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Time's 2013 Great Performances
Once again, Time has published their list with the Oscar 2013 Great Performances and Jessica is, of course, one of them. For this year's Great Performances portfolio, TIME asked fashion photographer Paola Kudacki to take portraits of 11 actors, all of whom appeared in 2012 films that captured key moments in history, and several of whom portrayed real-life people.
Jessica Chastain – Performance: Maya in Zero Dark Thirty (Oscar nomination, Best Actress)
"Because we're playing characters that really exist, it was important to show the utmost respect when portraying them," says Chastain, who has never met the real-life inspiration for Maya, the CIA tracker who hunts bin Laden.
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An incomplete story with a sad ending
Abigail Willoughby (b. 1822, Pennsylvania) appears as one of my great-great-great grandmothers in every family tree related to me that I've seen online. She was married to my great-great-great grandfather, James C. Vining (b. 1812, New York). James and Abigail are on my dad's side of the family. They were my paternal grandfather's maternal great-grandparents, to be exact. (I know it's confusing!)
Vague and missing info
Abigail Willoughby and James Vining are "brick walls," as family-tree researchers often say. Their branch of the family tree ends with them, because no one yet has learned the names of any of their parents. Abigail told an 1880 census taker that her parents were born in Massachusetts.
I like the sound of "Abigail Willoughby" -- it's almost poetic. But I don't know if Willoughby was really her maiden name or not. Most family trees say that Abigail Willoughby was born on 15 Feb 1821 in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, and that she married James C. Vining in 1838 in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. But where did my fellow researchers get that information? Was it in a family Bible or passed down in family letters? Or was it just an estimate and a guess, copied from one family tree to another? I haven't found any birth or marriage records at all.
Fairly reliable data
Here are some things I do know about James and Abigail:
- James Vining was living in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, at the time of the 1840 census with a total of three people in his household. The exact date of the census is not given, and only the head-of-household is named.
- My great-great grandmother Martha Almeda Vining was born in 1839 in Pennsylvania. Her sister Abigail Christine Vining was born in 1840 in Pennsylvania. They gave this information on multiple census records.
- In September 1850, the James C.Vining family was living in Henry County, Illinois. James was married to Abigail, and they had a new baby boy, Robert Henry (b. 1848, Illinois).
- James and Abigail had six more children between 1850 and 1868 in Illinois. Then between 1868 and 1870, they moved to Cloud County, Kansas, where they were some of the earliest settlers.
- James Vining died soon after they moved to Kansas. The 1875 Kansas census shows Abigail widowed and living with four of the children on a farm in Cloud County.
- Before 1880, Abigail married Silas Zenus Waters. He was a farmer, ten years older than her. The 1880 census shows them living in Norton County, Kansas, (about 150 miles west of Cloud County). Two of Abigail's children were still with her, listed as stepchildren of Silas Waters. One of Abigail's sons (James W. Vining) was the Norton County sheriff from 1879-1883.
- Family trees say that Abigail died in 1880. The date usually cited is December 4, 1880.
Willoughbys and more Willoughbys
I've been especially curious about Abigail Willoughby because of a series of marriages that took place in Illinois before the family moved to Kansas. The two oldest Vining girls, Martha and Abigail, married Mapes brothers. And a William H. Willoughby married a Mapes sister. Were William H. Willoughby and Abigail Willoughby related? They probably were, but I haven't been able to prove it.
I've looked at a zillion census records and family trees and I still can't prove how Abigail Willoughby fits into the Willoughbys who lived in or near Tioga County, Pennsylvania, where people say she was born. The generations aren't right. She's either too old or too young for those families.
I've entertained a weird theory that maybe Abigail's real father died and then her mother married a Willoughby, so Abigail wasn't really a Willoughby by blood. And I've explored an alternative (but similar) theory that maybe Abigail was married to a Willoughby before she married James Vining, and that her real maiden name wasn't Willoughby at all.
Most recently, I've decided that she might be the daughter of Elijah Willoughby who appears in the 1850 census in Delmar, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, living with his daughter Laura and her family. Elijah was born in Massachusetts, so that matches. Elijah's mother's name was Abigail -- hmmm. And Abigail Willoughby (my Abigail, not Elijah's mother) named one of her daughter's Laura -- possibly after her older sister?
Betsy Who?
Lately, I've renewed my research efforts, and I've turned up two pieces of information about Abigail that I haven't seen on anyone else's family tree or read in their notes. Both of them shocked me.
First, it turns out that Abigail may not be a blood relative to me. A brief family history (on the middle of p. 202, Genealogy of the Hannum Family by H. F. Temple, 1911, West Chester, PA ) that I found for Louisa V. Mapes (my great-grand-aunt,) states that her grandparents were James Vining and Betsy Ann Murphey, of New York State.
James Vining and Betsy Ann Murphey? I had to think about that! But upon examination, it makes sense. Maybe James was married to Betsy, had two daughters, became a widower, and then married Abigail several years later. That would explain why no children were born for about eight years after the first two girls.
Also, Louisa Mapes was 53 years old and in her right mind in 1911 when that family history was printed. Surely she was the one who provided the facts about her family. She was 22 years old when Abigail died. She would have remembered Abigail clearly, but she didn't name Abigail as her grandmother!
Abigail's death
My other discovery is very sad. Last week, I learned that Abigail Willoughby committed suicide. This tragedy was mentioned in a short biography of James W. Vining, (p. 172, The History of the Early Settlement of Norton County, Kansas by F.M. Lockard, 1894, Norton, Kansas), who was one of James C. Vining's and Abigail Willoughby's sons.
[J. W. Vining's] father died in Cloud County in 1868. His mother married S. G. Waters in 1874; they came to Norton county in 1876 and settled near Edmond, their domestic life was unhappy which caused Mrs. Waters to commit suicide. Her remains were taken to Clyde [in Cloud County, Kansas] and buried beside her former husband. Mr. Waters died in 1889.
The county history where this account appears is criticized for containing gossip, but there are two unhappy facts here, whether or not they are related: (1) Abigail's marriage to Silas Waters was thought to be miserable, and (2) she killed herself.
There is nothing new under the sun -- didn't Solomon say that? I suppose that unhappy marriages have been around ever since marriage was invented. And I've seen dozens of stories in old newspapers about people committing suicide. I just didn't expect to find such a happening in my own family tree.
About fifteen years ago, a member of my husband's family committed suicide. I know how deeply we grieved about that. I also know how I grieved when my parents died. Abigail's children must have been devastated.
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There are some weeks when being the innkeeper at the Woods Hole Inn does not feel like work, when I look out at the view over the water and just have to pinch myself.
This was one of those weeks. The new exterior stairs were completed, and I now have an easy way to walk up and gander at this view whenever I feel like it. If only I had the time…
The crew works relentlessly onward, and the plumbers and electricians are getting the rough work in pronto. A mason comes next week to repair the chimney, and then the roof will be re-done, removing three old layers of roofing and putting a fresh new one down. Hopefully that means the leaks will stop for a while, although with an old house like this one you never know.
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Gaming Veteran Robin Burrowes Moving to Help Develop App Store for Apple
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'David After the Dentist' recently broke 116 Million views on YouTube. This is pretty solid proof that little kids are a lot funnier than adults, and we've found the ultimate collection of kids being hilarious.
You know that pesky filter we develop as we get older that keeps us from saying things out loud for fear of sounding stupid/being offensive/having people publicly shame us/not have sex with us? There are two types of people who don't have it: Kids and old people.
Kids and grandpas alike say whatever they want, whenever they want. They also fart in public, laugh loudly whenever they feel like it, and don't give a care what anyone else thinks about them. Kids and old people are the luckiest people in the world. While old people generally don't know how to turn on their computer (and when they do, they are an embarrassing liability) kids love the internet.
To that end, we recently found a tumblr that belongs to the dude with the best job in the world, a moderator for a joke website for kids. Many of the submissions cannot be published because they are either offensive, or make zero sense. Rather than erase these nuggets of pure gold, this awesome dude has documented them for us. We cannot stop reading. Below are a few of our favorites, but be sure to follow the Tumblr, because he updates regularly, and it makes our day every time we read a new one.
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The day is spent working through a lot of Asteria's scenes with Christine Schäfer. The end of the opera is becoming more fluent and I organise some decorations for the Duets in Act 2 and 3. Then I head for Heathrow and eventually Salzburg for Sunday's Matinee concert with my wonderful Mozarteum Orchestra in the Grosses Festspielhaus. Emanuel Ax will play Brahm's 2nd Piano Concerto and the concert ends with Beethoven 5. I spend the night in my Munich apartment and will take the train over to Salzburg early Thursday.


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In support of the California ALS Association
For Ken Kisner, you can mix business and friendship for a good cause. The President of INX Digital International has known Matt Chaney, a friend of his in the Bay area community of Lafayette, CA, for 12 years. In 2001, Matt was diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. Since then, events like this Saturday's 8th annual Napa Valley Ride & Walk To Defeat ALS, sponsored by the Golden West chapter of the ALS Association, have taken on new meaning.
Last year's benefit attracted more than 600 cyclists and walkers who participated and raised over $330,000. This year, the event is being supported by ALS members from the Greater Sacramento, Orange County and Greater San Diego chapters. For several years, Kisner has relied on industry relationships to combine with his efforts by donating services to produce the various banners and rigid signs that can be found at the start and finishing areas. When a local company couldn't commit to help print this year's 156 signs for free, Kisner called in a favor. Help was answered 2,400 miles away by Decal Impressions in Cincinnati, Ohio.
"Bryan Vielhauer, the owner of Decal Impressions, is a terrific guy like my friend Matt Chaney. He's a friend who jumped at the chance to help and get involved in what we do for the ALS Association," said Kisner, whose company is a leading global manufacturer of inkjet inks for digital printers.
Kisner called Vielhauer last week because he was in need of a printer with an experienced team and a fast, high quality flatbed printer to get the job done. That's when Decal Impressions did what they do best.
"We had a short timeframe and three days turnaround to do it. Most of the signs were 24 inches by 18 inches and all of them were four-color process," Vielhauer said. "Our team buckled down to get this project done for a great cause."
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Paul Shortino is still trying to find the notes, as it were, to this instrument we call Twitter. But he is a fast study. Just today, he sent a DM (Direct Message) followed by a WOTFETR (Wide-Open Tweet for Everyone to Read). The latter tweet read, "Hey @JohnnyKats I sent you a private message :-)"
That tweet sent me over to DM, where the gist of the message was to be at the Las Vegas Wranglers-Idaho Steelheads (the hated Idaho Steelheads) at Orleans Arena at midnight tonight. Shortino is the former vocalist of the robust rock bands Rough Cutt and Quiet Riot and also is branded in pop culture as the character Duke Fame from the brilliant satire/rockumentary "This Is Spinal Tap."
Shortino can sing anything, still, and has been known to unleash "Georgia" during appearances at the Monday night showcases at Tap House and has sung Etta James' "At Last" several times with Frankie Moreno's band. Tonight, he's coming with "Love Hurts," covering the 1976 Nazareth classic.
When Paul Shortino says to be somewhere, even on a sheet of ice in a Las Vegas hotel-casino at midnight, who can argue? That prompted an exchange with Wranglers President (a man whose vision surpasses even the NHL) Billy Johnson. The result of that back-and-forth was Eight Reasons to Attend Tonight's Las Vegas Wranglers Midnight Circus (and click here for tickets):
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On St. Patrick's Day, everyone is a little bit Irish. The festive green holiday known for its Irish spirit was earlier in the month, and for many, the cause for celebration can last in the days afterwards. Chicago dyed its river green and many other cities hosted parades and festivals to enjoy this fun date. St. Patrick's Day was originally created to honor the patron saint of Ireland, St. Patrick. He brought Christianity to Ireland and since his death; people have long celebrated his accomplishments by reveling in Irish culture.
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Israeli Defense Minsiter Moshe Ya'alon this week said the Jewish state is increasing efforts to provide humanitarian aid to average Syrians, noting that Israel cannot sit idly by and watch its neighbors die.
During a tour of the northern border, Ya'alon told Israel's Channel 2 News, without going into detail, that Israel is providing food, water, baby food and other humanitarian assistance to Syrian villages just beyond the frontier.
"We can not sit by in the face of humanitarian difficulties – not while they need preparations for winter and for other needs we can work to help them with," said Ya'alon.
Many of the villages in question have been isolated from the rest of the country by Syria's ongoing civil war. Many are strongholds for rebels forces, and have been besieged by government troops.
It is notable that Israel continues to do everything it can to help the Syrians, despite the fact that the two nations are still officially at war and that Syrian forces have repeatedly taken "pot shots" at Israeli soldiers on the Golan Heights over the past year.
Ya'alon stressed that Israel would respond harshly to all aggression, but would not allow those attacks to deter it from providing all the assistance it can to those in need.
Meanwhile, Israeli army officials told the Times of Israel that the military field hospital set up on the Golan to help treat wounded Syrians has seen recent improvements.
Speaking on the subject, Col. Dr. Tarif Bader, the Head of the Northern Medical Command, told the news site that over 500 Syrians have been "afforded tax-payer-funded treatment at Israeli hospitals... I don't know who the wounded belong to and I don't care. I don't know what ethnic group he belongs to or what side he's fighting for. The only criteria is need."
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Mon, 20 April 2009
Ever wonder what happened in Massachusetts when it's courts said ok to gay marriage? Brian Camenker from Mass Resistance has been keeping track. Unintended humor in news coverage of prison numbers. Then, Dr Allan Hamilton (a horse whisperer) tells about "The Scalpel and the Soul"...great story teller.
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Microsoft Windows Phone 7 'Mango' full review
Mango is the next update to Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 smartphone platform. Here's our hands-on review, updated on 22 June 2011.
Last month, Microsoft took the wraps off 'Mango', a significant update to Windows Phone 7. Mango includes more than 500 new features that are designed to improve multitasking and to make apps and the OS work together more efficiently. Mango essentially takes the most likeable features of Windows Phone 7 and improves them with new features, tweaks, and refinements. Mango is coming this fall, and it will be free for all Windows Phone 7 customers.
See also: Microsoft Windows 8 review
Microsoft packed quite a few features and enhancements into this update, so I tried to focus on the most important ones. Let's dive in.
Windows Phone 7 'Mango': Threaded Messaging, Linked Inboxing, and Multitasking
Microsoft probably should have had these three essential features in place at the launch of Windows Phone 7; nevertheless, I'm glad to see them included in the Mango update.
In the messaging app, you can easily switch between SMS, Facebook chat, and Windows Live Messenger within the same thread. This concept sounds useful, though I don't use Facebook chat or Windows Live Messenger. At least for me, AIM or Google GTalk integration would be much more useful. Still, messaging worked smoothly when I switched from SMS to Facebook chat with my friend. If you get tired of texting, you can pull up your friend's Contact card (more on that in a bit) and call them.
Email messages are organised by conversation, with replies to a thread consolidated into a single view that you can follow more easily. You can make multiple inbox groups, too: If you have two work-related inboxes, for example, you can group them together to see all of the messages in one place, and you keep your work email accounts separate from your personal email. You can also pin any of your inboxes to your homescreen for quick and easy access.
Multitasking is an overall improvement. As Microsoft announced in April, Mango extends multitasking to third-party apps as well as to Internet Explorer 9. You can quickly switch among recently used applications by pressing and holding the back button. All of your open apps are elegantly displayed in chronological order based on when you last used them.
Windows Phone 7 'Mango': Enhanced Hubs
In Mango, all of the hubs have been enhanced with some sweet new features. For example, the People Hub will connect Facebook, Twitter, Outlook, LinkedIn, and Windows Live messenger in one place, so you won't have to jump from app to app to communicate with your friends and colleagues. You'll also be able to group and categorise your contacts based on how you think of them - friends, co-workers, enemies or whatever.
The Picture Hub now has a tagging system, making it easier for you to organise your photos. When you share your photos on Facebook or SkyDrive, the Photo Hub will automatically detect any photo of a person and ask whether you want to tag it. It doesn't handle face recognition, however, so it won't perform automatic tagging.
YouTube, Last.fm, and Slacker are now integrated into your Music + Video Hub, so you can easily see a list of the videos you watched or the songs you listened to on those services. There's even a playlist creator in the Zune Player called Smart DJ (as opposed to iTunes Genius? Hmm.) that creates mixes based on similar songs in your collection. This has been a feature of the Zune desktop software for quite some time - and a welcome addition to Windows Phone 7.
Microsoft is aiming to make Windows Phone the phone for business customers. Windows Phone 7 owners will be able to save and share Office documents through Office 365 and Windows Live SkyDrive, ensuring them access to the latest documents when and where needed. One nice upgrade: You can now pin any Microsoft Office document - such as a PowerPoint presentation or an Excel spreadsheet - to your Start screen. We'll take a closer look at the Office Hub's new features in the next few days, so stay tuned.
Windows Phone 7 'Mango': Improved Live Tiles, Contacts, and Groups
Live Tiles - the always-updating widgets that you can customise and rearrange on your homescreen - will have more real-time information in Mango. You'll also be able to make personalised Live Tiles for individual friends or for a group to add to your homescreen. If you want to keep an eye on your partner or track what your boss is doing, you can pin that contact to your Start screen and see at a glance what they're writing on Facebook.
The updated 'Me' tile lets you share status updates (via Facebook, Windows Live, and Twitter) and check-ins (via Facebook). You can view notifications, such as Facebook messages or Tweet replies, in a single place. You can see your friends' status updates and activity across multiple social networks. And of course, you can pin your own tile to your Start screen for quick access. Like the other Live Tiles, the new Me tile will display more information - for instance, indicating when you have a missed call or a new text message.
In Mango, you can group your contacts together by how they relate to your life - family, friends, coworkers, frenemies, and the like. It automatically placed my brother, my mom, and me in a group based on our last names. But if you have a common last name (such as Smith), I wonder whether Windows Phone will think that every Smith in your phone is related to you. You can pin Groups to your Start screen, just as you can individual contacts.
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The White House today unveiled a "Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights" intended to serve as a guideline for new legislation to protect people's online privacy. The Privacy Bill of Rights outlines what types of information Internet companies may collect, how that information may be used, ways for users to easily access their private data, and correct any errors in the information.
"American consumers can't wait any longer for clear rules of the road that ensure their personal information is safe online," said President Obama in a statement. "As the Internet evolves, consumer trust is essential for the continued growth of the digital economy. That's why an online privacy Bill of Rights is so important. For businesses to succeed online, consumers must feel secure. By following this blueprint, companies, consumer advocates and policymakers can help protect consumers and ensure the Internet remains a platform for innovation and economic growth."
The rights outlined in the measure are outlined by the White House as such:
- Individual Control: Consumers have a right to exercise control over what personal data organizations collect from them and how they use it.
- Transparency: Consumers have a right to easily understandable information about privacy and security practices.
- Respect for Context: Consumers have a right to expect that organizations will collect, use, and disclose personal data in ways that are consistent with the context in which consumers provide the data.
- Security: Consumers have a right to secure and responsible handling of personal data.
- Access and Accuracy: Consumers have a right to access and correct personal data in usable formats, in a manner that is appropriate to the sensitivity of the data and the risk of adverse consequences to consumers if the data are inaccurate.
- Focused Collection: Consumers have a right to reasonable limits on the personal data that companies collect and retain.
- Accountability: Consumers have a right to have personal data handled by companies with appropriate measures in place to assure they adhere to the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights.
The Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights serves as one of four key elements to the total "blueprint." The other parts include: enforcement of these rights by the Federal Trade Commission; a "stakeholder-driven process" to define how these rights will apply to specific businesses; and a plan for coordinating the framework of these rights with those of international partners.
The Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration will in the coming weeks meet with a number of parties that will be affected by the establishment of these rights, including business, privacy and consumer rights advocacy groups, technical experts, international partners, and academics. During these meetings the Commerce Department will "establish specific practices or codes of conduct" that will allow for the implementation of the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights.
In addition, the White House announced that Google, Microsoft, AOL, and Yahoo — which together deliver more than 90 percent of all behavioral advertising on the Web — have agreed to support the use of Do Not Track technology in most major Web browsers. Do Not Track allows users to block companies from tracking where they move around the Internet, and is strongly supported by digital rights advocacy groups, like the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
While the Obama administration has been working on the development of the Privacy Bill of Rights over the past two years, its unveiling could not have come at a more appropriate time. In the past few weeks, we've seen: Google come under fire for bypassing the privacy settings in both Safari and Internet Explorer browsers, as well as a heated debate over its new, unified privacy policy; Path, Hipster, and a wide range of other mobile apps access and upload users' contact lists without permission; and, of course, Facebook once again scrutinized for its new Open Graph platform, which allows for "frictionless sharing" of user data and activities on the Web.
In other words, this move is well past due.
To read more about the White House's full plan, click here: pdf.
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There is a new trailer available for New Super Mario Bros. Wii, showing off some of the new suits and multiplayer action from the game. This is pure Nintendo: you may not be initially amazed at the graphics, but the play looks incredibly solid and fun. Take a look at what's likely to be Nintendo's next big thing.
We had a chance to play the game at E3, and walked away really wanting the damn thing to be released already. It's rare that a video comes out that makes one want to play a game as much as this trailer, but enough of my gushing; I'm interested in your thoughts.
New Super Mario Bros. Wii is expected to be released on the Nintendo Wii this November.


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- The genesis of the Board of Ethics may be found in the Final Report of the Mayor's Ad Hoc Committee on Improvement in Municipal Standards and Practices, commonly referred to as the Fordham Committee Report, issued on 15 March 1962.
On 1 March 1963, Mayor James H. J. Tate created the Committee of Ethics, which set up preliminary guidelines for the ethical behavior of city employees. On 18 June 1963, Mayor Tate signed City Council Bill No. 1715-A on Standards of Conduct and Ethics. The purpose of this ordinance was to supplement Article X of the City Charter. This ordinance established the Board of Ethics for the City of Philadelphia.
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Welcome, one and all. It's your trusty managing editor, Jeff Ruoss here reporting from the Royal Rumble. Well, not really. Instead of being in Atlanta, Georgia, I'm sitting on my couch in Manayunk, Pennsylvania. I've got my blog, bros (friends), and bourbon, and I'm ready to take notes. Expect updates at the end of every match and we'll hopefully keep you entertained.
So sit back, get comfortable, and enjoy!
ECW championship
Christian (C) vs. Ezekiel Jackson
8:09 - Everyone shows up. Well, Shawn, Karen, Brittany, and Gardner come. Gardner brought his bear hug shirt, infinitely more interesting than this match has been so far.
8:11 - William Regal is kicked out of the match. Who even knew he was involved?
8:13 - Shawn is pretty sure Christian is going to come back in the end. If WWE wants Christian to be recognized as a solid champion, they won't let him lose this way. Even Karen feels bad for him, and she's not even sure why she's here.
8:15 - Someone is really trying to build up Ezekiel Jackson. That's the only reason I can think why this match has gone this long.
8:18 - Christian wins. He had no right to do so based upon how badly he was beaten. Britt isn't sure why the smaller, less athletic person came out on top. No one in the crowd is either.
Had a lot to post about The Miz vs. MVP but even my computer wasn't sure how to handle it. Thus I got the blue screen of death. The Miz wins, pretty sure this PPV has been rather odd so far.
WWE championship
Sheamus (C) vs. Randy Orton
8:47 - It's pointed out that the WWE championship has never changed hands in Atlanta. Please begin to place bets that the WWE championship will now change hands in Atlanta.
8:49 - People are cheering Orton. Has he become a compassionate figure. Why does this seem wrong on a lot of levels?
8:52 - Sheamus looks relatively strong in this match. Guess old Vince is trying to make sure the big, white monster is as believably tough as everyone thinks he should be.
8:55 - Shawn points out that the WWE championship match has been placed before a women's match. Either there is going to be a killer twist to the Rumble or someone made the big guy angry backstage.
9:00 - So Sheamus keeps the title thanks to a Cody Rhodes' interference. Thanks, WWE, for making sure your main champion is presented in a strong way. Gardner isn't sure how Cody didn't know he was doing something wrong. Or why Randy is so upset.
9:02 - Well, this is the beginning of the downfall of Legacy. Orton has dropped everyone. And now Sheamus gets to be a strong figure by boot-smashing Orton. Yet the crowd still boos him. Maybe it's because he's so pale; they just don't know how to cheer for someone with a lack of pigmentation.
WWE Women's championship
Michelle McCool (C) vs. Mickie James
9:14- Layla and Michelle McCool are surprised when Mickie James' music came on. Were they not aware she was in the match?
9:15- Mickie James wins in under 20 seconds. It actually took me longer to write this sentence. No idea where Creative wanted to go with this one, and something tells me they didn't know either.
WWE World championship
The Undertaker (C) vs. Rey Mysterio Jr.
9:24 - The Undertaker still has the most impressive entrance of anyone in wrestling. Take that, Hulk.
9:28 - Rey can still fly. Unfortunately for him, it's not due to his own will. Wow, 'Taker.
9:30 - Matt Stryker is pretty adamant that old Rey is going to take this one. The little man is going to need to actually connect on some offensive move first; guess Stryker and I are reading from a different script.
9:32 - If there is one thing we've learned from this match, it's that Stryker can't tell the difference between his left and right.
9:33 - 'Taker's nose is busted open. "If it bleeds, we can kill it," Arnold Shwarzenegger, Predator.
9:35 - This is a pretty one-sided match. Even Lawler and Cole have called it that way. Is it possible to say that a guy whose been in the big leagues for more than 15 years is getting a bad rub? If it is, Mysterio is getting one of those rubs.
9:38 - Rey gives a hell of a final push to make it a great fight. Not Match of the Year, but still a good one. No way Rey was walking out of Atlanta with the belt, could tell that from the get-go.
Royal Rumble
9:49 - Dolph Ziggler draws number one. I'm going out on a limb here and saying his losing streak continues. Ever notice how his losing streak hasn't gotten as much attention as MVP's did? Go figure.
9:50 - Evan Bourne draws number two. Let's start the countdown to see who number three will be. Obviously, this time can't count come soon enough.
9:52 - Punk draws number three and quickly eliminates Ziggler and Bourne. Joy, now we get to hear a solid minute and a half of his "straight-edge" nonsense. Who will be the one to step in and stop this?
9:53 - The answer is JTG. But now he's gone, too. Well, this is going well for everyone.
9:55 - Here's The Great Khali. This is odd. But only so because Beth Phoenix has come in and eliminated him.
9:58 - And Punk eliminates yet another. That's five by the official count. Well, if you include Beth Phoenix. Say what you will, but he is damn good as an obnoxious heel.
9:59 - Here comes Triple-H. Something tells me Punk won't be eliminating him as fast as he has everyone else. But I've been known to be wrong before.
10:02 - After all that buildup, a quick departure for Punk. Nice reversal from HHH.
10:07 - If I had a dollar every time they mentioned that Kane has eliminated 11 participants in one Rumble, I'd have at least have been able to afford this pay-per-view.
10:11 - Carlito is in at number 15; I thought he was future endeavored. Well, that's neither here nor there, but he's putting up a rather impressive showing. Okay, spoke too soon. The Miz has dropped Carlito like a bad habit. And still no sign of HBK or Cena. Interesting. Very interesting.
10:14 - Hello, Matt Hardy.
10:14 2/3 - Goodbye, Matt Hardy.
10:15 - And "The Game" is awoken!
10:16 - In less than 30 seconds, HBK has eliminated three men. Make that four. And that includes my pick, Ted DiBiase Jr.
10:18 - Remember when finishing moves actually meant a finish? Well. Cena isn't staying down from a Pedigree, but Triple-H isn't getting back in the ring after some "Sweet Chin Music."
10:29 - Best name of a move in wrestling, hands down, "Skinning The Cat." Amazing. Find me the man who came up with that name and I will shake his hand.
10:32 - Welcome back Edge.
10:33 - So your final four are Edge, HBK, Cena, and Batista. My pick goes to Edge, mainly because he has the best beard. Gardner thinks Brett Michaels is going to win. Poison fans worldwide stand in unison and cheer with him.
10:35 - Is it just me or does it take Shawn a really long time now to tune up the band?
10:37 - So Shawn gets knocked out and superkicks two refs. Pretty sure the look on his face says it all. None of this translates well onto the blog world, however.
10:40 - Edge wins. Fans cheer. Does this mean I should cheer for Edge now? Shawn is upset that he can't grow a beard like that. I'm just happy R-Truth didn't somehow stumble into a victory. The world remains a much more realistic place.
So here's my prediction for Edge: 'Taker loses to Jericho and we see an Edge-Jericho main event. Take it for what it's worth, I broke a shoe lace today.
Jeff Ruoss
Managing Editor
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Royal Rumble
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Wow, Jeff. Edge vs. Jericho for the title at WrestleMania? What a fantastic prediction. Very original!!!
All hail, king of predictions!
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Talk about overkill.
Sammy Sosa needs a corked bat like Jennifer Lopez needs a little publicity. Or a new boyfriend.
Against those pitching-heavy Tampa Bay Devil Rays, the great Sosa should need to cheat about as much as Tom Hanks would to win the lead in a Drury Lane production. He should need a good woodworker about as much as George Clooney needs card tricks to impress women.
Yet, as Texas songwriter Jimmy La Fave says, desperate men do desperate things.
It had been 33 days since Sosa's last home run. Unless the calendar says December or January--OK, or October--that's a very long time between blasts for Sosa, who missed most of May after having a toenail removed.
He has only six homers this season--fewer than the likes of Orlando Cabrera, Rafael Furcal, Melvin Mora, Morgan Ensberg, Hee Seop Choi and Xavier Nady--and 12 in the Cubs' last 97 games. In three games since coming off the disabled list, he was 2-for-15 with eight strikeouts.
So there was No. 21 at Wrigley Field on Tuesday night, looking for an unfair advantage against former teammate Jeremi Gonzalez. What a shame.
For a hitter, there isn't much worse for his image than being caught with a corked bat. Albert Belle hit 381 homers in 12 seasons, but the first thing many people think when his name comes up is the Comiskey Park game in 1994 when he was ejected for using a corked bat. Graig Nettles still is haunted by the night in 1974 that Super Balls came flying out of his Louisville Slugger.
This is the honor roll of cheaters that has welcomed Sosa into its ignominious company. Corking his bat--which Sosa says he does for home run exhibitions--isn't going to keep him out of the Hall of Fame, but it might as well be included in the inscription on his plaque.
Nobody's going to forget it. Not now. Not next month. Not next year. Not ever.
The last time a major-leaguer was caught corking his bat, the culprit was Wilton Guerrero, whose brother Vladimir apparently got all of the long-ball genes. It's easy to understand why he would try to find extra mileage by doctoring his bats.
Amos Otis, a splinter of a center fielder, hit 193 homers during a highly productive career. He later admitted that he owed much of his success to good carpentry.
"I had enough cork and Super Balls in there to blow away anything," Otis said. "I had a very close friend who made the bats for me. He'd drill a hole down the barrel and stuff some Super Balls and cork in it. Then he put some sawdust back into the hole, sandpapered it down and added a little pine tar over the top of it. The bat looked brand new."
Otis weighed 170 pounds. And he played most of his career in the old Royals Stadium, a park where even Steve Balboni struggled to go bye-bye.
Billy Hatcher, now a coach with the Devil Rays, isn't a behemoth either. You could understand when Keith Moreland discovered cork after his bat shattered in a 1987 game with the Cubs.
But Sosa? Give me a break.
If there is a way a hitter can cheat to try to get a two-out single with runners on base, then maybe Sosa should consider it. But he's pretty well got the long ball figured out.
Corking the bat is one of the oldest tricks in the major leagues. It has been handed down through generations. Norm Cash has admitted doing it early in his career. He certainly didn't invent the idea.
Yet some question whether cork really does make the ball jump off the bat.
"What it does is reduce weight, which produces quicker bat speeds," Chuck Schupp, an executive with Louisville Slugger, once said. "But it also reduces mass, so the bat doesn't drive the ball as far."
Yale physics professor Robert Adair agreed.
"A corked bat will increase bat speed but won't hit the ball as far," he said. "You also reduce the length of the sweet spot. How far you hit a ball depends on mass. . . . At a given speed, a light bat won't hit a ball as far as a heavy one."
Schupp and Adair were interviewed after the Belle incident at Comiskey Park.
"It's unfortunate," Schupp said. "First, it's something he doesn't need, and second, now people wonder how long he'd been doing it and it casts a shadow on his accomplishments."
Sosa achieved his status as a icon during the glory years for home run hitters, 1998 through 2001. Along with Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds, he has had to live with the suspicion that he has gotten some of his power out of a bottle or a syringe.
But this time it wasn't cheap talk about steroids, which Sosa always has been able to deflect. This time it was a cracked bat that revealed doctoring.
Nope, this was not a false positive.
Sammy can't say it ain't so.
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(n.) The process of slamming your partner's head against the backboard of your bed, so as to knock him/her out.
So I was having sex with my girlfriend, and it was so awkward, because she woke up, but it was cool, I gave her the backboard and it all worked out.
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Next week MAC Cosmetics will release their Baroque Boudoir collection exclusively in MAC stores. The Baroque Boudoir collection is this year's high end collection from MAC, just like the Monogram collection from last year and the Stylistics collection from the year before that. I always look forward to seeing these limited edition collections because I can't wait to see the packaging. This year I'm loving the gorgeous jacquard pattern, it screams Carla… because if I could surround myself with jacquard patterns, I totally would. 🙂
Let's take a look at what this collection includes:
Baroque Boudoir Compact/Sheer Mystery Powder
- Light Medium – pale ivory
- Medium Plus – tan beige
Baroque Boudoir Lipstick
- Prive – creamy light blue pink (cream)
- Treasured – creamy warm nude beige (cream)
- Baroque Boudoir – creamy dark plum (cream)
Baroque Boudoir Lipgloss
- Preciousness – sheer metallic pink with white pearl (frost)
- The Lap of Luxury – sheer baby pink with white (frost)
- D'Nouveau – sheer dusty rose with light pink pearl (frost)
So what do you say? Anything here going on your wishlist? I have to admit, this collection is more for the collector in me so I won't be picking anything up to use up. I do have my eye on the Baroque Boudoir Compact… that will be mine. 🙂


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I'm working on my first ever assignment dealing with Lisp. My function deals with 9 rooms of a house. 1.Library 2. Upstairs-bedroom 3. back-stairs 4. front-stairs 5. downstairs-bedroom 6. living-room 7.dining-room 8. kitchen 9.pantry
-The input is a room and the output is the number of direct rooms you can go from that room. The living room and Dining room's output is 3, the rest is 2.
-I tried 2 approaches to this, but not very successful. Could someone tell me what I'm doing wrong or the more efficient way of doing this?
Approach #1:
> (defun how-many-choices (loc)
(setq library 2)
(setq back-stairs 2)
(setq downstairs-bedroom 2)
(setq upstairs-bedroom 2)
(setq front-stairs 2)
(setq living-room 3)
(setq dining-room 3)
(setq kitchen 2)
(setq pantry 2))
> (how-many-choices 'back-stairs)
> (how-many-choices 'living-room)
--The living-room's output should be 3, not 2
Approach #2:
(defun how-many-choices (loc)
(if(eql loc 'living-room 'dining-room)
(= loc 2)))
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But that did not end our family history with parochial schools.
My Aunt Mary (Belanger) Desjardins sent her two daughters, Lillian and Dora to a French convent parochial school in Jackman, Maine. It may have been called Sacred Heart Academy or the St. Anthony School, located in Somerset County at Jackman, Maine. In 1915, There were 250 scholars at the St. Anthony School, 150 were boarders from all parts of Maine. None of the sisters were familiar with English, having come from Lyons, France, to teach at the school. (More web resources on that school here and here.) Aunt Mary had lost her husband Dominique young and probably felt this was a good opportunity for the girls to get a good French education in an enclosed setting where they were safe. Mom says that Lillian was very studious and Dora very artistic and dreamy. My mother was dreamy, too. Dora and Mom both valued the presence of Lillian because the nuns respected her and wanted her to join the convent. Lillian, because of her high standing with the nuns, would negotiate a light penance for Dora and Mom when they would get into trouble.
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I am not sure why my Mom (and whether or not my Uncle) was sent away by Albert and Lydia to the Jackman convent school. I do know that my grandfather convalesced a year at Togus Veteran's Hospital in Togus, Maine for blood poisoning during a time when antibiotics were non-existent.
Albert also mangled his hand in an ice crusher while managing Wiseman farms where they made ice-cream. (Incidentally, he often sang the jingle "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream" to his children and would bring home ice cream that didn't sell.) At Wiseman Farms, he was cleaning the machine and it accidentally went on when his wedding ring became caught. He had the presence of mind to rapidly kick out the plug. I believe that the Garcelon school in Lewiston was a convent school that Mom and possibly Uncle attended at a time while the family lived in Lewiston.
|Mom as a school
girl with a brownie camera
My other grandfather, Omer, had died of smoke inhalation at the age of 32 when the Continental Bag Mill in Rumford had a fire. He was the only casualty. Several of his five children were sent to Healy Asylum, a French convent school run by the Sisters of Charity, The Grey Nuns. Being of French-Acadian ancestry, only English was spoken at home as the French language was lost among the Acadians who escaped the "Grande Derangement" or the expulsion of Acadians in 1755 and remained in Malpeque, Ile St. Jean (now Prince Edward Island). So children of the next generations spoke English and none learned French at home. Eventually, my grandmother Rosie Arsenault raised enough money to have her family back in her household. My aunt Edith, 100 years old last month, told me how lonely it and difficult it was to adapt to a living environment where only French was spoken.
More about Healy Asylum can be found in the book: The Quiet Revolutionaries: How The Grey Nuns Changed the Social Welfare Paradigm of Lewiston, Maine. Google book exerpt
|Me and my sister
Later, while in junior high, my sister and I were sent to convent school due to family circumstances. We attended St. Louis Home in Scarborough, Maine. This building has since been converted to house many shops. Sr. Lucienne Guilbault, a grey nun (Sister of Charity), took care of us girls. Every night at 7 she put us to sleep to her favorite singer Johnny Cash. We loved "A Boy Named Sue" and "Folsom Prison Blues". Sr. Lucienne would also let the four eldest girls stay up later on Friday nights to watch Bobby Sherman's show"Getting Together", "The Brady Bunch", and "The Partridge Family". The nuns were friendly. Mom visited on the weekends. We were two of the lucky ones. Many children there were wards of the state who had been taken away from their parents. I remember any interesting trinket we had was stolen by others less fortunate. I remember the nuns playing billiards with the boys. Big Sisters and Big Brothers organization members would take us snowmobiling and organize some parties. It was not a bleak existence and the language spoken was English. We were to stay there one school year until the Bishop had closed it down.
Former St. Louis Home - takes a few moments to load photo
Here is some history I found on the web about St. Louis Home:
Bishop Louis S. Walsh, in 1920, purchased the former Wayland House in West Scarborough. It opened on June 21, 1921 as the St. Louis Home and School for Boys. The student body increased in the 1930's, often nearing as many as 65. It is claimed that over 50,000 meals were served each year, along with 8000 loaves of bread, 500 bushels of potatoes and 2 tons of meat. For 15 years, the Sisters of Mercy administered the Boys' Home. In 1935, at the request of Bishop Joseph McCarthy, St Louis Home and School was sold by the Diocese to the Sisters of Charity (Grey Nuns) of Lewiston.
Have a nice day!They converted it to a residence for both boys and girls. In 1971, the Sisters shifted their services to childcare and shortly after the facility became a part of Catholic Charities Maine. For several years it was housed in a former convent on Birch Street in Biddeford. The City of Biddeford later renovated Emery School and has offered the facility to St. Louis Child Development Center rent-free since 1993. source: Catholic Charities: Treated with Mercy
Aunt Mary (Belanger) Desjardins and Memere Lydia (Belanger) Poulin


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Air travel these days is sometimes likened to the flying version of a Greyhound bus. Here are some strategies to help you keep your costs in hand and perhaps get a little more (comfort, perks) for your money.
— Don't fall for the "only premium economy seats are available" ploy. You booked a fare on an airline that has economy and premium economy seating, and when it's time for seat selection, the website says only the more expensive premium economy seats are available. Don't pay more for a premium seat. If all the "cheap" seats are taken, you may get a premium economy seat when you check in.
— Watch for (and ask for) cheap last-minute upgrades to business and first class. Business and first class can cost many times the price of an economy seat. For example, I frequently fly from Los Angeles to New York, where you can still find coach seats for $129 each way if you catch a sale, but business class costs $2,200 or more. I've been offered last-minute upgrades (when checking in online at home, at the airport kiosk or even at the gate) for as little as $250 on top of the $129 fare, a huge savings. If you're not offered a discounted upgrade, ask when you check in.
— Don't assume that business and first-class fares cost 10 times the economy-class price. They don't always. There are often non-refundable business and first-class fares going for relatively little more than economy and often for the same price as refundable coach fares. Recently I flew from New York JFK to Boston in first class on American for $140 each way when economy class on the Delta Shuttle was charging $400 from LaGuardia. I flew L.A. to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on a connection through Atlanta on Delta for $349 one way in first class, not a huge premium over the economy class fare, which is sometimes $200 each way on that route.
— Consult Seatguru.com to pick a better seat. You can see seat maps for almost all airlines and aircraft types here. All seats are not created equal.
— Get maximum legroom in economy class by flying JetBlue (if it goes where you're going). JetBlue's A320/A321 aircraft seat rows are spaced at least 33-34 inches apart in coach compared with 31-32 inches on some airlines; and JetBlue's "even more space" seats range from 37 to 41 inches apart.
— Use your frequent-flier miles to upgrade instead of buying an inexpensive economy-class fare. What is better value: spending 25,000 points on a $250 coach fare or 15,000 miles upgrading a $139 coach fare to a $2,500 business-class fare? I earn those miles by applying for airline-affiliated credit cards with those 40,000 (or more) bonus mile offers.
— If you fly on United frequently, consider the Economy Plus annual subscription: https://www.lat.ms/1bmNpQv. For $499 a year, you get unlimited domestic upgrades to United's extra-legroom seating as long as a seat is available when you book. For $200 more, you get international Economy Plus.
— Fly on a Tuesday or Wednesday. Fewer people travel on those days, so there's a bit more chance the middle seat will be open.


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One of the biggest sales events of the entire year is nearly here! With Amazon Prime Day 2018 set to start July 16, today I want to show you where to find the biggest Prime Day deals.
Prime Day is billed as bigger than Black Friday and Cyber Monday by retail giant Amazon.com, and it features a multitude of deals that draw millions of shoppers. But if you want to save some real cash, you'll want to focus your time and energy shopping for some specific products.
Each category below is ranked by the amount of money you will save within that category. Please note that you won't necessarily find huge deals in these categories before Prime Day July 16, but I will have a full round-up of deals from every category early.
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Nature designed human milk especially for human babies, and it is the ideal food for your baby. Your breast milk contains just the right balance of nutrients, and it contains them in the form that is most easily used by the human baby's immature body systems. Because it was developed for your baby, your milk also is gentlest on your baby's systems. Breast milk even changes along with your baby as he or she grows.
Breast milk is rich in the nutrients that promote brain growth and nervous system development. There are anti-infective properties in breast milk that also prevent infection. Of course, it is also the perfect first food to help your human baby achieve every aspect of ideal growth and development.
The milk of mothers who give birth prematurely is somewhat different than milk produced by women after a full-term baby's birth in the following ways:
Nutrients. Several studies found more fat, protein, and the minerals sodium, chloride, and iron in "preterm milk" than in "term" milk. The variation in nutrient content seems to be of benefit for the preterm baby.
Generally, premature babies who receive their own mothers' milk develop better eye function. They, and other high-risk babies fed mothers' milk, usually perform better on different kinds of intelligence tests as they grow older. This is mostly due to certain types of fats (fatty acid chains) in human milk, which are not available in artificial formulas. Yet these fats have been shown to be especially important for the growth and development of a high-risk baby's eyes, brain, and nervous system.
During the last weeks of pregnancy, a baby builds a lot of body tissue. Because premature babies are born early, they must build this tissue after birth. Tissue building requires protein. Preterm milk has a bit more protein, and the protein is in a form that is more easily used by your premature baby. Other extra proteins in preterm milk reflect higher levels of certain anti-infective properties, especially ones that protect babies against gastrointestinal and respiratory infections.
Anti-infective properties. Only human milk is alive with many different kinds of disease-fighting factors that help prevent mild to severe infections in babies. Preterm milk has higher levels of these anti-infective properties. Antibodies in human milk directly protect against infection. Other anti-infective factors create an environment that is friendly to the "good" bacteria, referred to as "normal flora," and unfriendly to "bad" bacteria, viruses, or parasites. Human milk also appears to have properties that help a baby's own immune system work best.
The anti-infective properties in mother's milk are especially beneficial for premature and other high-risk babies, since these babies are more likely to be exposed to, and pick up, infections more easily. Babies receiving their own mothers' milk are many times less likely to develop diarrhea and a severe intestinal illness called necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) during their NICU stay. If any of these problems do occur, they are usually less severe for the baby receiving his own mother's milk. Babies that are fully, or almost-fully, breastfed and those receiving expressed breast milk also have significantly fewer GI, respiratory, ear, and urinary infections after hospital discharge.
Easily digested. Since nature designed human milk for human babies, your milk is the most easily digested food your baby can receive. A nutritious, yet easily digested first food is important for any baby, but it is particularly beneficial for the immature digestive tract of a premature baby and the more sensitive systems of many other high-risk babies. Your baby uses less energy, yet breaks your milk down more completely into its basic ingredients, so the nutrients, anti-infective factors, and all the other "ingredients" in your milk are more available to fuel your baby's body functions and to promote growth and development.
Bioavailability. Bioavailability refers to how well the body can use the nutrients in a food. The high bioavailability of nutrients in human milk means your baby gets more benefits from those nutrients. This is true even for nutrients that appear in lower levels in breast milk when compared to artificial formulas because your baby's body can absorb and use them most effectively. It also means your baby saves the energy that would be needed to eliminate any nutrients he had difficulty digesting or using.
Suitability. Your milk is best suited to, and so it is more "gentle" on, your baby's body systems. The suitability of your milk plays a role in your milk's digestibility, and it allows your baby's body to function most efficiently while spending much less energy on body functions. Suitability is also thought to be one reason that babies receiving their own mothers' milk are less likely to develop allergic-related skin conditions.
The digestibility, bioavailability, and suitability of your milk means your baby's body is able to work less yet receive more nourishment. This results in less stress for the baby's heart, lungs, bowels and kidneys, which allows your high-risk baby to use more energy to grow and get better. By providing human milk for your baby, you are creating a medication that no hospital can make. Babies who receive this medication are often ready for oral feedings earlier and can be discharged home sooner than high-risk babies receiving other types of feedings.


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With an easy bop sensibility, Woods cuts loose on a number of originals and a few surprising chestnuts for a strong set. Fellow reed player Johnny Griffin (the two played in Monk's nonet in the late '60s) and the fine rhythm section of Cedar Walton on piano, Ben Riley on drums and Peter Washington on bass all make great contributions. On the title track, Woods and Griffin swing in a relaxed bossa nova style, while "I'm So Scared of Girls When They're Good Looking" is by turns doleful and good-humored. All in all, a charming set. ~ Tim Sheridan


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Beyond just the BSL bands listed in the other thread, we are currently offering two styles of rescue car magnets. They will be available to mail out within a week, and all orders can be taken as of now.
We have this ribbon!
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Both ribbons are $5 + easy shipping of $1 anywhere in the U.S. We accept Paypal, cash, and check via mail.
All proceeds go to pay for our rescued dogs. Before being sent to their new, loving homes all dogs are speutered (love that word), UTD on all shots, and chipped.
Thanks again!
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The Starry Child
Novel Books, Sept 2003, 288pp ISBN 159105236X Three years have passed since Alan Nielson, a caring father and wonderful husband, died. Alan's positive outlook on life brought energy and stability to anyone he touched. His widow Rainey has had to bury her own grief over the loss of her beloved spouse because their daughter Sasha has not coped at all with the loss of her idolized dad, who affectionately dubbed her the "Queen of the Woodland Fairies...


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lancejohnson necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 328 diseños de 104 diseñadores freelance.
Ekeko Marketing's goal is to invigorate and deliver max profit to our clients and we need something to reflect that. Something fun and creative like a design firm, but still as professional as a large corporation. Please check the brief for important info.
Ekeko Marketing
Taking our customers and making them exponentially more profitable than when they first came to us is what we aim to do. Helping them succeed in the most effective, and creative ways are what we aim for.
A key concept behind Ekeko is the idea of stopping the industry incest. This needs to be something different than a standard marketing or corporate logo, because it truly is different. We're results focused versus what-the-other-guy-is-doing focused.
The name Ekeko comes from the Bolivian God of plenty. We'd like him to be included in some way without making it too tribal. The idea behind it is, once again, our passion for fulfilling marketing dreams/goals.
Color scheme is listed here: Color Palette
The logo must be in vector format. It'll be used on business cards, stationary, website, etc.
Here are a few examples of logos we like- logo1-good example of figure/god
- logo2
- logo3 (less cartoony)
- logo4 (love the class)
- logo5 Really captures the kind of look and feel I want for the logoIt'd be great to see some with the name "Ekeko" and some with the name "Ekeko Marketing" to see which one gets the message across best
- bleeding edge fresh, and creative design
- fun but still professional
- vector format
- photoshop or illustrator format
- A text only logo - must be able to stand alone
- rehashed standard corporate look
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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ROCKLIN – Placer County's Department of Child Support Services will throw open its inner doors on January 15, 2013 from 4 to 5 p.m. for an informational seminar inside its Rocklin office, 1000 Sunset Blvd., Suite 200.
A first of its kind with the department, this event is designed to allow those interested in child support – or perhaps just curious – an opportunity to ask staff members anything, whether they have cases with the department or not.
"There's just so much bad information out there concerning child support," said Kristen Mindus, a supervisor with the department and coordinator of the event. "We just want people to have an opportunity to find out the truth."
Mindus said the idea behind allowing access to a section of the department's offices not normally open to the public illustrates its openness and commitment to dispelling misconceptions about child support. She also hopes the event helps parents work with the department more effectively.
Child Support Services in Placer County currently services over 9,000 active child support cases. In the past fiscal year, the department collected over $20 million for families. This collection-to-cost ratio makes Placer County one of the best counties in the state for cost-effectiveness.
Child support services are available to any parent, guardian, or caretaker regardless of income. The department offers services such as establishing paternity, establishing and enforcing child and medical support orders, accounting, and locating other parents.
"Some people think our department just pits one parent against another, or we only care about one parent over the other," Mindus said. "If they know how we really work, they might be more inclined to partner with us going forward."
For more information: http://www.placer.ca.gov/Departments/ChildSupport.aspx


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RTC Babe Meets P-Pat and Wall…Posted by rtmsf on August 31st, 2009
Ed. Note: just to be clear, as some may have taken this post the wrong way, but the players shown here were in a 24-hour diner that is open to all-ages near the UK campus. They were not drinking nor did they show any visible signs of such. As mentioned below, this was a chance encounter and the players were extremely nice and respectful throughout.
So RTC is on the road right now, and where other than the hotbed of college hoops known as Lexington, KY, to spend a summer weekend? Never one to turn down a shameless photo op, the RTC Babe corraled UK's Patrick Patterson, DeMarcus Cousins and John Wall for a late-night pic. She writes about her experience:
We sit at a table that happens to be right beside a crew of several very tall young men. My husband leans over to me and says "That's P-Pat." And of course I say, "A P-what?" He explains to me that P-Pat (Patrick Patterson) is a really good basketball player who plays for UK.
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My husband then tells me, "Hey that's Wall over there." He gestures across the room pointing at a crowd. So of course once again I'm like "Wall??" But this time I don't even bother asking for an explanation. Instead, since I'm now best buds with P-Pat I tap him on his ginormous arm and go "Hey, I'm supposed to get a picture with Wall too. Do you know which one is Wall?" He describes a guy sitting at a table with a star on his hat. I tell P-Pat that he has to come over with me to ask him. We're buddies remember? Or I liked to think so at that moment. Instead with one gesture he motions for Wall to come over.
She goes on to say that the three UK players were all exceptionally nice guys and respectful to her throughout the encounter, even though it was after 3am and the place was filled with drunken idiots, retards and other hangers-on.


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CHICAGO, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- A Chicago TV station spent about 15 minutes reporting on a plane crash that turned out to be simulated for the TV series "Chicago Fire."
WGN-TV reported on the crash, which was a simulated scene around 8 a.m. Friday for NBC series "Chicago Fire," complete with a small plane with its left wing splintered off, police cars and ambulance and extras acting as spectators, WMAQ-TV, Chicago, reported Friday.
Police said they did not receive any calls about the fake plane crash, but the Chicago Fire Department sent out an alert asking residents to disregard the scene.