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My baby cries uncontrollably when she gets a shot. How can I make the experience easier for her?– Kate
Getting shots can be tough on you and your child, but the benefits are worth the effort. Fortunately, you can do a few things to make the experience less painful and stressful.
If your daughter is a newborn or under 5 months old, try a method called the "5 S's" immediately after she gets a vaccine. These are:
Research has shown that doing at least 4 of the 5 S's greatly reduces the amount of time infants cry after getting a shot. If you're OK with breastfeeding your daughter at the doctor's office (to fulfill the sucking recommendation), this alone can be an effective way to distract your baby and calm her down. You might even be able to do it while your child gets the vaccine.
In some situations, a sugar water solution may be available. Dipping a pacifier into this solution, then giving it to a fussy baby may help soothe the child.
Before and after the shot is given, try applying gentle pressure and rubbing the skin around the injection site. This massage may prevent the area from feeling so painful.
For an older baby or a toddler, swaddling or shushing might not work. Try letting your child sit on your lap during the shot and distract her with a toy, book, or song. Try not to look upset or concerned. Children can pick up on a parent's anxiety, and it can make them anxious as well.
If your child has pain at the site where the shot was given or develops a fever and feels sick, speak to your child's doctor about giving medicine such as acetaminophen or ibuprofen to ease symptoms.
Also, don't forget to praise your child afterward. A little positive reinforcement can make the next trip to the doctor easier. Try to do something fun after the appointment. A trip to the park or playground can make the day's memories happier ones.
Note: All information is for educational purposes only. For specific medical advice,
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text: Patrick Kramer pulled back his sleeves and reached out an empty hand to offer his business card.His contact details appeared on the smartphone screen as if by magic, but it was a sufficiently advanced technology that made it happen.For an encore, he opened a locked door without a key. When anyone else touched the handle, it remained locked.Unlike other magicians, Kramer willingly explained the secret to the trick, which is so simple a dog could perform it: In the flesh between his left thumb and forefinger, he has inserted a tiny glass bead containing an NFC chip.There's no point trying to teach your pedigree pooch this trick: It probably already knows how it's done. Microchipping of valuable pets and livestock is increasingly common, and is already mandated in some countries. It will become compulsory for dogs in England and Scotland from April, and is already required in other parts of the U.K.Kramer's company, Digiwell, can microchip you too, right here at the Cebit trade show in Hanover, Germany.The company sells two types of implant: the newer xNT, which operates at 13.56MHz, and the 125kHz xEM, compatible with older RFID access control systems.As with other NFC chips, you can use a suitably equiped mobile phone to read from or write to the xNT, which is how Kramer's business card trick works.It will cost you \u20ac69 (US$77) including the special syringe to insert it and a few bits and bobs to keep everything sterile while you do it. It's possible to do it yourself, but Digiwell recommends you have it done by someone qualified -- a category that includes tattoists and veterinarians.You can get chipped for free at Cebit if you'll submit to the procedure on stage during what Kramer refers to as "happy hours." They start at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. every day till the show closes on Friday.Cebit received over 200,000 visitors last year, but only 10 or 15 of those are likely to submit to the chipping process, Kramer said."Thirty would be a huge success," at an enterprise IT trade show like Cebit, he said, although Digiwell typically implants that many chips at much smaller events dedicated to "biohacking," a field at the intersection of citizen science and body modification.The key question, of course, is does having a chip implant hurt?This reporter wasn't ready to find out, but Kramer said it's like pinching yourself between the thumb and forefinger: a sensation of discomfort, rather than pain."We have some people who think it really hurts, and others who say, 'Oh, did you already do it?' Everyone reacts differently," he said.Even if there's no pain, what might you gain? Kramer uses his chip implant to carry his business card and to open the front door of his house, which is fitted with a special NFC lock. Other applications being tested include authorizing bitcoin payments and checking in for flights, he said.Digiwell goes out of its way to reduce the risk of infection in the implanting process, but one biohacker last year sought to increase it: U.S. Navy Petty Officer Seth Wahle programmed an NFC impant to infect Android phones with malware when he held them, according to CIO magazine.

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"Get this all-purpose midweight and save enough money to buy some sweet merino socks—maybe several pairs," said one tester after wearing this Gore-Tex-lined, fabric-and-leather midcut for five days in Denali National Park. The Zenith doesn't sacrifice technical ingredients to achieve the head-turning price, and it's even lightweight for the support. The trick? First, the asymmetrical cuff that mirrors the offset positioning of your ankle bones: It's higher on the medial (inner) side than the lateral (outer) side, which creates the feeling—and performance—of a higher cut boot.
Second, a full-length plastic shank is nestled in the midsole. Not only does it provide excellent underfoot protection, it's articulated under the toes to facilitate easy striding, and it wraps around the sides of the foot for bomber stability. Garmont shaved weight by threading to-the-toe lacing alternately through webbing lace loops and the leather upper, using heavier metal hardware only on the upper cuff. And when our tester jumped into Glacier Creek to chase down his partner's dropped gear, water poured in over his boot tops, but the Zenith dried in a couple of hours.
Multiple testers applauded the roomy toebox combined with a snug-fitting midfoot. "When I cinched the lacing tight, this boot was secure even while sidehilling," reports a California tester. Wide-spaced, low-profile lugs on the Vibram sole gave the Zenith "excellent traction on rain-slicked, ankle-twisting gravel bars and crumbly moraine when I was carrying an unwieldy, 40-pound load through Wrangell-St. Elias," says one tester. Best for wide, higher-volume feet. $150; 3 lbs. 6 oz.; m's 8-14new stability oriented trail running shoe for warm & dry climates where ventilation is important.


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A Message from Copenhagen: Climate Plan Must Include Walkable Urbanism
11:32 AM PST on December 9, 2009
a panel discussion yesterday at the Copenhagen climate summit, American
policymakers and transit experts delivered a clear message: Walkable
urban development must be part of any effective plan to reduce global
greenhouse gas emissions. Thanks to the magic of live webcasts, I can
relay a few highlights for Streetsblog readers.
directing future development toward walkable urbanism, the climate
impacts of sprawl will overwhelm other efforts to curb greenhouse gas
emissions, said Robert Cervero, a professor specializing in
transportation and land use policy at UC Berkeley. "Urban development
patterns have a significant role to play in carbon reduction," Cervero
told the audience. "Otherwise we'll just get knocked back by land-use
patterns. Sustainable urbanism has to be part of the equation."
benefits of walkable development extend far beyond the efficiencies of
trains, buses, and bikes compared to cars. As journalist (and befuddling congestion pricing critic) David Owen has documented superbly, city dwellers use far less energy to, for instance, heat homes than suburbanites.
attached some rough numbers to these "embedded energy savings." While
transit investment alone can achieve a 10 to 20 percent reduction in
America's per capita greenhouse gas emissions, he said, factoring in
the embedded energy savings of walkable development boosts that figure
to 30 percent. That's 30 percent compared to present-day emissions
levels. The reduction could reach as high as 60 percent, Cervero added,
compared to the level of per-capita emissions that would result from
continuing business-as-usual sprawl-inducing policies.
most Americans aren't all that familiar with walkable urbanism, the
question of how to generate public support for more sustainable
development patterns inevitably arises. John Inglish of the Utah
Transit Authority shared some of the successes on this front from his
home state. It's a bit of an old story, but it's a good one: In the
late 1990s, the public-private venture Envision Utah began a campaign to shape regional growth in the Salt Lake City region. Through a series of public workshops, they built support for smart growth strategies that became state law in 1999.
did they do it? Inglish focused on the sheer fiscal common sense of
walkable urbanism. When presented with the fact that transit investment
produces huge savings in overall infrastructure costs, Utahns got on
board. By 2020, a transit-oriented growth scenario would save some $15
billion, which would otherwise go to roads, sewers, and other utilities
under the sprawling business-as-usual scenario. "That's more money for
schools and parks," Inglish said. "The community was not as
conservative when faced with the realities as had previously been
Unfortunately, the audio turned spotty during
Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper's turn at the podium. To substitute,
here's an excerpt from his interview with Democracy Now's Amy Goodman, in which the mayor marvels at Copenhagen's bike culture, visible even deep inside city hall:
MAYORJOHN HICKENLOOPER: ...here we are in Copenhagen. Thirty-seven percentof the people in this city, when they go to work in the metropolitanarea, ride a bicycle to work. I mean, it's remarkable. Their goal -- Imet yesterday for an hour with the deputy mayor of the environment andtransportation, Klaus Bondam, and Klaus Bondam described how their nextgoal is to hit 50 percent. I mean, to have half your population, whenthey go to work on bicycles, they're healthier, the air is cleaner,there's less carbon emissions, you save money. I mean, the benefits aredramatic, and you can see the difference just when you walk down thestreet.
AMY GOODMAN: I mean, we were just in the city councillast night at like 10:30, 11:00. The whole bottom floor of thiscentury-old building is filled with not only bicycle racks, butbicycles that fill them.
MAYOR JOHN HICKENLOOPER: Right.
AMY GOODMAN: And city council members, the guards, everyone are riding in and out of the city council on their bicycles.
MAYORJOHN HICKENLOOPER: Yeah. When I flew in, the fellow next to me on theplane is a hotshot young technology expert, makes a huge amount ofmoney -- doesn't own a car, rides his bike. You know, he says, "It'shealthier. It's more fashionable." It's -- you know, it's what hisfriends do. And I think that's the whole thing that -- when you get topublic sentiment, I mean, what Lincoln was talking about. We need tochange our public sentiment so people want to do these things. And it'snot government coming down and being punitive, but it's creating achange, a transformation in our attitudes.
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This interactive problem set is designed to help students recognize forces that are exerted in 11 common physical situations. For each situation, the student will decide which forces are present (P) or absent (A), then use a pull-down menu to view correct answers. This resource accompanies the four-part Physics Classroom tutorial, "Force and Its Representations" (see Related Materials for a link to the full tutorial.)
This self-assessment is part of The Physics Classroom tutorial collection.
Next Generation Science Standards
Disciplinary Core Ideas (K-12)
Forces and Motion (PS2.A)
AAAS Benchmark Alignments (2008 Version)
4. The Physical Setting
4F. Motion
4G. Forces of Nature
This resource is part of a Physics Front Topical Unit.
Topic: Dynamics: Forces and Motion
Unit Title: Newton's Second Law & Net Force
It can be difficult for beginners to recognize different force interactions, especially since these concepts sometimes run counter to the student's intuition. This interactive assessment lets them practice in a self-directed environment. They view 11 common physical situations, then decide which forces are present. Afterward, they use a pull-down menu to view correct answers -- all accompanied by explanations.Link to Unit:
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Blogger Spotlight: Charity Mathews from Foodlets
Charity Mathew's decision to cook and eat well isn't just a personal goal; it's a mission that she has for her entire family. After serving as Vice President of Digital Programming at MarthaStewart.com, she now lives with her three-year-old, one-and-a-half-year-old and newborn in Rome, Italy. She dreams for her children to eat real, natural, "often organic, rarely processed, sometimes ethnic, food," and her cooking is fresh and honest as a result. Her blog, Foodlets, documents that dream as she posts her favorite kid-friendly recipes and family anecdotes.
It's an idea I've had for a long time; I'd meet people with remarkable kids who seemed to be fearless little eaters. Something about that seemed amazing to me, even before I had kids of my own. Now that I do, eating together, with an emphasis on healthy, whole food has become the priority I always hoped it would be. But it's a lot of work and not always easy. Some dishes are met with cheers while others get crossed arms and a frown. Usually someone spills their milk and the floor is always peppered with peas but the moment you hear a 3-year-old say "Mmm. This is a good meal," "Thanks for dinner!" or my new favorite, "This is magical," it's all worth it again.
I know I'm not alone, so I wanted to start a website where I offered my greatest hits but also honest (and hopefully funny) accounts of crashing and burning big. Eventually I'd like to have much more interaction with other parents, amassing a great collection of user-generated recipes and tips, all tried-and-true family favorites from around the world.
We sit together as a family every night for dinner. Before they were old enough to eat with us, Paul and I would often sit in front of the TV after we put the kids to bed, simply too exhausted to even attempt eating at the table. Now we're more civilized (though still very tired) and there is never a TV or video on. Just music. We're only at the beginning though. Our kids are 3, 1 and newborn so conversation, jokes and the fun family experiences are still well ahead of us but we're headed in the right direction, I think.
I cook from scratch a lot. There aren't as many packaged foods available here and those that are don't really appeal to our tastes. (For example, one of the frozen food items I see often is octopus.) Of course I cook a fair amount of pasta but it's always whole wheat or vegetable-based. Plus we eat out as a family much more than we would if we lived in the US. Italians love and expect kids to be at restaurants, sitting right at the big table with everyone, eating, talking . . . and doing it for hours. No one is ever put off when we arrive at a restaurant with kids in tow. It's just the culture here, and something we love about Italy.
It's hard to say. Gelato? They go to nursery school every morning where they're served a freshly-made 3-course lunch including pasta, meat and vegetables. They each eat everything every time. Both girls are actually pretty good at eating whatever is available but I know they like their sweets. Phoebe (3 years) in particular talks a good game and gets really excited when we make things like cake or pie, but never ends up eating more than a bite or two when the moment of truth finally arrives. Fine with me!
For Phoebe it's basil and onions. But if she doesn't know they're there, she'll eat them. (I shred onions so you still get the flavor, with out the chunks.) There used to be quite a few though and at 18 months; Estelle is at that stage. Phoebe didn't eat rice or salad but now likes both, and I think it's because they serve it at school. There's an interesting stat that I've heard several times: kids have to try something at least 7 times before they're accustomed to the new flavor. Plus, there are so many ways to cook so many things. Raw tomatoes are nothing like a tomato-based ragu, so I try to make things in a variety of ways. Carrots, for example, were a battle for a while, but I've put them in so many things from muffins to quesadillas to stir-fry that the kids just eat them now. Usually.
Our rule at mealtime is pretty simple: you don't have to eat everything but you do have to try everything. And if you don't, you're not eligible for fruit, our usual dessert. We don't make a big deal out of it and more often than not, everyone participates in the end.
Last, I try to remember that everything is a phase. What's impossible now might never be a favorite but will probably be absolutely acceptable later on.
No, they're too little (3 years, 1 ½ years and newborn) so the secret is safe for now! They do love to look at pictures though, so occasionally I show them photos from Foodlets but the whole concept isn't really clear to them. Phoebe helps cook a lot though and sometimes insists on scampering off to get her pink camera so she can take food pictures too.
These are both recipe makeovers based on Food Network cooks I know and love . . . and they're a couple of the most popular things on Foodlets! In fact, I have a whole section devoted to Ina Garten recipe makeovers for reasons of kid-friendly health and happiness, called Barefoot for Babies. Paula Deen's Pumpkin Bars become Pumpkin Spice Mini Muffins and Ina Garten's Plum Crunch becomes Plum and Blackberry Crisp. Both include wheat germ, both are delicious!
Visit Charity on Foodlets for more kid-friendly recipes and family anecdotes from her Italy-based kitchen.


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'Real' Chris Brown Drunkenly Confesses His Love for Rihanna In Suspiciously Edited Video
[There was a video here]
To close out a week of are-they-or-aren't-they rumors about Rihanna and Chris Brown getting back together (they definitely are) comes a particularly explosive dose of what the fuck. Last night Chris Brown got "a little drunk" and ranted for a minute and a half about how he loves Rihanna.
In the video, which was originally posted to music video director David Alan's Vimeo page, Chris muses in a pseudo-intellectual tone about whether it's possible to love two people. "It's just like, sharing history together...Like, ya know...I don't know if it's possible, but I'm just sayin...I just can't...love." We have a lot to learn from Chris Brown.
Brown gurgles on, insisting he doesn't want to hurt either. Which, too late buddy.
Just ten minutes before the video was posted online, Rihanna tweeted the following:
Ain't nobody bidness..... But mine and my baby!— Rihanna (@rihanna) October 5, 2012
The whole thing lead to some confusion, understandably, from Chris Brown's girlfriend Karrueche Tran.
Wtf is going on?— Karrueche Tran (@karrueche) October 5, 2012
All I'm saying is.. You don't mess with people's genuine feelings. You just don't!— Karrueche Tran (@karrueche) October 5, 2012
Life moves on.. So let's all.— Karrueche Tran (@karrueche) October 5, 2012
In conclusion, in the words of Liz Lemon, "I reject Chris Brown's comeback."


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More than 20 years ago, the British documentary film maker Alan Ereira began researching a film about a lost city in the rainforests of Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the highest coastal mountain in the world.
In his book The Heart of the World, Ereira refers to the city's location as a place "encouragingly known as hell because it was somewhat difficult to move through".
The description is typical of the shrewd, laid-back charm he brings to the complexities involved in setting up, making and selling a film. In 1990s Colombia it took courage, chutzpah and experience as well as that charm to negotiate warring drug barons, labyrinthine government bureaucracy and a group of massively obstructive nuns. But in the end, the place known as hell proved to be the gateway to a Garden of Eden. And Ereira didn't just find the lost city. He found a lost civilisation that changed his perception of the universe.
At an early stage in his project, Ereira heard that the Kogi tribe lived in the area of the lost city. Along with two other indigenous tribes, the Arhuaco and the Assario, the Kogi of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta are descendants of the ancient Tairona civilisation, which flourished in Colombia at the time of the Spanish invasion. They escaped destruction at that time by retreating high into the mountains.
Ereira set himself the difficult task of contacting their mamas or elders. The Kogi are elusive, and, at that time, getting to them required either a four-day hike or a helicopter ride through country controlled by guerillas. The best Ereira could do was to send them a series of messages that he hoped would get through.
A warning to the world
A year later, he received what was effectively a summons, sent by the mamas after grave deliberation. Their motivation was simple: they were afraid. The Kogi call themselves the "elder brothers" of the human race, and believe they are charged with the task of holding the health of the planet in balance. The world's general population, which the Kogi refer to as the younger brothers, are precipitating a major ecological crisis that threatens the planet's survival, evidenced by changes the Kogi have witnessed in their mountain environment. Ereira's messages had arrived just as the tribe was considering how to send a warning to the rest of the world. Now they had their answer: Ereira must make them a film.
That film, also called The Heart of The World, and made for BBC television, became a global sensation. Its final image of an impassive Kogi sealing the bridge that leads to their mountain home symbolised their uncompromising message: "The younger brother is doing too much damage. He must see, and understand, and assume responsibility. Now we will have to work together. Otherwise, the world will die."
More than 20 years later, The Heart of the World continues to be shown worldwide and its proceeds, along with those of Ereira's book, fund the Tairona Heritage Trust, founded by Ereira and others to raise money for the purchase of the mamas' ancient territories. The trust also co-operates with Gonavindua Tairona, a political organisation founded by mamas of the Sierra's three tribes to represent their interests in the face of increasing western pressures.
Message unheeded
The film's message went unheeded, however, and a few years ago, the Kogi summoned Eirera back and announced that they now understood that we're incapable of being changed by being spoken to: we learn through our eyes, not our ears. They said a new film had to be made, this time by themselves, with Eirera's production and distribution know-how, to draw its audience into their worldview and change our understanding of reality.
That film, Aluna, has been controlled by the Kogi themselves, from its conception, content and production to its final edit. (Weeks after the shoot finished, they insisted on reassembling the filming unit at the top of a mountain to shoot a differently nuanced closing sequence.) It is chilling, visually stunning, powerful in its use of metaphor, and surprisingly heartening.
Part of the film's story follows a journey made by elders of the tribe who left the mountains of Sierra Nevada in Colombia for the first time and travelled to the UK to meet oceanographers and other scientists, who have subsequently sponsored Kogi involvement in international ecological conferences.
University of Oxford professor Alex Rogers, who appears in Aluna, attended its London premiere at Raindance Film Festival in September. Like the Kogi, he's afraid. The combination of his work on human impacts on the ecology and the evolution of deep-sea ecosystems and his meetings with the mamas has convinced him that our continued interference with Earth's water systems is crucially damaging.
Prof Jonathan Baillie, a global authority on the status and trends of threatened species, agrees; his work at the Zoological Society of London validates the mamas' insistence on the interconnectedness of all life on Earth.
On Friday, the Blasket Centre in Dún Chaoin, at the end of the Dingle peninsula, will host the Irish premiere of Aluna. In one of the film's most most powerful sequences, Richard Ellis, professor of astronomy at the California Institute of Technology, shows a Kogi mama a photo of deep space. It's a huge image of thousands of white dots on a black background, seen through the Hubble Space Telescope and, so Ellis tells Ereira, invisible to the human eye. The mama considers the photo and then puts his finger on a single dot. "That one's a star," he says. That particular dot among the thousands of others is the only star in the photo: the rest are galaxies.
Hidden connections
The word "aluna" means "the mind". The Kogi say that all things have a hidden connection, deriving from their common creation, which the mamas are trained to perceive and support. They speak of "working in aluna", a process that Ereira describes as "the concentrated thought and memory which forms a bridge between the human spirit and the universe".
The Kogi believe that aluna, which contains both memory and potential, is also a metaphysical world that governs the physical world's fertility, and the mamas work to preserve that fertility, in the mind and on a more material level by, for example, performing ritual offerings at specific sites.
Many indigenous peoples worldwide share these two concepts, of an accessible spiritual dimension to the universe and of ritual payment for what is taken from the Earth. Within living memory here in Ireland, Blasket Island fishermen passing a rock that's still known as An Seanduine (The Old Man) would throw a pinch of tobacco into the ocean, to invoke protection and as thanks for their catch.
Ereira, who will be at the Dún Chaoin centre for the premiere, reckons it's the perfect venue. The people of the Gaeltacht retain a sense of communal memory and respect for oral tradition. For centuries their island and mainland communities lived with an awareness and understanding of their environment that was both practical and spiritual; and the traditions and customs of the past, though not necessarily still practised, are still passed on in a rich heritage of story, proverb and song. To Ereira, that heritage is important.
Although global distribution deals for cinema and television have been signed, the Kogi want worldwide, non-commercial screenings, initiated from within farming and fishing communities, and promoted online.
Ereira says it's also important that fishermen and farmers, young and old, will be part of the Blasket Centre's invited audience, and their voices should be listened to as carefully in the ensuing discussion as those of the environmentalists, politicians and policy-makers.
The Kogi are afraid, he repeats, but they're also hopeful. Aluna contains both memory and potential. Potentially, we could still work together and get things right.


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Chalk rivers
What is it?
Chalk rivers are a particularly lovely type of lowland river characterised by clear water and a diverse flora. All have been modified in some way, usually for milling, fishing, irrigation or watercress beds, but despite weirs, impoundments and abstraction, the best chalk rivers still support a fine aquatic flora and a diversity of invertebrates and fish: England's chalk rivers and streams are world famous for trout and salmon fishing, and the river corridor can often support a rich fen vegetation. Water-crowfoot plants can be found in rivers running over sandstones and harder rocks in other parts of the country including the uplands.
Why is it like this?
Chalk rivers emerge from the chalk aquifer, so the very pure water is rich in minerals and remains at a fairly constant temperature year-round. This lets diverse aquatic plants grow, including various species of water-crowfoot and water star-wort. The plant diversity and good water quality supports many invertebrate and fish species.
Bullhead, brook lamprey and Atlantic salmon breed in clean gravels, and some chalk rivers provide a refuge for the white-clawed crayfish, which is seriously threatened by the introduction of non-native species of crayfish and the diseases they harbour. Some headwaters include winterbournes, streams that naturally run dry by late summer when low rainfall has not recharged the aquifers.
Distribution in the UK
Only 200 chalk rivers are known globally, 85% of which are found in the UK in southern and eastern England. Classic examples include the rivers Itchen and Avon in Wessex and the river Wensum in Norfolk.
What to look for
In early summer look out for clouds of mayflies, which emerge synchronously to lay eggs, having lived for most of their life underwater as nymphs. Look out also for a range of dragonflies. Bullhead can sometimes be seen under stones (be sure to replace any moved stones). Along the course of winterbournes, look for pond water-crowfoot, with stream water-crowfoot in the middle section and river water-crowfoot in the lower reaches.
Despite their unique characteristics, chalk rivers have fared badly and many are in poor condition. Some chalk rivers run dry in the summer when too much groundwater is drawn (over-abstraction), while largely arable catchments have particular problems with nutrient enrichment. In some places, intensive fisheries management has resulted in regular weed cutting, stocking with reared fish and bank stabilisation. However, river restoration projects focusing on chalk rivers are underway, and also include restoring adjacent habitats like floodplain grazing marsh.


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The Baltimore Batman, whose antics at Camden Yards inspired our Idiot On The Field series, struck again Sunday night during the Ravens-Patriots game, evading M & T Bank Stadium security for close to a minute and racking up more fantasy points than Chris Johnson has all season.
While last week's Idiot On The Field in Jacksonville racked up big yardage by being ignored by security, you can see in the above "official" video that Baltimore Batman had his fair share of pursuers. He did this all while bearing an anti-bullying message upon his body—one that appears to have gained a few pounds since his streaking at the Orioles' Opening Day.
NBC claimed they wouldn't show the episode, but they ignore the glory of HD. Here's a zoom in with an arrow showing exactly where he went and how he avoided security:
We applaud his message and hope he's willing to enter the beltway for winter sports; we'd find a man wearing just underwear and a cape skidding across the Verizon Center ice a hoot.


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South Asasif Conservation Project Conference
October 1-4
Mummification Museum, Luxor
The main focus of the conference is current archaeology and research on tombs and temples of the Twenty-fifth – Twenty-sixth Dynasties in the Theban area. The conference is organised by the South Asasif Conservation Project team as the first event in a series of regular conferences on Egypt in the First Millennium BC. We expect it to become a place for Late Period scholars to share information on the latest archaeological discoveries and research. The amount of work done in this area is growing every year and we feel the need for a regular gathering place where scholars can bring their questions, ideas, and suggestions, which will encourage discussion. Therefore, the format of the conference combines presentations with discussion panels to give more room for communication. The conference will be accompanied by field trips to archaeological sites related to the period.
The conference is free for colleagues affiliated with Egyptian institutions and organisations and for scholars and archaeological missions by invitation.
We are asking everyone who wants to attend to register as the number of seats in the Lecture Hall of the Museum is limited.


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I recently started using
rvm for all of my projects.
rvm is designed to help ruby developers work with multiple versions of ruby on their system. I recently came up with a great way always knowing with version of ruby is in use by
rvm. But before I go into that, let's talk about some details about
Installing a few rubys
Once you get
rvm installed, you only need to run
rvm install 1.9.2. That command will download and build the latest version of ruby 1.9.2 from source. If you also work with Phusion's ruby enterprise edition, you can install it from source by running
rvm install ree.
After running those two commands, you will have three versions of ruby installed on your computer, the system version, ruby 1.9.2 and ruby enterprise edition. However, if you run
ruby --version you'll notice that the system version is the one that is getting executed. Here's what doing so looks like on my Mac running Mac OS X version 10.6.6.
cloudraker:~ mscottford$ ruby --version
ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [universal-darwin10.0]
However, if you first run
rvm use 1.9.2, the running
ruby --version should give you exactly what you expect. Try switching to ruby enterprise edition with
rvm use ree. Again, running
ruby --version should confirm that the switch took place correctly. Should you want to return to using your system's version of ruby, just execute
rvm use system.
If you ever need to check which version of
rvm is active, you can run
rvm current. This will output the name of the ruby that
rvm has setup. We'll discuss a better way to determine which ruby is active a little later. But first, let's talk about how
rvm helps us manage gems for each project.
Working with gemsets
Since just having different versions of ruby is not enough,
rvm also gives us the ability to create different sets of gems that are completely isolated from each other. By default each version of ruby that we install gets its own gemset. We also have the ability to create named gemsets.
We create gemsets with the command
rvm gemset create gemset_name. This will create a gemset for the currently selected version of ruby. One thing to keep in mind is that creating a gemset does not automatically switch you to that gemset. To do that you'll need to use the
rvm use command, for example
rvm use 1.9.2@gemset_name. If you need to figure out which gemset is active, you can run the
rvm currrent command. Once again, a better way to keep track of this is on it's way.
Here's a longer example that shows how to create and work with gemsets.
$ rvm use 1.8.6
$ rvm gemset create funkyness
'funkyness' gemset created (/Users/mscottford/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.6-p399@funkyness).
$ rvm current
$ rvm use 1.8.6@funkyness
Using /Users/mscottford/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.6-p399 with gemset funkyness
$ rvm current
$ rvm use 1.8.6
Using /Users/mscottford/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.6-p399
$ rvm current
Start using
.rvmrc, and stop thinking
To make it impossible to forget which of your projects are using which versions of ruby and even then which gemsets,
rvm will look for a
.rvmrc in each directory that you switch into with the
cd command.
Here's an example.
$ rvm current
$ cd funkyness
$ rvm current
Okay. That looks like magic. What's going on?
To answer that question, let's take a peek inside of ~/funkyness/.rvmrc.
rvm 1.8.6@funkyness --create
With that one line,
rvm will switch to ruby version 1.8.6 and gemset funkyness. It will even create it for you if it does not exist.
Since this feature could potentially be used to trick you into running malicious code on your system,
rvm asks you to trust a
.rvmrc file the first time that it reads it. You only have to do this once however.
What's this post about again?
Now that I've explained the finer points about using
rvm, I can finally start to vent a little.
I have several ruby projects that I'm working on at the moment. Some are for fun, but most are for my paying clients. I only recently started using
.rvmrc files, and I've yet to create them for all of my projects. This means that for some projects, I don't really need to think about which version of ruby is getting run, because it is the version that I've specified in the
.rvmrc file. For other projects, however, I need to remember to run
rvm use with the correct version of ruby for that project.
But I'd hate to run
rvm use if I don't need to. And running
rvm current all them time seems a little silly. The solution that I've come up with is to alter the bash prompt to always let me know the current version of ruby that is in use by rvm.
To get started I used my favorite search engine to see if someone had already tackled this problem. I found one really good example that even introduced some color, however it was also using some
git magic to include the current branch on the prompt. A few modifications later, I came up with my own version that just displays the ruby that is in use by
rvm, and it does so while looking like it was copied and pasted out of Textmate.
Here's what it looks like.
:rvm => 'system'
~ $ cd funkyness
:rvm => 'ruby-1.8.6@funkyness'
funkyness $ cd ..
:rvm => 'system'
~ $


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SAN DIEGO -- Junior Seau, who committed suicide in May, two years after retiring as one of the premier linebackers in NFL history, suffered from the type of chronic brain damage that has also been found in dozens of deceased former players, five brain specialists consulted by the National Institutes of Health concluded.
Seau's ex-wife, Gina, and his oldest son, Tyler, 23, told ABC News and ESPN in an exclusive interview they were informed last week that Seau's brain had tested positive for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a neurodegenerative disease that can lead to dementia, memory loss and depression.
"I think it's important for everyone to know that Junior did indeed suffer from CTE," Gina Seau said. "It's important that we take steps to help these players. We certainly don't want to see anything like this happen again to any of our athletes."
She said the family was told that Seau's disease resulted from "a lot of head-to-head collisions over the course of 20 years of playing in the NFL. And that it gradually, you know, developed the deterioration of his brain and his ability to think logically."
CTE is a progressive disease associated with repeated head trauma. Although long known to occur in boxers, it was not discovered in football players until 2005. Researchers at Boston University recently confirmed 50 cases of CTE in former football players, including 33 who played in the NFL.
Seau shot himself in the heart on May 2. His death stunned not only the football world but also his hometown, San Diego, where he played the first 13 years of his 20-year career. Seau led the Chargers to their first and only Super Bowl appearance and became a beloved figure in the community.
Within hours of Seau's death, Tyler Seau said he received calls from researchers hoping to secure his father's brain for study. The family ultimately chose the National Institutes of Health in Washington to oversee the research.
Gina Seau said the family chose the NIH because it was a "complete, comprehensive, unbiased scientific institution of the highest level."
In a statement, the NFL said the NIH's finding "underscores the recognized need for additional research to accelerate a fuller understanding of CTE."
The statement also said: "The NFL, both directly and in partnership with the NIH, Centers for Disease Control and other leading organizations, is committed to supporting a wide range of independent medical and scientific research that will both address CTE and promote the long-term health and safety of athletes at all levels. The NFL clubs have already committed a $30 million research grant to the NIH, and we look forward to making decisions soon with the NFL Players Association on the investment of $100 million for medical research that is committed in the collective bargaining agreement. We have work to do, and we're doing it."
The NFLPA, meanwhile, called on Congress to look into player safety in the NFL and noted that it set aside $100 million for medical research when it negotiated the latest CBA.
"The only way we can improve the safety of players, restore the confidence of our fans and secure the future of our game is to insist on the same quality of medical care, informed consent and ethical standards that we expect for ourselves and for our family members. This is why the players have asked for things like independent sideline concussion experts, the certification and credentialing of all professional football medical staff and a fairer workers compensation system in professional football," the players' union said.
"Given their keen interest in Health and Safety issues in football, we call on Congressman Cummings, Congressman Issa and the Congressional Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to review this issue as well.
"Our players deserve the best care, and we will fight to hold the NFL and the Clubs accountable for providing it."
Dr. Russell Lonser, the former chief of surgical neurology at the NIH, helped coordinate the study. In an interview, Lonser, who was recently named chairman of the department of neurological surgery at Ohio State University, said that because of the publicity surrounding the case, the study of Seau's brain was "blinded" to ensure its independence.
Three independent neuropathologists from outside the NIH were given unidentified tissue from three different brains; one belonged to Seau, another to a person who had suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and a third to a person with no history of traumatic brain injury or neurodegenerative disease.
Lonser said the three experts independently arrived at the same conclusion as two other government researchers: that Seau's brain showed definitive signs of CTE. Those signs included the presence of an abnormal protein called "tau," which forms neurofibrillary tangles, effectively strangling brain cells.
A statement released by the NIH said the tangles were found "within multiple regions of Mr. Seau's brain." In addition, the statement said, a small region of the left frontal lobe showed "evidence of scarring that is consistent with a small, old traumatic brain injury."
Lonser declined to name the neuropathologists who examined Seau's brain.
In addition to his previous role at NIH and now at Ohio State, Lonser serves as chairman of the NFL's research subcommittee, part of the league's Head, Neck & Spine Committee, which helps set policy related to concussions. Lonser said the league "was not involved in anything regarding how this brain was handled or managed at any step of the process, to be absolutely crystal clear about that."
"The NFL had no influence whatsoever," he said.
The study of CTE and football is still in its infancy. The prevalence of the disease has not been established. It cannot be diagnosed in living people, only by examining brains that are removed during autopsy.
More than 4,000 former players are suing the NFL in the federal court, alleging the league ignored and denied the link between football and brain damage, even after CTE was discovered in former players. The Seau family said it has not yet decided whether to join the lawsuits.
Over the past five years, under pressure from Congress, dissenting researchers and, more recently, the lawsuits, the NFL disbanded a controversial committee on concussions that was established in 1994 under former commissioner Paul Tagliabue. The league made several rule changes and overhauled its policies to focus on head trauma and long-term cognitive problems.
Asked if she believed the NFL was slow to address the issue, Gina Seau said, "Too slow for us, yeah."
Tyler, whose mother was Junior Seau's high school sweetheart, and Gina both described drastic changes they noticed in Seau during the final years of his life, including mood swings, depression, forgetfulness, insomnia and detachment.
"He would sometimes lose his temper," Tyler said. "He would get irritable over very small things. And he would take it out on not just myself but also other people that he was close to. And I didn't understand why."
Seau, who also played for Miami and New England, was never listed by his teams as having had a concussion.
Gina was married to Seau for 11 years and had three children with him. They divorced in 2002, but she said they remained close friends until his death. Seau sent a group text to his four children and Gina the night before he took his life.
"I love you," he wrote.
"The difference with Junior ... from an emotional standpoint [was] how detached he became emotionally," Gina said. "It was so obvious to me because early, many, many years ago, he used to be such a phenomenal communicator. If there was a problem in any relationship, whether it was between us or a relationship with one of his coaches or teammates or somewhere in the business world, he would sit down and talk about it."
Gina recalled that Seau frequently said, "Let's sit down and break bread and figure this out." She added, "He didn't run from conflict."
Tyler, Gina and her two oldest children, 19-year-old Sydney and 17-year-old Jake, all said they found some solace in the CTE diagnosis because it helped explain some of Seau's uncharacteristic behavior.
Still, it also left them conflicted that a sport so much a part of their lives had altered him so terribly.
"It definitely hurts a little bit because football was part of our lives, our childhood, for such a long time," said Sydney, a freshman at USC. "And to hear that his passion for the sport inflicted and impacted our lives, it does hurt. And I wish it didn't, because we loved it just as much as he did. And to see that this was the final outcome is really bittersweet and really sad."
Jake, a high school junior who quit football to focus on lacrosse, added: "He lived for those games, Sunday and Monday nights, you know? And to find out that that's possibly what could've killed him or caused his death is really hard."
Tyler said he was holding tightly to his memories of getting up at 5 in the morning to lift weights with his father before heading to the beach for a workout and surfing. And while the diagnosis helps, he said, it can't compensate for his loss.
"I guess it makes it more real," he said. "It makes me realize that he wasn't invincible, because I always thought of him as being that guy. Like a lot of sons do when they look up to their dad. You know? You try to be like that man in your life. You try to mimic the things that he does. Play the game the way he did. Work the way he did. And, you know, now you look at it in a little bit different view."
Tyler added: "Is it worth it? I'm not sure. But it's not worth it for me to not have a dad. So to me, it's not worth it."
Jim Avila is a senior national correspondent for ABC News. He can be followed @JimAvilaABC.


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Cattle Colonialism, John Ryan Fischer, University of North Carolina Press, Oct. 2015. Amazon.com
Coriolano Cippico: The Deeds of Commander Pitero Mocenigo,
Kiril Petkov, ed. and trans., New York: Italica Press, 2104.
The Anxieties of a Citizen Class: The Miracles of the True Cross of San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice 1370-1480
, Kiril Petkov, Brill Academic, January 31, 2014.
Church and State: Studies in Medieval Bulgaria and Byzantium, Kiril Petkov and Vassil Gjuzelev, eds., Sofia: American Research Center in Sofia, Nov. 2011.
Philippe de Mézières and His Age: Piety and Politics in the Fourteenth Century
Kiril Petkov and Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, eds., Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, Nov. 2011.
Crusade Against Slavery: Edward Coles, Pioneer of Freedom, Kurt Leichtle and Bruce Carveth, Southern Illinois University Press, May 2011. Paperback available at Amazon.com
Norwegian American Women: Migration, Communities, and Identities
Betty A. Bergland and Lori Ann Lahlum, eds., Minnesota Historical Society Press, May 2011. This collection of essays explores the vital role of women in the creation of Norwegian American communities - from farm to factory and as caregivers, educators, and writers. Also available in paperback and Kindle format from
Absence/presence: Essays and Reflections on the Artistic Memory of the Holocaust by Stephen Feinstein, Syracuse University Press, 2005.
The Limits of Secret Police Power, by Edward N. Peterson, Peter Lang Publishers, 2004.
The Kiss of Peace: Ritual, Self, and Society in the High and Late Medieval West (Cultures, Beliefs and Traditions Medieval and Early Modern Peoples), by Kiril Petkov, Brill Academic Publishers, 2003.
The Secret Police and the Revolution, by
Edward N. Peterson, Praeger Publishers, 2001.
Russian Commands and German Resistance (Studies in Modern European History), by Edward N. Peterson, Peter Lang Publishers, 1999.
Infidels, Turks, and Women: The South Slavs in the German Mind, Ca. 1400-1600, by Kiril Petkov, Peter Lang Publishing, 1997.


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Summer holiday is finally here!
The weather is gorgeous and we are loving the sunshine. It is the first time that I'm home during the summer holidays, usually I am at work. This year, I am looking forward to spending time with little man, we started making the most of the summer by making Rainbow Ice Lollies.
Little man even made a video to show you how to make multi-coloured ice lollies using smoothie with 100% fruit and no added sugar. The top layer is made of strawberry and raspberry smoothie, while the bottom layer has banana smoothie with blueberries.
We made the ice lollies using the lollies mould sent to us by Stress Free Print, as part of a Kids Activities Bundle for a #StressFreeHoliday.
The kit has essential items to make sure you have an enjoyable summer holidays, including "365 things to make and do" book, ice lolly maker, quirky veg growing kit, a waterproof disposable camera and a family scrap book to collect and show all your holiday fun.
Our next activity would be growing vegetables, but in the meanwhile, you can also enter to win the same Kids Holiday Activities Bundle. I would love to find out your best tips to make the most of the holidays, so please let me know in the comments.
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