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The teenage years are also called adolescence. During this time, the teenager will see the greatest amount of growth in height and weight. Adolescence is a time for growth spurts and puberty changes. An adolescent may grow several inches in several months followed by a period of very slow growth, then have another growth spurt. Changes with puberty may occur gradually or several signs may become visible at the same time.
There is a great amount of variation in the rate of changes that may occur. Some adolescents may experience these signs of maturity sooner or later than others. It is important to remember that these changes happen at different times for everyone. Being smaller or bigger than other girls is normal as each child experiences puberty at her own time.
Sexual and other physical maturation that occurs during puberty results from hormonal changes.
Girls experience puberty as a sequence of events, but their pubertal changes usually begin before boys of the same age. Each girl is different and may progress through these changes differently.
There are specific stages of development that girls go through when developing secondary sexual characteristics. The following is a brief overview of the changes that occur:
In girls, the initial puberty change is the development of breast buds, in which a small mound is formed by the elevation of the breast and papilla (nipple). The areola (the circle of different colored skin around the nipple) increases in size at this time.
The breasts then continue to enlarge.
Eventually, the nipples and the areolas will elevate again, forming another projection on the breasts. At the end of puberty, the junction between the breast and areola will again smooth out.
The initial growth of pubic hair produces long, soft hair that is only in a small area around the genitals. This hair then becomes darker and coarser as it continues to spread.
The pubic hair eventually looks like adult hair, but in a smaller area. It may spread to the thighs and sometimes up the stomach.
The following are additional changes that may occur for the female as she experiences the changes of puberty:
There may be an increase in hair growth, not only in the pubic area, but also under the arms and on the legs. Many women may decide to shave this hair.
The female's body shape will also begin to change. There may be an increase not only in height and weight, but the hips may get wider as well. There may also be an increase in fat in the buttocks, legs, and stomach. These are normal changes that may occur during puberty.
Her body size will increase, with the feet, arms, legs, and hands beginning to grow in advance of the body. This may cause the adolescent girl to experience a time of feeling clumsy.
As the hormones of puberty increase, adolescents may experience an increase in oily skin and sweating. This is a normal part of growing. It is important to wash daily, including the face. Acne may develop.
Adolescent girls will also experience menstruation, or menstrual periods. This begins when the body starts producing more hormones to prepare for reproduction. Eventually, the body begins to release an egg from the ovaries. If the egg is fertilized with a sperm from a male, it will grow into a baby inside the uterus. If the egg is not fertilized, the endometrial lining of the uterus is not needed and is shed through the vagina as fluid. The fluids are bloody and are usually released monthly.
The teenage years bring many changes, not only physically, but also mentally and socially. Children in these years increase their ability to think abstractly and eventually make plans and set long-term goals. Each child may progress at different rates, and show a different view of the world. In general, the following are some of the abilities that may be evident in your teenager:
Developing the ability to think abstractly
Concerns with philosophy, politics, and social issues
Thinking long-term
Setting goals
Comparing oneself to one's peers
As your adolescent begins to struggle for independence and control, many changes may occur. The following are some of the issues that may be involved with your adolescent during these years:
She wants independence from parents.
Peer influence and acceptance is very important.
Peer relationships become very important.
She may be in love.
She may have long-term commitment in relationships.


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Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of America. Diocese of Alaska records, 1733-1938
Principally ecclesiastical records relating to the administration of the numerous parishes and chapels of the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska, and, to a lesser extent, in Canada and the United States, comprising ...
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The song \'Ami Shotti Bolchi\' means \'I am speaking the truth\' and depicts Vidya\'s wild search for her husband in an unknown city.
"My film has two heroines, Vidya Balan and Kolkata, and this song was for the latter," Ghosh said.
The song features all the important facets of the city, from Howrah Bridge and Victoria Memorial to Kumartuli, the idol makers\' colony, and into a Durga Puja pandal during the vermilion ceremony, as it takes the viewers on a virtual tour of the city during the annual Durga Puja while Vidya frantically searches for her missing husband in a taxi.


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iTalc classroom management software
Various issues kept on cropping up during the software configuration. The most common source of error is an incorrect key configuration – that is, the file permissions are not set correctly. To troubleshoot this, first check to see whether you can access the private key. Also ensure that the account on which the ICA is running can access the public key. If this does not solve the problem, you might want to check out the logfiles (/tmp/italc_client.log on the students' machines and /tmp/italc_master.log on the teacher's machine).
Besides incorrectly set permissions for the keys, firewalls often prevent connections being set up. Make sure that the /usr/bin/ica and /usr/bin/italc programs have inward- and outward-bound access to ports 5900 and 5858, respectively. See the iTalc Wiki for additional tips [4].
The developers have put in some good work to make iTalc a nicely rounded package for deployment in classroom situations. Critical functions are available intuitively via buttons and drop-down menus. If you select a distribution that has iTalc in its repository, the installation and configuration should also be fairly trivial. With budgets in education as tight as ever, the software really does seem to be a worthwhile alternative.
- iTalc: http://italc.sourceforge.net
- Mandrake packages: http://www.edumandriva.ru/download/Pac2008.1/
- openSUSE packages: http://www.opensuse-education.org/download/repo/1.0/10.3/
- iTalc Wiki: http://italc.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?title=Troubleshooting
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Wenman Joseph Bassett-Lowke (1877 – 1953) was the son of Joseph Tom Lowke. Tom Lowke's stepfather, Absalom Bassett, had established a boiler making business in Kingswell Street, Northampton, in 1859. Tom Lowke continued the business, and when he married he gave his two sons, Wenman and Harold, the middle name of 'Bassett' in honour of his stepfather. W. J. himself married Florence Jane Jones, the daughter of Charles Jones, one of the founders of the Crockett and Jones shoe manufactory, still in business today.
It was for their impending marriage in the spring of 1917 that Tom Lowke bought them 78 Derngate. Bassett-Lowke was already interested in modern architecture and design and he wanted to encourage good design in others. He was an early member of the Design and Industries Association, established in 1915 to encourage good design in all aspects of manufacture. His personal taste was for the modern and the streamlined. He agreed with the DIA slogan: 'fitness for purpose'. He was also intrigued by ingenious gadgets, and delighted in the mechanical toys that he bought on his frequent trips to the continent.
By the mid-1920s Bassett-Lowke was able to commission a completely new house. He approached the German architect Peter Behrens, who was in the forefront of the modern movement in Germany, fusing art and industry. Like Mackintosh, he worked for Bassett-Lowke without visiting Northampton. In April 1925 Bassett-Lowke and his builder Charles Green had one meeting with Behrens in Paris and in 1926 the Bassett-Lowkes moved into their remarkable new house.
Each year from 1922 Bassett-Lowke commissioned a personal Christmas card. Charles Rennie Mackintosh drew the first. Bassett-Lowke's interests were reflected in these cards. The cards represented the turning of the New Year, conveying a sense of speed and optimism. Only in the darker days leading up to and during the Second World War did social and political anxieties colour the choice of subject. His pacifism and social conscience shone through. So, too, did his interest in travel, in planes, ships and trains. Always eager to see new places, to record them on film, he still had a great attachment for his hometown, which was recorded one year in a photomontage card.
Although Bassett-Lowke left school at thirteen, he absorbed many new ideas from his travelling and contact with people from all walks of life. He went on fact-finding missions to Germany and Holland. He was also keen to ensure that the outside world appreciated the benefits of Northampton. In 1932, he was instrumental in producing a film showing Northampton's history and current attractions. Despite his incessant travel, Bassett-Lowke never thought of leaving Northampton. He was a member of many societies, including the Rotary Club, of which he was a founder. His work on the Council gave him most opportunity to influence the future of Northampton. He was also a founder Director of the Northampton Repertory Theatre in 1926.
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Category: Project Bikes
Latest up date on Carbon Bonneville
Below you can see the progress being made on the Carbon Bonneville bike, in place now is the rising rate rear linkage of a design so far found to be unique to Taimoshan Cycle Works and the tank has been modified and is taking shape ready to have carbon moulds taken. Also you can start to see the start of the seat/trial section styling and construction.
In later post, you will see the Bonneville T140 ES electric start unit that was acquired of ebay and is currently being refurbished and the "new" old stock lucas starter from a Norton Commando that will have the front housing replaced by a custom machined housing to mate it will the electric start unit.
Carbon Swingarm construction for Carbon Bonneville – step 9&10
Step 9 – Machining of needle roller thrust bearing housing for swingarm pivot
In this section I will show that final machined product of the bearing housings that will be bonded into the ends of the pivot section of the carbon swingarm. Each bearing housings contains a combination needle roller & ball bearing thrust bearing with inner sleave. This design will provide a low friction pivot joint.
here you can see the finished items with the bearings inserted ready for polishing then bonding into the swingarm.
Step 10 – Machining of the rear spindle carriers
These parts started off as 65mm dia FMA aluminium bar and were first machined on the lathe to the correct diameters and profiles and then set up on the milling machine and hand milled with a lot of care and patience into the final part which was … Read More »
Carbon Fibre Swingarm construction for Carbon Bonneville – Step 7
Step 7: wrap carbon reinforcement of the whole section
In this post you can see part of the process of competing the Delta pivot mounts and further wrapping of the swingarm.
You will also see that I needed to provide clearance at the centre point of the swingarm as the swingarm would have fouled on the main frame at the expremities of the pivot range. The clearance was provided by cutting out a section of the reinforced tube and then bonding in anouther piece of carbon tube that I had made earlier for this purpose.
Next post will include details of the machining of swingarm pivot bearing housings and the rear spindle carriers that will be bonded into the ends of the main spas
Carbon Fibre Swingarm Construction for Carbon Bonneville – Step 5 & 6
step 5: main spar bracing core wrapping
The step involve adding another 2 more layers of plain weave carbon cloth over the whole foam core brace area. Again there are a few tricks to this process which I don't care to to share but you can get the idea.
I will say that it is really important in these stages to take a lot of care in cutting the carbon cloth. To do this I first make card or paper pattern/templates of all of the pieces that I need to lay. I cut and test fit all pieces, taking a lot of care not to fray the cloth which is really fragile at this point. neatness is everything at this point and mistake can be hugely costly in both materials and time. I there is about £400-500 quid of materials and about … Read More »
Carbon Fibre Swingarm Construction for Carbon Bonneville – Step 4
step 4: main spar bracing core
After wrapping the main spar joints, I need to brace the main spar in the section infront of the wheel leading up to the pivot tube.
The reason for this bracing are 3 fold.
1) to add to the lateral rigidity of the main spars like a gussett. This hugely reduces the point loading on the wrapped and bonded main spar joints by spreading the load.
2) to add tortional rigidity to the structure. This is achieve with the specific laying up of different types of carbon fibre in the brace core and on the outside of the area. Layer the fibres at 45/45 deg to the direction across the flat area of the top and bottom of the brace will increase tortional rigidity of the structure.
3) to provide a platform onto which the suspension linkage mounts will … Read More »
Carbon fibre swingarm construction for Carbon Bonneville – Step 2 & 3
Step 2: primary bonding of the main spars
On that the spar tube has been completed it is time to cut and shape the butt joints of the main spar tubes and then do the primary bonding of the joints, ready to then have the joints filleted and further reinforced in a later stage.
Although the image is not that sharp you can make out the that tubes have been shaped to make a close fitted shape around the circumference of the the pivot tube, the closer the fit the stronger the primary bond using the 2 part structural expoy adhesive.
Note that the bonding process needs to be done on an perfectly flat surface and not the wooden bench top!
step 3: filleting of the bonded joints, then secondary wrapping joints in carbon
Looks like I forgot to photograph the bonded part before … Read More »
Carbon fibre swingarm construction for Carbon Bonneville – Step 1
Step 1: prepare the pivot tube and the 2 x main spars of the swaingarm.
In order to save time on this part of the project, instead of making the inner carbon tube of the 3 part construction process of the main spars, I bought pre-formed, roll wrapped pre-preg carbon tube of 38mm ID and 1.4mm wall thickness, these tubes are already very stiff due to their diameter, but they are not very impact resistant again due to their construction, however that with soon change.
So taking the pre-formed tube I then wrap the std tube in 5mm thick core material, using a technique that developed in which I spiral wrap the tube in the cor material, binding it in place with a roving of plain carbon.
Once the core material is firmly in place I then wet out the core with the … Read More »
Carbon Swingarm construction for Carbon Bonneville – the process
After finishing the design, materials calculations and rising rate linkage for the swingarm for the carbon bonneville. I finally started on the swingarm construction following the process below. As the swingarm progresses I will add new post with photos of the construction and some weights ( just for interest sake).
The original swingarm weighs approx 3 kgs ( i will confirm exact weight in a day or so), I am expecting my extra stiff carbon swingarm to weigh in at about 1.3kgs, quite heavy in scheme of the project, when you consider that the whole frame as it currently stands without the seat hoop, weighs about 3.5kgs and a total completed weight of about 4 kgs.
The reason for the extra weight of the swingam is the fact that it is massively over engineered.
The original swingarm on some models is a 32mm … Read More »
Aprilia RS250 Cafe Fighter – Pt 4 Carbon Fibre LCD mount
In this post I am showing the development of another of the one off carbon fibre parts produced for the RS250. This small mounting unit fits in the section between the 999 tank and the sterring head/yokes of the RS250 and will serve to fill some dead space and also to mount the LCD temp readout unit from the RS250 display module, an essential item on any 2 stroke.
This unit was first fabricated ( hand shaped ) from foam then laminated with GRP, filled and sanded and a production mould taken. This is the first part out of the production mould.
The part then has a number of epoxy clear coats to allow the part to be sanded to a fine finish and then polished.
You can now see the part fitted in mockup to the bike. The LCD screen … Read More »
Aprilia RS250 Cafe Fighter -pt3 Carbon Seat
As you can start to see, the carbon fibre cafe racer seat unit is coming along, with the final version of the prototype being readied for taking the production mould.
After prepping and a lot of sanding the prototype is ready for another layer of resin, slowly building up the thickness so that the part can be prepared to a super smooth and glossy finish so that the production mould will have as few surface irregularities as is possible, this will ultimately reduce the final finishing of the production part and will yield a better quality part in the end.
A final test fitting to the Aprilia RS250 with its ducati 999 tank and the custom rear subframe. Starting to look pretty good.
(NB if anyone is interested I will be making these seat units available for sale when … Read More »


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|Scary thought for Cowboys opponents: Tony Romo has yet to reach his full potential.
NFC East preview:
Cowboys: NFC favorites | Eagles: Rebound season? | Giants: Feeling overshadowed | Redskins: Zorn in charge
"America's Team" is in the spotlight again. Except that spotlight looks a lot like a bullseye.
Expectations are out of sight for the Cowboys, who finished 13-3 in 2007, matched a franchise record for victories, finished first in the NFC East, earned home-field advantage throughout the playoffs, and then lost their first playoff game to the Giants.
2008 forecast
Vic Carucci: The Cowboys have the talent of a Super Bowl team. All they need is for everyone -- especially Tony Romo -- to maintain the proper focus to perform at a high level through the postseason. Prediction: 11-5
Thomas George: No team in the league has more talent. None more ego. Have the Cowboys learned that talent alone will only take them so far? Prediction: 12-4
Pat Kirwan: Tony Romo should get better even though he threw for 36 TDs last year. The addition of Pacman Jones will eventually give the defense an opportunity to get Roy Williams off the field in pass situations. The Cowboys should win the division. Prediction: 11-5
Gil Brandt: The Cowboys return 13 Pro Bowl players from last season, plus three newcomers who have been to the Pro Bowl elsewhere. They have as much talent as anyone, but the schedule is tougher. Prediction: 11-5
» Cowboys' 2008 schedule
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Riser: Patrick Crayton
With Terry Glenn now out of the mix, Crayton is the unquestioned No. 2 wide receiver in Dallas. He'll be the third option in what should remain a prolific offensive attack.
Faller: Miles Austin
Austin had a chance to earn the third spot on Dallas' depth chart behind Terrell Owens and Patrick Crayton, but an injured knee will cost him a chance at that prominent role. He might not be back in action until late September.
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Dallas has not won a playoff game in a dozen years. Only five others -- Buffalo, Cincinnati, Detroit, Houston and Kansas City -- have gone as long without a playoff victory.
The Cowboys are two teams in one. They're the solid team that returns 20 starters and appears to have upgraded at the other two spots, and they're the team holding outspoken personalities Terrell Owens, Tank Johnson and Adam 'Pacman' Jones that was remarkably quiet throughout training camp.
They also have a coach, Wade Phillips, who doesn't act like it but is under enormous pressure, both from the expectations and the knowledge that offensive coordinator Jason Garrett is a head coach in waiting.
Quarterback Tony Romo, last year's top-rated passer in the NFC, still should be improving; this will be just his third season as a starter.
The new starters are running back Marion Barber, who led the Cowboys in rushing last season even though he started only one game, and linebacker Zach Thomas, who came from the Dolphins. Rookie Felix Jones' speed should be a terrific complement to Barber's power.
One problem area could be the failure to upgrade the second wideout position, where Patrick Crayton remains the starter, but the Cowboys expect tight end Jason Witten, who caught 96 passes last year, to continue to take some of the defensive attention away from Owens.
The 3-4 defense, which relies more on movement and schemes under Phillips than it did under Bill Parcells, who favored a power defense, should be improved.
Overall, this is still a young team that has faltered down the stretch and in the playoffs. Over the last decade, the Cowboys have a winning record in every month but December. It used to be that Dallas grew stronger after its 10-day post-Thanksgiving break, but lately the time off has not been kind to the Cowboys. Over the last five years, the Cowboys' winning percentage was .636 through Thanksgiving and .429 after Thanksgiving.
On the hot seat
Coach Wade Phillips. When you're the conference favorite, you have a head coach in waiting on your staff and you're getting ready to move into the most lavish new stadium in the world, you are pretty much on notice. It's time to win. Now.
Defensive end Chris Canty is in his contract year, and you have to believe the Cowboys expect more from him than the seven career sacks he has produced in three previous seasons. He has been a solid starter, but nothing special so far.
Hard road to hoe
More is expected of Dallas in the post-Thanksgiving stretch than the Cowboys have given the last few years, and this year the spotlight will be on the offense. Their four December games are all against strong defensive teams -- Steelers, Giants, Ravens, Eagles.
Cowboys will be better than you think if ...
Tony Romo continues to ascend and Terrell Owens continues to produce at an age (35 in December) at which wide receivers usually decline.
Cowboys will be worse than you think if ...
Running back Marion Barber is not as effective in the starter role as he was in the change-of-pace role. Dallas wants a strong running game so the pressure doesn't all fall on Romo.
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Jack Black took the stage with a Queen cover band in concert on June 23, belting out the lyrics to "Bohemian Rhapsody." Suffice it to say, the guy is awesome.
The actor was at the Protomen show at the Exit/In theater in Nashville, Tenn., when the tribute group broke into the song and asked him to participate.
About three minutes into the classic rock staple, the group called The Muppets star, who's also half of the band Tenacious D, on stage to sing back up vocals.
The crowd went wild. Watch Jack rock the house below:
Found out some of the facts:
The band in question is The Protomen (not normally a queen cover band) who have opened for Tenacious D a couple times in Canada (and will again on the 5th of July in toronto).
They were also sighted at Tenacious D's show the next night at the Ryman in Nashville TN (where jack black commented quite fondly about them.)


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Oh my it's the TOP TEN FINALISTS for the Design-A-Pony Contest!
Hasbro/Hub did a group thing of their own!
So awesome, I so wish I could be at Comic Con to get one (Btw if you happen to be there and can snag me one Ill draw you something in return!)
I think they based their attitudes here on what the description said..I dont recall mine at all!
Omg so much dramablahblahblaaah , over her, JUST HER. I mean, sure, I value critique, but she IS based on the cyberpunk fashion (Google it. ) but..so much hate, like, hate hate, DIE IN A FIRE WHAT IN THE NINE HELLS IS THIS SHIT SPARKLE DOG DESU kind of hate. But..wow, all the hate its as if I submitted a pony eating Fluttershy and it won.
I wasnt even thinking sparkle dog.
So much for LOVE AND TOLERATE. hur hur hur
Yea, and hey, why dont you ask her something!
The winner was TINKER, that blue unicorn there down at the bottom corner, whom belongs to… http://the-kittymoo-korner.tumblr.com !!
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Get This! Your Back-to-School Grocery List
Haylie Pomroy: I can't believe that summer is so rapidly coming to an end! We've had such a great time this year, sleeping in, hitting the road, visiting family, and just goofing around. As the school year approaches, I like to think of easy and healthy foods to add to my kid's lunches. Here are a few must-haves on my back-to-school grocery list.
Must haves on your back to school grocery list
Organic peanut butter/ nut butters
I always joke that we have more nut butter varieties in out house that the grocery store.We each seem to have a favorite.The nut butters are rich is fatty acids that are so important for kids brains, attention, and focus.Peanuts are grown in the soil unlike like almonds, walnuts, or cashews that grow high up in trees.Peanuts are considered the dirtiest of nuts containing mold and high toxin and this is why I encourage Organic.Spread this on whole grain crackers, sprouted grain pita or an English muffin and you have one "smart" lunch.Check out my website for the peanut butter wheat germ ball recipe, yummy!
Berries /fruits
The berries are so easy to transport to school and for the most part I am okay if you want to sprinkle a little bit of organic raw sugar or agave nectar on cut strawberries or berries of any kind.This lunch addition can give your kids good strong sustainable energy to make it thru the second half of the school day with out the crash of junkie sugary treats.
My daughter's favorite is to top these with hand whipped organic whipping cream.She likes to add a bit of vanilla, cinnamon, unsweetened coco powder, and stevia or raw sugar to sweeten.I can not tell you how many of the kids at the lunch table try to get her to trade this treat for their cookies and sweets.
Greek Yogurt
This is at the center of my daughter's favorite lunches and a super easy one for me to prep for school.It is rich in protein, calcium and good carbohydrates.Add some veggies and this is one power packed lunch.
The greek yogurt my daughter likes the Fage 2% plain then we add:
2 tbsps. Flax seed
2 tbsps. Wheat germ
½ Cup of blackberries
drizzle agave nectar over the top
I really try to encourage parents to add a veggie at lunch time and or an after school snack
Three of my kid's favorites are:
Carrots and ranch dressing
Sliced red bell peppers dipped in ranch dressing or hummus
Sliced cucumbers sprinkled with sea salt
Don't forget dill pickles, these rich in potassium snacks can be great for growing bones.
Be sure to check out my website for healthy lunch ideas, snacks, breakfasts, and more.
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My Sisters All Want the Same Baby Name!
I have a few months to figure out a baby name, and up until this point, there's only one name my husband and I agree on. The problem? Both my sisters want the name too ...
Momlogic's Talitha: Seven and a half months pregnant and without a name for my little girl, my husband and I recently came up with just ONE name we both agree on. Up until that point, every other name I've brought up has caused the following reactions from him: "That's cute ... for a chocolate lab," "What?? Are you trying to outdo Gwyneth Paltrow?" and "No, my daughter will not be called that." So I was thrilled when I threw a name out there and he finally said, "Hmm. I like it!" Then this:
At a family dinner recently, my mother asked if we had chosen a name. Since we decided not to share until the baby was born, we said, "Not yet, we have a few things in mind but haven't decided." To which my little sister responded, "OH, well, when I have kids, in five or ten years, my babies' names will be ..." and she named the ONE name my husband and I love. Crap.
"OMG, that is too funny, because that's actually the name we love!" I said to her, out of desperation. "Well, you can't have it," she said, "I just claimed it!" Then, my older sister chimed in, "Hey, that's not fair, I've wanted that name for ten years!" This from my older sister, a woman who is leaning more towards not having kids at all!
Am I supposed to "reserve" the name until my little sister gets pregnant and she decides, in "five or ten years," she still wants this same name? Do I have to give my older sister the benefit of the doubt that she'll actually decide to have a kid and use that name?
I am the one giving birth to the family's first grandchild. Shouldn't I get first dibs on the name?
tell sis to kiss your butt!
This happened to me and my boyfriend too! Everyone kept asking if our unborn daughter had a name. After months and months we decided on Violet. Violet was perfect for many reasons… one- our first date we saw Willy Wonka and two- it's my favorite color. Anyways, we were keeping the name a secret- and you know how well secrets are kept. Everyone kept throwing names at us, one friend shouted "Name her Violet!" Ugh I thought to myself if I don't tell her that we already picked Violet, she's gonna take credit. Then another friend, whose favorite color is Purple just causally said "if I have a girl I'm naming her Violet". In the end we spilled the beans for them. Plain and simple just told them, we picked this name because it's perfect. I felt bad for my friend who loved Violet for her future daughter but she was excited. :) Then Jennifer Garner named her daughter Violet Ugh! (and of course she was born a month before ours and everyone thinks we stole it for her…lol) go figure
"VOICE OF REASON" this is for you —this is NOT a childish argument. You are being childish for writing that. I have heard this happen in MANY families! The writer is simply asking what to do, it's not an argument.
ANyway, take the damn name. Don't say anything and then put it on the birth announcements. Nothin' they can do about it now!
this is so childish. YOU are the pregnant one!!!!
You know, naming your child is such a personal and exciting experience…you should go with the name you love - regardless!!! I never, in a MILLION years, would have even thought to name my daughter Delanie…I don't think I had even heard the name until I was just about to go to the ultrasound to find out if we were having a boy or girl. We saw the name in a baby book a few days before and fell in love. The SECOND we heard "girl" it was her name. That said, I seriously think that until you are pregnant, names should just be happy wishes and not something to place a "dibs" on…like others have said, what if your sisters end up not having children, have boys, their spouses/partners don't agree on the name or the babies name would seriously not go with the last name (ok, that may be a bit shallow but really, I think it is important!!!)?. I agree, the name is yours!
Please, please, please tell us the name!!
Take it! and advice your sister http://www.bounty.com/babynames/ I am sure she will find somethig else!
Let us know the end of the story…
Many fmaileis have cultral traditions in which multiple children are named after grandparents, therfore many first cousins have the same name (and the world does not end!) So, I say name your baby the name you want, but tell your sister when she has a baby she has the right to do the same.(chances might be that she will ahve a new fave by then). Sometimes, cousin can be named little"Sue" or big "Sue" or the name is changed just a little. For example Sophie or Sophia.
i was in a similar situation. after i had my son and my sister found out his name she told me that was the name she was going to name her second son. i had no idea about this but she made me feel like i had stolen her name. we are 6 yrs apart and she is my half sister so we were never really that close. now my son will be 3 next month and she is due with a boy in 2 weeks. not only will their birthdays be 9 days apart, but i just found out she told my dad she is naming him dominic, my sons name. im hoping that she realizes this will hurt me and def. strain our relationship, and doesnt go through with it, but who knows! i say take the name, but id hate to see this happen to you!
My sister vetoed a name her and her husband loved bc since we were little playing my I always wanted a name for my child, she opted for a similar sounding name so I could always have "my name", and I was sure I would always use it. The cousins woulD have names alike it would be great! But four years later when it was actually time to name our daughter, so many things had changed and we decided to name my daughter after my best friend who had been killed the year prior! There are so many things that it's almost certain they'd change their minds!
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Thirteen Pac-12 women's rowers named CRCA All-Americans
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - Thirteen Pac-12 women's rowers were named to the 2014 Pocock All-America teams as the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) announced its postseason awards on Monday. CALIFORNIA led the Conference with four athletes on the All-America teams. USC, STANFORD and UCLA each had two selections, and WASHINGTON STATE had one.
CRCA Names Three Huskies To Pocock All-America Team
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Fishing for a world record
By 30/09/2009 09:24:00
Here's a fun video covering Marathon Man's (Jeff Kolodzinski) attempt at beating his own world record for catching the most fish in a 24 hour period. Wonder if there is a record for doing this on the fly too? Hmmmm!?
Even though it's not fly fishing this is entertaining and was for a great cause so I hope you enjoy it too.
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WebStart announced!
Today, I decided to announce WebStart, eosgarden's major product.
No release date has been fixed, but I'm very close to the end of the development.
The main purpose of WebStart is to provide you with a workable web and database server.
Therefore, it includes the Apache 2 HTTP server (with the PHP scripting language), the MySQL database server, and the OpenLDAP directory service.
But WebStart is more than just a packaged version of those software. It also provides you with a full-featured web development environment, with more than 50 useful tools, that web developers often need.
It has software for automatic image generation, software revision control, document conversion, automated documentation generation, testing, etc.
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just learned about webstart - how does it compare to MAMP? what's the pricing?
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It has the same kind of feature as a MAMP Pro, but WebStart is more than just an application
It comes with a full featured environment, including everything a developer should need.
You can see the included software on the eosgarden website:
I haven't decided the pricing yet, but it surely won't be too much expensive.
Thanks for your interest.
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State prosecutors on Wednesday appealed as illegal a 30-day sentence handed down by a Montana judge to a former teacher for raping a student who later killed herself.
The announcement came after District Judge G. Todd Baugh received widespread condemnation for the sentence and his comments that the victim was older than her chronological age.
Defendant Stacey Rambold, 54, last week received 15 years in prison with all but a month suspended for his months-long sexual relationship with Billings Senior High School student Cherice Moralez. Earlier this week, Baugh scheduled a resentencing hearing for Rambold for Friday.
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Papal envoy faces sex abuse probe
Authorities in the Dominican Republic will look into allegations of child sex abuse against the papal envoy to the Caribbean country following his abrupt removal from his post by the Vatican, the attorney general said Wednesday.
Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito was careful to note that his office is aware only of rumors about the papal nuncio, Archbishop Josef Wesolowski, and that it has not received any accusations.
A Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, confirmed that Wesolowski had been removed from his post and that the church was conducting an investigation of him.
Officials want aid to Egypt suspended
President Barack Obama's top national security aides have recommended that the U.S. suspend hundreds of millions of dollars in military and economic assistance to Egypt in response to the Egyptian military's ouster of the country's first democratically elected leader, U.S. officials said.
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The field name changes (e.g. FirstOfMyMemo), so change the name and Control Source of any text boxes on forms/reports.
Open the query's Properties Sheet and set Unique Values to No. (Alternatively, remove the DISTINCT key word in SQL View.)
You may need to create another query that selects the distinct values without the memo, and then use it as the source for another query that retrieves the memo without de-duplicating.
Remove anything from the Format property of:
(See also Concatenated fields yield garbage in recordset.)
Note that the same issues apply to expression that are longer than 255 characters, where Access must process the expressions.
Technically, there are good reasons why Access handles only the first 255 characters when it has to process memo fields.
String operations are both processor and disk intensive. Performance would be slower than a sloth if Access tried to compare all the thousands of characters of your memo field against all the other thousands of characters in each of potentially millions of records. Some queries would take hours or even days to complete.
If that's not enough, don't forget the comparisons are more than mere memory matching. Some data sources (e.g. Access 1 - 97 MDBs, text files) handle strings as bytes, while others (including JET 4 MDB and ACCDB files) use Unicode. Unicode needs either more disk reads or more processing to decompress, and we expect it to handle the conversions transparently and allow comparisons and joins across different types. Further, JET is case-insensitive, and the characters map differently in different language settings. And some sources need decryption as well.
The decision to handle only the first 255 characters is a perfectly reasonable compromise for a desktop database like JET.
If your query displays the memo correctly, the values are truncated when exported, you have struck another set of issues.
The list below if from Microsoft's knowledgebase. For brevity, we link just articles for Access 2000, though most issues apply to other versions as well:
Grouping on a memo yields garbage in some queries.
Concatenating text fields can also yield garbage in recordsets.
The original Access 2000 also had a bug that truncated long expressions in the query design grid, but this bug has been patched:
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IKEA Is All About DIY Leather Handles on Their New Wood Cutting Boards
The cutting boards you see above are IKEA cutting boards... well, partially. The boards themselves are the new PROPPMATT chopping boards, but the handles are all DIY inspiration — and something IKEA is totally on board with!
IKEA's Life at Home blog recently posted these photos of the new chopping boards, with ideas (in Swedish) to make your own leather handles. The boards seem tailor-made for this, since the three styles all come with a hole punched in at the top of the board. Just wrap some leather twine around the edge for extra grip, they say, or string a piece of leather through the loop and attach it with furniture rivets for a customized look (which would also make a great gift!).
See more photos → IKEA Life at Home
The PROPPMATT chopping boards come in three sizes, and range in price from $2.99 to $6.99. I love this relatively easy and inexpensive way to make these budget boards feel a little more special and customized.
(Images: IKEA Life at Home)
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charming, but how would the leather handle kitchen wetness? I'm not talking about dunking in dishwater or the dishwasher, but rather chopping wet greens or a big tomato canning project, etc.
So simple and awesome. I've wanted to do this to a board that I have with simple twine, but leather is so much better and more durable. SO CUTE! Love it!


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This is the shape of reality.
A theoretical snowflake existing in 196,833 dimensional space.
The snowflake rotates. Each rotation describes an entirely new universe.
The total number of rotations are equal to the number of atoms making up the Earth.
Each rotation makes a new Earth.
This is the Multiverse.


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In real life figures are often irregular shapes - a little bit messy. Think of your messy bedroom once more ‐ is it a perfect rectangle?
The trick: break these figures into shapes that you know well (and whose area you know how to find).
This can be done in two different ways:
|Method #1
|Method #2
|Divide the figure into two rectangles and find all missing lengths.
The larger rectangle has an area of
The smaller rectangle has an area of
If we combine these we will find the total area:
|Draw two lines to make the figure into one large rectangle.
The area of the large rectangle is
However, a rectangle is not included in our original figure, so we need to take out the area of the white rectangle
This figure is already divided into two shapes: a rectangle and half a circle.
We need to find the area of each and add them together.
As always, we want to draw a picture of what this looks like.
The dimensions of the large outside rectangle are:
So, the area of the larger rectangle is .
This amount includes the area of the pool, which we would not want to have decking. So, subtract out the area of the pool().
The amount of decking we need is : !
Find the area of this shape:
The radius of the circle is 4 cm. Find the area of the yellow section without the equilateral triangle.
A square garden 10 feet long needs to be surrounded by a walk 2 feet wide on only three of its sides. What is the area of the walk?


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Each year I pick out a pressing topic in Internet policy and write a year-end article summarizing trends in that area for an online newspaper called the American Reporter. It has just published my article "Privacy 2007: Hiding in the Crowd," which may interest Radar readers although it was aimed at more of a lay audience. I also gave the article a more permanent URL.
My favorite iPod accessory is my EFF Membership...By Jesse Robbins
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'Computing in the Cloud' workshop hosted by Princeton University - January 14-15By Jesse Robbins
December 22, 2007
Marc Hedlund and I will be speaking at the 'Computing in the Cloud' workshop hosted by the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton on January 14-15. The sessions look very interesting and registration is free. Panel 1: Possession and...
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December 16, 2007
Most online work, like other peer-generated information, is done by volunteers without financial remuneration. In commons-oriented production, such as Linux and Wikipedia, everyone derives a shared benefit without money exchanging hands. Money becomes a factor in peer production when it gets integrated into a company's value chain, as with Amazon.com rankings or the kinds of user innovation networks researched by Eric von Hippel. Reputation and privacy used to be a top-down affair between the collector of information and the person being tracked. Rules get more complicated in an age of Amazon.com ratings and Facebook Beacon, where the collector uses the reputation of the individual to affect the decisions of third parties. The attempt to stretch reputation to support the reputation of other people or companies could lead to spam-like annoyances as well as privacy concerns.
Reputation: where the personal and the participatory meet up (installment 3 of 4)By Andy Oram
December 15, 2007
Although portable reputations, like single sign-on, appear to be Internet's golden future (both in terms of user participation and commerce), they're not likely to happen. Your reputation has to adapt to the sites you visit in similar ways. A purely instrumental view of reputation may be the most viable. The most disturbing presentation of the day was by Danielle Citron of the University of Maryland's School of Law, concerning harrassment of women online. A lot of women write under gender-neutral pseudonyms that don't permit them to be identified by name, or go offline altogether. This denies them the benefits of reputation, including the reputation that potential employers measure by doing online searches.
Reputation: where the personal and the participatory meet up (installment 2 of 4)By Andy Oram
December 15, 2007
At the symposium, by and large, everybody agreed that your data should be available to you and that the heuristics used to generate reputation should be open. But participants pointed out that search engines are the only really robust reputation systems available, and proposed that they work only because they keep their heuristics secret. Nobody at the symposium offered a great solution to the balance between privacy and free-speech, which have to be rejudged repeatedly in different contexts. An opt-in world is necessary to protect privacy, but Hoffman pointed out that opt-out is required to develop most useful databases of personal information. If search engines depended on opt-in, we wouldn't be able to search for much of value.
Reputation: where the personal and the participatory meet up (installment 1 of 4)By Andy Oram
December 14, 2007
The tidal wave of grass-roots contributions to the Internet over the past decade is what drives web administrators and users to ask the fundamental questions in reputation. These sorts of issues drew some 90 to 100 lawyers, technologists, librarians, and others to a Symposium on Reputation Economies in Cyberspace at Yale University's Information Society Project. The goal of a universal reputation may be unachievable in both theory and practice. More to the point, it may be undesirable.
Tribute to honor Jim Gray on May 31st, 2008 at UC BerkeleyBy Jesse Robbins
November 18, 2007
A tribute to honor Jim Gray will be held on May 31st, 2008 at UC Berkeley. The general session is open to all, followed by a technical session reviewing a small fraction of Jim's lasting contributions. Registration is required to attend the technical session. General Session Program 9:00am - 10:30am, Zellerbach Hall Opening Remarks - Joe Hellerstein A Tribute, Not a Memorial: Understanding Ambiguous Loss - Pauline Boss The Search Effort - Mike Olson Jim's Impact on Berkeley - Mike Harrison Jim as a Mentor: Colleagues - Pat Helland Jim as a Mentor: Faculty and Students - Ed Lazowska Why Jim Got the Turing Award - Mike Stonebraker Jim's Contributions to Industry I - David Vaskevitch Jim's Contributions to Industry II - Rick Rashid Technical Session Program 11:00am - 5:30pm, Wheeler Hall (Registration is required) IBM/Transaction Processing - Bruce Lindsay Tandem/Fault Tolerance - Development & Effect of TPC/A Benchmark - David DeWitt DEC, Architecture, Memex and More - Gordon Bell Writing the Transaction Processing book: "Is There Life After Transaction Processing?"
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