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5 Things You Didn't Know Could Make You Smarter
#2. Cigarettes
Apparently some "scientists" have decided that smoking doesn't have lots of benefits, at least if you're one of those folks opposed to cancer and offending people. But it seems that, in the process of destroying everything else, nicotine has some beneficial effect on the brain.
"Don't you be getting intelligent in this house, young lady!"
Researchers at the University of Amsterdam have actually discovered that the nicotine found in cigarettes enhances both learning and memory. Since learning and memory are key areas of loss in Alzheimer's patients, researchers tested nicotine patches on elderly people with Alzheimer's, and found that after regular doses, they were two times faster and significantly more consistent at answering memory-based questions than the control group.
The researchers found that the nicotine was able to do this by improving communication among the learning centers in the brain. But, chances are that, if you still remember the beginning of this sentence, you probably don't have Alzheimer's. So this doesn't apply to regular people, right?
Oh, wait, you forgot about stupid, stupid children!
Well, good news! Researchers pumped nicotine into adolescent mice, then tested them on spatial learning and memory later in their adult life and found that those who had received small, steady levels of nicotine learned faster and performed significantly better -- months later. Not only that, but they discovered that mice are adorable with a hacking cough.
"Hey, I think instead of finishing this, I'm just gonna grab a smoke and maybe take a short nap."
All of this is starting to make sense. Think about the smartest people you know: Weren't they always smoking, while dancing, while wearing a scowl on their face? While using electrodes and a car battery to shock the shit out of their heads? Oh, we guess we haven't gotten to that one yet ...
#1. Electricity to the Skull
If you're trying to actually improve your brain performance, then "Electrocute it!" probably only seems like a viable option if you're assuming your brain works just like the robots in Short Circuit. Nevertheless, Australian researchers have created what they're calling "transcranial direct current stimulation" (or you can go with the catchier shorthand, "thinking cap"), which delivers electric currents into the brains of brave and possibly crazy test subjects in order to test whether they can supercharge their minds.
First, you have to remove your brain ...
The researchers found that after admitting these weak electrical signals, participants were far more likely to solve complex riddles than the average person. If electricity was applied to the left brain in order to suppress its "linear" style of thinking, and a different kind of current sent to the right brain in order to increase cognitive flexibility, it caused the participants to solve these riddles at three times the rate of unstimulated participants.
"The dead body was a goldfish! How remedial."
If you're like most people, however, you probably don't want to walk around with sponges, metal caps and electrical currents running into your brain 24/7. The good news is, you wouldn't have to -- amazingly, after unhooking the caps, the participants retained their complex riddle-solving abilities for six months.
Of course, these won't be available in homes anytime soon, since it seems like the potential for accidentally fried brains is pretty high. Honestly now, how many of you didn't just say to yourself, "If a little electrical current helps me think better, then I bet a lot would give me telepathy!" Yes, here's to a future where many a roommate comes home to a tragic scene involving electrical outlets and the smell of charred hair.
Or even worse, a really hyper roommate, demanding, "Quick, ask me about some math!"
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Circuit Hacking Mondays
What: Weekly get-together to solder stuff!
When: 8:30pm till ?? -- Every Monday
Where: Noisebridge, 83C Wiese, San Francisco, 94103 (very near 16th St. BART station). Map: http://tinyurl.com/noisebridge
Who: You! Anyone can learn this fun and useful skill.
Cost: Instruction is free! We ask that people pay only for the cost of the parts used -- kit prices range from $7 to $30.
Learn to solder! Mitch will bring kits to make cool, practical, intriguing, hackable things that you can bring home after you make it. Of course, you can also bring your own projects to hack.
Kits include: TV-B-Gone remote controls, Trippy RGB Waves, Brain Machines, Mignonette Games, MiniPOV3, Arduino, . . . More info on many of these projects is on Mitch's website http://www.CornfieldElectronics.com (click on the "maker faire" tab).
Anyone can learn to solder! Even if you have never made anything in your life, you can learn this very useful and enjoyable skill. It really is fun! Mitch has taught thousands of people to solder all around the world, and he can teach you, too! Add yourself to the ever increasing community!


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Archives 321
Anthropology Department Records
Acquisition And Processing Information
Records from Washington State Universitys Anthropology Department were received at the WSU Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections from Dr. Bill Lipe in June of 1990 and August of 1999 and retained as UA1990-21 and UA 1999-14. The accessions were combined and processed in June and July 2012 by Katrina Burch.
Extent/Quantity Information
Number of containers: 2 boxes
Linear feet of shelf space: 2
Organizational History
Anthropology courses at Washington State University originally fell under the department of Sociology, in the college of Arts and Sciences. In 1963, Anthropology became its own department. Through the years the department has had a number of homes on campus, from Commons Hall to Johnson Tower, and finally to the current building in College Hall, which was renovated in 1983 to house both the department and the Anthropology Research Lab (Center for Northwest Anthropology).
Collection Description
The collection includes annual Anthropology department reports, and correspondence from both faculty and the chairman of the department. Also included in this collection are the departmental faculty meeting minutes running from 1974 to 1989 and the eight volumes of the Washington State Research newsletter.
The collection was arranged at processing into three series plus a folder of annual reports. The three series are: correspondence, faculty meeting minutes, and the Washington State Research Center newsletter. The correspondence series is further broken down into two subseries: correspondence of the chairman of the department, and correspondence of faculty. Those series are arranged alphabetically and then by date. The newsletters are arranged chronologically. A significant amount of material was discarded during processing, primarily for privacy reasons.
Archives 59: Department of Anthropology Records, 1964-1976
This collection is open and available for research use. Copyright may apply.
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Tennessee Democrat Proposes Parent Trigger Bill
A Parent Trigger bill that aims to give parents more influence in their children's schools is making its way through the Tennessee legislature.
Filed by Rep. John DeBerry (D-Memphis), the bill would allow a petition by the majority of parents at schools performing in the state's bottom 20 percent to trigger one of several reforms. Petitioning parents could choose conversion to a charter school, replacing the principal, replacing at least half the staff, or closing the school.
House Bill 77 would replace several provisions in state law, including lowering the petition threshold from 60 percent of parents to 51 percent. It also allows parents to bring their petition to the state board of education if the local school board rejects it. This lets parents push for reform even if the school district resists to protect underperforming administrators' or teachers' jobs and salaries, DeBerry told School Reform News.
"Too often the local school board is about the maintenance of the status quo," he said. "[Parents] can't fix the school, they can't fix the curriculum, they can't do anything with the authorities. The parents are powerless."
'Faux' Parent Trigger
Tennessee's existing law is a "faux" Parent Trigger, said Brent Easley, Tennessee director of Students First, a nonprofit that worked with DeBerry and advocacy group Parent Revolution to craft the legislation.
The bill gives parents more power over their children's education, he said. Currently, parents have little power in their school districts.
"Parents know what's best for their children," Easley said. The legislation's goal is to help parents ensure their kids are not forced to attend bad schools simply because of where they live, he added.
Multiple Options for Parents
The appeal provision would give parents equal political power to administrators and teachers, which is important because parents have no incentive but their child's best interests, whereas school districts and teachers have many motivations, said Ryan Donohue, a spokesman for Parent Revolution.
Allowing options other than just charter conversion is also important, Donahue said, because that is not the best answer for every school.
In California, which passed the first Parent Trigger law in the country in 2010, the law has given power to parents whose petitions previously went ignored for years, notes David Phelps, Parent Revolution's communications director.
Negotiating Tool
At 24th Street Elementary in Los Angeles, parents had unsuccessfully petitioned for reforms for four years. Now, with the parent trigger law behind them, the parents have filed a new petition and the school is now working with parents to meet their requests.
"Now if they follow the steps outlined in California law, legally [parents] have every right to succeed and bring about change," Phelps said.
At Haddon Avenue Elementary in Los Angeles, the school district offered to meet parents' demands before parents filed their petition, so parents have put their petition on hold.
"We're seeing the Parent Trigger law can both be an action and a negotiating tool," Phelps said.
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27 Nov 2012 8:12 AM #1
Unanswered: Events in columns after DOM is created?
I need an event, which gets fired after all renderer method return values have been rendered on page.
My renderer returns a string, which is a div definition
return '<div id="MyColumn' + record.id + '" />';
after the page is done I can find these with the browsers dev-tools, but when I use the render or afterrender events of this column object, to "Ext.get()" these divs, they aren't there when it fires.
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What if you used the boxready event with a buffer of 50ms?
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Timeouts are a bad idea.
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If you do it in your Store's load event, as far as I can see, it will trigger after all the rows have been rendered. Give it a try...


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Today in Tweet Beat, Stephen Fry says that Twitter isn't making people dumber, 50 Cent proves that he's dumb with or without Twitter, and Erika Christensen has a run-in with Stephen Baldwin.
Booty is my new motivational topic of the day. If ur skinny buy you a ass. If u have no tits put them in bitch. Quit playing around
So I just met Billy Baldwin. He opened the door to my trailer thinking it was his. I'm standing there in my bra and jeans. He said:
"I'm so sorry! I was playing Scrabble on my iPhone & I have a 'Q'! It takes a lot for me to blush. I can't wait to tell my wife about this."
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@ladygaga lady gg this is really a watershed moment for an artist like you to have the balls to put yourself right on the line, brilliant.
I tell every starlet: Never buy from a straight male designer! If you ever hear him ask, "Liza who?" run in the opposite direction!
My purse often gets a giggle! http://twitpic.com/2ocobo
Women aren't out to get you. The chip on your shoulder is from shit from ur childhood.
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Is there a revenue stream in streaming music?
When screenwriter/author William Goldman wrote, "Nobody knows anything," he was referring to the movie business, but the phrase could apply to this moment in the recording industry, which may be on the brink of salvation or damnation depending on who's doing the talking. Dramatic transformations are taking place, with the upsurge of online services facilitating a transition from people playing music they own to streaming music on the Internet.
For connected consumers it's never been easier to check out new music, either on demand via services such as Spotify (which has licenses to stream the bulk of major labels' catalogs) or YouTube (a video website that nonetheless serves as a prime music-listening portal, no subscription required) or by listening to an Internet radio service such as Pandora or Apple's newly launched iTunes Radio. But some musicians are complaining about the scant royalties they're receiving from these companies, all while the industry has yet to signal that long-awaited rebound.
To the contrary, Nielsen SoundScan's tally of 4.68 million U.S. album copies sold over the last week of July represented the lowest weekly total since the service began tracking sales in 1991. Were those crummy numbers due to more people streaming music instead of buying it — as some record label officials contended — or merely the unsurprising result of a down summer in which anticipated albums by such superstars as Beyonce and Eminem failed to surface?
The Spotify folks certainly aren't accepting the blame. Launched in Sweden in 2008 and introduced in the U.S. in July 2011, Spotify is presenting itself not just as a convenient service for consumers but also a panacea for a recording industry that's been in decline since piracy and illegal file sharing took hold in the late 1990s.
The service allows you to listen to anything in its vast catalog (more than 20 million songs globally, it reports) either for free with ads or for $9.99 per month for unlimited, uninterrupted service that also works on mobile devices. If the Spotify model succeeds, the reasoning goes, listeners will be paying for music they'd previously been enjoying for free, and musicians finally will receive fair financial compensation for their creative efforts.
But for now some musicians are dubious, and the Spotify backlash gained a high-profile flag-bearer over the summer when Thom Yorke — whose band Radiohead in 2007 embraced the brave new digital world when it offered its album "In Rainbows" for a pay-what-you-want-to-pay price — pulled his side-project Atoms for Peace's recent album, "Amok," from the service. As he wrote on Twitter: "Make no mistake new artists you discover on Spotify will no (sic) get paid. meanwhile, shareholders will shortly being rolling in it. Simples."
Atoms for Peace member / Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich argued in a series of tweets that Spotify is "bad for new music" and that "if people had been listening to spotify instead of buying records in 1973 I doubt very much if (Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon') would have been made. It would just be too expensive."
Ken Parks, Spotify's chief content officer as well as Spotify North America's managing director, doesn't buy claims that his service has had a negative impact on sales. For one, with about 24 million registered users — 6 million of whom pay for the service — Spotify doesn't approach the market penetration of, say, YouTube, which Parks called "by far the largest music service in the world." YouTube reports that each month more than 1 billion unique users visit the site and more than 6 billion hours of video are viewed, with music being the most-viewed category.
Parks argues that Spotify isn't big enough to cannibalize that many sales, and when the company does achieve a larger scale in the U.S., as it has done in Sweden and other Nordic countries, he believes it will help the music industry's sales grow, not shrink, and musicians will reap the rewards.
"We are in the very early days of this service," Parks said. "We consider ourselves just scratching the surface."
Let's hit the pause button here to examine the distinct ways in which these online services operate.
-Pandora has been by far the biggest player in Internet radio, announcing that it had 72.1 million active users in August (a 28 percent increase over 2012) who streamed 1.35 billion hours of music, this after the company revealed in April that it had surpassed 200 million registered users. (iHeartRadio, Slacker and SomaFM are among those playing catch-up.) But the Sept. 18 launch of iTunes Radio promises to change the dynamic: Early last week Apple announced that it already had attracted more than 11 million unique listeners to its service, and Pandora's stock price dipped by 10 percent.
You can create a Pandora "station" based on an artist you like — anything from Lady Gaga to Muddy Waters to Gorky's Zygotic Mynci — and you'll hear music from that artist as well as supposedly similar works from other artists, as determined by the company's algorithms, plus the occasional ad if you sign up for the predominantly free service. But although creating a Lady Gaga station will enable you to hear Lady Gaga songs, you can't ask Pandora to play you "Poker Face" or any other specific tune.
-Spotify, like its less popular competitor Rdio, is primarily an on-demand streaming service, allowing you to preview only music that interests you, though it also offers a Pandora-like radio application. On Spotify you can call up "Poker Face" or Muddy Waters' "Mean Red Spider" or Gorky's Zygotic Mynci's entire "Barafundle" album, and that music will stream as often as you'd like to listen to it.
-As for YouTube, even though its global director of musical partnerships Chris Maxcy stressed that "YouTube is not a music service," the Google-owned site has become a go-to source for checking out music, whether on an official band video or audience-shot concert footage or audio-only album tracks that a fan has posted and the artist hasn't ordered to be taken down.
Russ Crupnick, senior vice president of industry analysis for the Long Island-based NPD Group, said there's much consumer overlap among these services, with about 80 percent of Spotify users also listening to Pandora.
"Spotify tends to appeal to the more engaged music fan, where discovering new music and selection are really critical," Crupnick said. "That's a smaller audience, whereas YouTube tends to be ubiquitous among teens and twentysomethings but not as much among older audiences."
How these services pay artists varies as well. Internet radio sites such as Pandora operate under a government compulsory license, meaning that royalty rates are fixed, and a company generally need not seek permission from a rights holder to play any music. (Songwriting payments go through a performance-monitoring agency such as ASCAP or BMI; payments for the recording artist are collected and distributed by SoundExchange.)
The royalty formulas contain many moving parts, but at this point Pandora's rate for the artist usually amounts to about one-tenth of a penny per stream, with the money split 50-50 between the artist and record label, which results in the artist receiving about .05 cents per stream. The songwriting royalty, calculated as a percentage of the company's revenues, is generally lower. iTunes Radio's royalties have been reported to be a bit higher than Pandora's.
In contrast, U.S. broadcast radio, which reaches many more people per spin than individual Pandora streams, offers zero royalties to performers but about 4 percent of total revenues to songwriters.
With Spotify playing songs on demand rather than as part of broader radio playlists, its per-stream reimbursements to artists are higher than Pandora's. Spotify's royalties are not government-controlled but rather result from direct license agreements between the service and the music's rights holder, generally the label. Although those terms are not public and may vary from deal to deal, Daryl Friedman, the Recording Academy's chief advocacy and industry relations officer, said musicians have told him their Spotify royalties often work out to about a quarter or third of a cent per play.
Given YouTube's wide variety of partnerships and programs — which might involve setting up channels and / or sharing ad revenue — plus the un-countable number of videos that make unauthorized use of copyrighted materials, its payouts are even harder to pin down. Maxcy said the company won't reveal specific figures, but it has paid more than a half billion dollars in royalties over the past couple of years. (Parks said by the end of this year, Spotify "will have returned a billion dollars to rights holders.")
Much of the debate over online music services has focused on royalties or lack thereof. As Cracker / Camper Van Beethoven frontman David Lowery put it in a blog headline: "My Song Got Played on Pandora 1 Million Times and All I Got Was $16.89, Less Than What I Make From A Single T-Shirt Sale!"
"Right now we don't have enough revenue coming into the system to show up as real money for the artists, and artists are concerned," Friedman said. "Today it's producing crumbs for artists and songwriters. Whether those crumbs will add up to bread in the future is the question."
The royalties issue hits home for musicians who, over the past decade and a half, have seen music sales plummet from $14.6 billion in 1999 to $7.1 billion in 2012, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. Even as many see the emergence of iTunes, which generally pays the rights holder 70 cents on the dollar, as a positive development, downloaded-music sales (often of individual tracks rather than albums) have not compensated for the decrease in physical-product sales.
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It's Victor Valdes
It's Victor Valdes
Spent far too much time on this despite its poor quality....
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I do like the code
Nice Adboards & love the away support
Surely thats from some other game.
It very neat.
So dibbers, where did you copy that from?
this is a great thread
dibbers is that sensible soccer
Last minute penalty to secure the three points.
Just got called into a meeting with the chairman...bit worried about how it's going to go
Looks like Lord Sugar lol!
And why does he have a penis on his shirt?
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Amazing what you can do with a box of crayons
Looks like a photoshop effect on a photograph.
3rd minute vs Birmingham. Well happy!
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I think this thread made some of the forum members discover something: they have a drawing gift!
More! More! I want more! Linked to this page on Twitter, by the way.
I only know 1 person though, and he doesn't play FM.
My new inside-forward, practice makes perfect with those silky skills
He went there, then there, then there...then goal
Cheslea Rules I like the way Messi has one eye closed in concentration, and the heads in the crowd are just mad.
WOW! All these skills could go to good use in Newspapers trying to cover Southampton games, unless they've overturned the rediculous ban on photos
(sadly) they have.
I've illustrated mine in a Jackson Pollock styley. Great goal.
Right I've a miss and a goal for you:
First the miss:
"Why Wouter [Romer], why? you could have passed it into the back of the net, not given it back to Yor who has two on him".
Second the goal:
Me: Right Yor you hit it tamely at the GK it comes back out hits Sancez on the rear end and you slot it in the empty net. OK
2 minutes later
Yor: Can't believe I listened to you, boss as you don't know squat. The ball came back to me off Sancez's shin not his ass.
Me: You still scored you cheeky little scut.
This from a game where I was down to 10 after 26 minutes against arch-rivals Sevilla.
Some great pics!!!!
the mods should make a contest with those pictures and more where the winner gets a brand new 11 copy....
True story:
Fashionable pink shirts added by popular demand.
Do not read this thread at work! You wont be able to stop laughing!
Drogba was given a second yellow for diving
@Liniert HAHAHAHAHA, Drogba's expression is epic!
Out of interest Liniert who is the dinosaur standing on?
I've never laughed so much at a thread in my entire life... Really cheered me up after a very bad day, cheers guys!!
I'm about to play my first pre-season friendly in 2033/4. I can't even remember which team scored the last goal in my save, let alone which player who what it was like!
A Tight finish inside the left post to make it 1-0 to Crawley Town.
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hahahaha good to see this thread near the top again
Black dots - Chelsea (me)
Claret dots - Aston Villa
Orange lines = passing
Curvy black line = dribbling movement
Blue lines = Closing down and pressing by Villa players
Grey Line - Friedel diving for the shot.
Ramires passes to Lampard who gives it to Kalou who sends it to Kadlec who dribbles past 3 Villa players and tucks the ball away from out side the box to score his 1st goal for Chelsea and win October goal of the month
bumping this as it's probably one of the best threads this forum has seen in ages.
This thread has got hall of fame written all over it to be honest.
Exactly! Thats why I couldn't let it fall further and further away from the top page Might have to sticky it lol
Top thread, has really made me laugh - big thanks to all the budding artists out there
White men can jump...
Not hard to score when there's no keeper tbh.
Who needs YT feature next to this thread!
this 10 characters rule is stupid
*another bump*
This thread brings out a a few tears from laughing, every time i see it.
Best thread ever
So my star striker gets injured, and being a lower league club, I don't have many options left on the bench...
I'd say hes your big target man.
Well it was almost a goal
His goal was to actually get off the bench
Awesome header by my young centreback.
late winner against chelsea in 2054
Thought I'd get in on the action. This is a perfect recreation of what was shown on the game, down to every last detail. Loved Trents's Jackson Pollock style one, and the T-Rex one by Liniert - pretty sure I tried to sign him last season, but his wage demand off two fresh goats a day was higher than the Liverpool board was prepared to go...


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Some experts take aim at 'breast is best' claims
Above me hovers the lactation consultant, her complexion dewy, her curls buoyant.
She clearly hasn't endured a 38-week twin pregnancy — that's 14 pounds of baby, baby — followed by a cesarean and 48 hours of unsuccessful breast-feeding, and if she's trying to hide her impatience with my mental and physical state, she's not succeeding.
I was supposed to leave the hospital an hour ago, but I can't go, in the opinion of the lactation consultant, because, up to this point, I've done just about everything wrong.
I now realize my not leaving was a little extreme — not to mention spineless. But I was acting on my absolute conviction, inspired and repeatedly reinforced by pediatricians, authors and the U.S. government, that breast is best by a wide and indisputable margin.
Now it's starting to look like I, and millions of other women who made significant sacrifices based on that assumption, may have been wrong.
No one is saying that breast-feeding isn't perhaps, by some measures, a little bit better for your baby's health, but the argument coming from critics such as Joan Wolf, an associate professor of women's studies at Texas A&M University, is that the actual scientific research doesn't say much beyond that. In her 2011 book, "Is Breast Best?" Wolf repeatedly cites studies with conflicting outcomes, important methodological problems, and (in the case of positive breast-feeding outcomes) results far less dramatic than we've been led to believe.
Breast-feeding advocates acknowledge that the data aren't perfect. Because scientists can't ethically perform experiments in which women are randomly assigned to breast-feed or bottle-feed their babies, they can't be completely sure that better health outcomes are actually caused by breast-feeding, as opposed to the type of mothering associated with breast-feeding, according to Dr. Richard Schanler, chairman of the American Academy of Pediatrics' section on breast-feeding.
But Schanler points to an analysis of existing studies in an AAP policy statement that he co-authored. In the analysis, more breast-feeding was associated with better health outcomes.
"When you can't do a randomized trial, one of the next things you'd like to do is a dose response: Do you get more effect with more breast-feeding? And you see that with a lot of the outcomes that we've measured," he says. "To me, that's very telling. But can I swear that this is causation, or just association? I can't, but I have a feeling a lot of this is causation."
I've compiled some of the weakest claims about breast-feeding.
1. It's not free
In an article published in the American Sociological Review this year, Phyllis Rippeyoung, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Ottawa, and her co-author, Mary Noonan, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Iowa, took a closer look at the claim that breast-feeding is free. They examined the earnings of 1,300 women and found that women who breast-fed for six months or more initially made more money than formula feeders. But after childbirth, the long-term breast-feeders' earnings dipped more, largely due to a reduction in hours worked.
And five years after giving birth, the moms who had breast-fed were, on average, still earning much less than they did before giving birth ($15,717 a year, compared with $20,957 in the year before childbirth), while the exclusive formula feeders group had recouped most of its earnings losses ($16,340 at five years post-childbirth, compared with $16,790 before childbirth).
2. Breast-feeding and IQ
Among Wolf's more surprising findings: The evidence for breast-feeding increasing IQ, a big issue in the Baby Einstein era, is quite weak. And don't just take her word for it: "There was no relationship between breast-feeding in term infants and cognitive performance," according to a 2007 review of key studies performed for the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
"A lot of research suggests a slight correlation between higher IQ (and breast-feeding). You also have a pretty substantial literature that finds no difference at all. Nobody ever talks about that," Wolf says.
"But, on balance, you do have this slight correlation — a couple of IQ points, slightly better scores on intelligence tests, and the claim I make, and in fact that a lot of breast-feeding researchers themselves would concede, is that mothers who breast-feed are probably encouraging the intellectual development of their children in many ways. Women who decide that they are going to go through what it takes to breast-feed, particularly if they're breast-feeding exclusively, if they're breast-feeding for six months, are more likely to be going the extra mile in ways that might advantage their kids a couple of extra IQ points anyway."
3. Breast-feeding and weight loss
In the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality report, the authors found "the effect of breast-feeding in mothers on return to pre-pregnancy weight was negligible, and the effect of breast-feeding on postpartum weight loss was unclear."
The authors identified 54 relevant studies, but eliminated most because of issues ranging from the type of study (some were analyses of other studies) to unclear breast-feeding data. Of the seven studies they considered, they found that in three, the effect of breast-feeding on return to pre-pregnancy weight was "negligible" (or less than 2.2 pounds) and in four studies, the "effects of breast-feeding on postpartum weight loss were unclear."
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|Dave Rosen shows off his customized Triumph Thruxton at the Progressive International Motorcycle Show in New York last month. Bud Wilkinson / Republican-American
Those attending the Progressive International Motorcycle Show in New York in December got to see the bright red bike in person as Triumph had it prominently displayed on the show floor, but that event wasn't the first time I had seen it. It was nearly two years ago on a visit to Dave Rosen's house in Hebron that I spied the one-off Thruxton tucked in the garage under his house.
At that time, Rosen was a regional rep for Triumph, lining up new dealers and keeping existing ones satisfied. He'd often get new models to ride and loan, and I was the beneficiary that day of a company-owned 2012 Triumph Tiger Explorer. However, the 2010 Thruxton was Rosen's personal bike. He had purchased it in March of 2010, three months after joining Triumph, to be his daily rider. "That was the first Triumph I'Ve ever purchased and the first brand new bike I'Ve ever purchased,"he said.
Before joining Triumph, Rosen was general manager of Gengras'now-defunct BMW-Ducati-Triumph dealership in East Hartford and had ridden the model on occasion. It warn't lightning fast but it was fun. "That was one bike that every time I got off it, I had a smile. I always smiled larger after the riding that bike than anything else,"he said.
So, upon joining Triumph, buying a Thruxton made sense. "I rode it only once,"he said, recalling that after putting only 149 miles on the odometer, he parked it in the garage and began modifications. His friends told him he was crazy, but they "didn't't have faith in what I was envisioning,"said Rosen.
The goal was build a bike that recreated the "cafe era, with modern technology. I wanted to create a bike that replicated the '60s and '70s. I just wanted to replicate an old-school design,"he said. Rosen didn't't touch the rear cowl over the seat, but added an after-market exhaust system, new clip-on handlebars, custom rear-set foot pegs, two-tone Triumph seat and an upgraded suspension.
He worked late-night and weekends, hand-fashioning brackets as well as sanding and shaping the fiberglass Dunstall fairing and windscreen. The bodywork covers the engine and directs the air above the rider when hunched over the gas tank. "Everything on here is hand-cut. I welded everything,"said Rosen. The job took 18 months.
He was just finishing the long-term task when I went to his house that day in May 2012. Three months later, the Thruxton was gone — appropriated by Triumph. Rosen's superiors had discovered his marvelous creation. "The first thing they asked in the beginning was, "Do you mind if we use it for some photo shoots?'I did not have it for long,"Rosen said, noting the odometer had only hit the 748-mile mark when the manufacturer borrowed it.
So far, his Thruxton has appeared on the back covers of at least three national magazines, "Iron & Air"being the third. "I'm blown away when it happens. Nobody tells me that they're doing it,"said Rosen. It has appeared in promotional videos for Triumph, too. "I have no idea where it's going to pop up,"he added. The bike has also been displayed in every city that the Progressive International Motorcycle Show tour has visited.
Rosen said he has "no clue"what it cost to customize the Thruxton and he isn't upset that it's been gone from his garage for so long. "I'm kind of blessed that I work for a company that gives me bikes to ride,"he said. Triumph has allowed him visitation rights that have enabled him to ride it on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah and on the track at the Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Ala.
Since surrendering the Thruxton, Rosen has received a promotion. He's now Triumph's sales manager for the eastern half of the U.S. Despite the fact that a new 2014 Triumph Thunderbird Commander cruiser was just delivered to his house this week for him to use (and loan, yes!), he is hoping to eventually get his Thruxton back. "They took the bike away from me more than a year and a half ago. I'm assuming I'll get it back around May or June,"he said.
Triumph is now working with a designer to make replica kits based on Rosen's craftsmanship that customers can purchase. He anticipates that they will be available by early spring. Sure hope he gets a cut of the action.
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January 21, 2013
Arab leaders kicked off the 3rd Arab Economic and Social Development Summit at the King Abdulaziz International Conference Center in Riyadh this evening. Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz, the Chairman of the Summit, began by reading a speech on behalf of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz.
"The current and crucial stage experienced by our Arab nation requires all of us to unite and intensify serious and sincere efforts in order to overcome the challenges confronting us and to seek and promote joint Arab action, in a way that positively and significantly affects the lives of Arab citizens, and achieves steady progress, prosperity and a decent life for them," the Crown Prince declared.
He continued, "The urgent developmental issues facing our countries have become more difficult and complicated given into consideration the recent developments in the Arab world, including important issues such as poverty, unemployment and disease . . . In this regard, we emphasize the importance of the role played by institutions of joint Arab action as well as supporting and strengthening their capacity in order to play the role assigned to them more efficiently."
As a step towards strengthening Arab institutions, Crown Prince Salman announced the Kingdom's call for "increasing the capital of Arab financial institutions with no less than 50 percent of its current value, as agreed by the governors of those institutions, in order to keep up with the growing demand for funding Arab development projects and supporting Arab countries, particularly the least developed countries." Furthermore, he stated, "I also call for increasing the capital of existing joint Arab companies with no less than 50 percent of its current value, as proposed by the boards of directors of those companies, in order to expand their businesses and enhance their participation together with the Arab capitals of the private sector. I am pleased to announce the readiness of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to pay its share as per the increase to be agreed upon."
During his remarks, Crown Prince Salman stressed the growing importance of the Arab private sector. In this context, he called for the adoption of the Unified Agreement for the Investment of Arab Capital, which aims to encourage inter-Arab investments. In addition, he advocated the adoption of the Greater Arab Free Trade Area, in order to increase inter-Arab trade.
At the conclusion of the session, Crown Prince Salman announced the beginning of a closed-door meeting.
The Kingdom's delegation to the summit includes Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal; Minister of Interior Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz; Minister of Finance Dr. Ibrahim bin Abdulaziz Al-Assaf; Minister of Economy and Planning Dr. Mohammed bin Suleiman Al-Jasser; Minister of Commerce and Industry Dr. Tawfiq bin Fawzan Al-Rabiah; and President of the King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy (KACARE) Dr. Hashim bin Abdullah Yamani.


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As a result of this agreement, Calumet expects to significantly reduce its costs to transport crude oil to the San Antonio refinery, where it currently receives crude oil deliveries by truck. Over time, Calumet expects to increase the volume of crude oil shipped on the KNPS above 10,000 bpd.
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I believe the following statement is true, and I've even seen it referenced here. Could someone point me to a proof?
The fundamental group of a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold is not a free product.
I believe the following statement is true, and I've even seen it referenced here. Could someone point me to a proof?
If $M$ is a closed $3$-manifold and $\pi_1(M) \cong A \ast B$ with $A$ and $B$ nontrivial, then Kneser's conjecture (which is a theorem -- the proof can be found in Hempel's book on 3-manifolds) says that we can write $M = M' \sharp M''$ where $M'$ and $M''$ are closed 3-manifolds with $\pi_1(M')=A$ and $\pi_1(M'')=B$. In particular, $M$ contains an embedded $2$-sphere which does not bound a ball (namely, the sphere from the connect sum decomposition). However, all embedded $2$-spheres in hyperbolic 3-manifolds bound balls, as can be seen by lifting to the universal cover.
One can also see it using the theory of ends. If $\pi_1M$ were freely decomposable, then it would follow from the easy direction of Stallings' Ends Theorem that $\pi_1M$ had two or infinitely many ends. On the other hand, by the Svarc--Milnor Lemma, $\pi_1M$ is quasi-isometric to hyperbolic 3-space, which has one end. Because ends are a quasi-isometry invariant, we are done.
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Money is not what is at issue here. What is at issue is independence and to make sure I will contribute by working at my field of expertise, tactfulness, and ensuring everyone's expectations are in-line.
Companies that are trying to develop new software products tell me they want me as an in-house employee, and not as a contractor.
After just finishing my PhD, I am an expert in a very specialized kind of data analysis, not in general programming. My programming skills were gained as a by-product of my academic research.
I believe I am called a 'domain expert' rather than a 'software engineer'. My coding is focused on implementing a specific class of data analysis algorithms, so I consider myself more of an a academic excelling at thinking of creative ways of developing tools to solve problems, who programs to test and implement these new ideas, rather then being a corporate programmer.
I am looking for work as a contractor in my field of expertise and would prefer to earn less money and have less benefits working as a short-term contractor helping people with what I am an expert in rather than being a in-house employee.
Some of the problems they have discussed seem perfectly suited for me to work with them for only a few months and then move on and let their real coders take over. I have helped academics in this manner.
I am in the USA.
The problem:
Companies say I need to be an in-house employee for intellectual property reasons.
The question:
Wouldn't it be easy for them to just have me sign a contract saying all my work is owned by them?
If I work as a contractor, they can let me go when my value diminishes and save lots of money and I could just focus on what I think is a fun way to work--moving from problem to problem.
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Let's say I have
{3, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 5, 2, 7} set of numbers, I need to split the numbers such that sum of subset1 should be equal to sum of subset2
{3,2,7} {1,1,2,1,5,2}. First we should identify whether we can split number(one way might be dividable by 2 without any remainder) and if we can, we should write our algorithm two create s1 and s2 out of s.
How to proceed with this approach? I read partition problem in wiki and even in some articles but I am not able to get anything. Can someone help me to find the right algorithm and its explanation in simple English?


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COPPERAS COVE (February 7, 2013) ---William Everette Razor, 44, was in the Coryell County Jail Thursday, charged with robbery in connection with an incident in Killeen in which a woman was knocked unconscious and robbed by a man with whom she'd just had sex.
Copperas Cove police arrested Razor Wednesday.
His bond was set at $500,000.
DNA evidence recovered from the victim led to Razor's arrest, police said.
Officers found the woman covered in blood after responding to a report of an assault on May 25, 2012 in the area of North 16th Street and Attas Avenue in Killeen.
She told them she had been walking near downtown when a man driving a green Chrysler 300 picked her up.
The woman told officers she and the man stopped in an alley behind the Moss Rose Community Center and had sex, after which they both got out of the car.
She said that when she turned her back to the man, he struck her in the head with such force that she was knocked unconscious.
She said when she came to, she was lying in a pool of blood, and the man and her purse were both gone.
She was taken to Scott & White Hospital in Temple, where a sexual assault nurse examiner collected evidence that was sent to the Texas Department of Public Safety DNA laboratory in Waco.
When the DNA recovered from the victim was run through a national database, it produced a match, indicating "to a reasonable degree of scientific certainty" that the sample came from Razor, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
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I have heard about different statistics about the average reading speeds of English among English speakers ... but I don't find any of them particularly reliable as their is wide variety. Can somebody point to a reliable source for such statistics?
Source: Processing determinants of reading speed
BTW, The fastest that you can read using conventional reading is about 300 wpm.
The reason there is wide variety is down to how you ascertain averages. Some groups may be able to read a page of a novel in 10 seconds, others may be minutes on the same thing. I couldn't find any indication of a wide scale study, so what you might need to do is look at all the smaller ones you can find while googling, and extrapolate - make an average from them.
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I use Google Chrome at home and recently I installed AngryBirds from the webstore but to my surprise it wasn't available on my wife's account. Is it possible to install Chrome apps such that they are available on all user accounts on the system and doesn't require installing for individual users. This will save some disk space and help me save time by not installing every app twice.
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With sleek, modern lines and the kind of material and craftsmanship quality we're used to seeing from BDI, the Cascadia 19" deep desk is one of their newest forays into an often-neglected area of the home office: those who don't have a dedicated office space but would love to have a small laptop table that they could use when needed. With its console table looks and shallow depth, the Cascadia 6202 Desk delivers.
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Morehouse Parish children who participated in the Snyder Summer Arts Camp July 16-20 aren't content with simply demonstrating their ability to create artwork, they want to show it off this month at the museum for patrons.
Starting today, the artwork of children ages 6-11 will be displayed at the museum for onlookers to come and view.
"We're showing paintings they did while they were visited by representatives from local organizations that week," said Snyder Museum executive director Emily Graves.
Organizations that visited the children that week included the Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office and the Biedenharn Coca Cola Museum.
The artwork on display has themes ranging from baseball, to stars to animals.
"I painted a fish because I like catching fish," said 11-year-old Tyler Herrington. "My other painting is of a four-wheeler with real Coke lids for the tires."
Herrington said when he found out his artwork was going on display in the museum, it made him "happy."
"I have five cousins whose artwork will also be on display," he said. "We all did these paintings together in art class while we learned about stuff like what detectives do and how Coke was first bottled in Monroe."
The Snyder Summer Arts Camp artwork will be on display at the museum throughout the month of August. Open house will be held tonight from 4-6 p.m. Refreshments will be served. The children who created the artwork, their families and anyone else who would like to view the artwork, is welcome to attend. For more information, call the museum at 281.8760.
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Artists involved in the creative industries are a vital component of an area's job creation and retention. The Broward County Cultural Division and the South Florida Regional Planning Council offer a Micro Credit program (revolving loan funding) to assist with financing Broward-based artists and their projects. In addition, the program offers an Artist as an Entrepreneurial Institute (AEI) to assist an artist's business expertise to operate their unique enterprise.
1. Read the pages in this web site. 2. Attend a workshop 3. Complete Part I: Application (PDF) 4. Complete Part II: Attachments 5. Submit Application & Attachments
The Artist Micro Credit Program is designed to assist Broward-based practicing, professional, and emerging artists, to advance their work and careers. A premise of the program is that "gaps" exist in traditional lending markets and that some creditworthy artists, and their artistic businesses, cannot qualify for financing. This program provides assistance to eligible individual artists and arts-related businesses, who cannot obtain funding from conventional sources.
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The method: LeConte is a sports-massage therapist, but he doesn't pummel your muscles. He switched from soft to firm pressure and ended with a hot-towel foot massage.
Bottom line: We walked in hunched and stiff, but LeConte loosened every knot. He even gave us stretches to help with our posture.
Stefanie Wolf: Wolf, a former Lancôme makeup artist who works out of a space at the Equinox Spa, uses an organic formula made from sugar beets that promises to develop into a believable light gold on even the palest skin. For house calls, she quickly and efficiently sets up a tent (so as not to get a trace of the formula on floors or furniture). She airbrushes conservatively, occasionally dabbing splotches with a baby wipe, for smooth and even results. House calls, $100.
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We don't cook—unless you count toast—but we couldn't resist asking our waxer for the secret ingredients in Elizabeth Arden's sugar-based wax. "No one knows what's in it," she replied coyly. We left it at that, but marveled at the supersmooth formula. She said the wax peels away without tugging on the skin, making removal more comfortable. After just four yanks, we had a full Brazilian and were true believers.
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[Borderlands] First impressions
Hey guys,
I got the game and played for a couple hours tonight. I am really enjoying it so far, and I did not want to go to bed. I got my hunter up to level 8.
I have a few questions. I have not yet spent my skill points, as I am really unsure of what to spend them on. I want to be a sniper / gunslinger. I expect to not use the birds that often, and I want to concentrate on sniping.
My issue is, I am quite new to FPS games and maybe I am not experienced enough to concentrate on sniping. Is it difficult?
Could anyone post a skill tree that would be good for a starter FPS sniper? Maybe something with skills up to level 15 or 20.
Thanks for any help you may be able to give me!
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Let me just say that the bird can be a valuable ally, healing you for health and killing small swarms of weaker enemies in explosions like loot piniahta's of cash and health bars. BUT... if you really wanted to ignore it and go just with your guns then perhaps something like the one linked below, start by working your way down the sniper tree. Keep in mind that you may still have to use other weapons, some enemies like the Skag's can close on you fast!
Borderlands: Skill Tree
Play around with that, there's also ones for the other classes too.
Snipings really deadly against human type mods, just hit'em in the head! Skagg's can be harder, you need to hit them in their open mouth, and possibly back yourself up with an SMG for rak's if you don't pick them all off in time.
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You will probably become frustrated with the earlier/lower-level sniper rifles... but give it time and give your sniper rifle weapon proficiency a chance to improve. As you level up and find better weapons, along with improving your proficiency, sniping will become easier - but it still won't be the only option you should use.
After a while you'll start to have your own preferred stats for sniper rifles so you'll be able to tell "good" (for you) ones from "bad" (eg., a really high base damage but poor fire rate and accuracy would be useless for me).
Finally, as Reoh mentioned - don't discount Bloodwing too quickly. At first it will seem pointless, but as you level/skill-up... Bloodwing can become quite deadly.
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|3rd February 2010, 11:34 PM
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I parterned (as a Siren), with a kickass Mordecai hunter. Her Bloodwing would kill 6 guys every 15 seconds, and shower us with money and health, all while healing her back up to full. I know I said most of that before, but I felt it needed iterating. Bloodwing seriously kicks ass later. Even on tougher mobs it will daze them, set them on fire, leaving giant slow moving beacons of "Shoot This Guy!"
|4th February 2010, 02:15 AM
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Yes i'm really enjoying this game as well, haven't played the multiplayer yet but hope to soon. As for where to put your points, i have no idea just put them where you think they will help you, you can always respec them. I have been through the single player game once and found it a little short but it was very entertaining getting there.
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I will definitely take all your feedback about the birds to heart. I will probably re-spec often during my leveling.
Thanks again.
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Having trouble connecting that headshot? You can throw bloodwing while zoomed and it always flies at what you're looking at. Have a BW that dazes them.
Want to be better with your rifle? I've noticed some people use one almost exculsively and kill things with no-scoped body shots. That's why Unk and Thermal need high fire rates. I can live with a slower one because I do take my time with my shots. Lots of kills will improve you weapons proficiency which in turn improves your kills.
I like Revolvers. When you're a higher level, find a Masher, better yet, come see me. I'll give you one. A Masher is a revolver that fires 7 bullets per shot. With the first 2 gunslinger skills you can turn that into 14 bullets per shot with Cr4zy Crits!!1!
I have those 2 gunslingers sometimes and BW on max loot littering. Sometimes...which brings me to my next point.
Respec: You can buy your skill points back and try something else out later. And with that my point is, get the skills you can use today. the ones that help you servive and kill in ways that you understand. You can always undo later when you have a cool idea.
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Borderlands: Skill Tree
Of course, I will respec if I decide against it, but I am really falling in love with the sniping combined with small arms fighting.
I get so caught up in the game that I forget to call my bloodwings very often... This has also confirmed my path for me. I will definately try a bloodwing heavy spec later on in the game. I am enjoying the challenge, so I have decided that it is ok if not speccing into bloodwing makes things more difficult leveling up.
Thanks again for the help! I just upgraded my rifle and handgun today and it is exciting!
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Borderlands: Skill Tree
This is what i like to do. but doesn't really keep smirk that often.
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What is the most effective way to load to load test your app? The main point is to determine how many users you could support at a single time with the application still running at a reasonable speed.
The most comprehensive load testing software I have found is HP LoadRunner (sorry for the bit.ly link but the HP link is horrible and won't work correctly). It is very flexible and you can generate a lot of different types of reports from the load tests. You can also have a group of machines work in tandem to load test. Not that other tools are bad but it makes something like Apache JMeter look like a toy.
httperf mainly and also AB the Apache Benchmarking tool
(and a ton of instrumentation to catch duplicate queries and cache misses.)
It is simple, effective and can spawn alot of traffic from a quad-core+ machine attached to your server on gigabit ethernet. It also has cool stuff like rate limiting.
If you want to get really fancy, you can record and playback HTTP traffic with httperf.
Microsoft Web Capacity Analysis Tool (WCAT) is reportedly the tool of choice of the IIS team
I am going to put four sets of criteria out there for you to examine tools, and there are lots of them available in the open source and commercial realms to performance test applications.
Numbers 1-3 are critical. Have a miss on any of these three and you may have well have purchased the most expensive commercial tool and hired the most expensive consulting firm to deploy it for you - You don't want to be caught driving nails with the butt end of a screwdriver simply because your boss told you that the nail gun was tool expensive for the house you were asked to build (Note: Nail guns are often available for rental, just like commercial test tools)
The Grinder is a powerful, flexible, and scriptable open source load testing framework. It is actively developed and has a relatively shallow learning curve compared to some of the other options.
It depends on how complex it is; if it's very complex you probably need something more involved, but for a typical dynamic website using a script that spawns several wget instances requesting key pages in your website should work.


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2. It pushes like a dream. It's easy to maneuver this stroller with one hand and it doesn't feel bulky or awkward at all. At only 17 pounds, this stroller provides a ride that is smooth for both baby and mama (thanks, I'm sure at least in part, to its front and rear wheel suspension). And I should mention that although it's lightweight, it's extremely sturdy—none of that wobbly-umbrella-stroller action here.
3. The weight limit is tops. Quite honestly, if my kid reaches 55 pounds and is still riding in a stroller, someone should question my judgment. (My oldest is in first grade and hasn't hit 50 pounds yet, so that'd be a big ol' kid you're pushing around at 55 pounds.) However, that high number lets me know that I'll be able to push my tiny tots as long as necessary, and my 3-year old is just as comfortable in the seat as my newest addition is.
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