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Tim Ikeda wrote:
>>>And I'm happy to work under such a definition. I just think it's important to note that if one defines "sin" in such a manner (i.e. divine fiat) there is little reason to diminish the evidence that other species may exhibit capabilities and behaviors somewhat similar to our own (e.g. planning, social calculation & etc.)... That an animal cannot "sin" doesn't mean that it cannot think ahead, feel distressed or happy, or try to calculate its optimal place within a social group. And just because we aren't necessarily "special" or unique within the animal kingdom in ways we once thought doesn't necessarily have any bearing on supernatural moral contracts. <<<
I think that this is where Eccl. 3:18-21 ties in. From a physical, "under the sun" viewpoint, it is hard to find an absolute difference between us and animals, although the lack of difference has sometimes been exaggerated. However, special revelation indicates that we have unique status and responsibilities. The adult male DeBrazzas has a white mustache and goatee, making it particularly easy to anthropomorphize him as a dapper little old man, but the differences go well beyond having a tail.
One particular aspect of our ability to sin that is rare or lacking in animals is the ability to recognize another individual as equally sentient. In my example, could the young monkey realize that yanking on his father's tail would cause pain, or did he lack the capacity to know that his actions would entail any consequences beyond an entertaining response? Study on baboons in southern Africa, summarized in a recent Smithsonian article, suggests that they lack this capacity. One example given was the case of swimming mother baboons. The baby normally clings to its mother's chest and will drown if she swims too long. She is apparently oblivious to the fact that it needs to breathe, just like her. Similarly, lost individuals are not helped by other members of the troop. They give a distress call, but there is no response. Instead, the distress calls function to help locate the troop because individuals are wandering all the time. Thus, if an individual that has wande!
red off to the north hears a call for help, it is probably south of him, and heading in that direction will bring it back towards the main troop.
However, we can also sin unwittingly, so this is not all of the story. The divine mandate is the most important part of it.
The popular YEC argument that animal death could not occur before the fall of humans would suggest that carnivores sin when they attack their prey. Perhaps a dispensationalist could argue for preflood and postflood regulations differing, but to me it seems inconsistent with the constancy of God.
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - The Empire State manufacturing survey retreated to 14.7 in August after hitting a four-year high of 25.6 in July, the New York Fed said Friday. Economists polled by MarketWatch had expected a 20.0 reading, in the gauge where readings above zero indicate improving conditions. The new-orders index fell to 14.1 from 18.8 while shipments moved higher to 24.5 from 23.6. Both the indexes for prices paid and prices received rose in August. The index for future conditions climbed 18 points to 46.8, the highest level in two-and-a-half years. The Empire State is the first of the regional manufacturing surveys to be released.
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Ideally, the packages in Community should be the stable 1.7.x releases, which is what e17 is being developed against. I made up a bunch of pkgbuilds for the stable releases and e17 alpha, but it won't let me put them in the AUR. Maybe I should just send them to the maintainer?
For now, just use this pkgbuild from the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/efl-svn/ It builds the new single-tree EFL including Eina.]]>
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The old seperate eina is here: http://svn.enlightenment.org/svn/e/trunk/IN-EFL/eina]]>
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it seems to me like they moved their svn to other adress.
Maybe I do something wrong so if someone can confirm me this bug.
I want to ask what with this. I'm new to this so I dunno if create bug or what.
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Creamy Slow Cooked Chicken – A delicious recipe for the slow cooker
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Chicken and Gnocchi Soup – Slow cooker recipe for chicken and gnocchi soup
Fall Chicken Chili
Tomato base chili with chicken and white beans that is sure to warm you up!!
Wondering what to do with that leftover turkey? We thought it would be yummy to put together a turkey soup instead of eating leftovers for days! With small kiddos, we like to see what recipes we can fix up without having to make a trip to the grocery store... Here is a soup recipe that we just put together from ingredients that were stocked in our pantry! If you don't have any leftover turkey, this would still be delicious if you use chicken or other leftover meats! Change up your leftover routine and crock this soup that we came up with by throwing together ingredients we had on hand!
Used 6-quart slow cooker
- 3-4 Cups Leftover Turkey, chopped
- 20 Ounces Chicken Broth
- 1 Can Black Beans, drained
- 1 Can Whole Kernel Corn
- 1 Can Rotel
- 1 Can Diced Tomatoes
- 1 Can Small Can of Green Chilis
- 1 Can Tomato Paste
- 1 Can Cream of Mushroom or Chicken Soup
- 4 Ounces Queso Blanco Velveeta Cheese
- Pepper
- Ground Cumin
- Garlic Powder
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Mix all in the slow cooker and cook on high for 3 hours or low for 6 hours!
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Since all ingredients are cooked and just needed to be warmed through, we really think this dish cooked better on high for 3 hours
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The principal of Pan-American International High School, based in Elmhurst New York, is under fire for accusations that she called African-American teachers "gorillas" with "big lips" and "nappy hair." Minerva Zanca's racist slurs have incited a protest at the N.Y.C. Department of Education on Monday where teachers and activists demanded an investigation into her offensive language and alleged racially-motivated firings.
An affidavit was filed by Pan-American International High School's assistant principal, Anthony Riccardo, against Zanca. He's alleging that Zanca made racist comments against black employees and even attempted to fire him for filing the affidavit. He alleges Zanca said one teacher "looked like a gorilla in a sweater" and called another's hair "nappy," adding "I could never have hair like that."
Zanca's antics also extend to the firing of African-American teachers. She allegedly gave two African-American teachers, John Flanagan and Heather Hightower, poor performance ratings. Flanagan was shocked by the negative assessment, telling CBS New York: "For the past four years, I've gotten satisfactory ratings from the founding principal, and when she resigned, Minerva Zanca came on board, and basically targeted me from the very beginning and removed me from the school."
Riccardo cites Flanagan in his affidavit, saying Principal Zanca mentioned Flanagan's "big lips quivering" after a joint meeting. Both Flanagan and Hightower have filed a complaint with the DOE's Office of Equal Opportunity.
There is also a petition on Change.org, with almost 1,250 signatures, demanding that Zanca is removed from her post as principal of the school. View it here.


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The role of diet and exercise and of glucosamine sulfate in the prevention of knee osteoarthritis: Further results from the PRevention of knee Osteoarthritis in Overweight Females (PROOF) study.
; DEROISY, Rita ; et al
in Seminars in Arthritis & Rheumatism (2016), 45(4 Suppl), 42-48
Background and objectives: The PRevention of knee Osteoarthritis in Overweight Females(PROOF) study (ISRCTN42823086) described a trend for a decrease in the incidence of kneeo steoarthritis (OA) by a ... [more ▼]
Background and objectives: The PRevention of knee Osteoarthritis in Overweight Females(PROOF) study (ISRCTN42823086) described a trend for a decrease in the incidence of kneeo steoarthritis (OA) by a tailored diet and exercise program (DEP)or by oral glucosamine sulfate in women at risk for the disease, using a composite clinical and/or radiological outcome. The aim of this updated post-hoc analysis was to re-assess the results according to more precise techniques and take advantage of the 2 x 2 factorial design. Methods: A total of 407 overweight( BMI > or egal 27kg/m2) women of 50–60 years of age with no diagnosis of knee OA were randomized to: (1) noDEP + placebo(Control, N = 102), (2) DEP + placebo (DEP, N = 101), (3) glucosamine sulfate + no DEP (GS, N = 102), and (4) DEP + glucosamine sulfate (DEP + GS, N = 102) and followed for 2.5 years, with standardized postero-anterior, semiflexed (MTP) view knee radiographs at baseline and end of the study. DEP consisted of a tailored low fat and/or low caloric diet and easy to implement physical activities. Glucosamine was given as oral crystalline glucosamine sulfate 1500 mg once daily ,double-blinded vs. placebo. Incident knee OA was defined as radiographic progression of >1mm minimum joint space narrowing (mJSN)in the medial tibiofemoral compartment, as previously assessed by the visual (manual) technique and by a new semi-automated method. Logistic regression analysis was used t ocalculate the odds ratio for the effect of the interventions. Results: After 2.5 years, 11.8% of control subjects developed knee OA. This incidence was decreased with glucosamine sulfate, either alone or in combination with the DEP, but not by the DEP alone. Since there was no statistical interaction between treatments, the 2x2 factorial design allowed analysis of patients receiving glucosamine sulfate (N = 204) vs. those not receiving it (N= 203), similarly for those on the DEP (N = 203) or not (N = 204). Glucosamine sulfate significantly decreased the risk of developing knee OA: odds ratio (OR) = 0.41(95% CI: 0.20–0.85, P = 0.02) by the manual JSN assessment method and OR = 0.42 (95% CI:0.20–0.92, P =0.03) by the semi-automated technique. Conversely, there was no decrease in risk with the DEP. Conclusions: Glucosamine sulfate decreased the risk of developing radiographic knee OA over 2.5 years in overweight, middle-aged women at risk, as determined by medial mJSN progression. Conversely a tailored diet and exercise program exerted no preventive effect, possibly because of the lower than expected effect on weigh tloss. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 49 (9 ULiège)
Assessment of joint space narrowing with conventional standing antero-posterior radiographs: relief in mild-to-moderate pain is not a confounder in recent osteoarthritis structure-modifying drug trials
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in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage (2006), 14(Suppl. A), 14-18
Objective: Knee pain relief has been suggested to potentially alter radioanatomic positioning in conventional standing antero-posterior knee radiographs. This study was performed to determine whether this ... [more ▼]
Objective: Knee pain relief has been suggested to potentially alter radioanatomic positioning in conventional standing antero-posterior knee radiographs. This study was performed to determine whether this is always the case and in particular if it applied to two recent randomised, placebo-controlled trials showing both symptom- and structure-modification with glucosamine sulfate in knee osteoarthritis. Design: Patients in the two studies were selected if they completed the 3-year evaluations and, irrespectively of treatment, (1) were pain-improvers in that they underwent Western Ontario and McMaster Universities (WOMAC) osteoarthritis index (WOMAC) pain decrease at least equal to the mean improvement observed with glucosamine sulfate, or (2) if their baseline standing knee pain (item #5 of the WOMAC pain scale) was "severe" or "extreme" and improved by any degree at the end of the trials. Changes in minimum joint space width were then compared between treatments. Results: Knee pain was of mild-to-moderate severity in the two original studies and in all patient subsets identified here. Obviously, there were more pain-improvers in the glucosamine sulfate than in the placebo subsets (N 76 vs 57 in pooling the two studies), but WOMAC pain scores improved to the same extent (over 50% relative to baseline). Notwithstanding such a major pain relief, patients in the placebo subsets of both studies suffered a definite mean (SE) joint space narrowing, that was of -0.22 (0.15) mm in the pooled analysis, and that was not observed with glucosamine sulfate: +0.15 (0.07) mm; P= 0.003. Similar evidence was found in the smaller subsets with at least severe baseline standing knee pain improving after 3 years. Conclusions: Knee pain relief did not bias the report of a structure-modifying effect of glucosamine sulfate in two recent long-term trials, possibly due to the mild-to-moderate patient characteristics. Consensus deliverables should acknowledge that the potential limitations of conventional standing antero-posterior radiographs should not be overestimated since they may not apply to all patient populations and to all studies using this gold standard technique. (C) 2006 OsteoArthritis Research Society International. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 14 (3 ULiège)
Clinical relevance of pain and function outcomes in glucosamine sulfate long-term trials
; Bruyère, Olivier ; et al
in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage (2005), 13(A), 69Detailed reference viewed: 10 (4 ULiège)
Responders to glucosamine sulfate in knee osteoarthritis
Bruyère, Olivier ; ; et al
in Osteoporosis International (2004), 12(SB), 76Detailed reference viewed: 9 (2 ULiège)
Pain relief is not a confounder in joint space narrowing assessment of full extension knee radiographs
; ; et al
in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage (2002), 10(SA), 16-17Detailed reference viewed: 15 (5 ULiège)
Long-term disease modifying effect by glucosamine sulfate in knee osteoarthritis : relationship between structure and symptom changes
Reginster, Jean-Yves ; DEROISY, Rita ; et al
in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases (2000), 59(S1), 55Detailed reference viewed: 33 (2 ULiège)
Glucosamine sulfate significantly reduces progression of knee osteoarthritis over 3 years : a large randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, prospective trial
Reginster, Jean-Yves ; DEROISY, Rita ; et al
in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage (2000), 8Detailed reference viewed: 33 (2 ULiège)
Glucosamine sulfate significantly reduces progression of the knee osteoarthritis over 3 years : a large randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind, prospective trial
Reginster, Jean-Yves ; DEROISY, Rita ; et al
in Arthritis and Rheumatism (1999), 42(S1), 400Detailed reference viewed: 17 (2 ULiège)
Sodium monofluorophosphate reduces vertebral fractures in moderate postmenopausal osteoporosis
Reginster, Jean-Yves ; ; Zegels, Brigitte et al
in Journal of Bone and Mineral Research (1997), 12(S1), 104Detailed reference viewed: 28 (2 ULiège)
Sodium monofluorophosphate reduces fracture incidence in women with postmenopausal osteoporosis : a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind study
; Zegels, Brigitte ; et al
in Revue du Rhumatisme (English ed.) (1996), 63Detailed reference viewed: 5 (1 ULiège)
Réduction de l'incidence fracturaire vertébrale chez des femmes ostéoporotiques traitées par monofluorophosphate de sodium : une étude randomisée, placebo-controllée et double aveugle
; Zegels, Brigitte ; et al
in Revue du Rhumatisme (1996), 63Detailed reference viewed: 14 (2 ULiège)
Monofluorophosphate decreases vertebral fracture rate in postmenopausal osteoporosis: a randomised, placebo-controlled, double blind study
Reginster, Jean-Yves ; Zegels, Brigitte ; et al
in Osteoporosis International (1996), 6(S1), 239Detailed reference viewed: 11 (1 ULiège)
Efficacy and safety of monofluorophosphate and calcium in postmenopausal osteoporosis
Reginster, Jean-Yves ; Zegels, Brigitte ; et al
in Revista Espanola de Reumatologia : Organo Oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Reumatologia (1993), 20(S1), 186Detailed reference viewed: 16 (1 ULiège)


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Maxis has revealed its bundling plan for the Nokia Lumia 900. Retailing at RM1,799, the Nokia Lumia 900 can be yours from as low as RM959 with 24 months contract of Maxis 6GB data bolt-on plan on top of any postpaid plan from Value First (RM30/month) and above. There are other contract options available with 12, 18 and 24 months duration on 1GB and 3GB data bolt-on plans.
As an early promo, they are also giving out a Nokia Universal Portable USB Charger worth RM109 together with the Nokia Lumia 900. To recap on the specs, the Lumia 900 is the bigger sibling of the Lumia 800 with a bigger 4.3″ AMOLED Clear Black Display, comes with a front facing camera and a larger 1,830mAh battery. It still retains the same single core 1.4GHz processor, 512MB of RAM and 8MP rear camera.
For more information, head over to Maxis Nokia Lumia page.
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After the Nokia Lumia 610, the next device we've been waiting for is the bigger Lumia 900. While Nokia has yet to reveal any specific dates on its availability, the device has already being spotted at several Nokia Stores in Malaysia but with the label "Coming Soon". According to a tipster at Amanz, there's a working unit displayed at Nokia Store Bukit Tinggi in Klang.
With the Nokia Lumia 800 being priced at RM1,499 right now, we are expecting the Lumia 900 to be priced
below around the RM2,000 RM1,800 mark. In terms of specs, both are powered by 1.4GHz processor, 512MB RAM with 8MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics. What sets them apart is the screen size (4.3″ vs 3.7″), a front facing 1.3MP camera on the Lumia 900 and a larger 1,830mAh battery. For more information on the device, head over to Nokia Lumia 900 page.
The Nokia Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 will be launched here in Malaysia in a few days but if this photo – accidentally mistaken for a Lumia 800 by Nokia themselves — is anything to go by, then we can expect at least one more Lumia making its debut here.
Earlier thought to be a US-only version, what we see here is very possibly a GSM version of the Lumia 900. What's the difference between the device you see here and the recently announced white Lumia 800 we mentioned earlier? The biggest difference between the Lumia 800 and 900 is of course the screen size but that's not clearly obvious in pictures, what is evident is the difference in the placement of the micros USB slot. On the Lumia 800, the micro USB slot is located underneath the micro SIM tray cover
at the bottom of the device but on the Lumia 900, the slot is located exposed at the top, as you can see in the picture above (thanks for correcting us on this in the comments joevo2).
We've established that this is a Lumia 900, but what makes this a GSM version? For one, the obvious omission of the logo of US carrier AT&T is a tell-tale sign. Currently the Lumia 900 is only sold in the US by AT&T, so what's with this official looking press picture not having an AT&T logo? That points to the device being available for other operators, very likely on GSM networks as well.
The Lumia 900 brings a larger 4.3-inch AMOLED ClearBlack display versus the smaller 3.7-inch AMOLED CBD display on the Lumia 800 but with identical screen resolution at 800×480 pixels. Also, you get a 1.3MP front camera and because the Lumia 900 is running LTE in the US and have a bigger screen, the device also gets a bigger 1,830mAh battery compared to the 1,450mAh in the Lumia 800.
Those are the features that separate Lumia 800 with the Lumia 900. The 1.4 GHz processor, eight-megapixel rear camera with Carl Zeiss optics and dual LED flash, 16 GB internal memory and 512 MB RAM are identical on both devices. We're hoping the larger battery stays in the GSM Lumia 900 as well.
So can we expect the Lumia 900 to come to Malaysia? It's very possible but without an official word form Nokia, don't expect this phone to be here anytime soon. Although we do expect to see the GSM Lumia 900 making its debut at Mobile World Congress at the end of this month.


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The Arizona Department of Corrections is searching for a consultant to look at alternative methods of execution and other lethal injection drugs, according to documents detailing work to be done in reviewing the execution of Joseph Wood.Read More »
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Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin endorsed Doug Ducey in the crowded GOP primary for governor, making her the most recent in a string of high-profile national Republicans to back the treasurer in the six-way race.Read More »
Moderate Republicans met with Brewer to urge endorsement of Scott Smith
Gov. Jan Brewer will give her coveted endorsement to Scott Smith in the crowded GOP primary for governor at an event in Mesa on Thursday, according to a source familiar with the event.Read More »
Arizona posted nation's lowest rate of improper unemployment payments
Arizona had the lowest rate of improper unemployment insurance payments in the nation last year, a ranking that one official said reflects the benefits of new initiatives introduced in the last two years.Read More »
Crandell's death opens door to independent win
The death of Republican state Sen. Chester Crandell has boosted the chances for an independent to be elected to the Legislature for the first time in recent memory. Crandell was unopposed in the GOP primary and was set to take on independent Tom O'Halleran in the November general election.Read More »
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The political world was shocked late yesterday afternoon when news filtered out of Eastern Arizona that Crandell had died earlier in the day, apparently after he fell off a young colt he was riding at his family's ranch.Read More »
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The U.S. Supreme Court could announce at its first public session of the year in October whether state lawmakers will get to redraw Arizona's congressional lines.Read More »
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A Peoria City Council candidate who was left off the primary ballot sent to early voters twice filed suit Aug. 7 in federal court to ask for a special election in November, hours before the City Council voted on a way to fix the problem.Read More »
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Candidate Ken Krieger said he has spent $7,000, knocked on thousands of doors, made thousands of personal phone calls to voters and even won a legal challenge to stay in the race for the Peoria City Council.Read More »


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You can never, ever go wrong with classic. A traditional white, black and navy color palette always looks good on a wedding. It's like that little black dress you've got in your closet. It's always there for you - looking fabulous - and it will always be in style. Which is why I absolutely, positively love this Oregon wedding, sent our way by the lovelies at Altura Studio. It's totally one of those weddings that will always look polished and chic, will withstand the test of time, but was so stunning, and in the moment, I can hardly bear it. Seriously, swooning for days over here. Click here to see the full image gallery!
We both really love classical things and The Governor Hotel was one of the most classic venues we had ever seen. The ballroom was gorgeous and it fit our large guest list! It was built in 1909 and has so much beautiful history. It had that great feel of old time 1920's which is what we really wanted. The wedding ceremony was at St. Patrick's Historic Catholic Church. It was a perfect fit for the reception venue with its traditional look and large amount of history. It was the church where my Great Grandmother attended as a child so it has an extra amount of family history for us.
I knew that I really wanted the bridesmaids in long black dresses and carry all white flowers. The rest just really fell into place. I love black and white and as I picked everything it just happened naturally. I wanted the ballroom and its beautiful columns to be the design focus for the reception. We up-lit the columns and really played on the light. I knew that the tables themselves could not compete with the extremely high ceiling so I let the table scapes add to the light. We had 15 votives on each table and on half we had tall crystal candelabras to help reflect the candle light, the other half of the tables had very large, low all white arrangements with a tall taper. I wanted everything light by the beautiful candle lit, there is something about it that is so romantic.
We had a table that was very special to us. When guests arrived there was a table that had pictures of our relatives at their weddings. It went back from parents, grandparents, great- grandparents and so on. It was a beautiful table of memories that really demonstrated the joining of not only us but our families as well.
Our flowers were so special to us because my mother and aunt did them all. My mother did every table and all of the place cards as well as the ceremony flowers! She did such a beautiful job and it made it that much more beautiful that she did them for us. The bouquets my aunt did were something I really loved and was so happy with.
We both were so happy the entire day it feels like a dream! Our favorite moment was being announced as we walked into a room full of all of our family and friends all smiling and happy.
Photography: Altura Studio / Ceremony Venue: St. Patrick's Cathedral / Reception Venue: The Heritage Room at The Governor Hotel / Videographer: Lorraine Hellman / Floral Designer: Mother & Aunt of the Bride / Event Planning & Design: Events of a Lifetime / Invitation Designer: Carlson Craft / Cake: Gus, Lambs Bakery / Wedding Gown Designer: Custom, Anna's Bridal / Bridesmaid's Dress Designer: Jasmine B2


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text: I'm in Minnesota, and after spending days and days in sub-zero temps, it's suddenly gotten into the upper 20's and 30's, and it feels so springy. :lol Which I'm sure is a load of crap to those of you in the 60's-70's, but here it feels warm. :lol Heck...haven't even flipped on my fireplace for days, and I've put the heat in the car on "low". :lol *singing* "It's like a heat wave!!"


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Appliance Repair Questions? Ask a Technician for Answers ASAP
Hi George
Welcome to just answer
How old is it ?
Approx 18mth/2yrs
Have you also tried to pull it out and then lay it on its back by around 45 degrees so that if still there is any water in there it drains out...after reading your questions the problem is more likely with the float
Yes I've had the machine out and had the base off. I checked the float, which moved freely and I could hear the switch clicking on/off. Do you think I need a new float switch or would disconnecting the plug to it prove it was faulty?
Yes you can try that as well
Thanks. I'll give it a go.
sure, it that does not help then test the heater assembly with a multi meter
let me know how it goes
If you have further questions I will be pleased to assist you – please use the REPLY link for further assistance..Please remember to RATE my answer Excellent or Good Service when you are satisfied....Thanks
I've checked the float switch and it is working (I looped out the plug to rule out the switch). Checked heater and gave 30ohms, so presume ok.
Also meant to say I have checked resisatnce across the recirc pump and it was ok (approx 80ohms) and the capicitor checks our ok.
I've tried the machine again and the sequence is as follows, 1) drain pump cycle starts, 2) starts to fill with water, 3) then it sits and does nothing (no noise, such as the pump trying to start - nothing). Only light on is the orange "wash" light, 4) some time later the drain pump starts again. It seems as though the circ pump is not actually being told to start. Are there any sensors that need checked that could be preventing the wash sequence to start?
Sorted it! I checked the water feed flow meter and found the plug onto the switch poc
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I checked the water feed flow meter and found the plug connected to the switch pcb must have been making a poor connection. Now that it detects water flow, the dishwasher now works through the wash cycle correctly.
I don't feel the checking of the flow switch and heater were reasons for the fault I was experiencing. Flow switch problems seem to result in the emptying pump running all the time (I found that out when I shorted out the flow switch), which wasn't what I was experiencing and also not sure how a heater fault would explain the fault either. I feel I would have found my fault via a process of ellimination anyway. I am happy to offer some payment, but I don't feel the advise I got was worth £28.
Thank You for rating this as Poor Service even when I tried to help you...before I could have even responded you already assumed that I don't know anything about these units...glad that it is now solved for you however, if you are looking for a refund please contact customer service..Thanks again for your prompt review


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Not only does this Palm Springs wedding bring glamour, chic style and dramatic flair to the table but some of the most heart string-pulling, joyful, sweetest moments ever. You can't really go wrong with a venue like Parker Palm Springs and Ray Soemarsono of Apertura behind the lens but magic happens when you add one smoking bride in the most gorgeous black net veil, a sexy, modern color palette of reds and fuchsias, and killer modern details! See them all in the full gallery!
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From the Bride & Groom... Ben produces hip hop-electronic music under the name Deru. Lara was a fan of Ben's music. She went to her first live Deru show in San Francisco in September 2007. After the show, Lara had a two-hour conversation with Ben about life, music and DJ-ing (Lara was also a DJ at the time). She had a boyfriend at the time, and Ben lived in Los Angeles, so nothing evolved out of their meeting. Almost a year later, after Lara had moved to Los Angeles for school, Ben was scheduled to perform at UCLA inside a Richard Serra sculpture. Lara showed up to his show, and Ben realized he knew her from somewhere. And the rest is history... We dated for a year and a half before we got engaged. We got married a couple months before our three-year dating anniversary. Our wedding was packed with emotion. It was a bittersweet time for the both of us and for many of our guests. Lara's aunt Elinor, who raised her through adulthood, passed away in February from cancer, and Ben's father, Peter, had terminal cancer at the time and was too frail to come to the wedding. A photograph of Elinor was placed in the seat she would have sat in, and Lara attached a framed photograph of Elinor to the bow of her dress sash so that Elinor could be with her all all times. Peter watched the ceremony on his computer via iChat from his home in Los Angeles. We released 80 monarch butterflies, which are thought to symbolize the soul, at the end of the ceremony as a tribute to them.
The color scheme for our florals and the bridesmaids dresses were based on a Giorgio Armani ad from the fall of 2010. Our event designer, Gilly Flowers, came up with the idea to have a stainless steel frame behind us at the ceremony site with glass bulbs holding multi-colored flowers and hanging from the frame. He also came up with the idea of having another stainless steel frame in the banquet hall foyer to hold our guest's place cards. He used black ribbon of various widths to attach and tie each place card to the frame. He hit our style on the head! The design inspiration for the cake was from Lara's Vera Wang dress. The ivory buttercream frosting symbolized the dress and the black strips of fondant represented the black sash of the dress. The ceremony programs, the signs (placed in various spots throughout the venue, i.e. next to the sparklers, the guest book, the place card frame), the black, white and red fans at the ceremony site, the candy station (bags + signs), and the logo for the photo booth also took on a similar color scheme. The white color of Lara's dress, the black color of her sash and the red color of her lipstick were displayed in these various ways throughout the wedding.
Ben asked several of his close friends who are well-known electronic music producers — edIT, Boreta and Ooah of the Glitch Mob, Kraddy (ex-member of the Glitch Mob) and Free the Robots — to DJ the wedding. Ben also DJed an impromptu vinyl set as a wedding present for Lara. She had never seen him DJ vinyl before. The DJs used Serato or vinyl for their sets. Ben composed the music for the wedding procession and named the piece "Lara." He didn't know how long each of the sections were going to take (i.e. main procession, transition, bride, etc.), so he made each section loop-able and had a friend trigger it in Ableton Live.
Wedding Photography: Ray Soemarsono of Apertura / Wedding Venue: Parker Palm Springs in Palm Springs, California / Floral + Event Design: Gilly Flowers & Events / Event Coordination: Nancy Williams of Fancy by Nancy / Wedding Dress: Vera Wang "Diana" / Shoes: Prada / Groom's Tuxedo: Paul Smith / DJs: Deru (The Groom), edIT, Boreta & Ooah of The Glitch Mob, Kraddy + Free the Robots


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Single double or twin ropes - the Bug belay device can handle them all. The massively radiused edges are easy on your ropes whilst the ribbed profile improves grip and dissipates heat.
General comments: The DMM bug is a good all round device. It works well and has a reasonable level of friction. It does not jam easily, even after catching a fall, or when used on narrow end of HMS. It does not grab the rope while letting out or taking in when you don't want it too. I have owned one for many years, as well as using many other devices. It is my favourite device. It has stood the wear well, with a little scratching and some noticeable wear where the rope runs over the edges.
Rope size does have to be reasonably accurate. Smaller ropes (thin twins or doubles) are a bit sloppy, while the larger ropes (abseil in particular) can be hard, or even impossible to get in, due to the rather square shape. Some other devices do not suffer from this as badly as they have a more tapered shape. The DMM now does a smaller size for thin ropes, but there is still not one for big fat ropes.
In all a good device that does not suffer from grabbing, jamming or excessive wear with nice level of friction for all situations. As it should it has worked faultlessly in every situation.
Pros: No Grabbing.
No Jamming.
Durable.Cons: None.
General comments: Trust me when I tell you kids that you have it easy, back in my day a belay plate consisted of the lid from a tin of baked beans with raggedy holes punched in it. Control was non-existent and heat dissipation was a concept for philosophy and deemed beyond the realms of possibility.
Fast forward ten years and now look at what you have, a sculpted work of art with a flawless anodised coating, plastic coated wire retainer and a fiendishly designed shape that is curvaceous yet grips the rope with the bite of a bulldog.
This really is an amazing piece of kit, I gave mine a good test at the climbing wall and was delighted at how easy it is to work, feeding the rope through is a breeze, the Bug happily plays out the rope. As soon as it is put into play the Bug snaps down tight against the krab and holds the rope nice and tight. Extended lowering doesn't seem to cause an issue with heat build up or cause any wear to the anodised coating. Loving it.
I used to abseil with a figure-8 as belay devices of old gave little control, the Bug is in a different league and is happy to be uilised for abseiling, perfect for a bit of route pre-inspection or some gardening.
I have yet to see how the Bug performs coping with leader falls (think big muscly dude falling on sawed off RP's and unstripping gear like the zip of a brides dress coming down) but I am positive it will give limited slip to take the strain of the fall of the precious protection.
The Bug seems to the be the industry standard and there is nothing more you could ask for, flawlessly designed and built and easy enough for a monkey to use. Pros: As aboveCons: None so far
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Unusually, for Oxfraud, the Hand D comments pages are closed. We have decided to gather the comments for the series of articles here, on a single page, where they will be easier to find.
Comments (4)
And I'll go first. What do we think of the new Featured Article format?
Response to Round 1 - scorn on ShakesVere.
Whilst it is enjoyable sitting here watching Oxfordians diving into a swimming pool with no water, especially when JDL goes off the high board, it may eventually attract the attention of the Emergency Services. Health & Safety demands a cautionary word.
First off, JDL, you haven't read enough of E&V's work to determine what is and isn't a quote. And, of course, as an Oxfordian you cannot allow yourself to understand their method as it is so utterly fatal to you case. Stylometry is based on probability. E&V make no attempt to allow for the content of what they are measuring. Their blocks are random and their tests are normative not stylistic. Their tests work identically whatever they are comparing to Shakespeare, as long as it is verse and fits the period demographic. They look for discrepancies and eliminate what is discrepant beyond the bounds of possibility. Their method is therefore based on usage and statistics and calculates probabilities.
Say we compare the E&V technique to a method of mapping the solar system, which calculates distances from earth based on long periods of telescopic observation (before adjustments like those proposed by Professor Jackson). It places Oxford's proximity to Shakespeare out there on the rings of Saturn. Hand D in Sir Thomas More is the closest thing not in the fold. It's already in Warwickshire and with a few more tests could be placed right into Stratford-upon-Avon. In non metaphorical terms, you are more likely to be struck by lightning than to discover Oxford wrote Shakespeare. The chance of him being the author of the Hand D additions to Sir Thomas More are similar to the chances of getting caught in the rain.
Thomas Carlyle said "A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him." E&V are the perfect Stratfordian foil for Oxfordian argument. ""Judging from their surviving writing, Shakespeare was not just 100 times better than Oxford, he was also 80 times more productive."
Back to probability. Given that E&V think that Hand D in Sir Thomas More is the closest thing to Will that isn't actually Will, how is that probability affected when we find the 20c's top expert on Shakespearean imagery, Caroline Spurgeon, saying "of the twelve [major] images in the three pages, every one can be paralleled in Shakespeare's known plays'. Well that's a bit better than a few strained biographical similarities, isn't it?
And how does the solid support from top palaeographer, Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, connecting the signatures and the Hand D handwriting affect the probability?
And the fact that the three pages constitute a scene which will be familiar to Shakespeare's audience as a Shakespeare trademark, the mob manipulated by a skilful public speaker?
And the fact that the writing contains characteristic technique, like turning nouns into transitive verbs, and characteristic rare spellings, like 'scilens'?
Your chances of sweeping away the attribution using Oxfordian techniques are the same as your chances of winning the Euro-Millions lottery three weeks running.
So the question you gotta ask yourself now, JDL is, "Do you feel lucky?"
Email from J D Lavendoski,
Mr. Leadbetter,
Regarding the following page from your website:
In the section of this page marked "Briefly", you paraphrase some research by professors Elliot & Valenza as follows:
"Their [Elliot & Valenza] opinion on Hand D was, therefore, eagerly awaited by Shakespeare scholars in anticipation of final conformation however, E&V refused to be conclusive. Shakespeare could have written it, they said "but not in 1593". It passed as Shakespeare after 1600 but exhibited a slightly poorer match for the Bard pre-1600."
What Elliot & Valenza actually said in their August 2009 EMLS paper on the topic was this:
"Our bottom-line estimate for Hand D…if it was written in 1603, and its discrepancies are not otherwise explained away, the verse portion of it is 7 to 26 times LESS likely to be Shakespeare's than Shakespeare's threshold block. If it was written in 1593, and its discrepancies are not explained away, the verse portion of it is 75 to 1,200 times LESS likely to be Shakespeare's than Shakespeare's threshold block."
and this:
"Shakespeare authorship for it [Hand D-Plus]....seems improbable, but not impossible."
and also, this:
"We depart from consensus [with Jackson] in doubting that Shakespeare is a likely author of Hand D-plus even after 1600. Our problem is that we have found too much discrepancy to support a likely Shakespeare ascription, and, though Jackson has plausibly explained away some of the discrepancy, we don't think that he has gotten it all."
As E&V never said it "passed as Shakespeare after 1600" AND their findings indicate a 1 or 2 order of magnitude difference between the pre and post 1600 possibilities (not "slightly poorer" as you claim) AND they ultimately reject Hand D as the work of Shakespeare: Would you PLEASE formally consider changing the website to reflect the actual findings of E&V and post a CORRECTION NOTICE and an APOLOGY to your readers on the above web page ??
IMO, you have grossly mischaracterized E&V's finding with that particular paragraph on your website and intellectual honesty demands a formal correction and apology be made by you ASAP.
Thank you for your consideration of this matter.
Let's deal with matters of fact, first.
If you had been more attentive, you would have discovered that not only are we aware of E&V's remarks on Professor Jackson's analysis of their tests on Hand D, we published them alongside Professor's Jackson's article.
If you did not actually cut and past your extract from our own site, you are, perhaps, not being disingenuous but you aren't paying enough attention to an article with a serious point to make on the favourite Oxfordian subject of the cumulative weight of circumstantial evidence.
You will note we have changed the wording of the paragraph you object to, but we have not changed the meaning,
Say we compare the E&V technique to a method of mapping the solar system, which calculates distances from Henley Street based on long periods of telescopic observation. It places Oxford's proximity to Shakespeare out there on the rings of Saturn. Hand D in Sir Thomas More is the closest thing not in the fold. It's already in Warwickshire and with a few more tests could be placed right into Stratford-upon-Avon. In non metaphorical terms, you are more likely to be struck by lightning than to discover Oxford wrote Shakespeare. While the chances of Will being the author of the Hand D additions to Sir Thomas More (post 1600) are similar to the chances of getting caught in the rain in Bradford-on-Avon next Thursday afternoon.
Another metaphorical paraphrase, to which, no doubt, you will object. But you clearly have not understood E&V's method or you would not still be using their data in support of your contention that Oxford wrote the work of Shakespeare . You cannot have read (or understood) this linked paper of theirs or this article on Oxfraud.
You have not understood that their purpose is to prove that the Oxfordian poetical shoe is far too small for the Shakespearean foot (that's one of E&V's figures of speech). There can be no doubt about this. Elementary practical criticism is enough to prove it, which is why Oxfordianism will never be taken seriously by English University Faculties (at least by those not desperate for a few headlines). No one can take E&V seriously and believe there is anything of Oxford in the canon.
They prove this conclusively.
Once by analysis of the writing of the two individuals and a second time with analysis of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama which establishes trends in the development of blank verse which are present in the canon and extend beyond the death of the Earl.
In other words, they DESTROY the idea that Oxford's orthograph is in any way related to Shakespeare's and they DESTROY the idea that he lived long enough to write the late plays.
Not much of this has to do with Hand D, other than its bearing on the accuracy of E&V's method as they in turn bear on the accuracy of their assessment of Hand D. Far from misrepresenting them, I sought out Ward Elliott's last word on the matter and published it alongside Professor Jackson's article.
Tom Reedy of this parish, in the spirit of accuracy and compromise, has suggested some alterations to the expression and I have made them. I do so in deference to Professor Jackson's academic rigour, whose knowledge and permission in that page was sought and granted. They do not, however, change the weights in the scales by a single milligram.
If you want to reassure yourself that E&V's assessment does not rule out Hand D and their data indicates a positive result, then the Mac Jackson page is for you.
If you want to reassure yourself that Hand D is Shakespeare's then all you need is the 1939 R W Chambers article. According to Professor Jackson. And according to me.
And if you don't admit that the cumulative evidence on Hand D adds up to the fact that the Oxfordian position is now untenable, then why not argue that point rather than exercising yourself over what was only an attempt to simplfy a complex statistical calculation in an introduction to an article which contains the facts you are claiming to be misrepresented?


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Identifying Australian Fungi - Getting Started
So how do you start to identify your first Australian fungus? There are three resources that you will find helpful:
- Pictures in books
- Descriptions in books
- Using keys
Pictures in books
This is the easy way to start. If you have a good book with pictures (preferably a lot of pictures), then you can look and see whether the fungus matches any of the ones illustrated. Fungimap's Fungi Down Under is, naturally, a good start as is Bruce Fuhrer's Field Companion to Australian Fungi (now out of print, but used copies may be available) which has about 80 excellent photographs. View the Field Guide section of the Fungimap bookstore for other top resources. Fungi of Southern Australia by Neale Bougher and Katie Syme is also full of excellent illustrations.
Many local species are introduced (ie, not native to Australia), and so you may find them in books published overseas, such as Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain & Europe by Roger Phillips, which has great illustrations.
Descriptions in books
Photographs in books, particularly colour, are expensive, and so they tend to feature only the most common or interesting species; therefore, a fungus that you have found may not be shown but often it will be described in words. For example here's a description of the Drumstick Fungus, Battaraea stevenii:
Peridium up to 60mm dia. and 20-30mm high, pulvinate or depressed globose, at the disc-like apex of the stipe; base white or off-white. The peridium has an outer layer, the exoperidium, which falls off in flakes or pieces, and an inner layer, the endoperidium, which opens around its 'equator' and usually falls away as one piece. Lamellae none. Stipe dun to brown, up to 35 cm long and about 1.5 cm in diameter, emerging from a non-gelatinous volva at its base. The surface of the stipe is covered with fine brown scales, which are eventually shed. The interior of the stipe is filled with silky fibres. Gleba pulverulent, with a capillitium of two types: single hyaline threads which are predominantly vertically arranged and elaters which are fusiform or cylindrical bodies with annular or spiral thickenings. Spores 5.6-8.8 x 4.6-7.6 µm globose to subglobose, on short pedicels, finely verrucose, very pale brown.
[details from C.A. Grgurinovic (1997) Larger Fungi of South Australia]
(What do all these words like gleba, stipe and pulverulent mean? Check out our Glossary.) Before you can decide whether this description matches your fungus, you will need to make a description of the fungus, which we will cover further in the next section.
Using keys
So, having looked at all the pictures in your books, and skimmed through the descriptions, but not finding your mushroom friend, what next? Well it's time to meet the dichotomous key. With at least 250,000 species of fungi in Australia, and about 20 mycologists, your fungus may not even have been described yet. What a key can do is at least get you to the fungus family or maybe even the genus. A key is a way of breaking up the fungal kingdom in a way that makes identification manageable.
Here's an example of a key:
|1a. Gills present
|1b. Gills absent; if a cap is present, then the underside with pores or spines
|2a. Spores white
|2b. Spores pink
|2c. Spores green
|2d. Spores brown
|2e. Spores black
Although they are called dichotomous keys, you can see that a key doesn't always just have two options. As you progress through the key, the options become more specific until you eventually arrive at a species name (you hope). Then you must compare the description and pictures (if any) of that species with your specimen. The fun really begins when they don't match.
In the next section, Describing a fungus, we will outline the main features you need to know for identifying an unknown fungus.


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I"ve been on the hunt for a "real" rag bin for years…..
I'd like to get a real "hazmat" locker for oil based paints, stains and poly as well.
Those buggers are darn expensive though.
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Lloyds Pharmacy has opened a 'new concept' premises at Boston West Business Park in Sleaford Road.
The Boston team will now offer a new approach to community health, which has been developed by the company to improve access to healthcare information and support.
As part of the transformation, the pharmacy now offers free, enhanced services for a range of conditions including skin health and pain management.
The pharmacy's new skin offering covers all aspects of skin health from medicines management advice for people on prescription treatment to medicated skin products.
Pharmacy manager Maria Cooper said: "We are delighted to be a pioneer in a project that will do much to raise awareness of healthcare needs at a local level."
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Adam Rubin of ESPN NY said before the four-homer night at Citi-Field, incoming minority partner David Einhorn watched batting practice with Fred Wilpon. And, according to Newsday, there was a lot of gesticulating about the outfield walls, which may be getting modified next season to make Citi Field more power friendly. David Lennon writes that the 16-foot wall in left could be halved, but cannot be moved in because behind the padding is a cement retaining wall. Sandy Alderson also modified the design of Petco Park after his first season on the job with the San Diego Padres. The GM acknowledged to Andrew Keh in the Times about dimension changes: "It is probably something we need to think about," while adding: "It's not something we need to decide with regard to the team we have now. It's something we need to decide with regard to the team we want to have in the future."
Through the weekend, Citi Field ranked 11th of 16 ballparks in the National League in homers per game at 1.53. How might alterations to Citi Field affect home run totals?
Here's an analysis from Greg Rybarczyk, founder of hittrackeronline.com. He is a former U.S. Navy nuclear engineer and ship navigator as well as a former physics instructor at an ROTC prep school.
To determine the percentage increase in homers that wall adjustments would cause, Rybarczyk took all of the homers hit in the majors in 2010 and plotted them first using the existing Citi Field walls, then with certain modifications to the ballpark.
Says Rybarczyk: "I did this by moving the fence line of the long fence segment 10 feet towards the infield (which actually results in the fence being a bit more than 10 feet closer to home, since the fence angles away from home plate). I also lowered this fence to 10 feet high from the existing 16 feet high. If you do this, you increase homers to that part of the park by 35 percent, and overall homers by 22 percent. Obviously you can tweak the amount of the move inwards and/or the height of the new wall to get a bigger or smaller effect."
Says Rybarczyk: "Specifically, I extended the fence that exists to the right of the Mo Zone across to where it meets the bullpen. This fence is eight-feet high. If you do this, it increases home runs in right and right-center field by 25 percent, and overall homers in Citi Field by nine percent."
Of course, one major question is how changes might affect Wright. Here's what Rybarczyk concludes:
"I looked at the Citi Field long flies and homers from 2009, and found the following: Three balls hit by David Wright that would have gotten over the revised fence line related to the modifications I tested. One ball hit by David Wright that would have cleared the center field fence, which was already shortened by the Mets last offseason. So, a total of four balls Wright hit in 2009 that would have made it over the reduced fence lines we're considering. Now, I don't think you should necessarily project his [percentage] benefit based on 2009, because he hit very few homers that season, at Citi or elsewhere, and the number you'll get will likely be too big."
Obviously, there is a cost involved in ballpark modifications, but Rybarczyk adds: "It's probably worth mentioning that the Mets could create some nice new premium seats with these changes. In the Mo's Zone, you'd get a few more rows of seats right near the field, and in left field you could make a sort of 'home run porch' out in front of the existing wall, with open-air seating on top, and another area underneath with a field-level view."
Rybarczyk also issues one caution about his methodology: "I used the data I have at my disposal, which is home run data from 2010. I don't have a complete list of long fly balls from around the league that came up short of homers, so I couldn't check those as well, but I think the potential impact of this necessary omission will be negligible, since Citi Field's fences are deeper than almost every other park."


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We're working on this new Top 5 Reasons series to help you become familiar with all of the Career Step programs—not just the one you're enrolled in or graduated from. This month we're featuring the Professional Medical Coding and Billing program. Next to our Medical Transcription course, Career Step has been training medical coding and billing professionals the longest. There's a lot that we could talk about, but since we have to narrow it down to 5, here's what we chose:
- AHIMA-approved curriculum – In the medical coding and billing industry, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) is one of the leading and largest industry associations. They work very hard to ensure that medical coding professionals have the skills they need to excel by offering a number of employer-trusted certifications, offering lots of continuing education opportunities, and monitoring the education available for entry-level professionals. Having the stamp of AHIMA approval on your training program means that it was carefully evaluated against their model curriculum and judged to prepare students not only for their certifications, but also for the workforce.
- Practical, hands-on experience – Every Career Step program is designed to prepare you to not only get a job, but to excel in the workforce. In the Professional Medical Coding and Billing program, this means lots of hands-on experience actually coding genuine medical records and reports (there are 300+ in the course!). Students have access to a complete online library of references and receive printed versions of the most up-to-date industry codebooks. They then get lots of practice using all of those resources in real-world situations, making sure they're prepared to earn employer-recognized credentials and start working right after graduation.
- Certification preparation – Though certification is not always required for employment, the industry is moving in that direction, so earning an employer-recognized credential after graduation is a big step toward standing out in the job market and gaining employment. The Career Step Professional Medical Coding and Billing program prepares students for the CCA (Certified Coding Associate) credential offered by AHIMA and the CPC (Certified Professional Coder) credential offered by the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC), both of which can open doors to employment and increase a graduate's earning potential. We even provide a free exam voucher for the exam of your choice (a $300 value), making it even easier to earn your credential after graduation.
- ICD-10 experienced school – The healthcare industry is has transition to ICD-10. Career Step was one of the first schools to train for this new code set. Career Step was also heavily involved in helping employers train their employees for the switch. This means our students are training with the same curriculum employers are using for their employees!
- Affordability – The Career Step Professional Medical Coding and Billing program offers incredible value. For less than $3,500 students are prepared for a career with staring salaries of $40,000 a year. This gets graduates in the door of a field that also has lots of opportunity for advancement and specialization (which all increase earning potential) with just a little experience or additional education.
Let's hear from a few Medical Coding and Billing graduates. What do you think of our list? Anything else that should be included?


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British model and actress Amy Jackson recently shot topless for a fashion brand.
Photographer Hannah Furness shared a picture from the shoot and tweeted: 'The stunning @i_am_amyjackson @bossmodelmgmt Makeup @SuzyClarkeMUA Hair @patrick_hair Stylist @AuroraMadigan.'
Amy tweeted another picture from the photoshoot and wrote: '@patrickwilson being a little magician with the hair on today's shoot'
The Ek Deewana Tha actress will be next seen in Tamil action thriller called Ai.
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Image: Amy Jackson
Photographs: Hannah Furness/ Twitter
'Mary Kom first look is AWESOME!'
The first look of Priyanka Chopra's next film Mary Kom is out and several Bollywood stars turned to Twitter to praise it. Here's what they said:
Anushka Sharma: 'What a superb first look of Mary Kom ! Looking forward to the film .. Great job @priyankachopra :)'
Preity Zinta: 'PC loved the new poster of #MaryKom. So proud of you! Hard works always pays. Looking forward to seeing it soon. Much love.'
Bipasha Basu: 'seriously awesome first look of #MaryKom ! Loved it!Really looking forward to this one! Good luck darling!'
Neha Dhupia: '@priyankachopra in n as #MaryKom looks fab! Only someone like u has the courage to share her story with us! #respect'
Parineeti Chopra: 'Isn't she THE BEST?????!!!!!'
Ileana D'Cruz: 'FIERCE!!! Love it babe!!! Can hardly wait to watch this one!!! All that hard work has paid off!!! Wish u the best!! Xoxox'
Madhuri Dixit: 'Loving the new look! You go girl! #girlpower!'
Meerra Chopra: '1st of its kind Bollywood poster with female lead,nd who else could have done it better then @priyankachopra in #marykom. Setting standards.'
Alia Bhatt: 'killinngggggg it !!! What a stunning first look !!! Makes me want to punch something myself :P wohoo.'
Simi Garewal: 'OMG! #MaryKomFirstLook is AWESOME! This is dedication! The power punch of a great performer! Wishing u huge success!'
Arjun Kapoor: 'damnnn...nailed it...no one s ever messing with this beauty from Bareilly after the way she packs a punch...#raging bulbul'
Neil Nitin Mukesh: 'INCREDIBLE IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT. One of the finest actors we have in our industry. This one is EPIC !!!'
Madhur Bhandarkar: 'Hard-hitting, passionate poster of Mary Kom! The versatile @priyankachopra in a never-before-seen avatar! Looking forward to this Jalwaa!'
Meanwhile, Priyanka Chopra thanked everyone and wrote: 'I'm so overwhelmed by your reactions.Thank u all so much.This one is for all those who wanted to be bigger than they were told they could be.'
Image: The Mary Kom poster
Sunny Leone: No time for anything but work
Sunny Leone is very busy these days.
'Complete craziness going on. Never did I think I would be busy like this. No time for anything but work. Insanity & amazing all at the same time,' the 33-year-old actress tweeted.
She has also started shooting for next film. 'A new adventure begins!! The start of "Ek Paheli Leela" begins today!! So excited to become this character!' she added.
In the meantime, she shared a picture of herself from the Indian Jewellery Fashion Week, and wrote: 'Indian Jewellery Fashion Week #IIJW2014 "Apala by Sumit" felt like a tribal queen last night!'
Image: Sunny Leone
Photographs: Hitesh Harisinghani
Jacqueline Fernandez opens a restaurant in Sri Lanka
Kick actress Jacqueline Fernandez recently inaugurated her restaurant Kaema Sutra in Colombo. The restaurant offers Sri Lankan cuisine.
She shared a picture (above) wrote: 'It's KaemaSutra time!! #srilankan #cuisine #colombo'
'Family friends and food! What more can you ask for???' she added with a picture from the launch.
Image: Jacqueline Fernandez at her resturant
Photographs: Jacqueline Fernandez/ Twitter


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28th > September > 1998 Archive
Caldera's DR gets OnSatellite of love
Caldera Thin Clients will be announcing today that its DR-WebSpyder – an embedded Internet set-top -- will be used by OnSat Network Communications in its private networks for satellite Internet access. The consumer end will consist of Caldera's v86-based graphical devices, with Inkotomi's Traffic Server network cache and OnSat's private satellite network. The service will offer email, voice mail, and even financial smart cards, according to Roger Gross, the CEO. A pilot programme was conducted recently with a number of ISPs in the US, and the service is now being offered worldwide. The vision is of low-cost access in areas where land-line access to the Internet is not available or extremely expensive, such as remote villages in sub-Saharan Africa where Startec, a South African company, is offering the package. Caldera Thin Clients [of Andover UK], together with Caldera Systems that focuses on Linux distribution, are subsidiaries spun off from Caldera earlier this month because Caldera was being perceived as a company out to get Microsoft, Random Love, CEO of Caldera Systems said. The case against Microsoft, which will feature a jury trial in Salt Lake City, gathered strength recently when it was extended to include the consequences of the practices Microsoft used against DR-DOS with Windows 9x, as well as Windows 3x. Caldera demonstrated at Cebit in March that DR-DOS could substitute for the underlying Microsoft-DOS in Windows 95. Microsoft has just asked for a further delay in start of the case, at present scheduled for June, as Microsoft is unable to provide immediately all of the executives Caldera wishes to depose. Steve Susman, one of Caldera's lawyers, deposed Gates for eight hours on videotape last November. ®
Update: Transmeta transmogrified by Linux founder
More details have emerged about a switch in direction Transmeta made when it hired Linux inventor Linus Torvalds earlier this year. Reliable sources said that the company has re-engineered itself and is now preparing a Risc processor which will be optimised for Windows NT 5.0, and which will effectively abandon legacy support for Dos and 16 bit Windows. According to the source, the arrival of Torvalds heralded a sea-change at the secretive firm, which is run by the ex-head of SunSPARC labs, David Dinzel. "Linus has taken a different look at it [the company] and has asked what x.86 actually means," the source said. "Effectively, it meant DOS and Windows 3.11 compatibility." This is the standard route the cloners have followed, for good reason - as the bulk of PCs today (even Windows 98 ones) still run DOS-based operating systems, then compatibility remains important for current platforms. But Torvalds seems now to be looking to a future where this isn't an issue. According to the source, Torvalds has come to the conclusion that the designers of Risc processors were a little too early to market with their offerings, but that has now changed. "Compatibility now means it will run NT 5.0 and it is compatibility with NT 5.0 that is important." If this is indeed what Torvalds is planning, it's an intriguing strategy that could pay off big-time if Microsoft delivers on its OS plans -or at least, what is generally understood about its notoriously flexible OS plans. As and when it gets NT 5.0 out the door, Microsoft will be pushing hard to establish it as the final unification of its operating system platforms, and to shift users away from Windows 9x - 98 is currently thought of as the last iteration of the company's DOS-based operating systems. So if this actually happens, chucking out the old DOS baggage could be a serious advantage for Transmeta. But it's a big if - Microsoft has been talking about convergence for years, but never quite getting there. But on the other hand, NT does run on Risc processors, and Alpha (the only one now that runs a version of NT with a future) is important to Microsoft in getting NT 5.0 to 64-bit. So if Transmeta points itself into the middle of this territory, it might well be able to build a cheaper, faster NT 5.0 platform. Which presumably will also run Linux… ®
SGI considers Singapore plant
Singapore may be the location of a new Silicon Graphics Inc (SGI) manufacturing and R&D operation, according to this morning's Singapore Business Times. This would be good news for the island, which has been hard-hit by the Asian crisis and associated job losses in hard disk manufacturing. We at The Register also speculate that it would be bad news for SGI's Swiss and - possibly - US manufacturing plants. Switzerland in particular seems a pretty dumb place for a company going through a re-engineering process to be building stuff. The suggestion came from SGI CEO Richard Belluzo in an interview with the Times. There are obvious attractions for SGI; the employment situation isn't anything like as tight in Singapore as it was before the crisis, and the Singapore government is particularly keen to diversify manufacturing and attract more R&D. Belluzo says he's also been talking to the government about SGI's contribution to SingaporeONE, distributed learning and supercomputing projects. This may be the fish the Singapore government is dangling - Singapore has massive plans for wiring the island, so it's both a major potential source of revenue and a product showcase. ® Click for more stories
New flaw found in Netscape security
Intel poaches PowerPC vet for Austin R&D labs
Intel has pulled in a PowerPC Somerset Design Center veteran to head-up a new long-range R&D centre in Austin, Texas. Mark McDermott comes from the Motorola side of the old PowerPC alliance, and also ran the system on a chip design group at Motorola's Advanced Systems Technology Lab. It's not yet entirely clear what he and his team will be designing - Intel is reportedly saying that's going to depend on the staff he hires, and if this is the case we can maybe think of him and the company being on some kind of fishing expedition, looking for star designers and star technologies. From that point of view Austin isn't a bad place to look. It houses Motorola, IBM, Dell and an excellent university, and at least until the great DRAM disaster was a happening place for semiconductors. And beer, we seem to remember. Austin's also the location of Intel's StrongARM design operation, but this will continue to be run separately. Perhaps McDermott can have a go at hiring back all the Digital engineers who ran for it when Intel took over StrongARM. ® Click for more stories
Microsoft vs DoJ: Judge may recalled 'biased' special master
Lawrence Lessig, who was chosen by Judge Jackson to be a special master in the DoJ case against Microsoft, but whose appointment was put on hold in February after Microsoft told the court of appeals that Lessig was biased because he did not like the way Internet Explorer had interfered with the software on his Mac, may be invited to submit an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief by the Judge, according to sources close to the case. The court of appeals did not address the issue of Microsoft's bias claim. Lessig, who is now teaching a class at Harvard called "The Microsoft case", said that if he were invited, "of course I'd write something for him". The move is indicative of the Judge preferring the DoJ version of events. It means that the Judge can in this way obtain Lessig's opinions but avoid any question of Lessig's appointment being overruled again in the new case started in May. Meanwhile, pressure from MEPs has resulted in DGIV, the competition directorate of the European Commission, offering a "brainstorming behind closed doors... because we don't want to create problems for our US colleagues. We can't make public all our information". By international treaty, it is agreed that the EU will await the outcome of the DoJ's action before taking action on the same issues. Karel Van Miert, the competition commissioner, said: "We are in constant touch with [the DoJ] because this is a very important case." DGIV has resolved several European cases involving Microsoft, and has no outstanding complaints, although Van Miert said: "We can't rule out receiving [more] complaints." ® Click for more stories
Gates' gang sell shares, make huge wedges of cash
Bill Gates and his Microsoft co-founder chum Paul Allen have been selling shares. Data from Microsoft's proxy statement just filed with the SEC shows that Gates sold $2.8 billion of Microsoft shares over the last year, and Allen $4.4 billion. The valuations are on the basis of last week's closing price. Gates has $57 billion of shares left (20.8 per cent, excluding Mrs Gates' $12 million), Allen £16 billion (5.8 per cent), with president Steve Ballmer languishing with $13 billion (4.8 per cent). Bill did not get his full bonus as it was "tied to corporate revenue and profit goals" that were not achieved. Steve's take home pay was $5,530 more than Bill's, however, because his bonus is bigger. COO Herbold received $1.18 million, Michael Lacombe (senior VP, EMEA and president of Microsoft Europe) $593,000, and Paul Maritz $516,000. That said, Intel's Andy Grove takes home $52 million, leading to some suggestions that senior Microsoft execs are underpaid. Ahem. A graph in the proxy statement showed how over a five-year period, Microsoft shareholders would have seen the value of their holdings increase at more than twice the rate of Nasdaq, and 3.5 times the S&P 500. There then followed the tongue-firmly-in-cheek management suggestion that past is not prelude. Microsoft shareholders can now cast votes via the Internet before the shareholders' meeting in November, when all seven Microsoft board members are up for re-election. There should be little trouble as Microsoft executives and staff own around half the company. The average age of the board is now 52. • In Gates' introduction to the annual report, he was muted about Windows CE: it was "finding its way" into interactive TV and hand helds was the extent of his hype. He expects to "more than double the WebTV installed base to over one million users during the next year on the very positive word-of-mouth this product has generated". "Online is still at an early stage of development," Gates said, which must be news to AOL. ® Click for more stories
LG-Hyundai still in merger stasis
Under pressure from the South Korean government, the country's five biggest chaebols have now agreed to sort out their managerial differences over the re-allocation of business units. But LG and Hyundai are still locked in a bitter struggle over which firm will have the controlling interest in the merged chip company they propose. According to Asian reports, Hyundai, Samsung, Daewoo, LG and SK will now complete their plans by October 1 -- except for semiconductors. The proposed merged semiconductor company is now becoming a major source of embarrassment for the South Korean company, especially after it emerged that both the European Union and the US may invoke anti-trust laws to investigate the deal. Further, both LG and Hyundai were faced with anti-dumping duties in the US at the beginning of this month, as reported here. The European Union is still investigating whether LG and Hyundai will be faced with increased tariffs. ®
Tetra flogs stationery rights
Tetra has flogged the intellectual property rights (IPR) to its business forms division to Software Stationery Holdings for £150,000 cash. SSH also gets rights to use the Tetra customer database for two years. In return it will pay commission on all future sales to the database, committing to a minimum of £200,000 per year over the next two years. Tetra said the business forms division is non-core as it focuses on sales to customers with low-end systems. The company will funnel the proceeds from the sale into resourcing software licence sales "where margins and growth are substantially higher". In the year to 31 May 1998, the Business Forms Division made £179K PBT on £1,044,000 sales. No amount was attributed to the IPR in Tetra's balance sheet as at 31 May 1998. ®: Click here for more stories
Pioneer organic luminescence has way to go
An announcement by Pioneer that it has solved the problem of creating organic electroluminescence (OLED) flat panel displays is not a significant breakthrough, it has emerged. OLED technology is far cheaper to produce than TFT technology but there are technical difficulties to implementing it, especially in the notebook field. A US startup, Universal Display Corporation (UDC), is about to beat them to the punch while there are still problems with Pioneer's implementation of OLED. Bob Raikes, senior analyst at Meko Research, said Pioneer's announcement that its OLED was suitable for notebooks and PDAs, but that while it had solved one problem with colour, the problem with the life of OLEDs was still unresolved. He said: "It hasn't solved one of the major problems which is the 2,000 hours problem, the OLED has. Pioneer has got over one of the hurdles which is to create blue, but still hasn't got over the lifetime problem." That, said Raikes, should be a mininum of 10,000 hours and preferably 20,000 hours. However, he said: "UDC has got some very efficient OLED technology and is working with Princeton." ®
World's largest bookseller Internet subsidary readies IPO
US book retailer Barnes & Noble will become the latest Internet bookseller to leap onto the IPO bandwagon when it floats its Barnesandnoble.com subsidiary. According to the company's SEC filing, Barnes & Noble will retain 80 per cent of the online retailer's stock. Given the inflated valuations Wall Street is giving to Internet-based operations, such as Amazon.com. Amazon has a long way to go before it makes a profit, yet its stock has been talked up on the expectation of major returns in the future. Clearly Barnes & Noble wants a cut, and reckons it can make a pile on by selling just 20 per cent of the company. As Mark Mooradian, an analyst at market researcher Jupiter Communictations, pointed out, the formation of Barnesandnoble.com as a division within Barnes & Noble did not overly improve the parent's stock value. ® Click for more stories
AMD takes axe to comment on chip prices
A US source said that AMD will slash its prices towards the end of October on a range of its K6-2 processors. But AMD in the UK has refused to comment on the story, saying it was "more than their job was worth". According to Computer Reseller News US, AMD is preparing to release 380MHz and 400MHz versions of its K6-2 processors in Q4. As revealed here earlier, AMD is on target to introduce its K6-3 chips late this year. It also has a K6-2 mobile in its capacious wings in Austin, Texas, and in Dresden, Germany, when that ramps. But AMD is also under pressure from Intel, which has initiated a death match between it and all other clone chip makers. Last week The Register revealed Intel's technique, which according to CRN US, will force AMD to now sell its 333MHz K6-2 at $95. AMD has a different policy to Intel. When Intel prices fall below $100/1000, it means the end of a processor. AMD is likely to keep the 333MHz part alive for some time. The 333MHz K6-2 will fall to unprecedented prices in the first quarter of next year, the newspaper said. That may not be enough to allow AMD to keep its prices 15 per cent below Intel's prices. Sources at the Great Stan said that its now-famous 370 pin socket will undercut that 15 per cent by a factor of five per cent. ®
Survey: third of a million UK jobs to be lost to Y2K bug
A year 2000 company has claimed that a third of a million jobs will be lost in the UK as a result of the dreaded millennium bug. And small and medium sized enterprises are most at risk, the company has claimed.
Dtec Memory Corp wins Toshiba DRAM rights
Dtec Memory Corporation has won European distribution rights for Toshiba-branded DRAM and flash memory. The joint venture company, 51 per cent owned by Memory Corporation and 49 per cent owned by Datrontech, will target the European SME market. The company said it would also explore opportunities to integrate Memory Corp's memory management silicon designs with Toshiba flash technology. DMC was formed in January this year, to "deliver own branded memory products and differentiated computer memory solutions in the UK and Europe". In July, Datrontech threw two more companies into the pot, customised distribution arm Memory Plus, and trade desk operation Datrontech Hong Kong. DMC estimates sales are running at an annualised $100 million per year. ® Click here for more stories
Viglen profits remain linear at best
Amstrad lovechild Viglen Technology will try and dig its way out of continually flat profits by re-focusing its efforts on networking and value-added software services. The company's aim is to move away from purely direct PC sales which took a massive hit last year as market share fell by 50 per cent. Viglen has just announced pre-tax profits of £4.4m on sales of £94.6m and warns that it expects profits to remain "linear" in the foreseeable future. Chairman Alan Sugar, who is no stranger to ringing the changes, has confirmed that the company will metamorphose into a networking and software services provider but not at the expense of its education market. Viglen has performed well in education with a 14 per cent increase on sales from the previous year and this includes both PC and software sales. The company's acquisition of Xenon Networks in February this year enabled the company to change tack and this is where Sugar sees future growth and profit margin. However, Sugar has also committed himself to increasing the workforce in the education division "as we are committed to growing out share of the schools market," he said. Viglen's share of the direct market has been halved while sales to corporates have also been hit and Sugar is looking to networking as a way of getting the company back in line. "It's something that Viglen had to do," said Adrian O'Connell, PC analyst at Dataquest. "Elonex and Tiny already offer this kind of service so there will be plenty of competition. It's unlikely to turn them into a success story but should help keep the wolf from the door."®: Click here for more stories
Microsoft tools up for Embedded NT
According to some reports today Microsoft is poised to launch Embedded Windows NT next month. A bit of a rush this, even for Microsoft - the company is currently advertising for an entire team to, er, develop the OS from ground zero. We quote: "Program Manager (new job) - Primary responsibilities include driving the development of a new embedded NT operating system and appliance line of products being developed. This involves developing specifications for the operating system as well as development of new applications and services… Development Lead (new job) - Primary responsibilities include leading the development of a new embedded NT operating system and appliance line of products being developed. Additional responsibilities include developing design specifications, design & code reviews, and schedule management, hiring and working with a team of engineers and working with other teams to integrate diverse technologies." New jobs also exist for a software design engineer (development of a new etc), a software design engineer in test (testing of a new etc) and a test manager (testing of a new etc). Those nice people from Microsoft may well be planning to say some more about Embedded NT next month, but it's a deal away from shipping. But that doesn't mean it isn't a happening thing. Microsoft already has some retail customers who're using NT in retail environments, so that cash register with the touchscreen in the bar or the supermarket might actually be a PC running NT workstation. Microsoft wants to extend the reach of the corporate network way out into the stores, the warehouses and the delivery trucks (and, incidentally, to blow what's left of OS/2 out of the ATMs), and ultimately there's not a great deal of sense in offering an OS that isn't of itself real time, but does have a somewhat redundant ability to run Win32 productivity apps. It's Friday night in Hooters, and we really need to check the Excel spreadsheet before we serve these 50 customers, right? Sure… Microsoft has actually been trailing the prospect of Embedded NT for some time. Earlier this year senior VP Jim Allchin (who we recall slings a mean DoJ email) said Microsoft was working on a version of NT that could run on networking equipment, be used in home automation, in-car systems and goodness knows what else. Allchin claimed that Microsoft had been working on the OS for a while, so we can only conclude (see ads above) that all of the project staff left recently… But seriously, we can see connections. Intel is talking embedded too, and is taking pops at Microsoft's NT licensing policies as it does so. Intel's also playing footsie with Linux, and if we're talking about Intel systems that provide the smarts in network infrastructures, the home, the vehicle or retail, we're not necessarily talking about systems with Microsoft operating systems any more. So check out the flip side. Last year, when a senior Microsoft designer was explaining CE 2.0 and related embedded matters to us, we suggested that maybe CE 3.0 was going to be NT 6.0. He blushed and changed the subject. But it was a valid point. Microsoft's commencement of development of Embedded NT gives it an opportunity for a redesign of the OS from the ground up, jettisoning a lot of stuff real time embedded devices aren't going to need, and also giving it the opportunity to jettison x86. It did that when it designed CE, and as we pointed out earlier today, Linus Torvalds reckons concentrating on future NT versions and dumping backward compatibility is the way to go for CPU design. We think maybe he's on the money. ® Click for more stories


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text: Iris Apfel's Three-Bedroom Manhattan Apartment\nAntiques and French inspired decor fill the style icon's exuberant Park Avenue home\nIris Barrel Apfel—fashion muse, decorator, and cofounder of Old World Weavers—wearing Chado Ralph Rucci and jewelry of her own design in her New York City apartment. The living room's bleached-oak boiserie is 18th-century French, and the door hardware is by P. E. Guerin; the screen is also French, while the chair at left, covered in an Old World Weavers tapestry fabric, is 17th-century Sicilian.\nA collection of singerie tops an 18th-century Venetian bombé chest in the living room; the back of the English chair at right is painted with chinoiserie designs.\nIn the entry, an 18th-century English gilt chinoiserie mirror and an Italian console.\nAn Italian tole chandelier above a Maison Jansen table draped in a woven paisley throw.\nThe first painting Apfel ever bought—a portrait of the Infanta Margarita she picked up 60 years ago at an antiques shop in Florence.\nBakelite jewelry in the paws of a hand-carved French mountain dog.\nThe entry contains an 18th-century French screen (left), an early-18th-century painted Genoese corner cabinet, and Louis XVI–style chairs upholstered in an Old World Weavers cut velvet. The needlepoint carpet is English.\n"I was one of the first New York women to wear boots," says Apfel, who designed the gilt-leather-and-fabric pair on the floor at right. Racks of her vintage pieces fill a spare room; she is especially fond of the metallic-check coat by Galanos.\nA hallway is lined with dog paintings and 19th-century English bookcases brimming with volumes on fashion, decorative arts, and Chinese costumes and textiles.


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She weighed 22 lbs., 3 oz. and was 29 inches long.
She is wearing size 18 month clothes and is in a size 4 diaper.
So, Hadley, what have you been up to this month?
This last month has been a little challenging. You've been sick with ear infections and colds and also teething. You are usually such a happy baby but this month you have been very cranky and way more high maintenance than normal. And sleep? Ha. Let's just say that neither one of us are anywhere close to being well-rested. Poor baby...it's no fun to see you feeling icky.
|Momma, my ear hurts :(
|Mad Baby
|it is so rare that you fall asleep on me these days. Definitely not feeling well but I sure did appreciate the extra snuggles.
|I could sit and watch you sleep for hours...if you would actually sleep for hours
Even with being sick and grumpy a lot this month, your silly self still shined through plenty. Your personality is getting bigger and bigger and you are so much like your brother. You are wild, into EVERYTHING, love mischief, not idle for more than 2 seconds, want total freedom, and know exactly what you want and get mad when you don't get it. In other words, we are all a little scared. Ha!
|The first time I let you get your own snack instead of handing them to you one at a time. You were so excited to feed yourself!
|I think I'll climb all the way up...it's cool, Mom.
|you love to feed yourself
|how exactly am I supposed to eat this?
|you also love to throw food on the floor and laugh at me when I tell you not to.
|my little wild child having a good ol' time playing with all the buttons and switches in the car rider line
We gave you your first taste of ice cream this month and the pictures speak for themselves.
|oh yeah. come to mama.
|what is this frozen deliciousness??
|yes I want some more!!
|try to take away my cone and I will cut you
I try to contain you in the living room (read: lock you in baby jail) but you always find ways to escape. I don't get much done during the day because you keep me on my toes, little missy. But slowing down and sitting in the floor with you is certainly nothing to complain about. You sure are fun to watch and play with. Your favorite toys are your xylophone, gumball machine, and riding toys (or pretty much anything you can climb on).
|you love to break out of jail and go beat on these glass doors...this is the mischievous look you give me when I catch you
|and for some reason you are fascinated with the knobs and suck on them. The bigs think it's hilarious.