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Sandlot Games Corporation, a leading publisher of casual games, announces the release of Super Granny 3, the latest in the smash-hit series made popular by Super Granny and Granny in Paradise™. Developed and published by Sandlot Games, this addictive game offers the same easy-to-learn, yet difficult-to-master game play which made the original such a huge success.
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What You Were Not Told About Birth: Part 3
Once the swelling and inflammation has gone down. Tearing or incisions have closed and superficially healed. The tissue has to continue going through a healing process which includes relearning how to function.
To better understand the long term effects we need to understand the roles of the pelvic floor.
The pelvic floor has four main functions...
- To keep pee and poop in
- To let pee and poop out
- Sexual
- Structural
These functions are influenced by the flexibility, contractility and coordination of the muscles and tissues of the pelvic floor. But they are also influenced by what is happening above and below the pelvis, daily movement patterns, and your habits.
A vaginal delivery not only stretches the pelvic tissues of the pelvic floor, but also widens our hips and pelvic joints changing how the forces travel through the body.
The pelvic muscles and tissues are attached to and support these joints. Your pelvic joints are affected by positioning, external forces from people pulling on your legs, or your inability to feel how hard your pushing from an epidural. So if your pelvic joints are injured the tissues that are attached to them can also be injured or guard to protect.
These changes can have lasting affects on the structure of your pelvic bowl and may alter the strength-tension relationship in the muscles supporting the joints and organs, most importantly the pelvic floor. The body needs to compensate by shifting your posture or you may unconsciously alter how you perform a task.
This results in changing forces within our trunk and pelvis.
When this occurs the functions listed above can be altered resulting in
- Urine or fecal leakage
- Urine or fecal urgency
- Pelvic pain - front or back
- Back pain - anywhere in the back
- Painful sex
- Reduced sexual arousal
- Constipation, etc.
- Prolapse
The longer the body compensates, guards, moves in less than desirable patterns the more the tissues will tighten, weaken and become imbalanced.
Resulting in:
- That pesky twinge with sex now being a sharp chronic pain with sex.
- No leakage with coughing or sneezing to every time you have a cold you have to wear a pad.
- Once your baby starts to grow and get heavier your back aches or you can't bend over to lift the babe up because it hurts your pelvis so much.
- Whenever you lift your leg to go up the stairs or get dressed you have pain in the front of the pelvis.
Really the list can go on and on.
The contractility and flexibility of the pelvic floor muscles in particular are most influenced by a vaginal birth and just like the short term risks, medical intervention can result in more dysfunction.
For example, an episiotomy rips more resulting in a fourth degree tear. This means the laceration affects all the muscles and tissue between the vagina and rectum, including a large junction point of pelvic floor muscles and ligaments. When this happens not only is the scar going to be bigger, which may cause increased adhesions and reduced flexibility and guarding in the tissues and muscles, but also weakness in the anal sphincter. Resulting in increased risk of uncontrollable gas loss or fecal incontinence. On top of pelvic pain, prolapse and urine incontinence.
These issue will not be helped with just Kegels, ladies!
On a more global scale, the length of pushing during birth, regardless of medical intervention can increase the risk of pelvic floor dysfunction.
As I mentioned in Part 2, a short labor may not allow the time for the tissues of the pelvic floor to relax and stretch to expand for baby. On the other hand a long labor and pushing can overstretch the tissues.
Not being able to relax may cause tearing, resulting in scarring. Leading to pain or inability to contract or relax the pelvic floor muscles.
Either of these can mean muscle guarding, muscle weakness, muscle spasm - which can all lead to incontinence and pain.
Over stretching the tissues also means increased risk of prolapse. What this means is your pelvic tissues are unable to support your pelvic organs and either your bladder drops into the vaginal canal, cervix or uterus drop into the vaginal canal or the rectum drops into the vaginal canal.
Prolapse is highly influenced by the support you are able to provide to the pelvis through muscular, fascial tensioning and proper pressures. This is really where the weakness of the core, pregnancy posture and any other trauma that occurs to the pelvis from vaginal delivery is be highlighted as a problem.
Another injury that is rarely spoken of is nerve damage. This can be caused by:
- The amount of force placed into the pelvis during pushing
- The position of the baby
- The position of mom
- Any external forces on mom (think partner holding onto one leg and nurse holding on the other leg while moms on her back)
- Medicalization such as epidural so mom can't feel how hard she's pushing, or instruments.
It takes a long time for nerves to heal and if the surrounding tissues have also been injured, posture is altered, pelvic congestion or there are imbalances in tissues causing tension or guarding squeezing the nerve it'll take even longer.
The nerves that run through the pelvis not only control the pelvic organs and tissues but also the legs!
Ever wonder why it's hard to lift your leg or why your foot is numb after birth?
To recap:
Long term effects of a vaginal birth on pelvic health are:
- Incontinence
- Pain
- Prolapse
These are influenced by:
- Scarring (tearing, episiotomy)
- Injury from vacuum, forceps
- Length of labor and pushing
- Ability to relax the pelvic floor during birth
- Awareness and health of the pelvis prior to pregnancy
- Nerve damage
- Any other pelvic injury during birth
The good news is all of these are treatable in some way, with care from a pelvic health PT!
The sooner you are able to speak up and seek care the better.
The more women who do speak up about it and find out that these effects are not normal results of childbirth the women who will be able to live a fuller life!!


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Wichita service honors veterans' sacrifice
A smaller-than-anticipated crowd of about 1,500 at Monday's Memorial Day services at Resthaven Cemetery couldn't dim the smile on Mike Harter's face.
"To know that what I did and what my comrades did is still appreciated means a lot to me," the Vietnam veteran said.
"By some, anyway."
Featured speakers included Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer, U.S. Rep. Todd Tiahrt and Col. James Crowhurst, commander of the 22nd Air Refueling Wing at McConnell Air Force Base.
Each paid homage to the veterans in attendance and those who gave their lives defending America.
"You are all American heroes," Tiahrt said, "those of you who served and your families. We are grateful for the service and sacrifice you made on behalf of our country."
Crowhurst's voice cracked as he recounted the importance of honoring fallen comrades.
He explained how fallen soldiers are transported home, and how the flight line at bases gather at the tail of the airplane carrying the coffins to show their respect.
"The dignity and respect for our fallen comrades gives military members confidence that our service is valued and we will not be forgotten," Crowhurst said.
"Furthermore, it is comforting to know how our families will be cared for and supported. This empowers servicemen and women to carry out their jobs through adversity.
"And it also highlights what makes America great. Our nation responds well to adversity."
Brewer spoke about the unique mixture of emotions the holiday evokes.
"Unlike most holidays, this day brings us moments of sorrow and moments of joy," he said.
"The sorrow comes from remembering those who are no longer with us, especially those who lost their lives in the protection of our country or the line of duty.
"The joy comes from the opportunity to recognize them for the lives they lived and the contribution they made and the sacrifices we honor, particularly on this day."
That's what brought veterans like Harter, Gary Cross and cemetery superintendent LeRoy Stine to Monday morning's service.
"The crowds have slipped, but the word about the job they do here at Resthaven with this service will spread," Harter said. "Once people come out here and see the flag display and hear the program, they'll come back and they'll bring friends and family with them."
Cross and Stine speculated that the holiday has given way to recreation.
"It's more of a holiday for people doing fishing stuff than what it was designed for," said Cross, an Air Force veteran and a member of the Mid-Kansas Military Vehicle Preservation Association displaying his 1952 Jeep at the service.
"This is not like World War II or World War I. This is hit-and-run war."
"I agree that it's a shrinking turnout as the day has evolved from World War I, World War II and Vietnam," said Stine, who served in Vietnam from 1964 to 1969.
"Usually what you see these days is middle-aged people and older. Very few young people come out to pay their respects, but you have a lot of young people involved in Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts and other organizations come out and help support what we're doing.
"Whether they have the knowledge of the history and why we're here, I don't know."
Harter said that some of that awareness has returned with conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"We really skipped a whole generation of people experiencing conflict, but now, unfortunately, people have more to think about because we're involved overseas," he said.


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A better-than-it-might-be piece by Christine Rosen on the death of the book (again!) and the rise of "digital literacy" (via a tweet from Harvard_Press):
The book is modernity's quintessential technology—"a means of transportation through the space of experience, at the speed of a turning page," as the poet Joseph Brodsky put it. But now that the rustle of the book's turning page competes with the flicker of the screen's twitching pixel, we must consider the possibility that the book may not be around much longer. If it isn't—if we choose to replace the book—what will become of reading and the print culture it fostered? And what does it tell us about ourselves that we may soon retire this most remarkable, five-hundred-year-old technology? (More...)


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A powerful critque of my article on western universities in China
The presence of Western universities in China is on the rise, but they are not following UN principles on corporate social responsibility.
This article, reprinted from The New York Times, is targeted to students to enhance their college experience, but the five exercises can be used by lawyers and others to enhance their career development.
Defending Mohammad is the second edition of my memoir serving as defense counsel to the lead suspect in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing trial.
Representing suspected terrorists, white supremacists, child pornographers and other highly unpopular defendants.
How do you feel about the use of executed Chinese prisoners in commercial exhibitions?
NYU law professor Roderick Hills says "that freedom of speech at NYU-Shanghai might be greater than at NYU-Washington Square or other schools on American soil.''
Without courage, we may not make changes we know we should make to be happy.
Alan Watts on why it's hazardous to think of your career as a journey with a satisfying destination.
Does the silence of U.S. universities in China in the face of human rights abuses legitimize a government that oppresses its citizens?
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My latest contribution on Art and Cake, an online contemporary art magazine based in Los Angeles, CA.
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Los Angeles Artist Collectives You Should Check Out By Diane Williams Breaking through the art world has never been more challenging. Folding or merging art galleries and limited government funded art programs are making the competition extremely high along with the saturation of artists producing and showing artwork.


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The global wearable tech industry is one of the quickest growing industries right now. With many investments pouring in from all over the place, the industry continues to grow at an incredibly quick pace. A new report details the amount at which this industry is growing, and continues to showcase the amazing potential of such a new industry.
The report known as the Global Wearable Technology Market report shows that "The Wearable Technology industry is estimated to reach USD 71.23 billion in 2022, growing at a CAGR of 18.90% between 2017 and 2022 according to this study." The report further offers a "detailed analysis of global Wearable Technology market dynamics which will influence market during the forecast years."
In addition, numbers showing the "Wearable Technology market over the upcoming years. The prime focus of the Wearable Technology market report is to define and specify Past-Current Size, Wearable Technology Shares, Price, Segment & Forecast up to 2022. Further, the study gives a proper understanding of Wearable Technology major players, dominant market segments, diverse geographic regions and Wearable Technology market size (revenue)." The data gives a clear representation that the market on wearable tech is growing at a very quick pace.
With many investors putting money into the industry, new tech is being developed to help all across the wearable market. One of the largest investors in the market continues to be the health industry for obvious reasons. If these wearable devices are able to accurately present data in terms of health factors, they could quickly replace technology that we have had for quite a long time. The hopes are high that this new industry can continue to grow at such an incredible pace, offering new technologies and ways to ease the lives of individuals across a wide array of markets.
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[EDITOR'S NOTE: This guest column is by attorneys Jennifer Diaz and Denise Calle of Diaz Trade Law. SPW welcomes guest contributions — click here to submit articles or ideas]
Since March of this year, talk of increased tariffs has prompted rifts both in the United States and abroad. Following the U.S. departure from the G-7 Summit without signing the Communique, along with President Trump's tariff Tweets, historic trading partners are now posturing themselves as adversaries while the possibility of a multi-front trade war increases.
On May 31, the United States announced the imposition of tariffs on imports of certain steel and aluminum products from U.S. trading partners at the rates of 25% and 10%, respectively.
Many question the motivations behind the recent U.S. policy shift. The Trade Partnership, a consulting firm that researches the impacts of trade policies, reported that while steel and aluminum employment will increase by 26,280 jobs, agricultural employment is expected to drop by 7,000 jobs.
It is estimated that the rest of the economy will experience a net loss of 400,000 jobs, meaning that sixteen jobs would be lost for every one steel or aluminum job gained. Despite the nonpartisan group's criticism of the announced tariffs, the President appears to remain devoted to protecting the American manufacturing industry.
Since the President's initial announcement, multiple allies expressed their vehement opposition to the tariffs, and three out of the eight largest steel importers to the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and the European Union (EU), are all set to retaliate against the United States, targeting billions of dollars in exports.
Canada, for example, in response to the U.S. announcement, issued a notice publicizing its intent to impose countermeasures against the U.S. with harsh tariffs on U.S. exports. Should Canada retaliate with trade countermeasures, over $12 billion worth of U.S. goods would be targeted.
The goods identified in the notice include a vast amount of agricultural and foods products, including insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, coffee, maple syrup, beer, ketchup, cucumbers and strawberry jam, among others, which will be subject to a 10% surtax or other trade-restrictive measures.
EU Tariffs Will 'Reflect Damage'
The proposed countermeasure will take effect July 1 and will remain in place until the U.S. eliminates its trade-restrictive measures against Canada.
Similarly, the EU has made it clear that it will not negotiate under threat. After months of preparation, the EU now stands ready to react to the U.S. trade restriction. It published a list of over 100 products that will be subject to either a 10%, 25%, 35%, or even 50% increase in import duties. The products subject to the increase include agricultural items like orange juice, cranberry juice, peanut butter, sweetcorn and rice.
EU argues that "the level of tariffs to be applied will reflect the damage caused by the new U.S. trade restrictions on EU products". Not only do the EU's countermeasure target more than $3 billion worth of U.S. products, but the EU also plans to impose duties between 10% and 50% on over $4 billion worth of U.S. goods if the WTO finds the initial U.S. tariffs violate international law.
Following suit, Mexico responded to the tariffs with a list of their own impositions on U.S. products. The tariffs, which directly target American agriculture products like pork shoulders and legs, apples, ham, potatoes, and some cheeses, mandates that all U.S. products listed lose their preferential NAFTA tariffs treatment and instead are faced with an individual tariff increase of anywhere from 15% to 25%. Mexican officials even stated that the retaliatory tariffs are intended to inflict harm on specific communities that are represented by "people who have a voice and vote in the American Congress" and are expected to go into effect on July 5.
Mexico And Canada Targeting The U.S.
These nations meticulously focused their tariffs on agricultural exports for two primary reasons. First, nearly 40% of all U.S. agricultural products are exported. Second, they believe the most effective deterrent to U.S. imposed tariffs is a calculated economic strike on Trump supporters and the districts in which they reside.
Their goal, based on the premise that the agricultural community favors Republican politicians, is to attack the livelihood of farmers living in Republican-controlled states and districts, in order to alter the composition of Congress, come the midterm elections. They hope a Democratic Congress would place pressure on the Executive branch to alleviate the current tariffs, and ensure that these atypical relations remain atypical.
While the overarching motivation from the other nations may be to bring the U.S. back to the negotiating table, the current agricultural tariffs have the potential of creating devastating consequences responsible for almost half of the gross income of American agriculture.
[This column is published for the purposes of providing a general understanding of the law. It is in no way a substitute for individual legal consultation and anyone with a legal problem should not rely on these answers but should instead consult their attorney. If you have a legal problem and do not know an attorney, call your local Bar Association's Lawyer Referral Service.]


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Ouija Board Possessed
Posted by LOTGK on October 15, 2007
The Ouija board, the mythical doorway to the other side. The Ouija board is thought to have powers to contact demons, the devil himself, spirits and ghosts, and all other Halloween supernatural entities.
To use the Ouija board, four people gather around it and gently place their hands on the planchette, or the three sided pointer. One person then asks a question and the pointer magically begins to move towards a letter and spells out an answer.
Many people believe the ouija board has magical powers, or is linked to witchcraft or to the devil. In actuality, it is the four people themselves moving the pointer unknowingly.
The Ouija board above is from the Chicago Halloween show back in March of this year. Yes, it was rigged to move on its own.
8 Responses to "Ouija Board Possessed"
October 16, 2007 at 9:05 am
Dude, you know that's fake. It's magnets or wires or something under the table making it move.
October 16, 2007 at 1:09 pm
nicely balanced blog, i really like that , i hope i will see something new next time!
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The divorce had been done under the veil of secrecy, according to Russian media, in February. The marrige will take place in St Petersburg on June 15, at the palace Konstantinovo.
Alina Kabaeva is 25 years old, Russian gymnast who has had major success on the international stage including Olympic gold in Athens.
She is considered one of the most beautiful Russian woman, and in 2007 entered the Russian Parliament as a member of the "United Russia" party.
According to sources, Putin and Kabaeva are more 'than friends' since 2000. Putin (56) has two daughters with Ljudmila, 23 years old Marja and 21 years old Katerina.
True or not, everything will be confirmed very soon, though is likely that Putin will follow in Sarkozy's footsteps.
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Air travel has become a major part of our society, with industries and individuals depending on air transport for their livelihood. But have you ever wondered what happens to the artifacts of our airborne culture when they're no longer needed?
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The powerful ultra-Orthodox Jewish party Shas said on Monday it would withdraw in the next few days its parliamentary support for Prime Minister Ehud Barak's minority government.
"We are calling for the formation of a national emergency government in the next few days and that means that Shas is withdrawing its safety net for the government," Shas political leader Eli Yishai told a press conference.
Barak's minority government holds just 30 seats in parliament and can only count on the support of another 10 without Shas, the third largest party in the Knesset.
Shas granted Barak a month-long reprieve on October 30 to deal with the wave of violence raging across the Palestinian territories that has claimed the lives of almost 250 people.
Shas had walked out of his coalition government in protest at Barak's peace policies on the eve of July's Camp David summit with the Palestinians – JERUSALEM (AFP)
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Outstanding Townshippers are nominated by the public. Candidates are those who have made considerable contributions to the life of the Eastern Townships English-speaking community, either within their local community or the Townships community as a whole. They are people who have given of themselves, beyond the usual expectations of their job or profession, through volunteerism, social activism, mentoring, or philanthropy.
Candidates can come from all walks of life (advocacy, art, business, education, community organizations, health and social services, etc.) Candidates may be an individual, a couple or a group, of any ages, as long as they have lived in the historical Eastern Townships. Nominations may also be made posthumously.
EXCLUSION: Townshippers' Association's employees and members of its Board of Directors are not eligible to nominate or be nominated for an Outstanding Townshippers award.
Important: A maximum of two Outstanding Townshippers' awards are presented annually;
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Knit small dog sweater itself? Here we have a simpler Variant!
In the summer, one not sorely needs a dog sweater. Your own knitting learning takes but some time. Maybe, now just the right matter would be to learn this. Or is it not? You can find various other methods for creating clothes that represent an alternative to the dog sweater knitting itself.
DIY dog sweater
Sweaters, which are too small to intentionally ruin
It happened because, you put any piece of dress in the washing machine and then with several sizes smaller take out? If you have something, they will never wear, make something happen intentionally. This can lead to very interesting results, which would save you time. The sweaters for children are especially suitable for this because they have anyway small dimensions. You must take but of course some more actions, but they made quite the main achievement.
Enjoy your best friend with a warm sweater
Chic dressed
Choose the best cotton as a material. This would also help that is the piece at the end, you have much thicker and warmer by shrinking the dimensions.
Give your old favorite sweater your pooch
Now it's time to cut the piece. Do this through the middle of the sweatshirt and also on sleeves. You think not so much about the cut of the second element. It is important that this will serve as the opening for the dog's head.
Eyes full of love
So you can enjoy the winter correctly, or?
After tightening
You know what exactly to improve then, after tightening, so the sample. Everything must fit here exactly as in a human. Enlarge the one or the other hole on the garment so that feels the dog indeed better. If it is wide, fold the fabric instead of cutting them off. So you can be free space to later expand the piece? Attach buttons also!
Trends in dog fashion
The fit should be perfect fit
The little Chihuahuas are among the breeds of the dogs, who are mostly attracted to
As cute, or?
This dog is also very sweet. The yellow really suits him
Pink stripe dog girl
And Blue of course for boys – find instructions here
A hot model with hood
Turtleneck Sweater for dogs, just like a man sweater
In the snow, you need of course warm clothes
Knitted dog poncho
Elegant purple
What attract like mops?
A small dog Princess in pink
Trendy patterns for dogs
Puck in garish colours
In the hippie style heart and peace sign
In Orange
Or better in bright red
A real girl
Comfortable Pajamas for dogs
Great Christmas gift for your little Darling
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5 Tips to Help You Declutter and De-Stress After Losing a Loved One/
There's no pain like losing someone you love. As if grief is not daunting enough, survivors are often left dealing with stressful tasks after the passing of a friend or family member. One of the most challenging and emotional of those tasks is the sorting and organizing of any possessions that belonged to the late loved one. But with these meaningful tips, you can take some of the pain and stress out of this difficult step.
Manage as Much Self-Care as You Can Right Now
Before you start taking care of your list of tasks, pause for just a bit so you can come up with a list of basic self-care practices to preserve your well-being during this difficult time. Even simple self-care steps, like decluttering your home, can be effective in reducing feelings of stress and anxiety. If you cannot bring yourself to declutter your entire home, at least work on setting up your bedroom as a calming space that promotes restorative sleep. Keep your room dark when trying to rest, and dial back your thermostat before settling into bed. Those tiny measures can make a big difference when you are trying to get the sleep you need to heal and power through the difficult tasks ahead.
Consider Hiring a Professional to Handle Decluttering
From funeral arrangements to estate settlement, consulting experts will help take the weight of these emotionally-charged decisions off your shoulders. But sorting through your loved one's belongings can be full of emotions as well, so before you tackle this project on your own, consider hiring an organizer. With your heart and head already overwhelmed by grief, you may have a hard time deciding what to keep and how to organize all on your own. A professional organizer can help you stay objective and get through this challenge much more quickly.
Be Prepared to Encounter Grief
Hiring a professional organizer may not be in your budget. It may not even be your preference, given the personal nature of the tasks you are carrying out. If you decide to go through your late loved one's possessions on your own, make sure you have a solid understanding of the work ahead of you. Give yourself time to declutter and sort through everything, especially if you've shared a lifetime with your departed loved one. Parting ways with so many memories can take a lot of energy, so you may even need to wait a while before you begin. Also know that any emotions are normal during this process, so be patient with your heart as well.
Take Your Decluttering Efforts (and Your Grief) Step by Step
Beginning the decluttering process is often the hardest step, but once you feel up to the task, staying organized with your efforts will help this transition go smoothly. Start with the areas that need the most attention, and work your way through your home at your own pace. Sticking to your comfort zone is important, because the way we process grief is different for everyone. Your emotions can come pouring out all at once or may wash over you in smaller waves. If you begin to feel overwhelmed during the decluttering process, don't hesitate to stop and only start again when you have regained your strength.
Seek Out Support for Your Grief When You Need It
You already know that grief is a very personal process. It's normal to feel angry, sad and confused about the loss of your loved one. However, if those feelings begin to sink deeper into feelings of depression, it's time to reach out for help. Complicated grief often requires a more proactive approach to resolving overwhelming issues. You may feel comforted by joining a local grief support group, or you may be better off seeking out professional grief counseling. Having a little extra support can be meaningful during such an emotional journey.
Be kind to yourself as you grieve. Don't exhaust yourself trying to declutter everything all at once, and only take on what you can handle. This is a difficult time for your mind, body and emotions, so be sure to make yourself a priority.
By Lucille Rosetti, survivor and founder of The Bereaved


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There are certain things women are serious about and one of those things is our hair. We'll go to great lengths to get the perfect hair. But what about spending $350 on a flat iron? It's pretty much a proven fact that the FHI Runway flat iron is the best iron for straightening your hair without frying it, but is it really worth the price of a plane ticket? Let's do the Fashion Math.
If you straighten your hair three times a week for the next year–that's 3 times 52 which equals 156-you'll have spent more on your coffee combo from Dunkin' Donuts than on this flat iron. And best of all, you won't find yourself having to replace it every six month like you would with cheaper irons.
Check out more of our adventures in Fashion Math, and get more great beauty tips in our dry hair repair and hair removal products buying guides.


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Jim McDonald (pitcher)
|Jim McDonald
Born: May 17, 1927
Grants Pass, Oregon
Died: October 23, 2004 (aged 77)
Kingman, Arizona
|Batted: Right
|Threw: Right
|MLB debut
|July 27, 1950 for the Boston Red Sox
|Last MLB appearance
|April 26, 1958 for the Chicago White Sox
|Career statistics
|Win-loss record
|Earned run average
|Career highlights and awards
Jimmie Le Roy McDonald [Hot Rod] (May 17, 1927 – October 23, 2004) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for five different teams between 1950 and 1958. Listed at 5' 10", 185 lb., he batted and threw right-handed.
McDonald worked a spot starter and filled various roles coming out of the bullpen as a middle reliever and set-up man. During his career, he was well known for being part of several transactions that included notable players. He entered the majors in 1950 with the Boston Red Sox, playing one year for them before joining the St. Louis Browns (1951), New York Yankees (1952–54), Baltimore Orioles (1955) and Chicago White Sox (1956–58). He went 3–4 with a 3.50 ERA in 26 appearances for the 1952 Yankees champions, including five starts, but did not pitch during the 1952 World Series. In 1952, he posted career-highs in wins (9), complete games (6) and innings pitched (129⅔). He also was the starter and winning pitcher in Game 5 of the 1953 World Series over the Brooklyn Dodgers.[1]
In a nine-season career, McDonald posted a 24–27 record with a 4.37 ERA in 136 games, including 55 starts, 15 complete games, three shutouts, 30 games finished, one save, 158 strikeouts, and 468.0 innings pitched.
Though he died in 2004, his death was not "uncovered" by baseball researchers until 2011.[2]
- Before the 1945 season was signed by the Boston Red Sox as a free agent.
- During the 1951 midseason,McDonald was sent by Boston, along with Matt Batts and Jim Suchecki, to the St. Louis Browns in exchange for Les Moss.
- Before the 1952 season was traded by St. Louis to the Yankees for Clint Courtney, who was the first catcher to wear glasses in major league history.
- In a 17-player trade before the 1955 season, the Yankees sent McDonald, Harry Byrd, Don Leppert, Bill Miller, Willy Miranda, Kal Segrist, Hal Smith, Gus Triandos, Gene Woodling, and a minor leaguer[3] to the Baltimore Orioles, in exchange for Mike Blyzka, Jim Fridley, Billy Hunter, Darrell Johnson, Dick Kryhoski, Don Larsen and Bob Turley.
- In the 1955 midseason, was returned by Baltimore to the Yankees for Ed Lopat, but did not play for them.
- In 1956, he was dealt by New York to the Orioles, then purchased by the Chicago White Sox from Baltimore.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference
- Retrosheet


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Storm dreamers serve the Storm Kindlers by communing with their mystical predecessors. They serve as spiritual advisors for the organization, and are valued for the lore and wisdom they gain during their trances. During such a trance, a single storm dreamer can easily protect and defend a temple-or at the very least, provide suitably threatening defensive displays.
Mediums who become storm dreamers select their spirits normally, but the spirits with which they bond are supernatural remnants of the first Storm Kindlers-those reckless explorers who established the tradition but succumbed to their own arrogance.
Some storm dreamers, though, become incapable of retaining their own personality and values, and transform into unpredictable forces of nature. Storm dreamers refer to this condition as being stormcursed and view these lost brothers and sisters with a mix of pity and horror. The stormcursed do not maintain ties with the Storm Kindlers, and in many cases their departure from the organization is violent and destructive. They are not viewed as heretics by the Storm Kindlers, but neither are they sought after as allies. They are typically treated as dangerous and unpredictable agents of the storm and allowed to dwell in relative peace in the remote locations where the stormcursed dreamers choose to dwell in. The exact cause of this condition is hotly debated among the storm dreamers themselves, for it seems to afflict their members almost randomly.
Domain (Su)
All storm dreamers are deeply religious and select one of the following domains: Air, Animal, Plant, Water, or Weather. The storm dreamer gains the 1st-level granted power from her chosen domain, but never gains the second power at higher level. When determining the effect of the granted power, the storm dreamer's effective cleric level is equal to her storm dreamer level. The 1st- through 6th-level bonus spells from this domain are added to her spell list. Despite her faith, these spells are cast normally, as psychic spells, by the medium.
This ability replaces spirit surge.
Storm Trance (Su)
A 3rd-level storm dreamer can enter a meditative trance, mentally becoming one with the great storm. Entering the trance is a full-round action that doesn't provoke attacks of opportunity, but once in a storm trance, the storm dreamer can maintain the trance as a free action for a number of minutes per day equal to her storm dreamer class level + her Charisma modifier. These minutes need not be consecutive, but they must be spent in 1-minute increments. While in a storm trance, the storm dreamer gains energy resistance 5 against cold and electricity, treats wind as one step less severe, and gains a bonus equal to her Charisma modifier on all saving throws against wind effects, spells with the air or electricity descriptors, and effects that deal electricity damage.
This ability replaces haunt channeler.
Dream Storm (Sp)
At 5th level, a storm dreamer's thoughts can cause magical weather effects to manifest. While in a storm trance, she can cast call lightning, sleet storm, and wind wall as spell-like abilities (CL = her character level). Each time she casts one of these spell-like abilities, she reduces the number of remaining minutes for her storm trance by 1 minute; she can't use these spell-like abilities if she has less than 1 minute remaining for the day to use her storm trance.
This ability replaces location channel.
Storm Seer (Su)
At 7th level, a storm dreamer gains a supernatural link to the weather and can sense her surroundings more clearly. While in her storm trance, she gains blindsense 10 feet and cannot be flanked. If the weather conditions are stormy, these senses become blindsight with a range of 30 feet.
This ability replaces connection channel.
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Adventurer's Guide © 2017, Paizo Inc.; Authors: Benjamin Bruck, John Compton, Crystal Frasier, Tim Hitchcock, Jenny Jarzabski, Isabelle Lee, Joe Pasini, Jessica Price, David Schwartz, and Josh Vogt.


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All babies are welcome!! The nursery has three rooms to make sure your child receives the most attentive and developmentally-appropriate care: infants & crawlers, walkers, and 2 year-olds. The rooms have everything from bouncy seats and swings for the littlest ones to puzzles, bible stories, and crafts that engage the minds and motor skills of 2 year-olds! In the nursery, volunteers give individual attention to each baby's needs to start to show your kiddo the love of Christ while also giving parents a chance to breathe and focus on service. Have specific requests for your child? No problem! Just chat with a volunteer in the room when you arrive! We will always honor your preferences and do our absolute best to keep your child happy and healthy!
**Mission Church also has a Nursing Moms Room available, complete with comfortable seating, a changing table, and a live-stream of the service! Ask any Mission Kids staff or volunteer for more information!
If you have a preschooler or kindergartener, you know there is so much in the world to discover! The three Early Childhood rooms - 3 year-olds, 4 & 5 year-olds, and kindergarten - invite kids to discover more of the God who made them, loves them, and will always be with them! Through fun worship songs and dances, Bible story videos, Bible verses to remember, and art projects led by amazing volunteers, kids in this space begin to unfold Bible truths at the preschool level!
IT'S FUN! The elementary experience is designed around relationships with friends and small group leaders that encourage kids to begin to own their own faith and really follow Christ. Both elementary spaces include a high-energy time to worship God, a video that tells a Bible story and invites kids to connect the truth of the story to their lives, science experiments and games! Each service includes a time for really valuable small group discussions that allow for kids to be goofy one second and share about what it means to follow God the next! The 1st-3rd Grade room is a blast, and the 4th-5th Grade space allows for preteens to have their own, really cool space to worship and grow before starting Mission Students!
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Another Brand at The Signal Townhouses
Another Brand at The Signal Townhouses
The Signal Townhouses are an award-winning development of 16 unique terraced houses, located on London's Greenwich Peninsular.
The project is a masterclass in the creation of high-quality urban living from architectural practice AHMM for developer U+I. Recently winning the prestigious Graham Pye Award in the Housing Design Awards 2018. The interiors were overseen by design consultancy IYA Studio who maintained the integrity of the calm, airy spaces with modern, liveable furnishings. Photography: Taran Wilku
"Our concept was to create a modern, warm, stylish feel for this beautiful 3 bed / 3 storey house, a space where buyers would see themselves living in harmony with the existing Victorian terrace houses and the new modern blocks in the neighbourhood." - IYA Studio
Key pieces include our Cubo AV Cabinet and the Cubo Rectangular Dining Table - both perfectly in tune with the schemes' high quality, timeless style.
Our Cubo furniture range is made from solid oak and oak veneer finished to an exceptionally high standard. The Cabinet has a perfect thin edge with stepped mitre detailing and push-pull openings.
Another Brand works closely with Architects, Interior Designers and Design Professionals to realise their projects. Head to our Trade page to find out more about setting up a Trade Account with us.


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Race cars have long ignited great passions, but American artist Salvatore Scarpitta shifted his devotion into a whole new gear.
The painter and sculptor's obsession is on display in "Salvatore Scarpitta: Traveler," which opens Thursday at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., bringing together 19 works including two full-size cars.
Scarpitta, who died in 2007 at age 88, never outgrew his love of sprint-car racing. In his work, he referred over and over to races he saw in the 1930s at Los Angeles's Legion Ascot Speedway near his childhood home. At the time, the sport was in its infancy, with drivers competing in stripped-down vehicles, often on dirt tracks at fairgrounds.
The Hirshhorn show chronicles the latter half of Scarpitta's career and his fascination with the risks of the racetrack. His paintings often included scavenged parts such as exhaust pipes and safety belts. Then the artist's eureka moment happened: The lean, muscular and often beautifully decorated cars, he realized, were artworks unto themselves.
"He was completely obsessed," said Melissa Ho, an assistant curator who organized the show. "He talked about the total sensory experience—the noise, the smell of the fuel. It was probably his first exposure to such an intense life-or-death experience."
Scarpitta never raced professionally but watched the sport develop a national following. Today, sprint-car racing continues at tracks in California and the Midwest as well as in central Pennsylvania. Major races such as the Knoxville, Iowa, Nationals, are televised.
The sprint cars Scarpitta grew up with were treacherous contraptions, consisting of powerful engines bolted on to four wheels. Drivers were boxed into their vehicles by just a few strips of metal. Few bothered to strap themselves in to their seats, figuring it was less risky to be thrown from a wreck than crushed by one.
In his late teens, Scarpitta moved to Italy to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. Shortly after World War II began, he was declared an enemy alien and interned; later, he went into hiding in the mountains. In 1944, he fled Italy and enlisted in the U.S. armed forces.
After the war, he remained in Italy for more than a decade, pursuing his art. He tore canvas and swaddled it around stretchers, using it as a material and not just a surface for his abstract works. Such pieces suggested the destruction of war as well as the subsequent healing and regeneration.
Scarpitta returned to the U.S. in 1958, when the influential dealer Leo Castelli invited him to join his New York gallery. The artist gravitated back to racetracks, first in New Jersey and later in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Before long, he began affixing car parts, some salvaged from wrecks, to his paintings.
"It's not a coincidence that cars come back in his work when he returns to America," Ms. Ho said. "There are things that connect the kind of intensity that he experienced in the war to the intensity that he saw at play at the track. The difference, of course, is that the drivers are embracing that risk and that intensity of their own free will."
Like the earlier works done in Italy, these pieces feature canvas that has been cut, bandaged and bound—but treated with a brighter palette of oil and enamel paint. It wasn't long before the artist seized on the notion of exhibiting the cars themselves.
"He has this revelation," Ms. Ho said, imagining the artist wondering to himself: "If I'm obsessed with these kinds of cars, why am I translating them into this painting language? I'm just going to make the car."
Between 1964 and 1969, Scarpitta made six full-scale vehicles, including the Hirshhorn's pared-down Sal Cragar, which was inspired by the racers he saw in childhood. The cars were often a mix of antique parts and fabricated ones.
In the 1980s, Scarpitta's studio was in a Baltimore warehouse he shared with a sprint-car driver named Greg O'Neill. The pair met when Mr. O'Neill sold Scarpitta a sprint car, which he exhibited as Trevis Race Car (Sal Gambler Special), a highlight of the Hirshhorn exhibition. The car, which measures nearly 12 feet long, is a riot of red and white paint accented in blue, yellow and orange. The vehicle is splattered with shout-outs to sponsors, drivers and the painters who worked on it.
"Most everything about these cars was handmade," Mr. O'Neill said. "The sprint-car community is very artistic. They always come up with the next-best idea or the next-best design," which fascinated Scarpitta.
The artist bought a racing team in the mid-1980s and persuaded Mr. Castelli and a Washington restaurateur to help back it financially. In a sport where many sponsors hail from the construction business or agriculture, Scarpitta Racing stood out at the track.
"When we came through the gate" with Scarpitta and Mr. Castelli, Mr. O'Neill recalled, "it absolutely made everybody's head turn."


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The perfect is the enemy of the good - Voltaire
Perfection. What does it mean to you? Friend or foe? How much energy have you wasted trying to get there (wherever 'there' is)? Has it ever really done you any favours..?
We all know how heavily edited social media can be, and we really never know what's going on for other mamas behind all the filters. We all seem to want to project an image of having all our shit together, to try and prove to ourselves and everyone else that we've got this. But why? We're all in this same crazy boat, and when we drop the filters we make real connections. When we ask for help, we find that support is all around. When we embrace our imperfections and forgive our mistakes, there's more space to breathe. So let's stop trying to always be something or someone or somewhere else. Let's be present, here and now, ditching the comparisons, and aiming for balance and progress instead. Let's stop focusing on everyone else's highs and come home to our own brilliant, beautiful, (sometimes boring), exhausting, emotional and exhilarating ride.
I have been talking to the very lovely and talented Carin Thakrar about her work as a family photographer. If anyone has a peek behind the scenes, she does. Here's her verbal and visual take on the filters of perfection on social media, what's really going on outside that frame, and why all of it is beautiful in its own way. You can find her at www.carinthakrar.com
Behind the scenes - Carin Thakrar
Since social media came in to our lives, we're now getting constant information on all sorts of platforms. We also connect with lots of amazing people who we'd never even know existed if it weren't for the online networks.
But with all the information, we can also get a very unbalanced image of reality, with streams of photos containing seemingly perfect families, amazing holidays, Pinterest parties and children dressed immaculately and playing happily together.
It's brilliant to show all these things and there's no reason why they shouldn't be a part of our daily feeds – in fact they can be very inspiring and often make me smile.
But with all these 'perfect' pictures, it's easy to think that everyone else's life is so much more interesting and fun than your own, or that others have got their lives much more 'together'. The truth is, of course, that these photos only show a really small part of people's lives, and usually only the edited and airbrushed highlights – digital photography allows us to take hundreds of snaps and only choose the best ones. The reality is often a lot more messy, disorganised and uneventful than the one projected online, but it's still really beautiful in its own crazy, real, raw way.
As a family photographer who takes pictures in people's homes, I see so many different types of families. Some people dress up and tidy their homes before a shoot, others are in their PJs without any worry for the laundry on the floor or the dishes in the sink. Sometimes the children are in a bad mood, or the baby might have kept everyone up all night. It's all fine with me – it's normal, and it's life.
In the photos I take I want to show that there is beauty in the real, everyday moments, no matter what your home looks like or what you're wearing. What's important is the emotion that a photo evokes, whether that emotion is happiness, sadness, nostalgia, compassion or otherwise.
These pairs of photos are taken from the same shoots just a few seconds or minutes apart, but they show very different stories. They are all beautiful captured moments, evoking a range of emotions in their own unique way.
To me, perfection isn't just to have a beautiful, tidy home, or always happy children. I believe that the everyday moments can be just as beautiful, if not moreso, than any of the 'perfect' family pictures out there on your news feed.


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Who are Asia's most creative disrupters?
Tesla is ranked number One in Forbes 'Most Innovative Companies'. This year, 24 major Asian firms appear among Forbes list of the World Most Innovative Companies. The list identifies the top 100 "creative disrupters" – companies that are entering, innovating and attracting the interest of investors.


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Kohl's has started to make progress on addressing toxic chemicals in the products it sells, earning just 29.75 points and a letter grade of D and ranking 21st out of 40 retailers. Following the company's recent posting of a chemicals policy on its website, Kohl's acheived a significant improvement over its grade of F with zero points in 2017. It is unclear if the policy itself is new or just newly disclosed—Kohl's did not respond to our opportunity to clarify its policies in 2017 and the policy itself is not dated.
Opportunities for improvement: Kohl's can make progress by adding more detail to its policy to specify the processes for testing and auditing its suppliers, releasing its RSL publicly, and by setting public quantifiable goals with clear timelines for reducing and eliminating chemicals of high concern from its private-label and "direct import" products. Additionally, Kohl's should work to apply its chemical policy to other products it sells beyond its private label and direct imports.
Summary of Kohl's Grade
10 out of 17.5 points
Policy: Adopted a retailer safer chemicals policy
2.5 out of 7.5 points
Oversight: Established management responsibilities and incentives
6.25 out of 10 points
Accountability: Ensures supply chain accountability
0 out of 10 points
Disclosure: Requires suppliers to report use of chemicals in products to retailer
0 out of 15 points
Action: Reduced or eliminated chemicals of high concern within the last three years
1 out of 10 points
Safer Alternatives: Evaluates safer alternatives, avoids regrettable substitutes
5 out of 15 points
Transparency: Demonstrates a commitment to transparency and public disclosure
Kohl's does not appear to encourage or require the disclosure of ingredients in products online or on product packaging or publicly disclose the identity of articles or formulated products that are free of chemicals of high concern going beyond regulatory compliance.
0 out of 7.5 points
Chemical Footprint: Evaluates its chemical footprint
0 out of 7.5 points
Third-party Standards: Promotes credible third party standards for safer products
Extra Credit:
0 out of 5 points
Joint Announcement: Public commitment demonstrated through joint announcement
5 out of 15 points
Continuous Improvement: Shows continuous improvement by steadily expanding safer chemicals policy
0 out of 5 points
Safer Products: Program to promote safer products in stores and/or on website
0 out of 5 points
Collaboration: Actively participates in collaborative process to promote safer chemicals
0 out of 5 points
Impact Investment: Investing financial resources into independent research into safer alternatives and/or green chemistry solutions


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Emiko is the adorable daughter of my long-time friend, Jennifer, and her husband, Eric. I've had the pleasure of photographing both Emiko and her big brother, Ethan, since they were newborns. A couple months ago, Emiko celebrated her 1st birthday, and I was there to capture it. It was a princess themed soiree, and every detail was fabulous! It was definitely a celebration fit for royalty. ;) At first, Emi wasn't too thrilled about having her picture taken...
But after a while, she decided to give me a few smiles (with a little help from her Mama, of course).
Check out some of the the beautiful details.
Onto the festivities! This was seriously the best cake smash I have ever seen, thanks to big brother Ethan's participation. He just had to show her how it's done. :)
And while all eye's were on Emiko's cake smash (and while I was busy photographing it), someone took the opportunity to sneak a cupcake. That would be my daughter, Violet. Pretty sneaky! Luckily someone noticed before she managed to spread hot pink frosting across the room!
And the party continued...
And here are a few more adorable shots of the birthday girl.
I'm so glad I was able to be a part of Emi's first birthday! Thanks once again to Jen and Eric for letting me capture another special time with your family. Hope everyone enjoyed checking out the photos. Thanks for looking! xo ~ denise


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AUGUSTA — Two Waterville women are facing robbery charges after another woman said they beat and kicked her and ripped $100 from the pocket of her hooded sweatshirt.
One of those charged with the Saturday night robbery told police the victim had stolen $70 from her the previous week.
Antelsy "Amy" Bellows, 39, was arrested and brought to the Kennebec County jail in Augusta late Tuesday. She had an initial appearance at the Capital Judicial Center Wednesday via video from the jail.
Judge Eric Walker set bail at $1,000 cash with conditions that prohibit her from contact with the victim and with her co-defendant, Katie Goodale, 32.
The prosecutor, Assistant District Attorney Carie James, had asked for that amount, saying Bellows was on probation for a prior trafficking conviction and had other previous drug convictions.
Bellows, who was wearing an orange, button-up jail uniform, was accompanied by attorney John O'Donnell, serving as lawyer of the day. O'Donnell requested personal recognizance bail on the new charge, saying she had "a very clean" drug screen at the jail, and was on a probation hold.
Walker did not ask for a plea to the robbery charge, telling Bellows that it was a felony-level charge that would need to go to the grand jury. The Class B robbery charge carries a minimum penalty of five years in jail.
Bellows' next court hearing was set for March 8.
An affidavit by Waterville Police Officer Scott Dumas says the other woman charged, Goodale, whom police located sleeping in her apartment, was freed after posting bail from the Waterville Police Department on Saturday.
The named victim, who is 23 years old, told police she was walking from Ticonic Street to her Spruce Street home when she was jumped by Goodale and Bellows.
The victim said initially the occupants of the car stopped in the road and yelled at her, so she got scared and ran.
On Drummond Avenue, just prior to her reaching Spruce Street, she said two women and a man got out of the vehicle and attacked her. She said she "was grabbed from behind by the hair and fell to the ground."
She said the women kicked her as she was on the ground and then they left the area in Goodale's vehicle. She also said the women ripped her hooded sweatshirt pocket and took the her $100 cash from there.
Dumas wrote that the victim told him that "it is possible she had done something in the past to both of them that provoked the robbery" and that her ex-boyfriend "was known for 'ripping' people for drugs and that it could be payback for one of these events."
Dumas also wrote that the victim had fresh scratches and that police found markings in the snow suggesting there had been a disturbance and "consistent with someone rolling around on the ground."
Goodale denied stealing anything from the victim and said she only beat her up, Dumas wrote.
Dumas also said that Goodale told him she became upset when she saw the victim walking down the street because of a theft of $70 a week earlier.
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The question I always get asked by the readers of this blog, the creative starters I coach, the nomads I meet on my travels, and the people I teach at my workshops, is how did I start my blog. My answer is always the same – I just started.
So when Belinda from Maybe I Can Make A Difference got in touch to let me know she is launching a travel sharing site, which collects stories, and champions those special moments about the places we visit and the people we meet, I knew I had to get involved in some way.
But first – the launch.
Over the course of an evening, MICMAD will be hosting a micro travel adventures art exhibition with music, food and wine in Sydney to launch the highly anticipated website, and of course, to talk about all things travel. This is going to be an adventure like no other!
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EVENT DETAILS When: Friday 11th December 2015 Where: TBC, Surry Hills, Sydney NSW Australia 2016 Time: 6pm to 10pm
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Police have a couple of pretty decent surveillance photos of a man they describe as a "person of interest" in a shoplifting incident that occurred at Walmart in Rochester last month. But they haven't yet been able to identify the man and are asking for the public's help.
ROCHESTER — Police are investigating a shoplifting incident that occurred at Wal-Mart in Rochester on Aug. 28 and asking for the public's help in identifying a person of interest.
Police have released photos of a man wearing a blue shirt.
He left the store in a green Subaru Legacy.
If anyone has any information pertaining to this case, they are asked to contact Officer Jackson at the Rochester Police Department at 330-7127.
Alternatively, calls can be made anonymously to the Rochester Crimeline at 335-6500. All calls to the Rochester Crimeline will remain confidential and rewards may be given for information leading to an arrest.
You can also text the Rochester Crimeline at Crimes (274637) in the body write TEXT4CASH followed by your tip.


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Bitcoin speculation is a computerized money trade
Bitcoin is a computerized cash trade that doesn't rely on a focal impact for accounting rather is altogether open-source, shared system for cash, something unparalled from the past of person business financial aspects. Be that as it may, they are people, their partners and organizations all set with this new strategy for cash? Bitcoin may take away in a few spots and countries sooner than foreseen dependent on the legislative atmosphere. In the event that specialists ruins and corrupts its outside cash, at that point it is certain to develop in notoriety. That is the thing that occurred in Argentina if the administration changed network cash trade designated integrates with US Money named associations at a change sum which had been set by the govt. Bitcoin use in america shot super seeking after this, in truth it is in any case quickening (broke down with respect to spending plan downloading every month).
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1 Corinthians 13
1 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b]but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Whenever I think about or refer to this passage, I simply must include the whole chapter. Every time we hear this reading in church, we only hear From 13:4-6, and maybe 13:13. Everything else is eliminated. Very sad because there is so much more to hear here that is really important. The one time I had control over this was when the DH and I got married. We had the whole reading included and that made us very happy.
I often wonder why we do not get the benefit from this beautiful passage and the only reason I can guess at is that church officials really do think we are sheep and maybe don't have the brains to grasp and appreciate the full meaning. Even I, with my limited understanding, understand that if I don't have love, I have nothing. I am nothing. And that does mean that if nobody loves me I have nothing. It means that if I do not have love within myself to give to others, I have nothing. Hmm, very interesting. Love seems to have more weight than even faith, which I find shocking, but there it is:
and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3
Amazing. I can have the strongest faith in the Lord, but if I do not have love inside myself, love for my neighbors, I am nothing in the eyes of God. Truly amazing. I'm going to "amaze" myself out of readers if I keep this up, but the capacity for learning never ceases to amaze me (couldn't resist that last one).
Anyway, this passage popped up today while I was commenting on another blog. I was expressing my hope that my son will, later on in life if not sooner, will recognize the love we, his parents, have for him and how much it has influenced every bit of our marriage and our efforts on his behalf to make him a better life. It's our hope that no matter what happens, no matter what we do, he will know that everything said, everything done was done out of love. We hope that our love for him will shine through all the disagreements and arguments, all the times we need to say "no". All the times we make him do his homework, do his chores, practice his social skills using the tools he collects along the way. Well, it's our desire for him to truly understand what love is. Can he feel it? Yes. Are we sure that he knows what it is, or ever will? The jury is still out on that because we do not fully understand the traits of Autism, in particular his lack of empathy; and we certainly do not know how severe of a lack that is in him. He can learn, or I should ask: Can he learn about love just has he learns social skills? How can we, or CAN we differentiate these kind of emotional, age appropriate, milestones? We hardly know what is age appropriate, let alone what would be age appropriate for an autistic child.
I find myself verbalizing a lot. My new thing is to constantly ask my little guy to repeat back his understanding of different things, whether it be word definitions or emotions, or anything I get the impression needs work.
But maybe sometimes we fail love. Thank goodness love is without condition or I'd be a really sad person right now. I am putting a lot, no all of my eggs in the basket of love. I'm so afraid of failing my child. Is this too much of an expectation to place on my love for him? I am wondering, but even as I do, I know that I have help. My husband's love for our son is amazing and in some ways out shines my own. His perpetual love and consideration is amazing and so matter of fact, as if he's been doing it all his life, so integrated into his nature… so natural, no questions (or answers) needed. When I picked this man as my life partner and as the father of my children, I not only picked a keeper, I picked a winner… so unusual for me… lol. Thank God that for one time in my life, I made a good assessment of the opposite sex.
So where do I go from here? First and foremost, never give up on love. Love really does conquer all and this family is living proof. Second, always trust my judgement , but also DH's judgement. He is a very deep person and his motives are not always apparent, and almost never verbalized…. which leads me to the next. Always ask questions. I'm always amazed at what I learn.


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A property abutting the historic Green in Woodstock, VT underwent a two-phase renovation when the owners decided to move up and live in Vermont full time.
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I am fortunate to love what I do. My days are full of meaningful conversations, intentional connections, and fabulous colleagues who inspire me every day. Arriving to this place wasn't by accident – and didn't happen overnight. Finding my career passion has been an intentional process, and as a recruiter I am fortunate to help others find theirs. In order to find career fulfillment, we must first look at what career happiness is not.
It's easy to feel blinded by outer factors such as competitive salary, catered lunches, happy hours, and work-from-home flexibility. At first glance, these perks lead us to believe we will be happy at work. While these factors can certainly help to cultivate culture, they are the things that attract you to a job – they do not keep you there for the long haul.
True career happiness comes from deep reflection and intentional inner work to identify your values, skills, and interests. In an ideal scenario, your career should combine what you love with what you are great at doing.
Easier said than done, right? Below is a suggested guideline to identifying your career passion.
Step One: Personal reflection and taking inventory is step one to identifying your career passion. Consider visiting a place you love, bring your journal, and answer the questions listed below. You will be amazed how this cathartic exercise will naturally highlight connections and themes – getting you one step closer to knowing who you are and where you add value.
- What are the skills that come most naturally to you?
- What are you passionate about? What causes matter to you?
- What did you love to study in school?
- How do you know when you feel valued?
- What type of work environment energizes you? Do you work well in a team, independently, a combination of both?
- What if you removed outside influencers and personal criticism – what would you do?
- Where are you an expert?
- Make a list of goals you want to achieve, personally and professionally? What does your life look like 1, 5, 10 years down the road?
Step Two: Take a personality test. One of my favorite is the Myers Briggs. This classic, tried and true test can reveal a lot about yourself - both personally and professionally. Try this one for free.
Step Three: Find a Career Mentor. Think about your professional network and work on developing a mentoring relationship. Below are a some great articles on how to do this effectively.
- 9 Tips for Finding—and Getting—the Perfect Mentor
- The 3 Career Mentors Everyone Should Have
- How To Find A Great Mentor - First, Don't Ever Ask A Stranger
I challenge you to stop, reflect, and take steps towards the life you could have. Maybe you will discover an industry that is meaningful to you. Maybe you'll realize you need mentors and strong leaders to feel motivated and challenged. Maybe you'll learn what you thought was a hobby could actually be a lucrative endeavor. Whatever you discover, I guarantee you'll be on your path to career fulfillment.
Here at Bloom Talent, I am grateful to play a part in this process with you. Take a look at our current opens jobs – can we help connect you to your career passion?
"It is never too late to be what you might have been" George Eliot
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