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Spend less than you earn is the wrong way to think! Your time will be much better spent thinking of more ways to make money than it will be thinking of ways to save money. Chances are good if you read this blog that you've already given some thought to alternative income, but let's back up.
"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating." – Oscar Wilde
Everyone has a primary source of income. Usually it is a traditional job – an employer who asks them to show up from 9 am to 5 pm, file a TPS report and pay an ungodly amount of taxes for the privilege of being laid off in a restructuring when the company misses earnings estimates by $0.01. Income can also come from self-employment, a small business, unemployment checks, a pension, or hundreds of other primary sources. Alternative income – which is sometimes referred to, incorrectly, as passive income – can come from rental properties, royalties, investments or other sources. All of these sources could also be primary income to someone but usually these are income streams that people receive in addition to their primary income. To be truly rich one thing is certain: for every 'stream' of income you have, you should have an alternative. Alternative income is the key to wealth.
Most people have a single source of income. They work for employer Megacorp or Wal-Market and receive a paycheck. Some people may have a trickle of investment income, or occasionally sell something on eBay and then give up after a few sales, but a large number of people consider catching up on the final season of NBC's beloved quirky comedy "The Office" a better use of their time than trying to earn more money after a tiring day in the office. Their goal is to get by on minimum work, minimum income and maximum "down-time." Alternative income seems like a lot of extra work to these people, and extra work isn't what anyone wants.
However, there are many advantages to finding alternative income, not the least of which is being able to get rid of your primary income stream. Having alternative streams of income means that no one stream can direct your life. Do you think you could tell your boss you were going to quit at the end of the month if your wage is your only source of income? Not unless you had an offer letter from your next ex-boss ready. But what if you had 15 streams of income? What if no single stream accounted for more than 10% of your total income? You could do a constant analysis and drop underperformers. You could drop streams that were inefficient, or frankly just made you blue. You could either pay off or refinance student loans to get that payment way down. This is why being a consultant is better than being an employee, and why owning a business is better than being a consultant, and why creating content is better than owning a business – ease of adding and dropping income sources. Consultants and businesses and especially content creators can have more than one 'employer' at a time. No one 'employer' becomes critical for putting food on the table.
There are two more advantages to alternative income besides diversification of income sources. First of all is the expansion of skills. Creating an income stream from a website you create or eBay sales or a small business is a completely different skill set than being a financial analyst, for example. Not better, not worse, but different. Even blogging about financial analysis is a different skill set than being a financial analyst. Every time you create a new revenue stream, you are expanding your skill set. You are learning something new, and making it that much more likely that you'll be able to add further income streams.
This leads to the greatest advantage of alternative income streams of all. This is the viral nature of alternative income. For the first 10-12 years of my working life, I never thought there was any point in worrying about income past my wages and a quarterly trickle of dividends from my stock holdings. The truth is that when you start thinking about creating alternative income you'll find out that something funny happens. Your ideas will snowball. That first idea will spawn two more, and they'll each create two more. You'll get excited the first time you make a few dollars that didn't come from your employer. You'll see opportunities everywhere and even though many won't work out, some will. The one that does will give you a lead to another stream. That stream will inspire you to create another. You won't be content to sit back and wait for your corporate payroll department to mail you that never-changing check every two weeks. You'll want more, and by wanting more you'll find more. Once you understand that alternative income is the only way to real, long-lasting wealth every idea you have could be the start of something amazing.
So even if you come up with an idea for generating an extra $10 a month, don't sneer at it. That $10 a month idea may someday serve as the basis for a $100 per month idea. That $100 stream may help you gain the skills and experience you need to have for a whole new stream that generates $1000 per month. If you see where this is going, you see the possibilities. Keep an eye out – you never know when you'll come up with the next small idea that could turn out big!
This post originally appeared, in slightly modified form, as a guest post I wrote on Lazy Man and Money. He's all about alternative income, of course, which is the subject of this post, so his blog is a great place to brainstorm.
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This is a complete list of all unreleased and upcoming songs and recordings that features any of the eight Cirith Ungol members. Some of it will be relased, some of it will most probably never be released, and some of it hasn't even been recorded, but only written and/or played live. Cirith Ungol has composed over 300 songs, according to Robert Garven in the Iron Pages interview, 1994.
In addition to what is listed beneath, Cirith Ungol has also played covers of
The songs will be added to the list when it is known which songs they covered. The pre-Cirith Ungol band Titanic, played Beatles-covers. Also these will be added. If you have any additional info, please contact!
A Thin Lizzy cover.
Original version appears on the Thin Lizzy album "Vagabonds of the Western World" (1973).

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We think of cemeteries as places of death, as tangible representations of the rift between the living and the dead. But they are far more than a resting place for the dead. Cemeteries are not merely the resting place of old bones and marble markers. They are a link to our past, a memorial to those who have gone before, to those who shaped towns, cities, and states and made them into the places which we love.
Walk through the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery and you walk through time itself. Buried here is the triumph of conquering the American wilderness, the bitter legacy of slavery, the tragedy of the Civil War, the confusion of Reconstruction and the achievements of North Carolina's most accomplished sons and daughters. Bridge the rift between the living and the dead and take a tour through Chapel Hill's history.


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It is that time of year again - the Power Book is back. We know you've been waiting with bated breath for our 2013 compilation of the industry's major players. So here it is - a snapshot of PR today from the perspective of those who shape it, including their motivations, likes and secret career ambitions.
So what does this year's Power Book reveal? Well, the PR elite still love a good restaurant and are hooked on Twitter. They describe the outlook for 2013 as 'challenging', hate to hear colleagues 'reaching out' and are having no trouble finding cabs thanks to the Hailo app.
Their guilty pleasures include relaxing in front of Made in Chelsea and listening to teen pop sensations One Direction and Taylor Swift. They also dream of spending a day in the Queen's shoes.
We were curious to know what they would do instead of a career in PR and were surprised to hear many fancied themselves as potential pop stars. Will we be seeing any familiar faces on this year's X Factor?
In a year dominated by sport, it is no wonder that the Olympics scooped gold as PR professionals' favourite PR campaign of 2012. More surprising perhaps, given its recent trials and tribulations, was the BBC's flat-out victory as most trusted media brand.
Barack Obama, meanwhile, has obviously made an impression after his 2012 re-election. He has jumped four places to be crowned the Power Book's most respected politician once again.
Obama has edged his way into pole position, securing yet another high profile victory in recent months. No doubt he'll be more thrilled now than he was in November.
Following a great year for London, Mayor Boris Johnson has leapt to the number three spot. No such luck for David Cameron and Nick Clegg. The PM has dropped six places from last year, while his deputy only managed one vote from Diageo's corporate relations director Ian Wright. Was it made in sympathy we wonder?
Things are not looking good for Labour either - Ed Miliband only secured one vote, for the second year running, from Unison head of press and broadcasting Mary Maguire.
PR professionals are clearly still yearning for the days of New Labour - Tony Blair made a surprise jump back into the top ten.
Some alternative answers were thrown into the mix, of course.
The West Wing's Jed Bartlet still makes an appearance, but it is Danish drama Borgen's PM Birgitte Nyborg who has the edge.
It is probably not great news for the current crop of politicians when TV characters are considered the best option out there.
We were slightly surprised to see the Beeb secure a runaway victory in this category, given the tough year it has had. But our PR professionals are obviously sympathetic to the Beeb's plight, still trusting it above all other outlets. They gave Auntie a whopping 155 votes - four more than last year. Runner-up the Financial Times was in second place once again, with 35 votes.
No surprises that Twitter has once again made it into the top five. It drew praise as a great source for breaking news.
We wanted to know which PR buzzword got our power players' blood boiling. 'Reaching out' was a popular contender in the worst words list, closely followed by 'ideation'. Kellogg's Europe external comms and brand PR director Rachel Fellows believed any word with 'ation' stuck on the end should feature on the list.
'Thinking outside the box' was another cliche that irritated our professionals. 'Grrr' was Citizen Brando MD Mandy Sharp's response to it.
Many believed there were just too many terms to mention. Kudos to Research in Motion vice-president corporate comms, EMEA and APAC, Meigan Terry for admitting that she probably uses most of them.
The question generated some fairly violent responses too. Weber Shandwick chairman, corporate, financial and public affairs, Jon McLeod was adamant that anyone putting 'so' and 'here's the thing' at the beginning of a sentence 'should be lowered into a vat of their own vomit'.
Fish and seafood restaurant J Sheekey has been named the number one dining destination in the country, up from second place in 2012. Japanese restaurant Roka made number two.
Former long-running champion The Club at The Ivy has fallen from favour, receiving only three votes, the same number as its non-membership sister The Ivy.
Despite the prominence of London restaurants in the top five, there were votes for dining spots around the UK and abroad. Foreign food enthusiasts rated The Restaurant La Cote-d'Or in the French town of Saulieu, San Francisco's Quince Restaurant and the Lagoon Camp in Botswana, to name but a few.
Some PR professionals had much less exotic tastes, though - McDonald's received two votes, while Nando's actually made it into the top five.
Evolving with the times, this year we wanted to know which app took priority on PR professionals' smartphones and tablets. Gone are the days of standing around fruitlessly searching for a cab after a client lunch - Hailo came out on top.
Twitter, not surprisingly, was up there at number two with 18 votes. It seems that 140 characters won't go out of fashion any time soon.
The BBC made another appearance in one of this year's top five lists with its iPlayer app. Catching up on missed TV shows seems to have been a big priority with our power players in 2012.
And they have clearly been swotting up on their movie, TV and celebrity gossip too - IMDb came in at number three.
This may be a legacy of last year's summer of sport, but it seems PR professionals have also been busy checking their phones and tablets for the latest sports news this year. SkySports is in fifth place, with seven votes.
Not everyone had a preference though. Royal Mail MD, strategy and comms, Shane O'Riordain advised us 'to ask someone who owns a smartphone'.
This year, we were eager to know what our power players would choose as an alternative career to PR. Many wanted to join the other side of the comms coin and make it as journalists.
There were quite a few aspiring authors in the mix too, joining the plethora of wannabe rock stars and actors.
Many of our professionals could imagine themselves in the world of academia, sharing their wisdom as university lecturers or teachers.
Hope & Glory managing partner James Gordon-MacIntosh had slightly lowlier ambitions, though - he fancied being a barista.
Quite a few people were keen to get away from a computer screen and work in the great outdoors. We saw many potential ski instructors, dog walkers, landscape gardeners and tennis coaches.
It seems there are quite a few PR professionals with political ambitions as well - there are lots of prospective MPs, PMs and candidates to rival Boris as London Mayor.
Meanwhile Forster CEO Jilly Forster could come in handy when picking Lottery numbers - she would predict the future as a soothsayer.
We were curious to know what our professionals thought PR would look like this year, so we asked them for one word to describe the industry in 2013. 'Challenging' was the resounding winner, followed closely by the rather more optimistic 'essential'.
Many pictured the industry 'evolving', and highlighted 'digital' as a key factor.
There is obviously a lot of sunny enthusiasm for the sector bubbling away among our professionals - many chose the words 'interesting' and 'exciting'.
Quite a few were wary about the coming year, though, describing PR in 2013 as 'tough', while Four Colman Getty chief executive Dotti Irving suggested that there would be ups and downs when she selected the word 'roller coaster'.
Meanwhile, Samsung UK head of PR Rachel Cameron Lloyd acknowledged the ever-growing predominance of Twitter with 'Twitterverse'.
We weren't too sure what to make of Phipps PR MD Nicky Forrest's choice of the word 'promiscuous', however.


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Around this time of the year I start to crave color like I crave chocolate, potato chips, or coffee! It's supposed to be spring, but outside, it is relentlessly cold, cloudy and gray. So as an offering to the vernal gods, I created these Bobby Pin Butterflies, wearable bursts of color meant to usher in sunnier times!
No creature better manifests pure beauty and color than a butterfly. In fact, a group of butterflies is called a "kaleidoscope"! To bring this particular kaleidoscope to life I used our new Mariposa Felt Bundle. It is everything that spring should be, pretty, cheerful and luminous!
Designed as an adorable hair accessory, these sweeties are also terrific for Easter decorating. Perched around the edge of an Easter basket, on the tips of a forsythia branch, or amidst a beautiful centerpiece, these fluttering little butterflies are a very happy symbol of the season!
And they couldn't be easier to make. Each butterfly comes together with just one stitch, while black bobby pins effortlessly transform into surprisingly perfect butterfly bodies and antennae!
To make at least two dozen bobby pin butterflies:
- A Mariposa Felt Bundle, 100% wool felt.
- DMC Pearl Cotton in color B5200.
- A Bobby Pin Butterflies Template, printed and cut out. It is available for free download here.
- Black bobby pins which you can find at almost any drugstore. These are the ones I used.
- An embroidery needle.
1 1/2-inches by 2 1/2-inches
For a cutout style butterfly:
Cut a wing 1 from a colored piece of felt using the template. This is the Inner Wing.
Cut a wing 2 from either the ecru or white felt using the template. This is the Outer Wing.
For a solid butterfly:
Cut a wing 1 from a colored piece of felt.
Cut another wing 1 from either the ecru or white felt using the template.
Pick one of these wings to be the Inner Wing and one to be the Outer Wing.
Slide a bobby pin up the center of the Outer Wing, starting at the bottom so that the opening of the bobby pin ends up at the top of the butterfly.
Now orient the bobby pin so that its flat side is facing up and its wavy side is facing down.
Place the outer wing piece on top of the inner wing piece, matching up the edges and sandwiching the bobby pin in between.
Tie a knot at the end of a 10-inch length of the pearl cotton and thread it onto the needle. Insert the needle in between the two wing layers, exiting just above the bottom hole of the Outer Wing, to the right of the bobby pin. (On a solid style butterfly use the divot between the bottom and top sections of the wings as the guide for where to start your stitches.)
Insert the needle just above the exit point and travel through both wing layers to the opposite side of the bobby pin, as shown above.
Insert your needle just below that exit point and pull it through both wing layers to exit at the original starting point, as shown above.
Pull these stitches taut so that the wings pull together a little bit.
Sew through the same stitches one more time, pulling the stitches taut as you go.
Sew the needle through to the Inner Wing side of the work, and tie a small knot, securing the wing position.
Sew the needle through the Inner Wing only and snip off the end of the thread, hiding it in between the two wing layers.
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This homemade costume for boys entered our 2013 Halloween Costume Contest.
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Tennis Channel Live crew check in on how My Tennis Life star Nicole Gibbs's rehab is progressing.
About My Tennis Life Series:
In February of 2017, Tennis Channel launched its first multi-platform content series My Tennis Life featuring two professional tennis players, Nicole Gibbs (USA) and Sam Groth (Australia), as they traverse the globe in search of valuable ATP and WTA points. The series gives you a behind-the-scenes look of the professional tour. Tennis fans across the globe will witness Sam and Nicole's efforts to break through respectively on the ATP and WTA Tours, and the challenges they face while trying to improve their game and career earnings.


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The Best Teen Movies of All Time
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Need great teen movies to watch? Here's a list of the best teen movies and films about teenagers, adolescence, and high school. What are the best teen movies of all time? Teenagers and young people have long been an ideal target market for film producers. They have more free time than adults, but can get themselves around and choose their own entertainment more easily than children. As well, they have disposable income, and typically spend more of their money on entertainment than their adult counterparts. What's the best teen movie ever? As this has steadily been true for several decades, it has led to a glut of films designed with teenagers in mind during that time.
Though there is no set definition on what makes a film a "teen movie," other than featuring teenagers (or at the very least, teenaged character) in significant roles, the genre has developed some defining features and common motifs over the years. Often, popular teen movies will explore high school as an environment, and specifically the high school community and the social cliques that form therein is a constant source of interest and observation. Much of the time, this is done with a snarky or cynical worldview, attempting to reflect the way that jaded teens often see the world of adults. Overwhelmingly popular recent entries in the high school movie sub-genre include Easy A and Mean Girls, while cult films such as Donnie Darko and Pump Up the Volume explore the same issues with an even darker or more subversive outlook.
Teens are also frequently cast as the leads in horror films, particularly the sub-genre known as "slasher films." In these films, attractive young people are typically placed in precarious situations with serial murderers, and audiences can then delight in seeing them ripped apart.
The top teen movies on this list span all of these sub-genres and more, including genre mash-ups combining several different storytelling modes into one film (such as the horror-comedy Scream franchise.) It's an open list, so after you're done voting, if you see any good teen movies that aren't on here, add them at the bottom of the page.
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The Sustainable Agriculture Entrepreneurship Summer Program, now in its seventh year, is a partnership between the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences (CHSAS), Wright College, and The Eli's Cheesecake Company. Students have the opportunity to work at the CHSAS Farm, attend a college-credit class at Wright College and participate in a discussion series at the weekly Eli's/Wright College Farmers Market. The students have finished their first draft of a cookbook with recipe's they've developed over the summer using locally-sourced ingredients. Many talented and innovative minds behind this unique program spoke at the graduation, as well as an outstanding student from the program, Darius Dixon.
The Eli's Cheesecake Company would like to thank this years guest speakers:
Chris Koetke, Kendall College
Terra Brockman, The Land Connection
Carrie Nahabedian, Naha
Orrin Williams, Center for Urban Transformation
Melissa Graham, Purple Asparagus
Rob Gardner, The Local Beet
Jim Braun & Debbie Hillman, Illinois Local and Organic Food and Farm Task Force


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Super warm, super functional, a great piece of gear that really is all that! Submitted on 19 September 2019 by Dave Campbell
It is nice and warm, with material similar to a wet suit. Great for long endurance rides in the winter. Submitted on 24 May 2019 by Michael B. Tankus
I live just outside Salt Lake City, city called Sandy Utah and I do not ride in rain, so purchasing the Alpha ROS was not on my radar. I bought the Nelmezzo Jacket. I am 5' 6" 167 cm and chest is around 39" 99cm and bought an XL. I rode 15 miles and the temp was around 42 degrees fahrenheit 5.5 celsius and wore an Icebreaker Merino with a long sleeve shirt underneath. At first it was warmish but when started building heat while riding, this was a warm jacket! The three back pockets are deep and holds plenty of cycling items. THIS was a great purchase. Submitted on 15 December 2018 by Jeff in Utah


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"I do not think there's anything to prove on my side," Gasol said via email when asked if he was eager to put the Lakers' postseason behind him. "Last season we didn't perform during the playoffs as we were supposed to. . . . You cannot win every year; there are a lot of very good teams in the league."
HoopsVibe's Very Quick Call: Pau Gasol, 'thou protest too much'.
Gasol is in denial if he thinks he and the Los Angeles Lakers don't have something to prove after losing to the Dallas Mavericks in the Western Conference Semi-Finals last May.
He, and his team, have everything to prove.
Gasol had an up-and-down regular season, but belongs on a milk carton after disappearing in the playoffs against the Mavericks.
His play was so poor former coach Phil Jackson, in a fit of un-Zen-like behaviour, shoved him. Their exchange was played over-and-over again on you tube as the Mavs' swept the Lakers.
Then Laker-nation piled on. Snoop Dogg, the West Coast rapper, attacked via twitter. Gossip rags speculated that teammate Shannon Brown was to blame for his split with a longtime girlfriend.
(For the record, Brown, who is married to the singer Monica, denied the rumor.)
There was a school of thought that Gasol would be dealt, and the Lakers supposedly tested the market for their finesse-four at the end of June after the NBA Finals.
So Gasol, like it or not, must prove he's still a premier player. He has company, though.
The Lakers are expected to win the championship every year, which is why their ownership consistently exceeds the luxury tax. Except after winning back-to-back Larry O'Brien trophies in 2009 and 2010, the purple-and-gold got embarrassed by Team Cuban.
The Lakers were out-hustled and out-worked; they looked like complacent Hollywood stars and not the team that captured consecutive championships.
Bottom line: Gasol and the Lakers have everything to prove.
–Oly Sandor.
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O Kumayl ! Knowledge is power and it can command obedience. A man of knowledge during his lifetime can make people obey and follow him and he is praised and venerated after his death. Remember that knowledge is a ruler and wealth is its subject.
O Kumayl ! Those who collects wealth, though alive, are dead to realities of life, and those who achieve know- ledge, will remain alive through their knowledge and wisdom even after their death, though their faces may disappear from the community of living beings, yet their ideas, the knowledge which they had left behind and their memory, will remain in the minds of people".
Kumayl says that after this brief dissertation, Imam Ali pointed towards his chest and said, "Look Kumayl! Here I hold stores and treasures of knowledge. I wish I could find somebody to share it with me. Yes, I found a few, but one of them, though quite intelligent, was untrustworthy, he would sell his salvation to get hold of the world and its pleasures, he would make religion a pretence to grasp worldly power and wealth, he would make this Blessing of Allah (knowledge) serve him to get supremacy and control over friends of Allah and he would through knowledge exploit and suppress other human beings.
The other person was such that he apparently obeyed truth and knowledge, yet his mind had not achieved the true light of religion, at the slightest ambiguity or doubt he would get suspicious of truth, mistrust religion and would rush towards skepticism. So neither of them was capable of acquiring the superior knowledge that I can impart. Besides these two I find some other person One of them is a slave of self and greedy for inordinate desires, which can easily drag him away from the path of religion, the other is an avaricious, grasping and acquisitive miser who will risk his life to grasp and hold wealth, none of these two will be of any use to religion or man, both of them resemble beasts having appetite for food.
If sensible trustees of knowledge and wisdom totally disappear from human society then both knowledge and wisdom will suffer severely, may bring harm to humanity and may even die out. But this earth will never be without those persons who will prove the universality of truth as disclosed by Allah, they may be well-known persons, openly and fearlessly declaring the things revealed to them or they may, under fear of harm, injury or deaths hide themselves from the public gaze and may carry on their mission privately so that the reasons proving the reality of truth as preached by religion and as demonstrated by His Prophet may not totally disappear. How many are they and where could they be found? I swear by Allah that they are very few in number but their worth and their ranks before Allah are very high.
Through them Allah preserves His Guidance so that they, while departing, may hand over these truths to persons like themselves. The knowledge which they have acquired has made them see the realities and visualize the truth and has instilled into them the spirit of faith and trust. The duties which were decreed as hard and unbearable by them. They feel happy in the company and association of things which frighten the ignorant and uneducated. They live in this world like everybody else but their souls soar to the heights of Divine Eminence. They are media of Allah on this earth and they invite people towards Him. How I love to meet them O Kumayl ! I have told you all that I have to say, you can go back to your place whenever you like".


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Google and Facebook, the world's most dominant online-advertising companies, will no longer take money from America's for-profit bail bond agencies, siding with a growing national movement to eliminate cash bail from the criminal justice system.
The two tech giants said this week that their decisions to block bail-bond ads were part of a broader effort to protect users from damaging or hurtful content. Typically, that strategy has focused on scams and deception. But that list has recently expanded to include guns, marijuana, payday loans, cryptocurrencies and, now, bail bonds.
"We made this decision based on our commitment to protect our users from deceptive or harmful products, but the issue of bail bond reform has drawn support from a wide range of groups and organizations who have shared their work and perspectives with us," Graff wrote in a blog post.


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4. Dry the mask with paper towels. Do not use terrycloth towels; they can leave fibres behind.
5. Apply a light dusting of baby powder to the inside and outside of the mask to absorb any moisture in the air before it can affect the mask.
6. Brush out any tangles in the hair on the mask with a pick comb, starting at the bottom and working your way to the top. Do not pull too hard with the comb or you can rip the hair out of the mask.
7. Put a Styrofoam head into the mask to help it keep its shape.
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As if beating the legendary "Shogun" Rua to become the youngest UFC champion in history (23 years old) wasn't enough for Jon "Bones" Jones how about the fact he also subdued a man who minutes earlier attacked an elderly couple only mere hours before this fight even took place? Much like his opponents superlatives simply are no match for what Jon Jones is and what he can become, he appears unbeatable.
It has to be said that Mauricio "Shogun" Rua didn't look to be in the greatest shape of his career and he appeared at least to me noticeably less muscular overall. Questions about condition aside it likely wouldn't have made much of a difference after watching them circle each other in the octagon for about 15 seconds as Jones looked like he fought two weight classes above Shogun.
Jon Jones is the Dwight Howard of MMA, a freak show possessing unreal skills. A physical specimen built to unleash hell on any who dare step into the octagon with him. He doesn't only win, he maims, he pillages and he dominates like no other. He has become so dominant that it appears so easy for him I felt he could've ended the fight in the first round had he felt so inclined.
He has patience, poise and a fighter's spirit at least a decade older than he actually is – he is a warrior. Who could potentially even give him a good workout let alone a serious challenge in the 205 light heavyweight division? His next victim opponent is his friend and training partner Rashad Evans whom most feel is a massive underdog to the seemingly invincible Jon Jones.
Jones is too long, too big and too strong for Evans who will struggle getting close enough to do damage and probably not strong enough to impose his will and take the fight to the ground. The scary part is Jones is a relative baby to a sport dominated by men well into their thirties. Jones will soon be counted among the very best in the pound-for-pound argument.
Armed with a fighting style and spirit than cannot possibly be trained or prepared for in the least, who can possibly dethrone him?
"Rampage" Jackson – has not looked overly impressive against opponents who bring less overall skill and talent than Jones. I think the size/length differential would frustrate the boxer Jackson, who is too one dimensional to pose a real threat.
Lyoto Machida – he will have to put a few impressive wins together to get a shot but this could be a guy who might matchup well with Jones, if there is such a thing. A highly patient and technical counter-striker might work well but again, the length and sheer size of Jones would make this a difficult fight for Machida.
Thiago Silva – will not be intimidated but does not have overall game to hang with Jones.
There are other contenders like Forrest Griffin, Rich Franklin, Randy Couture and "Little" Nog but it's hard to imagine any of them warranting or taking advantage of a potential title shot versus Jones. That leaves other divisional champions and the one that is first mentioned is "The Spider" Anderson Silva. It would no doubt go down as most anticipated matchup in the history of MMA.
A few problems could arise before Dana White and Joe Silva even contemplate this potential super fight. First, Silva is getting older and only has a handful of fights left and the rumour mill of a Silva versus Canadian Georges St. Pierre won't stop churning. Second, Silva walks around over 200 lbs between fights but I think the size differential would be massive and perhaps too much that Silva wouldn't even contemplate stepping into the ring with Jones.
Silva has a lot more to lose than Jones in a fight like this as he nears the end of his career a loss would do serious damage to his legacy and possibly even his health. Though there is a size differential between Silva and GSP there is no one in their right mind who thinks GSP will even consider standing toe-to-toe with Silva. But Silva's strength is his stand up game and there is no chance he could take Jon Jones down, nor control him if it did land there.
So if there isn't a challenge from below than we must look up, way up, all the way to the UFC heavyweight division. With Jon Jones massive frame still filling out there is little doubt he will land in the heavyweight division eventually anyway. Can you imagine Jones attempting to hold two belts at the same time and take on current champ who also looks near unbeatable Cain Velasquez?
Brock Lesnar, Frank Mir, Alistair Overeem and Junior Dos Santos would also be juicy matches in the heavyweight division. Or if Dana White has a nasty streak he can put an end to his long time nemesis Fedor Emelianko once and for all with Jon Jones serving as the assassin. The fact we are even contemplating a lot of these fantasy matchups is a testament to the rising star of Jon Jones, get used to him folks he isn't going anywhere, for a good long while.


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Join Tim and Jim as they chase the Northern Lights through the wintery wonderland that is Scandinavia in February, aboard the rather excellent Mazda CX-3.
Starting in Lulea, Sweden they head north to Norway and the Arctic Circle, finishing their journey in Europe's most northerly town, Nordkapp. But will they ever get to see the Northern Lights?


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If Chuck Schumer has a dartboard, chances are there's a picture of Jon Corzine fastened to its bull's-eye.
Mr. Schumer, the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, is charged with leading his party to a Senate majority in next month's elections, a mission now tantalizingly within reach—if only Mr. Corzine hadn't gone and appointed Robert Menendez to the Senate.
Mr. Menendez was far from the strongest Senate replacement that Mr. Corzine could have tapped when he gave up his Senate seat for New Jersey's governorship in January.
In fact, Republicans were downright giddy when Mr. Corzine made his Senate selection: They saw Mr. Menendez as a ticking ethical time bomb. So did Mr. Schumer—who had quietly made clear his preference that Mr. Corzine instead pursue former Governor Richard J. Codey, one of the most popular chief executives in New Jersey's history.
Although Mr. Menendez may yet go on to win, Mr. Schumer's apprehension was prescient. Since Labor Day, it has come to light that Mr. Menendez is the subject of a federal investigation, and that his best friend, a New Jersey political powerhouse named Donald Scarinci, was secretly recorded a few years back invoking Mr. Menendez's name in an alleged shakedown of a Hudson County psychiatrist.
In most any other state, that would have been it for the Democrat. But stunningly, a weekend poll placed Mr. Menendez three points ahead of Tom Kean Jr., a testament, no doubt, to Mr. Menendez's poise—but also, very likely, to the demonstrated tendency of New Jersey voters not to study up on the candidates until well into October.
For Mr. Schumer, any doubt whatsoever about his party's grip on a seat in New Jersey—where Democrats are undefeated in the last 10 Senate races—is patently unacceptable. For one thing, bailing out Mr. Menendez with television ads on the New York City and Philadelphia airwaves would cost the DSCC a small fortune—money that Mr. Schumer long ago earmarked for targeting G.O.P. seats, not defending Democratic turf.
But the bigger problem is that Democrats have no margin for error on Election Day, when they must flip six Republican seats to claim a majority—from a pool of, at best, eight plausibly competitive G.O.P. seats. No one thought they'd be in this spot a year ago, but the Democrats are now actually tied with or ahead of the G.O.P. incumbents in Montana, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Ohio and Rhode Island. Sweep those five states and then pull off an upset in Virginia, Tennessee or (a much longer shot) Arizona, and Democrats will hit their magic number.
That, of course, assumes they hold all of their own seats—something that appears to be an issue only in New Jersey, where a loss by Mr. Menendez would essentially hand the Senate to Republicans for another two years. It's only too easy to imagine that this dread scenario has Mr. Schumer tossing and turning at night.
But here's the thing: In this particular circumstance, Mr. Schumer may be partly to blame. He has won deserved plaudits for his DSCC stewardship, but at times he's behaved like a bully, imperiously muscling candidates in and out of races—most notably in Ohio earlier this year. That style, evident not just in Mr. Schumer's DSCC role, has long rubbed Mr. Corzine, his Senate colleague for the first half of this decade, the wrong way.
"Frankly," it was Mr. Corzine who cracked in supposed jest a few years back, "sharing a media market with Chuck Schumer is like sharing a banana with a monkey. Take a little bite of it, and he will throw his own feces at you."
Mr. Schumer, then, might have toned down his act if he had any hopes of dissuading Mr. Corzine from selecting Mr. Menendez for the Senate.
But he didn't.
Just days after Mr. Corzine won last year's governor's race, he paid a very quiet courtesy call on Mr. Schumer and Harry Reid, the Senate's Democratic leader, to discuss the appointment subject. But within hours—and to Mr. Corzine's horror—Mr. Schumer had talked to the press about the sit-down. Worse, from Mr. Corzine's perspective, Mr. Schumer went on to say that he had personally "interviewed" the prospective appointees.
Presumptuousness aside, Mr. Schumer's real sin was that he embarrassed Mr. Corzine's friends—Donald Payne and Bill Pascrell, two veteran Congressmen who had publicly expressed interest in the Senate seat, and who were forced to admit that they had never been "interviewed" by Mr. Schumer.
A few weeks later, Mr. Corzine told the world—and Mr. Schumer—that Mr. Menendez was his man.


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Perspective, that's what Charlie Wilson's War keeps in mind. While other political war movies this season are caught in the quagmire of the news of our current world wide screw ups, Charlie goes back to one that could have started or (at least worsened) many of our current problems. At the very least it takes apart the thought processes of our political system. It does so by telling the story of Charlie Wilson and how he waged a covert war that helped end the Cold War. In short, by supplying Afghanistan with billions of dollars worth of military equipment they were able to stick it to the Soviets. It's funny to think of a time in which we were helping Afghanistan and not tearing it apart.
There's no grandstanding here. There's never a "we're better than they are" mentality. Writer Aaron Sorkin knows we all have a little dirt on our hands and he points it out. Sure we're helping murderers and backstabbers, but we're not so righteous ourselves. Charlie Wilson, a military advisor is, in fact, the least righteous person for the job. Tom Hanks has always had a hard time really digging into the darker sides of his characters, but here he takes full strides as an actor bringing to life this sordid, womanizing personality. He's not stupid, just brazen, which is probably why he got along so well with Gust Avrakotos, the CIA operative that Philip Seymour Hoffman throws himself into.


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'26 Acts of Kindness' movement gaining steam
Cascades of kindness won't bring back the fallen from Sandy Hook, but they can replace some of the sadness with love.
An army of do-gooders, including many in Connecticut, are employing everything from apple pies and politeness to gift cards and cups of coffee in response to the Dec. 14 Newtown school shootings. Their grass-roots benevolence -- people are calling it 26 Acts of Kindness, 27 Acts of Kindness or some variation on the phrase -- continues to resonate more than a month after the slayings.
"We're trying to make it a habit," said Wayne Harriman, who runs a real estate company in Wallingford with his wife, Pat. "Everybody should do it. It doesn't take a lot to make a difference in someone's life and to be kind."
Harriman's most recent deed involved buying lunch for the people in line behind him at Wendy's. It happened to be an older woman and her son, who were bowled over by the gesture.
"They kept looking over and smiling," Harriman said. "When they got up to leave, the mother told me she was going to buy coffee for everybody at work."
Think of it as a chain of good cheer.
NBC's Ann Curry launched the movement with a tweet in the immediate aftermath of Newtown: "Imagine if everyone could commit to doing one act of kindness for every one of those children killed in Newtown."
There were 20 children and six adults killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Adam Lanza first killed his mother and finally himself.
For New Haven photographer Karissa Van Tassel, it's more like 50 acts of kindness. She's contacting people on her client list from the past year and offering a free photo print to each family. She was inspired by the photos of the 20 children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary.
"I think everyone realizes the power of those pictures," Van Tassel said. "Pictures of beautiful, sweet, smiling children, hanging out with their families and having fun with their friends. You realize how important it is to have those prints, not just images on a hard drive. I can do that for people."
Van Tassel said a friend of hers also has committed herself to acts of kindness after Sandy Hook. This friend was in a Starbucks drive-through and told the person at the window she wanted to buy coffee for the car behind her in line.
"What's going on?" the barista responded. "You're the 18th person this morning who's done that."
Lines seem to be a common launching pad for 26 Acts of Kindness. For example, Pat Harriman bought an apple pie at Big Y and happily presented it to the lady behind her in the check-out aisle. The woman's jaw nearly hit the ground.
In Middletown, Linda Ferrer and her 6-year-old daughter, Vanessa Carson, are doing their 26 Acts together.
It began with a package full of candy left in their mailbox for the mailman. "We try to do something every day," Ferrer said. "We're incorporating it into daily life."
It's been a mixture of mitzvahs. Ferrer cooked dinner for a friend who is a single mom. She gave gift cards to the children's program staff at the local YMCA. She and Vanessa shoveled a neighbor's walk after a snowfall.
"A lot of it is everyday, commonsense stuff," Ferrer said. "Everybody needs a lift to their spirits."
Schools are doing it, too.
At North Haven Middle School, eighth-grade science teacher Clara Laster begins each class with a discussion about acts of kindness. She has students write down their deeds on little slips of paper and puts them in a big plastic jar.
They hope to have the jar filled by the end of the school year.
"It's definitely something I think about all the time," said Laster. "I'm doing it along with the students."
Laster and her husband have friends in common with jazz musician Jimmy Greene, whose daughter, Ana Marquez-Greene, was killed in Newtown. As Laster dealt with her own personal grief after the shootings, she latched onto the 26 Acts of Kindness movement and asked school officials if she could incorporate it into her classes.
Over the course of the day, that's nearly 100 kids.
They're handing out compliments to strangers, inviting new kids to sit with them at lunch, cleaning the house without being told and telling loved ones how much they appreciate them -- every day.
"I think it brings people out of their comfort zone," said student Jordan Vaccaro.
"I've said kind things to people and I've tried to be kind to my siblings," said classmate Lanna Akil.
One student, 13-year-old Julissa Maldonado, explained that she's been on the receiving end of acts of kindness, as well. Her younger brother died last year, and the Newtown slayings brought back painful memories.
"There are people in this room that talked to me, hugged me and did things that lightened my day," Julissa said.
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Fletcher Named Nation's Most Outstanding Defender
BALTIMORE – Friday morning brought another first for Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse courtesy of Joe Fletcher (Syracuse, N.Y./West Genesse H.S.). The senior defender became the first player in program history to win one of the U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association's major awards, as he was earned the William C. Schmeisser Award Outstanding Defensive Player.
Fletcher, who on Thursday was named to the USILA All-America First Team for the second year in a row, is also a finalist for the Tewaaraton Award. He is the second defender in the 14-year history of that honor to be named one of the five finalists.
He was the consensus top defender throughout the season and was equally good as a lockdown cover defender and groundball player. He led all NCAA Division I players in ground balls per game (4.71) and total ground balls (80). He also caused a career-high 31 turnovers. In 17 games this season, the players Fletcher had primary marking responsibilities for scored just 19 goals, several coming when he was already out of the game late in contests.
"Joe Fletcher has been a tremendous representative of our men's lacrosse program and Loyola University Maryland, " said Charley Toomey, the Greyhounds' head coach. "As a player, a student and a person, Joe is a role model for younger players, and this is a great honor to recognize his play."
Fletcher is a member of the 30-man United States Men's Lacrosse National Team from which the roster for the 2014 Federation of International Lacrosse World Championships will be chosen. He was the only collegiate player on that list, and he was the lone current collegian in the 52-man training pool.
As good as he has been on the field for the Greyhounds, Fletcher has been equally outstanding in the classroom and community. He was named the Patriot League Men's Lacrosse Scholar-Athlete of the Year and a Scholar All-American. He also earned Capital One Academic All-District I At-Large honors and graduated last weekend with a 3.81 grade point average to earn his bachelor of business administration in accounting; he will start a job this summer for Pricewaterhouse Coopers.
In addition to his academic and All-America honors, Fletcher was also named the Patriot League Defensive Player of the Year and to the All-Patriot League First Team. He is a finalist for the Senior CLASS Award, as well.
Last month, Fletcher received Loyola's John R. Mohler Award as the athletic department's top male senior student-athlete. He is also a member of Loyola's Green & Grey Society, a group of 14 student leaders who meet regularly and serve as liaisons to the University's president, administration and board of trustees. Fletcher served as the co-president of Loyola's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, as well, in 2013-2014.
He earned five Patriot League Defensive Player of the Week honors throughout the year, something that has never been done in conference history.
Over the course of his career, Fletcher collected 191 ground balls and caused 76 turnovers. His caused turnover total is third-most all-time at Loyola and the most by a close defender.
Prior to the season, he was the third-overall draft pick in the 2014 Major League Lacrosse Collegiate Entry Draft by the New York Lizards. He made his professional debut last weekend and promptly won Warrior Defensive Player of the Week honors after his first game.


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Abd al Rahim al Nashiri is a 55-year-old citizen of Saudi Arabia. He is one of 17 high-value detainees. As of January 2010, the Guantánamo Review Task Force had recommended him for prosecution. As of Aug. 13, 2020, he has been held at Guantánamo for 13 years 11 months. He has been charged with war crimes.
Five high-value detainees were held by the CIA in a secret site at Guantánamo from September 2003 until March 2004, according to the 2014 Senate Intelligence Committee's report on the CIA's detention and interrogation program. They were Abd al-Nashiri, Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Muhammad Abdul Aziz al Fakhri (Ibn al Shaykh al-Libi) and two unidentified captives.
In February 2008, Central Intelligence Agency director Gen. Michael V. Hayden confirmed publicly that waterboarding was used on three Qaeda prisoners, Abu Zubaydah, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.
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As I said previously, you will learn more about my boyfriend and I over the coming months however, to all you readers who are London-ites, wedded to the speed, heat and buzz of one of the greatest cities in the world, who couldn't imagine why on earth you'd ever want to leave a spacious, one-bedroomed flat in the trendy East End for a seaside town, in what might seem like the end of the world; here's the view from the front of the house:
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For three short hours last February Panamanians celebrated in the streets. I drove through Panama City with a man who had been beaten and imprisoned under the current regime, and had been exiled for ten years in the Seventies by the government of General Torrijos. He was now flying the white flag of Panamanian democracy and honking his horn. Throughout the city people were sounding their horns in the streets, or standing waving white handkerchiefs; white flags were displayed from balconies and buses. It was six PM, February 25, 1988. An hour earlier, President Eric Arturo Delvalle had announced over national television that he had fired the military strong man General Manuel Antonio Noriega. With General Noriega apparently gone, Panamanians' prayers for democracy seemed about to be answered.
We turned into Fiftieth Street, the traditional gathering place of the Civic Crusade for democracy, the street where the riots designed to oust Noriega had begun last summer. Then we heard shots. There was a smell of tear gas in the evening air. The white flags were hastily pulled in. We drove in silence between the lines of riot police—the self-styled Dobermans—and knew that something had gone wrong. In another hour we learned over foreign television that President Delvalle had failed. The army had rallied to Noriega. Delvalle was soon to go into hiding. The sole opposition newspaper was being occupied by troops. Twenty years of military dictatorship were not about to end. In Panama City that night, the streets were silent and deserted.
Delvalle's attempt to rid Panama of Noriega was supported, though probably not initiated, by US policy makers. If so, this indicated a shift in US policy. For almost twenty years the United States supported the buildup of the Panamanian Defense Forces to keep Panama under control and to train the local armed forces that are to guard the Panama Canal when it is finally turned over to the Panamanians in the year 2000. In addition, the Reagan administration also used General Noriega to obtain information on Cuban activities in the region and help supply US aid to the Nicaraguan rebels in their war against the Sandinistas. Revelations by Noriega's close associates to a Miami grand jury and in Senate hearings that Noriega was a major drug trafficker and had been supplying arms and information to both sides in the Nicaraguan conflict as well as in the protracted war in El Salvador seem to have forced the administration to revise its policy. No longer could the Pentagon and the CIA look upon Noriega as a "strategic asset."
But even if Noriega is finally forced out through US pressure and Panamanian protests, will the armed forces rid themselves of corruption? Will the United States still honor the 1977 canal treaty, and hand over an important international waterway to a country that has become a haven for drug dealing and money laundering?…
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- When a pet is used to being babied, a new human baby can upset the household balance
- Katie Walmsley is concerned her cat Minou will react badly when her baby is born
- Veterinarians recommend slowly acclimating your pet to the possibility a child is coming
- The transition isn't always smooth, but careful planning and preparation can pay off
Several years ago, when my husband and I went to collect our newly adopted cat after surgery, the vet receptionist picked up the phone and languidly informed whoever was at the other end: "Minou's mommy and daddy are here to pick her up."
Wow. Apparently I had a baby. A furry one, currently stapled together with a cone on its head.
There are various types of pet owners. At one end of the spectrum is the "no nonsense" variety who believe the lines between beast and human are far too often blurred. At the other extreme are those whose pet is categorically their baby. And then there's everyone in between.
For many, consciously or otherwise, a pet is a practice child, a step up in responsibility between none and a lot. Something to love and take care of, but that you can leave alone when you go out for dinner without fear that it will die. This is perhaps why so frequently the horse (dog, cat, or chinchilla) comes before the (baby) carriage.
But what happens to your "pet baby" when it comes time for a real human child to join your family?
Our baby is due in July, and despite my occasional fantasies that the cat won't notice, I know that in reality she will, and I don't think she will like it. The cat sleeps in our bed, commands attention whenever she desires, and doesn't have to share her living space with anything of a remotely similar size.
Dr. Heather Thomson, from Manhattan's West Village Vet, says that more than 50% of the practice's clients who have a new baby find their pets are stressed, nervous and upset by it.
No wonder. When a pet is used to being the baby, it can be disconcerting to suddenly have to compete with what appears to be a tiny, yelling object vying for the spotlight.
"They were our kids," says Caroline Krediet of dogs Hector and Lemon prior to their baby's arrival. "We arranged weekend outings around them, indulged them. Put their needs first at all times, almost."
The same was true for Lauren Crandall before her son came along. "It was all about E.G., all the time," she says of their rescue Havanese, "He was a first thought always."
However you see your pet -- baby, miscellaneous family member, friend, possession, colleague, animated stuffed animal -- chances are that it thinks of itself as the creamy filling to your Oreo and won't enjoy being usurped by a screaming upstart.
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No matter how you slice it, babies -- especially newborns -- demand a huge amount of time, attention and energy, often leaving a deficit for your furry friend.
"I think E.G. was depressed for a while," says Crandall, "The first four months were the hardest. He wasn't getting out as much as he used to and wasn't getting the same amount of attention during the day. I felt really badly for him."
Problems adapting to your bundle of joy can range in pets from mild to severe.
"A cat can withdraw, stop eating, develop a medical problem, deviate from normal cat habits -- urinate or defecate outside of box, become destructive, anorexic, aggressive," says cat therapist Carole Wilbourn, adding that a very anxious cat could even attack the baby or other family members.
Thomson says dogs can also become more aggressive, often in a misguided attempt to protect the baby.
Our cat is fairly neurotic -- a kind of cat version of, perhaps, Woody Allen -- and is not a huge fan of any kind of change, no matter how minute. Thus our goal has been to arm ourselves with as much information as possible on smoothing the transition at home from pet palace to nursery. We hope this will help us avoid a kitty mental breakdown.
There's a lot of advice out there for pet owners with similar concerns.
Thomson says bringing a used baby blanket home from the hospital prior to the baby's arrival can help your pet become accustomed to the scent. She says some pet owners have also used plug-in pheromone diffusers, which can help to calm animals during the period of transition.
Wilbourn suggests a multifaceted approach with cats, including a lot of feeding, petting, name-crooning and general attention around the time that cat and baby meet.
She also recommends desensitizing the (poor) cat by playing a recording of a baby crying, and perhaps having a friend's child come over to play so the cat gets used to kids, and presumably is then less prone to a full blown freakout when sticky hands grab its tail. She details more approaches in her book, "The Complete Guide to Understanding and Caring for Your Cat."
Krediet said when they bought their daughter home from the hospital, they let the dogs sniff her feet and get to know her, making sure never to leave them with her unsupervised.
Crandall, meanwhile, sums up their approach as "NDLB" (no dog left behind). "We call him our firstborn son and he is the baby's brother," she says, "We try really hard to make him feel special and not that he has been sidelined."
But in case you were wondering if the upshot of all of this is a Disneyesque house of harmony where pet and baby frolic and snuggle in happy unison, you may be asking too much.
While mini-Crandall is becoming increasingly fascinated by the furry creature sharing his home, Crandall says dog E.G. -- while tolerant -- does not return the interest level. "He sniffs him and then goes about his business."
Lack of interest, however, is still one of the better outcomes. Some pets never come around to the change in circumstances. Wilbourn says it can be a good idea to arrange a "worst-case scenario," alternative home for your pet, in case all else fails.
But there are some happy endings. Wilbourn describes one cat who, after an initial show of aggressive behavior, became devoted to the new baby and now acts as a kind of "cat nanny," standing guard over its little friend, maybe wearing a pinafore (that part possibly is just in my imagination).
And according to Krediet, Hector and Lemon's affections have increased exponentially along with the baby's propensity to drop food on the floor. Hector now even lets her ride on his back.
"I think they adapted to the situation the same way we adapted our lives, going from crazy, freedom-loving 20s into responsible married 30s," she says, "I think they've enjoyed parenthood, too."


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1 POLITICAL IDENTITY AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION: CHINA'S POST-80'S GENERATION By Minna Jia A Dissertation Prepared for the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy (POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS) May 2013
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|China's post-80's generation is the group of Chinese youth who live in the urban areas of China and share specific generational characteristics. Born in the 1980s, the members of this generation have begun to play crucial roles in the society and the political system. Studies on their political identity and political participation have become both urgent and significant. This study is trying to answer questions about how this generation defines themselves, whether there is a favorable attitude toward democracy among this generation and, if so, to what extent and in what forms that the post-80's generation participates in the political activities. Using national survey data collected in China in 2010 and interview data collected in 2009, in addition to the World Value Survey data and the Development on Beijing Youth survey data, this study tries to incorporate both the quantitative and qualitative method to explore the political features of the Chinese post-80's generation. The study concludes that there is a high level of nationalism among this generation. The political ideological education and confidence in the Chinese Central Government has contributed to this popular nationalism. Plotted on the left-right political spectrum, Chinese post-80's generation members are oriented to the right on the political system while oriented to the left on the economic issues. The study also finds a favorable attitude exists toward democracy among this generation. Furthermore, the study points out that the Chinese post-80's generation has great interests in politics and is willing to participate in public affairs. However, the survey data indicate this generation has a low level of electoral participation experiences. Their major form of political participation is articulating their interests on the Internet.
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