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This post is the 43rd in a series on the Booby Traps, made possible by the generous support of Motherlove Herbal Company.
In a prior post I discussed a number of barriers to breastfeeding many moms encounter in the NICU. While many NICUs have a long way to go in supporting breastfeeding, there are some which have made great strides in implementing policies and supports which make breastfeeding and breastmilk feeding a reality for moms and babies.
I'm thrilled to be able to share an interview with Dr. Diane Spatz of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia about how she changed her own NICU, her "Ten Steps for Promoting and Protecting Breastfeeding for Vulnerable Infant," and her own advice for beating the Booby Traps in the NICU.
Dr. Spatz is Associate Professor of Health Care of Women and Childbearing Nursing and Helen M. Shearer Term Associate Professor of Nutrition at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds a joint appointment at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) as a nurse researcher in lactation. Her expertise is the provision of human milk/breastfeeding in mothers who have infants with complex surgical anomalies. Dr. Spatz is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) and is Chair of the Expert Panel on Breastfeeding for the AAN.
What are some of the reasons why moms experience the NICU Booby Traps I described in a prior post? Which of these issues do you see changing for the better in NICUs these days?
One of the primary barriers to the use of human milk and breastfeeding in the U.S. is not viewing human milk as an intervention that changes health outcomes. Far too many health professionals assume that mothers have the necessary information needed to make an informed decision. This is not true! For mothers expecting an infant in the NICU or other critical care unit, mothers must be presented with the science of human milk. Human milk must be viewed as a medical intervention that is just as important as IV nutrition or a ventilator.
At the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), we have a prenatal lactation consultation that occurs as a standard part of prenatal care. All mothers are informed with tailored information as to why their milk is essential for their infant. This has resulted in a 99% pumping initiation rate in our Special Delivery Unit (SDU). If you present moms with the research about why their milk matters and how human milk works to protect their infant from disease and illness, all moms want to pump! Moms want to do what is best for their infants.
The second barrier to breastfeeding and human milk in the NICU is a lack of evidence-based lactation support. Every single barrier you mention could be solved if the administration and all health care providers read and understand the evidence. I will argue that nurses are the KEY to success, yet nurses routinely are NOT educated about breastfeeding and human milk in their programs of study, or if they are the information is minimal. At the University of Pennsylvania, I teach an entire semester undergraduate course to nursing students. This course provides future nurses with 28 hours of lecture and 14 hours of clinical exposure!
Can you describe the process of change to more breastfeeding-friendly practices in your NICU at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia?
Prior to being recruited to CHOP, I had always worked at birth hospitals. In that setting there is a lot of access to mothers and opportunities for education, even though they stay for a short time. I was also shocked when I saw the lack of knowledge about breastfeeding (even though this exists in ALL hospitals), and that the mindset was about taking care of the infants, forgetting that moms = the food supply for the babies! So I knew I had some big issues to address. I needed to create a culture in which human milk was valued as a critical intervention for NICU infants.
Data is KEY! Hospitals must collect and track data on their breastfeeding practices. One of the first things I did was take pictures of all of our human milk storage areas (which identified issues to resolve). The next was to do a basic knowledge assessment of staff, followed by a survey of pump room usage. You cannot just say you have a problem without identifying what the problem is!
The key driver in changing our breastfeeding culture at CHOP is our nursing staff. Our nurses take a two-day, 16 hour Breastfeeding Resource Nurse Course. This class is a job requirement of all NICU nurses. Over 650 nurses have completed this course, and there is a refresher course that nurses take every 2 years. In addition, CHOP has a hospital-wide breastfeeding committee with unit-based champions in every patient care area. Every month, we meet to discuss human milk and breastfeeding concerns, and our mission is to always focus on how we can do better and our serve our families better.
Every organization should treat themselves as an unfinished prototype and continually strive to improve their breastfeeding culture. This cultural change cannot be done by one person; all members of the organization must be educated as to how they play a role in the protection and promotion of human milk and breastfeeding. Nurses are the KEY!
You have written your own Ten Steps for Promoting and Protecting Breastfeeding for Vulnerable Infants. Can you describe them?
Step 1-Informed Decision Making. All moms must be presented with the science and the evidence about why and how human milk will help their children have better health outcomes. The ideal time for this evidence to be presented is prior to delivery. However, if this did not occur prior to admission to the NICU, the mom should be presented with the evidence showing that human milk is the only thing that should be put in a NICU infant's stomach. This also means that the institution should have donor milk available!
Step 2-Initiation and Maintenance of Milk Supply. Mothers rarely receive evidence-based guidance related to pumping initiation. A healthy term infant would breastfeed immediately (within the first 1-2 hours for sure), yet mothers who have infants admitted to the NICU often are not counseled about early and frequent milk expression with a high quality hospital grade pump. It is absolutely essential that moms with NICU infants mimic what healthy term infants would do at the breast. At CHOP, we have actually conducted a continuous quality improvement project to ensure that all of our moms in the SDU are pumping within 2 hours of a vaginal delivery, and within 4 hours of a cesarean. It is essential for moms to pump early and frequently! Healthy term infants feed on average 11/breasts per day (Range 6-19), therefore a mom has to pump every 2-3 hours with a goal of 8 pumps in a 24 hour period.
Tracking milk production is essential. Unfortunately in the NICU, the infant may be NPO [nothing by mouth] for a long period of time and therefore no one is monitoring maternal milk supply. It is essential for moms to track their daily pumping and milk supply. Moms should be given the goal of pumping 8 times per day and achieving a supply of at least 500-1,000 milliliters by the end of the first week. Moms should be tracking their milk production in a pump log (paper or electronic), so that any milk supply concerns can be addressed early on. Hospital grade breast pumps are essential for pump-dependent moms. Unfortunately insurance reimbursement for pumps is lacking. Many mothers must pay out of pocket for the cost of a hospital grade pump. Moms should speak with their insurance and/or the WIC program about pump provisions. Moms can also ask if their hospital has a pump loan program. In addition, shield fit is critical (the part that attaches to the breast). If the shield is too small (or too big) milk ejection and emptying of the milk can be comprised and nipple damage can also occur. The nipple should be observed before, during, and after pumping to ensure that it is not getting "stuck" in the tunnel of the shield.
Step 3-Human Milk Management. Hospitals should provide adequate refrigerators and freezers in which moms store their milk. The hospital should have in place a system to ensure that the right infant receives the right milk. (For example, a two health care provider check or a scanner system). In addition, how milk is fed is critical. Colostrum should always be used to initiate enteral feeds (feeds in the gut). Colostrum should be fed for 48-96 hours in the exact order that mom pumped the milk. At CHOP, we use an orange dot system and moms number the colostrum. Colostrum is stored in special containers and in a separate bin. Once the infant's gut is primed with colostrum, then fresh milk should be fed. Fresh milk is milk that is pumped at bedside or milk that has only been refrigerated. Milk can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 96 hours. Some NICUs will freeze milk to kill CMV (a virus), however freezing milk does not kill CMV and it destroys many beneficial components of human milk.
Step 4-Feeding of Human Milk and Lacto-engineering. Prior to initiation of enteral feeds (feeds in the gut), and during the whole time the infant is NPO, the infant should receive oral care with both colostrum and/or mature milk. Oral care should be done ideally each time mom pumps at the bedside. A sterile swab can be used to coat the inside of the baby's cheeks with the milk.
Once the infant can get feeds, colostrum should be fed first, and then fresh milk. Fresh milk contains live white blood cells and the maximum potency of immune-biological components.
Access to donor milk is also still a huge barrier in NICU care. Moms own milk is always the best intervention. If the mom is experiencing a low milk supply or delay in the establishment of milk supply, donor milk should be available (see the 2012 American Academy of Pediatric new policy statement). Many hospitals cite cost as the problem, however the cost of donor milk is minimal, especially when compared to total parental IV nutrition.
Human milk is highly variable. The nutrient content of human milk is enhanced when an infant is born preterm (more fat, protein and carbohydrates). The fat content in human milk changes from the beginning of a pump/feed to the end of a pump/feed. In addition, how full/empty a breast is will change caloric density. For example, the first pump in the morning (after a longer rest at night) will result in fuller breasts and lower fat content milk.
Moms can easily be taught how to fractionate their milk. Moms can separate their fore milk from their hind milk. This allows the infant to get more fat and calories, and to achieve better growth.
Step 5-Skin-to-Skin Contact. Skin-to-skin is absolutely magical! Ask every day, "When can I hold my baby skin to skin?" Hold you infant skin-to-skin for as many hours per day as you can. Pump first, hold your baby and then pump after skin-to-skin. Babies who are intubated and have IV lines can and should be held skin-to-skin!
Step 6-Non-nutritive sucking (NNS). As soon as your baby is extubated, he/she should start non-nutritive sucking at the breast. If the baby was not intubated, the baby should do NNS from birth. If the hospital staff is worried about the baby transferring milk, the mom should be advised to pump first. NNS allows the baby to practice breastfeeding before he/she has to perform. Many moms are worried about pacifiers in the NICU. Pacifiers are good for growth, development, organization, sucking skills. However, pacifiers should be used when you are not there! If you are in the NICU, your breast is the original pacifier.
Step 7-Transition to breast. Ask your nurse every day if your baby is ready to breastfeed. There is no research indicating that a baby must bottle-feed before it can breastfeed. It is crucial for you to be your own advocate. This means mom must be in the NICU frequently to breastfeed. Don't expect the baby to transfer much milk on initial breastfeeding attempts. This is normal. Ask your nurse for the opportunity to do maximal breastfeeding before introducing the bottle. Nipple shields can facilitate breastfeeding and milk transfer for the NICU infant.
Step 8-Measuring milk transfer. Pre- and post-weights (also called test weights) allow us to know exactly how much the baby takes from the breast. A very precise scale must be used. The scale should be accurate to +/- 2 grams. We use the Baby Weigh® scale at CHOP. By doing pre- and post-weights, you will know exactly how much the baby is getting from the breast and prevent over or under feeding.
It is absolutely essential that the baby is weighed in the exact same conditions before and after the feed. This means that you cannot change the baby's clothing or diaper. All leads must be disconnected and put on the scale (not held up in the air). Precision in technique is critical.
Step 9-Preparation for Discharge. Ask the nurse to be able to stay all day or all night and feed the baby on cue or on demand. The baby may breastfeed every 1-3 hours. This is normal. Pre- and post-weights will allow you to know what the baby is taking in. You will need to continue to pump during this period. The pump must be the driver of your milk supply until the baby is effective and efficient at taking all feeds completely from the breast!
Step 10- Access to Health Provider who is Knowledgeable about Breastfeeding a NICU Baby. Many health care providers do not receive lactation/breastfeeding education. For the NICU graduate, moms will likely need to continue to pump at home to maintain supply as baby is learning to breastfeed. Mom should be advised to rent a Baby Weigh® scale at home to measure milk transfer. Most NICU babies are not efficient at breastfeeding until at least 2 weeks after mom's due date.
Be patient! Your hard work of pumping and breastfeeding will pay off! You are making an investment in your child's future. It will get easier. Take advantage of breastfeeding support groups or organizations in your community!
Also remember that when you return to work, [many moms] are entitled by law to be given time and space (that is not a bathroom) to express milk at work!
Knowing what you do about how NICUs work, if you were a NICU mom who wanted support for breastfeeding and breastmilk feeding but weren't receiving it, what would you do?
- Do your own research
- Advocate for your baby
- Be at your baby's bedside
- Visit as many hours a day as you can
- Pump at your baby's bedside
- Talk to your nurses every day about doing oral care
- Talk to your nurses every day about when the baby can be held skin-to-skin
- Once the baby is extubated (if he/she was), ask your nurse every day when you can start non-nutritive sucking at the breast.
- Tell your nurse you want to be able to put the baby to breast before he/she gets a bottle
- Breastfeed as many times a day as possible
- Use a scale to weigh the baby before and after feeds to know how much the baby takes
- Ask the nurse if you can room-in all day or all night to breastfeed
- Remember, you are the mom! This is your baby! Ask the staff to help you achieve your personal breastfeeding goals!


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Now that you are atheist or have been atheist your whole life. What is the most interesting thing you know about in our natural world?
I will chime in when this post gets rolling.
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I'm finding soooo much legitimate science, on Google, postulating roles (large and small) for consciousness in phyisics! How about these tidbits . . .
. . . In 1964 John Bell published his now famous inequality showing that a reformulation of the EPR experiment could be experimentally tested. In 1982 Alain Aspect carried out the Bell experiment and found that quantum physics was correct and Einstein wrong. Quantum properties are not real and hidden, but instead are created in the act of measurement.
In 2003, Nobel Laureate Anthony Leggett published a more rigorous version of the Bell experiment. A Leggett inequality experiment was carried out recently in the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information at the University of Vienna and published in Nature in April 2007. Reporting on this New Scientist said:
Their results, published in 2007, suggest "…that there is nothing inherently real about the properties of an object that we measure. In other words, measuring those properties is what brings them into existence." (New Scientist, 23 June 2007) Or as quantum researcher Vlatko Vedral of the University of Leeds puts it: "Rather than passively observing it, we in fact create reality."
Quantum mechanics is now telling us unambiguously that consciousness creates reality. And since quantum physics is at the root of everything, this has profound consequences for the interpretation of our own nature, the universe, and, yes, even why it may make more sense to trace everything back to a conscious intelligence rather than inanimate fields and forces.
Bernard Haisch, Ph.D., Calphysics Institute, is an astrophysicist and author of over 130 scientific publications. He served as a scientific editor of the Astrophysical Journal for ten years, and was Principal Investigator on several NASA research projects. After earning his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Haisch did postdoctoral research at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. His professional positions include Staff Scientist at the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory; Deputy Director of the Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics at the University of California, Berkeley; and Visiting Scientist at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Extraterrestrische Physik in Garching, Germany. He was also Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Scientific Exploration.
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. . . any discussion regarding consciousness and intentionality would be incomplete without including these known facts regarding the information structure of our universe. The resulting energy/information duality is mandated in physics, and it sheds considerable light on the consciousness debate. The evidence for a quantum related theory of consciousness is mounting daily and should be expected for the following reason. If an informational basis of quantum theory can account for matter, energy, conservation laws, and even empty spacetime, perhaps a theory of everything and everywhere can naturally include consciousness.
It would appear your physics text is way out of date and failed to mention that it takes consciousness to observe and to measure.
These quotes are from the website for the book, "Quantum Enigma".
"When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness came to the fore again. It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness." ~Eugene Wigner
"Observations not only disturb what is to be measured, they produce it." ~Pascual Jordan
"The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum mechanics and with facts established by experiment." ~Bernard d'Espagnat
"In the beginning there were only probabilities. The universe could only come into existence if someone observed it. It does not matter that the observers turned up several billion years later. The universe exists because we are aware of it." ~Martin Rees
Please don't get me wrong, I didn't mean to be flippant. And I'm for sure not trying to discredit your point about consciousness, I actually find it relevant and fascinating. I'm just saying that I am a physicist and throughout my quantum courses program and in all my quantum textbooks, the chapter on consciousness simply isn't there. It's an interesting and important investigation yes, but it is more philosophy than quantum.
Quantum Theory itself is a series of equations developed to model the results of certain benchmark experiments. There are some amazing philosophical implications arising from those equations that were addressed (in our program) in a "philosophy of physics" course that was required. One of the most important discussions that arose from quantum relates to an evolution in how physicists define "observation." One doesn't get through a physics program without finding and appreciating lots of "strange loops" like the big one, the one where the universe observes itself, in the form of humanity, and thus causes itself to exist. But the idea that humans create the universe is ludicrous and it is not what is lurking behind your collection of quotes. It's not that the quotes are blatantly wrong, but strung together they produce a gross oversimplification of a complex issue. When a dog howls at the moon, is it not observing it? Do intelligent space fairing alien species on other planets not exist until we discover them? Or do we not exist until they discover us? A lot more depth is needed to the issue in order to connect something as holistic as the human experience to subatomic wave functions, which is what this string of quotes appears to attempt.
There was a period during this debate of "At what stage does a 'measurement' take place?" (mid 20th century). Remember there was a lot of strong disagreement about quantum theory prior to the publishing of Bell's Inequality Theorem. Some of these men had some strange philosophical bents to go with their skills as physicists. The quantum edifice was built by people with a wide array of very devoted religious ideas, and other crap like white supremacy, political agendas, all sorts of weird shit that is not physics per se, but that affected their interpretation of the broader implications of the physics.
The philosophical upshot of the 20th century is that the human mind is a modeler, and we are stuck with that. There is always a separation between "thinking" and "reality" because we lack the capacity to think purely about reality. We seem to be utterly stuck thinking only about the models that we create in our minds. A model by definition tends to fall short of the thing it models in terms of completeness. This is probably what is at the root, for instance, of students understanding the wave-particle duality issue. Waves and particles are both models, they over-compartmentalize knowledge. Another avenue for investigating the limitation of human mental modeling is Gödel but that is I think a digression of our topic.
To sum up, the physics community is not monolithic but the overwhelming consensus is that observation, in terms of collapsing quantum probability wave functions, is best described as interactions that give a particular measurement model meaning. As Heisenberg said, it's not that we can no longer divide the particle, but we do come to a point where division has no meaning; e.g. There appears to be no macroscopic interaction with the universe that gives relevance to the model of "half of a quanta." That model is therefore meaningless.
As you can tell I'm sure, I have a pet peeve about asshats like Deepok using buzz words from physics to sell books about voodoo. Having now put my take on the physics out there, it's just not fair to say that I disagree entirely with the philosophical gist of your argument. I actually like where you are going. There IS something to it, I can't rationally just dismiss it. The Zuni Indians said "The creator, Awonawilona, thought himself into being." But in a way, don't we all? If all I have to work with is models that I create holistically by evolving some patterns of an energy-matter-spacetime interplay that I call a brain, itself a model, then I am a strange loop too, like Awonawilona. We are similar, the Universe and I, because we were never really separate things. We are both MY strange loop of mind-brain modeling. Awonawilona is also a really fun word to say.
I loved the Zuni Indian reference you had in your reply. Don't mind if I use that in my conversations with people :)
I really enjoyed the rest of your reply as well, not just because of the ideas therein contained, but also because you write with great clarity. Thanks!
I'll second Vincent's reply. :-)
In the last 2 days (before joining this conversation, I was reading about Conscious Realism, Donald D. Hoffman), I've read a LOT about consciousness and it's role in physics. The ideas seem alien, if not downright crazy. But they're a whole lot easier to swallow if you're a quantum physicist inured to the picture of the universe painted by quantum theory. I thought Hoffman's theory was hocus-pocus but after reading more about the topic, I found that his theory fits quantum mechanics and that his mathematical proof for spectrum inversion is scientifically rigorous. After finding so many physicists who claim that objective reality is truly quantum, one begins to wonder just how secure one's own grasp of reality is.
The point driven home is that what we see is not real. Seeing is no longer believing once you understand how the brain represents the world according to what we've evolved to process quickly.
But back to the original point. If causality is a law of nature and the conservation of energy is a law of physics, why the roles for information and consciousness in the universe unless there's an intelligence to make use of them? And if they're truly part of physical reality, doesn't that mean the "intelligence" must have preceded the Big Bang (because the laws of nature were fixed very shortly thereafter). And what's to separate that intelligence from a pantheistic God?
1. God is mostly hydrogen. 2. The dense primordial goo of the early Universe was impregnated with something dark and yeasty.
I always seem to go back to Guns, Germs, and Steel, the phenomenal Pulitzer Prize winning book by Jared Diamond that puts forth a convincing argument on how geography had such a powerful influence on the development of human culture and civilization over the past 10,000 years or so. From the description:
Until around 11,000 BC, all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates that human societies evolved. In Eurasia, parts of the Americas, and Africa, farming became the prevailing mode of existence when indigenous wild plants and animals were domesticated by prehistoric planters and herders. As Jared Diamond vividly reveals, the very people who gained a head start in producing food would collide with preliterate cultures, shaping the modern world through conquest, displacement, and genocide.The paths that lead from scattered centers of food to broad bands of settlement had a great deal to do with climate and geography. But how did differences in societies arise? Why weren't native Australians, Americans, or Africans the ones to colonize Europe? Diamond dismantles pernicious racial theories tracing societal differences to biological differences. He assembles convincing evidence linking germs to domestication of animals, germs that Eurasians then spread in epidemic proportions in their voyages of discovery. In its sweep, Guns, Germs and Steel encompasses the rise of agriculture, technology, writing, government, and religion, providing a unifying theory of human history as intriguing as the histories of dinosaurs and glaciers.
There still so much more to learn and discover scientifically! Love it.
time travel is possible...
It would have to be knowing how little we know about how our brains really work and how much potential we have left to access inside them. Im so excited to be alive while we are unlocking so many secrets and answering so many questions, which often leads to more questions but GOD damn thats exciting hah.
That no matter how deep we look into the ocean the less we know.
That there is no God;)

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This is a Sugar Bear Inspiration Board that I did for a first birthday. The birthday girl is known as "Sugar Bear" and what a fun birthday this could be by incorporating cute girly bears with everything sweet!
Place setting; Cupcake & Cake; Bear sandwiches; Birthday bears; Candy jars; Teddy bear party table; Gift bag
Other ideas:
Food – serve snacks such as teddy grahams, gummy bears, colorful fruit and lemonade
Decor – set frames out of the birthday girl documenting the year. You can even make a frame by putting gummy bears or sweetheart candies on the frame. Set out teddy bears holding big hearts or bags of candy.
Activities – make a stuffed teddy bear; have the kids decorate a teddy bear plastic container with markers and stickers then have them fill it with candy
Favors – Set up a "Sweet" bar full of candy to let the guests take home
Going along with the Teddy Bear theme, here is another beautiful party!
After seeing this party on Anders Ruff, I had to share this creative and amazing Teddy Bear Confectionary Party.


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'We're the Millers' snags six MTV Movie Award nominations
They may have wrapped up their "family" drug run to Mexico last August, but the Millers are still making a name for themselves in the movie industry — especially over at MTV.
"We're the Millers," which filmed in Wilmington in early 2012, racked in six MTV Movie Award nominations, which were announced Thursday.
Of the film's nominations, the voting board recognized Jennifer Aniston the most, giving her noms for the Best Female Performance, Best Kiss (with costars Emma Roberts and Will Poulter) and Best Shirtless Moment (she played a stripper in the film).
Surprisingly, "Iron Man 3" only snuck in two nominations in the Best Hero category for Robert Downey Jr. and in the Best Cameo Performance category for the ever-entertaining Joan Rivers.
The surprise horror blockbuster "The Conjuring," which shot in the region around the same time as "Millers," also earned a nomination for Best Scared-As-S**t performance for its leading lady, Vera Farmiga.
The golden popcorn awards are voted on by the public, so head over to MTV to vote for your favorites and to see a complete list of nominees.
MTV announced Wednesday that late night comedian Conan O'Brien would host the awards when they are handed out 9 p.m. April 13 on MTV.
Check below for the full list of Wilmington nominees and the competition they face in their respective categories.
Amy Adams – American Hustle
Jennifer Aniston – We're the Millers
Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Lupita Nyong'o – 12 Years a Slave
Liam James – The Way Way Back
Michael B. Jordan – Fruitvale Station
Will Poulter – We're the Millers
Margot Robbie – The Wolf of Wall Street
Miles Teller – The Spectacular Now
Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Adams – American Hustle
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Scarlett Johansson – Don Jon
James Franco, Ashley Benson and Vanessa Hudgens – Spring Breakers
Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller – The Spectacular Now
Emma Roberts, Jennifer Aniston and Will Poulter – We're the Millers
Kevin Hart – Ride Along
Jonah Hill – The Wolf of Wall Street
Johnny Knoxville – Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
Melissa McCarthy – The Heat
Jason Sudeikis – We're the Millers
Rose Byrne – Insidious: Chapter 2
Jessica Chastain – Mama
Vera Farmiga – The Conjuring
Ethan Hawke – The Purge
Brad Pitt – World War Z
Jennifer Aniston – We're the Millers
Sam Claflin – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street
Zac Efron – That Awkward Moment
Chris Hemsworth – Thor: The Dark World
Backstreet Boys, Jay Baruchel, Seth Rogen and Craig Robinson Peform in Heaven – This is the End
Jennifer Lawrence Sings Live & Let Die' – American Hustle
Leonardo DiCaprio Pops and Locks – The Wolf of Wall Street
Melissa McCarthy Sings Barracuda – Identity Thief
Will Poulter Sing Waterfalls – We're the Millers
Henry Cavill as Clark Kent – Man of Steel
Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man – Iron Man 3
Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Chris Hemsworth as Thor – Thor: The Dark World
Channing Tatum as John Cale – White House Down
Robert De Niro – American Hustle
Amy Poehler and Tina Fey – Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Kanye West – Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Joan Rivers – Iron Man 3
Rihanna – This is the End


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Record-breaking Juventus scrape past Parma
Two goals in seven minutes from Carlos Tevez kept Juventus on course for a third successive Serie A title with a 2-1 win over Parma which ended the away side's 17-match unbeaten run and set a record of 15 successive home wins in a season.
Carlos Tevez scored twice to end Parma's lengthy unbeaten run as Juventus took another huge step towards retaining the Serie A title.
Sixth-placed Parma arrived in Turin having avoided defeat in 17 games but quickly succumbed to a first-half brace from Tevez, who recovered his position as the championship's leading scorer.
The dismissal of striker Amauri left Parma toothless and unable to force the draw late on as Juve once again moved 14 points clear of second-placed Roma.
Napoli resisted a valiant fightback from doomed Catania to ride out a 4-2 victory at the Stadio Angelo Massimino.
First-half goals from Duvan Zapata (two), Jose Callejon and Henrique made the final outcome look like a foregone conclusion but bottom side Catania hit back through Fabian Monzon and Norbert Gyomber.
The pressure was lifted a little from AC Milan coach Clarence Seedorf as his side picked up their first win in five games by beating Fiorentina 2-0.
Philippe Mexes and Mario Balotelli scored the goals at the Stadio Artemio Franchi as the Rossoneri celebrated a rare victory to reignite fading hope of qualifying for Europe next season.
Elsewhere, Atalanta pushed Livorno even closer to the Serie A trapdoor while keeping alive their hopes of playing in Europe next season thanks to a 2-0 win in Bergamo.
Even without the suspended Maxi Moralez, Stefano Colantuono's men had enough firepower to see off the Tuscans with Giuseppe De Luca and German Denis netting the goals.
Genoa delivered a blow to Lazio's hopes of playing in Europe next season with a 2-0 win at the Stadio Luigi Ferraris.
Alberto Gilardino and Ioannis Fetfatzidis scored the goals for Gianpiero Gasperini's men, who can now look forward to another season in the top flight having put 39 points in the bank, only three less than the visitors.
Sassuolo are staring at the reality of a quick return to Serie B after 10-man Sampdoria moved into the top half of the table with a 2-1 victory at the Stadio Citta del Tricolore.
Samp always had the psychological edge after opening the scoring through Gianluca Sansone inside 18 seconds but Sassuolo are fighting for top-flight survival and levelled through Alessandro Longhi.
The chances were shared in a frenetic second half and it was Stefano Chuka Okaka who grabbed the goal that Samp needed to reach ninth place in the Serie A table, with Vasco Regini's red card at the death not affecting the outcome.
A solitary goal from Nene eased Cagliari's relegation fears and inflicted a fourth straight defeat on free-falling Hellas Verona.
The Sardinians had slipped dangerously close to the Serie A drop zone in recent weeks but a 1-0 victory at the Stadio Sant'Elia saw them pull eight points clear of 18th-placed Livorno.
In the other game, Chievo claimed a crucial three points in their battle to avoid relegation after swatting aside fellow Serie A strugglers Bologna 3-0 on Wednesday night.
Alberto Paloschi's brace and a last-minute effort by Luca Rigoni saw Chievo to an impressive win that vaults them out of the bottom three.
They are now one place and one point above Bologna, who occupy the last position of safety above the drop zone and hold a two-point advantage over third-bottom Livorno.


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NEW YORK, N.Y. — ABC is turning Nik Wallenda's attempted tightrope walk over Niagara Falls into a prime-time television event next month.
The network said Friday it will devote its entire prime-time schedule to a three-hour special on June 15 with the daredevil's attempt.
Part of the show will be an examination of the greatest stunts of all time.
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ROSWELL, July 27, 2002 -- U.S. Senator Pete Domenici today said he looks forward to future growth in the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) that he helped locate at the Roswell Industrial Air Center.
Domenici today toured the training facilities, and was briefed on the U.S. State Department initiative to train foreign law enforcement officers in order to tackle transnational criminal issues, such as counter-narcotics and money laundering, that affect the United States.
Domenici and Congressman Joe Skeen launched the effort to locate ILEA in Roswell in 1999, and have worked to secure funding and State Department support for the operation that is now able to offer 10, four-week training sessions for as many as 55 students per session. To date, 263 students from 25 countries have completed the ILEA-Roswell training program.
"This is an exercise in helping our friends around the world have better trained officers for keeping the peace and subverting illegal activities that could wash up on our shores or eventually disrupt global security," Domenici said. "These efforts should also pay off in our efforts to build a bigger network of support for battling terrorism, whether in the United States or around the world."
ILEA-Roswell focuses on training mid- to senior-level police managers from around the world. It functions as an advanced management course, providing academic training to police managers who have completed training at other ILEA facilities around the world.
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The DAZ Creeper Appreciation Thread (Possible Nudity... at least there's a naked creeper...)
I just want to take a moment to remember the very first exotic creature DAZ ever produced... and remember him/her/it fondly... and how I loved figuring out ways to Terrorize Posette and eventually Victoria with him/her/it...
MERRY CHRISTMAS, Creeper! Wherever you are...
Sockratease Posts: 813
I was just working on a Creeper render!
Took a lot of effort too. Hopefully ready this weekend - now it will have a home.
Mystarra Posts: 29,974
lol. creeper was fun. it had the drool prop120622-1.jpg1180 x 850 - 202K
I forgot about the drool! Sooo appropriate to the character :)
Sadly, I have not had the creeper in years :(
Thank you for the render!Sockratease said:I was just working on a Creeper render!
Took a lot of effort too. Hopefully ready this weekend - now it will have a home.
Now that just rawks!Post edited by wancow on
Harvell Posts: 35
My runtime was getting cluttered, so I hired a janitor. (Reality render)Janitor.png1920 x 1080 - 2M
That flipping RAWKS!!!! Did you post it on R.com or DeviantArt? I wanna fave it!
pwiecek Posts: 1,171
Personally, I liked the hanging tongue and the two drool props.
Eustace Scrubb Posts: 2,399
This "Cockroach" was rendered in DS2 a few years back, largely to showcase the Dystopian Krueger when it was still new. I used Pendragon's skin shader with a blue or green SSS tone, and liked the result so much that I posted a crop from it as my Rendo avatar.
I also wrote a story in the Team-Dystopia archives with a Creeper bartender, though I never did a picture of him.Cockroach.jpg600 x 800 - 305KPost edited by Eustace Scrubb on
That is bloody awesome! I missed a lot of great Creeper renders over the years! This one is fan bloody tastic! Love the back story!
Jay_NOLA Posts: 1,145
Don't forget the Creeper got to featured in a video game and terrorize the heroes of it.
Restricted Area was a poor cyberpunk Diablo 2 type game, it doesn't work right if you are using Vista or anything higher and want to play the English version of it.
Creepers are one of the commonly encountered enemies in the game.
I'm still pining for the Creeper... unfortunately for me, much of the content I had at one point has been lost due to a variety of factors. I think the Creeper is the one thing I miss the most... I sure wish DAZ would put him out again...
Who at DAZ do I have to brown nose to get him back?
I wish that they would bring back all of those old freebies. Many were worth paying for.
They and the PoserPros forum archive disappeared when the new site went online last year; a big loss... :long:
mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
I made a point to make sure I grabbed all the stuff from the old freebie archive...so I've got him, but I haven't installed him, since DS 1.x...until tonight.
I'd forgotten how much fun he was...
Funny how the pose pack is still in the store.
I know there wasn't much around for him, but does anyone know of any texture packs for him?
We Must Mount a concerted protest to get Das Creeper Back in the Store!!!!! Pitchforks and Torches!!!! I shall not rest till he comes back...
I KNOW how to get the Creeper Back!!! Everyone make a Morph for the Creeper, submit it to DAZ as a Morph Set! Someone make Marylin Monroe Creeper and someone make a Taylor Swift Creeper and someone make a Madonna Creeper and someone make a Snookie Creeper! That WILL get DAZ's attention!
mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
With a little UberSurface...for some SSS and other 'modern' shader goodness...you get this...this is the one include MAT, with the bump 'on' and SSS, translucency and other effects supplied by UberSurface. Just a basic 3 point light with shadows...nothing fancy.
We need Wendy to put him in a dress and post an animation to YouTube...creeper.jpg1000 x 800 - 327KPost edited by mjc1016 on
bigh Posts: 8,041
Sockratease Posts: 813
Been restoring files from a back up drive after my last 'puter vaporized.
Look what I found:
EDIT - HOLY CRAP!! The preview is not erasing previous frames of the animation!
Never saw that happen before - but viewing it full sizr plays normally from here. Does everyone see it that way, or does the preview play fine on other folks's systems?CREEP.gif1024 x 791 - 766KPost edited by Sockratease on
Spit Posts: 2,268
LOL That's neat.
I found one too. Very simple.Nearme_super_studio.jpg600 x 600 - 106K
Sphinx Magoo Posts: 531
I had done this one a few years ago, casting the Creeper as a giant antediluvian creature:
I think it came out ok. :)
I can't find the creeper in the store... DAZ didn't bring it back at all, or I missed it if they did...
they actually gave the Creeper away free? Who Knew? Why did no one tell me?
It was on the free site literally for years...
Miss Bad Wolf Posts: 20,501
Is there any chance that the creeper can be re-released or remade and released
Here is a Creeper render I did a while back.nightshade.jpg2000 x 1600 - 444K
Updated Creeper a little
Toprender is 3Delight
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dynagirlsdaddy_c70e7535d2 Posts: 294
I still have the lil guy, and will be using him in my Star Trek fancomic, Flight Of The Condor, as one of the crew of the Condor. Dunno what his position will be, but I am using every alien creature I have cos one of the goals is to have many, many more non humanoid alien races than you usually see in Trek. Bumpy foreheads will be kept to a minimum.
Sorry guys, I thought it would be ok to give away an item on DAZ that was originaly free on DAZ to begin with. Apparently that is against the ToA


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When Blake Griffin suffered a knee injury July 11, he acknowledged that he was "a little bit" worried that it was serious.
He had sustained torn cartilage in his left knee, the same knee that prevented him from playing his rookie year and hobbled him during the team's playoff run.
Griffin said that he immediately recognized the injury but, before seeing a doctor, he was concerned about its severity.
"Luckily it wasn't too bad," Griffin told The Times in an interview after attending Subway's SUBPrize birthday party in West Los Angeles on Tuesday.
Griffin hurt his knee while training with Team USA in Las Vegas. He had knee surgery July 16 and was unable to play in the Olympic Games in London.
But don't expect that injury to keep him sidelined for much longer.
When asked how he's doing, Griffin said, "Feeling good, pretty much at 100%."
The Clippers superstar power forward said he's been shooting for a while now and began doing drills this week. He intends to work on getting his stamina back and perfecting his low-post moves before the team starts training camp Oct. 1.
While sitting in a car near the restaurant to avoid the clamor of people shouting his name, Griffin reflected on last season, an exciting high-flying stretch in the franchise's history, which included an appearance in the second-round of the playoffs.
The highlight: "Definitely winning Game Seven and getting that first-round playoff win," Griffin said.
The nadir: "Right after that, playing the Spurs and not playing very well," he said. "A lot of guys being nagged with injuries and getting swept. Obviously that's never something you want to happen but hopefully we'll learn from it and be better for this next season."
When asked about his goals for next season, specifically whom he's most looking forward to posterizing, Griffin flashed a smile.
"Nobody; I'm done dunking," he deadpanned. "I'm done."
Griffin, however, was quick to show excitement while talking about his teammates, who now include recent acquisitions Lamar Odom, Grant Hill and Jamal Crawford.
"Jamal is obviously a great player and a great guy off the bench for us," Griffin said. "Lamar is going to be the same way. I mean Grant Hill, the list goes on and on. These guys are very good and we're definitely excited to have them."
Griffin made it clear that his confidence in his team's ability to become a force in the West was not tempered by the Lakers' offseason moves.
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"It's just one player, one team," he said. "There's still 28 other teams in the NBA that we have to go against besides them. It's good for them, it's good for L.A. basketball and it's good for the NBA."
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
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- Shasta said...
- March 1, 2012 at 12:41 PM
- It's A Wonderful said...
Oh, you're back! I am so happy for me that you have returned. I have missed you! It's no wonder, it must have taken you months to climbe out of that pile of laundry!
- March 1, 2012 at 3:14 PM
- Jillybean said...
Best excuse I've heard for not doing laundry.
- March 1, 2012 at 4:53 PM
- mormonhermitmom said...
Yes, I have discovered if the laundry is all done I can't get it all into the dresser drawers. Hmm.
- March 3, 2012 at 8:40 PM
- Melanie said...
I feel the same way about WIRE HANGERS! White plastic ones rule my closets!
- March 4, 2012 at 9:18 PM
- creativity amongst chaos said...
So glad to have you back Jana! I have missed you, and your blessings of little giggles. Love how you see life. That is one massive accomplishment....the laundry! I have yet to achieve that one. Maybe in ten years or so when most of the kids are gone!?. You are my idol! I have five kids, two adults in my family, which really means six kids, and I have assigned each one of us a day. If they don't get their laundry done, they don't have clean clothes. Needless to say, my kids have looked homeless since this brilliant new plan was instituted. Good thing I don't care what people think about me... it has given me freedom. However, enough is enough, I think it may be time to step in. I am going to have to throw away some clothes so I can get as close as you are! Hugs, -Cori
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Lest anyone think they're being played for suckers, the Eagles want to make sure you know they have plenty of other business in Phoenix.
The team just issued a statement, making it clear they had more people than Chip Kelly on their list, by leaving his name off the list entirely.
The statement from Eagles PR man Derek Boyko: "#Eagles heading to Arizona now to kickoff a week of interviews with a variety of candidates, including McCoy, Arians and Bradley"
That would be Broncos offensive coordinator Mike McCoy, Colts offensive coordinator Bruce Arians and Seahawks defensive coordinator Gus Bradley.
So you know, that means they have options too. Maybe it "includes" that other guy at some point too. Like, you know, lunch.


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Plymouth manager Peter Reid has been sacked following a run of eight successive league defeats.
Plymouth manager Peter Reid has been sacked following a run of eight successive league defeats.
The former Manchester City and Sunderland manager, 55, was appointed as Paul Marriner's successor in June 2010 but has been unable to halt the cash-strapped club's slide to the bottom of npower League Two.
A club statement read: "Plymouth Argyle Football Club (in administration) has announced that Peter Reid has left his position as manager of the football club."
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"Ultimately however, whatever the challenges, football is a results business and Argyle sit bottom of the Football League with only one point out of 27. It is crucial that we give ourselves time to attempt to preserve Football League status and therefore it is felt that a change of manager now is the only option.
"Peter leaves with our unreserved thanks for his contribution in helping keep the club alive during this turbulent period and he leaves with our very best wishes for the future. An announcement will be made within the next 24 hours with regard to interim arrangements for the management of the first team."
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I've been busy knitting shawls lately and I've realized that the only place in or around the house large enough to photograph them is the fence in the backyard. Yet another reason why we need a bigger house!
This is a very simple shawl using a combination of garter and stockinette stitch. It's modeled after the Simple Yet Effective shawl pattern available on Ravelry but I (accidentally) didn't follow it exactly. It's made with Noro yarn which really does most of the work. I alternated between two skeins every 4 rows to get the striped look.
So here it is, another shawl on a fence.
Stay tuned for the next episode of Knits on a Fence :)!
Another Shawl on a Fence
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Posted by LimeRiot at 5:38 PM
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- Judy said...
I love this! I really wish I could knit like that! I look forward to more "fence" posts!
- March 29, 2012 at 9:10 PM
Love it! You're a busy bee over there!
- March 30, 2012 at 8:07 AM
- kittykill said...
Gah! Can I just bottle you up? You are so talented.
- March 30, 2012 at 6:33 PM
Mareth Ann!! I didn't know you had a blog! So fun to see all your amazing creations!! When I get back from Kenya and finih residency (ie have more time) will you please teach me some of your skills!! Also, Per and I would love to have you and jake over for dinner some time. I get back in mid may! hugs to you, jake and all the pooches. I love seeing all your amazing talent here!! Paula
- March 30, 2012 at 10:50 PM
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Newspaper Database: Troy (N.Y.) 1834-38Posted: May 17, 2011 Filed under: Genealogy | Tags: newspapers, Relatives, Troy Leave a comment
I'm quite excited, and not just because it's the second time in as many weeks that I've managed to sneak a reference to the Whig Party into the blog. The Troy Irish Genealogy Society has a new addition to its Troy Newspaper Project:
The Troy (N.Y.) Daily Whig, Deaths and Marriages, 1834-1838
This is the sixth data set added to the newspaper collection, and includes 821 reports of deaths and the names of 1,749 brides and grooms. All of it is from a period that considerably predates 1880, when civil registration became law in New York State.
Project coordinator Bill McGrath shared these highlights:
• Most of the records are from the Capital District area, i.e., Troy and neighboring cities such as Albany, Watervliet (West Troy) and Schenectady.
• A significant number of records came from nearby states such as Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Jersey.
• In the next few months, the society plans to add more of the 28,000 death and marriage records reported in 40 years of the Troy Daily Whig from 1839-78. They're also working on a database of 4,000 burial records from St. Mary's Cemetery in Troy.


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Hot diggity dog. It's going to be a fun Labor Day for tennis fans.
- Agi Radwanska vs. Venus (I can't believe this isn't going to be on Ashe during primetime; let's see if Agi can run Venus ragged and cause her fits)
- Stan the Man vs. Muzza (Impressed that the USO organizers put this on Ashe under the lights; Murray in 4)
- ALG vs. Dinara (ALG has been impressive and Dinara hasn't been; but champions find a way and I have to think ALG might just blink here)
- Special Kei vs. Crazy Elf (JMDP should take this easily, but he hasn't been his typical elfen self)
Sure Rafa, Serena, and Momo are also in action. But Rafa should dispatch of Querrey California fairly quickly and I just feel bad that Bremond is going to get her ass handed to her under the lights of Ashe. As for the Momo/Flava Flav match, it should be competitive, going three sets. But it's not really my style of tennis so I probably won't be watching, which is convenient because I'm pretty sure USA isn't going to show it.


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Good morning! It's Wednesday, June 25,
and the attorney representing a UNM football player who was accused of rape has publicly released a cell phone video showing his client and the alleged victim "in numerous and different sexual positions,"
Taos is still wrestling with whether or not to rename Kit Carson park after something other than the man in charge of the "Long Walk" where thousands of Navajos were forcibly relocated from their homelands,
a group of anti-abortion protestors think that Gov. Martinez isn't "pro-life" enough,
and an Albuquerque man tried and failed to use a fake penis called "the Whizzinator" to pass a drug test.
a teenager who planned an attack on his school involving multiple guns, bombs and molotov cocktails thinks he might be mentally ill,
the Supreme Court ruled that police need a warrant to search your cell phone,
and a man in Queens walked into a McDonald's with a knife sticking out of his back. "He was cool and calm," said his friend.
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This Sexual Disorders topic center contains information about paraphilias (more commonly known as sexual perversions or deviancies). If you are interested in sexual desire or arousal disorders, as well as information about healthy sexuality throughout the lifespan, the proper terms for that would be Sexuality and Sexual Problems.
With the publication of the DSM-5, this family of disorders has been renamed Paraphilic Disorders and all the disorders in this group require the presence of a paraphilia. A paraphilia involves intense and persistent sexual interest (recurrent fantasies, urges or behaviors of a sexual nature) that center around children, non-humans (animals, objects, materials), or harming others or one's self during sexual activity. Sometimes this sexual interest focuses on the person's own erotic/sexual activities while in other cases, it focuses on the target of the person's sexual interest.
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Many optimistic that Amazon founder Bezos can innovate after buying Washington Post for $US250M
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jeff Bezos turned selling books online into a multibillion-dollar business that has changed retailing forever. Many are now anxious to see if Bezos can do the same for the media industry, after the Amazon.com founder announced he is buying The Washington Post and other newspapers for $US250 million.
Monday's news of the sale to the 49-year-old pioneer of Internet commerce came as a shock to observers, many of whom thought the Graham family would never sell. It also sparked hope among the ranks of reporters beset by seemingly endless cutbacks.
Among his champions are the members of the family selling the paper, including publisher Katharine Weymouth, who promised to stay on as publisher.
As some journalists shed tears, others expressed optimism.
"Jeff Bezos seems to me exactly the kind of inventive and innovative choice needed to bring about a recommitment to great journalism," said Carl Bernstein, whose co-reporting of the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s cemented the newspaper's identity as a political watchdog.
But The Post, like most newspapers, has been losing readers and advertisers to the Internet while watching its value plummet. The paper has cut its newsroom staff repeatedly in recent years and closed several bureaus.
Many see Bezos, whose fortune was valued at $US25 billion by Forbes magazine, as being rich enough to sustain the losses the newspaper will likely face over the next few years.
Bezos is buying the newspaper as an individual. Amazon.com Inc. is not involved.
Bezos said to Post employees in a letter distributed to the media that he'd be keeping his "day job" as Amazon CEO and a life in "the other Washington" where Amazon's headquarters are based in Seattle.
But he made clear there would be changes, if unforeseen ones, coming.
"The Internet is transforming almost every element of the news business: shortening news cycles, eroding long-reliable revenue sources, and enabling new kinds of competition, some of which bear little or no news-gathering costs," Bezos wrote. "There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment."
Washington Post Co. chairman and CEO Donald Graham called Bezos a "uniquely good new owner." He said the decision was made after years of newspaper industry challenges. The company, which will continue to own the Kaplan college and test preparation business along with six TV stations, will change its name but didn't say what it will be.
Bezos said in a statement that he understands the Post's "critical role" in Washington and said its values won't change.
"The paper's duty will remain to its readers and not to the private interests of its owners," Bezos said in his letter to Post employees.
He said he would follow in the footsteps of longtime publisher Katharine Graham, who died in 2001, in pursuing the truth and following important stories, "no matter the cost."
"While I hope no one ever threatens to put one of my body parts through a wringer, if they do, thanks to Mrs. Graham's example, I'll be ready," he wrote.
Weymouth, the newspaper's publisher and CEO and a member of the Graham family that has owned the newspaper since 1933, will remain in her post. She has asked other senior managers to stay on as well.
"Mr. Bezos knows as well as anyone the opportunities that come with revolutionary technology when we understand how to make the most of it," she said in a letter to readers. "Under his ownership and with his management savvy, we will be able to accelerate the pace and quality of innovation."
The news surprised industry observers and even the newspaper's employees.
"I think we're all still in shock," said Robert McCartney, one of the newspaper's Metro columnists and a 31-year veteran. "Everybody's standing around the newsroom talking about it. … I don't think much work's getting done."
An email hit staffers' inboxes at 4:17 p.m. EDT. It summoned them to a meeting 13 minutes later.
Graham spoke at the staff meeting of how he has known Bezos for more than a decade, and described him as a decent and patient man, said McCartney.
Graham told the staff he is convinced Bezos is committed to quality journalism and has no political agenda. There was a long standing ovation from the staff after Graham and Weymouth's remarks.
"Hard to imagine the Post without the Grahams," wrote East Asia Correspondent Chico Harlan in a tweet. "Don emailed his writers, knew their names."
Writer Gene Weingarten tweeted, "If Don Graham says this was the right thing to do, I trust him."
Fredrick Kunkle, a metro reporter and a union leader at The Post, said there is also apprehension among staff.
"The Graham family has been revered in this town, rightly so," he said, adding he saw at least one person at the meeting wipe away tears. "We all have a lot of questions."
Allen & Co., an investment banking firm which held a high-level conference for media and technology executives in Sun Valley, Idaho, last month, was named as an adviser to the deal. Bezos and Graham have been known to frequent the conference.
To observers, the Amazon chief is eminently qualified to be a newspaper owner: He's rich, he's innovative and he's willing to live with slim profits. That's proven by his running of Amazon since its foundation. Last month, Amazon.com reported an unexpected loss in the April-June quarter even though revenue grew 22 per cent to $US15.7 billion.
"Some other buyers might see the Post as a thing to drain money out of," said Joshua Benton, director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. "There's little reason to think (Bezos would) fall into that category."
Rick Edmonds, a media and business analyst at The Poynter Institute, a journalism school, compared Bezos' purchase of the Post to billionaire John Henry's $US70 million purchase of The Boston Globe, which was announced Saturday.
The newspaper transactions remove established publications from publicly traded parent companies that had to answer to shareholders who demanded good quarterly financial results.
"This means putting the Post in the hands of a wealthy individual who can take as long as he needs and spend as much money as he wishes in keeping the paper strong," Edmonds said. "That's a much better situation than a company with other faster-growing businesses trying to justify that same investment."
Alan Mutter, a media consultant and former newspaper editor, said this deal marks the first time a newspaper has been bought by a "digital native," not someone entrenched in the print medium.
"Here's a guy who's going to re-envision the newspaper from top to bottom and we'll see what we get," Mutter said.
Besides The Washington Post and its website, Bezos is taking the Express newspaper, The Gazette Newspapers, Southern Maryland Newspapers, Fairfax County Times, El Tiempo Latino and Greater Washington Publishing.
The soon-to-be-renamed Washington Post Co. will retain Slate magazine, TheRoot.com and Foreign Policy magazine, as well as the Post's headquarters building in downtown Washington.
Newspaper revenue has shriveled during the past eight years even as many publishers charged readers more for their print editions and began imposing fees for digital access, too.
The Post Co.'s annual newspaper revenue has plunged 39 per cent from $US957 million in 2005 to $US582 million last year. Meanwhile, the company's newspaper division has swung from an annual operating profit of $US125 million to an operating loss of $US54 million last year.
Readership of the print editions has also plummeted during the past decade. In 2002, The Washington Post's paid weekday circulation averaged nearly 768,000 copies, according to regulatory filings. By last year, the Post's weekday paid circulation had fallen to an average of just under 481,000, a 37 per cent drop.
The hard times are reflected in the Post Co.'s stock price, which hit a high of $US999.50 near the end of 2004. The shares closed Monday at $US568.70, a 43 per cent decline from the peak.
Newspaper analyst Ken Doctor of Outsell Inc. said the Grahams likely realised that the family lacked the financial wherewithal to endure the turbulence still facing the industry.
"As they look out beyond 2013, it's clear print advertising is going to continue to decline and it's causing pressures they didn't expect," Doctor said.
In contrast, sustaining annual losses of about $US10 million for a few more years is more tolerable to Bezos and other billionaires such as Warren Buffett, who has also been buying newspapers in the past few years, Doctor said.
Benchmark Co. analyst Ed Atorino said the sales of the Boston Globe and Washington Post demonstrate that some savvy business leaders still see hope for newspapers.
"Apparently there are people in this country who think these newspapers are worth saving and hope that advertising will eventually stabilise and they can begin to make money again," Atorino said. "If the advertising doesn't come back, then game over."
Associated Press writers Brett Zongker, Marcy Gordon and Jessica Gresko in Washington; Michael Liedtke in San Francisco; and Barbara Ortutay in New York contributed to this report.
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For leading the Notre Dame to the BCS championship game, Brian Kelly was voted Associated Press college football coach of the year
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — After two seasons as Notre Dame coach, Brian Kelly decided he wasn't spending enough time doing the best part of his job: coaching players.
Kelly changed that in 2012, and he shuffled his staff. Then, with Kelly more in tune to his team and the assistants in sync with the head coach, Notre Dame went from unranked to top-ranked.
For leading the Fighting Irish to the BCS championship game for the first time, Kelly was voted Associated Press college football coach of the year Wednesday.
"When you're talking about the coach of the year, there's so many things that go into it," Kelly said. "I know it's an individual award and it goes to one guy, but the feelings that I get from it is you're building the right staff, that you've got the right players and to me that is a validation of the program. That you put together the right business plan."
Kelly received 25 votes from the AP college football poll panel. Penn State's Bill O'Brien was second with 14 votes. Stanford's David Shaw (four), Texas A&M's Kevin Sumlin (three), Kansas State's Bill Snyder (two) and Alabama's Nick Saban (one) also received votes.
Kelly is the first Notre Dame coach to win the AP award, which started in 1998. Of course, the Irish haven't played for a national championship since 1988 and spent much of the past two decades trying to find a coach who could restore a program that was becoming a relic of its proud past.
It turns out Kelly was the answer.
He arrived in 2010 after two decades spent climbing the coaching ladder and winning big everywhere he worked.
But in the world of college football, Notre Dame is a long way and a huge step up from Grand Valley State — where Kelly won a pair of Division II national titles — and Cincinnati, his previous stop, for that matter.
"I think the job tends to distract you," Kelly said earlier this week. "There are a lot of things that pull you away from the primary reason why you want to be head coach of Notre Dame, and that is graduate your players and play for a national championship."


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GNU Kart
Introduction to GNU Kart
This is a web page about GNU Kart, which is a simple racing game for GNU.
May 11, 2010
SpeedX is now GNU Kart. The "X" in the name "SpeedX" referred to the X window system, which especially made sense because it heavily used X11 libraries. GNU Kart doesn't use X11 libraries directly, and mostly uses OpenGL. If you check out the latest source in Bazaar, you will see that I am testing a track format that is based on spheres of different radii connected by edges that form tubes that tell which edge a player is traveling along and which sphere they are heading toward.
April 15, 2009
I hope to release something in the summer when I have more time. I tried to develop a voxel engine because at the time that I took over the project, OpenGL was not 100% free on gNewSense. Now that it is, I realize that my voxel engine is slow, cumbersome, and extremely limited. Also, I'm not sure how to extend it. So I've been hacking on OpenGL for a bit and I think I should have something good soon. Even without hardware acceleration (which I don't have, since there are very few free 3D graphics drivers), OpenGL seems fine as long as the scene stays simple, and the point of this game is to be a simple, easily playable game that anyone can enjoy quickly so it seems like it will work fine, even on a system where Neverball or SuperTuxKart are not playable.
Downloading GNU Kart
GNU Kart has not yet had a release in years as it is being rewritten.
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnukart/ [via http] and ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnukart/ [via FTP]. It can also be found on one of our FTP mirrors; please use a mirror if possible.
GNU Kart documentation can be found at http://www.gnu.org/manual/. You may also find more information about GNU Kart by running info gnukart, man gnukart, or looking at /usr/doc/gnukart/ or /usr/local/doc/gnukart/ on your system.
Mailing Lists/Newsgroups
Announcements about GNU Kart and most other GNU software are made on <firstname.lastname@example.com>.
To subscribe to these or any GNU mailing lists, please send an empty mail with a Subject: header line of just "subscribe" to the relevant -request list. For example, to subscribe yourself to GNU announcement list, you would send mail to <firstname.lastname@example.com> with no body and a Subject: header line of just "subscribe". Or you can use the mailing list web interface.
GNU Kart is currently being maintained by Sébastien Diaz (sebastien.diaz at gmail.com). The previous maintainer was Eric P. Hutchins <firstname.lastname@example.com>.


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All polynomials in $\Bbb{R}$ can be factored as a product of polynomials over $\Bbb R$ with degree one or two. This is a claim that I am having problems with. Can anyone prove it?
It's obvious if the degree is odd (remainder theorem and whatnot), but even polynomials are getting to me. I wanted to try using to fundamental theorem (as the problem came right after that section), but I don't know where to start and have little experience with complex numbers. We're just getting to Eisenstien's Criteria, to indicate how much/little I know.


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This challenge runs from Saturday, January 22, 2011 through Friday, January 28, 2011.
Amy Coffin of the We Tree blog (http://wetree.blogspot.com
Above is a picture of my home while I was growing up. The handwritten address and date were written by my dad. I think this was the first step in the purchase of the house. We moved into the 4 bedroom house around Christmas of 1948. When we first moved in, there were red velvet draperies hanging in the archways between the hall and the living room and the living room and dining room. I thought it was huge. There were 4 children. As the new babies came along (5 more in all) the house evolved. A downstairs den was converted into a 1st floor bedroom for mom and dad. The front porch was screened and became a outside playpen. There was a window in the living that could be used as a monitor.
There couldn't have been a better place to raise 9 children. The house was one block from church, school, the library and park, and the train station (Mom didn't drive then). There was even a college fairly close. After Dad's death in 1959, Mom stayed in the house until she moved to Florida in 1971.
Sadly the house was demolished several years ago to make room for condos. Did I mention it was a block from the train station?


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