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meet (one) halfway
To compromise with someone, often in an argument or disagreement. I'll agree to some of your requests if you'll meet me halfway and allow me to implement some of my ideas. Hey, buddy, please meet your mother and I halfway and at least try to clean your room once a month, OK? Can we meet halfway on this? I'm willing to compromise.
meet someone halfway
Fig. to compromise with someone. No, I won't give in, but I'll meet you halfway. They settled the argument by agreeing to meet each other halfway.
meet someone halfway
COMMON If you meet someone halfway, you accept some of their opinions or wishes, so that you can come to an agreement with them or have a better relationship with them. Democrats are willing to meet the president halfway on measures to stimulate the economy. Young people need to develop skills at forming relationships with adults by meeting them half-way.


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Maybe love isn't dead!
After Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman called off their separation, Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberly are also getting back together. But there's one problem as far as the Quaids are concerned — they've already signed their divorce papers, TMZ reports.
The documents are "sitting on the judge's desk right now," according to TMZ, and once they are sent through the Quaids' divorce will become final.
RIP Jelena and TomKat! Check out the most shocking celebrity splits
It's not the first time the couple has split up and then reconciled. Kimberly Buffington-Quaid filed for divorce in March 2012 but later retracted the papers, saying she and Quaid were going to work on their marriage. The couple then legally separated in October of last year, with Quaid filing divorce papers in December.
The Quaids have 5-year-old twins.

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Annual. An elegant, colorful mix of mildly-scented, long stemmed, superior cut-flower cultivars. Extra early blooms during the short days of winter and spring. Enjoy their beauty and aroma in the garden and bouquets. Excellent for fall sowing in mild climates, winter greenhouse production, or for hot summer areas. Attracts hummingbirds and pollinators. Deer resistant.
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I'm so sorry I haven't blogged or made a new YouTube video. I've been so crammed with school work it's unreal. I feel like all my professors decided to have papers due and tests on the same day! I swear they're out to get me... grrr. Anyone else ever feel like that? I've also been very busy with transferring schools, plus John and I are getting an apartment together!! Isn't that exciting???!!! So I promise to be back soon. Once I get all my school work done anyway. :( Love you's!!
Saturday, April 24, 2010
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Monday, April 12, 2010
WINNER ANNOUNCED: Hana Professional Straightener
This is the post you've all been waiting for.... I'm announcing the winner for the giveaway for the 1" Hana Professional Straightener that Misikko.com and I were holding... The winner is announced in this video:
Please contact me with your address so we can ship out your flat iron!!
Thanks again to Misikko.com for holding this and my followers and subscribers who entered!!
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Friday, April 9, 2010
My Purse Collection
I was requested to do a video on my purse collection... so I thought I'd share. :)
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Thursday, April 8, 2010
Spring Statement Necklaces
I'm absolutely in love with all the spring florals and bright colors right now. It's so refreshing! I seen both of these necklaces at JCPenney. Really affordable statement pieces... wear 'em a few times and you have your money's worth. :)
Really great pieces that will spruce up any outfit. I recommend wearing with a very plain top, and great handbag and super cute flip flops. :)
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Saturday, April 3, 2010
1 Year Blog Anniversary & Happy Easter!
Happy 1 Year Anniversary to my blog!! It passed by a few days ago, but I thought I'd celebrate anyway... :) I just want to thank everyone for following me this past year and commenting. I appreciate it so much! I wouldn't be blogging if it wasn't for you guys. Seriously. :,)
Tomorrow is Easter. I hope everyone enjoys their holiday and eats lots of candy!!
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Friday, April 2, 2010
Misikko Flat Iron Product Review and Giveaway
I was sent this iron by John from Misikko.com It's a Hana Professional 1" Pink Professional Flat Iron. Please watch the YouTube video for a review on it, and also details about the Giveaway...
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I'm a long-time Linux user who's getting very disenchanted with Gnome. Every new version seems to be less and less customizable as though the Gnome devs think that everybody wants their desktop to look, act and sound like theirs. (I'm not saying they do, just that it looks like that to me.) This new Gnome Shell looks like it's going to be the last straw for me because it forces you to do things in a way that looks almost completely opposite to the way I've worked for the last fifteen years so I'm getting ready to jump ship and move to XFCE if I can get it working close enough to how I want. I have, btw, both a desktop and a laptop, so there's lots of room for experimentation, and I'm looking forward to lots of fun as I learn my way around this new (to me) DE. I expect to be posting questions here, but it can't hurt to introduce myself.
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Any advice in this post is worth exactly what you paid for it.
Hi, Sideburns.
I jumped ship from Gnome to Xfce for the same reason more than a year ago. I found a big increase in DE speed and an even bigger improvement in configurability (more things possible) and ease of configuration (easy to realise the possibilities). After checking out all the Xfce tweaks and trying various layouts, I wound up with the first desktop I was completely comfortable with, after decades of putting up with what some designer thought I should look at and interact with. I haven't upgraded to 4.8 from 4.6.2 (in Debian Squeeze) - not because I believe that 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it', but because my particular tweaking of 4.6.2 is damn near perfect for me as user.
Welcome to the Xfce Desktop Environment and the Xfce Forums.
I have been an Xfce fanatic almost since my day 1 with Linux.
I have every Linux OS-distro that uses Xfce by default.
I really like the new Xfce-4.8 (works well with my Debian 6, still set to 'stable') and my LMDE-Xfce edition. (Mint-Debian)
Hi, Sideburns. Welcome to the Xfce forum.
I was going back and forth between Gnome and Xfce for a while, because every time there was a new version of Gnome I wanted to see what's new. But in the end an upgrade from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04 broke my Gnome session. It was good to see that Xfce was still working fine, and I stayed with it ever since (with Mint 9 and Debian Squeeze). Xfce is simple and good, just the way I like my software.
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Peterborough Folk Dance Club
Our weekly club night with club callers or guest callers.
We welcome new dancers and more experienced ones.
Potential members may have their first night free!
Open to members (£5 a year plus £2.50 a night and to visitors (£3 a night). Car park at Hall.
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Subzones (a.k.a. "sub-areas"[citation needed] or "sub-zones"[1]) are smaller areas within a greater zone. For example, Northshire Valley is a subzone of the Elwynn Forest zone.
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- The only DB site that appears to give subzone IDs is MMO Champion's older DB sub-site, DB.MMO-Champion.com.
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1. Street Anatomy at International Museum of Surgical Science
The most recent installment of Anatomy in the Gallery. This round is a group exhibition curated by local artist Vanessa Ruiz and features artists from around the country, including CAKE (New York), Heather Tompkins (San Francisco), Robyn Roth (Kentucky), Jason Freeny (New York), David Foox (New Zealand), Emilio Garcia (Spain), Noah Scalin (Virginia), and Stephen J. Shanabrook.
International Museum of Surgical Science is located at 1524 N. Lake Shore Dr. Reception Friday from 5-9pm.
The first of a pair of introspective, desert themed shows opening this weekend. This one, featuring the work of Pilsen resident Mark Nelson, explores the desert of Arizona through video and installation.
Antena is located at 1765 S Laflin St. Reception Friday from 6-10pm.
3. 12 x 12: Ben Russell at the MCA
The second desert work opening this weekend, Ben Russell's Trypps. The show consists of a series of screenings of Russell's Trypps series, included the featured image above, Trypps #7 (Badlands) which, "charts, through an intimate long-take, a young woman's LSD trip in the Badlands National Park before descending into a psychedelic, formal abstraction of the expansive desert landscape." Opening is during First Fridays, so get yourself comped in, or wait till after the meat market to see the show.
Museum of Contemporary Art is located at 220 E. Chicago Ave. Reception Friday from 6-10pm.
4. Bare Squared and Bedtime Stories at OhNo!Doom Gallery
Something on the cutely morbid side to lighten your weekend. Not exactly critical work, but fun. Half the show (Bare Squared) features the work of bro-sis duo Max and Zoë Bare. The other half (Bedtime Stories) features monsters by Amanda Louise Spayd.
OhNo!Doom Gallery is located at 1800 N. Milwaukee Ave. Reception Saturday from 6-10pm.
5. Autumn Ramsey at Julius Cæsar
Wrap up your weekend at one of Chicago's awesome alternative spaces, Julius Cæsar. Another kind of creature feature, the paintings at JC by artist Autumn Ramsey reference art history and mythology.
Julius Cæsar is located at 3144 W Carroll Ave, 2G. Reception Sunday from 4-7pm.
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"The Help" needs none—it's #1 at the weekend box office.
Buoyed by very strong word of mouth, Tate Taylor's adaptation of the Kathryn Stockett bestseller about white women and their maids in Jim Crow Mississippi brought in $20.5 million in ticket sales. That makes it the rare movie to move up to No. 1.
U.S. & World
"The Help," which stars Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer and Viola Davis, has grossed $71.3 million in its first 10 days in theaters, The Hollywood Reporter said. Its weekend take was only 21 percent less than in its debut.
"We hoped that 'The Help' would be a breath of fresh air at the end of a busy summer, and that has turned out to be the case," said executive Dave Hollis of Disney, which released the film. DreamWorks and Participant Media produced it.
The probing social drama switched places this weekend with "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," whose two-week reign ended as it placed second with $16.3 million. That represents a 41 percent (relatively small) decline from last weekend. The 17-day total: $133.8 million.
With those two movies continuing to do well, four new releases suffered.
The latest "Spy Kids" sequel from Robert Rodriguez and starring Jessica Alba, was third with $12 million.
The big-budget remake of "Conan the Barbarian" failed to slay audiences, placing fourth with $10 million. "Fright Night" was No. 5 with $8.3 million, and the Anne Hathaway late-summer romantic entry "One Day" was No. 9 with $5.1 million, although it only had a limited release.
Meantime, "The Smurfs" showed remarkable staying power. The movie took in another $8 million, for a domestic total of $117.7 million. And the blue creatures, now rendered in 3D, topped the international box office with $35.3 million, for a running total there of $211.4 million.
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My six week class of Cupakes N' Milk kicks off today!
I am so excited to be teaching a group of students on how to make homemade frosting and to be teaching them decorating techniques.
These owl cupcakes which we will be making today are sure to be a hoot!


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Is Cooley the only school you got into? I would take a year off, study take the test again, write a better personal statement, make your application as strong as it can possibly be and then apply early to schools. a 3.0 and if you can get your score up to 160, you can have a lot more options.
If you take the LSAT twice, most schools will either average your scores together or use the highest score. I have no idea what happens if you take it three times. You may have to wait a while before you can take it again, check with LSAC. I would definitley advise taking a course if possible. I took kaplan and found it to be very beneficial. They had a test center in my area and I went every single day and took at least one full LSAT under actual test conditions, then analyzed my answers. Very helpful. It is expensive, however. If you do take a class you will get out of it what you put into it. Work hard, review your answers (don't just keep re-taking tests without review), and make the LSAT your single focus.If you're not in a rush and can wait a while, I'd say take a class and re-take the LSAT. If you do decide to go to Cooley, take the time to research all aspects of the school and understand what it's going to take to succeed both in law school and afterwards. Transferring is not easy, and you really should not go to any law school that you aren't prepared to graduate from. I hope that helped, good luck!


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Lightning may hold the key to earlier tornado warnings
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On the day the devastating tornado hit Moore, Okla., Robert Marshall sat glued to the news, watching images of the deadly twister on CNN while he also monitored it on his computer.
Marshall, the energetic CEO of Earth Networks, a company that owns and operates an enormous network of weather sensors, was looking for one thing in particular: lightning. But he didn't see it.
"These tornadoes from a couple weeks ago were probably the most videotaped tornadoes in history. If you just watched the video, there's almost no lightning," Marshall said.
Visible lightning, that is. In fact, as Marshall explained, there actually was lightning, a whole lot of it, in the storm that caused the Moore tornado. It's just that most of it didn't hit the ground and was thus unseen by humans.
Earth Network's "Total Lightning Network" saw it, though. That's because this network, which consists of about 600 stations across the United States, has instruments that can track in-cloud lightning, the flashes that occur within a cloud and never make it to the ground.
Storms can have a lot of this type of lightning, and researchers have been working hard to understand how surges in it are related to severe weather events like tornadoes. What they are learning holds considerable promise to improve weather forecasters' ability to issue severe weather and tornado warnings earlier and more accurately.
"It's really clear that lightning data is very helpful for both our models and our forecasters," said Alexander MacDonald, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo.
Meteorologists still don't understand exactly how lightning relates to severe weather, but they know there is a strong correlation.
Telltale signs of growing strength
As a storm builds and more ice particles collide in a cloud, the rate of lightning flashes increases. This increase is often tied to a future growth in a storm's intensity.
Eric Bruning, an assistant professor of atmospheric science at Texas Tech University, said the flashes of in-cloud lightning might be few and far between as a storm gets organized, but as it gathers energy and moisture, that can change quickly.
"As it really taps into that deep moisture source, that flash rate will go up substantially, and it's a really sensitive indicator of that storm becoming more established," Bruning said.
Lightning researchers call this a "jump." In the Moore tornado, Marshall watched it happen on the Earth Networks' lightning network in real time.
"That Moore tornado ... that particular tornado went from no lightning and really no storm to like 50 flashes per minute," Marshall said. "It's a very classic scenario where you have a significant rise in lightning well in advance of the tornado."
On May 20, when the tornado hit Moore, his network saw its first spike in lightning to around 33 flashes per minute at 2:13 p.m., which is when it would issue a warning.
At 2:35, the in-cloud lightning hit 50 flashes per minute. The tornado touched down in Newcastle, Okla., at 2:56.
Not all jumps mean the storm is going to strengthen or a tornado is going to form. Figuring out that relationship between a jump and the severe weather that can follow is what Chris Schultz, a NASA scientist and a doctoral student at the University of Alabama, Huntsville, is working to figure out.
Schultz's doctoral work focused on developing an algorithm that relates lightning jumps to severe weather.
If he can do this -- and his formula is currently being tested at NOAA's Hazardous Weather Testbed in Norman, Okla. -- he could help forecasters improve their lead time on tornado warnings.
Adding seven crucial minutes of warning
"The average lead time on tornadoes is currently about 13 minutes," Schultz noted. "The average lead time using lightning jump to severe weather is about 20.5 minutes."
That seven and a half minutes of extra warning could save lives.
Earth Networks' Marshall is also focused on improving the time between warnings and the severe weather to follow. In January, his team presented the results of a study using its lightning network to issue severe weather warnings at the American Meteorological Society annual meeting.
Using data from 2011, team members found that the tornado warnings issued from their system based on the total lightning network resulted in warning lead times of 27 minutes on average.
NOAA's MacDonald is eager to test Earth Network's system with the National Weather Service. He's excited about a program the company has developed to turn the lightning pulses it senses into predictions of where severe weather is going to occur, a sort of parallel to the National Weather Service's warning system.
MacDonald hopes to run a trial with the National Weather Service where they integrate that program into a number of weather forecasting centers, although he is waiting for project funding.
"They have software that will determine how much lightning is occurring and which direction it's moving, and then they in effect make a forecast of the areas that are threatened in the next couple hours. So that was the product that we wanted to test out," he said.
Potential lifesaver
Some Weather Service offices have already had the chance to test out lightning data as a resource for severe weather prediction. That's because they have access to local lightning monitoring networks.
One such network is in Huntsville, Ala.
Brian Carcione, the science and operations officer at the National Weather Service station in Huntsville, said his office has had access to lightning data for nearly a decade, but it has taken the office a while to figure out just how it fits into its forecasts.
"I personally think it has the potential to be a game changer, but it's very different from what we are used to," Carcione said. "As forecasters, we are getting more and more data that we have to sift through ... so one thing being discussed already is what's the most efficient way to get this information in front of the forecaster so that it helps them make the decision better."
It's not as simple as just giving forecasters the lightning data, explained Kristin Calhoun, a research scientist with the National Severe Storms Laboratory and the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies in Oklahoma.
Forecasters already have to sift through a huge volume of information when making their decisions and issuing things like tornado and severe weather warnings.
That's why Calhoun took Schultz's algorithm and put it into the hands of meteorologists at the Hazardous Weather Testbed. There, she got their feedback on the best way to present them with that information.
"What we are developing right now is the visualization of the lightning jump. Some forecasters like to be alerted; a bell will go off or a banner will come up. Some forecasters like to see it as a grid," Calhoun said.
Calhoun and Carcione stressed that lightning jump information is not a tool to be used in isolation, but in combination with the other data forecasters use, like Doppler radar, it has the potential to give them an extra edge.
Which storm will be the killer?
"You may be watching a number of storms at the same time, and the lightning can help you figure out that one may be more important or strengthening more than the others," Carcione said.
In Alabama, Carcione added, tornadoes are often associated with storms that are not particularly large. Lightning jumps are particularly useful in those situations and may help a forecaster see that severe weather is coming as much as five to 10 minutes before the radar sees it.
While there is no national lightning network for the Weather Service right now, the next set of geostationary satellites NOAA is scheduled to launch, beginning in late 2015, will have an instrument called a geostationary lightning mapper.
This mapper, once it is operational, will have the ability to see lightning over the entire United States and much of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, where ground-based lightning networks cannot reach.
NASA's Schultz is actually building his algorithm with this instrument in mind, even though it is a few years away from going live.
The satellite mapper is unlikely to put ground-based lightning sensors out of business, though, because it has limitations on its ability to differentiate between cloud-to-ground lightning and in-cloud lightning, Schultz said.
"That is the beauty of the ground-based systems," he said.
In the meantime, Marshall of Earth Networks continues his quest to improve lead times for tornado warnings using the network his company already has in place.
He hopes to improve tornado warnings to the point where people don't just have enough advance notice to huddle in their basement; he wants to give them enough time to get out of the way.
"If you only have 10 to 15 minutes' warning, there is not much you can do. You can try and get in the safest location that you have, but in big tornadoes it doesn't matter," Marshall said.
"If we could get to the point where people have a half-hour warning time, then you can actually leave. You can get in your car."
Correction: An earlier version of this article said the Earth Networks analysis of tornado warnings from its network was for the 2011 hurricane season, but in fact it was for all of 2011.
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The purpose of The Rainwater Collection is to assist serious genealogical researchers in their research by providing an archive of well-documented, accurate and uninterpreted data related to the Rainwater family in America. It is the product of thousands of hours of work on the part of Susan and Steve Rainwater, and our many contributors. Avail yourself freely of all of the resources of the collection, but please email only if you have something to add or correct.
The Family Tree of Clois Miles Rainwater and Nancy Jane McIlhaney: One Texas Family's Origins, 1706-2012 is now available through Lulu.com for $19.99.
This book explores the family roots of one contemporary Texas family, from their origins in North Carolina to present day. The two major family groups are the Rainwaters (Kentucky branch) and the McIlhaneys (Tennessee). The book includes profiles of each of the couple's ancestors, and short profiles of all of the ancestors' children. Photographs and register reports are included.
US Census
Complete 1755-1840 census
Complete 1850 Census
Complete 1860 Census
Complete 1870 Census
Complete 1880 Census
Complete 1890 Census
Complete 1900 Census
Complete 1910 Census
Complete 1920 Census
Complete 1930 Census
Incomplete 1940 Census
Death Indexes
Alabama, 1908-1959
Arkansas, 1914-1948
California, 1905-1997
Florida, 1917-1979
Georgia, 1919-1998
Idaho, 1911-1932
Illinois, 1916-1950
Indiana, 1921-1977
Kentucky, 1911-2000
Pulaski Co., KY, 1852-1859
Louisiana, 1900-1944
Calcasieu Parish, 1997-2002
Michigan, 1971-1996
Mississippi, 1912-1925
Missouri, 1910-1855
New Orleans Daily Picayune
Obituary Daily Times
Ohio, 1913-1937 and 1958-1998
Oregon, 1903-1960
South Carolina, 1915-1934
Spartanburg Herald and Herald Journal
Tennessee, 1914-1925
Texas, 1903-1998
Washington, 1907-1939
Social Security, Jan 1937-Dec 2009
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
Oklahoma & Indian Territory
South Carolina
South Dakota
Marriage Gone Wrong
Cemeteries & Tombstones
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
South Carolina
West Virginia
Birth Records
Arkansas, prior to 1905
California, 1905-1945
Butler Co., KY, 1852-1859
Lincoln Co., KY, 1852-1859
Pulaski Co., KY, 1852-1859
Russell Co., KY, 1878
Kentucky, 1911-1940, by child
Kentucky, 1911-1940, by mother's maiden name
Texas, 1903-1943, by child
Texas, 1903-1943, by mother's maiden name
Land Records
Search the Bureau of Land Management General Land Office Records online database
Military Records
Rainwaters in War, from the Revolution to present day
Rainwaters in the Civil War, 1861 - 1865
The will of Aaron Rainwater, 1849, Logan Co., KY
The will of Alexander Martin Rainwater, 1820-1890, Bedford Co., OR
Application for letters of administation for the estate of Annie J. Rainwater, 1909, Richmond Co., NC
Probate of the estate of Hugh Rainwater, 1814-1874, Lawrence Co., AR, abstract only
The will of James Rainwater, 1862, Pulaski Co., KY
The will of James Rainwater the Preacher, 1865, Campbell Co., GA
The probate file of Job Rainwater, ca 1784-1863, Milton Co., GA
The will of John Rainwater, 1777, Surry Co., NC
The will of John Rainwater, 1832, Spartanburg District, SC
The will of John Wesley Rainwater, 1888, Bedford Co., TN
The probate records of Joseph Rainwater, (1824-1873), Wood Co., TX
The will of Josiah Rainwater, 1934, Wilbarger Co., TX
The guardianship of the minor children of Louisa Moore Rainwater, 1876, Hamilton Co., TX
The will of Miles Rainwater, 1884, Pulaski Co., KY
The estate administration of Robert Rainwater, 1825, Stewart Co., TN
The estate adminstration of Sam Rainwater, 1889, Waller Co., TX
Estate Sale of Solomon Rainwater, Sr., ca 1765-1814, Pendleton District, SC
The guardianship of the minor children of Wesley H. Rainwater, 5 May 1865 & 10 Apr 1867, Pulaski Co., AR
The will of William Rainwater, 1825, Pulaski Co., KY
The will of William Jasper Rainwater, 1887, Waller Co., TX
The family Bible of Bartholomew & Nancy McLaughlin Rainwater, Pulaski Co., KY, ca 1825
The family Bible of Catherine McCall Rainwater, wife of James, Jefferson Co., TN
The family record of James and Charity Fowler Rainwater, Sevier Co., TN, ca 1798
The family Bible of James H. & Nancy Claud Rainwater, AR, ca 1874
The family Bible of James M. & Ella Sampson Rainwater, Navarro Co., TX, ca 1871
The John Edwin & Lucy Hyde Rainwater family Bible, MS, ca 1881
The Josiah & Elizabeth Jane Weddle Rainwater family Bible, KY and TX, ca 1866
The funeral register of Miles Eber Rainwater, AR, 1863-1941
The family Bible of Margaret E. Weir & Thomas Henry Rainwater AR, ca 1887
The family Bible of Matthew Rainwater & Mahala Snapp, TN, ca 1833
The Family Bible of Moses Fowler & Elizabeth Oliver Rainwater
The William & Patsy Hodge Rainwater family Bible, Pulaski Co., KY, ca 1800
The William Howard & Minerva Rayeborn Rainwater family Bible, KY and IN, ca 1838
The family Bible of Sciota B. Rainwater & John Levi Elder, Holt Co., MO
The family Bible of Moses & Margaret Rainwater Lewallen
The Dempsey Pace & Elizabeth Rainwaters family Bible, MS, ca 1804
The Rainwater-Webb family Bible, GA and TX, 1878
The family Bible of Lucy Isadore Rainwater & John Pinkney Aderholt, TX, ca 1900
The Velma Henson Tate family Bible, granddaughter of Matilda Rainwater Henson
Letter from The National Archives describing service in War of 1812 of James and Joshua Rainwater, 1934
War of 1812 widow's pension application of Martha Adams Rainwater, 1850, Georgia
Abraham B. Rainwater, 1915, Arkansas
Abraham Butler Rainwater & Sarah C Waters Rainwater, 1898, Missouri
Cornelia E. Rainwater, widow of Miles, 1914, Kentucky
Elizabeth Jane Rainwater, widow of Josiah, 1934, Kentucky
Jacob A. Rainwater, 1904, Illinois
Josiah W. Rainwater, 1880, Kentucky
Josiah W. Rainwater, 1889, Kentucky
Martha Rainwater, daughter of Gideon E. & Mary Ann Rainwater, Missouri, 1890
Mary Ann Rainwater, widow of Gideon, 1869, Missouri
Miles Rainwater, 1898, Kentucky
Miles Rainwater, 1912, Kentucky
Paschal P. Rainwater, 1918, Washington
Rebecca J. McDaniel Rainwater, widow of William C, 1862, Kentucky
Allen Rainwater, 1899, Alabama
Amanda Adeline Rainwater, widow of Benjamin F., 1917, Arkansas
Annie Hightower Rainwater, widow of James H., 1919, Georgia
Annie Jane Rainwater, widow of James, 1907, North Carolina
Arilda Jane Rainwater, widow of Reason, 1927, Arkansas
Bargilla G. Rainwater, widow of John, 1900, Texas
Bargilla G. Rainwater, widow of John, 1919, Mortuary Warrant, Texas
Berry Moore Rainwater, 1899, Texas
Berry Moore Rainwater, 1919, Mortuary Warrant, Texas
Caroline Rainwater, widow of William T., 1910, South Carolina
Cicero Rainwater, 1895, Georgia
Crosby D. Rainwater, 1906, Georgia
E. A. Rainwater, widow of John W., 1892, Arkansas
Elizabeth Rainwater, widow of Allen, 1899, Alabama
Francis Marion Rainwater, 1915, Arkansas
George M. Rainwater, 1915, North Carolina
George Wilburn Rainwater, 1915, Oklahoma
Henrietta Susan Rainwater, widow of Cicero, 1907, Georgia
James H. Rainwater, 1901, Georgia
Jeanette Rainwater, widow of William A., 1931, Mississippi
John Daniel Rainwater, 1911, Alabama
Lemuel F. Rainwater, 1924, Georgia
M. J. (Sabra Amanda Jane) Rainwater, widow of Miles, 1903, Georgia
Maggie L. Rainwater, widow of William P., 1932, Arkansas
Margaret Rainwater, widow of James A., 1927, Mississippi
Mariah Rainwater, widow of Elisha W., 1901, Georgia
Mary Rainwater, widow of John D., 1926, Alabama
Mary Eliza Rainwater, widow of William L., 1932, Arkansas
Mary F. Rainwater, widow of Virgil Cicero, 1913, Georgia
Mary Jane Rainwater, widow of Silas M., 1902, Alabama
Miles Rainwater, 1898, Georgia
Nancy Rainwater, widow of Francis M., 1922, Arkansas
Nautilla E. Rainwater, widow of Jacob A., 1905, Illinois
Rebecca Rainwater, widow of John Daniel, 1920, Alabama
Rebecca Rainwater, widow of John Daniel, 1927, Alabama
Riley G. Rainwater, 1916, Arkansas
Sarah Rainwater, widow of Miles, 1916, Alabama
Sarah Rainwater, widow of Miles, 1926, Alabama
Sarah F. Rainwater, widow of Crosby D., 1907, Georgia
Sarah A. Rainwater, widow of William Joseph, 1893, Georgia
Sarah A. Rainwaters, widow of Umphrey, 1900, Georgia
Sarah R. Rainwater, widow of William M., 1901, Arkansas
Sarah R. Rainwater, widow of William M., Death Benefit, 1910, Arkansas
Silas M. Rainwater, 1899, Alabama
Thomas E. Rainwater, 1901, Arkansas
Umphrey P. Rainwaters, 1892, Georgia
William Andrew Rainwater, 1930, Mississippi
William B. Rainwater, 1909, Georgia
William L. Rainwater, 1918, Arkansas
William T. Rainwater, 1908, South Carolina
Excerpts from applications made to the Southern Claims Commission
James Rainwater, 1873, Missouri
John A. Rainwater, 1872, Arkansas
Myths, Mysteries & Mistakes in Rainwater research
Evidence for Early Rainwaters Prior to 1800
The origins of the Rainwater name
The children of the first James Rainwater, ca 1735-post 1790, Surry Co., NC
Evidence for Native American Rainwaters
Other Bibles related to individuals in our database
The family Bible of Emily E. Cain & Abraham Lincoln Weddle, Pulaski Co., KY
The family Bible of Elizabeth Moore & Joseph Singleton Presnall, TX
The family record of Nettie Chris Roberts & James F. Trimble, Pulaski Co., KY
The family Bible of Dora Hamilton Humberson, wife of William Travis Humberson, TX
The family Bible of Francis Marion Humberson, TX
The Tarter family Bible of Onta Jane Roberts Roman, Kentucky
The George Thomas Hammonds Bible, Kentucky, Missouri, & California
The Daniel M. & Parthenia Phillips Bible, Georgia
Other wills related to individuals in our database
The Will of Daniel Ball, 1882, Warren Co., NC, abstract
The Will of Blatchley Caughron, ca 1823- 1873, Pulaski Co., KY
The Will of Banner Compton, ca 1781- 1818, Adair Co., KY
The Will of Micajah Compton, ca 1798- 1853, Pulaski Co., KY
The Will of Levi Cooper, 1792-1858, Pulaski Co., KY
The Will of John J. Cooper, ca 1828-1907, Pulaski Co., KY
The Will of Balzer Darter (Tarter), died post 1800, Wythe Co., VA
The Estate Settlement of Josiah W. Duck, Jr., ca 1801-1855, Pulaski Co., KY
The Will of Job Felton, July 1812, Oglethorpe Co., Georgia
The will of Thomas Fussell, 1735, Bertie Co., NC
The will of Rev. James Hembree, 1849, Anderson District, SC
The Will of Bartholomew Hodges, 4 July 1826, Surry Co., NC
Report of the Commissioners of the Estate of Edward Kellum 1787-1864, McLennan Co., TX
The Will of John Linn, Jul 1851, Warren Co., GA, abstract
The Will of William McElhiney, died ca 1801, Grainger Co., TN
The Will of Jacob Tarter, ca 1795-1874, Russell Co., KY
The Estate Settlements of John Tarter, Sr., ca 1760-1849, Pulaski Co., KY
The Will of David Trimble, died ca 1798, Bourbon Co., KY
The Will of John Milton Weddle, Sr., ca 1776-1842, Pulaski Co., KY
The Will of Solomon Weddle, 1822-1890, Pulaski Co., KY
The Will of John Milton "Jack" Weddle, Jr., 1807-1891, Pulaski Co., KY
Virtual tombstone tours of non-Rainwater cemeteries
The Pulaski County Diaspora: The Scattering of Rainwaters and Allied Families, 1850-1900


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Re: SharePoint and Jiveinghamcj Feb 4, 2010 9:05 AM (in response to jperkins)
I accepted your friend request. I am a Technology Manager at LiquidHub Consulting. We have a Collaboration vertical with seasoned professionals in Social Networking applications and also tons of experience with Sharepoint. We are system integrators. Although we have not yet participated in a Sharepoint/Jive Software integration project, that would totally fit in with the kinds of projects we implement. Please contact me if you would like to discuss further. Thanks.
Re: SharePoint and Jiveddman Feb 10, 2010 9:44 AM (in response to jperkins)
Hi Janine,
There are a couple customers that have done implementations using the SharePoint Connector. Let me check back at Jive for one of the case studies I think you would find valuable.
Re: SharePoint and Jivedougmackay Apr 6, 2010 8:45 AM (in response to ddman)
I'm interested in the how the sharepoint connection works. Any feedback? While we don't have a sharepoint implementation, we DO want to have file-share capability with our DAM system: Xinet.
Re: SharePoint and Jivegialyons Apr 11, 2011 3:40 PM (in response to dougmackay)
Hi Doug,
You might be interested in this blog series, written by a Jive customer. It doesn't go into the technology behind the connector, but you can get an idea of what an integrated user experience might be if you used a connector between Jive and Xinet:
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Re: SharePoint and Jivechristian.schmitt Apr 18, 2011 4:16 AM (in response to gialyons)
we are now a SharePoint Connector owner and I would like to read this blog. Yet only Jive partners have permission to read it.
Re: SharePoint and Jivegialyons Apr 18, 2011 6:05 AM (in response to christian.schmitt)
Ah my apologies. Wrong link. I didn't realize the original blog series was cross-posted into the private Partner community! Here's the publicly available version:
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Re: SharePoint and Jivegialyons Apr 19, 2011 10:26 AM (in response to jperkins)
There is a rich, related discussion here: The specified item was not found.
Re: SharePoint and Jivempetruzz Oct 25, 2011 10:48 AM (in response to gialyons)
What about MOSS 2007? I've been having trouble finding good hands on info about it. The blog mentioned before doesn't go into enough detail. The impression I get from the documentation that I have read is that it's a pretty 1-sided integration, with Jive been able to display any specific list but the best it seems we can do SharePoint-side is display all activity for a group rather than being able to use Jive discussion or Jive blog in both places. It also seems to just add links on SharePoint side that let you go over to Jive. Our hope was to really integrate the two tools rather than just make them talk to eachother.
Also, the blog linked above mentions a social document wrapper that would allow commenting and rating on WSS documents but I cannot find any reference to this feature outside of the one line in the blog.
Re: SharePoint and Jiveariel.cohen Oct 25, 2011 9:48 PM (in response to mpetruzz)
The core concept of the integration is around presenting SharePoint content inside Jive and to provide the ability to work with it in both side , once you are connecting a site to a Jive group you can use a doc and a calendar from SharePoint and from Jive , in addition we are supporting adding Jive's webparts on SP .
we are currently working on the next version of the integration which will allow much more SharePoint functionality inside Jive and Jive functionality inside SP, for example you will be able to have the Jive groups's UX inside SharePoint and to search and link any SharePoint content from Jive.


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Pamela Sundquist, 30, of West Bridgewater, was indicted on charges of manslaughter, negligent motor vehicle homicide, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, negligent operation of a motor vehicle, failure to stay within marked lanes and speeding in the death of , said Norfolk County District Attorney spokesman David Traub.
STOUGHTON – "It doesn't bring him back," Tara Wengler said Thursday after learning indictments had been issued in the death of her brother, Christopher Wengler.
The 32-year-old was killed in a two-car accident on Dec. 31 on Route 138 in Stoughton. The driver of the other vehicle, Pamela Sundquist, 30, of West Bridgewater, was indicted by a Norfolk County grand jury on March 20.
Sundquist was indicted on charges of manslaughter, negligent motor vehicle homicide, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, negligent operation of a motor vehicle, failure to stay within marked lanes and speeding, said Norfolk County District Attorney spokesman David Traub. An arraignment date has not yet been scheduled.
Theresa Wengler said, while the loss of her son is devastating, at least the court process is under way.
"She (Pamela Sundquist) did get indicted and that's a good thing," Wengler said.
Police say the accident happened at 1:30 a.m., along Route 138 on Washington Street. Wengler was driving a 1994 Honda Accord. Sundquist was behind the wheel of a 2011 Ford Edge at the time of the crash. Wengler was taken to Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton, where he was pronounced dead from injuries sustained in the crash. In addition to his parents and sister, Wengler is also survived by his wife, Mariana Wengler, and their young son, Carsten Wengler.
Friends say the death of Chris Wengler, known as "Red" because of his red hair, has been tough.
"It's a tragic loss, he was just a great kid," said Paul Williams, the owner of Lou's Custom Exhaust in Stoughton.
Williams is also a sergeant with the Stoughton Police Department, where he's worked for more than 18 years. Williams was one of the first responders at the scene of the crash that night. Wengler used to work on Saturdays at Williams' shop.
Bumper stickers bearing the word "RED" are being sold at Williams' shop and other places to raise money for a college fund set up for Carsten Wengler. "We've raised quite a bit of money so far," Williams said.
The stickers are being sold for $10, but many people are leaving more, he said. The stickers are also being sold at Canton Auto Clinic, where Wengler also worked, and at Tigershark Tattoo in Abington.
Dominic Morra of Stoughton came up with the design for the stickers. He knew Wengler for about 10 years.
Each letter of the bumper sticker is symbolic, Morra explained.
"The "R" is red for his hair, the "E" is made out of wrenches and the "D" is designed to look like a gear shifter," he said. "He was really into cars and we call anyone big into cars gearheads."
Morra said that $2,760 has been raised so far for Carsten's college fund.
"I just wanted to do something to help the family," he said.


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Padded sling opens up many design possibilities for your patio furniture. With added comfort you also get added fabric options. When choosing your padded sling products you must choose a sling fabric for the back of the piece, the padded front can be designed with any of the fabrics shown below.


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At Al-Anon Family Group meetings, the friends and family members of problem drinkers share their experiences and learn how to apply the principles of the Al-Anon program to their individual situations.
They learn that they are not alone in the problems they face, and that they have choices that lead to greater peace of mind, whether the drinker continues to drink or not.
Sponsorship gives members an opportunity to get personal support from someone more experienced in the program. These relationships are voluntary. Members ask another member to be their Sponsor when they believe that person will be suitable as a mentor in applying the program.
The Twelve Steps, the Twelve Traditions, and the Twelve Concepts of Service are Al-Anon's Legacies. The spiritual principles of the Al-Anon program derive from these Legacies.


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I've written abou this before but it is really good – do visit it. This West Yorkshire website is now fully launched and is searchable by surnames. It is called History to Herstory. There is now free access to 80,000 images taken from primary sources relating to the lives of women in Yorkshire, from 1100 AD to the present day.
Each document is digitised in full and linked to an improved catalogue record. http://www.historytoherstory.org.uk
There is a brilliant photo of 'the National Spinsters' Pension Association'! You can download the index of documents at http://www.historytoherstory.org.uk/Collections_index.pdf
You can see for example the following: Jane Barber, of Cleckheaton, handwriting exercise book KC7 1830 Maisie Eades, of Mirfield, Civil Defence records KC921 1943-1949 Marion Booth, of Moldgreen, weaver, photographs KC810 1930s Mary Pedley, of Huddersfield, 1826 marriage licence C587/001 1826
There are METCALFEs there too: C85/3/6/9/14-15i Medical case notes – Ann Metcalfe c1845-1881
C85/3/6/9/14-15i Medical case notes – Ann Metcalfe c1845-1881
C85/3/6/12/p472/1 Medical case notes – Maria Metcalfe c1852-1874
C85/3/6/17/p489-490/1 Medical case notes – Margaret Metcalfe c1862-1883
C85/3/6/17/p489-490/2 Medical case notes – Margaret Metcalfe c1862-1883
Three are aso medical records for Jane ALDERSON.
Related articles
- History to Herstory – women in Yorkshire (cumpstonresearch.wordpress.com)
- 'Telling Herstory' to Open at Chashama Gallery in Harlem (harlemworldblog.wordpress.com)
- Huge archive of northern women's history goes online (guardian.co.uk)
- Rewriting "Herstory" in California, In-doors and Out (aml4453uf.wordpress.com)
- West Yorkshire Parish Records on Ancestry (cumpstonresearch.wordpress.com)


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The San Jose Earthquakes weren't the only winners on Saturday. The club raised $10,500 for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation thanks to the third annual A&W Root Beer Float Night.
The amount raised set a new club record for the event. Combine that with San Jose's 1-0 win against Seattle Sounders FC, and it was one successful night.
And, in case you missed it, here is a hilarious outtakes reel from our A&W Root Beer Float Night promo video. Enjoy!


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Advice Needed for a Picky Eater
My daughter just recently announced to us that she would like to become vegan and I would like to support her choice. However, over the years cooking for her I know how picky of an eater she is and how unwilling to try out new things as well. I want to encourage her on her choice to become vegan, but I am worried about her health at the same time. I have tried using my local library with (thankfully) a large amount of cookbooks dedicated to vegan cooking, however many of the main focus in the books is tofu and beans recipies which she still won't try. I know you can eat vegan and still meet diatary requirments for a growing child or even an adult, but with her limiting what I can try and make it worries me. I plan on browsing the recipies you have here, but if you have any advice for feeding a picky eater that would be wonderful!
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Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea, Episode Two Trailer: Bye, Bye BioShock
Irrational Games has officially released this launch trailer to coincide with today's debut of BioShock Infinite's newest episode of DLC, Burial at Sea -- Episode Two. In the trailer, we hear Booker speaking to Elizabeth through what sounds to be a radio as she explores Rapture. Elizabeth says "I'm not you, Booker," to which he replies, "and yet here you are -- settling a debt."
During the trailer, we see Elizabeth gazing into a mirror as we see the multiple versions of her appear from the various realities we saw during the main story campaign of Infinite. We get to see original BioShock baddies, such as Andrew Ryan and Frank Fontaine, in full force as they give Elizabeth a Rapture-worthy welcome. Stay tuned as we will have our review for BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea -- Episode Two up shortly.


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Alexandr Vashurov 5d (r) swept to victory over long-time rival Alexandr Matushkin 3d — who lost only once to Vashurov — in the Privolzhskiy Federal District Championship, which was held May 1-3. Matushkin's 5-1 record put him in second, while Yuriy Belyaev 3d and Alexander Matushkin were third with two losses to the leaders.
Kirill Denisov 3d also went undefeated in the Siberian Federal District Championship in Novosibirsk May 1-2. Second place was won by David Klassen 2d (5-1) and Sergej Pavlov 4d took third by edging out last week's winner of Novosibirsk District Champs, Valerij Ponomarev 4d, on SOS. There were 38 players taking part in the tournament.
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Music helps bring back such wonderful family and holiday memories. That is why The Nutcracker continues to be a holiday favorite across America. The Symphony and Ballet San Antonio collaborate every year on a joint production of The Nutcracker in the Majestic Theatre. The eight performances are on Thanksgiving weekend and the following weekend. Here is a KABB ad that explains the details:
The Symphony's Holiday programs also include three other heartwarming favorites. For tickets call (210) 554-1010 or click here.
Christmas Baroque
November 25 at 7 p.m. at the San Fernando Cathedral
Akiko Fujimoto, conductor
Bonnie Terry, violin
Torelli: Concerto Grosso, op. 8, no. 6, G minor (Christmas Concerto)
Charpentier: Noëls pour les instruments, H. 534
J. S. Bach: Violin Concerto No. 1, BWV 1041, A minor
Corelli: Concerto Grosso op. 6, no. 8, G minor (Christmas Concerto)
J. S. Bach: Overture No. 1 in C Major, BMV1066
Ballet San Antonio and the San Antonio Symphony at the Majestic Theatre
November 23 at 7 p.m.
November 24 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
November 25 at 7 p.m.
November 30 at 7 p.m.
December 1 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
December 2 at 7 p.m.
Akiko Fujimoto, conductor
Ballet San Antonio
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
December 1 at 7:30 p.m., University United Methodist Church
December 2 at 2 p.m., Coker United Methodist Church
December 2 at 7:30 p.m., Trinity Baptist Church
San Antonio Symphony Mastersingers, John Silantien, director
Patrick Dupré Quigley, conductor
Kathryn Mueller, soprano
Cindy Sadler, alto
Eric Schmidt, tenor
John Buffett, baritone
The Christmas portion of Messiah will include:
Comfort Ye
Every Valley
And the Glory
Behold a Virgin Shall Conceive
O Thou that Tellest Good Tidings
For Behold, Darkness
The People that Walked in Darkness
For Unto Us a Child is Born
There were Shepherds/And lo/And the angel/And suddenly
Glory to God
Then Shall the Eyes of the Blind
He Shall Feed His Flock
Lift Up Your Heads
The Lord Gave the Word
How Beautiful Are the Feet
He that Dwelleth
Thou Shalt Break Them
I Know that my Redeemer Liveth
Behold: I tell you
The Trumpet Shall Sound (A section only)
Worthy is the Lamb
December 21 & 22at 8 p.m., Majestic Theatre
Akiko Fujimoto, conductor
The Children's Chorus of San Antonio, Marguerite McCormick, director
Cristal Smith, contralto
Eric Schmidt, tenor
December 23 at 2:30 p.m. at Laurie Auditorium
Children's activities begin at 1:30 p.m.
Akiko Fujimoto, conductor
The Children's Chorus of San Antonio, Marguerite McCormick, director
Cristal Smith, contralto
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Elizabeth Warren's plum speaking slot at next month's Democratic National Convention has prompted misgivings among some centrist Democrats, who worry the Massachusetts Senate candidate could turn off independent voters.
Democrats announced this week that they had tapped Warren, the former consumer financial protection czar who's challenging Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) this fall, to deliver a prime time address before a national television audience. A popular figure among progressive activists, Warren has built a reputation as an outspoken critic of the excesses of Wall Street — a kind of populism Democrats are hoping to showcase at their convention.
But some members of the party wonder if selecting a figure like Warren — whom Republicans have sought to characterize as an out-of-touch elitist and cloistered Harvard professor — might hurt the party on a national level. She will speak the evening of Weds., Sept. 5, before a famed centrist Democrat: former President Bill Clinton.
"Having someone from the more extreme wing of the party, being given the primetime slot sends the wrong message to people in the middle who are legitimately up for grabs in this race," said Pennsylvania Rep. Jason Altmire (D-PA).
Altmire is among the dwindling ranks of the Blue Dog Coalition, the group of moderate Democrats in the House. These lawmakers typically hail from rural or working class districts and favor more fiscally responsible policies and permissive gun rights.
They've seen their representation in Congress shrink, though. The caucus had 54 members before the 2010 midterm elections, which shrunk to 25 this Congress. At least seven of them — including Altmire, who lost a primary to a more liberal Democratic Rep. Mark Critz (PA) — won't be returning to Washington next year.
Altmire said that while Warren's progressivism might play well in Massachusetts, the party might be better-served by a different prime time speaker.
"If you're trying to win over people from the center — moderates and centrists who could go either way — I would guess there are other faces you could put forward who would be better for that," he said.
Another retiring Blue Dog, Oklahoma Rep. Dan Boren, argued for better geographic representation in the convention's prime speaking slots.
"If we are going to become a big tent, we need language that speaks to fiscal responsibility, we need some speakers who are from the South, we are already winning in the coastal areas of the country," Boren told NBC News. "if you're going to speak to the 4 percent [of undecided swing state voters] you're going to want somebody who can appeal to independents, I think it would be better to have somebody from more Middle America."
But other Democratic moderates expressed a greater comfort level with Warren relative to some of their colleagues.
Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly (D), who won re-election by only 981 votes last cycle, called Warren a "very engaging speaker" who has a "real ability to speak to the lay person about what the underlining dynamics are in the economy."
That's precisely what Democrats are hoping to project with Warren's speech. From a working class background in Oklahoma, Warren speaks often about themes of opportunity and strengthening the middle class. To that end, Connolly said he thought Warren would "highlight advocacy for the middle class."
Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan (D) saw particular opportunity for Warren to appeal to women: "She will definitely speak to working class women, and I don't think she's going to turn anybody off. She comes across as pretty tough; I don't see her coming off as a heady intellectual, it's inner toughness about taking on the banks."
Prime time speakers at party conventions are usually selected to help broaden the party's appeal to voters who don't adhere to strict political orthodoxies. The choice of San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro to keynote the Democratic convention is a good example of that.
One Democratic operative NBC News that Warren could do that, too, but, "she carries a risk."
"I'd say she's high risk, high reward," said the operative. "People could relate to her down with the 'greedy guys' talk, or see her as polarizing and part of the problem."
But another retiring Blue Dog, North Carolina Rep. Health Shuler, expressed concern that Democrats could risk seeming as though they're uninterested in moderates by putting Warren front-and-center.
"I hope in time, Democrats realize in order for us to appeal to more voters, we need to highlight more moderates, not show just the far left of the party but in fact give people an opportunity to see we are a big tent," he said, pointing to the GOP's struggles with the Tea Party as a cautionary tale. "That helps us with independents; we don't want to be pushing out moderates just like the Republicans are doing."


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So I have been debating on whether or not to share this with you guys for a while. Maybe I felt kind of shy telling the whole world about the man that completely changed my whole world. Maybe on some level I am superstitious and did not want to jinx it.
This is basically what convinced me to write about it: The Friend Zone. It's a post I wrote on February 2, 2012. Exactly one year after I wrote The Friend Zone, I met Allister on February 2, 2013.
*Author's Note: It just occurred to me that this was post I wrote on February 2, 2012: Reality check: Why I'm going to be the next Bachelorette. Either post works really. They both speak to my
hopeless humorous situation at the time.
As a lot of you may have come to know about me, I had my own views of what relationships should be like. I had never been in a serious relationship but I had a lot of friends who were in a lot of serious relationships and observations taught me many things.
People in average relationships seemed happy enough. People in great relationships, however, seemed…quiet. People in great relationships knew what it took to make it to where they were. I always wanted a great relationship. I knew it would take work. But that's okay…every great thing takes a lot work to obtain, right?
Against all the odds that I imagined there to be in this world, I actually found someone that also seemed to want a great relationship.
I am by no means an expert in relationships. I could have somehow gotten away before by telling you guys I was an expert at being single. But to being relationship-savvy I have no claim to fame.
As practical as I would love you guys all to have believed, I had very skewed, Hollywoodized ideas of a great relationship. Things were really not what I thought they would be when I finally got into one. Unlike what I imagined real relationships are like, there was no drama, no waiting by the phone and there was no sleeping around with a million people until one of us had life-changing epiphanies.
Allister and I met at a dinner arranged by a couple of girlfriends a year ago. He thought my plans for starting a business of writing online dating profiles was preposterous. I thought he was hotter than two rabbits in a wool sock. He offered me a ride home that night. I invited him to my place for house party the week after.
Three weeks after Allister and I started dating, he told me point blank that he wanted to be my boyfriend. Had I been the practical person I wanted to believe I was, I would not have wanted run for the hills. After years of being single, I had almost developed a Stockholm syndrome towards the Friend Zone. But he saw that. He told me that when I was ready, send him a postcard and he'd be there…still wanting the same thing. (All paraphrased)
Eventually our first major fight happened four months in. There was a lot of crying on my part and a lot of listening on his before he addressed what bothered me. Contrary to how great I thought I was at being reasonable, he was better at deflecting fights before they escalated to destructible levels.
That was also the night he said I love you for the very first time. He told me later that it may have been the least romantic moment to me, but he never meant it more.
I turned 27 last September. He celebrated it like he was making up for for the last 26 birthdays he missed. That was when I knew that I would never ever be able to celebrate another birthday without him.
Everything about dating Allister was unexpectedly alarmingly easy. I was not sure if it was because years of failure had lead me to believe relationships couldn't be drama free but I would always wonder if we were going wrong somewhere.
Where was the downside of being in a relationship that everyone talks about? People always told me to enjoy my single days. Being in a relationship has its rewards but it is SOOO MUCH WORK.
They were NOT lying when they told me it would be a lot of work.
Over the past year it took a lot of arguments, heated discussions and flat out fights with each other for me to realize that relationship are a LOT of work….on myself.
I learned just how blinded I am to my own faults. I pout, I fight, I bitch and I yell when I don't get my way. Oftentimes, I found that the arguments we have had were born out of a sense of injustice I felt when someone else failed to do things my way and when I assumed the worst of my partner not realizing that having two people in a relationship ALWAYS means there are two sides of a story.
It took a lot of work for me to admit that I am a far cry from the perfect person I thought I was. And it takes a lot of work to fix it.
At the end of it all, the paradox of happiness that I stated in The Friend Zone remains true:
In order to be happy, you have to make someone happy.
In order to make someone happy, you have to be happy yourself.
If at all somehow by some fluke of the Universe, the fates are kind and bless you with someone that makes you happy, you best do everything you can to be the person that makes them happy. Even if it means you lay down your pride. Especially if it means if you have to lay down your pride. Because according to the paradox, that's happiness.
And as someone who strives to make this guy happy, I can definitely attest to that.
PS: You can't see her in this picture, but there was a thousand year old woman sitting on the side who came up to us with these pearls of wisdom for Allister: 1) Always wash your hands. 2) Never be mad at each other
So I will ask you this: What have you learned from your relationships? Here's a poll to help, but I would love to hear from you as well!


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Why Doctors Shouldn't Abuse Copyright Law To Stop Patient Reviews
from the it's-bad-for-business deptTwo years ago, we wrote about a very sketchy operation, called Medical Justice, that was pushing a highly questionable plan to use the DMCA to stop patients from rating their doctors on online ratings sites. The plan works as follows: as part of your visit to the doctor, the doctor makes you sign a "waiver" provided by Medical Justice, which assigns the copyright on any review you might write to the doctor. Then, if you write a bad review, the doctor can claim copyright infringement, and use the DMCA takedown process to remove the bad review.
As we noted at the time, this is clearly not what copyright law was designed for.
We've also pointed out that it's not clear that this process is actually legal, and many reviews might not have any actual copyright anyway -- and in cases where there is copyright, a very strong fair use defense can be made. Still, Medical Justice has continued to convince doctors that this is a good idea, and two well-respected law professors have decided to begin educating doctors and patients about why they should be wary. Professors Eric Goldman and Jason Schultz have launched a new site called Doctored Reviews: Why Medical Justice's Anti-Review Contracts are a Poison Pill, hoping to convince doctors to stay away.
In the announcement, Goldman notes that if the website still fails to stop these kinds of practices, they may need to get more aggressive. Hopefully doctors realize that this is a bad idea. And, seriously, if your doctor made you sign one of these, wouldn't you go find a new doctor? If my doctor is trying to stifle bad reviews, then that makes me a lot more worried than any bad review. As Schultz notes in the press release:
"Doctors who use these gag-order contracts are essentially telling patients 'if you want medical care, you must sign away your right to free speech,' ... "More speech is the answer [to reviews]," he said, "not censorship and copyright abuse."
Filed Under: contracts, copyright, doctors, free speech, reviews
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- Pick a blogger buddy and choose to do a "Style Swap" with each other, just like Jenn and I did today. Pick one of each other's looks you love and create your own spin on it, therefore "swapping styles," then link to each other and to us. This will build your audience in two ways: one, with the blogger collaboration, and two by linking up with us. Awesome, right?
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Young children need a variety of foods to get the energy they need to grow up healthy. Read on for information from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) on creative ways to serve up breakfast and lunch and tips for picky eaters.
If you have specific questions about your child's nutrition, talk with your child's doctor or a registered dietitian.
Breakfast gives children energy to carry through an active morning. Children who skip breakfast may not concentrate well at school or may lack energy to play. They also tend to eat unhealthy foods as snacks.
Cereal with low-fat milk is a favorite, but sweetened cereal can have a lot of added sugar. Check the Nutrition Facts label before buying. Although the percent daily values on food labels are based on calorie levels for adults, they can still be used to select more nutrient-rich cereals (and other foods). Choose cereals with less than 10 grams of sugar and at least 2 grams of fiber per serving. If your child prefers a sweet taste, jazz up unsweetened cereal with sliced peaches or bananas, strawberries, or blueberries.
The following are guidelines about what type of milk to give your child.
12 to 24 months
Children who help make their own lunches are more likely to eat them.
Even the most nutritious meal won't do any good if a child won't eat it. Some children are picky eaters. Others eat only certain foods—or refuse food—as a way to assert themselves.
Note: The amount of food and number of servings children need daily from each food group depends on their age and how active they are. Some parents worry because young children seem to eat small amounts of food, especially when compared with adult portions. Don't worry about how little a child eats. A child who is growing well is getting enough to eat. If you are concerned, talk with your child's doctor.
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The restored Inn is completely furnished with period pieces. Visitors can tour seven rooms including the common room, serving kitchen, ladies parlor and four bedrooms. Staying in a hotel was very different in 1820 than it is today. You have to see it to appreciate it.
The 1½ hour tour includes the original Inn, and three reconstructed outbuildings: a cookhouse (shown above), blacksmith shop and barn, all completely furnished with period pieces.


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PORTSMOUTH — Corie Jabre, 30, a Portsmouth native, is remembered for being a laid back mom who wanted nothing but the best for her children.
The mother of four — with 3-month-old twins — died in Portsmouth Regional Hospital Saturday, Jan. 13, from complications due to a respiratory infection.
In a quick reaction, Corie's devoted friends and relatives sprung into action to ensure her children would have the brightest future, launching an online media campaign on Sunday.
In 24 hours, the Jabre family raised $10,000 in donations along with thousands of ounces of donated breast milk.
"We have more breast milk than we know what to do with," Brandie Jabre, Corie's sister, said over the phone on her way home to Effingham from her parents' home in the Port City.
Corie was a 2000 graduate of Portsmouth High School, and while mothering a child in her school years, Brandie said her younger sister graduated from an alternative program. Her eldest boys today are 16 and 10 years old.
With the recent birth of her twins, also in Portsmouth Regional Hospital, Brandie said her sister was trying to be a good mom while fighting off a bad cold.
Brandie, an EMT, said her sister assumed the illness was due to the flu or some kind of virus she caught from her babies. But as her sister's cough grew worse, Brandie said she urged her to go to the doctor and get it checked out.
She went to see her physician on Friday and then died in the hospital the following day.
Brandie said her childhood best friend, Barbara Martinez, originally from Kittery, Maine, who now lives in Boston, stepped in to help the family while they were overwhelmed with the loss of their beloved daughter and sister.
Brandie's mother and father will be assuming the care of Corie's children, their grandchildren. Corie did not have life insurance.
Martinez said she promoted the family's story on giveforward.com and JPMoms.com, an online community for mothers in the Jamaica Plain, Mass., area. From there, Martinez said she received an "overwhelming" response from families all over the country who wanted to help out. She noted the fundraising campaign on giveforward.com, which will end this Saturday, was originally set up to cover funeral costs, but now the funds will go toward providing future financial support to Corie's four children.
"Corie was a wonderful mother and she loved her children. She did everything to protect them," Martinez said. "Women are writing me who knew her as part of their breastfeeding classes and saying they remember the kids. They know how much she wanted them to have breast milk and want to ship that to us and I know that I would feel the same way if it were me. I'm just trying to do what I know Corie would want."
Brandie said the love and care coming from the community has been a pleasant surprise to her family. There has been so much response the family has had to ask people to stop calling and visiting their parents' house so she and her siblings have time to process and grieve their loss.
She noted when one of her friends went to the store to pick up some everyday items for the Jabres, including a pair of baby socks for the newborns, a man commented, "Those must be for twins." The friend started crying and shared the family's story and Brandie said the man ran out of the store to hand the woman $50 to help out with the difficult times.
"It's a very kind thing to see," Brandie said. "People doing these things aren't expecting anything back. They're doing these things just to be kind to people."
Martinez noted after the fundraiser ends this weekend, the family may work to coordinate other fundraising efforts. She said all donated funds will be deposited into a trust for the boys.
"It's all about Corie and what we can do to help," Martinez said. "It's just really wonderful and really heartwarming to see how many people want to reach out and help."
For more information and ways to donate to the family, visit www.giveforward.com/memorialfundforcoriejabre.
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PORTSMOUTH — Corie Jabre, 30, a Portsmouth native, is remembered for being a laid back mom who wanted nothing but the best for her children.


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Canadians place great trust in health-care organizations and are generally satisfied with the health care they receive. In 2005, 85 per cent of Canadians who received health care were "very" or "somewhat satisfied" with the services they received.1 Additionally, in a recent Canadian Institute for Health Information survey of patients accessing primary care, more than three-quarters (76 per cent) reported that the quality of the primary health care they received in the past 12 months was either "excellent" or "very good."
However, a growing body of evidence over the past decade has demonstrated that misadventures during surgical and other medical care are common around the world, and Canada is no exception. These misadventures are tragic for individuals and costly for society, as they can result in disability, death, or prolonged hospital stays. A Canadian study estimated that about 7 per cent of adults seeking acute care in Canada experience a misadventure; from these cases, close to 60,000 are potentially preventable.2 The latest OECD figures show that about 150 deaths are caused by misadventures during medical care each year in Canada.3
Examples of misadventures (or adverse events) include an unintentional cut, gauze accidentally left in a body during surgery, the failure of sterile precautions, or the failure to administer a correct dosage of drugs or radiation. Many of these misadventures have been listed by the National Quality Forum in the United States as "serious reportable events" that should never happen to a patient ("never events").4 All misadventures are considered unintended, but not all of them are considered preventable. Preventable or avoidable adverse events result from the failure of individuals or health-care systems—or often both—to follow recognized, evidence-based best practices or guidelines.
Confidence in the safety and efficacy of the health-care system is critical. Efforts to improve patient safety have emerged in the last decade at local, national, and international levels. Safe practices help restore a patient's health promptly, providing tremendous social and economic value to any nation.
Besides these obvious benefits, there is evidence that high-quality health services can help control spending by reducing costly complications and preventing unnecessary hospitalizations. U.S. researchers identified 18 potentially preventable adverse events and complications of care that may lead to "a total of 2.4 million extra days of hospitalization, $9.3 billion in excess charges, and 32,591 deaths in the United States annually."5 More recently in Europe, it was estimated that total direct medical costs of preventable adverse events in the Netherlands accounted for 1 per cent of the expenses of the national health-care budget.6 Clearly, safer health-care services help health systems spend their limited health-care dollars more wisely.
The number of reported Canadian deaths from misadventures during surgical and other medical care has increased since the early 1980s. In 1980, it was 0.1 per 100,000 people (or 1 death per million people). This number has since grown fourfold to 0.4 per 100,000 people (or 4 deaths per million people). This upward trend could partially be explained by a higher reporting of cases resulting from increased awareness of the importance of reporting and from the availability of better tracking systems. Interestingly, although the U.S. has seen more deaths reported due to misadventures per 100,000 population than Canada has, the gap between Canada and the U.S. is closing. The number of these reported deaths is decreasing in the U.S. and increasing in Canada.
Use the pull-down menu to compare the change in Canada's mortality rate due to medical misadventures with that of its peers.
Measuring patient safety as an indicator of the quality of health care presents some challenges.7 Although morbidity and mortality data are useful, these indicators do not capture the majority of adverse events and near misses (unplanned events or conditions that have the potential to result in injury, illness, or damage). Reporting near misses provides greater insight into how to strengthen patient safety. Unfortunately, near misses and many adverse events are not properly captured by voluntary or mandatory incident reporting systems.
So-called "never events" (defined by the National Quality Forum as errors in medical care that are clearly identifiable, preventable, and serious in their consequence to patients)8 should be tracked and reported by all health-care organizations. Legislation and policies mandating the reporting of these events can enhance patient safety. In the U.S., some states have adopted "never events" legislation or policies, and the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services has identified a list of never events for which it will not pay. Other insurance companies are also adopting these practices.
Besides focusing on quality control from an organizational level, health-care systems need to foster open and non-punitive environments that encourage reporting. These environments are fundamental to establishing safer health-care practices.9,10 Countries with no-fault systems of indemnification for medical malpractice that encourage the reporting of medical or surgical misadventures (e.g., Sweden and New Zealand) are more likely to report adverse events than countries with tort liability systems (e.g., U.S., U.K., and Canada).11
Attempts have been made to strengthen patient safety and risk management in Canada, but significant work is still needed to improve measurement and monitoring systems. A recent report in Alberta looking at infection prevention and control and sterilization practices found that "lack of a widespread patient safety culture and alignment of organizational structures to support patient safety" was partially responsible for infection control problems in Alberta.12
As Canada strengthens its patient-safety culture and improves its health-care information management (by using electronic health records and a pan-Canadian reporting and learning system), it will be possible to better detect safety issues. It will also be possible to react to safety issues in a more timely manner, and to disseminate learnings more effectively.
The 2003 federal budget announced the creation of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute in response to the 2003 First Ministers' Accord on Health Care Renewal. This institute's mandate is to foster collaboration between governments and stakeholders through the development of patient safety initiatives and research. It has identified patient safety targets and is helping to coordinate efforts to make health-care services safer in Canada. (For more information on these initiatives, visit the Canadian Patient Safety Institute website.)
Accreditation Canada has also made significant contributions in this area. Since 2005, it has introduced 31 required organizational practices—evidence-based practices that if not in place within Canadian health-care organizations there is the potential for patient harm. Additionally, a number of provincial health-quality councils have been created to work with local delivery systems (e.g., the Ontario Health Quality Council, the Health Quality Council of Alberta, Saskatchewan's Health Quality Council, and the New Brunswick Health Council).
1 Statistics Canada, Patient Satisfaction with any health care services received in past 12 months, by sex, household population aged 15 and over, Canada, provinces and territories, occasional (CANSIM Table 105-4080), (Ottawa: Author, 2006).
2 G. Ross Baker et al., "The Canadian Adverse Events Study: The Incidence of Adverse Events Among Hospital Patients in Canada." Canadian Medical Association Journal 170, 11 (2004), pp. 1678–1686.
3 OECD database, 2004 is the latest year available.
4 National Quality Forum, Serious Reportable Events, June 2002 [online, cited September 13, 2009].
5 C. Zhan and M.R. Miller, "Excess Length of Stay, Charges, and Mortality Attributable to Medical Injuries During Hospitalization," Journal of the American Medical Association 290, 14 (2003), pp. 1868–1874
6 Lilian H.F. Hoonhout et al., "Direct Medical Costs of Adverse Events in Dutch Hospitals," BMC Health Services Research, February 2009, [online, cited September 14, 2009].
7 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Making Health Care Safer: A Critical Analysis of Patient Safety Practices (Summary) (Rockville, MD: Author, July 2001), [online, cited August 7, 2009]. www.ahrq.gov/clinic/ptsafety/summary.htm; and M.A. Gardam et al., "Healthcare-Associated Infections as Patient Safety Indicators," Healthcare Papers 9, 3 (2009), pp. 8–24.
8 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Eliminating Serious, Preventable, and Costly Medical Errors—Never Events, press release, May 18, 2006, [online, cited September 13, 2009].
9 Canadian Institute for Health Information, Patient Safety in Canada: An Update (Ottawa: Author, August 2007), [online, cited August 7, 2009].
10 A. Hutchinson et al, "Trends in Healthcare Incident Reporting and Relationship to Safety and Quality Data in Acute Hospitals: Results from the National Reporting and Learning Systems," Quality and Safety in Healthcare 2009, 18:5-10 (2009).
11 The Conference Board of Canada, Liability Risks in Interdisciplinary Care: Thinking Outside the Box (Ottawa: Author, April 2007).
12 Health Quality Council of Alberta, Review of the Infection Prevention and Control and CSR Sterilization Issues in East Central Health Region (Calgary: Author, July 2007), [online, cited August 7, 2009].
The number of deaths due to misadventures to patients during surgical and other medical care per 100,000 population.
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The data on this page are current as of September 2009.