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Hall of Fame trainer banned at Santa Anita after horse death
By BETH HARRIS
AP Racing Writer
ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) - Hall of Fame trainer Jerry Hollendorfer was banned by the ownership of Santa Anita on Saturday after a fourth horse from his stable died - and the 30th overall - at the Southern California track.
The Stronach Group, which owns the track, said in a statement that effective immediately Hollendorfer "is no longer welcome to stable, race or train his horses at any of our facilities."
On the recommendation of a special panel convened to review horses' medical, training and racing history, the track's stewards scratched four horses trained by Hollendorfer that were entered to run Saturday and Sunday.
A 4-year-old gelding trained by Hollendorfer was injured Saturday while exercising on the training track and was euthanized. It was the first death of the meet on the training track, which isn't used for racing.
It was the 30th death since the racing season began Dec. 26. The track closes for the season Sunday.
The high number fatalities have led officials at Santa Anita and the California Horse Racing Board to initiate several measures to address horse and rider safety. The spate of deaths has drawn national political attention, including from Gov. Gavin Newsom and U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, who has called for racing to stop while training and racing conditions are inspected.
Hollendorfer couldn't immediately be reached for comment.
However, he told the Daily Racing Form, "I'm training over 100 horses right now. Santa Anita didn't want me stay on the grounds. My opinion was that was a premature thing to do. I thought it was extreme. Now I have to step away for a while."
The special panel rejected 38 horses that were set to run over the final six days of racing, according to the California Horse Racing Board. The panel was created last week at the direction of Newsom.
Hollendorfer has 7,617 winners from 33,519 starters and purse earnings of $199,737,768 in his career, according to Equibase.com.
He has three wins in the Breeders' Cup and none in the Triple Crown races. His best finish with seven Kentucky Derby starters was third in 2017 with Battle of Midway. That colt sustained a fatal injury during a workout at Santa Anita on Feb. 23.
Hollendorfer's first horse to die at the meet was a 4-year-old gelding on Dec. 30 after a race on the dirt.
It wasn't immediately known whether Hollendorfer will be allowed to race at Los Alamitos in Orange County when that meet opens June 29. A spokesman for Del Mar said the track was aware of Hollendorfer's ban and was gathering information. Del Mar near San Diego opens July 17. Neither track is owned by The Stronach Group.
The racing board says a panel also will review horses entered to run at Los Alamitos.
A 9-year-old gelding named Kochees trained by Hollendorfer was euthanized on May 26 after injuring his left front leg in a race a day earlier.
At the time, a spokesman for The Stronach Group told The Associated Press that it was looking into whether new protocols were followed leading up to the gelding being euthanized.
The Stronach Group said in a statement Saturday it regrets that Hollendorfer's record in recent months at both Santa Anita and Golden Gate Fields in Northern California "has become increasingly challenging and does not match the level of safety and accountability we demand." Both tracks are owned by The Stronach Group; Golden Gate doesn't resume racing until Aug. 15.
The track owner said individuals who don't embrace the new rules and safety measures that put horse and rider safety above all else will have no place at any Stronach Group racetrack.
Mike Marten, spokesman for the California Horse Racing Board, said Hollendorfer's gelding American Currency injured Saturday wasn't entered to run in any race and thus wasn't subject to review by the special panel.
Kochees' injury appeared to be correctable through surgery. However, when doctors realized the horse had lost blood flow to the leg, he was euthanized.
Among the rules put in place since March, a trainer's veterinarian must sign off on a horse's fitness before the track's veterinarian also takes a look at the animal ahead of it training or racing.
"In my mind there is absolutely no doubt that we've done every single thing properly with Kochees and all the rest of our horses, too," Hollendorfer said in response to questioning by The AP on May 27. "We certainly are pretty sad when they get hurt."
The 73-year-old trainer is best known for overseeing Eclipse Award winners Blind Luck, Shared Belief and Songbird. Based in Northern California for most of his career, Hollendorfer frequently ships his horses to Southern California's tracks to run.
He's known for buying young horses at auction in the low to mid-price range, often with his own money. He then puts together ownership groups and retains a percentage of the horse while training it as well.
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We all know and love ping, and in most environments it's available for us as a means of testing the basic TCP network latency between machines. This is extremely useful, but ping is not written in Java and it's also not written with low latency in mind. This is important (or at least I think it is) when examining a Java application and trying to make an informed judgement on observed messaging latency in a given environment/setup.
I'll start with the code and bore you with the philosophy later:
The mechanics should be familiar to anyone who used NIO before, the notable difference from common practice is using NIO non-blocking channels to perform essentially blocking network operations.
The code was heavily 'inspired' by Peter Lawrey's socket performance analysis post and code samples (according to Mr. Lawrey's licence you may have to buy him a pint if you find it useful, I certainly owe him one). I tweaked the implementation to make the client spin as well as the server which improved the latency a bit further. I separated the client and server, added an Ant build to package them with some scripts and so on. Notes:
- The server has to be running before the client connects and will shut down when the client disconnects.
- Both server and client will eat up a CPU as they both spin in wait for data on the socket channel.
- To get the best results pin the process to a core (as per the scripts).
Baseline performance as a useful measure
When measuring performance we often compare the performance of one product to the next. This is especially true when comparing higher level abstraction products which are supposed to remove us from the pain of networking, IO or other such ordinary and 'technical' tasks. It is important however to remember that abstraction comes at a premium, and having a baseline measure for your use case case help determine the premium. To offer a lame metaphor this is not unlike considering the bill of material in the bottom line presented to you by your builder.While this is not a full blown application, it illustrates the cost/latency inherent in doing TCP networking in Java. Any other cost involved in your application request/response latency needs justifying. It is reasonable to make all sort of compromises when developing software, and indeed there are many a corner to be cut in a 50 line sample that simply would not do in a full blown server application, but the 50 line sample tells us something about the inherent cost. Some of the overhead you may find acceptable for your use case, other times it may not seem acceptable, but having a baseline informs you on the premium.
- On the same stack(hardware/JDK/OS) your application will be slower then your baseline measurement, unless it does nothing at all.
- If you are using any type of framework, compare the bare bones baseline with your framework baseline to find the basic overhead of the framework (you can use the above to compare with Netty/MINA for instance).
- Consider the hardware level functionality of your software to match with baseline performance figures (i.e: sending messages == socket IO, logging == disk IO etc.). If you think a logging framework has little overhead on top of the cost of serializing a byte buffer to disk, think again.
Variety is the spice of life
To demonstrate how one would use this little tool I took it for a ride:- All numbers are in nanoseconds
- Tests were run pinned to CPUs, I checked the variation between running on same core, across cores and across sockets
- This is RTT(round trip time), not one hop latency(which is RTT/2)
- The code prints out a histogram summary of pinging a 32b message. Mean is the average, 50% means 50% of updates had a latency below X, 99%/99.99% in the same vain. (percentiles are commonly used to measure latency SLAs)
Same core: mean=8644.23, 50%=9000, 99%=16000, 99.99%=24000Sending and receiving data over loopback is CPU intensive, which is why putting the client and the server on the same core is not a good idea. I went on to run the same on a beefy test environment, which has 2 test machines with tons of power to spare, and a choice of NICs connecting them together directly. The test machine is a dual socket beast so I took the opportunity to run on loopback across sockets:
Cross cores: mean=5809.40, 50%=6000, 99%=9000, 99.99%=23000
Cross sockets: mean=12393.97, 50%=13000, 99%=16000, 99.99%=29000Testing the connectivity across the network between the 2 machines I compared 2 different 10Gb card and a 1Gb card available on that setup, I won't mention make and model as this is not a vendor shootout:
Same socket, same core: mean=11976.68, 50%=12000, 99%=16000, 99.99%=28000
Same socket, cross core: mean=7663.82, 50%=8000, 99%=11000, 99.99%=23000
10Gb A: mean=19746.08, 50%=18000, 99%=26000, 99.99%=38000The above variations in performance are probably familiar to those who do any amount of benchmarking, but may come as a slight shock to those who don't. This is exactly what people mean when they say your mileage may vary :). And this is without checking for further variation by JDK version/vendor, OS etc. There will be variation in the performance depending on all these factors which is why a baseline figure taken from your own environment can provide a useful estimation tool to performance on the same hardware. The above also demonstrates the importance of process affinity when considering latency.
10Gb B: mean=30099.29, 50%=30000, 99%=33000, 99.99%=44000
1Gb C: mean=83022.32, 50%=83000, 99%=87000, 99.99%=95000
An average RTT latency of 20 microseconds between machines is pretty nice. You can do better by employing better hardware and drivers(kernel bypass), and you can make your outliers disappear by fine tuning JVM options and the OS. At it's core Java networking is pretty darn quick, make sure you squeeze all you can out it. But to do that, you'll need a baseline figure to let you know when you can stop squeezing, and when there's room for improvement.UPDATE(4/07/2014): I forgot to link this post to it's next chapter where we explore the relative performance of different flavours of the same benchmark using select()/selectNow()/blocking channels/memory mapped files as the ping transport, all nicely packaged for you to play with ;-).

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Spiritual Birth and Growth
God's goal for us is spiritual maturity. The Bible says, "Therefore let us … go on to maturity" (Hebrews 6:1). The Bible also urges, "Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation" (1 Peter 2:2). The goal of a child's life is maturity—and the goal of a Christian's life is spiritual maturity.
What is maturity? On a human level we know it isn't just a matter of age. We have all met people who were adults in terms of years yet acted like spoiled little children: self-centered, irresponsible, inconsiderate, impulsive, unwise in the decisions they made.
Such a person, we say, is immature, no matter how old they are in years. A mature person, on the other hand, isn't just physically mature; he or she also has grown up emotionally and socially. They have learned to be considerate and responsible and to realize that their actions have consequences, both for themselves and for others.
In a similar way, spiritual maturity isn't just a question of how long we have been a Christian. Sadly, far too many Christians never grow and develop in their faith. If asked, they may be able to give a testimony of what God has done for them—but often it's something that happened many years ago! Spiritually they are in limbo, and if someone examined their spiritual lives five years ago and then looked at them again today, they would see little difference. They have been born again, but they are still babies in Christ.
They are like the Christians to whom Paul wrote in Corinth: "Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual but as worldly—mere infants in Christ" (1 Corinthians 3:1).
Barriers to Spiritual Growth
Why don't we grow in our faith? Sometimes it's because of a particular sin we have tolerated and allowed to block God's work, refusing to admit it or give it up. Or sometimes we don't grow spiritually because we give in to the pressure of those around us who care little for Christ or may even be hostile to Him—family, friends, fellow students, neighbors, co-workers.
In my experience, however, most Christians fail to grow in their faith either because they don't realize they ought to grow or because they don't know how to grow. They know Christ died for them and that they will go to Heaven someday, but they don't know what ought to be happening to them in the meantime. They remain spiritually weak and immature, never experiencing the fullness of life that Jesus promised His followers. Does this describe you?
You can be sure that Satan delights in an immature Christian. An immature Christian is an ineffective Christian, making little impact for Christ on the lives of others. An immature Christian also is an inconsistent Christian, living for Christ one day and forgetting Him the next. An immature Christian provides plenty of ammunition for those who say they don't believe in Christ because they think the church is full of hypocrites.
Don't let anything—or anyone—stand in the way of your growth in Christ. Begin now, by asking God to remove whatever barriers are keeping Him from working in your life. Then make it your goal to become—with God's help—the mature Christian He wants you to be.
The Goal
What, however, is spiritual maturity? To put it another way, what exactly does God want to do in our lives as we journey along His path?
The Bible gives us the answer: God's will is for us to become more and more like Christ. It is that simple—and also that complex.
From all eternity, the Bible says, God's plan was for us "to be conformed to the likeness of his Son" (Romans 8:29). We are part of His family—and because of that we should bear His likeness! This is spiritual maturity, and if you make this your goal, it will change your life.
The Key
It's a mistake to think God's will is for only a few "super-spiritual" people, or that we must withdraw from our daily responsibilities if we want to become more like Christ. Listen: God's will is for you to become more and more like Christ right where you are.
Jesus didn't isolate Himself from daily life; He became involved in people's lives wherever He went. At times He withdrew to rest and spend time alone with His Heavenly Father—and so should we. But Jesus also knew what it was to live under pressure, yet He never wavered from God's plan for His life. Neither should we. In His last recorded prayer for His followers, He said, "My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one" (John 17:15).
How do we become more like Christ? How does it happen? It happens as we submit every area of our lives to His authority. Nothing must be excluded from His influence, and nothing must be withheld from His control. Jesus said, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me" (Luke 9:23). John the Baptist declared, "He must become greater; I must become less" (John 3:30). Is this your goal?
Nothing Left Out
When I gave my life to Christ as a teenager, I knew I needed God's forgiveness, and I also knew that my life ought to change. Only gradually, however, did I come to realize that God didn't want just part of me; He wanted all of me. Only gradually did I realize that He wanted me to submit every area of my life to His authority. I believed Christ was my Lord, but only later did I begin to understand the implications of this for my life. I am still learning.
This, I suspect, is true for most of us. We begin our new lives in Christ joyfully, thankful that God has forgiven us and wanting to leave our old, sinful ways behind. But as time passes, we begin to wonder if we've left them behind after all. Try as we might, old habits remain and little seems to have changed.
What is the problem? It may have several dimensions, but at its heart, we have failed to submit to the daily authority of Jesus. We have ignored His Lordship. Perhaps we have been trying to change our lives in our own strength instead of seeking His help—but whatever the reason, we have not turned every part of our lives over to Him. And when we fail to do that, we block the life-changing work of the Holy Spirit.
Don't take lightly what it means to submit every area of your life to Christ's authority. Take your body, for example. God gave it to you—but do you allow its desires to control you? Or what about your mind? Every day you are besieged with ideas and images that dishonor God—but do you allow them to saturate your thinking and influence your behavior? Or think about your motives. Do selfish goals and priorities set the agenda for your daily life? What about your tongue? Would you be ashamed to have Christ overhear your conversations? Would He be pleased with your language? The list could go on and on: our relationships, our finances, our attitude toward those of another race, our concern for those in need, our emotions—everything.
Never forget: God's will is for us to become more like Christ—and this only happens as we submit every area of our lives to His authority. D ©2006 Billy Graham
Excerpted from "The Journey: How to Live by Faith in an Uncertain World," by Billy Graham. Scripture quotations are taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version 1984.


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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this view of the dwarf galaxy UGC 5497, which looks a bit like salt dashed on black velvet in this image.
The object is a compact blue dwarf galaxy that is infused with newly formed clusters of stars. The bright, blue stars that arise in these clusters help to give the galaxy an overall bluish appearance that lasts for several million years until these fast-burning stars explode as supernovae.
UGC 5497 is considered part of the M 81 group of galaxies, which is located about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major (The Great Bear). UGC 5497 turned up in a ground-based telescope survey back in 2008 looking for new dwarf galaxy candidates associated with Messier 81.
According to the leading cosmological theory of galaxy formation, called Lambda Cold Dark Matter, there should be far more satellite dwarf galaxies associated with big galaxies like the Milky Way and Messier 81 than are currently known. Finding previously overlooked objects such as this one has helped cut into the expected tally — but only by a small amount.
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Slate.com reports U.S. consumers alone threw away over 75 million tons of packaging waste, in 20101, and only half of that was recovered through recycling. Food packaging is a real environmental issue and scientists have been working on edible wrappers for years. At the start of 2012, Harvard scientist reported they have developed a WikiCells, "novel edible forms" that could be used to wrap, bottle and package food, and take the flavor of whatever they contained. Now, almost a year since their announcement, a Brazilian burger chain has launched an intriguing ad showcasing edible wrappers. It's unclear whether they are based on WikiCells technology, but judging by the clients reactions, they don't taste bad at all. These novel burger wrappers look like traditional paper ones, which kind of confused Bob's customers, but the restaurant reports their campaign was so successful than nobody threw out the edible wrappers.


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How 'Magical Mystery Tour' Became the Beatles' First Misstep
Televisions across Britain were taken over by a surreal adventure, Beatles style, on Dec. 26, 1967. Magical Mystery Tour premiered, in not-so-glorious black-and-white on Boxing Day, to both the delight and confusion of viewers.
The Beatles' third film was a real departure from their previous celluloid outings. Both 1965's Help! and the previous year's A Hard Day's Night were full of comical Beatles exploits and general fun-filled mayhem. Magical Mystery Tour, on the other hand, though still loaded with amazing music, was a surrealistic departure. It's a film with no real story line, instead focusing on odd things happening during a trip in which the Fab Four accompany a busload of family and friends to the sea.
"It was basically a charabanc trip, which people used to go on from Liverpool to see the Blackpool lights," the late George Harrison said in Anthology. "They'd get loads of crates of beer and an accordion player, and all get pissed."
Magical Mystery Tour has also been widely thought of as Paul McCartney's take on what Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters were doing on America's West Coast a couple years before. "It was Paul's idea, really," Ringo Starr said in Magical Mystery Tour Revisited, a 2012 feature for the DVD/Blu-ray re-issue of the film. "We were hanging around in the studio, and he came up with this idea."
The initial reaction to the film was one of general confusion by most. Critics gave Magical Mystery Tour a universal thumbs-down, and even many Beatles fans scratched their heads at its stream-of-consciousness style.
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"It wasn't the kind of thing we could do a disclaimer before it and say, 'Ladies and gentlemen, what you are about to see is a product of our imaginations' – and believe me, at this point they're quite vivid," McCartney said in the 2012 feature about the film. The "Aunt Mimi" dream sequence alone, with John Lennon shoveling piles of pasta onto a plate, was confusingly comical ... or was that comically confusing?
A guest appearance in the film by the oh-so great Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band was another of Paul's ideas. The band perform the song "Death Cab for Cutie" in a burlesque club while Lennon and Harrison look on. In 1968, the Bonzo's would have McCartney produce their single, "I'm the Urban Spaceman," though due to contractual issues, he was listed as Apollo C. Vermouth.
Ten hours of filming was whittled down to just under an hour for the broadcast. Though filmed in color, BBC 1 didn't broadcast in color in 1967, and the pale black-and-white showing has often been held up as part of the reason for the general dislike of the film on its first showing.
Though famously parodied via the Rutles as the "Tragical History Tour," time has been kind to the movie, and the reissue helped the film gain a whole new audience. Even legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese cites the film as significant. "For me, it certainly still holds up," said Scorsese in the 2012 documentary, "The freedom of the picture was very important."
Meanwhile, the music was nothing short of stellar. Aside from the title song, we get "Fool on the Hill," "Blue Jay Way," "Flying," "Your Mother Should Know," and one of Lennon's finest moments, "I Am the Walrus." The songs were released as a double-7-inch EP in the U.K. earlier in December 1968, while their U.S. record company made an entire album out of it by including previous non-LP singles.
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Aaaamory Raven, also known as Aa, Honah Lee, and/or HonahLee is a furry artist and animator with a BFA in Media Arts and Animation.
She works for film and animation studios, as well as occasionally taking commissions for character illustrations, conbadges, LiveJournal icons and similar pieces for the furry community. She is one of the co-authors of the now-defunct online comic The Intolerators.
Aaaamory is the wife of Zlatohrbitek and Tserisa.
Aaaamory Raven is a black dragon (of the peledragon species) with a white mane, large feathered wings, and bright orange eyes. Though her species mainly resides underground, Aaaamory uses a volcano as her gateway to the earth's surface. She is a shapeshifter and often takes the form of a raven.
Honah Lee is Aaaamory's daughter, a brown furry dragon with a purple comb; she is also Aaaamory's most well-known character. The mammalian aspects of this character were vaguely inspired by the luck dragon Falcor in The Neverending Story. The name Honah Lee comes from the lyrics to the song, Puff the Magic Dragon.
Did you know?: Aa, pronounced, "ah-ah," is a type of lava which forms a rough rock when it cools. The string of a's in Aaaamory's name are pronounced in staccato, similar to the Hawaiian pronunciation for "aa." The Icelandic name for this type of lava is "apalhraun."
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A flotilla of Saudi tankers loaded with crude oil has begun arriving on the U.S. Gulf Coast, worrying American shale producers who face uncertainty because of an oversupply of oil.
At least 18 very large crude carriers, each carrying 2 million barrels of oil, are headed to the U.S., according to Michelle Wiese Bockmann, markets editor and oil analyst for Lloyd's List, a shipping news service in London.
The first tanker, the Dalian, arrived last Friday and is floating off the coast of Houston and has yet to discharge any of its cargo, according to Lloyd's shipping tracking. The last one is due to arrive at the end of May.
All the ships were loaded in eastern Saudi Arabia in late March and early April, Wiese Bockmann says.
The surge in Saudi oil shipments comes amid an oil glut and an estimated 30% drop in global demand because of the coronavirus pandemic. It also adds to tanker congestion at U.S. ports, as fuel storage runs short. American oil producers and senators are pressuring the Trump administration to block the shipments.
"Crazy money"
Saudi Arabia began filling the tankers during a spat with Russia over production levels. With the lowest oil prices in years, Saudi Arabia wanted to limit global production to boost prices. Russia refused, so Saudi Arabia cranked the spigots on full, pumping millions of extra barrels a day in a bid to grab market share. Prices plummeted, helped by a sharp drop in demand from the pandemic.
In mid-April, President Trump weighed in to help end the fight between Russia and Saudi Arabia. Both sides, along with other oil producing nations, agreed to cut production May 1.
Analysts believe much of the Saudi oil headed to the Gulf Coast has been purchased by U.S. refiners at deeply discounted prices, and some of it was sent on spec. The Saudis chartered some of the tankers, including one for a whopping $350,000 per day, Bockmann says.
"They were so keen to get this armada of oil over to the U.S. Gulf, they paid this crazy money," she says.
Saudi Arabia "responsible" for glut
There is growing anger among U.S. producers and politicians from shale oil-producing states, worried that Saudi Arabia will flood the market with cheap oil.
"We're allowing Saudi Arabia to continue to have such easy access to the American markets at a time when it is Saudi Arabia, in my view, that is largely responsible for the great supply glut," North Dakota Republican Sen. Kevin Cramer told NPR.
20 tankers—filled w/ 40mm barrels of Saudi oil—are headed to the US. This is SEVEN TIMES the typical monthly flow. At the same time, oil futures are plummeting & millions of US jobs in jeopardy. My message to the Saudis: TURN THE TANKERS THE HELL AROUND. https://t.co/gYoQzvHAEQ
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 21, 2020
Cramer is part of a growing chorus calling on President Trump to stop the Saudi oil from reaching American refineries. The senator says he would favor placing tariffs on the crude, but would go even further, calling for the withdrawal of U.S. troops and weapons from Saudi Arabia.
"Why would we put 2,500 troops in harm's way and a whole bunch of missile defense systems in Saudi Arabia to defend their oil when they've declared war on our oil?" Cramer says.
U.S. oil imports
Even though the U.S. is a leading oil producer, it still imports more than 5 million barrels a day to meet domestic consumers' needs, according to Frank Macchiarola, a senior vice president of the American Petroleum Institute, a trade association.
"Some refineries are configured, or optimized, to better use the medium sour crude" that Saudi Arabia produces, he says.
President Trump has indicated he wants to help U.S. oil producers. But critics say Trump has been soft on Saudi Arabia, turning a blind eye to the devastating air offensive in Yemen, human rights abuses and the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Kirsten Fontenrose, a former senior official in charge of the Trump administration's policy toward Saudi Arabia, acknowledges Trump's close relationship with the kingdom.
"There is this kind of personalized relationship between the president and the Saudi royal family that began when the president made his big trip out there in 2017," she says.
Fontenrose, now with the think tank the Atlantic Council, says the Trump administration sees Saudi Arabia as a valuable ally it needs to stick with.
"We can either just sort of write them off and then wind up with lots of other problems down the road. Or we can say, 'OK, this is unacceptable,' " she says, while the U.S. tries to "mentor behavior change" in Saudi Arabia.
The Saudis may not have gotten that message, judging from the millions of barrels of crude oil heading to the Gulf coast.
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


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Although I had planned on visiting my mom in Thunder Bay this summer, my plans didn't come to fruition until I learned that Auntie Taimi Discala - who regularly comments on this blog - was coming over from France. I hadn't seen her in a dozen years or more and this time she was bringing my cousin, Edward, whom I've never met as he was born in England.
I hoped to see my Dad this trip, but with all that driving and my arthritis acting up, the Sault Ste. Marie area seemed a long way to go - another 8-10 hrs drive east of Thunder Bay along Lake Superior's North Shore.
My schedule fell into place when my sister, Bonnie, became available having taken time off work and could accompany me. Together, we traveled from Saskatchewan, through Manitoba, and into Ontario. We stopped in Thunder Bay awhile to see our mom, then continued east to WaWa to have lunch with our dad and his wife, Judy. It was the best solution to the distance with each of us traveling halfway. We sat with them for 3-4 hrs talking of our families and looking at photos. Judy had made a collage with info on the Muir side of the family and it was the first time I'd seen pics of Dad's sisters. That was a treasure, as was this photo...
And here's the photo I took last week using the delayed timer function on my camera which was mounted on my tripod. Yes, that meant once I pushed the button, I had 10 seconds to scurry around the tripod and get in my place before the camera clicked. :)
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I wish I only wanted one child.
I wish I could be one of the thousands (millions?) of people who choose to have an only child and are perfectly happy and content with their decision.
Some days, days like today, I would give anything for the ability to be one of those people who can argue with conviction that having an only child is not just okay, it's preferable.
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Need not be lonely in the embrace of a large, loving extended family.
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It would certainly be pretty hard to argue against them with someone who was equipped to debate with confidence and passion and heartfelt conviction.
God, I wish I were that person.


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Teachers unions in Ohio are supporting President Obama in the race for the White House. But way down the ballot, in races for the state Legislature, it's teachers themselves who want some support on Nov. 6.
A dozen teachers, all of them Democrats, are running for seats in Ohio's House and Senate. The surge is a byproduct of last year's fight over Senate Bill 5, the state law that would have curbed public employees' collective bargaining rights.
Teachers were instrumental in the successful fight to repeal SB 5 at the ballot box last November. And a bunch of them figured the only way to make sure something like SB 5 doesn't come back is to run for office themselves this year.
"We need to protect public education," says Donna O'Connor, a special education teacher at Dublin Coffman High School just outside Columbus. O'Connor is running for a seat in the Ohio House. She insists she's a teacher, not a politician.
"Teachers are exactly what we need down at the statehouse," she says. "Because they've had many years of practice of managing unruly and immature objects and students in their classroom."
O'Connor has the support of her teachers union, the Ohio Education Association. An Ohio superPAC called Moving Ohio Forward, funded in part by the National Education Association, has been running ads attacking Republicans, including her opponent, incumbent Mike Duffey.
O'Connor says protecting union rights is among her top concerns. She also would like to see Ohio pay more attention to traditional public schools and less to continuing to expand charter schools and school voucher programs.
O'Connor says she'll miss her students if she wins, but she says as a teacher, she can only affect the kids in her class. As a legislator, she hopes to help "every student across the state of Ohio."
Other teacher-candidates already have a bit of experience with politics. Tom Schmida was the mayor of Reminderville, Ohio, a town of 3,400, for a decade. He recently retired after 40 years in the classroom, with his last assignment teaching government to high-schoolers.
Schmida says all the talk of SB 5 last year inspired him to return to politics. As the president of his local teachers union, he was at the forefront of the battle on collective bargaining. When Republican Gov. John Kasich signed SB 5, Schmida says: "Everything I stood for and worked for was at risk with the stroke of a pen."
Many of the phone banks teachers set up to cold-call voters in 2011 — urging them to vote "No on SB 5" — have been repurposed this year to make similar calls for votes to re-elect President Obama. And teachers have once again rallied around the Democratic candidate's cause, taking to the streets and knocking on doors to tell people that without Obama in office, SB 5 could return.
In the state that could determine the presidential outcome, teacher enthusiasm could help Obama, says Stephen Brooks, associate director of the Bliss Institute at the University of Akron. "Just like the teachers that are interested in going out and becoming a part of the process, their colleagues also want to be part of the political system and I think the Obama campaign is benefiting from that."
On the other hand, Brooks says, SB 5 may loom larger in the memories of teachers than it does for other Ohioans. And if that's the case, last November's Ohio vote may not have much impact on this November's. "Average voters really take on these things sequentially," Brooks says.
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You did not sign up during your initial enrollment period.
You have a seven-month period to sign up for Medicare, running from three months before your birthday to three months after the month you turn 65. If you don't sign up during that time, you will need to enroll during the "general enrollment period," which runs from January 1st to March 31st each year. Be aware that when you sign up during the general enrollment period, your coverage will not start until July, and your coverage for Part B (medical coverage) will cost more.
You did not understand late enrollment penalties.
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You were shocked at the out-of-pocket costs.
When you are enrolled in Medicare, you will still be responsible for paying some of the cost of your treatments and care. You will be responsible for paying your premiums (the premiums for Part B can be deducted from your Social Security benefits). You will be responsible for the deductible on your plan. A Medigap plan can cover some of the costs if you have Medicare Part A and Part B. You may need to pay an amount called a "copay" every time you see a doctor. You will also pay for coinsurance, the cost of some medical services.
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The government offers several types of assistance to help people who are enrolling in Medicare. Many people elect to get assistance from a local insurance agent who will guide them through the process, help them avoid the pitfalls, and will work with them personally.
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Head of CDF, Cardinal Müller warns of a split as big as the Reformation
The Prefect of the CDF, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, has criticized in Regensburg on Tuesday a "climate of the German claim to leadership for the whole universal Church". At a book presentation, he pointed out the high number of people leaving the church, the deserted confessionals and empty seminars and religious houses in Germany. Often he has been asked from where the establishment of the so-called "German Church" derives the claim to be pacemaker for the universal Church with all the symptoms of a dramatic decline precisely on questions of sexual morality and the Catholic teaching on marriage. Müller warned against drawing from the situation in Europe conclusions about the future of other continents. "We should not promise others so that is also occurs with them as it is with us – so that the de-Christianization would be an unstoppable natural process. No. With faith you can move mountains."
Only a "sustainable new evangelization with all sincerity and apostolic zeal" could counteract the insipid state of Christianity in Germany, said the prefect. Despite talk of dialogue, "an ideological tension" is not to be overlooked. At the expense of the truth and the unity of the Church, a change of practice should be imposed leastways.
Reviewing the Family Synod, he criticized the fixing of the debate on controversial issues. It was "Problem-blind" when the admission of the civilly married, who still lived in a valid marriage Church marriage, to Holy Communion and the recognition of homosexual relations "were declared central themes of a pastoral ministry of the future".
The cardinal said: "By all means, it is attempted- exegetical, historical, history of dogma studies and with reference to psychology and sociology- to deconstruct the Catholic teaching on marriage, which arises from the teaching of Jesus, and put it into perspective, only so that the Church appears compliant with society. Whoever is faithful to the teachings of the Church, will be combated in the press and even more vilified as an opponent of the Pope, as if it were not the case that the Pope and all the bishops in communion with him would be witnessed of revealed truth, which was transferred to them for faithful administration, so they are not lowered by human beings to human proportions."
Cardinal Müller warned emphatically of a split: With regard to the separation of religious doctrine and religious practice, one should "be very vigilant and not forget the lesson of Church history." In Germany in the fateful year of 1517, the sale of indulgences became the occasion of the Protestant Reformation and the unwanted cleavage of Western Christendom. Overlooking the indulgence controversy, he explained, it was not the doctrine of Johann Tetzel on the inheritance of temporal punishment due to sin that was wrong, but "failure to comply with it in practice, and the awakening of a false note". The prefect demanded forcibly honesty in proclamation: The teachers of the faith should not be lulled into a false assuredness of salvation just in order to provoke no offense. "We must not be fooled when it comes to the sacramental nature of marriage, its indissolubility, its openness to the generation of children, and the fundamental complementarity of the two sexes. Pastoral care must have in view eternal salvation. "
The Prefect also rejected notions of a new understanding of revelation in the sense of a "reality of life". In the sense of faith, the people of God experience not a new revelation but in one in which the once and for all enacted salvation-revelation of God is fully preserved in Jesus Christ and orientated to the people of today and tomorrow. The cardinal stated: "It's not about adapting the revelation of the world, but to win the world for God."


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Tues, Nov 27, 7:00PM
Mitch Sonies, Cloudsmith, firstname.lastname@example.com
If you would like to present at a DemoCamp, please feel free to add your name and topic to the list. Depending on the number of people interested we may have to limit the number of presenters and time of each demo.
- Karen Butzke (Moore), Demo: Dali JPA Tools (a subproject of WebTools)
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The Surah takes its name from verse 25 in which the word Al-Qasas occurs. Lexically, qasas means to relate events in their proper sequence. Thus, from the viewpoint of the meaning too, this word can be a suitable title for this Surah, for in it the detailed story of the Prophet Moses has been related.
As already mentioned in the introduction to Surah An Naml, according to Ibn Abbas and Jabir bin Zaid, Surahs Ash-Shu\`araa', An-Naml and Al- Qasas were sent down one after the other. The language, style and theme show that the period of the revelation of these three Surahs are nearly the same. Another reason for their close resemblance is that the different parts of the Prophet Moses stories as mentioned in these surahs together make up a complete picture. In Surah Ash Shu\`araa', excusing himself for not accepting the office of Prophethood the Prophet Moses submits, "The people of Pharaoh have the charge of a crime against me; therefore, I fear that they will put me to death." Then, when lie goes before Pharaoh, the latter says, "Did we not bring you up as a child in our house? You lived quite a few years of your life among us, and then you did what you did." Nothing more of this has been mentioned there, but in this Surah the other details have been supplied. Similarly, in Surah An-Naml the story starts abruptly from the time when the Prophet Moses was journeying with his family and suddenly saw a fire at a distance. In that Surah nothing has been said about the nature of his journey, or the place he was coming from, or his destination, but this Surah supplies all the necessary details. Thus, the three Surahs read combined complete the story of the Prophet Moses (Allah's peace be upon him).
The main theme is to remove the doubts and objections that were being raised against the Prophethood of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (upon whom be Allah's peace and blessings) and to invalidate the excuses which were being offered for not believing in him.
For this purpose, first the story of the Prophet Moses has been related, which, by analogy with the period of revelation, impresses the following points in the listeners mind automatically:
First, Allah provides the means and motives of whatever He wills to do, in imperceptible ways. Thus, Allah so arranged things that the child through whom Pharaoh had to be removed from power, was bred and brought up in his own house, and he could not know whom he was fostering. Who can then fight God and frustrate Him by his machinations.
Secondly, Prophethood is not granted to a person amid festivities by issuing a proclamation from the earth and heavens. You wonder how Muhammad (upon whom be Allah's peace) has been blessed with Prophethood unexpectedly, all of a sudden, but Moses whom you yourselves acknowledge as a Prophet (v. 48) had also become a Prophet unexpectedly, while on a journey, and nobody had known what event had occurred in the desolation at the foot of Mt. Sinai. Moses himself did not know beforehand that he was going to be blessed with Prophethood. He, in fact, had gone to bring a piece of the fire but had returned with the gift of Prophethood.
Thirdly, the person from whom Allah wants to take some service comes out without any army and armor and without an apparent helper or force at his back, yet he puts to rout much stronger and better equipped opponents. The contrast that existed between the strengths of Moses (peace be upon him) and Pharaoh was much more prominent and glaring than that which existed between Muhammad (peace be upon him) and the Quraish; yet the world knows who had come out victorious in the end and who had been routed.
Fourthly, you refer to Moses again and again and say, "Why has Muhammad not been given the same which was given to Moses? i. e. miracles of the staff, the shining hand, etc. as if to suggest that you would readily believe only if you were shown the kind of the miracles that were shown by Moses to Pharaoh. But do you know what sort of response was made by those who were shown those miracles? They had not believed even after seeing the miracles, and had only said, "This is magic", for they were involved in stubbornness and hostility to the Truth. The same malady afflicts you today. Will you believe only when you are slowly the same kind of miracles?Then, do you know what fate the disbelievers had met even after seeing the miracles? They were annihilated by Allah. Do you now wish to meet the same doom by asking for the miracles in your obstinacy?
These were the things which were automatically impressed in the mind of every listener who heard this story in the pagan environment of Makkah, for a similar conflict was going on at that time between the Holy Prophet and disbelievers of Makkah as had already taken place between the Prophet Moses and Pharaoh before. This was the background against which the story of the Prophet Moses was narrated so that a perfect analogy was established automatically in every detail between the conditions prevailing then in Makkah and those existing in the time of the Prophet Moses. Then, from verse 43 onward the discourse turns to the real theme.
In the first place, the narration of a two thousand year old historical event by the Holy Prophet with such accuracy and detail, is presented as a proof of his Prophethood although he was un-lettered and the people of his city and clan knew full well that he had no access to any source of such information as they could point out.
Then the disbelievers of Makkah have been warned and put to shame for an event that occurred in those very days. Some Christians had come to Makkah and embraced Islam when they heard the Qur'an from the Holy Prophet. Instead of learning any lesson from this the Makkans were so upset at this that their leader, Abu Jahl, disgraced those people publicly.
In conclusion, the excuse that the disbelievers put forward for not believing in the Holy Prophet has been dealt with. What they feared was this:"If we give up the polytheistic creed of the Arabs and accept the doctrine of Tauhid instead, this will put an end to our supremacy in the religious, political and economic fields, which, in turn, will destroy our position of the most influential tribe of Arabia and we shall be left with no refuge anywhere in the land." As this was the real motive of the chiefs of the Quraish for their antagonism towards the Truth, and their doubts and objections were only the pretenses, which they invented to deceive the common people, Allah has dealt with these fully till the end of the Surah, considered each aspect of these in a wise manner and offered the remedy for their basic ailment due to which those people judged the Truth and falsehood only from the viewpoint of their worldly interests.


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Video Conferencing | News
The Oregon Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development (CCWD) is recommending the use of a new Web conferencing system for its schools to improve to delivery of online courses to non-traditional and rurally located students.
Previously, CCWD has not had a contract for web conferencing; historically, its schools have used a variety of systems based on individual preferences. This contract, for the use of Blackboard's Collaborate service, goes until June 30, 2014.
"This agreement enhances our ability to connect between colleges while providing increased access and learning options for students," said Shalee Hodgson , education division director at CCWD.
Collaborate combines several functions, including Web video conferencing for groups of users, instant messaging, and audio communications. The current release is version 12. The application can be used within Learn, Blackboard's learning management system, or as a stand-alone Web-conferencing solution, which was important to CCWD, since not all campuses use the same LMS.
CCWD handles funding, new college development, and course approval for the 17 community colleges in the state. The department has its own experience with Collaborate as well as the familiarity of a few member institutions--including Blue Mountain Community College--to gauge the viability of the service. Blue Mountain has been using earlier versions of the software that eventually became Collaborate since 2006. There it is used for classroom instruction, tutoring, and advising. According to a statement, Blue Mountain lecture recordings were viewed by users 23,000 times during 2012.
Hodgson said the pace for adoption of Collaborate is "hard to predict," but she anticipates that eventually all of the colleges will implement it.
Another hope for the new system is that by having the community colleges on a single collaboration platform, faculty and administration meetings can be held on the Web, reducing travel costs in the state.
About the Author
Dian Schaffhauser is a former senior contributing editor for 1105 Media's education publications THE Journal, Campus Technology and Spaces4Learning.


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I've emailed kuang four times with no response. I don't need assembly, I will pay the double shipping. Just please don't sell my spot because I'm still out $500 and would like my board.Founders #16
I'm with you on this one. Emailed him multiple times, never got a response either. Seeing the spreadsheet getting updated, with mine still unchanged, really makes things worse.
I got my tracking number.
I'm very sorry for miss your email, I will check all my inbox, and reply to all of you right now.To Panzerhawx: i'm asking SF if you can receive keyboard from mainland without tax. If yes, I will send yours from SZ. To others: today I ship to 5 persons, total 9 keyboards. Still have 2 persons who already paid but can not ship today. I will send yours tomorrow and email you tracking number. Today plan to send out more 10 invoice.
Still waiting for an invoice for shipping. Ive sent a few emails now.
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Is that just a piece of tape on the PCB?Thanks for the pics. The board looks nice. Not perfect, like you said, but very very nice.
today I sent out more than 10 confirm emails. Hope that I can send more and more E8-V1 keyboard to you guy. All US members can track on USPS tool, but none of your keyboard reach US until now. Tomorrow YHYOON will receive his keyboards. Took 3 days from Viet Nam to South Korea. Show Image
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I dunno, for me i think at this point its more of a "stop-loss". I feel lucky that these are even shipping.
Thank you so much for your quick review to all GH user, As I already post E8-V1 was design and made by exclusive, then GB open by jhoang. I almost do nothing, but my fault is not give you all the information about E8-V1 keyboard....I found problem with PCB then confirm with Exc about that. He made mistake on this, and some other little mistake too that I will show it to you. All PCB was fix by me, and I test it already.
PS. How is programming handled?
https://imgur.com/a/Lnm4XNot even tested the PCB yet, literally just opened it
Quote from: TerryMathews on Tue, 14 November 2017, 18:14:29https://imgur.com/a/Lnm4XNot even tested the PCB yet, literally just opened itbeautiful -- I should probably pay up for shipping again rather than waiting around for something to happen
oh snap. I hope my keeb didn't go to Jamaica. (Attachment Link)
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There's now a deeper look at young kids who got sick after eating or otherwise messing around with those laundry detergent pods that look a lot like candy.
Doctors from two poison control centers and the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention have analyzed more than a thousand incidents involving people exposed to the pods and other kinds of laundry detergent.
The vast majority of the reports, which were collected by poison control centers around the country in May and June, involved kids 5 and under. All told, 864 kids that age were exposed to the detergents, mostly by eating them.
What happened then? Well, it depended a lot on the type of detergent.
Kids exposed to the pods appeared more likely to vomit. And there was a big difference when it came to drowsiness and lethargy: 34 kids, or 7 percent of reports, exposed to pods had those issues compared with 9 kids, or 2 percent of reports, for other laundry detergents.
The findings appear in the latest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from the CDC.
The results jibe with earlier findings, which led to closer tracking.
In early May, Dr. Michael Beuhler, medical director of the Carolinas Poison Center in Charlotte, N.C., told Shots that some kids who consumed the pods were falling ill very quickly. The cases involving children becoming tired and lethargic were particularly worrisome. Some of them, he said, developed so much trouble breathing they needed help from a ventilator.
Buehler contributed to the MMWR report.
How the pods are hurting kids isn't known, the MMWR report says:
It remains unclear whether the significant adverse health effects observed with laundry detergent pod exposures relate to unique ingredients, differences in pH or other chemical properties (e.g., concentration), or the delivery mechanism.
Some kinds of reports for pods were less frequent. The analysis found that kids exposed to other forms of laundry detergent, such as powders and tablets, appeared more likely to have coughing, choking and irritated eyes than those exposed to the pods. More incidents with non-pod detergent didn't involve any health problems.
The reports to poison centers didn't come from a planned study and were made voluntarily. People might be more likely to report problems with pods because they're newer, having only been on the U.S. market since 2010. These limitations and others complicate direct comparisons.
Nevertheless, the MMWR analysis notes that exposure to laundry detergent pods is "an emerging public health hazard" in the U.S.
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Delacon has developed an easy and convenient method of rolling out our call tracking solution to your webpage.
Our new 'Automated Tracking Number' feature allows you to automatically update all your phone numbers across your website with our supplied call tracking number, without having to do it manually.
How does it work?
When you set up call tracking normally, you are required to add in Delacon supplied Java Script code into the header of each page you require a call tracking number.
You are also required to add in 'Span' or 'Div' tags with the number that requires updating.
In order for the new feature to work, you simply need to replace your code with a single line of code into each page you have a call tracking number. There is no need to add in 'Span' or 'Div' tags for every single number.
The new line of code is:
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- If you have multiple CIDs, the code will look like the below:
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What does this line of code do?
By adding in this replacement line of code, our code will be able to search for what you have defined as your 'Business Phone Number'. When it has found this number, it will replace it with the call tracking number or numbers we have provided to you. When your 'Business Phone Number' is replaced with a call tracking number, it allows for a visitor on your site who calls that number to be tracked.
Your 'Business Phone Number' is defined in the Delacon Portal in the 'Edit Business Details' section. This section can be seen in the image below:
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The Delacon Portal can be accesses by going to the below URL:
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Medela's Contact™ nipple shields make breastfeeding possible when latching on is difficult or painful by protecting sore nipples and helping your baby attach more easily.
- Enable breastfeeding when latching on is difficult or painful or if you have flat or inverted nipples
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- If you have flat or inverted nipples.
- If your baby has problems latching on to the nipple and is not drinking milk well.
Your lactation consultant or breastfeeding specialist will be able to advise you whether or not nipple shields are appropriate for you, and can also support you with your ongoing breastfeeding needs.
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Sore or cracked nipples can have a number of causes, so it's important to get to the root cause before deciding on what to do about them. For example, if you have sore nipples you may want to try hydrogel pads or breast shells first, as well as seeking further lactation support. If these don't improve the situation, Contact™ nipple shields can protect your nipples while still enabling breastfeeding – made from ultra-thin, soft silicone, they're gentle even on sore, dry or cracked skin.
Nipple shields for flat or inverted nipples
If you have flat or inverted nipples your baby may find it harder to latch on, especially when she is small – but that doesn't mean breastfeeding isn't possible! An inverted or flat nipple might not touch the roof of your baby's mouth during a feed, which can mean her sucking reflex isn't triggered. Contact™ nipple shields can help by extending the reach of your nipple. And because they are flavour-free, your baby is unlikely to taste anything unusual while you're using them.
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As outlined above, using a nipple shield can offer a baby who is struggling to latch on a larger, firmer target. Your lactation consultant or breastfeeding specialist can ensure your baby is latching well while you're using the shield. You'll also need to monitor your baby's weight gain to ensure your milk supply is meeting her requirements.1 In general, nipple shields are a short-term solution – in time, as your baby's suck strengthens and you get used to breastfeeding, you may well be able to start weaning off nipple shields.


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