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Before I became a dad, I told myself that any of my future kid(s) would be able to consume as much electronic media as he or she wanted. Now that I'm actually a dad, and I have a son who is obsessed with electronic media, I'm starting to have second thoughts. I mean, it was fine when the boy was little, like, before he was in school and stuff, but I think his consumption of electronic media is starting to get in the way of him being a productive member of second-grade society. Plus, I'm starting to have visions of my son at age 20, and he's living in my basement playing Minecraft all-day-long.
So I'm trying out this new parenting technique that I like to call "limited screen time after dinner." Here's how it works:
- After homework and dinner, the boy is allowed a set amount of screen time before bedtime.
- I'll set a timer, say, for 15 minutes, and when the timer goes off, the boy's screen time is done.
- Once the timer goes off after 15 minutes, the boy will renegotiate for additional screen time, at which point I'll add 10 minutes to the clock.
- After 10 minutes, I'll tell the boy that he's done with screen time, and he'll invariably ask for five more minutes of time.
- I'll concede and give him five more minutes of screen time.
- Once five minutes have passed, and the boy has used a total of 30 minutes of screen time for the evening, I'll turn off all of the lights in the house and hide in my bedroom while the boy begrudgingly brushes his teeth and gets ready for bed.
I'll readily admit that it's not a very well-thought-out technique. So sue me, sheesh!


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GasCast – Bristol Rovers Podcast – Episode 12 – The run in starts here!
In this weeks episode of GasCast, the Bristol Rovers podcast, Harley Thorne is joined by Doug Walker and Jake Barber, as we look back on what was an excellent weekend for The Gas. A win against Mansfield Town saw Rovers move up to 4th, and only 3 points behind 2nd and 3rd placed Oxford United and Plymouth Argyle.
We also look forward to what is now an incredibly important final 10 games, where we hope to see Rovers pushing for one of those top 3 automatic promotion spots, starting at Newport County on Saturday.
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Yakima Valley Partners Habitat for Humanity is a private non-profit, non-denominational Christian ministry that builds homes in partnership with qualified low income families in the Yakima Valley. Habitat for Humanity is a home ownership program in which families purchase homes at no profit through interest-free mortgages we provide.
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First, let me say right from the beginning that NFL 2K's position as the number one football game on the Dreamcast isn't changing anytime soon. Sure, 2K is technically an American football game, but soccer is football everywhere else in the world, so comparing SEGA's newest sports disc, Virtua Striker 2 with NFL 2K is justifiable, right? Okay, maybe not. But at least it gives me a chance to plug a game that's actually as fun to play as it is to watch -- because unfortunately, with Virtua Striker 2, that just isn't the case.
Based on last years oft-played NAOMI Japanese arcade machine, VS2 should be a good game -- or so you would think. A top-flight developer, high-end technology, and jazzed up graphics are usually the basis of an effective package. However, somewhere deep in the bowels of SEGA's development team, something was lost. Despite all the time and effort (and a consortium of rabid fans that worship the game like a god in other parts of the world), Virtua Striker 2's domestic release can be summed up in one simple word; substandard.
It' a shame really, as the hyperactive introduction does a good job of pumping you up for the contest to come; whisking you away to a simplified option screen accompanied by some fine voice acting. Sadly, these first few minutes are the most exciting items that Virtua Striker offers. Although you can partake in Arcade, Tournament, and a few other variations on zebra kicking, it all boils down to the same thing; oversimplified and boorish soccer matches. Once you've decided to delve into the meat and potatoes of it all, everything goes downhill and quickly.
Foremost on the list of problems is the control (or lack thereof). In this day and age of three-dimensional field renders and supposed free-roaming environments, playing a next-generation sports game without analog support is inexcusable. I realize that Virtua Striker 2 was an arcade game and used only a digital stick in the cabinet, but the game has been released for well over a year. You would think that in a span of twelve months plus that the conversion could have added an analog option. Think again! But wait, it gets worse.
As if moving around wasn't tricky enough, this game has made the inexcusable mistake of automatically selecting your players, as opposed to giving you full control of which player you're manning and it ends up being an absolute mess. Not only does the computer automatically select the player you "manipulate" without any input from you whatsoever, it also changes your athlete seemingly out of nowhere. Yes, after heading to the right for 15 seconds chasing a runaway ball and on the verge of finally grasping it, the CPU will unexpectedly move you to another guy heading in the opposite direction. Before you know it, you are smack dab in the middle of a Keystone Capers skit moving in all directions like a chicken with its head cut off.
Even the goaltender is out of your reach. As it completely follows the evil bidding of the AI, your chances of stopping a shot seem to diminish as time wears on. Over and over again balls zipped by my net-keeper like bullets, while my supposed shield-man just stood there with a digital thumb up his butt. Not that my goalie always has to be a brick wall, but where's the fun in watching your team get scored on relentlessly no matter who your team is, or who you're facing? Cameroon beat the crap out of my Brazilian team more than a few times, while the U.S. boys played like gods. How often do you see that in real life?
Since your goalie is practically useless, the real defense is played on the field, man-to-man... or it's supposed to be anyway. After a few seconds of possession, the other team just runs right by, grabs the ball from you and moseys on down the field like nothing happened. Meanwhile you lumber behind waiting for one of those rare moments when you can actually touch the ball. When and if you're lucky enough to be on the offense, passing to your teammates becomes a major chore in and of itself. Short pass or long pass, it won't matter, you'll be intercepted faster than you can say "cheese."
Eventually, you may actually get a chance to knock the ball into the net. Using a power meter to control the velocity of your kick, scoring is more trouble than it's worth. Most of the time you'll have to stop mid-run to try your shot (it's the only way you can get the meter to move past 10%), and then stand idly by as you miss by a mile. Perhaps one day, when the Silicon gods are smiling and someone invents a way to get your Dreamcast drunk, it'll be possible to score more than 2 points.
Oh, and remember the superb voice effects from the menu screen? Once you're in the action, it's all but gone. Other than a terribly unnerving rendition of the word "GOAAALLL!!!" for every score, there's absolutely nothing else to speak of. The crowd chants occasionally, but it's never convincing, and the players themselves all seem to be a collection of grunting oafish mutes. I guess it's all they could do really, as without licensing for players or teams personality was forced into the role of an afterthought.
I could go on ever longer about other numerous elements that make Virtua Striker 2 pure garbage: from the game's lone camera angle to a half-assed attempt at multiplayer action (it's only a two-player dance when everyone and their uncle know that the Dreamcast comes with four ports). It's like something out of Pele's worst nightmare. Where are the multiplayer tournaments? Where are the season modes? More importantly, where's the fun? Is this the best they could do?
The Verdict
I leave Virtua Striker 2 the same as I discovered it; oblivious to its existence. With horrible play mechanics and supplements that escape the necessity of mention, passing it up is one of the best decisions you can make. Here's hoping that the powers that be can find a way to bring us MLS2K (Major League Soccer), and retire the Virtua Striker series for good. Cross your fingers.


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AfriFoon has just become the first one-stop cell phone service to offer cell phone services exclusively in Afrikaans. Moreover, customers will have the option of month-to-month or post-paid packages, including debit order facilities, a wide choice of premium handsets, as well as benefiting from promotions such as the current cash back promotion.
Beatrice Pretorius, spokesperson for AfriFoon, explains that the company aims to expand and promote Afrikaans in the telecommunications industry. The AfriFoon cell phone service is enabled by GloCell and functions on the Cell C network.
"This is an historic day in the telecommunications industry as AfriFoon is the first of its kind in South Africa," Pretorius says. "It is a privilege to be the first one-stop cell phone service in the world to offer the complete service exclusively in Afrikaans. This will make an important contribution to the promotion of Afrikaans, especially in the technology sector."
During the promotional launch period, AfriFoon will give a 5% discount to all AfriForum members. The discount can either be donated to an education trust founded to empower Afrikaans-speaking people through education, or subscribers can choose to have the discount subtracted from their personal account.
"The education trust is a wonderful AfriFoon initiative," Pretorius says. "We also encourage subscribers to support this initiative by donating their 5% discount to the trust."
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Understand what motivates you; what drives you and your choices- Once you have this awareness about yourself, it becomes easier to get your goals into action in a way that fits with how YOU are uniquely motivated (leverage your strengths in order to speed up the journey to your goal destination). Knowing your "Best Self" could give great insight into the best way for you to go about accomplishing things.
Know the traits of your "Best Self" and understand how that fits with others in your life- Knowing exactly who your "Best Self" is, becomes a tremendous help in understanding how you fit into jobs, groups and relationships with others.
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Here go the British again, with their typical pedantic trivia - this time concerning how germs are spread. The bbc reports that if you wash a turkey or chicken prior to cooking it, you risk filling your benchtop with excessive bacteria. Even if this were the case, couldn't you wipe down the whole benchtop after you washed the turkey? The British have been cooking turkey for Christmas for a very long time now. What food poisoning did they suffer when turkeys were sold hanging on rods on the street in the middle of London in 1923???
I wouldn't be surprised if the British didn't know how to wipe down their benchtops - have you seen the way they do the dishes, as if grease and grime could just be scrubbed off with a scourer resembling a hairbrush? If you don't know the best way to wash a dish (shame on you), just take a ScotchBrite pad, squeeze only a drop of dishwashing liquid onto it (the FAIRY commercial is not entirely incorrect in its estimations - one small blob could clean 4 plates, 4 glasses, and all the basic cutlery when absorbed into a sponge with some water), wet it to make it soapy, let the tap run (which is worse - using more water than necessary, or getting rid of germs?), take a dirty dish (which you've cleared of food scraps) in one hand, and scrub it clean with the rough side of the ScotchBrite pad in your other hand. When the plate (cup, mug, glass, platter, etc) is clean and soapy, turn the pad over and give it a wipe with the sponge, then rinse it dry under the tap, and let it dry on a drainer - no need for a tea towel.
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Turing Head Coherence
Any operator in an n-dimensional Hilbert space can be represented by the generating operators of the special group SU(n), [23]. Specifically, this can be done for the density matrix . Consider the set , , being the SU(n) generators.
Given a density matrix , the associated coherence vector (a.k.a. generalized Bloch vector) is given as the -dimensional vector of expectation values Tr(). In general one has (see Chapter 2 of [23] for full details):
where , , and is the transition operator between the basis states and in .
The length of is constrained by .
One can classify a density matrix in terms of as follows.
We calculate the coherence vector for the Turing head of our sample machine. (Note: calculating the multi-node coherence vector for the total machine state is beyond the present paper. See [21, 22] for results in that direction.)
Since the Turing head of our sample machine lives in a nine-dimensional Hilbert space , we have to consider 80-dimensional coherence vectors:
Since the and are straightforward, we list the eight only:
The following table summarizes the results for the Turing head coherence vector computation of the above-mentioned QTM for several iterations.
This shows that, outside the excited interaction interval, the Turing head is a pure state and advances to a coherent superposition in the interaction zone before going back to a pure state. Looking to the step operator of the Turing machine, one can see that the head shift operator transforms the pure head state into a coherent superposition at the first marker and the adjoint of collapses the coherent superposition back to a pure basis state.
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Heavy Loop 04 is an up-tempo piece of hard rock/metal that is driven by dual-tone electric rhythm guitars, a powerful bass guitar and drums. It runs a short-and-sweet 30 seconds but is not too repetitive. It can call attention to itself and hammer you right in the face, or levels can be lowered so that it sits in the background without announcing its presence too much. Any type of website/audio-video/flash production needing a heavy, guitar-driven piece of music could benefit from the use of Heavy Loop 04.
*Please note that this file is perfectly looped.
Think power, speed, metal, rock, electric guitar, fearless, driven, angry, exciting.


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Research Interests
- Anthropology of democracy, legal anthropology, postsocialism, youth, social movements, revolution, Serbia/Balkans, Europe
- B.A. in Women's and Gender Studies, Columbia University; 2002 M.A. in Anthropology, University of Chicago; 2007 PhD in Anthropology, University of Chicago
Distinctions / Awards
- 2016-2017 LAS Study in a Second Discipline, Law


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Learn How to Pack a Suit Like a Road Warrior
How to Pack a Suit
Q: I'm wondering how to pack a suit in a suitcase without it coming out like wrinkled tissue paper at the destination. What's the best way to pack a suit in a suitcase and minimize wrinkles when traveling? – Jason L.
A: Hey Jason, here's a set of step-by-step instructions on how to pack a suit in a suitcase the way we do when we pack our suit jackets for a trip:
Step 1: While holding the suit jacket upright, pop in one of the shoulders and pull it inside-out as seen below (some choose to pull the entire sleeve inside out as well, but this is not necessary):
Step 2: Tuck in the opposite shoulder into the one previously popped inside-out until the entire length of the lapel is lined up nicely.
Step 3: Fold the suit jacket vertically so that everything is lined up to the width of one shoulder.
Step 4: Fold the jacket horizontally in half so that the top of the shoulders is lined up with the bottom edge of the jacket.
There you have it! That's how to pack a suit in a suitcase Black Lapel style. The suit jacket is now ready to pack. Fold your pants along the crease and your suit should come out looking just as fresh at your destination as it did at your departure! Incidentally, this is also how your suit arrives fresh out of the Black Lapel box.
Got any questions about this folding method? Need some travel suits to get your started?Leave a comment below or send us your questions at firstname.lastname@example.com!
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Thought I knew how to pack a suit in a case ( wrong ) packed my suit a week ago in with rest of clothes to see how they would fare given the distance travelling, South Australia to Los Angeles 15 days Cruising Hawaii,a week back in LA then back home to S.Australia, I was amazed that there was not a wrinkle at all, will feel relaxed knowing that my suit will be wrinkle free when on board ship. thank you for a great idea.
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Just to let you know you were featured on our blog!
What do you consider a long time to have a suit folded in this position?… I am mailing a couple suits home from another country and I looked on here for some advice.
Will be flying from Georgia to Guam for a wedding in May. I will definitely be using this method to keep my stuff in decent condition. Luckily, I should arrive with enough time to hit up a dry cleaner if necessary. Now all I need to stress about is the flying with my wife and three children.
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Thanks for that. It's something I need to know 'cause we're going to a Wedding in L.A.
Mike- Southampton, England.
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Very quick and very helpful. Thank you ever so much!
Just changed my life with this one! Can't wait to pack…
Another tip that has worked for me business travelling for 20 years. First thing you do when you get to your hotel room – even before you unpack. Go to the bathroom, open the show curtain full and turn on the hot shower on full and walk out closing the bathroom door behind you.
Start you unpack etc and after 15+ minutes, get your suit(s) and put them on hangers with jacket and trousers separately and trousers full hung from the cuffs and hang them in the now steamed up bathroom (turn water off first). Close door behind you and leave till next morning when any travel wrinkles and creases will have dropped out…
A while back I purchased a roll-up carry on suitcase for keeping clothes wrinkle free on short trips – would it be preferrable to pack the suit jacket as outlined here, or is rolling it in my skyroll an okay option?
What about if a suit jacket doesn't have shoulder pads? I find it much harder to do and can't seem to get it right.
Thanks for the tips! What do I do with the sleeves though? Do I just leave it as is when I start folding 1 shoulder into the other?
Thanks for this. I have been using this technique for a while, but I wish that I had printed copies of these instructions to hand out on planes and trains. I cringe every time I see someone crumble up his suit jacket and place it in the overhead compartment. I am going to share this on my blog, in the hopes this tip will save a few wrinkled souls.
THANK YOU! This is a lifesaver especially with more than one suit.
Brilliant. I was in Melbourne airport and with the summer found that wearing a jacket through the flight would be top uncomfortable. Did a quick online search search and found your site. Folded the jacket as you suggested and put it in my carry on.
Thank you very much.
I needed this last week. My jacket is totally wrinkled now. THanks for this post!
I use this method but actually feed one sleeve through the other sleeve. Then, when its folded, its less likely to create wrinkles. I'll also use the roll method using socks or shirts.
Please pack a shirt too!
Barney Stinson would be proud. Suit up !!
It works extremely well – I have seen this tip eons ago in a book written by a butler (Stanley Auger?), and used it since. Thanks so much for bringing it to the surface again!
My mother taught me that technique over thirty years ago. Over the years I've passed it on to lots of people.
That's the way I have been folding jackets for the past 40 years. Sales at J.Press Inc.
What's the longest that we could store our jackets as so without fear of wrinkling it?
I'd probably slide my folded slacks or a couple of t-shirts inside the last fold of the jacket, just to add a bit of crease protection.
I tried it today and it worked flawlessly. Amazing… thanks!
A smart tip is to put a shirt or two in between the two folds when folding the jacket over. That way you avoid a sharp crease in the middle of your jacket when packing it in a full bag or briefcase.
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Wonderful idea. How about the sleeves though? Do they stay unwrinkled too?
Great. But what do you do about the dress shirt!
I travel all the time and I see how wrong I have been in the past.
This is going to make my life so much easier.
Thanks Black Lapel!
Great tip… must share with my other road warrior coworkers.
Exactly how my suit jacket was folded when I opened up the box last week. So, so pleased with the fit (like a glove) and the overall service; I'll definitely be taking these tips into account the next time I travel with my suit!
that's genius!!!


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Mobile Marketing is the new Gold on the horizon.
There are millions of cell phone users who now have access to the internet, they search for a place to eat, they search for things to buy, then even use their phones to turn on and off the lights at their homes.
There are more searches using smart phones than in the past.
Mobile marketing strategies can improve your sales and your bottom line.
Just a few years ago you could still afford to ignore mobile marketing but no longer, these days if you are not marketing your business to the mobile market you are asking for serious financial problems in the near future.


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The blister on Kerry Wood's index finger has spoken, and unfortunately we'll all have to listen.
It's sort of the Alexander Haig of blisters.
Remember him?
Former Secretary of State who, upon finding out that President Reagan had been shot and was in the hospital, exclaimed to the Nation: "I am in control here."
Scary guy.
So Kerry went on the DL yesterday, and his blister is now in control.
Because obviously the rest of the bullpen has lost theirs.
What should have been an enormously fun game to watch turned into the worst stomach-churner of the year.
Carlos Zambrano looked pretty Carlos-like (the good Carlos) both on the mound and with his bat, hitting a double for a ribby.
Soto got a rest and Henry Blanco hit a homer in his place, Cedeno hit one out, and maybe the most encouraging was Aramis coming thru in the clutch with a 2-run double that might have been more if D. Lee hadn't slid past the plate and gotten the late tag.
But when Carlos left and it was up to the bullpen, you could hear Kerry Wood's blister speak up.
There is a cadence to the bullpen that is just off without Kerry, and it affects the whole shebang.
Chad Gaudin let 2 guys get on (yank!), Neal Cotts with the 4 straight balls (yank!), Bob Howry gets an out but has (I think it was) ex-Cub Luis Gonzalez absolutely smack the snot out of the ball to right center, and Mark DeRosa made the game-saving play, perhaps the best catch of his outfield career to limit the damage to only one run.
Howry (yank!).
Marmol comes in and gets the last out of the 8th with a strikeout, but then came the 9th.
And this is the part we're really gonna have to get used to for this series.
3 walks, bases loaded.
Turn off tv.
Pour scotch.
Let the dogs out.
Turn on tv.
2 outs, nobody has scored.
Turn off tv.
Look at scotch bottle.
Make bowl of ice cream.
Turn on tv.
Cubs win 6-3.
But the blister had spoken, and his words gave me the fear.
I just saw that the Cubs have called up Jeff Samardzija.
For the closer role?
The blister is still speaking, guys.


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Shoal of colorful fishes are swimming merrily in the tank.
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7 Foods and Vitamins to help get pregnant with Twins
Are you looking for the best foods and vitamins to take to get pregnant with twins naturally and fast?
Well, I am glad to tell you, you have come to the right place.
It's no surprise that a lot of women or couples want to conceive twins naturally without having to take fertility drugs.
Even though fertility drugs do help to increase your chances of conceiving twins because they make you hyper-ovulate, the problem is that not every woman can have access to this fertility pills without the doctors prescription.
To have access to the fertility drugs you would need to be on fertility treatment or you have infertility problems.
Except you want to get over the counter fertility pills to conceive twins which is possible but not too recommended.
You may also want to take food and vitamins even though you are on fertility drugs such as clomid to further increase your chances to conceive twins and triplets naturally without IVF.
So let's start by taking a look at the exact foods that causes twins shall we?
What to Eat To Get Pregnant With Twins?
1. Cassava
If you can't find to buy cassava in your area. Look up cassava pills or supplements on Amazon.
The key to you having twins is, if you are able to release more than one egg. Majority of women release a single eggs per cycle.
Researches has been shown that cassava contains chemicals that can make a woman to release more than one egg that is necessary to have twins.
Although Twins can still be conceived from a single egg ( identical twins) but that occurs in rare cases.
The most common types of twins conceived are non-identical twins also known as fraternal twins. These are the twins that are conceived from the mother releasing multiple eggs.
So since we know now that the chemical from yam can make a woman hyper ovulate then you want to include yam consumption on a daily or every other day to your diet to boost your chances of having twins naturally.
If you can't find to buy cassava in your area. Look up cassava pills or supplements on Amazon.
2. Yam
Yam is similar to cassava. It is mostly eaten by a tribe in Nigeria called the Yorubas.
SO what is in yam that increases the chances of having twins?
The chemicals found in yam (phytoestrogens and progesterone) are found to be responsible for this hyper-ovulation.
If you leave outside West Africa, you can purchase yam from most Asian and African market store in your city.
3. Diary
Including Milk and other Diary Product could increase your chances of having Twins according to a study on vegan women.
A study done by Gary Steinman showed that women who drank milk excessive were are 5 times likely to have twins than women who do not use animal products.
His study showed that animal product helps to increase the production of a particular type of protein called insulin-like growth factor. This protein is mostly found in cows milk and other types of animal product.
In his study he discovered that, women who don't consume milk or abstained from animal product have a lower chance of conceiving twins.
In women who took milk and eat diary product the study found out that the ovaries of the women was highly sensitive and therefore produced more eggs in a cycle.
4. Folic Acid Supplement
Folic acid is one of the vitamins recommended for couples trying to conceive and pregnant moms to help reduce neural tube defects in babies.
The good thing to note about folic acid is the excess taken in gets passed out as urine.
Researches have found that women who take a certain amount of folic acid before pregnancy are more like to conceive twins.
This is because folic acid helps a woman to ovulate, infact women who take folic acid are likely to get pregnant faster.
Other Sources of Folic acid that you should add to your diet to conceive twins are:
- Spinach
- Broccoli
- Asparagus
- Avocados
How Much Folic Acid do I need to take to conceive Twins?
Taking higher amount of Folic Acid before pregnancy does increases your chances of conceiving twins. Taking 2 times more than the recommended dosage of 400mg would boost your chances of having twins.
The success rate of conceiving twins largely dependent on other factors such as the maternal age of the woman, her family history, her diet e.t.c
A lady reported that she and her husband took folic acid supplement 3 months before getting pregnant and they had twins in her one word she said: " I took Folic Acid and had twins"
Just make sure you combine folic acid with diet of Yam and Cassava, spinach,broccoli, asparagus to have twins or triplets naturally.
5. Maca Root
Maca root is a fertility herbal supplement that is used to increase overall fertility in both men and women. Even though research hasn't found direct relationship between Maca root and conceiving twins.
Maca root can still help women with fertility which can lead to having twins.
6. Pineapple Core
The core of the pineapple contains a type of protein called bromelain.
Bromelain is widely known to help with ovulation and mostly with implantation especially after IVF.
7. Take Calcium and Magnesium Supplement
Although Scientific research is still yet to be concluded on the effects of calcium and magnesium when trying to conceive twins.
You should speak to your doctor before trying to take more than the recommended dose of calcium and magnesium for couples trying to conceive.
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It has been 3 weeks today since I arrived back home. I must confess that today feels like the first day that I have had to do nothing. Above is a picture of me at the grocery store for the first time in 19 months..... it was a bit overwhelming but good to have options. In the last 3 weeks I have celebrated Christmas with my family, traveled to Austin Texas and Atlanta Georgia to visit Emily and Carmen, volunteered at a conference called Passion 2010, visited with friends in St. Louis and interviewed/ landed a job.
I would say I am adjusting well. I think I have been so busy that I have not had time to really think about the differences between my two worlds. I know my heart is still trying to figure out where it needs to be, and how to be equally balanced. I know that as time goes by God will provide clarification and direction and until then I will continue to live faithfully in the place He has placed me.
As a follower of Christ I am called to live passionately for Him where I am so that is what I will continue to do. I was reading Tozer the other day and came a cross this line. "Among the many who profess the Christian faith, scarcely one in a thousand reveals any passionate thirst for God." I want to be that one in a thousand.
Since my blog is called What Jess Did In Africa Today, and today I am in America this will be my last post. Thanks so much for reading and supporting me over the last 2 years.
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The impetus for creating Tilt was an IDSA (Industrial Designers Society of America) and AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Artists) competition call for entries. Titled 'Better Together,' the competition sought to promote a positive message of togetherness, and hope, while showcasing the Bay Area's exceptional creative talent. With a background and focus in designing digital hardware, our team saw Better Together as an opportunity to experiment with new materials and small-scale manufacturing processes.
As a furniture piece, Tilt is impractical; 400 lb. of cement molded in the shape of a fulcrum, it rumbles and slopes when a single user perches on it. In collaboration with a partner, Tilt becomes useful, bringing users together to inspire teamwork and empathy.
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Here's what's normal over the first couple of days after surgery;
- Your vision will seem hazy as your pupil will remain dilated for 24-48 hours after surgery.
- Sunlight and artificial light will seem a lot brighter than normal as the dilated pupil lets in lots of light
- You may notice haloes or a circle around light, particularly after multifocal lens implants. This will settle
- Your pupil will return to normal function within a couple of days and your vision should become much clearer once this happens.
- You should not feel severe pain after cataract surgery but your eye will feel gritty or scratchy. Like a grain of sand irritating the eye.
- Your eye may look pinkish after surgery and there may even be some bright red localised bruising. This is more likely if you are taking asprin or warfarin. This is normal.
- Your eye may feel a little bit achy for a few days.
Here's what's not normal and if you have any of these symptoms you should consult an eye doctor or accident and emergency service as soon as possible;
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- Sticky discharge from the eye
- Cloudiness of the cornea (the clear window of the eye)
- A shadow in the vision that increases in size
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Though it seems emberrasing to ask the question, but since couple of days I have been thinking what is the source of fund of TP? Because I do not see any advertisement in this site. So, how TP manage the costs?
What is the source of fund of TP
Chocolate bribes
Just teasing!
This isn't based on fact...but I heard a rumor that Sam and Peter are actually Bill Gates, and TP is a philanthropic endevor.
(I am sure Sam and Pete will reply to this thread shortly)
if you check the left land side you'll see links etc so i'd say its advertising and travel partners ???
This article may be of interest to you, Mahmud ...
Don't know what happened to that link. In the absence of an edit button, I have posted the transcript below ....
Quoting Cliff Calderwood
Travel web sites are big business, and a lot of power has been placed in the hands of the consumer… or has it? Does your urge to always look for a better deal play into somebody else's greed? A travel web site is a great tool but before booking online you must know these 5 dirty little secrets.
Afraid not. These days there are really two types of sites for booking online travel. The more traditional travel web sites like Expedia, Travelocity, and Travel Now… and the new kid on the block known as travel search engines, which include sites like SideStep and Kayak.
A travel web site only searches its own database of available flights, and rooms, and car rentals. So the search is limited. On the plus side you'll get more search features and booking services offered.
At travel search engines, the results will be more comprehensive than at a travel web site. These engines will include results directly from airline sites, travel web sites, and other databases containing flight and room availability. But you'll find a more restrictive search capability, and you won't get the "bells and whistles" of a travel web site.
A travel web site will negotiate and purchase blocks of fares and rooms directly from airlines and hotels. They can then set their own reduced rate. Because of this the same seat on a flight, or room in a hotel, can vary between travel web sites. So if you want the cheapest fare or room always check out at least two or three before booking online travel.
And just before you press that "submit" button at your chosen online booking site… hop over for a final check at the airline or hotel web site for any special offers or lower rates you may get if you book directly. Sometimes the best deals are reserved for their own online customers or preferred clients, and you'll even avoid fees.
Speaking of fees…
4. BEWARE OF TRAVEL WEB SITE SERVICE AND TRANSFER FEES The travel web sites may be complimentary to search but they charge to book, and if you have to change itinerary then it can be frustrating and costly. On the good side the service fees are not usually outrageous – around $5 per ticket. But I've seen some creeping up to around $20 and there's no need to pay that price.
Now transfer fees are another kettle of fish, and it can cost you $100 or more to change after you've booked a flight. And if you want a refund… be prepared to spend hours on the phone to get to somebody who can authorize it.
The travel search engines make money from paid advertising and a referral fee from the airlines or hotels, so usually you don't pay a fee when using them to book. But this is changing so check for fee disclosure before booking.
Many of the travel web sites have a link on their page that allows you to become part of their affiliate program for no cost. The problem is it's usually "hidden" at the bottom of the page in type point 7 invisible. By becoming an affiliate you can earn a small commission for everybody you refer to them that buys a ticket or room.
But before you rush out and quit your day job and set yourself up as a home-based travel agent, understand you'll have to send them hundreds and hundreds of people hot to buy to make any money. But here are better reasons to become an affiliate…
These same sites allow you as an affiliate to purchase your own tickets and still get paid the commission. It's effectively a discount. For the sake of spending a few minutes completing the form why not do it?
Now be sure to check the small print on the agreement just so you're familiar with the restrictions if any, and how they'll pay you.
Armed with these tips and secrets you'll be better prepared to navigate through a travel web site. I use them all the time and continue to find new twists and gotchas. And there's still that travel agent in the mall if you just can't be bothered with the whole online game.
Okay, okay.... isn't it obvious??? It's all those member fees and donations Raven's right though, the top three links on the left hand side are advertisers that have been with us for about two years now. That money covers the hosting costs which really shoot up when you get into things like photo uploads... There are also a few advertisers on the home/front page if you aren't logged in as well as some on destination specific pages (like the Australia guide page). You'll notice all ads are text ads aside from one or two small logos. We have a pretty big issue with cluttering up the site with ads and as long as we can avoid it, we will.
The bottom two links on the left are to what is known as affiliate programs, basically where a third party agency handles the entire booking process and we get a small percentage of every sale made for referring the client. These are common on most travel websites as there are really only a few travel websites that are specialized enough to create and run a booking engine properly. We pick partners that we know are very good and specialize in their field, then refer customers to them and if we refer enough (and they buy something), we get a kickback (it's also described in that article Wocca just posted as the last point).
We also have a few affiliate programs (partners basically) which we link to from the top right of our travel tools page.
You'll notice the absense of regular flights... this is so far because we haven't found a partner that can offer something decent, no matter where the person is booking from. Most flight specific booking engines are incredibly different depending on the country you're booking from.
When Pete and me started out by the way, we didn't think the site was ever going to make any money, it was just a hobby thing that we paid to keep in the air (hosting costs were also about 1/100 of what they are now!).
Quoting Sam I Am
When Pete and me started out by the way, we didn't think the site was ever going to make any money, it was just a hobby thing that we paid to keep in the air (hosting costs were also about 1/100 of what they are now!).
Well thank the inter galactic powers for Hobbies
When Pete and me started out by the way, we didn't think the site was ever going to make any money, it was just a hobby thing that we paid to keep in the air (hosting costs were also about 1/100 of what they are now!).
Wow, that's why i told my friend that there is a place as decent as Utopia - here! But they do not believe me...kakaka. Just wait and see!
Where I come from, people are in business to make money.
Thanks SAM & Wocca. NOw the matter is clear to me.


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I am B12 deficient, I already know that.
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I am in the Essex area.
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The artworks is divided into seven timeperiods, that give a good impression of his development as an artist.
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|Pictural architecture in red, yellow and blue, 1923
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Marcus Tullius Cicero
|The rosegarden, 1920
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How lucky to be able to see so many of his paintings! I'm glad you shared some; I really like The Rosegarden. So amazing.
Oh, and I just read that book you reviewed a couple months ago: The Year of the Runaways. It was so good. But hard to read, too, because their circumstances seemed so hopeless most of the time. But did the epilogue bother you at all? It felt tacked onto the ending to me, like an afterthought. I could've done without it. But I really liked the rest of the book. Thanks for the rec!
I am glad you liked this post and seeing the paintings in reality felt like a real privilege!
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Oct 14 , 2018 · KNIGHT THEATER at Levine Center for the Arts
Presented by: Charlotte Ballet
Join us at the Knight Theatre for the Middle and High School Dance Festival Performance Sunday, October 14, 2018 at 6:30 pm. Students from across the Carolinas will perform an adjudicated concert featuring faculty, guest choreographer, and student works.
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A special preferred parking rate of only $5* is available for our patrons in our designated garage. This Garage is CASH ONLY.
Levine Center for the Arts Parking Garage
Located at 550 S. Tryon Street with an entrance on W. Stonewall Street.
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*The $5 rate is applicable when parked in the garage after 5pm on weekdays, Mon – Fri. If parked in the garage before 5pm, the $5 rate is void. There is no time restriction for the weekend, Sat & Sun. This garage is CASH ONLY.
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All of our theaters and classrooms are accessible to patrons who use wheelchairs. Most restrooms and water fountains in all facilities are wheelchair accessible, and restrooms are equipped with strobe-light as well as audio alarm systems.
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For performances in the Knight Theater, an usher can meet patrons who need assistance at the corner of 1st and S. Tryon Streets.
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Certain performances will be audio described for the blind or visually impaired. The Box Office will provide a schedule of these performances upon request. Audio description provides an on-going oral description of the action, sets and costumes during the performance. Each participant wears a headset, and no other patrons are able to hear the descriptions.
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* Please do not click back, refresh or close the window, as this will end the game in the middle and you could lose the challenge.
In this multiplayer Match 3 cash game players can earn money by winning challenges. Players can create a contest and challenge other players to beat their scores or break challenges created by other players to win cash money.
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To create a challenge you will have to click on Rs.5, Rs.20, Rs.50 or Rs.100 button in the Create Challenge area of the game. Once you click money is deducted from your account and a new challenge is created. Players will have to score the maximum points within the given time. After the game score is recorded and put for challenge for other players to break it. If a challenger scores less than your score you win the challenge money after deduction of Skill4Win management fee. If you have created a Rs.100 challenge you will win Rs.200 minus Skill4Win game management fee.
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You can also see challenges created by others and break them to earn money. You can see a list of challenges created by other players along with the entry fee and winner fee. To break a challenge click on the break button. After you click on the break button money is deducted from your deposit and game begins. If you manage to score higher than the player who created the challenge you will win the challenge money after deduction of Skill4Win game management fee.
Aqua adventure is a match 3 games with a different spin. Players familiar with three tiles matching games in this genre like bejeweled, candy crush this game is easy to pick up. Match 3 games also known as tile-matching games are popular for the ability of player to identify patterns and match the objects which are randomly placed in a board.
In Aqua adventure there are different fishes of different colors placed in a random manner in the board. The player will have to spin a group of three fishes in such a manner that they form a match of same fishes around it. Once the match is made the fishes disappear and new set of fishes appear.
Aqua adventure is designed to be a multi-player games where players can challenge others to beat scores or break high score challenges created by other players. The practise games are available for free but players can also pay for cash by creating challenges.
You will have to spin and rotate a group of fishes to form a match of three identical fishes. Once the match is made fishes disappear and fishes from above fall down. Players score for each match made. If with a single spin players are able to make more than one match extra points are awarded for the same. The games has ten different levels that need to be completed in 5 minutes. With each level the complexity of the game increases.
How to Earn Bonus Points?
Sting Fish : Matching three sting fish of any color gives a bonus score.
Star fish: Starfish is created when a player surrounds a fish with similar type fishes. Star Fish enables players to rotate all fishes around them and help to get large combos and higher scores.
Timer fish : A timer fish should be matched before the timer count reaches Zero. A Timer Fish can be matched with similar color fishes.
Killer Fish : If a Killer Fish reaches the bottom of the play area the game gets over. The player will have to match the Killer Fish with fishes of the same color before it reaches the bottom.
Power pearl: When a fish is surrounded by star fishes it forms power pearl. Power Pearl gives extra capabilities of moving fish around to make large combos and increase the score.
3 Power pearl: Players win the game when they make a combination of 3 Power Pearl or can keep playing till they get a high score.
Aqua Adventure match 3 games is available for free to practise. Once players have familiarized themselves players can break challenges set by other players or create new challenges.
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Q: When is a trailblazing female pioneer not a trailblazing female pioneer?
A: When she's Margaret Thatcher, of course.
When is a trailblazer not celebrated in slide shows and lists and placed on posters during the months when these things are celebrated?
When she's a conservative.
Look at your average list of Female Trailblazers and Great Women in History and Women Leaders — Ashley Judd's there, Chelsea Clinton, even Princess Diana — but there's a giant hole shaped like the Iron Lady. The Guardian's list of 10 Best Female Pioneers includes Coco Chanel and Kathryn Bigelow, but Margaret Thatcher? Go fish. Go so far as to include her name on a list of Feminist Baby Names, with the admittedly tepid endorsement that "Look, whatever your politics, you gotta give the Iron Butterfly her due. This broad strong armed a nation whilst wearing pearls," and people will write whole essays explaining why this is Not Okay.
"Well," people say, in total earnestness, "she was a woman… in history… but I didn't like the history that she made."
Feminism does not much like Margaret Thatcher. And by some well-publicized accounts, the feeling was mutual. "I hate feminism. It is poison," she reportedly told adviser Paul Johnson. Margaret Thatcher didn't believe in Women. She believed in Margaret Thatcher. Assisting the Sisterhood did not rank on her list of priorities. She wasn't about rhetoric. She even reportedly tried to change a line in a speech telling a Moses figure to take his "pills," not understanding that "tablets" and Moses was a joke.
If you want proof that there is no Women's Bloc of voters, just look at Twitter's conversation about Margaret Thatcher today.
But in a strange way, that was the biggest feminist triumph of all.
A great deal of feminism is the insistence that you be taken on your own merits. Thatcher certainly was. It's why she's not on these lists. In a 2011 poll, she ranked low on likeability, as Lionel Shriver notes over at Slate, but topped the charts on capability. "Being powerful is like being a lady," she famously said. "If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
In the days and weeks to come, the question of exactly what Thatcher's legacy was is going to occupy many pages. (Here's a pie chart of Twitter sentiment on the subject that seems fairly accurate.) She was a fighter, undoubtedly, who picked her battles and believed fervently in individual responsibility, taking on the unions and dismantling much of the elaborate apparatus of British social welfare. She told Woman's Own in 1987:
"I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand "I have a problem, it is the Government's job to cope with it!" or "I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!" "I am homeless, the Government must house me!" and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then also to help look after our neighbour and life is a reciprocal business and people have got the entitlements too much in mind without the obligations, because there is no such thing as an entitlement unless someone has first met an obligation…
Conservative icon? No question. Feminist icon? She's the hole in the list.
The Guardian's list of the Ten Best Female Pioneers includes Eva Peron, but Thatcher's nowhere to be seen. She does make About.com's list of Top 100 Women of History, but then again, so does Rosie the Riveter, who is literally a fictional character.
Possibly this is what she would have wanted. Take individuals on their merits, not as they are associated in groups. Maybe that doesn't mean that you like her. But even then it's difficult to deny that she made it more possible to judge people on their merits, not feel compelled to reverence simply because someone was the First Lady or the Only Lady. And for 11 years, she was there on the television, a simple, assumed fact. But it was much harder than she made it look. As Matt Gutman of ABC wrote on Twitter, "Many of us grew up watching Margaret Thatcher on TV, thinking it was perfectly normal for a woman to lead a great power. It wasn't."
Not just any woman — nor just any person — but Margaret Thatcher, the iron lady, a world figure still capable of stirring immense passions. Even the vitriol is a testimony: She is being judged on her own merits. You know you've done something right when instead of pausing to congratulate you for being female and first, everyone leaps straight to hating what you are doing. You know you've made an impact when the people who most detest you skip "Lady Caligula" and head directly to "Caligula." No wonder she retains such power. (No wonder Sarah Palin always tries to evoke the comparison, although with Palin the comparison only goes so far; she seems to lack Thatcher's drive to amass any accomplishments more tangible than a reality show.)
Maybe, as Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin wrote on Twitter, a better answer to the question is
"Q: When is a trailblazing female leader not a trailblazing female leader? A: Never."
RIP, Baroness Thatcher.


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South Portland third baseman Alex Livingston tags out Falmouth's Chris Camelio during the teams' Class A South baseball final Tuesday night. The Red Riots weren't able to repeat as champions, falling, 4-2.
South Portland's captains receive the runner-up plaque following Tuesday's loss.
Cape Elizabeth's baseball team found itself the last team standing at press time, battling upstart Freeport in the Class B South Final, after Scarborough lost in the semifinals and South Portland was ousted in the regional final.
Last year, Cape Elizabeth was the top seed in Western B, but lost an agonizing and controversial 3-1 (eight-inning) decision to eventual repeat champion Greely in the regional final.
Ever since that loss, the Capers had one thing on their minds, getting back to that round and winning.
Cape Elizabeth earned the top seed in Class B South after an 11-5 regular season and dispatched No. 8 Wells (12-0, in six-innings) and fourth ranked Maranacook (7-1) with relative ease in the quarterfinals and semifinals, respectively.
Against the Warriors, the Capers broke open a close game with six runs in the fifth, then ended it via the mercy rule with five more in the sixth. Brendan Tinsman drove in four runs, singled, and ended the game with a three-run home run. Marshall Peterson allowed just two hits and struck out seven batters in 5.2 innings. In the win over the Black Bears, Matt Riggle and Dylan Roberts had multiple hits and Nate Ingalls was in control on the mound, only surrendering five hits.
Cape Elizabeth won, 10-0, at Freeport (13-6) back on May 4, but that's before the Falcons caught fire, winning seven of their final eight games before knocking off Morse in the preliminary round and upsetting York in the quarterfinals and two-time defending state champion Greely in the semifinals to reach the regional final for the first time.
The Capers won the only previous playoff meeting, 4-0, in the 2012 preliminary round.
If Cape Elizabeth advanced to the state final, it will play either Old Town (17-1) or Hermon (14-4) Saturday at 11 a.m. at Mansfield Field in Bangor. The Capers beat Hermon to win their most recent title, 6-2, in 2004.
Scarborough, on the heels of a better-than-expected regular season under the guidance of legendary coach Mike D'Andrea, and defending regional champion South Portland began the playoffs on a collision course and that came to fruition.
South Portland went 14-2 in the regular season, losing only to Thornton Academy and Portland (in extra innings), and earned the No. 2 seed in Class A South. The Red Riots held off No. 10 Marshwood in the quarterfinals, 6-4. Griffin Kelley allowed 11 hits, but gutted out the win and Sam Troiano paced the offense with a pair of hits and two RBI.
Saturday, in the semifinals, South Portland beat No. 3 Scarborough for the second time this spring.
The Red Storm were coming off a 4-0 win over No. 6 Gorham in their quarterfinals. Mitchell Wedge pitched a two-hit gem. Cam Seymour drove in a pair of runs and Tim Carion and Nick Lorello also had RBI. Lorello and Seymour both had two hits, as did Morgan Pratt.
In the semifinal, the Red Riots tried to put Scarborough away, but the win didn't come easily. South Portland built leads of 5-2 and 8-4, but in the seventh, the Red Storm got a run and loaded the bases, bringing the go-ahead run to the plate, but Drew Abramson, who came on in relief of Troiano in the fourth, retired Lorello to end it. Abramson, Troiano, Matt Crockett, Riley Hasson and Zack Johnson all had multiple hits.
Scarborough got two hits and two RBI from Jack Hughes. Josh Reed took the loss as the Red Storm finished their surprisingly good season at 14-4.
"It was a good game," D'Andrea said. "We had to play perfectly to win and we didn't. They hit the ball well and did what they had to do to win. They showed why they were the best team in the SMAA. We had our chances. I'm proud of the guys for hanging in there and playing until the last out.
"I'm so proud to have been a part of this this year and I know the players feel the same. The parents and the Scarborough community were terrific. The Scarborough community is wonderful. The character of the kids showed and that showed the character of the people raising those boys. I thank them. Coming back to the league blind, so to speak, we met my expectations for sure. The coaching staff and the kids worked hard. They never complained. They accepted their roles and did them. They progressed really well and got better every game. Everyone was on the same page and made this happen. The kids deserved what they got."
Graduation will once again hit the Red Storm hard, but expect them to be in contention again in 2017.
"We lost a lot,' said D'Andrea, who said back in the spring that he'd decide after the season whether or not he'd return as coach. "All of our pitching pretty much graduates. We do have some good, young arms. Our system is now in place and the younger guys know it. I'll 100 percent be a part of the program next year in some capacity."
South Portland advanced to meet top-ranked, undefeated Falmouth in the regional final Tuesday. The teams had no history.
The Yachtsmen scored a first inning run, but in the third, the Red Riots got a couple unearned run off Falmouth ace Cam Guarino, as a run scored on Abramson's ground ball and another came home on an errant throw. The Yachtsmen then got three unearned runs off Kelley in the bottom of the third and Guarino only allowed one hit all game, retiring the final 14 batters, and South Portland's season ended at 16-3 with a 4-2 setback.
"It's tough to win when you only have one hit," Red Riots coach Mike Owens said. "I thought we had very good swings against Cam. We hit the ball hard at some guys. We just couldn't find gaps and he doesn't make mistakes, so we couldn't string anything together against him."
Owens said that in retrospect, South Portland achieved more than even he envisioned.
"I'm really proud of this group," Owens said. "Honestly, if you told me we'd win 16 games, I'm not sure I'd have taken that bet. It's just a great group. They've been together a long time. They play the game the right way. They came to practice every day wanting to be there. They made it fun for me. I had a very enjoyable season. Getting here two years in a row says a lot about these kids."
The Red Riots graduate eight seniors, but several key players will be back. South Portland has become accustomed to playing deep into June and the 2017 squad should be able to do the same.
"The future is bright," Owens said. "I hope the younger guys got a taste of it and we can have a good summer and come back next year and compete again. We have good depth. We should be right back in the mix."


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My Client is recruiting for a Care Coordinator/Rota Planner to join their well-established, independently owned domiciliary care company who have over 20 years' experience in domiciliary care and are based about 10 miles west of Leicester.
As well as an attractive basic salary of up to £24,000, the successful candidate will be rewarded with; excellent progression opportunities, a Monday – Friday office job with no regular requirements to take part in an on call rota, as well as ongoing training and support along with the knowledge of working in a supportive environment for an excellent provider with an overall good rating in their last CQC inspection.
*A Full UK Driving License with access to a car is ESSENTIAL for this role
The Position:
With the support of the Branch Manager, you will be responsible for a large team of field based carers who you will need to regularly liaise with to ensure all calls are covered and attended.
Other duties will include, but are not limited too;
– Update the Branch Manager and the quality and training team to identify any additional needs/report any concerns
– Monitor the level of staff sickness and holidays
– Make sure that the online system is regularly updated and that the information inputted is accurate
The Person:
– NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care qualified, as minimum, with the willingness to work towards completing NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care (if not already held)
– Previous coordinating experience within a busy domiciliary care branch
– Computer literate
Coburg Banks Health and Social Care specialise in recruiting Care Managers, Care Co-ordinators and Senior Carers within Residential care, Domiciliary care, Supported living and Nursing across the UK. We would welcome the opportunity to help you in your career, so please send a copy of your CV into us. If you know of other people who are currently looking for a new career within the Health and Care Sector please refer them to us.


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If you travel frequently across time zones, you are probably familiar with jet lag symptoms. Most of us tend to put up with jet lag as an unavoidable consequence of long distance travel. However, using melatonin for jet lag can greatly help to alleviate jet lag symptoms, allowing you to get accustomed to your new time zone quickly.
What is melatonin?
Melatonin is a hormone that occurs naturally in the body. Melatonin is produced in the pineal gland in the brain, and we can get small amounts of it in some foods including meat and vegetables. However, to get sufficient quantities of melatonin for jet lag alleviation, you have to take melatonin supplements. Also, the quantity of melatonin we produce decreases as we age.
Natural melatonin in your body is associated with your sleep and wake cycles. During the evening, melatonin levels rise and remain high throughout the night, dropping off early in the morning and staying low throughout the day. When you are jet lagged, your sleep wake cycle is out of whack, and hence you may have low melatonin when you are supposed to be sleeping according to the local time zone. In this case, taking melatonin supplements can help to elevate your melatonin levels, allowing you to enjoy an uninterrupted night's sleep. Unlike prescription sleeping pills, melatonin's effects are pretty mild, allowing you to sleep if you want to, but it doesn't generally make you stay very groggy for extended periods if you do not want to sleep.
In addition to alleviating jet lag symptoms, benefits of melatonin also include treating seasonal affective disorder or SAD, helping people with insomnia as well as those whose sleep patterns are altered due to working night shifts, and possibly also to treat chronic headaches, and it is even being studied as a possible cancer treatment, immune system booster and as a treatment for slowing down the aging process. However, these latter possible benefits of melatonin are still under study.
How to use melatonin for jet lag
Take melatonin if the difference between your old and new time zones is 5 hours or greater. It should not be taken for smaller time zone transitions as that can mess up your sleep wake cycle. To sleep well on your flight, you can take melatonin between about 6 to 7 pm local time while on the flight. At your destination, you can take a melatonin pill before going to bed (between 10 and 11 pm) for up to 4 days, less if you have adapted to your new time zone earlier. I have also gone to bed without taking melatonin, and then taken it when I woke up in the middle of the night, which helped me sleep through the rest of the night.
Side effects of melatonin
Although some have been reported, side effects of melatonin are generally quite mild and go away once you stop taking it. These can include sleepiness (which is not really a side effect if you're taking it to sleep better), stomach problems, headache, vivid dreaming changes in blood flow, and grogginess in the morning. For these reasons, you should not take melatonin if you are going to drive, use heavy equipment, or otherwise engage in tasks that require alertness within a few hours after taking it.
Where to buy melatonin
Melatonin is available in health food stores and also at many grocery stores and pharmacies as a nutritional supplement. You can buy melatonin without a prescription. Trader Joe's is one grocery store that sells melatonin pills. You can also buy melatonin online from retailers such as Amazon.com
Note: This article provides some general information about the benefits of melatonin for jet lag alleviation, but is not written by a medical professional. Please consult a doctor if you have any questions or concerns, especially if you are planning to take melatonin on a frequent basis.


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With the Multeos M401 and M461 public displays, NEC Display Solutions is launching two screens onto the market that combine high-quality technology with an appealing design. The 40 and 46 monitors, with 1920 x 1080 resolution, are targeted at users looking for professional technology, impressive content and an appealing appearance when it comes to digital signage.
Users also benefit from the varied and easy-to-use configuration and connectivity options. The elaborate redesign using more efficient components compared to predecessor models combined with the optional stand enable NEC Display Solutions to realize cost savings and pass them on to the customer.
Business owners who take particular pride in the design of their sales rooms are often faced with a dilemma when introducing digital signage: an emphasis on technology usually means sacrificing appearance. It very often happens that store owners choose TV sets when it comes to selecting screens for their digital signage systems for design reasons, says Thorsten Prsybyl, Product Line Manager Public Displays Europe at NEC Display Solutions. Their panels, however, fall significantly short of dedicated public displays in terms of quality and reliability. With the Multeos product range, we are focusing on customers that appreciate professional technology and an appealing design, continues Prsybyl.
The NEC Option Slot for expansion modules such as the built-in PC or the DVI Daisy Chain Board offers technical as well as visual advantages. The extensions replace external distribution equipment and the cables they need to operate. The built-in ambient light sensor measures the ambient lighting and ensures that the screen brightness is only as high as needed.
With a range of interfaces, the Multeos M401 and M461 are equipped for all kinds of situations. As well as DVI and HDMI, they boast a DisplayPort connection. The built-in Ethernet connection facilitates network integration, thereby enabling the screens to be controlled and managed remotely. An RS-232 interface enables the direct copying of device settings without having to adjust each screen manually with the remote control, thereby reducing installation costs.
The displays offer extended combination possibilities for picture-in-picture from different signal sources. The simultaneous input for two PCs is now also possible via DVI and VGA. To improve user-friendliness, different input interfaces can be assigned informative names in order to make allocation easier, for instance Camera1 instead of DVI. Another useful detail comes into play when the screen is used in portrait mode: the on-screen display rotates by 90 degrees, making it easier to operate.
Additionally, NEC Display Solutions offers two special Multeos introduction bundles starting in January 2010. With the purchase of a new Multeos model customers can choose between a free (otherwise optional) stand and a free wall mount solution.
Availability and Warranty
The NEC Multeos M401 and M461 will be commercially available as from December 2009 in black or silver priced at 1,275.00 respectively 1,855.00 (excl. VAT). NEC Display Solutions Europe offers a three year warranty for its displays including backlights.


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[The opening sequence of Steven Spielberg's Oscar winning movie – 'Saving Private Ryan' presents one of the most unforgettable and accurate depictions of D-Day ! Though the second World War stretched from 1939 until 1945, no other day in the six years of fighting had perhaps been as decisive and crucial as this day – the 6th of June, 1944. Today, one of the main reasons why tourists come to Normandy is to visit the D-Day landing beaches and its associated museums. Stretching across the English Channel coast, the five beaches code-named Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah, were the sites where on D-Day, over 150,000 allied troops launched a simultaneous surprise invasion of Normandy, in a bid to free France (and subsequently, the rest of Europe) from the clutches of the Nazi Germans. The invasion had marked the beginning of the end of World War II ….and succeeded in driving the first nail into Hitler's coffin !]
It was Day 3 of my visit to Normandy and I took an early morning train from Rouen to the city of Caen. Since I had just a little over half a day available in the city before catching a train back to Paris, I had to devise a clear plan of how I would spend it…… and that involved visiting Sword Beach and the 11th century Chateau Ducal (Duke's castle) built by William the Conqueror himself. Sword Beach was one of the five D-Day landing beaches and I had chosen it mainly because it was the closest from Caen [located 15 km north of the city in the sea-side town of Ouistreham], and also, this was where the British troops had landed. [The Americans had landed on Omaha and Utah beaches, the Canadians on Juno and the British on Sword and Gold beaches]
Right outside the Caen train station was the Gare Routiere (the bus station) and I went in and bought a return ticket to Ouistreham from the lady at the counter. Must admit, all the people I encountered in Normandy have been very friendly and helpful, and with their broken English and my even more shattered French, we've been able to get along quite well. I had to catch the Line 1 service to Ouistreham and the bus arrived exactly as per the timetable that I had downloaded before setting off to France. It was a 30-minute ride to the sea-side town of Ouistreham and for the first time in my three days in Normandy, the weather was sunny and warm.
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Ouistreham today is the port for Caen and is also a popular sea-side resort dotted with beautiful villas. Many of these villas were occupied by German officers during the years of Nazi occupation in the early 1940's. Sword beach was a short walk from the bus stop and my first thoughts on seeing it was on how wide and long it was. The clear white sands stretched on for a few kilometres and the sea was several hundreds metres away from the beginning of the beach. Unlike other beaches I had seen in Normandy, at places like 'Le Havre', this one was not a pebble beach and looking at the conditions, it was clearly evident on why the allies may have chosen this place for their amphibious landing on D-day.
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There was hardly anyone at the beach that morning, except for a few people walking their dogs, but the lady at the Tourist Office near the beach told me that there were major memorial activities planned for the following week – during the anniversary of D-Day. I collected a shell from the beach as a souvenir and visited the D-Day memorial that stood nearby.
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A museum dedicated to the British No.4 Commando division who had landed on Sword beach, was just across the road, but I skipped it in favour of the Musee du Mur de l'Atlantique (Atlantic Wall museum), which is housed in an old Nazi bunker.
The bunker is actually a large 5-storeyed tower offering vantage views of the beach and it had taken the British 3 full days since D-day to storm in and take the 50+ Nazi soldiers holed up inside as prisoners. But 66 years later, all I had to do was to buy a 7 Euro ticket to get inside.
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Outside the building were kept a few tanks and gun batteries used in the war, and amongst them, was an actual D-Day landing vessel. Incidentally, this was the very same vessel that was later used for filming the opening scene of 'Saving Private Ryan' and had held in it, amongst others, Tom Hanks himself !
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As I stepped inside the building, I was greeted by a large TV screen playing the movie […yea, you guessed right] 'Saving Private Ryan', albeit a French dubbing. The interiors of the bunker have been restored to what it may have looked like under Nazi possession.
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After grabbing a sandwich from a beach stall, I caught a bus back into Caen and headed for the next destination in my agenda.
Chateau Ducal:
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Right in the centre of the city, stands the Chateau Ducal or Duke's Castle. Built by William the Conqueror in 1060, the castle had been in use throughout the middle ages and was also used as military barracks as late as during World War II.
In 1066, six years after building this castle, William, then the Duke of Normandy, had crossed the English Channel and invaded England, setting up a powerful new ruling establishment in the hitherto Anglo-Saxon country. It was the last time England was ever forcefully conquered by a foreign power and even the current queen – Elizabeth II can trace a direct line of ancestry to William the Conqueror ! William built many new castles around England, including the Tower of London [….whose White Tower is so named after the special stones from Caen that were used to build it]. The conquest earned William the title of The Conqueror, which may have very well justified the effort, 'cos until then he had been referred to as William the Bastard, thanks to his illegitimate birth 😉
The castle complex was massive and interestingly, entrance was free. The lawns around and inside the castle seemed to be a nice hangout for French students, who were seen lazing around and enjoying the sun. And Caen being a college town, there were plenty of them around.


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