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To stay at home or to go back to work is a dilemma so many moms-to-be face. Chances are you've asked yourself this question. Are you happy with your choice? Or are you feeling like you've made the wrong decision?
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Even though the buzz around Dancing With the Stars has died down a bit since the All-Star season finale last week, one question is still burning a hole in fans' brains: Are Kelly Monaco and Val Chmerkovskiy a couple or not?!?
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My expectations were very, very different. I was really happy to the idea of Bristol Palin, only because I was so discouraged with my last two seasons that I was like, look, I'm going into the All-Stars season, which is definitely going to be the most competitive, and the last two seasons I've been eliminated in [Week] 2, 3. ... I was like, Bristol? At least I'll have an excuse. At least they'll be a reason and I'll be like 'Well, I did my best.'
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Ok, this is making more sense now. I've always thought the Chmerkovskiy Bros to be a pair of douches, so no suprise there. But now, he's so low as to say, "Hey, if Bristol and I lost, it's not my fault; she's the crappy dancer." Nice. Hiding behind the skirts of an ameteur. So this so-called "romance" with Kelly sounds like he's really in love with *himself* believing he can claim his superiority thru her, and their 2nd place win. Can we say narcissist AND stupid? Does he not realize how revealing his statements are of his character? Who needs tabloids to dish... he does a good job all by himself.
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That's what I was thinking when I read it. So mean-spirited and dismissive of a young vulnerable person. I'm glad others feel that way.
Okay I understand where he is coming from you all jump to the negative right away. the judges have been voting unfairly for quite a while Val is a very good dancer and a lot of the nit picking they have done with him. He was saying he could understand it better and Bristol was not a very good dancer but had improved a lot from her first appearance. They underscored them all season If you know anything about dance.They already had in mind who they wanted to win. I loved Val and Kelly because actually performed the dances without all the gymnastic and other stunts.


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The Economic Value of Wetland Conservation and Creation: A Meta-Analysis
AbstractThe rationale for conservation and creation of wetlands stems from the recognition of both their ecological and economic values. This paper examines the welfare impacts of goods and services provided by wetlands. We collected 385 estimates of the economic value of 181 natural and man-made wetlands from 167 studies worldwide. The resulting database is less biased towards North America than previous reviews of the literature. The relative importance of characteristics of the valuation study, of the wetland site, and of the socio-economic and geographical context is estimated by means of a meta-regression analysis of wetland values. Provision of amenities, flood control and storm buffering, and water quality improvement are the most highly valued wetland services. The relevance of the socio-economic and geographical context clearly emerges from the analysis and, in particular, the proximity to other wetland sites is negatively correlated with valuations. An analysis of the effect of environmental stress on wetland value shows that the latter increases with stress from human development activities and uses. In addition to the basic meta-regression model, the influence of authorship effects and of the geographic regions is examined by means of a multi-level approach. A second extended meta-regression model including cross-effects shows that the valuations of specific services vary according to the type of wetland producing them.
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Related researchKeywords: Constructed Ecosystems; Economic Valuation; Man-Made Wetlands; Meta-Regression; Wetland Values;
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Alinne Arrived in Mexico City for her surgery. Born blind, she is now 11-years old and the doctors discovered a malignant tumor behind her left eye and feared that it could spread throughout her brain. On Saturday morning the tumor and her left eye was removed. The eye was replaced with a prosthetic eye. Alinne is doing well and will soon be home.
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You made a real difference to the people that were struck by the flood. Many received help with food, water, clothing, and construction material. Although these people live within sight of Texas, they remain in Mexico and are doing all that is possible to help themselves. I was often overwhelmed with families that wanted to express their gratitude for the help from "The Americans that work with Paper Houses" and I wish each of you could have been with me on my most recent walk in the Colonias.
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June 2014
Recovering at home, Antonio was pulled from his bed and carried up the ladder to the roof, as the sudden flood waters kept rising. Eventually, the water reached the roof. After the water subsided, Antonio was taken to the hospital to make certain none of his stitches broke. His family lost everything. When I write 'everything' I am remembering looking at the inside of this house. The refrigerator, stove, bedding, furniture, clock and the small TV that was in his room are all gone. Clothing - washed away or destroyed. Food - washed away of destroyed. Like all of the other houses, there is simply nothing left. The appliances and furniture were all purchased on credit. The credit of the poor is not Visa or Master Card. The stores provide credit and payments are payroll deducted.
Christian has already experienced brain surgery and he will need another surgery. His home was also flooded. He also waiting on the roof with his parents as the waters continued to rise. The house was completely filled with water and all was lost. Like other families, they have no way to replace anything. Unlike other families, they also need to get their son to Monterrey for another operation.
As I explained in another post, the three children in this picture are all deaf-mutes. Yes, they also were in the same colonia as Antonio and Christian. Yes, they also lost everything that they own. We are doing all that we can in this colonia.
We are also helping the parents of Gabby. You may recall that her mother sells her own blood to keep food on the table.
We also met another paralyzed child in this same colonia and an elderly woman confined to a wheel chair.
I return to the colonias to continue delivering your help and I continue to hear mothers ask, "Why are these Americans doing so much to help my child? They've never even met my child. How can I thank them? How can I explain how I feel?"
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An interesting note for developers, the dual-boot feature allows for testing Qt apps in both operating systems. App development for both MeeGo and Maemo are based on Nokia's Qt development APIs, allowing apps to be written on a PC and then transfered to both Maemo and MeeGo.
Nokia told the MeeGo blog that the N900 is used as a development hardware platform and that there is no plan to implement the dual-boot option in commercial software releases.
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Categories > Celebrities > My Chemical Romance > The Ghost of You (Sequal)
Chapter Eleven2 Reviews
"What about me? Where am I sleeping?"
"Hmm. You'll just have to bunk with Gee!" he walked away leaving me stunned. Well at least there was two beds in every room. We reached the room. When he opened the door I flung my bag inside. It hit a small table which fell over from the impact of the bag. Gerard laughed. I was about to jump on one of the beds when I noticed there was ONLY ONE BED.
"What the fuck!? One bed!?"
"I'll take the fold up couch."
"NO. I wont let you. I guess we can just share the bed. Its big enough...I think..." I rummaged through my bag and pulled out some clothes than raced to bathroom. I needed a shower, bad. I sat in the shower just letting the warm water hit my back for almost an hour and decided to come out and get some rest. I put on my pj's and dried my hair. I took off all my make-up but afterwards applied a small layer of eyeliner so I didn't look like a monster. I emerged from the bathroom and fell face down on the bed groaning. Gerard laughed and continued flipping through the channels that displayed boring re-runs of Scrubs.
"Nothing on." He groaned and let the remote fall onto the pillow next to him. I jumped up and grabbed it. After flicking through the channels I found a movie.
"Night of the living dead?"
"Yes please!" I clicked on the channel. The movie was just about to start. We both jumped up and ran around the room shutting doors and lights and curtains to keep out all light but the tv. I plugged in a small night light in the bathroom and creaked the door open a bit for a small beam to shine through. He grabbed us snacks and we both pulled the blanket I brought on top of us. I felt like I did when we were kids. Not that 19 is much older than 16. It felt like old times but I knew he didn't feel the same. He didn't know the real me. He looked down at my pajama pants and smiled. I was wearing his. I smiled back and we focused on the movie. Half way through it was getting intense.
"Holy shit...." I grabbed his wrist and he put his other hand on top of mine. i could tell he was scared as much as I was.
"AGHHHHHH!!!" We both shot up in the air and gripped onto each other tightly. I hadn't been that close to him in three years. It felt nice. I leaned my head on his chest as we both breathed heavily scared from the scene we just saw. He still smelt the same... another scary scene popped up and I hid my eyes in his shirt. He laughed at me so I looked up.
"Are you laughing at me?"
"Because you're so scared over such a dumb movie."
"You're scared too."
"No I'm not."
"You're latching on to me with a death grip. You're scared shit."
"Maybe I just want to be close to you."
"That's fine too." What was I doing? I was falling in love all over again? No! bad Alaina, bad! He smiled at me. That sweet adorable i-care-about-you smile. It was so cheesy but I couldn't get enough of it. I had to return it. My body wouldn't let me hold it back. He glanced at my lips and back to my eyes. Then leaned down.
'No, shit, no. Don't let him kiss you. You have to leave him soon. Don't!' He pressed his lips to mine and kissed me. I felt like I was about to explode. I kissed back. It wasn't because that's my first instinct. I really wanted this. At the same time I didn't. He layed me on my back and his hands moved up my shirt. My hands made the same movements. Suddenly I realized what I was doing. I pushed him off me and started to cry. I grabbed my shoes and a jacket and tried to quickly put them on but my hands were shakey.
"I-I'm sorry Porcelain. I-"
"You didn't do anything wrong."
"Why are you crying then?" He put his hands on my shoulders.
"I just-I-I don't-" I couldn't tell him the real reasons. I walked out of the room and ran down the hall. He tried following and called my name loudly but I didn't care I kept going. I walked around the hotel aimlessly until I decided I needed a smoke. I reached inside my jacket pocket to get my pack and lighter when I felt something else. After I lit the cigarette I put it between my lips and took the object I had felt before. When I pulled it out it glistened in the moonlight. It was the necklace. I remembered when Gerard gave it to me. All those years ago.
"Porcelain?" My cigarette dropped from my mouth and I turned around to see Mikey.
"Are you okay?"
"Mhm." I could barely push out that simple yes. My tears had flood my vision and ruined my eyeliner. He looked at my sadly and then down at my hands. When he gaze stopped there his eyes widened.


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They are currently trading at 5.5x earnings. The balance sheet is a bit questionable with negative tangible book, debt to equity of 2.0 and a current ratio of .9. However going forward Enel should return to positive cash flow and hopefully improve the balance sheet. After the current high-beta, low market cap, high risk rally, the pendulum may be ready to swing the other direction and reward more stable companies like utilities.
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Ithica has been a wonderful environment for my son. He has attended for 2 years now. First for pre-k and now in kindergarten. The Principal knows most all of the children by name. He is seen in the halls and does not sit in his office all days. He is involved in many of the activities. The staff is wonderfully polite and curteous. The teachers that my son has had so far are all wonderful and have taken time to listen not just to my questions and concerns, but also those of my son. I would recommend this school to anyone who is looking to come to this area.
Our son is in the Pre-K Program at Ithica Elem and it is one of the best classes that he has been in. The school as a whole thinks that your day is what you make it which is a great lesson for kids. We are very happy with Ithica as a whole.
Our two children truly enjoy attending Ithica. The Administrators & teachers are excellent. They not only offer a challenging academic setting, but also provide many fun activities. They truly provide a well rounded experience.
I love Ithica Elementary School, my daughter has been at that school since 2007. The teaching program is excellent.
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I love this school, my daughter is in second grade and she usually made d average in florida but since we moved here shes made straight a's , her teacher is great and they dont allow anyone to pick up kids without showing a picture id, and no kids are allowed off the bus unless there parents are standing there, this school is awesome!
My child is in the 3rd grade, and has been home schooled until this year. I was really nervous about putting him in public school. He really likes this school, he cant hardly sleep at night waiting for the next school day!
My child loves this school. We just moved to Villa Rica from Douglasville & we couldn't be happier.
This is outstanding school. The school is beautiful! The teachers and the new administrations are wonderful. They have children at heart. My child loves everything about his school and so do I.
My daughter has been a student at Ithica since kindergarten, the staff at the school has been incredible. From the front office to the teachers, even the lunch ladies go out of thier way for the kids! My child is in the special ed program for most of her studies, and the teachers are amazing. The only thing that would make this a better school would be if they offered an art program, I believe kids are most expressive this way.
Overall, this school is excellent! The teachers are all highly qualified and are caring and nurturing. Students are challenged academically, but are given support and encouragement to strive to their best potential. I would highly recommend this school to anyone!
My son has done extremely well at this school. He came to the school behind academically and has jumped two and a half grade levels in his reading in one year.
The classrooms are overcrowded. Although they have the mandatory student to (para-pro) teacher ratios, the classrooms do not seem to be a conducive environment for learning.
This is an overall great school. They work well with the parents. When they see the need to step in too help a child succeed, it is done so. A wonderful school!
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When I began doing Cathe Workouts: 1999
How I found out about Cathe Workouts: Poking around the newly acquired internet. 'Twas dial up!
Why I love doing Cathe Workouts: Cathe is the ultimate, the quintissential instructor. No one does what she does as well as she does. She inspires, takes me to my edge with a smile so I almost don't feel the pain and fatique of trying to keep up with her incredible endurance and dead on footwork and cuing. She can get this lanky, clumsy woman to go the distance until I am lying on the floor in a pool of sweat, in the guise of basking int he wonder she is. In truth I am sneakily resting until I find the strength drag my bod up and get moving again.
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Other Workout DVDs that I own: I have a number of Ashtanga and Power yoga DVD's but use Cathe cardio and strength work exclusively. I have the privlige of attending truly wonderful Anusara yoga classes here in Tucson.
My Fitness Goals: Always I simply want to do a bit more, get a little stronger, increase my endurance and keep smiling as I do. Though I may be crying on the inside.
My Success Story: If my workout life can be described in peaks and valleys, I am in the valley, working my way back up. I always do. =) Still true but faced the biggest challenge so far when my husband succumbed to alcoholism and pain killer addiction and died at 52. I am rebuilding my life. The old one is gone and the new one is still a little scary. I am studying to be a Medical Assistant. I am an excellent student and I enjoy using my brain again.
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Cathe IS my personal trainer and I have reached many fitness goals, some pretty stringent working out at home and prefer it to gym training. I may have to turn on my DVD Player to get Cathe to crack the whip but she does it and so well! Work! When she demands, I comply! :)
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Case Description: Complainant (Thanatos) accuses Defendant (Sisyphus) of false imprisonment. After King Sisyphus did all kinds of awful things, like killing guests and giving away Zeus's secrets, Zeus ordered Thanatos to chain the mortal down in the Underworld. However, the sneaky Sisyphus tricked the death god by asking him to demonstrate how the chains worked. When Thanatos put on the chains, Sisyphus ditched the psychopomp and high-tailed it back to the land of living.
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Hi! It's Alice. I have some stuff I want to say and I'll start at (sort of) the beginning.
When I went to uni, I was very much a "fangirl" and was very active, especially on twitter, but also on tumblr. Throughout my first year, I gradually stopped being a "fangirl". I still liked the things (except Sherlock s3) but didn't obsess over them, and lost my liking of the whole fandom part of twitter.
I was, however, still active on tumblr. I made some good friends on here, I liked reblogging gifs from tv shows etc even though I wasn't as into them as before. I did hate my URL as it showed me to be a fangirl when I truly wasn't anymore, but I was known for it due to some popular posts and friends. Lately though, as I've started work, I've grown tired of tumblr in general and have mostly just queued stuff and to be honest, I don't really care about most of the things I'm blogging.
Therefore, I've decided to leave. I've grown out of it: I'm legally an adult and I've mentally/physically aged about 5 years in the last 9 months so it's not for me anymore. I might return, but probably not. I will be ostarcised for this but I'm thinking of setting up what you might call a "hipster" blog because I think they're beautiful and interesting. But it's officially goodbye to the fandom side.
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Definition of impostor in English:
impostorLine breaks: im¦pos|tor
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɒstə /
(also imposter)
A person who pretends to be someone else in order to deceive others, especially for fraudulent gain: the charity has warned anyone approached by the impostor to contact police immediately
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- The budding scientists of today will need to prepare themselves to do battle with silliness, impostors, tricksters and fraudsters.
- Everyone thought I knew what I was doing, but I felt like a fraud, an impostor, the Great Pretender!
- It is, then, not only the impostor's willingness to deceive on which their success depends, but the fact that we are on the whole astonishingly trusting and generally do not expect to be lied to.
impersonator, masquerader, pretender, deceiver, hoaxer; fake, fraud, sham, humbug; charlatan, quack, mountebank; trickster, fraudster, swindler, hoodwinker, bluffer, deluder, duper, cheat, cheater, defrauder, exploiter, rogue, wolf in sheep's clothing
informal phoney, conman, con artist, flimflammer, flimflam man
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Changes to bring UK copyright law up to date for the digital age have taken an important step forward today (27 March 2014), as the government publishes the final Exceptions to Copyright regulations for consideration by Parliament.
The changes make small but important reforms to UK copyright law and aim to end the current situation where minor and reasonable acts of copying which benefit consumers, society and the economy are unlawful. They also remove a range of unnecessary rules and regulations from the statute book in line with the government's aim to reduce regulation.
Many publishing houses don't allow their products to be lent out by digital libraries for fear of piracy. Articles and books by researchers are also affected. Readers are the ones who have to pay the price.
In a significant ruling regarding backlist e-book rights, a New York court this week held that e-book publisher Open Road infringed HarperCollins' copyright with its e-book edition of Jean Craighead George's 1973 bestselling children's book Julie of the Wolves.
"Having accordingly relied on the words of the contract, this Court holds that, by its language, the contract grants to HarperCollins the exclusive right to license electronic publications, a right which was infringed by Open Road in its unlicensed e-book publication of Julie of the Wolves," held judge Naomi Reice Buchwald.
This story from the Seattle Public Library is a bit dated, but worth reading.
When Seattle Public Library lifted its ban on guns in early November, officials there said they had done so because patrons had complained.
Internal library emails reveal that there was just one patron complaint in several years – a man with a Yahoo email account who didn't identify himself as either a patron or Seattle resident.
That man, Dave Bowman, lives in Seattle and has a library card (which he uses, he noted in an email to KUOW), and said that he demanded the policy change on behalf of all gun owners. He described himself as "neither a conservative, nor liberal, but a libertarian."
"I noticed one day that the library's rules stated that firearms were not allowed on library property except by law enforcement," Bowman said by email to KUOW. "I knew this rule was in violation of state law (and common sense) and brought it to their attention."
Joe Fithian, the head of security for the library, replied to Bowman: "Much the same as eating and sleeping or being intoxicated are not against the law, (guns) are against our rules of conduct."
But Bowman refused to back down and within two months, the library announced to its staff that it would drop the gun ban. Staff members could ask questions, but administrators were firm: On Nov. 4, the library would allow guns.
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Library districts need to adapt to the needs of their communities. A one-size-fits-all tax levy simply will not work. The library districts in Arizona have never been accused of abusing their authority, and, what's more, they provide valuable service to all of the libraries in their geographic areas.
Read more from The Hipster Librarian.
An ethics complaint by a self-described "library watchdog" alleging a prominent Morris County official misled local libraries, telling them they have to allow pornography on publicly accessible computers, has been dismissed.
In the complaint, Dan Kleinman, who runs SafeLibraries.Blogspot.com, said Ann Grossi "has materially mislead the communities of Roxbury and Montville into allowing pornography in the public libraries, despite community desires to remove it and despite the law."
But Fair Use is an exemption from copyright enforcement- it is not a transfer of rights. There is no conceivable reading of Fair Use that allows an image user to then broker permissions for other users. Journal X cannot license my work away from me without my say so. They do not have standing to apply a CC license to my work.
The solution should be easy enough. Journal X could exempt contributed images from their blanket CC-license, and they should ensure the images are not atomized and separated from the rest of the paper. The Fair Use of images depends on their context within the publication, anyway.
In a follow up to an earlier story, the Conan Doyle estate may appeal the ruling against it's copyright claim according to this Publishers Weekly story.
"Is Sherlock Holmes truly a free man? Not so fast say attorneys for the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
In a December 23 decision, an Illinois federal court held that Holmes and other characters and story elements in more than 50 Sherlock Holmes stories are in the public domain. But attorneys for the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle this week insisted that the complete characters of Holmes and Watson won't be freed until the final 10 stories published after 1922 enter the public domain, in 2022."
What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2014?
The books On the Road, Atlas Shrugged, and The Cat in the Hat, the films The Bridge on the River Kwai, Funny Face, and The Prince and the Showgirl, the play Endgame ("Fin de Partie"), and more. . .
Congress Shrugged
Current US law extends copyright for 70 years after the date of the author's death, and corporate "works-for-hire" are copyrighted for 95 years after publication. But prior to the 1976 Copyright Act (which became effective in 1978), the maximum copyright term was 56 years – an initial term of 28 years, renewable for another 28 years. Under those laws, works published in 1957 would enter the public domain on January 1, 2014, where they would be "free as the air to common use." (Mouse over any of the links below to see gorgeous cover art from 1957.) Under current copyright law, we'll have to wait until 2053.1 And no published works will enter our public domain until 2019. The laws in Canada and the EU are different – thousands of works are entering their public domains on January 1.
This New York Times story has the details.
"A federal judge has issued a declarative judgment stating that Holmes, Watson, 221B Baker Street, the dastardly Professor Moriarty and other elements included in the 50 Holmes works Arthur Conan Doyle published before January 1, 1923, are no longer covered by United States copyright law, and can be freely used by new creators without paying any licensing fee to the Conan Doyle estate."


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Police responded to the five-car accident around 3:30 p.m. Friday. Of the 12 people involved in the accident, five people were sent to the hospital.
A 12-year-old boy that was sent to the hospital with life-threatening injuries is now in critical, but stable condition. The other four people will be ok.
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