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FLOTUS Michelle Obama & SNL's Jay Pharoah Star in a Rap Video about Going to College
FLOTUS Michelle Obama & SNL's Jay Pharoah star in a rap video about going to college.
Elizabeth Hoyt
December 10, 2015
Is there anything that FLOTUS Michelle Obama isn't good at? The First Lady wants to encourage students to go to college so much that she created a rap video with Saturday Night Live's Jay Pharoah about why you students should go to college, supporting her "Better Make Room" campaign.
The campaign encourages young American students to commit to better lives by adopting higher education goals. The timing of the video is just in time for students to meet upcoming college application deadlines – hopefully giving students an extra boost of motivation to submit their college applications.
First Lady Michelle Obama and SNL's Jay Pharoah collaborated with College Humor and The Gregory Brothers to create a College Humor original rap video that highlights the reasons why going to college is the key to a brighter future for students. With an amped-up intentional cheese factor, the two-minute video takes a serious subject and alleviates the stress surrounding higher education issues, likely in hopes to get students to relate to the issue and consider their college path from a different viewpoint.
The video begins with two students playing out a scenario debating what to do after graduating from high school, with one student answering his plans after college are "just hanging out, I guess." Pharoah jumps on the screen and eases into the song, rapping the first verse.
The lyrics are fun and light, complete with a Star Wars reference:
It's your choice, so voice it
Whole world your oyster
Can't be droppin' the ball
When your future's nothing to toy with
Telescope and stay focused
Make a mark and get noticed?
Get the degree thermostat
Help me out, FLOTUS!"
The chorus begins and Obama appears clad in a brunch-worthy dress, donning sunglasses with Pharoah as they rap the song's hook together.
If you wanna fly jets
You should go to college
Reach high and cash checks
Fill your head with knowledge
If you wanna watch paint
Don't go to college
But for everything else
You should go to college
Pharoah takes over the next verse.
You could study engineering
They be buildin' robots
Build bridges, commute
You can get your walk on
Be a math major
Hop a moon crater
Be an astronaut
Be up in the sky like Vader
Finance isn't science
But you still need a degree
Archaeology, astronomy
But not astrology
A robotic-voice then says, "FLOTUS on the track" and the First Lady starts rapping on her own, taking experiences from her personal college story as lyrical inspiration.
South side Chicago
We all know
We had to do overtime every night
To make it tomorrow
And everyone could really make
Their dream true
Hey, kid listenin' in Michigan
That could be YOU
Pharoah starts up again with the next verse.
But a dream is just a dream
Unless you go hard
Einstein put in the time
Here's a flow chart
Naturally, it won't happen magically
But you can change fantasy into
Reality so dramatically
It's pretty clear they're in different spots in The White House (or a spot to look like it) in the video, which adds to the awesomely-nonsensical aspects of the song and nods to the fact that the First Lady is rapping in a video.
The chorus continues as FLOTUS and Pharoah spout lyrics together.
Wanna Fight Crime
You should go to college
If you wanna write rhymes
Fill your head with knowledge
If you wanna stare at grass
Don't go to college
But for everything else
You should go to college
As the video ends, Pharoah mentions "Better Make Room" while a plane with a "Better Make Room" banner trailing in the air flies across the screen. "We're coming, we're applying. That paper is NOT getting thrown in the garbage! Go to college!"
The video wraps up with Pharoah reiterating the message in his own humorous way in a split screen next to a header reading, "YOU SHOULD GO TO COLLEGE," with the "Better Make Room" campaign information and web site listed underneath.
Whether you're seriously impressed or seriously eye-rolling the video doesn't matter. Consider: if it gets one student to think about attending college who wouldn't have otherwise, isn't that worth the effort? We think so, and we're willing to bet that FLOTUS would agree.
Learn more about the First Lady's "Better Make Room" campaign on the "Better Make Room" campaign site, where you can also gain motivation to meet your higher education goals and, in turn, motivate other students to do so as well.


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Judge: Accused USS Cole attack plotter gets adequate health care at Guantánamo
In the absence of proof otherwise, Guantánamo prison provides adequate health care to the accused mastermind of the USS Cole bombing as he awaits his death-penalty tribunal, a military judge ruled Monday.
Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, 50, who according to a recently released Senate Intelligence Committee report was subjected to "rectal feeding" during a hunger strike and was also waterboarded in CIA custody, suffers Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and depression.
Last year, defense lawyers called a series of witnesses, when a different judge was hearing the case, to try to get the court to order what they called "adequate health care." In one instance, an expert on torture testified in both open and closed session about Nashiri's physical, emotional and sexual torture in CIA custody.
But Air Force Col. Vance Spath, the judge, said he has not observed that Nashiri's health conditions had adversely impacted his ability to take part in pretrial proceedings. Moreover, Spath said, defense lawyers had not shown through witnesses or court arguments that prison management demonstrated "deliberate indifference" to the Saudi's health care.
"The unsupported assertions of the Defense that the care given amounts to malpractice, is thus unpersuasive and not what is required under the law," Spath ruled in his four-page decision, dated March 24 but released Monday.
Nashiri is accused of orchestrating al-Qaida's Oct. 12, 2000 suicide bombing of the U.S. Navy destroyer off Aden, Yemen. Seventeen American sailors were killed in the blast, and dozens more were wounded.
A court-ordered examination by a Navy medical board concluded in 2013 that the former CIA captive suffered the PTSD and depression at Guantánamo.
The torture expert, Dr. Sondra Crosby, recommended that, as a form of treatment, Nashiri be allowed to speak with his elderly parents — something he had been forbidden since his capture in 2002. Nashiri's lawyers asked the judge to specifically order he get Skype-style video chats, like low-value Guantánamo detainees.
The prison launched a modified video chat program earlier this year for Nashiri and other former CIA captives, before the judge needed to decide on that portion of it.
The ruling released Monday, was the latest pretrial motion decided against Nashiri. Last week, the war court judge ruled that the Pentagon does not have to disclose what method it would use to execute Nashiri, if he is convicted, in order to use the information in selection of a jury of U.S. military officers who will sit on his tribunal.
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Southampton Island
|Native name: Shugliaq
Southampton Island within Nunavut
|Hudson Bay at Foxe Basin
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|Canadian Arctic Archipelago
|41,214 km2 (15,913 sq mi)
|Area rank
|Highest elevation
|625 m (2,051 ft)
|Highest point
|Mathiasen Mountain
|Largest settlement
|Coral Harbour (pop. 834 [1])
|834 (as of Canada 2011 Census)
|Ethnic groups
Southampton Island (Inuktitut: Shugliaq)[2] is a large island at the entrance to Hudson Bay at Foxe Basin. One of the larger members of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Southampton Island is part of the Kivalliq Region in Nunavut, Canada. The area of the island is stated as 41,214 km2 (15,913 sq mi) by Statistics Canada.[3] It is the 34th largest island in the world and Canada's ninth largest island. The only settlement on Southampton Island is Coral Harbour (pop. 834, Canada 2011 Census), called in Inuit Salliq.
Southampton Island is one of the few Canadian areas, and the only area in Nunavut, that does not use daylight saving time.
Historically speaking, Southampton Island is famous for its now-extinct inhabitants, the Sadlermiut (modern Inuktitut Sallirmiut "Inhabitants of Salliq"), who were the last vestige of the Tuniit. The Tuniit, a pre-Inuit culture, officially went ethnically and culturally extinct in 1902-03[4] when infectious disease killed all of the Sallirmiut in a matter of weeks.
The island's first recorded visit by Europeans was in 1613 by Welsh explorer Thomas Button.[5]
At the beginning of the 20th century, the island was repopulated by Aivilingmiut from Repulse Bay and Chesterfield Inlet, influenced to do so by whaler Capt. George Comer and others. Baffin Islanders arrived 25 years later. John Ell, who as a young child travelled with his mother Shoofly on Comer's schooners, eventually became the most famous of Southampton Island's re-settled population.[6]
The Native Point archaeological site at the mouth of Native Bay is the largest Sadlermiut site on the island.[7]
Southampton Island does have geological resources that are of scientific and industrial interest.[8]
However, full knowledge of the island is still lacking according to the Nunavut government.[9]
- The current level of basic geoscience available for the Southampton region is inadequate to meet current exploration demands. Regional scale mapping of the bedrock geology of Southampton Island has not occurred since 1969.
- Only the most general of rock distinctions are made on the existing geological map, and only a very rudimentary understanding of the surficial geology exists. Currently there is no publicly available, regional-scale surficial (till) geochemical data which is essential for understanding exploration potential for metals and diamonds.
It is separated from the Melville Peninsula by Frozen Strait.[10] Other waterways surrounding the island include Roes Welcome Sound to the west, Bay of Gods Mercy in the southwest, Fisher Strait in the south, Evans Strait in the southeast, and Foxe Channel in the east.
Hansine Lake is located in the far north. Bell Peninsula is located in the southeastern part of the island.[11] Mathiasen Mountain, a member of the Porsild Mountains, is the island's highest peak. The island's shape is vaguely similar to that of Newfoundland.
East Bay Migratory Bird Sanctuary and Harry Gibbons Migratory Bird Sanctuary are located on the island and are important breeding sites for the lesser snow goose (Anser caerulescens caerulescens). East Bay/Native Bay is an Important Bird Area.[12]
Capt. Capt. George Comer's 1913 map of Southampton.
- ↑ http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=6205014&Geo2=CD&Code2=6205&Data=Count&SearchText=Coral%20Harbour&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&Custom=&TABID=1
- ↑ Issenman, Betty. Sinews of Survival: The living legacy of Inuit clothing. UBC Press, 1997. pp252-254
- ↑ Statistics Canada
- ↑ Briggs, Jean L.; J. Garth Taylor. "The Canadian Encyclopedia: Sadlermiut Inuit". Historica Foundation of Canada. Retrieved 2008-03-21.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Christy, Miller (1894). The voyages of Captain Luke Foxe of Hull, and Captain Thomas James of Bristol, in search of a northwest passage, in 1631-32; with narratives of the earlier northwest voyages of Frobisher, Davis, Weymouth, Hall, Knight, Hudson, Button, Gibbons, Bylot, Baffin, Hawkridge, and others. London: Hakluyt Society.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Rowley, Graham. Cold comfort: my love affair with the Arctic. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 38. ISBN 0-7735-1393-0. Retrieved 2008-04-04.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "History". edu.nu.ca. Retrieved 2009-05-05.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ New Insights into Ordovician Oil Shales of Southampton Island, Petrological investigation of ultramafic-mafic plutonic rocks of Southampton Island, Geochemical and Nd isotopic constraints from plutonic rocks of Southampton Island, Industrial Limestone Resources, Southampton Island, Holocene climate inferred from biological analyses in a Southampton Island lake, New constraints on the tectonothermal history of Southampton Island
- ↑ Southampton Island Integrated Geoscience (Siig) Project Plan/Description
- ↑ "Frozen Strait". The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000. Retrieved 2008-04-07.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Mathiasen Mountain Nunavut". bivouac.com. Retrieved 2008-10-14.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "East Bay/Native Bay". bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2009-05-05.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
Further reading
- Bird, J. Brian. Southampton Island. Ottawa: E. Cloutier, 1953.
- Brack, D. M. Southampton Island Area Economic Survey With Notes on Repulse Bay and Wager Bay. Ottawa: Area & Community Planning Section, Industrial Division, Dept. of Northern Affairs and National Resources, 1962.
- Mathiassen, Therkel. Contributions to the Physiography of Southampton Island. Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1931.
- Parker, G. R. An Investigation of Caribou Range on Southampton Island, Northwest Territories. Ottawa: Information Canada, 1975.
- Pickavance, J. R. 2006. "The Spiders of East Bay, Southampton Island, Nunavut, Canada". Arctic. 59, no. 3: 276-282.
- Popham RE. 1953. "A Comparative Analysis of the Digital Patterns of Eskimo from Southampton Island". American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 11, no. 2: 203-13.
- Popham RE, and WD Bell. 1951. "Eskimo crania from Southampton Island". Revue Canadienne De Biologie / ̐ưedit̐ưee Par L'Universit̐ưe De Montr̐ưeal. 10, no. 5: 435-42.
- Sutton, George Miksch, and John Bonner Semple. The Exploration of Southampton Island. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1932.
- Sutton, George Miksch. The Birds of Southampton Island. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1932.
- VanStone, James W. The Economy and Population Shifts of the Eskimos of Southampton Island. Ottawa: Northern Co-ordination and Research Centre, Dept. of Northern Affairs and National Resources, 1959.


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Retaining My Mouth
That little word "retainer" sounded so innocent, so unobtrusive, so seductive while I was wearing my braces. Today I went in to pick up my retainers, thinking they would be little nothings that slipped on and off, relatively unnoticed. WRONG! They are these plastic molds that fit over my teeth, causing me to salivate and lisp and be generally uncomfortable. I thought I had paid my dues during the last 22 months. Now this!
As I leave for Mexico this weekend, they are giving me little pieces of advice – if an edge of one of the retainers is rubbing my gum raw, just use an emery board and file it off. Great! Just what I needed to hear.
I'm sure in a week this won't be such a big deal. But right now it puts me in a pissy mood and makes me wonder if my mouth will ever really be free again. I remember just yesterday pledging on a stack of Bibles to wear the retainers. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember that.
The good news is that I only have to wear the top retainer during the daytime since I have a little wire bonded to the back of my front bottom teeth. To that I say that if it is this uncomfortable with just the top retainer in, how in the world am I going to sleep with them both in?
Pardon me while I feel oh-so-sorry for myself. I guess I should just remind myself about the "full YOUTHFUL smile" that my orthodontist bestowed upon me yesterday. Do all smiles of this nature come at such a cost?
I wonder at what age I will finally say to hell with retaining and simply accept the fact that I will be long gone before my teeth have a chance to shift back into utter crookedness again? Hm...


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MN State Fair
This link is the slideshow is part of an incredible exhibit Laurie Schneider has put together, which will be in the Eco-Experience Building at the MN State Fair this year! I am so honored to have had Laurie choose my farm as one of three she followed through this season. She's quite an amazing photographer. Thank you Laurie!


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Thanks to persistent power quality problems and the growing load on energy utilities, the revenues for uninterruptible power supplies will grow from the 2001 level of $5.29 billion in 2001 to $6.29 billion in 2007, according to a new study conducted by independent research firm Frost & Sullivan.
"World UPS Market" reveals that the growth in storage loads is increasing the demand for smaller, energy-efficient servers. The subsequent server replacements are likely to create sales of smaller UPS systems. And as facilities expand network systems and prices per square foot of office space continue to rise, smaller, more modular UPS units are more likely to gain popularity in the backup power market.
An overall upturn is expected in the market as industries stabilize after having undergone cost reductions and new spending cycles begin.


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Strolling Through Copenhagen
My time in Copenhagen, Denmark, was short, but I did what I usually do when I'm visiting a new city: I wandered and took photos. These are photographs of some of the city's urban sights. Bonus Photo! Spotted at the train station.
Staying in Copenhagen: Urban House
Shout out to Urban House for being an inviting, comfortable, and cool place to stay during my couple of nights in Copenhagen. Bonus Photo! My room with a view.
Freetown Christiania in Copenhagen, Denmark
Our study abroad trip ended in Copenhagen, Denmark. We squeezed in as much as we could during our two-night stay. For the record, two nights in Copenhagen just isn't enough time, but sometimes you have to work with the time you have. My wife scheduled a group visit to Freetown Christiania, whose inhabitants consider themselves … Continue reading


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About a year and a half ago my husband left my 2-year-old daughter and me. I was devastated to say the least, but God was and is faithful. He has seen me through the most difficult, most frustrating, most painful time in my life. I found that my faith and the things that my parents instilled in me from a very early age about who God is were the assurances that remained when everything else was stripped away. I know that my relationship with Christ is the reason I am standing so confidently today. He is my Husband, my Comforter, my Companion and through this time of heartache, I've learned to lean on Him more heavily than ever before. And guess what? He's got big shoulders. He can take it.
Every Day's Best is here to offer encouragement through biblical application to life. God gave us His word, His love letter for a very important reason: it is everything we need for life and godliness. So I want this to be an encouragement to the single mom, the working mom, the stay at home mom and the Christ-follower, who is striving every day to do their best.
To celebrate the founding, I have giveaways! Please come back tomorrow and we'll get the party started…
Please also look for my special guest post, that will be on http://www.incourage.me/ tomorrow. Stay tuned.
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You Can Help...
The Livonia Lions Club "Make a Difference" in the communities of Livonia and Redford in any of the following ways:
Donate your Used Eyeglasses and Hearing Aides
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Become a member of the Livonia Lions Club and help us to SERVE OUR COMMUNITY.
To learn more about Lionism, go to"Contact Us" and complete and submit the form.
Donate your time and become a "Friend of Lionism".
To register as a "Friend of Lionism", go to "Contact Us", complete and submit the form.
Make a Financial contribution to the Livonia Lions.
Make the check payable to: Livonia Lions Club and mail to:
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Integrated Pest Management
Integrated Pest Management for Schools and Child Care Centers
Pesticides are routinely used in our schools and childcare centers, many times by personnel who are not registered pesticide applicators. There is little oversight of pesticide applications for these facilities in many states, but there is concern from a growing number of medical professionals, researchers, parents and federal and state agencies about the effects of exposing children to pesticides.
Peer reviewed studies tell us that exposure to pesticides is linked to birth defects, cancer, asthma and neurological and developmental effects. Children are much more susceptible to the effects of these chemicals because their bodies are still developing.
How can we protect our children in their schools and childcare centers? Educate decision makers about the hazards of pesticides and how to implement a pest control program that uses pesticides as a last resort. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a type of control recognized by the Environmental Protection Agency, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health as well as scientists and advocates across the nation.
Dawn H. Gouge, urban entomologist with the University Arizona and co-editor of the Pest Management Strategic Plan for IPM commented, "Schools adopting IPM improve the learning environment of their students. With this come significant health benefits and the potential for higher academic achievement. School staff and faculty report cleaner, better maintained facilities and better communication within the school community."
Informed Green Solutions is a member of the Northeast School IPM Work Group. Visit our website at http://www.northeastipm.org/working-groups/schools/ for practical how-to information on controlling pests in schools and child care programs.
Websites for information and studies on children and pesticides:
Beyond Pesticides - http://www.beyondpesticides.org/programs/children-and-schools/overview
EPA Integrated Pest Management Webinars http://www2.epa.gov/managing-pests-schools/webinars-about-integrated-pest-management-schools http://www2.epa.gov/managing-pests-schools/webinars-about-integrated-pest-management-schools http://www2.epa.gov/managing-pests-schools/webinars-about-integrated-pest-management-schools
The IPM Institute of North America - http://www.ipminstitute.org/school_directory.htm


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Preview Screening and Discussion
An Evening with the Cast and Creators of Madam Secretary
Monday, April 27, 2015
In Person
Téa Leoni
Tim Daly
Barbara Hall, Creator-Writer
Lori McCreary, Executive Producer
Moderator: Bob Schieffer, Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News; Moderator, Face the Nation
Madam Secretary stars Téa Leoni as Elizabeth McCord, the shrewd, determined, newly appointed Secretary of State who drives international diplomacy, battles office politics, and circumvents protocol as she negotiates global and domestic issues, both at the White House and at home. A college professor and a brilliant former CIA analyst who left for ethical reasons, Elizabeth returns to public life at the request of the President following the suspicious death of her predecessor. The President values her apolitical leanings, her deep knowledge of the Middle East, her flair for languages and her ability to not just think outside the box, but to not even acknowledge there is a box. McCord's team includes her Chief of Staff Nadine Tolliver, speechwriter Matt Mahoney, press coordinator Daisy Grant, and her charming assistant, Blake Moran. As McCord debates third world problems, finesses foreign dignitaries at work and does battle with the President's combative Chief of Staff Russell Jackson, that's just a warm-up for when she goes home to her supportive husband, Henry, and their three children, where "politics" and "compromise" take on new meaning. Stars Tèa Leoni (Elizabeth McCord) and Tim Daly (Henry McCord), join creator and executive producer Barbara Hall and executive producer Lori McCreary for a panel discussion.
Other Events in the Series
- Justice League: Throne of Atlantis
- An Evening with the Cast of Veep
- An Evening with Person of Interest
- Parts Unknown and Beyond: A Conversation with Anthony Bourdain
- Fact Meets Fiction: A Conversation between Alex Gibney and Beau Willimon
- #TGIT at Paley NY: The Cast of Scandal
- Fire and Ice: A Conversation with Conan O'Brien and Anderson Cooper
- Docu-Jam 2015
- Screenings: Frank Sinatra Rarities from the Paley Archive
- It Was a Very Good Life: A Paley Centennial Salute to Frank Sinatra on Television
- Screenings: More Frank Sinatra Rarities from the Paley Archive


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Really, I have done so little. In the 1970's, Sister Mary Mardel, RSCJ, went to Delano to protest treatment of the farm workers, and was put in jail for a week. She is now in her 90's, 20 years my senior. Her action, as my provincial superior, woke me up.
I have been so edified by the persistent efforts of the farm workers to push for a living wage, and humane working conditions. I have been so upset by birth defects caused by pesticides, and deaths by heat exposure. I passed on the literature to my students.
I am a silent protester, I guess. I write letters to my congressional reps and to growers, send a few bucks to the UFW here and there, and refuse to purchase items being boycotted. I was so excited when the Chateau St. Michel (is this the correct name?)
winery in Washington State actually offered and signed a contract. I bought their wine, then. However, the price soon went sky high, and was beyond my means. I do not march, as I am kind of handicapped. Nor do I stand outside grocery stores in protest.
I just try to stay close by being very aware, and to pass on the information.
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"David Woolley" <firstname.lastname@example.com> > > Yes, but mapping the location object to links in the page would solve > > that, even give you a choice, no need to implement any of those features. > > Mapping the location object, in that case, is potentially impossible, > and in practice fairly difficult. It involves simultaneously executing > all possible paths through the code. In the most general case, this > is the halting problem, and is impossible in finite time, but in more > practical cases it requires something other than a normal ECMA Script > interpreter and rather more like (I think) Prolog, or a test coverage > analysis tool. Not at all, you run the script N times with the navigator object (and probably .all/.layers set appropriately for the NN4/IE4 simplistic object detection) set to spoof the N User Agents you want to spoof, okay that doesn't gaurantee all paths, but in practice it does cover all usage, and suffers no scripting problems - I have implemented such a script and it suffers from no problems and can easily identify the different links written into the script. Obviously some paths may not be found, but they are likely down to the author checking for some very strange browsers so you've probably got enough to be vaguely accessible. > However, as much as anything, my point here was that, if you currently > get a blank first page it probably means that the site authors believe > that the site will be unuseable without browser specific extensions > to DOM0, and will probably give a "please upgrade" page for the fallback > case, if they have one. I think that's complete rubbish, most authors aren't even aware what their script needs or doesn't need, and this browser detection is more about choosing which html/css hacks to use to make it look "right" in IE/NN. > (Also, although document.all may have been implemneted by many minority > browsers, it is for the same reason that Lynx would have to do it, namely > that authors believe that there are only two brands of browser. As very > few authors feature test for it, it also means forging the browser identity - > something already common amongst Lynx users and which causes Lynx to be > under-reported in statistics.) The navigator object is very rarely used for statistical gathering and spoofing here would(especially multiple spoofing which I believe to be most appropriate for simply widening the pages lynx can at least access. Jim.Received on Tuesday, 19 March 2002 05:53:45 UTC
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Did you know that the passenger sitting next to you could be governed by different legal rights if there was an injury suffered on board the plane?
Many people (including lawyers) would assume that if you are injured on a domestic flight that the domestic laws of that country would apply to any injury onboard a plane. However, that is not always the case. For example, if you were injured on a flight from Denver to Atlanta, but you had a roundtrip itinerary beginning and ending in Vancouver, British Columbia, then any injury claim you had would be governed by an international treaty known as the Montreal Convention. This is so even though your injury occurred on the leg of an itinerary that was solely flying within the United States of America.
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Hey guys!
Yesterday my boyfriend and I went to Copenhagen Zoo as part of my birthday present and we saw lots and lots of beautiful animals.
I was inspired by the toucans to make this mani!
For the manicure I started off with a white base of CND Cream Puff on all my nails. Afterwards I stamped the toucans on my middle and ring finger with MoYou London Tropical Plate 06 and Mundo de Uñas Black stamping polish. Then I filled in the beaks with OPI Primarily Yellow and OPI Chromatic Orange. To finish everything off I applied the orange glitter Formula X Firecracker to my pinky in a gradient design.
I think these turned out awesome!
What do you guys think of this toucan nail art? Let me know in the comments.
Stay polished.
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- Research
- Open Access
Magnetic stimulation for non-homogeneous biological structures
- Vessela T Krasteva1,
- Sava P Papazov1 and
- Ivan K Daskalov1Email author
© Krasteva et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2002
- Received: 13 August 2002
- Accepted: 17 September 2002
- Published: 17 September 2002
Magnetic stimulation has gained relatively wide application in studying nervous system structures. This technology has the advantage of reduced excitation of sensory nerve endings, and hence results in quasi-painless action. It has become clinically accepted modality for brain stimulation. However, theoretical and practical solutions for assessment of induced current distribution need more detailed and accurate consideration.
Some possible analyses are proposed for distribution of the current induced from excitation current contours of different shape and disposition. Relatively non-difficult solutions are shown, applicable for two- and three-dimensional analysis.
The boundary conditions for field analysis by the internal Dirichlet problem are introduced, based on the vector potential field excited by external current coils. The feedback from the induced eddy currents is neglected. Finite element modeling is applied for obtaining the electromagnetic fields distribution in a non-homogeneous domain.
The distributions were obtained in a non-homogeneous structure comprised of homogeneous layers. A tendency was found of the induced currents to follow paths in lower resistivity layers, deviating from the expected theoretical course for a homogeneous domain. Current density concentrations occur at the boundary between layers, suggesting the possibility for focusing on, or predicting of, a zone of stimulation.
The theoretical basis and simplified approach for generation of 3D FEM networks for magnetic stimulation analysis are presented, applicable in non-homogeneous and non-linear media. The inconveniences of introducing external excitation currents are avoided. Thus, the possibilities are improved for analysis of distributions induced by time-varying currents from contours of various geometry and position with respect to the medium.
- Magnetic Stimulation
- Eddy Current
- Excitation Current
- Current Contour
- Electromagnetic Field Distribution
distribution and spread of the time-varying magnetic field in non-linear and inhomogeneous domains of complex geometry;
the interaction of electromagnetic pulses with biophysical and physiological processes;
stationary or non-stationary processes of random and stray factors type, e.g. changes in the stimulated structure;
technical and technological aspects, e.g. coils shape and disposition with respect to the stimulated structures.
There may be other practical and theoretical problems connected with magnetic stimulation. However, in different medical applications, various approximate or heuristic solutions were found [1].
Published studies on electromagnetic field stimulation most often are based on distribution and propagation in homogeneous media. This approach could be correct for stationary magnetic field analysis, as biological tissues relative magnetic permeability is μ r approximately equal to 1. In cases of time-varying magnetic field, feedback from the induced currents may be present. However, when propagation takes place in a weakly conductive medium, the intensity of the feedback-induced magnetic field would be several orders of magnitude lower than the external field. The induced field can then be ignored, and the medium considered to be homogeneous with respect to the external magnetic field.
On the other hand, the condition of continuity of the current lines requires taking into account all regions with different specific conductivities. An exception here is the case where the induced currents propagate tangentially to the layers in a non-homogeneous medium.
In some studies, the presence of non-homogeneities has been taken into account. Transcranial magnetic stimulation, where the scalp, skull, and brain represent a layered non-homogeneous structure, is a typical example [2, 3]. A theoretical approach, applying a scalar magnetic potential in addition to the vector potential has been proposed as an alternative to finite-element modeling (FEM), but has considered only a simplified basic example [4]. FEM has been used for assessment of magnetically-induced currents for heart stimulation, with inclusion of the non-homogeneities of a canine thorax [5]. Field magnitudes for efficient myocardial stimulation were computed. Magnetic flux density in the upper arm, taking into account the skin and muscle layers and the bone, have been assessed for different coil designs [6]. A study of stimulation in the spinal region [7] has shown a tendency for current density concentration about the nerve roots. However, acceptable accuracy in evaluation of the induced currents values could only be attained when these currents were assessed on the basis of an appropriately obtained magnetic field distribution. A tendency of induced current concentrations at the interfaces between structures of strongly differing conductivity could be observed [3, 7].
The present work investigates some possibilities for modeling and theoretical analysis of induced current distribution during magnetic stimulation, with excitation current contours of different shape and disposition. Relatively non-difficult solution approaches are proposed, applicable for two-dimensional and three-dimensional problems of field distribution in non-homogeneous media.
Theoretical background
Initial conditions
The electrical currents in the several contours i k (t); k = 1,2,...,n are generated by an electromagnetic stimulator and create an alternating magnetic field. The distribution of the magnetic field in the examined region is described by the Maxwell equations in the form:
It is well known that Eqs. (1) and (2) are valid for an arbitrary medium (ε is the dielectric permittivity) and time-varying field vectors and their respective electromagnetic potentials.
Eq. (3) is valid for an arbitrary medium. Generally, the material constants in case of non-homogeneity should be considered as functions of the spacial co-ordinates and in anisotropic media – as tensor quantities. In cases of non-linear media, the material constants are functions of the field vectors.
For homogeneous linear and isotropic medium, using the Lorentz gauge [9] gives:
and the non-homogeneous diffusion equation is obtained:
It is known that in harmonic mode, this equation can be reduced to the Helmholtz equation:
Equations (5) and (6) are also applicable for partially homogeneous media, as depicted in Fig. 1. In the internal part of the non-homogeneous region Ω, where , Eq. (5) and (6) reduce to the respective homogeneous equations. For the region external to Ω (air space), γ → 0, μ = μ0 and negligible , Eqs. (5) and (6) reduce to the Poisson equation:
The solution for stationary mode and a homogeneous medium with respect to μ, is:
For current contours of relatively small cross section and for alternate current, a known formula is obtained:
For the case shown in Fig. 1:
The conditions μ1 = μ2 = .... = μ m = μ0 are respected for the different sub-regions (Ω1,Ω2,...,Ω m ) of the non-homogeneous medium Ω (Fig. 1) and for the external space. The non-homogeneous medium Ω, with specific conductivities γ1 ≠ γ2 ≠ ... ≠ γ p ≠ ... ≠ γ m , can be of layered structure, or include internal sub-spaces Ωp. It is evident, that the feedback from the eddy currents induced in the non-homogeneous medium Ω can be neglected, compared to the direct action of the external excitation.
Induced currents in the medium
The induced field and the eddy currents in the Ω-medium are obtained by the procedure described below.
The values of the vector-potential on the external surface of Ω are computed from Eq. (10) in all nodes necessary for the solution of the internal Dirichlet problem.
Using the homogeneous equation for the diffusion, relating to the magnetic vector-potential:
or, for harmonic mode, the Helmholtz equation:
the internal Dirichlet problem is solved. The boundary conditions for the vector-potential are defined by Eq. (10) for the boundary surface S Ω of the space Ω, subjected to electromagnetic stimulation. The feedback from the induced field was ignored, as discussed above. The respective conditions are valid for refraction of the field vector lines at the boundaries of two homogeneous regions [8, 9].
The solution of Eq. (10), having in view the boundary conditions, does not present theoretical or computational difficulties. The problem of field distribution in the non-homogeneous space Ω is solved by the finite element method (FEM) or by the boundary element method (BEM). Using appropriate software, the field and the currents induced by the external field in a weakly-conductive medium are obtained, together with the magnetic field of the induced currents.
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homogeneous medium Ω a of specific resistivity ρ = 20 Ωm (Fig. 2a); the value was chosen as a rough average of very high and very low conductivities (soft tissue and blood; and bone and lung air, respectively).
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non-homogeneous medium Ω b containing isotrope layers of specific resistivities (Fig. 2b), chosen to correspond to body regions [10, 11], as follows:ρ1 = 20 Ωm – skin, ρ2,ρ4 = 7 Ωm – skeletal muscle, ρ3 = 160 Ωm – bone, ρ5 = 20 Ωm – 'buffer' zone needed to allow setting of adequate boundary conditions; for this test example, the layers were made of equal thickness, except for the buffer zone.
The external magnetic field was excited by a square-shaped coil. Two examples were considered initially (Fig. 2), with coils placed symmetrically on the upper surface of the 3D model: i) coil in horizontal position (XOZ plane), and ii) coil in vertical position (YOZ plane). The excitation current was arbitrarily chosen to be I = 1000 Arms, with a frequency f =10 kHz. The calculated values of the magnetic-vector-potentials were applied on the upper surface nodes of the model (1011 nodes), as magnetic boundary loads. Zero boundary conditions were adopted for the other surfaces. Harmonic magnetic analysis was performed to obtain the eddy currents distribution in the medium.
The approach proposed in Section 2.2 considerably reduces the problems connected with generation of 3D FEM networks. However, this approach preserves the power for analysis in non-homogeneous and, in non-linear media. The inconveniences of introducing external excitation currents are avoided. Thus, the possibilities are improved for analysis of field distributions induced by different time-varying currents, with contours of various geometry and position with respect to the stimulated object.
A systematic error is introduced due to the ignored feedback from the eddy currents. However, this error is negligible, considering the low intensity of the eddy currents in the weakly conductive medium. These currents have their own magnetic field, which is several orders of magnitude lower than the external magnetic field from the stimulation coils, as can be seen in comparing the distributions in Fig. 5 and Fig. 4.
There exist theoretical possibilities by using an iteration procedure [e.g. [13]], for taking into account the feedback. Such a technique has been used in the development and practical application of numerical methods for field analysis. However, in the case of weakly conductive media, the iteration just stops at the first cycle.
The different field structures in homogeneous and non-homogeneous media are evident, as well as the relative difference in the current density amplitude values. The latter reach about 15% for horizontal and vertical contours. However, the difference is much more pronounced in some non-homogeneous regions (Figs. 6 and 7). It can be seen that the non-homogeneous structure has an essential influence on the induced currents distribution and on the differences in the current density vector.
An interesting event can be observed in relation to the distribution of the current density. The current lines follow low resistivity paths and in addition to crossing from layer to layer, flowing in opposition to the excitation current, they also rotate inside the low resistivity layer. In order to better illustrate this specific distribution, an example with vertical layers is shown in Fig. 8. Current lines forming loops in the vertical layers can be observed.
Analysis of the results shows, that the method and procedure adopted, introducing boundary conditions in the non-homogeneous domain, is workable. This method could also be applied for other coil shapes and domain structures, without any essential difficulties. Two examples with slinky coils (Fig. 9 and 10) demonstrate the versatility of this method.
The fields resulting from the external coils and the fields created by the induced currents differ by many orders of magnitude (six in our examples), due to the relatively low conductivities of the medium and to the moderately high frequencies. Therefore, ignoring the feedback effects with respect to the introduced boundary condition in solving the internal Dirichlet problem, is justified.
The boundary conditions, related to the components A x ,A y ,A z of the magnetic vector-potential, can be considered invariant with respect to the co-ordinates.
Another point of interest is that a concentration of induced current densities can be observed at the interface (boundary) between structures of differing conductivities. Hence, a kind of concentration or selective stimulation (focusing) could be predicted or looked for, in structures with relatively well-defined layers of different resistivity (Figs. 6b, 7b and 10b). The concentration in question can be explained by the appearance of surface charges on these boundaries.
It should be reminded here, that the results were obtained for sinusoidal excitation currents. The application of the method for other types of time-varying currents could be addressed by adequate modeling software. The same was valid for studying field distributions in weakly conducting non-linear media.
The results obtained in this work do not provide data that would change the theory or practice of magnetic stimulation. However, our findings can be used to enhance concepts related to electromagnetic field distribution in non-homogeneous structures.
For magnetic stimulation of biological targets embedded in electrically non-homogeneous media, it is helpful to decide upon external system geometry and parameters by considering an accurately obtained distribution of the induced current fields.
The complex interaction between external magnetic field and physiological processes should not deter the search for improved methods for more accurate assessment of the induced currents.
The authors thank the Technical University of Sofia for granting use of the FEM software.
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Rehn, 56, was favourite for the job. He spent a decade at the European Commission and was economic and monetary affairs commissioner during the euro zone debt crisis.
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Olive Cotton grew up on the outskirts of Sydney where she was exposed to the range of contemporary thinking whether scientific, political or artistic. Her childhood friendship with Max Dupain and joint love of photography led to their eventual though brief marriage and her work in the Max Dupain studio during the war years. Cotton knew Harold Cazneaux and studied photographic styles from pictorialism onwards. Her own work was characterized, as Helen Ennis has written, by 'an abiding love of nature, astute powers of observation, a democratic approach to subject matter, and a sheer delight in and mastery of the photographic medium.'
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Coming back to real life after a vacation always feels surreal and a little bit painful painful. This was an especially great and escapist break as it involved the wedding of a good friend from high school, the wedding of my brother-in-law (and now sister-in-law), my own anniversary, house guests, several flights, a couple of road trips, tons of new restaurants, and a whole lot of open bars.
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Recently I was trying to decide what my "signature dish" should be. Very important work, I know. Though I've become somewhat known for my baking, I actually don't love doing it. It's too much of an exact science, having to measure out ingredients exactly. I tend to prefer just throwing things into a pot and seeing what comes out.
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Woo, got my first anti-vegan rant comment today. It's like a rite of passage for blogs, no? I should throw it a quinceanera or something.
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My next wedding adventure takes me to Southern California. Having been a resident of this state for 4+ years, it's a little tragic that I've never ventured further south than Santa Barbara. But starting Friday, my husband and I will be in San Diego for two nights and Los Angeles for three (one of which is our own 2 year anniversary).
Naturally, I'm trying to plan this trip a bit around where we want to eat just as much as the places we want to see. Here's what I've got planned so far, but knowing little about these restaurants, I welcome suggestions for better places to go...
Aug. 7 - We fly into San Diego mid-afternoon and will probably just explore Balboa Park. Dinner at Spread.
Aug. 8 - Spending the morning/afternoon at Mission Beach. Lunch at Vegan Zone. That night: Ali and Quinn's wedding! Yay!
Aug. 9 - Lunch at Rancho's Vegan Deli. I think we may go to the Zoo* that afternoon before driving to Los Angeles. Dinner in LA at Real Food Daily in West Hollywood.
Aug. 10 - Tourist day! Hollywood Walk of Fame, etc. Lunch at one of these somewhat-generic vegan restaurants. Dinner at Pure Luck and then maybe check out Silver Lake. Is there good nightlife there?
Aug. 11 - Our Anniversary! Santa Monica for the day, lunch at Euphoria Loves RAWvolution. (Their website is ludicrous.) Dinner at Michael Minna's XIV, which apparently has a semi-secret vegan tasting menu.
Aug. 12 - Lunch at Cafe Flourish and if we have time, the La Brea tar pits. Then we head back to San Francisco that evening.
So, my SoCal readers, are there any glaring omissions in our restaurant choices? I'm a little disappointed we can't go to Fatty's in Eagle Rock, but they're closed Monday and Tuesday and a bit far to drive on Sunday. I guess there's always next time. Are any of our other restaurant choices bad ideas?
Also, is the tourist stuff we've chosen totally lame? I mean I'm sure city residents always hate their touristy areas. (God knows I avoid Fisherman's Wharf if I can.) But there is something to be said about cultural landmarks. (I still marvel everytime I drive over the Golden Gate Bridge.)
What about night life? Havng to drive every where will put a little bit of a damper on how much we can drink, but where are some good neighborhoods to hang out? (Maybe reminiscent of SF's Mission District?)
Much obliged for any help. Looking forward to some much needed sunshine!
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I know she won't read to him forever, but I love that she reads to him now.
One night I heard the sound of Ella reading, and for a really long time, which piqued my curiosity. When I peeked into his bedroom I discovered that she had secured blankets all around his bunk bed and created a cozy reading nook. They read for at least an hour that night.
Sure, she's racking up the minutes for her reading contest, but I know she enjoys this as much as he does.
When I say my little guy has three mommies I'm not kidding. His sisters love him, play with him, discipline him (kind of an issue…) and they spoil him. Of course, they also fight and compete like typical siblings more often than I like. But when that happens I think about moments like this.
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Britain's Bradley Wiggins said last night he had always been suspicious of Alexandr Vinokourov's performance in Saturday's time trial after which he tested positive for blood doping, throwing the race into a fresh crisis. "I know how well I went in the time trial, what power output I had," said Wiggins. "I know that in order to put two minutes into me, what power Vino would have had to have put out and the effort he would have had to make and it didn't add up. At the time I was frightened of what I might say.
"I didn't want to accuse people because they had beaten me outright. But when you saw him limping the week before you couldn't help thinking about it." He added "I think everyone has been suspicious of Astana [Vinokourov's team]."
The Olympic track racing champion has a record of speaking out over doping. He finished fifth in the time trial, his best in a long contre la montre in the Tour, and had felt he was in with a chance of the stage win. However, he was well beaten by the Kazakh and he had not wished to express his feelings immediately afterwards.
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Police last night searched the hotel where Vinokourov and his Astana team were staying. The cyclist himself left the premises at 4.30pm yesterday. Later that evening, 20 gendarmes entered the hotel carrying black bags. These they filled with objects apparently removed from the Astana team bus, which had been the object of a customs search on the motorway south of Toulouse the previous day.
The Tour director, Christian Prudhomme, has expressed his disappointment over the latest scandal and urged riders to remain clean for the good of the sport. "The start in London was a formidable occasion to reconquer," he said. "It has failed. The riders have to understand that they are playing a game of Russian roulette if they are doping. They have to realise that we will never give up the war against doping in which we are involved. Doping ruins our childhood dreams."
Last night the Tour organisers said they had no regrets over inviting Vinokourov and his Astana team to race. However, they added that the current leader, Michael Rasmussen, should not have been brought to the race.
"Rasmussen should not have started the Tour," said Patrice Clerc, the director-general of the organisers, ASO. "In a time of crisis the champion, or anyone who has pretensions to be a champion, has to be exemplary, irreproachable. The attitude of Michael before the race, the casual approach he took in not respecting the administrative rules, should have been known to us, the organisers, and that would have led us to refuse him permission to start the race because he is not an example to the rest of the peloton."
Both the leading British cyclists on the Tour, David Millar and Wiggins said last night that they feared for the future of their sport. Millar, a fervent anti-doping campaigner since serving a two-year ban for the use of erythropoietin, said he felt it would take cycling at least "five to 10 years" to get over its doping problem.
"The bottom line is it is finally good because the controls work, but I am gutted because Vinokourov was one of my favourite riders, the way he raced," said Millar. "This doesn't help the younger generation in the slightest. If you are a fan it must be devastating."
Wiggins said he disagreed with Millar over Vinokourov's status as a Tour hero. "David said he was gutted because Vino was one of his heroes, but for me the true heroes are guys like Sylvain Chavanel and Thor Hushovd who are dragging their arses through the mountains, hanging on, getting dropped, and doing it clean." Even so, the Olympic champion's conclusion was trenchant: "It is a disaster for the sport. There will be no cycling in 10 years if this goes on."


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As we're preparing for Baby W's arrival in a matter of days, I thought I'd share with you what's in our hospital bags: mine, the baby's and Brandon's. I'll share mine today, the baby's Monday and Brandon's Tuesday...so stay tuned! :)
I did a ton of research on this topic and asked a lot of questions of friends because I wanted to ensure I wasn't over-packing, but not under-packing, either.
I hit up Target for the majority of essentials in my hospital bag, because while it's still semi-good quality, it's not too expensive if things get on it {I'll let you use your imagination there}. Of course, I washed everything before I put it in my duffel bag because A) cleanliness and B) it smells like home. Nothing is more comforting than things smelling like home when you're not there.
So without any further aideu, here's what's in my hospital bag:
1. Slippers + socks 2. Boppy 3. Comfy knit pajamas 4. iPhone + charger 5. Knit robe 6. Yoga pants 7. Nursing tank tops 8. Panties 9. Disposable nursing pads + Lanisoh 10. Bright pillowcases + pillows 11. Pads 12. Open-front cardigan 13. Nursing bras 14. Monogrammed Uggs 15. Comfy blanket 16. Breast pump
1. Obviously it's cold in a hospital, so slippers are a must. And, they're helpful when you're walking around the hospital room floor because let's face it: public floors are yucky. I made sure to get non-skid ones...and, these were just too cute to pass up!
2. I'm going to try my hardest to nurse, so I want to practice with our Boppy just like we would at home. It will also be helpful for others when holding him if they need a little support.
3. Again, it will be cold in the hospital, but I also want to be comfortable. These jersey knit pajamas are amazingly soft, but also allow easy access for nursing. They have a tiny rickrack trim around the cuffs that I thought was adorable, and the pants are good to hold the absorbent pads, etc.
4. Obviously I'll be taking a ton of pictures of the little guy, so my iPhone and charger are a must. {I'm not bothering with my laptop.}
5. I heard a ton of people tell me to take a robe to the hospital, so I found a knit one that's very similar to the fabric of the knit pajamas. I am going for comfort the entire time I'm in the hospital. Yes, I want to look nice, but hello...I will have just had a child! Also, it will be helpful to throw on if/when I'm walking the halls and when we have visitors.
6. I will be wearing these home, along with the nursing tank and open-front cardigan. Loft makes a great pair that I'm pretty addicted to. {Link above}
7. I'll be wearing this home with the open-front cardigan, but they're also good to wear in the hospital when you don't want to wear pajamas and would like to look a tad more presentable. Plus, you can nurse in them...duh.
8. Okay, this is pretty obvious. You're gonna need underwear. Typically I wear a more expensive brand of panties, but I don't want to ruin them. So, I purchased some cheap "full-butted underwear" {as I like to call them} at Target to wear at the hospital and when we get home.
9. This goes in the same category with the Boppy: I'm going to try to nurse him, so obviously I'm going to need the necessary items in which to do so.
10. Hospital pillows aren't comfy in the least, and I know I'm going to want my Tempurpedic pillow. I purchased bright orange pillowcases {ours at home are white} because they weren't white like those from the hospital or our house, thus ensuring we won't forget them when we pack to come home. Plus, it's just comforting to have your own pillow from home.
11. I know the hospital will provide these, but I want my own, just in case.
12. I will be wearing this home, over the nursing tank and along with the yoga pants. Again, just going to comfort and accessibility.
13. These go in the same category as the Boppy and nursing accessories.
14. It's January in Texas, so it may or may not be cold outside. If it is cold, I'll be wearing my cute monogrammed Uggs home. If it's warm like it has been lately, I'll wear my flip-flops...because my feet have been swollen and I know they will feel wonderful.
15. This is more so for Brandon, but I know it will be cold in the hospital and I just want to be prepared. No one gets good rest when they're freezing! And again, it's in the same category as my pillow: I just know I'm going to want something from home.
16. I've heard a lot of people who said they took their pump to the hospital and a lot who said they didn't. I'm going to take it because the hospital has a lactation consultant and I want to have it on hand to practice with with her.
Other items not pictured that are in my bag:
*Toiletries: make-up, toothbrush + toothpaste, lotion, chapstick, deodrant, hair dryer, pony tail holders, etc.
*Medications: prenatal vitamins, Colace
*Folder with copies of our pre-registration paperwork, insurance documents, paperwork showing what we've paid at the OB's office and cardstock for his footprints
*Baby book + pen
*Favors for visitors
*List of who to call/text after the baby is born
Stay tuned for what's in the baby's and Brandon's hospital bags this week!


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Gawler Uniting Church
Tod Street, Gawler, 5118
Worship Times
Sunday 9.30am - Blended Service
Sunday 5.00pm - Contemporary Service
Sunday 11.00am - Traditional Service (once a month)
Wednesday 5.00pm - The Dinner Table (during school terms)
About Us
We are an intergenerational community of people who believe in the life giving and transforming power of the gospel of Jesus Christ. We seek to encourage one another and our surrounding community to be all that God created us to be.
We support people in the ups and downs of life and seek to glorify God in all we do in our lives. We are located at Tod St, Gawler, next to the South Para River, partly in a beautiful 1869 church, partly in a new extension, with new kitchen, library, kids rooms and flexible worship and meeting space.
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Greetings Cheery Lynn friends, I bet you're as busy as I am decorating, creating, baking and all those fun things that go along with this wonderful time of the year. However, no matter how busy I am, I have to stop and have some me time, and that usually involves creating in my studio!
Today I'm sharing a card with you that is 6 x 6". To make this card, first cut a rectangle 6 x 12" and score on the 6" line. Then cut a patterned layer 5 1/2" square and notched the corners. (I used Authentique's Retro Christmas 6 x 6 pad).
Now cut a mat from Pierced Stacker 3 (the 2nd largest) and adhere that in the center of the card. Next cut a wreath and sentiment using the Joy To The World Wreath 3 Die Set and adhere over the Pierced Stacker. To give the wreath some dimesion and fullness I also used the Wreath Strip 7 Piece Die Set. I cut the little circles off the foliage pieces and glued just the ends all around the wreath. I also added some Lindy's Ponderosa Pines mist to the foliage pieces and dried with my heat gun. That made the pieces curl up a bit so when I glued the ends, the foliage naturally popped up a little bit. A little bit of stickles applied here and there to resemble holly berries and I think the wreath looks really nice!
Of course every wreath needs flowers and a bow so I tied up some pretty ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon and glued that down to the top of my wreath. I made a pretty flower for the center from the Black Eyed Susan Strip 5 Piece Die Set and two small roses using the Medium- Rose 7 Piece Die Set. Then I got out my favorite die, (at least for this month 😉) the Holly Corner Die and tucked in some holly around the blooms. I love how this card came together!
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Really Reasonable Ribbon - Sheer Iridescent Red
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Christmas Red Stickles
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Avondale Bible Church is a multi-generational, relationally-oriented church. Our mission is to glorify God in all things, to be of one mind, one love, and one purpose through our teaching, ministries and worship (Philippians 2:2). All are welcome to worship with us!
Avondale Bible Church began as a Bible study in the home of Pastor Ed and Joyce Dorstad in 1968 which was located behind our present Church property of 2.3 acres. The first official church service was held in the Mountain View Improvement Center on October 13, 1969, with an attendance of 14. In November of 1969, the Church was incorporated as the Bible Baptist Church of Cottage Lake with 21 charter members and soon began meeting in the Bear Creek Grange. On March 29th, 1971 the Church purchased the present property we currently occupy and July 1st, 1971 marked the beginning of construction of the church building with members of the church doing most of the work. On December 10, 1971 the congregation met in their own building for the first time. Following Pastor Ed, Dr. Charles Shoemaker became the 2nd minister in 1982. Rev. Heber Van Gilder became Senior Pastor in 1986. In January of 1995, Pastor Van Gilder retired from the ministry and Pastor Mike Hoffman was called as the fourth pastor of the church with 45 people in attendance on July 1st, 1995. In 1996, the adjacent vacant lot of 1.3 acres was purchased. In 1998, the church building was remodeled and expanded to create larger classrooms. In 1999 the Church Parsonage project began and was occupied in December of 2000. In March of 2001 an application to King County was made for the expansion of our facilities and the new facility was dedicated on October 12th, 2003. In May of 2003, the church changed its name to Avondale Bible Church. Dec 13th, 2008 marked the grand opening of a new hospitality room built to connect the church chapel to what was then a separate education building.
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Let's admire this painting of Link by James Zapata. Just...soak it up. It's the kind of treatment you normally see for the absolute classics of history and mythology. So it's also the kind of treatment Zelda deserves.
We featured Zapata's work recently on our Fine Art feature. Check it out here.
Kokiri [James Zapata, via Geeks N Gamers]


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The ISO45001 Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) Management Systems
The ISO/DIS ISO 45001.2, the new international standard for Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) Management Systems, was approved in July.
This is an important step as ISO 45001 advances towards a Final Draft International Standard (FDIS). The OH&S standard is expected to be released by early 2018.
The key concepts for ISO 45001 are:
• Leadership – Higher commitment from Top Management in all the processes.
• Risk Management – Increasing awareness of its OH&S hazards and risk, and associated operational controls, through information, communication and training.
• Integrated Approach – To increase compatibility and integration of business processes with other Management System schemes, i.e. ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015
Comparison guide
Bureau Veritas has recently released a comparison guide between ISO/DIS 45001.2 and OHSAS 18001 OH&S Management System to assist organisations with the transition to the new standard.
Please note: The Comparison Guide is based on the Draft International Standard (DIS.2) and provides an overview of the key changes between the OHSAS 18001 and ISO/DIS 45001.2. It is possible that some requirements may be amended between the FDIS and ISO standard – this will be reflected in future issues of this guide.
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There are people who have been waiting for this night for a year. I am just two hours away from leaving for the theater to see the next installment; as usual, I will post my immediate reaction via Twitter, and I promise I am going to work through the night to get the post up asap for tomorrow. Needless to say, as usual, the post will contain all the spoilers, so if you do not want to know what happens in the film before you see it, don't read my post. There are some things we should be looking for, so here is the third clip that has been released featuring Haymitch and Effie:
Granted, we do not know the larger context of the "meeting" that appears to be taking place (and Katniss, as usual, not wanting to be a part of it), but the writing board apparatus Haymitch uses signals us that there is a clear "subtext": how do we know this? In spite of how terrible Haymitch's writing is, the screen upon which he writes is still capable of "reading" what he's trying to communicate; in fact, we could even say that Haymitch's writing is so bad (look at it again at 0:16) that it serves as a form of "erasure" and the screen (and we should understand that to be not only the computer screen, but also the "silver screen" we watch the film on) is relaying what he actually means in spite of the scrawl he puts up. Why is this important? It means we are being invited to do the same thing as the computer.
First, the hat Haymitch wears: he's keeping his thoughts to himself. Even in this scene, where he appears to be "thinking out loud," he's not telling everything, or even a fraction of what everyone else needs to know; expect Haymitch to do something very unexpected, like him creating the alliances for Katniss in the last film. Secondly, Haymitch wears all black. This could mean one of two things: first, black is always the color of death, but it either means that the person is all ready dead (usually spiritually) or they are dead to things of the world so they are alive in their spirit. The second line of reasonsing is very possible--no one there seems to be holding onto any of their worldly possessions--but I have a feeling that Haymitch is a "dead man walking," that, either in this film or in the next, he has decided that he's going to have to sacrifice himself at some point to insure the rebellion will be successful, but this may not come about until next year. I'm off, so I will be tweeting you later!
Eat Your Art Out,
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Fashion-mania: a linguistic tribute to Vivienne Westwood
Dame Vivienne Westwood. It's a name to conjure with. If you know nothing about her, you might be forgiven for thinking that she's a character in a period drama, or a Jane Austen heroine. Indeed, like so many of Austen's women, Dame Vivienne is a breaker of social conventions. But while Elizabeth Bennet's idea of scandal was to get mud on her hem and appear in public with frizzy hair, Westwood's approach to revolution has been a little more drastic – she is the grand dame of British fashion, and to celebrate her, I want to take a look at what makes her both so unconventional and a bona fide National Treasure.
Amidst the economic depression of the mid 1970s, Westwood helped to shape the aesthetic of the punk movement, with fashion drawn from counterculture and subculture. From the teddy-boy revival, through to her iconic sadomasochism-inspired collections, Westwood didn't just push the boundaries; she uprooted them and set them down again in places fashion had never been before.
The London store variously known as "Let it Rock", "Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die","Seditionaries", and simply "SEX", run by Westwood and her partner Malcolm McLaren, was a showcase for their radical fashion and became a focal point for the London punk scene. Now known as World's End, it continues to stock Westwood fashions, with a style which has evolved to include homages to, and parodies of, the historic clothing of the British upper classes. Velvets and wools, tweeds and satins, became staples of Westwood's collections. Westwood has also championed a number of environmental causes during the course of her career, and she's never afraid to speak her mind, with Michelle Obama and the Duchess of Cambridge having been recent targets of her fashion criticism.
But enough of this. This is the OxfordWords blog and you don't read it for the latest in couture, you read it for the words. So, as a tribute from a fashion fan who loves language, here's a discussion of four words that, for me, define Westwood.
One of the key features of many of Westwood's collections is the way in which she experiments with the paradox of cleanly tailored but asymmetrical lines, with hemlines that brush the knee of one leg and the calf of the other, for example. Symmetry comes from the Greek symmetria, a word formed of the prefix syn- ("together, alike") and metron ("measure"). To have symmetry is to have equal measures, and usually refers to a correspondence of two sides of a thing.
In the Western artistic tradition, symmetry speaks of order, balance, and beauty. A symmetrical face, in which the left and right sides are very similar, is traditionally considered more beautiful than an asymmetrical one. The addition of that little prefix, a-, expressing lack, turns beautiful symmetry into disturbing asymmetry.
And yet, modern developments in Western art and architecture have become more and more comfortable with asymmetry, just as our conception of beauty has come to encompass the asymmetrical faces of certain supermodels. The French even have a word that covers this kind of beauty: jolie-laide (or joli-laid if the subject is male), a compound of jolie ("beautiful") and laide ("ugly"). Jolie-laide has been used in English since at least the 1890s: think Javier Bardem or Charlotte Gainsbourg for an idea of its meaning.
Asymmetrical also has plenty of excellent synonyms. You might choose askew or awry, for example, both of which are formed with the prefix a-, meaning "on" or "towards". Skew can be an adjective, noun, or verb, referring to things which are crooked or at an angle, and is related to the verb eschew, meaning to avoid. It also forms the first half of another synonym option, skew-whiff.
Wry originally meant bent to the side, distorted, and came to refer to a twisted facial expression and to anything perverse or aberrant. So a wry smile is one that is not "straight" in a number of senses: it may be crooked, the kind of smile that indicates mockery or sarcasm.
If you want to move a bit further on in the alphabet for your asymmetrical synonyms, you could always go for lopsided, from the verb lop, meaning to hang limply or to droopOr you could use my favourite, wonky, which is a word of "fanciful formation" according to Oxford Dictionaries Online.
It feels like such a modern word, but punk had a long history well before Westwood and her circle brought it to prominence in the 1970s. Its etymology is uncertain, but it first appears in the 1500s as a word for a prostitute, and later develops into a term for a young man kept as a sexual partner by an older one. From this came the U.S. use of punk to refer to a homosexual man, first attested in the 1930s, according to the OED's current findings. A non-sexual sense of the word made its appearance in the very early 1900s, meaning a contemptible or despicable person, and later expanded its meaning to include amateurs, inexperienced people, cowards, and weaklings.
When you think of punk rock, cowards are probably pretty far from your mind. Punk, with its deliberately offensive lyrics incorporating loud and raucous obscenities, is hardly the music of weaklings. The term instead draws on the countercultural, sexually-charged elements of the word, , and on the deliberate adoption of an anti-social persona.
There are also elements of the inexperienced in punk, which is a deliberately unpolished style of music. Punks actively chose to be seen as despicable, incorporating animal collars and toilet chains into their look, and choosing stage names like Steve Ignorant, Billy Childish, and Johnny Rotten. Rotten was the lead singer of influential punk bank the Sex Pistols, who were managed by Malcolm McLaren and dressed by Westwood.
Seditionaries are revolutionaries, making the word an appropriate name for Westwood and McLaren's London boutique. The word sedition is formed from the Latin prefix sed- ("apart") and itio ("going"). It refers to rebellion, or incitement to rebellion, against established authority. The same prefix, in a variant form se-, is found on words such as segregation, separation, seclusion, and sequestration, all words emphasising apartness.
This sets seditionary apart (pardon the pun) from its synonyms, rebel and revolutionary. A rebel is one who fights back, from the Latin prefix re- and bellare, to fight or make war, while a revolutionary turns things around, from Latin revolvere. Anarchists, meanwhile, were often closely allied with the punk movement, and are named from the Greek, an- and archos, meaning "no leader" or "no head", reflecting their refusal to recognize authority. And if a seditionary goes apart, a dissident sits apart, from Latin dis- and sedere. Their close cousin the zealot is derived from a Greek word which is also the root of jealous and indicates strong emotion. And to return to the beginnings of things, a radical is one who aims for social change from the very roots, from Latin radix, "root".
This is the word that really sums up all the others. Westwood's Anglomania collection, in fact a combination of English and French design ideas, has been keeping women looking awesome for years. The word Anglomania, used from the 1700s onwards to denote enthusiasm for English things, is also a French/English combo, having its roots in the French word anglomanie.
It's far from the only –mania word in English, of course; in fact, the OED has over 150 words formed with the second element –mania. Punks were often accused of such things as dipsomania (drunkenness) or demonomania (possession by devils). A seditionary might be characterised by eleutheromania (zeal for freedom), and should be careful not to succumb to megalomania (uncontrolled lust for power). Westwood's bondage-inspired early fashions, meanwhile, exhibited a certain amount of flagellomania (enthusiasm for whips), while her later historically-inspired clothes demonstrate retromania (love of past styles). And, unfortunately, everything she makes fills me with almost uncontrollable oniomania (the compulsive urge to buy). Just please, don't tell my bank manager.
Photo credit: Tinseltown / Shutterstock.com.


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11/14 #GuildChat Preview: Sharing Your Expertise
Join us for #GuildChat Friday November 14th at 11am PT / 2pm ET. The chat topic for this week is Sharing Your Expertise.
During his remarks at the DevLearn Conference and Expo last month, David Holcombe described why The eLearning Guild exists; because "We believe we are better together than we are alone". What makes the Guild the leading professional development organization for learning professionals is the Guild community, a community that freely shares with one another so that those who know can help those who want to know.
In this week's GuildChat, we'll explore the many ways that we can share our expertise with others.
Here are the questions currently scheduled to be posed during the chat.
- What are some of the ways you have shared your expertise with others, or have had it shared with you?
- What is the value of sharing expertise to the person doing the sharing?
- Is sharing your expertise different than "teaching"? If so, how?
- True or false: Sharing your expertise expands your own knowledge. If true, how? If false, why not?
- People can be very protective of knowledge. How can we encourage others to share their expertise?
- How does a culture that supports sharing of expertise benefit an organization?
- What types of communities and/or environments do you find most valuable for sharing of expertise?
If you're interested in sharing your expertise with others, consider submitting a proposal for one of the eLearning Guild's upcoming face-to-face conferences or online events, or contributing an article to Learning Solutions Magazine.