything to accomodate them?)?" And if they say no, I just cant bring myself to muster much sympathy...
I see your point and completely agree. I automatically take into consideration to RSVP or get back to someone without having to be told to do so. I realize others don't, so I make known specific dates as to when I expect firm answers. I had made exceptions for these two...but have put my foot down with SIL when she finally called us.


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It doesn't "do everything", but then again, it doesn't cost anything to use it in a limited (but not useless! And not TIME-limited) way.
It puts a few words on the screen... BRIEFLY... and then asks puts another word on the screen... which may, or may not, have been in the list presented briefly. User tries to say whether it was in the list.
A school I worked in paid outside consultants to come and speak to our pupils. Waste of money, I thought, but one point they made might hold water. They suggested that we can deliberately build the simple muscular skills of running our eyes along a line of text. The program gives users a chance to practice that.
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Interesting concept. Just a disclaimer - any software you install and run may contain viruses. To be safe, virus scan this and have a virus scanner up when you run it.
Theorde is exactly right. And I would add: Be careful what sites you load things from.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Ray Leone, who is entering his sixth season as the Harvard women's soccer head coach, has announced the hiring of Kerry Lyn O'Malley as the volunteer assistant coach for the upcoming soccer season.
O'Malley was the assistant coach at St. Bonaventure since 2010 and helped the Bonnies appear in four straight A-10 Tournament appearances. Before St. Bonaventure, O'Malley was the women's soccer assistant coach at Brandeis University from 2007-10. At Brandies, she helped coach the Owls to two ECAC championships and a second round appearance at the NCAA tournament.
Before entering coaching, O'Malley played collegiate soccer as a student at St Bonaventure from 2004-06 and served as team captain for two years. She also played for the Providence College Friars as an undergraduate from 2002-03. During her time with the Friars, she was named to the Big East All-Rookie team and to the Soccer Buzz All-Northeast rookie team.
O'Malley was a leader before entering college as well. While playing at Longmeadow High School in Longmeadow, Mass., O'Malley was named the Massachusetts Player of the Year and an NSCAA High School All-American in 2001.


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No one wants to charge a toll on River Road. At least no one admits to it. The idea comes from desperation.
River Road, a 12-mile, two-lane Sarasota County thoroughfare running from Englewood through North Port to Interstate 75, is congested and at times dangerous.
It would cost $60 million to $100 million to widen it. The county doesn't have the money readily available so the toll idea has arisen, presumably to emphasize to the state how urgent this road work is.
And traffic is going to get worse. Developer Pat Neal is adding 2,000 homes in the Grand Palm subdivision at the Center Road intersection. At buildout, that could add another 10,000 trips a day on River Road.
Now is the time to step back and think about how we got into this mess, to determine how to avoid making the same mistake.
Assuming most of the traffic comes from North Port, Venice and Englewood, one could conclude that we permitted too much residential building in those areas before we had adequate infrastructure.
River Road was fine before newcomers moved in to overcrowd it. Now it isn't.
Should existing residents pay to widen River Road, through tolls or property taxes, so that others can move in?
Many local governments in Florida use impact fees — upfront taxes on new construction — to make sure newcomers help pay for roads, libraries and drinking water that their arrival necessitates.
The fees are a good idea, but political pressure from the land development industry keeps them artificially low. Case in point: River Road. If the fees were realistic, River Road would be four-lane, or there would be another, parallel road to relieve the traffic, or there would be money in the bank for either alternative.
There isn't. And Sarasota County, like many other jurisdictions, has cut its impact fees in an understandable, although shortsighted, attempt to generate jobs.
The costs go well beyond the monetary, as illustrated in a March 18 Herald-Tribune article by Michael Braga and Kevin O'Horan. It cited a Texas A&M University mobility study that found:
"In the economic boom year of 2006, a Sarasota-Bradenton commuter lost 29 hours per year to traffic delays. Two years later, peak-time commuters were delayed by only 17 hours per year. In 2011, delays leveled out at 21 hours annually."
Traffic congestion diminishes our quality of life.
The River Road experience is worth considering as the county commissioners review the regulations behind Sarasota County's 2050 plan. The plan tries to preserve open space and natural resources east of I-75 by clustering development into villages. It also tries to make any development there pay for itself. To accomplish that, it demands followup analyses and reports at each stage of construction.
Some large landowners and developers want to weaken those requirements, and the early framework for discussion has focused on that. If the commissioners go along, we're going to have more River Roads.
Who's going to pay the $60 million to $100 million it will cost to bring Bee Ridge Road up to standard once the floodgates open? How about Fruitville and Clark roads?
It's a rhetorical question. History provides the answer.
Ernst: In River Road conundrum, a cautionary tale
No one wants to charge a toll on River Road. At least no one admits to it. The idea comes from desperation.


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Wednesday, July 18, 2007
SPEED's "Launch Hour" Not On Our Radar
Thank you to the many readers who have encouraged us to expand and deal with some other issues in the world of motorsports on TV. At this time, we are going to continue to limit the content of this site to issues dealing directly with the NASCAR TV partners for 2007.
We understand that some new program concepts, including the new Launch Hour on SPEED, generate strong feelings for many fans of actual sanctioned racing. There are message boards available at SPEEDtv.com and other fan sites to address those issues.
The Daly Planet only commented on "Melanie," the SPEED TV promo actress, because the promos were running during the NASCAR RaceDay program. The issue on-the-table was the content of the promos in the early Sunday afternoon daypart during family-oriented NASCAR programming.
We are determining how to expand this motorsports TV project for 2008 to include additional forms of programming. This first season has been a learning experience for all involved, and I thank the small group of dedicated people who have lent their time to assist with everything from spell checks to comment moderation.
Thanks also to you, the Internet readers, whose input has shaped this site and had a direct and dynamic effect on the motorsports TV programs on television today. This site is read every day by many people in the TV industry who create, schedule, and produce the NASCAR programming we all see. Thanks again for sharing your views.
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JOHN- I fear that ESPN's putting Alan Bestwick and Ryan Burr on NASCAR NOW occasionally is just a cruel ESPN ploy to try to keep real racing fans since evry time I check N-NOW there is the Butcher of N-NOW, Erik K. My response now is to immediately turn to one of the regional FOX Sports networks I get and watch sports news there, in place of ESPN. It is clear to me that ESPN still has no respect for NASCAR or its fans.
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THOMASVILLE | Thomasville residents won't see a property tax increase next year, but their water and sewer rates will slightly rise.
THOMASVILLE | Thomasville residents won't see a property tax increase next year, but their water and sewer rates will slightly rise.
Chair City officials unanimously approved the city's budget Tuesday night, which maintains the property tax rate at 56 cents per $100 of valuation. Water and sewer rates are scheduled to increase by about 3.59 percent, per the city's latest rate study, according to the city's Fiscal Year 2013-14 budget.
There are no increases recommended for the city's planning and inspections, motor vehicle, or solid waste disposal fees.
Additionally, a 2 percent cost of living adjustment for all employees, which becomes effective July 1, is included in this budget year.
"A lot of work goes into the budget, and it is not treated lightly in any way, shape or form to see what is needed and what is coming in," said Thomasville Mayor Joe Bennett. "It has to be a balanced budget, and it is a balanced budget."
The $38 million budget also includes new capital expenses of five police patrol cars ($180,765), one police unmarked car ($25,380), one fire department vehicle ($35,000), a fire department exhaust system ($20,000), one rear loading garbage truck ($172,500), and a computer upgrade ($40,000), among others.
Other recommended capital expenditures include nearly $1.39 million in funding for the replacement of the clear well roof systems at the water treatment plant.
City council also approved a resolution on Tuesday that established a general capital reserve fund, which will be used to save and manage money for general infrastructure projects in the future.
The fund will remain operational for no more than three years, according to Thomasville Finance Director Tony Jarrett, or until the city has collected a sum of $500,000.
During a public comment session before the establishment of the capital reserve fund, Thomasville resident and former city council candidate Jason Varner said the city should be more transparent about what the fund will be used for.
"I would wonder if there is a certain project in mind?" Varner asked. "Maybe you guys would care as to inform us which (project) you have in mind going forward that you would like to pursue?"
Answering Varner's question, Thomasville City Councilman Scott Styers said there are several projects the fund could be used for, such as a new police headquarters, parks and recreation renovations or the city's swimming pool, among others.
"It's premature for anyone on this council to say there is any specific purpose for which this will be used," Styers said.
Thomasville City Councilman Raleigh York added that a similar reserve fund was set up for water and sewer services a number of years ago. York said the fund has allowed the city to save money, while avoiding borrowing, and pay for projects like the planned clear well roof systems project included in the adopted FY 2013-14 budget.
In other business, council:
• Adopted a resolution that will allow the city to ask the state for a 17 percent increase in grant funding to finance the North Hamby Creek Outfall rehabilitation project.
• Re-set public hearings on economic development incentive grants for Project Hem and Project Z13 for July 15.
• Approved a general fund budget amendment that transferred $25,000 from contingency funds to the streets department for the possible purchase of at least four new bus shelters.
• Approved the re-appointment of Wendy Sellars and Belinda Clark to two-year terms on the Thomasville City Schools Board of Education.
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"Should Down syndrome be cured?" read the title of a Motherlode (the parenting blog at The New York Times) post a few weeks ago. "Would you cure your kid's Down syndrome?" was Rod Dreher's version of the question. Both posts and the hundreds of comments they provoked originated with a study published in Science Translational Medicine last November. The study detailed research conducted on mice that had been genetically engineered to mimic Down syndrome. The researchers provided a drug to alter the brain chemistry of these mice, and the mice who received the drug demonstrated improved cognitive function. As Dr. Ahmad Salehi, the primary author of the study, explained, "If you intervene early enough, you will be able to help kids with Down syndrome to collect and modulate information. Theoretically, that could lead to an improvement in cognitive functions in these kids."
The study reports a theoretical possibility for improving cognition in individuals with Down syndrome. The same drug hasn't been tested on humans with Down syndrome, so we don't know whether these drugs would be effective or if they would have adverse side effects. Furthermore, the study's doctors suggest that the drugs would need to be administered early in the child's development. The individual with Down syndrome, in other words, would not be able to make his or her own decision regarding the treatment.
So the study itself raises ethical and philosophical questions, but even more problematic is the writers' suggestion that this treatment offers a way to "cure" Down syndrome. The language implies that Down syndrome is a disease, a sickness that is currently incurable. But Down syndrome is the presence, from conception, of an extra 21st chromosome in every ...1


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Unverified Voracity Is Getting A Call From Mom
wait, what? – Caleb TerBush
Yikes. Michigan is a mere three-point favorite against Purdue this weekend, which seems mighty narrow to me. I may be assuming that Denard Robinson does not turn the ball over five times, which Vegas is not. Boo 2012 Notre Dame game, boo.
Purdue's coming off a not-as-close-as-you-think game against Marshall in which they led 42-14 at halftime before yielding three touchdowns in the first 18 minutes of the second half and allowing the Herd to get within ten points. They traded touchdowns in the final 12 minutes, and that was the final margin. Marshall's lost to Ohio and beat Rice in two OTs; they've got the worst scoring D in the country at the moment, and they outgained Purdue by 91 yards. If Michigan only wins by three I'll be expecting bad things the rest of the season. Purdue QB Caleb TerBush was ineffective against ND (8 of 19, 79 yards, 1 TD/2 INT) and was pulled for a considerably better Robert Marve. Marve won't be available.
So what I'm saying is that at first blush I don't like the spread, which makes me feel both sad and alarmed because it's the best predictor available. I would like to avoid posting this at any point over the weekend:
Beyer's back. The most newsy bit of the press conference:
How's your team's health?
"There ya go. You know, I think Beyer will be back. Brandon Moore will be close. He's getting better."
Richard Ash?
"Richard is better. Uh there's one more, too."
"Hop's fine. Devin's fine. They all practiced last night. Yeah Ricky Barnum was a little -- sore shoulder. He was fine last night. So with the guys who aren't out for the year, the rest of them are okay."
Marvin Robinson?
"He was better. He ran around last night and he feels much better."
Beyer was walking around in an air cast after his injury and I was a little worried he might be laid up for a long time, which would have been bad. The options at WDE were a major target for ND and didn't do so well. Beyer at least gives them another option at the spot. Clark makes more plays you notice, but I'll bet a nickel Beyer is less likely to get caved in and give up the edge.
Also, feel free to infer that Brink is out for the year from the above.
Also also, this:
Are you worried that Denard is what he is, i.e. not improving in your system?
"No. Not at all. I mean, he's our quarterback, and he's a damned good quarterback. I didn't say that, so don't write that. No we're very comfortable and we're very confident in him. … I know you're going to write that."
I will.
"Daggone it. My mom's going to read that and get mad."
She doesn't think you swear?
"Why don't you just ask a question."
And you're fired and you're fired and you're fired. Extreme media hostility isn't just for Los Angeles anymore:
Tuesday, South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier finally spoke with his media after two days of giving an opening statement and then refusing to field questions.
What has Spurrier so irked? Apparently columnist Ron Morris — again.
Ron Morris is a columnist at The State in South Carolina and has become Spurrier's nemesis. Last October, Spurrier called out Morris for something he wrote in the spring regarding then-basketball player Bruce Ellington and how Spurrier persuaded Ellington to play football.
This time, according to Saturday Down South, Spurrier seems to be mad about a Morris column that questioned playing quarterback Connor Shaw against UAB. Shaw, who has been nursing an injured shoulder he suffered in the season opener against Vanderbilt, injured the shoulder again against the Blazers.
The excerpt from the column that follows is pretty tame (also: dumb). Spurrier is accused of a "poor decision" to play Connor Shaw with a dinged shoulder, which he re-injured in the game. The column is just another tossed-off nothing (Shaw was 20 of 21 against Missouri), but apparently this business goes back a ways. Be chill, OBC.
Meanwhile, a local news station axed the guy's weekly segment, causing free speech rabbling.
Meanwhile in local media situations. Meinke is writing articles based off of his viewing of Inside Michigan Football. Interesting ones, even. Here's Mattison on Morgan defending that goddamned counter draw:
Mattison said he was most impressed by Morgan's discipline, specifically citing one counter draw play on which the sophomore could have pursued the ball, but elected to stay home as he was taught.
The play came back to him, and he made the tackle.
"We gave him that play probably four times in practice, and every time we gave it to him, we said, 'Desmond, you've got to stay home. You can't help on that sprint anyhow,'" Mattison said. "Well that same thing has happened before and he would go running and try to make the play because he's a young guy eager to make plays.
"All of the sudden, in this game, he became more of a veteran."
And Mattison on Raymon Taylor:
"Raymon has really improved," defensive coordinator Greg Mattison said this week on the Inside Michigan Football radio show. "He has been thrown in the fire. If someone would have said to me at the beginning of the year, 'Will he be starting against Notre Dame?' I don't know if I would have said yes.
"(But) I was really proud of him how he played. He knows he's got a lot of things he has to get better at, but one thing he didn't do was shy away from anything. He competed."
I'm not sure you can do that. In yet another NHL draft ranking, Chris Peters tackles prospects 26-50. D Michael Downing and F Tyler Motte show up, FWIW, but I'm most intrigued by this construction:
49. Tyler Motte - C - U.S. National Under-18 Team (USHL) - 5-9, 190
When at his best, he's an offensively dynamic talent. Good speed, solid strength despite a smallish frame, and good finish around the net make him an intriguing prospect. Motte has had a problem with consistency, which he has a whole season to prove isn't a problem anymore.
Lloyd Carr feels you, Mr. Peters. Also, yes please 5-9 kid good enough to be a second rounder. Needs moar tiny scoring machines at Yost.
Nice concourse. Wow:
That's quite a difference from last year. Also the zambonis have studded tires now. Yost Built is back to posting, BTW. The Blue/White game scheduled for next Sunday will be a start-studded even thanks to the NHL lockout.
Etc.: UMHoops previews Jordan Morgan and Matt Vogrich. AP Mealer article is everywhere. Trey Burke is a third-team All-American to the Sporting News. Baumgardner on Burke. Weinreb on Holgo and the WVU-Baylor game. Michigan hasn't sucked after byes.
Monday Presser Transcript 10-1-12: Brady Hoke
Brady Hoke
News bullets and other important items:
- Bye weeks. They are many, varied, ever-changing, and eternal.
- Aside from the guys who are out for the year, everyone except maybe Brandon Moore and maybe Marvin Robinson should be back for Purdue.
- Also except for Nathan Brink.
Televised presser
Opening remarks:
"You know, the bye weeks, I think you never know when a good bye week is, when it's not a good bye week -- I don't think you really know that until you go through it. I think it was good because of the productivity that we got from having the bye week. I would hope we have that, the productivity, anytime the bye week was, but I think we got to really re-evaluate where we're at and what we want to do. I think you evaluate yourselves a little bit as coaches. I think that's always a big part of it. Different things in the aspects that you're involved with, from the kicking, the defense, the offense. You always look at self-scouting, see where you're at, what you might want to do different or what you like, what you're doing.
"I think the other part of it is the teaching part, the fundamentals, and those things that go along with it. I think the other part, which was big, was the guys who are traveling who are freshmen have not been home since June 25th. We have a lot of those guys from the state, got a lot of those guys within driving distance from Ohio and Chicago. It was good to give them about 36 hours to be a human being and go home and maybe watch their high school play, see mom and dad, grandma and grandpa, aunt and uncles, whoever -- I thought that was positive. And then from the academic side also I think it's always a help.
"So we'll find out obviously Saturday. We've got a tremendous challenge because I think Purdue's playing as well as anybody in our league right now. Three and one. Went to South Bend and played a hard-fought tough game, had a chance to win the game. So we got our work cut out for us."
Opponent Watch: Week 4
About Last Saturday:
Happiness - 6, Unhappiness - 13.
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The Road Ahead:
Purdue (2-1)
Last game: Bye.
Recap: This was the B1G's best performance last weekend in which cruelty to animals was not involved.
Next game: vs. Marshall
Opponent Watch: Week 3
About Last Saturday:
Baby Seal 13, Club 63
The internet is a strange place.
The Road Ahead:
No. 11 Notre Dame (3-0)
Last game: Notre Dame 20, Michigan State 3 (W)
Recap: Another Michigan fan on twitter suggested that watching this game was like watching two douchebags trying to get with your sister at Rick's. If that's the case, congratulations to Notre Dame for the equivalent of having more than three dollars to pay for her drinks.
Anyway, Football. Right. The Irish beat Michigan State by a healthy margin. After scoring twice in the first half to get to a 14-3 lead, Sparty never came close to breaking the chokehold despite holding the Notre Dame offense to a pair of field goals in the second half. The Irish front seven was just as impressive as Michigan State's. Their defensive line ran through Sparty's offensive line on nearly every play, which made life miserable for MSU QB Andrew Maxwell (23/45, 187 yards) in passing situations. They limited RB Le'Veon Bell's (19 carries, 77 yards) effectiveness such that Michigan State had to abandon using him in the second half. More importantly, the pass rush allowed the inexperienced secondary to make a few plays on Sparty's equally inexperienced receivers.
The linebackers impressed as well, and Manti Te'o (12 tackles, 2 PBU) was Manti Te'O, despite dealing with the tragedy of losing both his girlfriend and grandmother just days earlier. There are lots of Notre Dame players who are very easy to root against. Te'o is not one of them.
Offensively Notre Dame was underwhelming but relatively error-free. The game plan was to rely on the defense to win the game, so offensive playcalling focused on the ground game save for a couple spectacular big plays that ultimately resulted in points. The conservative approach resulted in some ugly stats like 1 of 14 on third down conversions, but it won the game, so I won't criticize. I'd be surprised if the Irish deviate from that plan against Michigan since offensive errors cost them the last two games in the series.
This team is as frightening as: Windows 7. The previous version was buggy and unintuitive and too complicated with all the bells and whistles -- it sucked. This one looks like it could actually be viable for the long term, but by this point pretty much everyone owns a Mac. Bill Gates was so last century. Regardless, fear level = 8.
Michigan should worry about: An Alabama redux. If Michigan doesn't hit a bunch of passes early, there will be no room for either Denard or Fitz to run.
Michigan can sleep soundly about: With S Jamoris Slaughter out, Notre Dame's secondary looks an awful lot like NEVER FORGET. Michigan might actually be able to hit a bunch of passes early.
When they play Michigan: If this were any other game, I wouldn't bother getting my hopes up for a Michigan win. But it's Notre Dame, and weird things happen when Michigan plays Notre Dame.
Next game: vs. No. 18 Michigan
Fee Fi Foe Film: Notre Dame vs. Purdue
Lovable coaches all around in this one
Since the Fighting Dukakises don't pose a serious threat this week, I decided (okay, Brian decided) that it would be a good idea to take a look ahead with this week's film study. Notre Dame and Purdue faced off last weekend in South Bend, giving us a look at a pair of future opponents; the Irish came away with a 20-17 victory that was closer than expected.
A quick overview: Neither team could get anything going on the ground while Notre Dame's vertical passing attack far outstripped Purdue's dink-and-dunk approach, leading to a 376-288 advantage in total yards for the Irish. The Boilermakers managed to hang around, however, and tied the game at 17 late in the fourth quarter after corner Josh Johnson made a stellar effort to strip the ball from ND QB Everett Golson. Golson was shaken up on the play, so it was much-maligned QB Tommy Rees who led the game-winning drive for a field goal in the waning seconds. Yes, that Tommy Rees. I'm seriously, you guys.
[To the breakdown, after THE JUMP.]
Opponent Watch: Week 2
About Last Saturday:
Air Force 25, Michigan 31
Your wings got helmets.
The Road Ahead:
UMass (0-2)
Last game: Indiana 45, UMass 6 (L)
Recap: A baby seal walks into a club and says, "Ow."
This team is as frightening as: A couple reps with a five-pound dumbbell in the middle of a workout that has so far consisted of bench-pressing an elephant and 60 minutes of CrossFit. Fear level = 1.
Michigan should worry about: Hey guys, I really don't think we need to worry about this one.
Michigan can sleep soundly about: Like for real.
Mike Cox: Is three inches bigger.
When they play Michigan: Key matchup will be me (-7) vs. press box food. "Ermahgerd" over/under is set at 10.5.
Next game: No. 17 Michigan


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I am reading Rachel Contreni Flynn's new book Tongue published by Red Hen Press and it's incredible.
Rachel was kind enough to send me a copy since I acted as her surrogate blog during the Big Poetry Giveaway in April.
I have her first book, Ice, Mouth, Song, which I love and this book, Tongue is just as good especially in opening lines.
Here are a few of Rachel's openings (how can I not want to read the poem after these?)
This is the final day of years of sweetness.
We must love this world though it is flawed,
Our anger is a piano--
A scarecrow came for breakfast...
There is an image of a girl drowning a sunflower in a bucket that just stays with me. And a boy running through a field of sunflowers trying to "snag this huge happiness." This poem will be with me for a while with its vibrant images. I love it when that happens, when a poem becomes part of my life.
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So a blog that I subscribe to posted this article, which I read today: http://www.mommypotamus.com/how-to-d...-and-lip-ties/
It's about lip ties, and after looking at the pictures, I took a gander inside my LO's mouth....yup very obvious lip tie. Mentioned it to DH and he's like, oh, I'm not surprised, it runs in my family. We both had had our suspicion, it turns out, but never said anything to each other about it. Now that the topic has been broached, DH revealed that he's a little concerned, seeing as it can lead to having a gap in between her two front teeth--something he doesn't want her to have to put up with later on in life.
I'm more concerned about the immediate--potential problems with nursing. Seeing as I've made it 6 months with very few problems already, do I need to be concerned? From that article, the only thing 'symptoms' my LO/I have is she's somewhat gassy (not enough to affect her disposition for most of the day though...she's a pretty happy baby) and she nurses frequently day and night-- 1 1/2-2 hours. I'm not convinced that the frequent nursing in my case is a problem. I'm just so paranoid that all of a sudden my milk supply will tank--it can't just do that out of nowhere, right? I've had no pain, no nipple damage, nothing so far with nursing.
So anyway, aside from my weird paranoia with potential nursing problems that I'm seemingly making up in my head, anyone have a LO that not having a lip tie clipped posed any problems with later on in life-- not sure if speech problems can result from a lip tie, like a tongue tie? Ugh,....in a way, I wish I had never read this article, it's tough enough to not be paranoid as it is, but I'm kind of glad too, in case something could still be done. DH wants to bring it up to our Dr.--not sure he's gonna know anything...had a lactation consultant meet with us once at 2 wks and she didn't catch it...it's pretty obvious to me though--it extends all the way to the bottom of her top gum...


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David Vann estimates he has almost 1,500 pages of documents regarding the February 2008 shooting at Northern Illinois University.
But earlier this month, the writer said the opening section of his August 2008 Esquire magazine story profiling gunman Steven Kazmierczak included actions he was asked by his editor to "imagine" the shooter might have done in his room at the DeKalb Travelodge and in his vehicle before entering NIU's Cole Hall the afternoon of Feb. 14, 2008, where he killed five and injured 21 others before killing himself.
Vann's story described, among other things, the shooter sitting on his bed, picking up guns and looking at his tattoos.
"He could have been hanging from the chandelier. He could have been doing push-ups against the wall," Vann said in a Jan. 22 interview via Skype. "... I don't know, so that's why I didn't want to write the scene."
Vann called his access to the law enforcement and mental health files and facts a "true scoop" and said he didn't want anything in the article that would call into question whether or not it was true.
"But [my editor] wanted to have it as a better opening, and he felt it would be, just be clear to people we were imagining what Steve's final moments were like there," he said.
Tyler Cabot, the Esquire editor who worked with Vann, called the opening paragraphs "investigative reconstruction," and Vann agreed that was an apt description.
The two differed on whether the approach was appropriate. Vann said that in his book, "Last Day on Earth: A Portrait of the NIU School Shooter," he wrote that he was imagining the scene.
"That section, along with the rest of the piece, was based on some of the most staggering reporting I've ever seen," Cabot said in a Jan. 22 phone interview. "... It's not like David and I decided to make this up. It is based on his reporting."
David Boeyink, a recently retired Indiana University journalism professor whose research and teaching focused on journalism ethics, said Esquire has a different audience than a newspaper. But that doesn't change where the truth lies.
"This imaginary reconstruction of a scene is moving beyond journalism into fiction writing," Boeyink said. "Yes, it has links to what was actually there. There was evidence. The actual creation of that scene seems to me to be more about fiction and less about journalism."
Cabot said the magazine stands behind the article. David Granger, editor-in-chief of Esquire, said journalism is investigative reconstruction, where a reporter gathers facts, quotes and impressions, then puts the facts together "in a way that both makes as much sense as possible of them and renders them in a compelling way," Granger wrote in an email.


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Bully to run 40-yard dash on Rick and Bubba Show
Mississippi State's beloved mascot, Bully, will pit his athletic prowess against other mascots from the SEC Sept. 20 [Monday] when he makes an appearance on the nationally-syndicated radio broadcast Rick and Bubba Show.
On the live show at 8 a.m., Bully will run the 40-yard dash to see how his time stacks up against other conference rivals including "Big Al" from the University of Alabama and "Aubie" from Auburn University.
Fans can watch the action live, via the shows UStream feed here or listen at local affiliate 96.1 WLZA or XM satellite radio channel 158. A full list of show affiliates can be found on RickandBubba.com, many of which have links to listen live on the internet.
The Rick and Bubba Show is heard daily by over three million listeners on 66 stations nationwide.


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The Debian project will release the new stable version of debian - Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" - with a completely free Linux kernel. Binary-only firmware and other non-free kernel components will only be available via the non-free repositories and the project is actively encouraging vendors that have not done so already to release their firmware in a form compatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
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During the dramatic search for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev last Friday, many people spent the day transfixed by their television sets. And while the national news networks, with their parade of personalities, offered some entertainment value, the best and most reliable broadcast news came from Boston's local television and radio stations.
Reporters and anchors — some of whom worked throughout the night, reporting live through a harrowing shootout — displayed a tenacity, a fearlessness, and a deep knowledge of the region that did all of Boston media proud. Like other local print and multimedia journalists who worked so hard last week, Boston stations deserve praise for serving the public well.


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* Chris at Dangerous Logic has some YouTube M-MSU highlight clips up.
* Tennessee Vol fan Brittney
* Looking for the perfect gift for that Tosu fan? Why look no further than this AJ Hawk Gladiator Figure for the low, low price of $14.99.
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* Why would someone do this to his kid? Some guy in Mississippi named his kid ESPN Montana (after Joe) Real last week. This is just asking for trouble. You know the kid is going to hate sports now and gravitate toward the theatre (spelling it that way, too). As I was telling my daughter, Schembechler Biakabatuka, the other day, some parents are crazy.


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A promotional video shows planned development of a state-level development zone by government of Lanzhou, a provincial capital in China's arid northwest...
The Lanzhou province is lightly populated mainly due to it's semi-arid climate and rugged topography. The goal is make a 500 square mile area (currently with 100,000 people) into a city with over 1 million people by 2030. To make this new metropolis, developers are planning to literally remove mountains to create a more 'ideal' urban environment. This makes some of the most ambitious environmental modification projects seem tame. For more read, the accompanying article from the Guardian.
Questions to Ponder: What potential environmental impacts come from this scale of modification? How will this massive influx of the population impact the region? Could this type of project happen in other part of the world?
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Shake off those back to work woes, ladies and gents! Yes, regrettably, it's Monday yet again. But that just means
Hell's Kitchen
is brand new tonight! With five cheftestants left, the competition is definitely nearing its end. Chef Gordon Ramsay should crown the new executive chef at his Steak at Paris restaurant in Las Vegas in no time!
So what, might you ask, is on the menu for tonight? First, Dana, Clemenza, Barbie, Justina and Christina are asked to teach others how to cook during their challenge. After that, dinner is served Italian style! Clemenza doesn't have that great of a track record when it comes to representing his heritage through pasta, but let's hope he gets it right this time.
"Normally, walking out after elimination is a little depressing," starts Dana, "but tonight Robyn is gone!" Drop the disco ball and pull out those streamers because it is a good night at the
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camp! Sure, Clemenza is a bit upset over being in the bottom two, but he's usually in the bottom, right?
The next morning, the chefs walk into the kitchen to find Chef Ramsay pleasantly cooking up some chicken parmesan. Stop by my kitchen next, Chef? The cheftestants aren't taking this lightly. Ramsay explains that they will be replicating his dish, but there's a twist.
Challenge: Today the cheftestants will be teaching others how to replicate Chef Ramsay's chicken parmesan. They cannot use their hands, at all. Each individual cheftestant must ONLY instruct their students.
In walks five former Miss Teen USA winners, all dressed in heels and sashes. Here are the teams:
Kamie Crawford Miss Teen USA 2010 and Justin
Stevi Perry Miss Teen USA 2008 and Clemenza
Hilary Cruz Miss Teen USA 2007 and Barbie
Katie Blair Miss Teen USA 2006 and Christina
Allie Laforce Miss Teen USA 2005 and Dana
Haven't we seen Clemenza cook an Italian dish before and fall short? It's like a hit of deja vu as Clemenza and Stevi's marinara sauce, which the cheftestant boasted runs through his veins, is apparently too thick for Chef Ramsay's liking. Mark this as another fail for the Italian competitor.
The challenge comes down to a toss up between Allie and Dana and Hilary and Barbie. Both dishes are tasted once more.
Challenge Winner: Hilary Cruz, Miss Teen USA 2007 and Barbie
Barbie chooses Justin to join her on her reward trip. "I definitely didn't expect Barbie to pick me," says Justin, and I surely have to agree. These two will enjoy a meal prepared by Chef Antonio Mure of Ado Restaurant in Venice Beach, California along with kayaking down the Venice Canal. But wait, there's more! These two lucky ducks will be driven down to Venice Beach in Chef Ramsay's personal brand new black convertible Maserati. Life of a reality television star is good!
Chef Antonio Mure serves up what he describes as a meal "better than sex" to Barbie and Justin. After this, they enjoy separate kayaks down the Venice Canal. Meanwhile, the losers are preparing for dinner service and Clemenza has his hands in lots and lots of dough.
Justin feels bad for the other chefs having to stay behind and prep tons and tons of pasta for Italian Night. So, as a nice gesture, he cooks spaghetti for them all. Do you think they were appreciative of more pasta after a full day of staring at dough? OF COURSE NOT! Clemenza even spits it out.
The Black Team gets to bed early and rises for further kitchen prep. This will be the first time in season 10 where the entire
Hell's Kitchen
dining room will be served from one kitchen. Clemenza is, again, on the meat station, pounding out cuts of chicken. POUND, POUND, POUND he goes. Once he walks away, Chef Scott checks what has been left. The chicken has been annihilated. Italian Night hasn't even officially started and the one Italian left in the competition has already ruined it!
Italian Night Dinner Service
"Show me you've got the heart of a champion," orders Chef Ramsay. No pressure, guys!
It's the first ticket of the night. Two flatbreads and two risottos. Chef Ramsay asks him what the appetizers of the ticket were. Clemenza has NO idea, NONE! Yet he manages to deliver perfectly cooked flatbread. He is a genius amongst his unorganized mess. I just don't get it.
"Clemenza doesn't listen!" exclaims Barbie. After not listening to Chef Ramsay AGAIN, Clemenza calls out the entire ticket himself. Now that Clemenza knows what is going on, Barbie falls off with two failed tries at risotto. They're crumbling fast.Clemenza hops on risotto in order to help Barbie out, but she's rushing. She barks at him to take the appetizer up to the pass when it is obviously something similar to rice in water. Chef Ramsay has now yelled at the entire Black Team over the same pan of risotto three times.
Chef Ramsay gives Barbie one last time to get that risotto right, or it is lights out for her. Finally, she gets it right. I'm pretty sure she's earned a spot on the chopping block later, though. Who wants to bet?
Next up to mess up is Dana. She has two black blocks of beef at her meat station. Chef Ramsay only has to get in her face once. Justin hops in and helps, assisting Dana with taking nicely cooked filets to the pass.
Christina has a problem, too, on her garnish station. First, it's not enough seasoning. After criticism from Ramsay, Christina thinks she better take a taste first. What do you know? It actually works!
We've just about made a full cycle of mistakes as Barbie fails to toss in enough crab meat into the capellini. "I beg you to go home!" Ramsay yells at her, apparently frustrated as one of the more promising cheftestants is obviously having a bad night.
"That is not what I expected," confesses Chef Ramsay. I totally agree! This is the final five and that was, perhaps, the hardest struggle so far. The Black Team is sent to the dorm to nominate one person to go home.
Clemenza presents a valid reason for tossing Barbie up for elimination because of those risottos, but Justin is tired of cleaning up after Clemenza, so he doesn't know who to vote for. Dana and Christina are thinking things over, too. Dana has never really liked Barbie, so that's the given. In the end, this comes down to Clemenza, again, and Barbie. Who would you stand before Chef Ramsay?
Never actually coming up with one nomination, both Clemenza and Barbie are asked to plead their cases. Barbie states, "I never gave up." Clemenza, on his seventh possible elimination, says that he kept going and going and going!
Eliminated: Clemenza
He might be one big mess, but Clemenza definitely kept up a good fight. Barbie is still in the competition along with Christina, Justin and Dana. They are cooking their way to the top. The winner will take that job at Steak and bring home a quarter of a million dollars salary. This is more than enough reason to pop open the champagne and sit back for some celebration. Everything looks good until a man walks past the camera. Who did Chef Ramsay let inside
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When I was searching for domain names, I thought "hey, what if someone collects these names I'm searching and purchases them hoping to have me buy it from them?"
Well, apparently this is a real thing. People search for available names on certain sites, and some collect their search queries and claim the name so the seeker has to buy it from them. Other legitimate sites do not do this.
How do we know which sites are legit and which are not? Register.com seems to be the #1 choice. Is this site trustworthy?
You can check the page rank, reviews of the site for the domain you purchase. DirectI, Enom are also a legit sites.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 4th Mar 2013 18:26 UTC
"Canonical has today publicly confirmed that they are working on a new cross-platform displayer server for Ubuntu. Called 'Mir', the X Window Server replacement is tasked with 'enabling development of the next generation Unity'. Which, in yet another about-turn, is to be rebuilt in Qt/QML." It'll be used for all Ubuntu variants (phone, tablet, desktop), and the first version will be released come May.
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It doesn't sound good. Why can't they use Wayland?
They discussed this in the MirSpec page.
I don't know if/how valid it is but below are the excerpt.
"Why Not Wayland / Weston?
An obvious clarification first: Wayland is a protocol definition that defines how a client application should talk to a compositor component. It touches areas like surface creation/destruction, graphics buffer allocation/management, input event handling and a rough prototype for the integration of shell components. However, our evaluation of the protocol definition revealed that the Wayland protocol suffers from multiple problems, including:
1.The input event handling partly
recreates the X semantics and is thus likely to expose similar problems to the ones we described in the introductory section.
2. The shell integration parts of the protocol are considered privileged from our perspective and we'd rather avoid having any sort of shell behavior defined in the protocol.
However, we still think that Wayland's attempt at standardizing the communication between clients and the display server component is very sensible and useful, but it didn't fit our requirements and we decided to go for the following architecture w.r.t. to protocol-integration:
1. A protocol-agnostic inner core that is extremely well-defined, well-tested and portable.
2. An outer-shell together with a frontend-firewall that allow us to port our display server to arbitrary graphics stacks and bind it to multiple protocols.
In summary, we have not chosen Wayland/Weston as our basis for delivering a next-generation user experience as it does not fulfill our requirements completely. More to this, with our protocol- and platform-agnostic approach, we can make sure that we reach our goal of a consistent and beautiful user experience across platforms and device form factors. However, Wayland support could be added either by providing a Wayland-specific frontend implementation for our display server or by providing a client-side implementation of libwayland that ultimately talks to Mir."
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Southampton's Jack Cork was quick to back under-pressure manager Nigel Adkins after Saturday's impressive, if ultimately frustrating, 1-1 draw against Swansea.
Saints came into the match under no illusions of how important it was to pick up a victory, as speculation mounted over the future of their manager. Adkins was buoyed by his players' response at St Mary's, where they looked on course for victory when Morgan Schneiderlin nodded them ahead, but a defensive lapse allowed the Swans to level.
"The gaffer has done great here these two years," Cork said.
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Wonders of CreationMar 26, 2012 at 03:00:30 AM
Many people have a goal of being close to God, but aren't quite sure how to get there.
Maimonides (Yesodei HaTorah, ch. 2) explains that one way to achieve love of God is by contemplating the wonders of Creation. By appreciating the awesome power and intricate beauty of God's handiwork, the more knowledge of God one experiences, and the closer to Him one feels.
Personally, I've always been fascinated by the Bombardier Beetle. This small bug comes equipped with a chamber of hydroquinone, and a second one of hydrogen peroxide. When combined, these two chemicals are highly explosive. A mechanism inside the beetle keeps them separate.
Now here's the cool part: When provoked by an enemy, the beetle heats the chemicals to the boiling point (100 °C) and squeezes them into a reaction chamber where they combust, like igniting a rocket engine.
Then the explosive material streams out of the beetle at a rate of 500 pulses per second. (Pulses, rather than a continuous stream, give the beetle a chance to cool.) The poisonous fuel is expelled through a nozzle which, much like the turret of a tank, can rotate in any direction, under the legs or over the back. The enemy is poisoned, the beetle is saved!
The other day I heard about another amazing creature ― the "Pistol Shrimp" ― which emits an underwater shock wave that actually knocks out its prey. No mess, just a sonic boom.
I love God for that one. Simply amazing.


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Pennsylvanians have justification for being upset over this week's Newsweek magazine cover, portraying President Barack Obama as "the first gay president."
That had to do with Obama's decision to come out, excuse the expression, in favor of same-sex marriages. The cover, in turn, probably reflected a compelling need by Newsweek not to be outdone by its chief competitor when it comes to salacious splashes. (The whole country was buzzing over Time magazine's cover, showing a boy — identified as a 3-year-old but appearing older — standing on a little chair to be breast-fed by his very comely mother.)