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A second birth story
They were wrong about the second baby coming early (as you all know), but ooh boy. They were right about him coming fast. Want to hear the story? Of course you do! We all love a good birth story, don't we?
It was Tuesday morning, I was finally giving in to the obvious fact that I would be the first person to be pregnant forever. Despite having contractions for 3 nights in a row for an hour or two, they'd stopped, and Sunday and Monday night I'd felt nothing. Hrrrummpf. I spent Monday hanging with my brother, having a long late lunch at Gjelina. And Tuesday, via Instagram because it's just that awesome, made plans to have lunch with Liz while she was in town, also at Gjelina. One can never have enough Gjelina, I say.
And now here somehow I'd made it to my post-40 week appointment with the midwives. So dutifully I went, whined that I was still pregnant, made an appointment for a non-stress test the following Tuesday (horrifying thought… that's I'd still be pregnant 7 days later), and was sent on my way.
Before lunch I stopped by the pool for what I was hoping would be my last swim this pregnancy (I'd been saying that the last 5 times I'd been to the pool, mind you). It was glorious, as swimming always is. Especially while 40+ weeks pregnant. (I'm seriously missing time at the pool right now, as a side note.)
And then it was time for lunch with Liz. Which was as delicious as any lunch can be. We said our goodbyes and as I turned to walk away from the front door of the restaurant… POP! My water broke. Again! That's two babies and two labors starting with my water breaking. Apparently that's how my body prefers to do it. As you can imagine, I was like UHHHH, now what?? Luckily I was not actually sitting in the restaurant. Can you imagine? "Um excuse me, waiter? I've just leaked amniotic fluid all over this chair and the floor under our table." No, there may have been a few drips that hit the sidewalk, but luckily I was wearing a long, dark skirt and no one could tell what was happening but me.
I spread my pool towel on the seat of the car, got in, and called Brock to give him the scoop. As I drove home, I called our doula, Joanne, to let her know, and then called my parents to tell them to grab their bags and head up to LA so they could stay with Dashiell.
It was all very exciting, and also such a relief to be able get things in order that afternoon. I was so hoping that I would know during waking hours that I was going into labor, instead of being woken in the middle of the night with contractions. It just seemed so much easier to be able to plan during the day, rather than in the middle of the night. And I was so glad that we could tell Dashiell that we'd be gone in the morning and that he'd know that my parents would be there with him instead of us.
SO. That all happened at 3-ish. About 5-ish, I started to feel mild contractions. We went on a walk around the block with Dashiell and Brock's sis Jess, who was there to hold down the fort in case we had to leave before my parents arrived. (We'd been warned that second labors can pick up and progress very quickly by multiple people, so we were prepared.)
My parents arrived, we ordered take out Thai for dinner, bags were packed, and by about 8 pm I was started to feel my contractions enough that we decided to time them for a bit (there's an app for that, BTW). The confusing thing was that they weren't really that long, only about 40 seconds, and came every 3 to 7 minutes. So I was sort of thinking we had a while to go still. Don't they say they should be 1 minute long and 3-5 minutes apart to indicate active labor? Apparently none of the rules apply for second timers.
We all sort of hung around the living room, watching Wimbledon, and waiting. I'd talked to the midwife on call by then (Shadman, the women I wanted to deliver this baby, yay!), and she was cool with us staying at home for a bit since there wasn't meconium in the water when it broke, and that my first labor had started the same way. My mom went to bed and my dad stayed up with us until about 10 (both urging us to just go to the darn hospital already!), when I made the arbitrary decision that we would leave for the hospital at 11. I talked to Shadman again who told us to call her on our way in. Her last (knowing) words were, "Okay… just don't wait too long." Contractions were more intense at that point, but no longer and no closer together. Brock packed the car and I synced my iTunes on my phone. And then suddenly it was 11 and it was time to go.
As I stepped off the porch and headed towards the car it felt like things started to change. At the last minute I grabbed an extra pillow from home for the car ride. Best decision ever. I rode to the hospital laying down in the back seat this time, unlike last time where I for some reason thought I had to sit in the front with my seatbelt on like a normal person. The plan was to call Joanne when we'd checked in to the hospital and have her come then. Why we always wait to call her until the last minute, I have no idea. I never think I need her until I REALLY need her and then I have to wait for her to arrive. But as we drove to the hospital I stopped talking or answering questions, and Brock made the executive decision to tell her to get in the car and come immediately.
I had a moment where I thought I might throw up in the car, but I kind of couldn't believe I was that far along, and frankly didn't want to get my hopes up. I was really really feeling the contractions at that point, but I was also doing a much better time visualizing each contraction opening my body to the birth of my baby. With Dashiell I definitely fought the pain as opposed to surrendering to it, which it turns out really does help you get through each wave. It's the craziest feeling, being in labor. It's so intense and so hard, but somehow you just DO IT.
We pulled up at the hospital, grabbed our bags and made our way up to L&D. I had to stop every few minutes for a contraction (again, glad I had my pillow to lean on!), and I couldn't help but find it a wee bit funny that the orderly still had to follow us with an empty wheelchair even though there was like ZERO chance I was going to sit down in it.
By 11:45 we were checked into our room, and I dutifully laid on my side on the bed for 20 minutes of fetal monitoring. Laying on the bed was definitely not where I wanted to be, but the other option was to stand and that was out of the question too. The one bright part was that our nurse was just amazing. She was young and kind and helpful and totally on my team, and knew when to tell other staff to give me space. Which was really really more than I could have hoped for.
Our doula Joanne arrived shortly after we did and together she and Brock rubbed my back and squeezed my hips through each contraction. The one thing I did know what that I had to be touched at all times. Joanne rubbed my lower back continuously during breaks from contractions and if she let go of me it felt like I might just lose hold of the world. Something about having another person's hands on my kept me from falling into pieces. And as much as I didn't want to keep going, I knew that I couldn't admit it to myself or to anyone. I was still unsure how much longer I'd be in labor and to admit distress felt like I would lose what little control I had of my body and my mind.
After fetal monitoring was over, an OB resident came in to do an ultrasound to make sure the baby was head down (even though he had been since 30 weeks) and to check the level of amniotic fluid left. They'd somehow lost my pre-admit forms so I then had to hear all the complications that could arise and the measures they'd take in those cases and sign a handful of forms. Which took another 20 minutes or so. She asked if I wanted her to check my dilation and while I was curious, I declined. I knew that I couldn't hear that I was 4 or 5 centimeters at that moment, and keep my shit together. And with Dashiell they didn't check me until I was 9, and that was awesome. Not knowing somehow made it easier.
All the while my contractions were building and at that point coming two at a time, instead of a more civilized one every 3 or 4 minutes. I'd have a really big one then a 30 second break followed by a slightly less big one before I'd have a moment to rest. The only thing I could do was hold onto the bar on the side of the hospital bed and breathe as slowly as I could manage.
At this point it must have been nearly 12:30. A second nurse came in to put in my heplock (it's always a nurse in training, I swear), and it took her a few minutes to find a vein that would work on the top of my wrist. Just as she'd decided on a vein, I had a set of contractions that were different. The second one of the pair in particular felt like what I can only describe as the sensation of a bowling ball starting to descend through your pelvis. I felt the same thing with Dashiell, and remembered Jen feeling it during her birth. But I couldn't believe that I was that close to having my baby. We'd only just arrived at the hospital after all. After that contraction, I looked up and told everyone that the last one was different. As in things were changing.
Before the nurse could start the heplock I was like, "Ummm I need to go to the bathroom before you do that. Like, right now."
Which is basically code for, "I'm about to push a baby out", but I didn't have that sensation with Dashiell's birth so I wasn't really thinking about it. I was just like, get me to the toilet ASAP.
I started walking to the bathroom and made it halfway across the room before another huge contraction came. Luckily there was a rocking chair to hold onto right where I stopped because before I could even think I was pushing. And by pushing I mean the kind of pushing they talk about that feels like throwing up in reverse. Like there's nothing in this world that can stop you from doin' your thing. At that point (obviously) everyone in the room mobilized. I should mention that I was still wearing my clothes. Running shorts (because they have a liner so I could wear a towel in the to catch more leaking water) to be exact. And I heard someone say, "She's pushing with her shorts on! She needs to come back to the bed!"
To which I was like, "NOOOOOO. I CAN'T!!!"
And I think our nurse said, "Yes you can, Kristina." And our doula said, "Stay in control, Kristina."
And I was thinking, control? I am not in control. I have never been in control of this experience. I'm just holding on tight and letting my body do what it needs to do!
But what I said out loud, because I was having another contraction and pushing was, "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCKKKKKKKKKKK."
Yep. I'm always so classy when I'm in labor! There were a lot of expletives starting at this point folks. It was just so crazy and so fast and so so so intense. Intense is not nearly a descriptive enough word. And clearly I didn't have the vocabulary at the moment to adequately express myself. I just kept saying "Oh my god oh my god ohmygodohshitohmygod."
See with Dashiell, I don't really remember the pushing part being that crazy. I mean I'm sure it was but my labor was so much longer and by the time I was pushing I was sort of maxed out on feeling. This time it all happened so fast that I felt everything.
So they did manage to get me to the bed, to get my shorts off, and luckily called the midwife in time. For some reason they hadn't told her when I was on my way in (I had called from the car), nor when I arrived in L&D. And she didn't have any other patients so she was sleeping in the call room. But she did arrive. As did a baby nurse and a few residents and maybe some more people too, I can't remember and didn't care.
And then once I was on the bed, someone checked me and it wasn't a matter of dilation at that point. I was plus 2 and his head was practically already out. At that moment a little face peeked around the side of the bed and was like "Hi! I know this is sort of an awkward way to meet, but my name is James and I'm an OB resident here and I'm going to help deliver your baby if that's okay."
Uhhhhmmmm. I can't imagine the look I gave him. Like um, guy. My baby is literally coming out right now. I DON'T CARE who is here and who isn't! Poor James. I think it might have actually been his first birth ever.
In between one contraction Shadman guided my hand down so I could feel my baby's head and know that I was actually making progress. Do you know what? Baby heads are SQUISHY! They do not feel like head at all. Very weird.
And then on the 4th push at 12:46 am, I heard Shadman say, "That's too fast, too fast!". But there was nothing anyone could have said that would have made me stop pushing. Nothing. And he came flying out, screaming just like his mama. Sorry bud! Don't they say that the birth experience informs the temperament of the baby as a newborn? Oops.
It was insane. That's the only way to describe it. But it was fast and then it was over and that was awesome. They laid him right on my belly and I asked if he was a boy or a girl. Last time Brock was so anxious to find out who we were having that he called it out practically as Dashiell was entering the world. But this time he was more concerned with making sure everyone was okay and in one piece. So the nurse said, "It's a boy!" And I said, "A boy. Of course he's a boy!"
And then I said, "I'm sooo glad that's over."
Followed shortly by, "If we have a third, I'm getting the epidural."
I got two stitches and then everything was golden. It was amazing to be so unconnected to everything. No IV, no heplock, nothing. Just me and my baby laying on the bed. They did end up giving me a shot of pitocin in my thigh to help with bleeding, but that was so much better than being hooked up to the IV, which they probably would have done had the nurse had time to get the heplock in. I totally get why people go to such lengths to keep things as minimal as possible. With Dashiell the actual birth felt like a procedure. I had an IV for fluids, I had oxygen, they used a vacuum. It felt very medical. But this time I could have been anywhere, I just happened to be in the hospital. Aside from the insanity, it really was perfect.
And now here we are. One month gone already and to be honest, my birth story seems kind of insignificant compared to our new life as a family of four. But that's a whole different post that I've been thinking about a lot. I think I would like to share, because I know there are people out there who would love to hear another mama's experience. But we're taking things day by day at the moment so we'll see when I have time to write another post. This one has taken two weeks, after all.
We are well and settling in to a little routine and while there are have been ups and downs, I'm trying to remember that before I know it things are going to be awesome. MORE awesome, I mean.
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Very little, but well.
- Hellfire Peninsula (explored 8/18, quests: 19/80)
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It's not like I was comprehensive in my exploration or questing either.
No question I am lacking the goods:
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- Skinning 333 / 375
- Cooking 100?
- Fishing: 150?
- Herbalism 219 / 300
- Experience (Apparently I have done 43 instances vs 127 battlegrounds)
Now I am going to be stretched through Azeroth, Outland and Northrend while I bring everything up to speed
Stopping at 1%
I got a whisper 5 minutes before I logged last night from my tank buddy Viking…
WHEN are you coming to NR?
I replied:
in 3%
The WSG I was playing ended and I informed him I would join him in 1%… but that 1% would have to wait.
It's not just the 3,906 XP!
I know myself well enough. Well enough to know that a few mobs later, with the glitter surrounding myself, I would promise myself that I would log…
After I do a few more things…
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- Train
- Fix my toolbars
- Travel to Northrend
- Take screenshots
- Edit screenshots
- Write a blog post
No, 1% is good enough… There is always tomorrow.
Too many Tanks, too little time
So I caught the boat, I've set my hearthstone, I've trained, I've repaired and now I'm LFG.
At this point one thing I'm not short of is Tanks. Viking & I have been keeping regular contact and as you have already read is eagerly awaiting my arrival.
Zupa can't wait to have a pocket healer for the BGs and I dare say will stoop low enough to instance with me as well.
Of course I expect that LFG will be filled with desperate characters as well.
Zero grind Northrend?
Does this mean as a healer I will have little time to put my grinding gear and spec on?
Does this mean the the most exploration and exclamation mark accepting I will be doing is Flight Masters?
If it does, it will be a different leveling experience to Gnomeaggedon who basically didn't set foot in an instance until level 80.
Will I ever get back to Azeroth and Outland to level my professions, or are they facing as much action as 7/10 Outland zones?
Still land bound
I have only logged on long enough to get 4,000 xp, train and set my hearthstone.
No cold weather flying for me… yet
No that will have to wait until my next login, assuming I remember to login to Gnomeaggedon 1st.
Ohh well, looks like the Northrend grind, the one I rolled Squidly to escape, is on again…. /sigh
Gnomer and Out, Squidly and Stout!
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Sorry it has been so long since I posted-I am so crazy busy since I got back from CHA! It was a blast-I love seeing everyone! I had so much to do once I got settled in again and I was exhausted to say the least...I've had book club, Jack's Birthday, deadlines for projects, etc. And now I am packing to leave for Cape Cod. I LOVE it there! I want to live there so bad! I always feel at home when I visit, the kids have a blast and the ocean is fabulous! The traffic-not so much..
And because I have been so swamped-I did not enter MMM-it is so much work and I am happy with what I have going on right now. All of it keeps me really busy as it is. Not to mention-I have to start looking for a job this fall which of course will take up a lot of my free time. So thats the story on that...
Here are some peeks for the Bad Girls kit for August debuting tonight! I hope everyone loves it as much as I did. It reminds me of the rustic sea side mixed with shabbiness that is to die for! And my stamp mixes in perfectly with it all! YAY! Let me know how you like the stamp, I would love to hear what everyone thinks! Good and bad! Seriously!
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Newt Gingrich's rise in the polls has made him late-night fodder.
"It's funny," remarked David Letterman Monday night. "Romney is the Mormon, and Newt Gingrich is the one with three wives."
Gingrich began dating his second wife while still married to his first wife — and began dating his third and current wife while still married to his second.
U.S. & World
Letterman also devoted the night's Top Ten to Gingrich with a list of the "Top Ten Ways The World Would Be Different If Everyone Were Named Newt."
The number one way: "You know who ain't gonna be president? Newt Perry."


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McIndependence: Should Scotland give the UK the highland fling?
The very name conjures up images of beautiful, rugged highlands swathed in mist. Of aromatic, golden malt whiskies savored on cold winter evenings. Of a proud warrior nation steeped in a rich cultural heritage. And of an embarrassingly ordinary national soccer team.
With so much to claim as their own, it is little wonder that in 2014 the Scots will vote on whether to end their 300-year-old membership of the United Kingdom and declare full independence.
There are strong arguments for and against breaking away: if the Scots do not secede, they will forever be in thrall to those English bastards south of the border. But if they do, they risk losing one of their favorite pastimes -- moaning about those English bastards south of the border.
CNN Travel isn't about to step into the middle of this debate. But for the purely selfish reason that we might be able to add another sovereign nation to our must-visit list, we admit we're getting quite excited about the outcome.
And frankly, if any nation has earned the right to decide its fate, it is Scotland. Not just for its murky landscape, fragrant liquor, flame-haired citizens and poor quality goalkeeping. But for several more compelling reasons:
1. Trump card
No other country on the planet has distracted Donald Trump to the same degree as Scotland, and for this it must be saluted.
Sure we've all had to put up with the hamster-haired billionaire's scattergun Twitter tirades against anyone who isn't Donald Trump. But think how much worse it would have been if Scotland had not sacrificed some of its breathtaking coast to keep Trump busy building a golf resort.
It wasn't as if Scotland -- birthplace of golf and home to more than 100 courses including St. Andrews, Carnoustie, Gleneagles, Muirfield, and Royal Troon -- needed another sanctuary for wonderful golf fashion, but it let Trump build one anyway.
Do tweet: At least he hasn't combed over the dune beaches of nearby Balmedie Country Park.
Don't tweet: The world is laughing at us.
2. Saddle scores
Scotland gets a lot of stick for being one of the most unhealthy nations in Europe. If you believe the bad press, the Scots have such an abiding love of the deep fat fryer that they even dip their morning muesli in batter before cooking it in a vat of grease.
But it isn't all clogged arteries and myocardial infarction. The Scots also have a healthy streak, particularly when it comes to producing some of the world's most dynamic cyclists.
There's Graham Obree, a mercurial racing rider who broke the world speed record on a cycle made out of washing machine parts. Chris Hoy, an oak-thighed sprinter who is the most successful Olympic cyclist of all time. And Danny MacAskill, an agile and artistic BMX bandit whose two-wheel trickery almost makes owning a child-sized bicycle not seem silly.
Do say: How about entering next year's Tour de Ben Nevis?
Don't say: Bike over to the Carron Fish Bar and get me a deep fried Mars Bar.
3. Kilt in action
Some Scottish inventions catch on quickly. Alexander Graham Bell's telephone seems to still be quite popular in one form or another, as does John Logie Baird's television. Other notable Scottish innovations include steam engines, penicillin and cloned sheep.
So it is no wonder that another great Scottish idea -- skirts for men -- has taken off. Kilts were first glimpsed on the catwalk during Edinburgh's autumn/winter fashion week of 1512. In a matter of just 500 years, the craze has spread as far as, um, Edinburgh.
But that's not entirely fair. In the intervening years kilts have become adopted by drunk and embarrassing male relatives as a useful way of identifying themselves at weddings.
Do say: Actually, the contemporary outfits at 21st Century Kilts don't look too bad.
Don't say: Next season: Mini skirts for men.
4. Musical instruments
It's true that Scotland gave us Rod Stewart warbling on about "Sailing." Regrettably, and for reasons clearly lost in the mist rolling in from the sea off the country's southwestern isles, it also true that it inspired Paul McCartney to destroy his Beatles legacy (yet again) with "Mull of Kintyre."
Don't hold that against the Scots though. They have more than redressed the balance by producing some of the most formidable music acts of the past three decades. Among them, Primal Scream, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Simple Minds and, yes, even The Proclaimers.
Scottish nationalists have vowed to abandon nuclear weapons if they get independence. This is partly because they can arm their youth with Gibson Les Pauls and three basic chords then watch the world fall at their feet. If that fails, they still have bagpipes.
Do say: How much are tickets for next year's T In the Park music festival?
Don't say: How much to stop McCartney from playing that song ever again?
5. Voice-activated
Anti-independence campaigners insist a sovereign Scotland would struggle to support itself, particularly since those English bastards have spent decades bleeding dry its reserves of North Sea oil.
But the Scots have another trick up their sleeves: their accents.
According to one survey, a honeyed Scottish burr -- we're clearly talking Sean Connery here, rather than the jagged and salty dialects favored deep in the heart of Glasgow -- is associated with hard work. So much so, that they can probably get away without actually doing any.
Do say: Ah Miss Moneypenny, let me tell you the secrets of the world.
Dinnae say: Haud yer wheesht. I cannae kin ye.
6. Whisky business
You could hit Scotland's celebrated malt whisky trail in search of the country's national drink, but you'd be wasting your time. The real beverage of choice for most Scots is a soda whose lurid orange appearance is normally associated with some kind of appalling industrial accident.
The manufacturers of Irn Bru once bogusly claimed it had ferrous girders as a key ingredient. This hardly matters as any flavor is masked by enough sugar to rot your teeth just by staring at an unopened can.
Irn Bru's sugary kick, along with a shot of caffeine, gives the drink a magical side effect that could help to explain its popularity among certain intemperate sections of Scottish society: it stops the morning-after shakes dead in their tracks.
Do say: Give me a swig of Bru, I've got a hangover the size of Auchtermuchty.
Don't say: I need more whisky to bring me down from the sugar rush.
7. Royalty bites
If Scotland does part company with the United Kingdom, the current plan is to keep Britain's Queen Elizabeth II as head of state. This is probably because the Scots take too much pleasure tormenting the English royals to let them go.
Instead of zipping off to Monaco like other European royalty, every July the queen and her family feel duty bound to spend their summer in Balmoral, a dour and drafty castle built in Scotland by Queen Victoria, a monarch not known for her sense of fun.
Only one species on the planet enjoys Scotland's wet and freezing summers, and it isn't the Windsors. The Highland midge, a tiny Scottish gnat that is only marginally less annoying than Paul McCartney, thrives in this climate. The royals, like everyone else, get eaten alive.
Do say: How do we get rid of these unwelcome parasites?
Don't say: Sorry your majesty, I wasn't talking about the insects.
8. Scotch mist
It might seem nonsensical to suggest that one of the best things that Scotland has given the rest of the world is Scotland, but hear us out.
Whereas the movie "Trainspotting" portrayed a bleak modern Scotland of junkies diving into excrement-filled toilets in search of their next fix, most people outside the country would prefer to think of it in cosier terms.
And so, we have the popular image of a tartan-draped Scotland where bonnie lassies eat shortbread among swathes of wild mountain heather. Where powerful men (in skirts, of course) wield claymore swords and dance jigs to the tunes of, lord help us, the bagpipes.
However, this is an idealized national image crafted mostly by Walter Scott, a 19th century Scottish novelist who repackaged his dour country's history into exciting yarns that were lapped up by readers. Mel Gibson might also be to blame.
But without this image, lots of people in other parts of the planet wouldn't be able to get wistful about their Scottish roots. They probably wouldn't enjoy malt whisky quite so much and they certainly wouldn't wear kilts and get embarrassingly drunk at weddings.
And they wouldn't invest millions of their dollars (that could be otherwise spent on hairspray or acquiring the passport records of the U.S. president) to buy up chunks of Scotland and build golf courses that nobody needs.
Do say: I have Scottish roots.
Don't say: And I comb them over to cover up my bald spot.
More on CNN: 50 reasons London is the world's greatest city


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A couple of years ago a kid from Norway, named Jon Lech Johansen, broke the encryption put on DVD's to stop people from coping them onto their computers. A year or so later he did the same thing to the iTunes music store and made it possible for folks to share their music purchases. He was pretty unpopular with the big media companies but geek-boys the world over loved him, so he went legit and started a venture backed company. However, going legit isnt what it used to be. His latest application, let's you share your music and other media with friends and family no matter what device they might be using. The new application called doubleTwist allows you to convert all your iTunes purchases to plain old mp3's for you can shares them across devices. and it help you manage that process. The application is still in beta (early beta if the number of crashes I've had is any indicator) so you might want to check out the PDF press release here , the blog reaction here or the early articles here and here.
Thanks to the erudite scholar and gentleman, david touve for the tip.


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Cruisin' the Coast
October 2-9, 2011
Welcome to America's Largest Block Party. Cruisin' The Coast(r) began in 1996 as a festival to celebrate antique, classic and hot rod vehicles, nostalgic music and related events. 374 vehicles registered that first year and in 2010 we had 4,854 registered vehicles. Car enthusiasts from over 39 states and Canada drive to the Mississippi Gulf Coast once a year to showcase their rides and to cruise our beautiful 30-mile stretch of beachside highway with designated stops in Bay St. Louis, Biloxi, D'Iberville, Gulfport, and Ocean Springs. Each venue is set up as a mini festival with a stage for live bands, reserved parking for registered cruisers, spectator parking, and vendors for food and event merchandise. Our week long event includes cruise-ins, a VA Hospital Cruise, car auction, swap meet, car corral, and a parade. Spectators are welcome and will find that our cruisers love to talk "old cars."
Cruisin' The Coast(r) has 13 Host Car Clubs providing over 700 volunteers who help with registering vehicles, directing cars at the venues, giving directions, and welcoming our guests. These are just the jobs cruisers see. There are hundreds of behind the scenes and pre-event activities that our volunteers help with all year long. When you see someone in a bright yellow staff shirt - that is a fellow car lover who is donating time to make this a fun event for all. If you get a chance you may want to say thank you to a volunteer during your visit.
Cruisin' The Coast(r) has become the biggest special event in the state of Mississippi. As Cruisin' The Coast(r) has grown, the honors and awards have followed suit. Cruisin' The Coast(r) received the Governor's Excellence in Tourism Award as Festival/Event of the Year in the State of Mississippi. Cruisin' The Coast(r) was also named the recipient of the "Shining Example Award" for Best Festival/Event of the year by the Southeast Tourism Society, one of the "100 Events for the Year" for 2001 and in 2011 by the American Bus Association and was also named a Southern Travel Treasure by AAA's magazine, AAA Southern Traveler. In 2007, the Automotive Restoration Market named Cruisin' The Coast the 2007 Restoration Event of the Year.


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Promoting Physical Fitness, Grades 9-12
Classroom Resources that Reinforce the Benefits of Physical Fitness
Get active, stay fit and have fun doing it with sports, games, and activities described in the following lesson plans and resources.
Lesson Plans
Orienteering Scavenger Hunt
Students in grades 6-12 use a compass to reach multiple checkpoints.
Discovery Pacing
Students (6-12) work with partners to discover strategies for pacing themselves when running longer distances.
Ultimate Sponge Ball
Students in grades 7-12 play in teams of 4-8 to move a sponge ball to the opposing side's goal.
Zombie Tag
This game is played in an area with distinct boundaries.
Lesson Plan Collections
PE Central: Lesson Plans for Physical Education Teachers
A collection of more than 2000 K-12 health and physical education lessons and assessment ideas.
Games Kids Play
This site gives instructions for hundreds of outdoor activities. Included are traditional games and jump rope.
Cooperative Games: The Ultimate Camp Resource
72 games that encourage teamwork and active participation from everyone.
Background Resources
Modern Sports History including Culture the Beginnings and Major Events
Sports History
Field and Court Dimensions, History, Rules and How To Information for a variety of sports.
Streetplay.com: Stickball, handball, spaldeens, and more!
Documents city games. Includes galleries of photographs.
Today in Sport
Events, birthdays and deaths in sport for every day in history from a wide variety of sports.
Sports Coaching Skills
Videos and animations demonstrate 1,000s of coaching drills. Free membership and registration for individual sports.
- Sports Rules
- Sport Definitions
- A Guide to Eating for Sports
- Sports Nutrition Guidelines for the Vegetarian
Find these materials online:
Cross-Curricular Connections with Sports
Books connecting sports to other disciplines for students in grades 2-12.
Find these reading materials at your school or local library:
- Children's Games in Street and Playground: Chasing, Catching, Seeking, Hunting, Racing, Dueling, Exerting, Daring, Guessing, Acting, and Pretending
By Iona and Peter Opie
Floris Books (January 2009)
- Children's Games with Things: Marbles, Fivestones, Throwing and Catching, Gambling, Hopscotch, Chucking and Pitching, Ball-Bouncing, Skipping, Tops and Tipcat
By Iona and Peter Opie
Oxford University Press, USA (April 23, 1998)
- The Lore of the Playground: One Hundred Years of Children's Games, Rhymes and Traditions
By Steve Roud
Random House UK (November 1, 2010)
- The New Games
By New Games Foundation
Main Street Books (September 8, 1976)
- More New Games
By New games Foundation
Main Street Books (September 9, 1981)
- Best New Games
By Dale Lefevre
Human Kinetics; 1 edition (November 5, 2001)
- Kick the Can, and over 800 Other Active Games and Sports for All Ages
By Darwin Hindman
Pearson Prentice Hall (March 1978)
- Children's Games: Complete Painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (circa 1560)
- Children's Games: Details from Pieter Brueghel's Painting (circa 1560)
- Opie Collection of Children's Games and Songs
Audio recordings of familiar and unfamiliar children's games and songs.
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I realize there's no blog due today, but I just got done with a bunch of homework and I decided I needed a break. So I drew out the map of Faerie Land. Or rather, how I perceived Faerie Land when reading Spenser's The Faerie Queene.
I realize its kind of empty, but that's because that's all of Faerie Land that I have read…so far. This was physically and emotionally exhausting. I have a whole new respect for Tolkien.
Bigger image here: http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/2118/faerieland.jpg


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Donate What You Want For The Important eBook On Internet Freedom At The Techdirt Insider Shop
from the an-important-work dept
Earlier this year, we wrote about constitutional lawyer Marvin Ammori's excellent book On Internet Freedom, which highlights a variety of different battles concerning internet freedom -- many of which we talk about here every day. If you really want to understand what's happening in the battle both for and against internet freedom, you should read this book. Given that, I'm thrilled to announce that we've now added the ebook (in a variety of ebook formats) to the Techdirt Insider Shop, where it's available on a donate what you want basis.
All proceeds from the sale of On Internet Freedom will be split between two groups that are doing important work on (you guessed it) internet freedom: Demand Progress and Fight for the Future. If you haven't already read Marvin's fantastic book, you really ought to pick it up -- and while you're in the Insider Shop, feel free to take a look at our other ebooks, gear and apparel and some cool blog perks you can get by becoming a Techdirt Insider. Thanks for checking it out.
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Study on the Mg-Li-Zn ternary alloy system with improved mechanical properties, good degradation performance and different responses to cellsLiu, Yang (author), Wu, Yuanhao (author), Bian, Dong (author), Gao, Shuang (author), Leeflang, M.A. (author), Guo, Hui (author), Zheng, Yufeng (author), Zhou, J. (author)Novel Mg-(3.5, 6.5wt%)Li-(0.5, 2, 4wt%)Zn ternary alloys were developed as new kinds of biodegradable metallic materials with potential for stent application. Their mechanical properties, degradation behavior, cytocompatibility and hemocompatibility were studied. These potential biomaterials showed higher ultimate tensile strength than...journal article 2017


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Like many of you out there, I am working with a multi module Maven project. It is not a huge one comparing to many systems out there, it has 15 modules, with 3 different ear deployments, lots of parametrization with property files and around 100K lines of Java code. During peak development times, the code is heavily refactored, due it's legacy origins and so the need for continuous compiling/packaging and deployment, for every developer.
Despite the steep learning curve all these years I have embraced Maven and it's philosophy. I am not saying that is perfect, but I truly believe that is a good tool, still relevant, especially while your project and team grows as you grow your project. (This post is not about Maven evangelism though).
So, one of the problems we had on our team is that, despite switching the right flags, breaking and packaging our code into modules, using profiles and all the 'tools' maven provides, our build and packaging time was slowly starting to increase, hitting the 1 minute threshold after a complete clean. Our main compiler was Sun/Oracle Javac and the time was monitored through packaging from the command line and not through the IDE, where you can see different times depending on the 'Maven Integration' and internal compiler invoked by each tool. [My reference machine is my good old MacBookPro 2009, Core 2 Duo 2.5, with an Vertex 3 SSD (trim enabled)]
Recently while I was browsing Jason Van Zyl's (the father of Maven) twitter account I discovered the takari lifecycle plugin. Jason and his team are creating tools and plugins for the Maven ecosystem, that I hope to bring the much anticipated evolution on the Maven ecosystem that the community of Maven seeks for a many years now.
To cut a long story short, the takari lifecycle plugin, is an alternative Maven lifecycle implementation, that covers 5 different plugins into one. Once you activate it, it will take over, and invoke it's own implementation of the following 5
- resources plugin
- compiler plugin
- jar plugin
- install plugin
- deploy plugin
In order to understand the difference, when using the takari compiler plugin on your maven build compared with the classic compiler plugin and javac (which most probably many of you use), I am going to share a table from this blog post (explaining incremental compilation).
Javac, but the above diagram made me change the default compiler on my IntelliJ IDE, especially when I do refactoring and changes all around, JDT was anyway far better on incremental compilation comparing to Javac.
How to add takari to my build? Is it safe
Well in my case (and I guess for many of you out there), I just followed the proposed way here. I activated the plugin in my parent pom and then changed the packaging type for all my jar modules, into 'takari-jar'.
The day that I pushed the takari lifecycle change on our git repo, after half an hour I started hearing 'wowss' and 'yeees' from my team members. Repated packaging on changes is very very cheap, changes on resources files and properties ensure that we will get a fresh package when needed. Our repacking times dropped to more than 50%-60%.
If you happen to have the same issues with your Maven build, I trully encourage you to try takari for a day - it will same you and your team some serious time.
I also want to note, that takari is free and despite the fact that is evolved and updated by the takari team for an unnamed 'big' client, the team is free to give it away for free and share it with the community. So thank you very much for this!!!The plugin is can be found on maven central.
The takari team is doing a weekly google hangout, information can be found here, I want to apologize that I have not managed yet to attend one, maybe soon enough.
So go Maven! go Takari!


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District court grants summary judgment, finding YouTube protected by DMCA safe harbor.
Viacom v. YouTube, No. 07-2103, (S.D.N.Y. June 23, 2010)
The question of whether and to what extent a website operator should be liable for the copyright infringement occasioned by the content uploaded by the site's users is one of the central problems of internet law. In talks I've given on this topic of "secondary liability," I've often referred it simply as "the YouTube problem": should YouTube be liable for the infringing content people upload, especially when it knows that there is infringing material.
Today was a big day in the history of that problem. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of YouTube in the notorious billion dollar copyright lawsuit brought against YouTube by Viacom way back in 2007.
The court held that the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") (at 17 USC 512) protected YouTube from Viacom's direct and secondary copyright claims.
Simply stated, the DMCA protects online service providers from liability for copyright infringement arising from content uploaded by end users if a number of conditions are met. Among those conditions are that the service provider "not have actual knowledge that the material or an activity using the material on the system or network is infringing," or in the absence of such actual knowledge, "is not aware of facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent."
The major issue in the case was whether YouTube met these conditions of "non-knowledge" (that's my term, not the court's) so that it could be in the DMCA safe harbor. Viacom argued that the infringement was so pervasive on YouTube that the site should have been aware of the infringement and thus not in the safe harbor. YouTube of course argued otherwise.
The court sided with YouTube :
Mere knowledge of prevalence of such activity in general is not enough. . . . To let knowledge of a generalized practice of infringement in the industry, or of a proclivity of users to post infringing materials, impose responsibility on service providers to discover which of their users' postings infringe a copyright would contravene the structure and operation of the DMCA.
Given the magnitude of the case, there's little doubt this isn't the end of the story — we'll almost certainly see the case appealed to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Stay tuned.
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- Court throws out Viacom's copyright suit against YouTube (americablog.com)
- YouTube wins case against Viacom (googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com)
- YouTube Wins Summary Judgment in Viacom DMCA Lawsuit (eff.org)
- Viacom Loses $1 Billion Lawsuit Against YouTube (mashable.com)
- YouTube wins case against Viacom (googleblog.blogspot.com)
- Judge rules in favor of YouTube over Viacom (macworld.com)
- YouTube wins $1B Viacom lawsuit (seattlepi.com)
- YouTube wins case against Viacom (Kent Walker/The Official Google Blog) (techmeme.com)
- YouTube Wins $1 Billion Copyright Case Against Viacom (readwriteweb.com)
- Viacom loses their case against Google/YouTube (zdnet.com)


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Southeast Mo. police officers help deliver baby
Baby's father pulled into parking lot for delivery
Two police officers in a small southeast Missouri town are being credited with a big assist -- helping a woman deliver her baby.
KFVS-TV reported that Taylor Northern was visiting her sister near Miner on Saturday when she went into labor. The baby's father, Joe Turcotte, hurried to Miner from Cape Girardeau and they began driving to a hospital.
But the baby wasn't waiting -- the head began to crown. Turcotte pulled into the Miner police parking lot while holding the baby's head. His daughter and a friend went inside to alert police.
Officers Kyle Rodgers and Darrin Skinner went to the car and helped deliver the girl, named Jersey Rose.
The baby is at Missouri Delta Hospital in Sikeston with a feeding tube, but otherwise doing well.


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Best App to Transfer Pics from iOS Devices to Mac
There are no doubt a handful of apps that can help you transfer pics from your iOS devices (iPad/iPhone/iPod) to your Mac, such as WiFi photo, Pic Transfer, Transfer, Photoshare, Simple Transfer and the list goes on and on. Some uses Bluetooth, WiFi or both but the most reliable way especially if you are transferring a lot of files is definitely via WiFi.
One great app I tried out and am sticking with is the Pics Assistant for Mac (Free via App Store) and "Pics" for iOS devices (iPad/iPhone/iPod) (US$1.99) from Phyar Studio. The transfer is fast and it imports not only pictures but HD videos as well without losing any quality. The "Pics" app for iOS devices act as a standalone photo album as well, a easy notch or two better than the native photo album. The animated 3D interface is neat and resembles that of the Windows Mobile 7. Check out the 3D interface in the video below.
- View your photos in full resolution, no compressing, no quality losing.(*)
- Very fast import photos and videos from camera roll, start organize your thousands of photos from now on!
- Import HD videos without any quality losing.
- View your photos in camera roll directly, it's also treat as an album in App.
- Add, delete, order albums, edit album name and properties. Move, delete photos and videos.
- 4 Desktops. Organize your albums into different desktop, and you can lock the desktop instead of lock albums.
- WiFi downloading and uploading, access photos and videos in all albums including camera roll.
- Accept ZIP packet for uploading, you can upload hundreds of photos by one click! Progress indicator displayed on your device while uploading.
- Synchronously display in web browser, all your changes made on your device would update to web browser automatically.
- Photos and Videos filter inside the App and also provide for web browser, find videos much easier.
- Passcode protection for locked albums and admin operations.
- Native iPad support, now Pics is a universal App.
- P2P Transfer. Transfer photos/videos to another iPhone/iPod touch/iPad with WiFi or Bluetooth connection.
- AlbumSync with p2p transfer. Compare albums on two different devices and send photos not exist in remote album by one tap. if album not exist, Pics would create a new album on remote device to receive all photos. Your AlbumStyle settings would also be applied to remote album.
- Complete retina display support…. and more.
For those who doesn't want to spend money on any apps, there's a free native solution which is direct importing to iPhoto upon connecting the USB cable to the iOS device (from eHow).
Procedures as follows –
- Launch the iPhoto application on your Mac computer.
- Connect your iPhone to your computer using an iPhone USB cable.
- Highlight the name of your iPhone from the "Devices" list on the left side of the iPhoto window. You will now see thumbnails for the images stored on your iPhone.
- Click on the "Import All" button to transfer all of your iPhone pictures in your iPhoto library, or highlight specific images and click "Import Selected."
- Wait for iPhoto to finish importing the pictures from your iPhone and then choose whether you want to delete the images on the phone.
- Click on the eject symbol next to the name of your iPhone, and then disconnect it from the computer.
Source – Phyar Studio, eHow


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How do Braves' top prospects fit Atlanta's needs?
This series is designed to evaluate the role prospects play in each Major League organization, looking at the short- and long-term needs of each club and illustrating how prospects fit in both scenarios.
Here's my look at the Braves:
Short-term needs
The Braves have been built around pitching for years. While they no longer boast pitchers like Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and John Smoltz, they certainly have some starters and relievers who can carry the club to consistent competitive status.
However, some of the current crop of starters have faced recent injury. Should any of the starters falter or suffer time away from the game due to injury, the Braves have young prospect arms waiting.
Right-hander J.R. Graham has an outstanding fastball/slider combination that allows him to control innings. Graham was a closer at Santa Clara University, but he has been converted to a starter. He has a heavy, late-life fastball that can vary from 93-97 mph, and it isn't unusual for him to even take it up a notch when needed. Coupled with the slider, the combination of pitches bursts upon the hitter. The sink Graham gets on pitches induces ground balls.
Graham has an intense presence on the mound. What he lacks in size (he's 5-foot-10, 195 pounds), he makes up for in his competitive nature. A shoulder injury limited him to eight starts in 2013. We have to see how Graham performs in Spring Training to determine if he is a viable option as a replacement starter.
Projected 2016 braves lineup
|Christian Bethancourt
|Freddie Freeman
|Tommy La Stella
|Chris Johnson
|Andrelton Simmons
|Justin Upton
|Todd Cunningham
|Jason Heyward
|Mike Minor
|Julio Teheran
|Kris Medlen
|Brandon Beachy
|Alex Wood
|Craig Kimbrel
Aaron Northcraft is a big 6-foot-4, 230-pound right-hander who might be ready to step in if needed. The 23-year-old starter has completed parts of five Minor League seasons, compiling a 3.71 ERA over 509 innings. He doesn't have the velocity of Graham, throwing from a low three-quarters arm slot and inducing lots of ground balls.
Northcraft had a miserable Arizona Fall League season, pitching to an ERA of 8.00 with a WHIP of 2.11 in seven starts. He yielded a whopping 15 walks to go along with 23 hits and finished the fall with a 1-5 record.
Right-handed starter David Hale has a solid fastball, an excellent slider and a changeup in progress. He is another starting-pitching option. The 26-year-old, 6-foot-2, 205-pounder threw 11 innings for the parent Braves last season, starting two games and pitching to an ERA of 0.82.
Right-hander Jason Hursh is just beginning his development. He's a former first-round Draft selection (from 2013) worthy of watching carefully.
In the event the Braves seek help at second base, Tommy La Stella is an impressive prospect option. While the team may first turn to Tyler Pastornicky, La Stella has the type of "gamer" mentality and approach that endears him to scouts. He has a fantastic .327 Minor League batting average over parts of three seasons in the Braves' system. The guy can hit. And La Stella has some gap pop in his bat.
An outstanding contact hitter, the 25-year-old La Stella has struck out only 88 times in 999 career plate appearances. He plays solid defense and runs well enough to steal an occasional base. But it's La Stella's solid and consistent bat that will dictate his future.
Long-term needs
One of the Braves' best prospects knocking on the door is 22-year-old catcher Christian Bethancourt. While the club appears set behind the plate this year with Evan Gattis, Gerald Laird and Ryan Doumit, Behtancourt has all the ability to become a long-term answer at the position.
Bethancourt improved at the plate in 2013 while playing at Double-A Mississippi. He raised his average to .277, an increase of 34 points, and hit 12 home runs. Bethancourt is also an outstanding defensive catcher.
Further from the big leagues than Bethancourt, right-handed pitchers Lucas Sims and Mauricio Cabrera are two very talented pitching prospects. Both have gifted arms, with Cabrera having more velocity. Both have the potential to be a No. 2 starter.
Sims has a natural, easy fastball delivery that is complemented by a curveball and slider. Cabrera is explosive, mixing in a changeup that buckles knees and changes the balance of the hitter. Both Sims and Cabrera are works in progress. Cabrera is still a bit raw.
Though the Braves are set at shortstop with Andrelton Simmons, Jose Peraza is someone to remember. Peraza, while not as polished as Simmons, is a solid defensive shortstop. He has superb upside in all phases of the game. Only 19, the Venezuelan has a .288 average over parts of three Minor League seasons. That's exactly what Peraza hit last year at Class A Rome.


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Getz credited some changes in his batting style that led to the first four-hit game of his career.
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I love being Jewish. I love Jews. I love talking to Jews. I love speaking in front of Jews.
What I'm not always crazy about is working on committees with Jews. Oy the agony! Like the old joke, "two Jews, three opinions" multiply that by say, 15 Jews, and the opinions exponentially grow to 150.
Here's my list of Jews Committed to Jewish Committees.
To our marvelous credit, We Jews by committee can do anything from putting on a show to reviving the Dead Sea (should it be important to Israel). But face it ... as a group we're a little, forgive me, unorthodox.
So you don't pelt me with matzah balls, each are eager, passionate, bright, and have ideas – which are expressed at the same time in double decibels and in proper pecking order. Many committee members have three goals:
- to accomplish a noble mission;
- to maybe have a dinner (okay, a brunch) in their honor;
- to keep as much from their beloved Rabbi as possible.
This is not a job for the faint-hearted, or a Gentile.
For one thing, screaming is sometimes involved. Curses on heads have been known to come up. Debating for an hour whether chicken soup or barley will be served can lead to a string of "Fehs," "Poohs," and "May you's" involving boils.
After being on a number of Jewish committees in my life, I've observed certain types of characters who always show up – no matter what. So here's my list of…
Jews Committed to Jewish Committees:
Macher-Macher Man (MMM): Often the president of the Congregation, macher- macher man is not to be fooled with. (Believe me, the Rabbi tried and almost lost his tzitzit). Growing up, our MMM, "Farber," anointed himself King of Jewish Queens. When we put on our shul's production of Fiddler, was there any doubt who'd play Tevye? With, nebuch, a voice like sandpaper and a dance repertoire that consisted solely of the cha cha, he was to Tevye like I am to Bar Refaeli. His wife got to play Tzeitel, his daughter. The fact that she was 66, "vouldn't matter!!" The whole cast was on Medicare. Which is why the MMM himself ordered my 18-year-old brother to do the Kazatskeh. He was the only one who could bend.
Macher-Mavin (MM): Him (or her) you can spot right away by the name: Phredrik or Phryda. The MM is the one who did two weeks of stand-up in the Catskills, a faux painting for the shul, self-published a book of Zen-Jewish poetry, or directed "I'm A Little Jewish Teapot" for the Day School. All of which makes the MM, "the expert" whose face twists at every suggestion from "a commoner," thereby scaring the committee with an attitude we don't know from: menacing silence as we all wait for "the verdict."
The "Sha" Lady
The "Sha" Lady: It's her job to "sha" you. You mumble? "SHA!" You yawn with a little throat clearing? You hiccup? "SHA!" You excuse yourself to get a piece pound cake? "SHA!!" She will hunt for extraneous sound with the sensitivity of a VU meter. No decibel shall interrupt the machers, nor will a moving member get the edge on the cookies. Worse should such extraneous sounds be allowed, it could, God forbid, lead to an extraneous joke, which might sabotage the serious work of the Committee – finding a free cookie vender.
The Gantseh Balaboosteh: God bless her! She's the one who silently shleps the pound cake, cookies, prunes, snacks, juices, plastic forks, cake plates, sets them up, dishes them out, washes up, wraps in plastic, and makes sure the leftovers go to the Shul. Quiet, unassuming, she asks for no help … and believe me, she wouldn't get it anyway. What she will get is, "Mamala, next time you'll bring for lactose intolerants?"
The Screamer of Consciousness: This one suffers from TMIS (Too Many Ideas Syndrome) and hocks you with 50 ideas in 30 seconds, in no special order and by no special subject. He figures, "I'm gifted, if they can't follow they're shmegegges." This, while the rest of us are saying: "What was that?" "Oy, I missed it." "I thought we were talking about the silent auction?" "That was five seconds ago. I think he's talking about miming the musical." "Wait … he mentioned something about his mother-in-law." Focus on Idea one, and he'll come back at you, eyes rolling, with Idea 48 until the whole committee is farmisht– and told to "SHA!"
The Man from the Land of Luftmensch: This dreamer, who never wakes up, has terrific suggestions – if only the committee had the budget, the know-how, the talent of Steven Spielberg. You're talking places to hold the event, he suggests Sinai – the Mountain. You're talking staging, he had a friend who, in 1965 did the lighting for the Rockettes at Radio City. Perfect! His cousin's wife knew Barbra Streisand's hairdresser. Would it hurt to ask if she'd sing Sunrise, Sunset? The man could be a hit, if only his friends would return a phone call – and he remembered to make one.
Kisser-Upper: She adores everything! If she wasn't Jewish she would have been head cheerleader in High School. "Shall we serve chicken or fish?" will get a "WONDERFUL! I LOVE IT! WHERE DO YOU GET SUCH BRILLIANT IDEAS!?" With an ego of hock fleish, her goal is to make macher friends, but more, not make an enemy, thereby contributing to world peace.
The Chutzpenik: He or she can be any of the machers above.
You'd think in such disparate dysfunction the Jewish committee couldn't put together a chair from IKEA. If you thought that, you'd be wrong. Somehow, it is through this unique Yiddishe mish mash that Jewish committees are the most powerful force on Earth. They build cities, raise funds for Israel, keep Shuls going, and could've found Bin Laden 1-2-3 … had anyone bothered to ask.
Perhaps it's our unique process of rachmones and sachel: We often have to make a tumult to solve one.
God bless them all.
A tour bus with 25 Hadassah ladies aboard turned over and all were dispatched to heaven. On their arrival the admitting angel told them that the computers were down so they would just have to wait. At that moment God intervened and said that he would speak to Satan to see if they could be temporarily housed in his domain. All went down to their temporary quarters.
A few hours later God received an urgent call from Satan: "Take these Hadassah ladies out of here, already!"
"What's the problem?" God asked.
Satan replied, "'They're ruining my set-up. Only a few hours and already they raised $100,000 for an air conditioning system!"


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There is one album I listen to more than any other at Gizmodo HQ: Deltron 3030. The futuristic hip-hop journey is a collaboration between (the mind-boggling lyrics of) Del the Funkee Homosapien, (incredible, epic beats from) Dan the Automator, and (the insane disc-spinning skills of) Kid Koala. It's a musical dream team.
The album tells the story of Deltron and the Automator as they journey through space in the distant future, engaging in cross-species rap battles and just generally being intergalactic badasses. There's really never been another album like it, before or since. The beats lull you into a head-nodding trance while they lyrics take you on an adventure. It's had a place in my Desert Island Top 5 since it came out in 2000. It was ahead of its time, and still is (by a thousand years or so).
Del, Dan, and Kid began collaborating on a sequel album back in 2005, tentatively called Deltron Event II. It has been confirmed that as of January 2012 at last, at long last, the album has been completed. It is expected to be out this year, possibly in May. I'm actually giddy about it.
The original album's title track in the video above is what casts us off on the journey. You can click it, or you can take my word that you want to listen to the whole thing and check it out at Spotify, Rdio, Amazon, or iTunes. Enjoy the ride.


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This is an important part of the service Projects Abroad offers you. Your safety and security is our prime concern - so we have many procedures and systems to ensure you have the support you need to enjoy your placement with peace of mind.
Our Assurances to you:
Security: We take your security abroad very seriously. We only send volunteers to places that are safe and politically stable. If they are not, we don't go. We are constantly in contact with the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office (as well as officials in the US, Canada, and Australia and other countries), regarding safety and stability. Of course, we have the added security of our own overseas staff who know the local area in detail.
Pre-Departure Advice: Once you've been accepted on to our projects you'll receive a personalized website called MyProjectsAbroad, which includes information about insurance, applying for a visa, packing lists, and cultural advice about the country you are visiting. Our highly experienced Country Volunteer Advisor will contact you once you have applied and are always available to give advice and answer any questions you may have - both before you go and while you are away.
Placement Details: Before you go you will be allocated your placement details. These include addresses and numbers for your host family, and details regarding your placement and supervisor.
Overseas Staff and Offices: We believe our in-country support to be unparalleled. Every single one of the countries we work in has at least one Projects Abroad Office, and paid members of staff. Each country has a Country Director and various other members of staff. They are trained in the United Kingdom and in country to follow best practice procedures, including monitoring, security, and emergency procedures. The office acts as a point of contact with our staff and a general meeting point for volunteers. Our permanent overseas staff organizes the details of our placements and accommodation according to strict criteria and high standards. They are there to assist with any concerns, problems, advice and general administration that may arise during your time away. They are also your point of contact with the North American offices. They are available during the day at the office and directly contactable 24 hours a day by phone.
Contact Between Staff and Volunteers: Our overseas staff regularly visit host-families, volunteers and placements to ensure everything is running smoothly. We maintain a cycle of monitoring all volunteer accommodation and placements. On arrival, our staff will make a final check that your accommodation and arrangements for your placement are acceptable. Again, during the first week we shall be in contact to ensure all is satisfactory. After the first week, volunteers vary in the amount of contact that they need with local staff; however we actively check on the status of every volunteer weekly - through direct contact or through the host family.
Accommodation: All accommodation is checked regularly by our overseas staff. Accommodation is only accepted if it is clean, hygienic and comfortable. At least one member of the family will be able to speak basic English, and the family will understand Projects Abroad's aims. They must also be interested in having an English speaker to stay. Detailed records are kept of every host family, and these are updated after inspection visits. Checks are made before and during volunteers' stays.
Placement: Our overseas and North American and UK staff work closely with our partner organizations to ensure they understand the nature and purpose of Projects Abroad. All our placements are regularly checked by our overseas staff and visited by North American and UK staff.
Supervisors: Each volunteer, regardless of whether on a teaching, medical, conservation or other placement is allocated a supervisor. The supervisor is not only responsible for enabling volunteers to carry out their work, but also for ensuring that they are happy and assisting them at their placement with any problems or concerns.
Meeting on arrival: We will meet you at the airport (or local place of arrival) unless you request otherwise. We use our own members of staff when possible, but in some cases we may use an approved transfer company to pick volunteers up from the airport. You will be met by someone carrying a Projects Abroad sign, who will welcome you with your full name. They will carry some form of identification that you can validate. It is also our responsibility to help you get back to the normal international point of departure at the end of your placement.
Induction: All volunteers have an induction to the country and area where they'll be living. This varies from country to country (See country pages) but generally includes:
- A Welcome Pack with details of the local office, other volunteers, maps and other useful information (such as banks, doctors, and public transport);
- A tour of the area on local transport that you'll need to use regularly (such as tro-tros in Ghana , or tuk tuks in Thailand );
- We'll advise you on local customs and what to expect while you are away and help you feel confident in your new environment.
Health and Insurance: All of our volunteers are covered by our comprehensive medical and travel insurance. This includes repatriation for certain cases. If a volunteer falls ill, our overseas staff we will be on hand to assist with hospital arrangements and insurance liaison, and will, of course, make sure that the patient is comfortable.


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Northeast Winter Storm Kills Power for Some, Yields a Blizzard of Snow Pics
"We have power but no Internet or phone. I think the universe is trying to tell us to relax. Thank you, universe."
That was the philosophical conclusion from my friend the ESPN sports writer Jane McManus in my Facebook feed this morning (obviously posting from a still-working mobile phone) as the Northeast woke up to snow, snow, and more snow today.
Power is out to some 650,000 people in areas of New England, most of them in Massachussetts, and some 29 inches of snow was said to have fallen in Portland, Maine. From Connecticut to Toronto, weather forecasters are talking about snowfall in feet, not inches. Most of the region's airports are closed, though Newark International was expected to re-open today, and commuter trains suspended service. According to The Wall Street Journal, more than 5,300 flights were canceled yesterday. The storm is also being blamed for six deaths, so it's no laughing matter.
There were hurricane-force winds in Massachusetts, and the snow forced the shutdown of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth. Boston is said to getting so much snow that it may break the record of 27.6 inches set in 2003.
For the most part wireless infrastructure appears to have held up well, which is more than it did during Hurricane Sandy.
I got a short statement from AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel who said:
"The vast majority of our cell sites across New England and in each of the hardest-hit states like Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island are operating as usual. We are coordinating our efforts with local and state officials and have additional resources, including crews and equipment, ready to deploy for restoration efforts as soon as we can ensure the safety of our people. Service is currently normal or near-normal operational levels in all states in the region, including New York, New Jersey, Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire."
No word from Verizon, Sprint or T-Mobile yet, but I haven't heard about significant wireless outages anywhere.
Good thing, because there wasn't much else to do but go outside and take pictures and share them on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram. The photo above is of the path around the Central Park Reservoir from my Twitter friend Stephanie Heliker of New York via her Instagram feed, and she's taken some other nice ones here. The city was largely spared the heavy blast that other parts of the Northeast took. So for every beautiful snowy scene in the city, there were probably 10 more illustrating the heavy thwack of the storm's full fury.
Here's a few others that caught my attention:
This one is from my Facebook friend Juliana Schatz, who is in East Hartford, Conn.:
Here's another that I saw via the Twitter feed of @NBCBayArea taken in Connecticut, where the snowfall was said to be upward of three feet. Original here.
Newly opened doors were a pretty dominant photographic theme throughout the region today. Here's another from Jonathan Helitzer aka @JHiker711 in Simsbury, Conn. Original here.
And while the storm wasn't officially named Nemo by the National Weather Service, the moniker given it by the Weather Channel stuck. Naturally some creative soul couldn't help but create a snow Nemo. Original here via @BarraBest


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Gain was designed to enhance your ride, not dominate it. The Enough Power and Enough Energy concepts result in an exceptionally lightweight, sportive and rideable bike – a machine that heeds the call of the open road. Gain embraces your sweat and hard work and works in unison with your efforts to tick off the kilometers. System interfaces are modern, integrated and sleek. There are no bulky components to reduce the riding experience, distractions have been minimized so it's just you, Gain and the hours ahead.
MODE BUTTONSave space on your handlebar for a GPS if you wish, or ride without clutter. Gain's control center is an attractive and discreet button on the top tube. With the simple iWoc ONE interface you can power the system on or off, check motor assist level and view the remaining battery charge. Colored LED lighting puts all the information you need right at your fingertips.
INTERNAL BATTERYThe battery is one of the most noticeable components of an eBike system, so every step has been taken to find the lightest, smallest and most discreet unit. Gain's Enough Energy concept provides you enough battery power, not more. It eliminates the need for a bulky, high-output battery that needs to be removed from the bike.
Gain is intended for long rides, but some days demand more. A bit more time on the bike, a few more meters of climbing. Gain's Enough Energy reserve battery fits in a bottle cage and gives you enough range to get there and back again.
DRIVE SYSTEMThe heart of Gain, the rear hub motor is the key to Gain's Enough Power concept. The sophisticated drive system provides enough smooth and reliable assistance at levels designed to enhance your ride, not dominate it. And since the motor is at the hub, you'll experience drag-free pedaling when Gain is not providing a push.
C.A.N. INTEGRATIONGain doesn't require a multitude of wires, ports or accessories. The CAN (Controller Area Network) bus port provides a single interface for charging, system diagnosis or attaching the external backup battery.
PAS SENSORGain's smooth and balanced assist requires an advanced sensor. Blending perfectly with our effort to create a sleek and discrete system, the cassette lock ring holds 20 magnets that are detected by the integrated dropout sensor. The system monitors your pedaling input and adjusts power accordingly.
APPA smartphone and smartwatch compatible app enables deeper control of the iWoc system used by Gain. Ride tracking, activity and GPS route uploading and other functions are available from your mobile device, making Gain an even more valuable tool.
Gain is ready for many roles - Gravel, Road or Commuting. Tire clearance, the ability to mount accessories like mud guards combined with a functional All-Road Geometry means that Gain can change. Mount and secure aftermarket fenders in a sleek and simple installation that is sturdy and attractive. Attach a rack for extra carrying capacity. Gain won't mind, it's what we intended when we created one of our our most versatile bikes.
The move to wider tires is happening everywhere, with even road racers opting for the comfort and lower rolling resistance of 25C or 27C tires. To make Gain even more versatile, it is possible to mount most 40C tires.


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PACHECO GONZALEZ, José Danilo; SANTANA SANCHEZ, Luis Enrique; GONZALEZ MELIAN, Luisa y GONZALEZ VALDES, María de los Ángeles. Preoperative evaluation of patients included in "Miracle Mission" cooperation program in Cienfuegos province. Rev Cubana Salud Pública [online]. 2012, vol.38, n.1, pp.54-63. ISSN 0864-3466.
Introduction: for decades, instruments aimed at changing and improving the patient's condition before surgery have been created in the medical practice. Objective: to improve the preoperative evaluation of patients included in the "Miracle Mission" cooperation program. Methods: a retrospective and descriptive study was conducted at the hotel-hospital located in Pasacaballos, Cienfuegos, in which 7 956 patients from 12 Latin American and Caribbean countries were evaluated from September, 2005 to April, 2007. A customized four-phased methodology was submitted to evaluate preoperatively. The center's database provided the following pieces of information: physical status, causes of surgery postponement, causes of surgery cancellation by specialty and eye disease of the patient. Results: type II-classified patients predominated (55.8 %, according to criteria of the US Society of Anesthesiology). The main causes of surgery postponement were ocular secretion (22.6 % of the postponed cases), ocular hypertension (19.5 %), aspirin taking (17.2 %) and decompensate diabetes mellitus (12.4 %). Eight hundred and ninety nine patients and thirty seven patients were considered non-eligible for surgery due to ophthalmological and internal medicine reasons respectively. Conclusions: The submitted methodology contributes to improving the preoperative medical care for patients included in the "Miracle Mission" cooperation program in Cienfuegos province. The achieved results suggested that it can be useful in limited financial resource settings.
Palabras clave : Preoperative evaluation; preoperative risk; blindness; eye diseases; Miracle Mission; Cienfuegos.


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