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I have been seeing and reading a lot of blogs lately about stay at home mothers versus working mothers. Not to imply that stay at home mothers don't work, mind you. Because I am one (a SAHM) and although I don't collect a pay cheque for caring for my kids, I work damn hard. Just as hard as any mother who works outside the home I am sure. Just in a different way.
I am so sick of mothers being pinned against one another- which mom is better, the stay at home mom or the working one? We are all moms. We all do what is best for our kids. That is what makes us supermoms. Not what we do for a living or how much money we bring home.
Being a stay at home mother does not mean I, or any other SAHM, love my kids more than a parent who works outside the house. That is just absurd. No one should be made to feel guilty for working, just like stay at home mothers shouldn't be judged or made to feel ashamed or be asked 'what do you do all day?" Seriously? Well, I can't speak for anyone else but I tend to start my day at 11am (I let my kids fend for themselves until then) and then I sit on my ass all day and do, well, nothing. Sometimes I paint my nails too. HA! The reality is, my day is all kinds of hard. Even if sometimes it is fun, silly, and crazy. It is also hard, long, messy and almost always involves tears, tantrums and attitude. This job is mentally, physically, emotionally draining. It has its rewards no doubt, but it's hard.
I have been both- a working mother and a stay at home mom. There are pros and cons to each. As a working mother (when I only had Aiden), I hated dropping him off at the sitter's house every morning and him screeching for me not to leave. It was the worst way to start my day. I also hated missing out on special moments. I hated when he was sick because I wanted him to be with no one else but me, even if it was just a runny nose. It also posed a huge problem because it meant either myself or my hubby had to take time off work to care for him. I hated that I had to place so much trust in someone else to care for my child and just hope that she was doing things the way I would want. I loved going to work and feeling like Sonya, not mommy. I loved adult interaction. I loved having a life outside of my house. I loved not having to worry about nap times and bum changes for 9 hours out of a day. I loved feeling like I accomplished something and got paid for it. I loved going to pick up my son after the end of my work day and have him run into my arms. I appreciated our time together even more, because we had time apart.
As a stay at home mother, I get to see the special moments as they happen. I know what kind of care my kids are receiving, and what they are being fed. I get to see all the smiles, watch them grow and learn, and get more than my fair share of hugs. I miss nothing. My boys love having me home, and I enjoy being home with them. I can't deny that being able to leave on my yoga pants on all day isn't a perk. And I am most definitely saving money on makeup (and shampoo! Haha). I get to enjoy the sunshine and hide from the snow.
BUT I miss adult interaction. It is most definitely a huge downfall to being at home. Often times if I make a phone call, I find myself lingering a bit too long, perhaps there is something else the customer service rep at Bell wants to talk about. "Is there anything else, Ma'am?". Well yes, there is. Let's talk….. (totally not trying to promote Bell here, that just happens to be there slogan. Haha). I miss leaving my house for longer than an hour or so at a time. I miss leaving my house alone.
I can't help but think that because I am home all day everyday with my kids, they aren't getting the best of me. Not 100%, not all the time. I get tired and cranky and quite frankly need a break from them, and I don't get it so I may be a little too irritable with them. I may lose patience too quickly. I can't help but wonder sometimes, if I wasn't around them all the time, would I be more patient? Less irritable? I don't always feel like I am being the best mom that I can be because my exhaustion has gotten the best of me. But I am fed up with fighting over the same things every single day. If my son wants a banana, do I take the peel off it for him or not? I have a 50-50 chance of pissing him off and causing a tantrum. So I always be sure to ask. Lord help me if I forget. Same goes with apple. Or straws in yogurt. Or opening a package of crackers.
Sometimes it would seem easier if someone else had to worry about these things during the day- whether or not the fruit has peel. It would be easier on me if I went to work, used my brain in a different way, challenged myself, and let my kids have a break from me and be around other kids, other adults. So I tried looking for a job. I have a business degree and was hoping to put it to use. Turns out it is hard to find a job in a small town that actually allows you to bring home a decent income, leaving you with more than two loonies after you pay for full time childcare for two kids. So yes, some women choose to work because they need the income and can't afford to stay home. Some women stay home because they can't afford to work, it would cost too much to pay for childcare. Some women want to stay home with their kids, some women don't. It's a personal opinion that shouldn't be open for debate.
For whatever reason you decide to work or stay home, it shouldn't matter as long as you are happy. That's what matters. Because a happy mommy makes for a happy family. What you do for a living (whether it be outside the home or not) does not dictate how much you love your child.
We need to stop beating ourselves up (me included) about how we all live up to the standards of being a good mom. If your child is loved, happy and safe, than you are doing a good job and it won't matter to him/her what you do. To them, our only title is 'mom'.
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Who better to tell the story of pickling things than Bryce Shivers and Lisa Eversman, the pickle-happy characters played by Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein on the hit IFC sketch comedy show Portlandia. So I sought and was granted permission* to use their iconic "We can pickle that," characters to make a piece for this art show. The truth was that in doing art about economy and … [Read more...] about We can pickle that!
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Each month a team member of MetroPM writes a movie review to share with you. And this month team member Alice Connaughton has reviewed the movie 'The Lone Ranger'. Directed by: Gore Verbinski Starring: Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer & William Fichtner.
I walked into the movies expecting to be wowed, but to be honest the previews wowed me more than watching 'The Lone Ranger'.
2 hours and 15 minutes into the movie and I wasn't impressed. Yawning, checking my watch as to when it may end and wondering what the jokes where all about. I kept looking around seeing everyone else heavily involved in the film. Being the youngest in the cinema, I felt that 'The Lone Ranger' was perhaps directed at 'baby boomers'.
Taking my dad along with me, I could see he was thoroughly enjoying it. "To get an appreciation of the movie you really need to be aware of the Lone Ranger TV series", Dad stated at the conclusion of the film. He also went on to say, "I felt that it was like a 'send up'. It took a comical look at the Lone Ranger and if my brothers and I all went together it would be a night full of laughter and enjoyment".
Action packed, comical, stupid, questionable, confusing and funny are all words I would use to describe the movie. It was a story (in my eyes) that didn't really go anywhere. Going for too long I felt it could have been reduced and parts of the film could have been cut out.
I personally wouldn't recommend this film, but if you asked my dad he would.
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...makes no difference who you are/ Anytime the Man desires/ You lose your job.
Fate is kind/ She brings to those who love/ The sweet fulfillment of/ Their secret longing...
(Which is to train your replacement and go on unemployment for life)
Like a bolt out of the blue/ Suddenly it comes to you/ When you wish upon a star/ You lose Your JOB!
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Every day, here and in other centers, so many persons, mostly young people, queue for a hot meal. These people remind us of the suffering and tragedies of humanity. But that queue also tells us that it is possible for all of us to do something now. Suffice it to knock on the door, and try to say: "I'm here. How can I give a hand?"
~Pope Francis
Many thanks to Rocco Palmo for posting the transcript from the Pope's address to asylum seekers. The above quote, the conclusion of the Holy Father's comments, elicit just a few comments from me this morning.
I know a woman, professionally very successful and well-established in her career, who this semester enrolled in law school. She continues to be active in her community, generous to her friends, and has not left her previous - and highly demanding - job. Yet, as she looks to the future, her own life's history of love and generosity gave her the courage to imagine how she might use her considerable talents to help others. She enrolled in law school, not out of blind ambition or with an eye toward climbing a ladder of success, but with the hope that she'd be able eventually to offer her services in legal aide clinics. At a time when others might be dreaming of perfecting one's golf game or augmenting the wine cellar, she dares to ask how she might be called anew to serve others. Even though it's intimidating to begin law school right out of college, let alone after having been a successful professional, she feels within her heart the desire to risk knocking, to risk announcing, "I'm here. How can I give a hand?"
I think back to September 11, 2001, and the memories of heroic first-responders are seared into my memory. Such images are similar to those recalled in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing. In a flood of confusion and tragedy, there were many women and men who "knocked" that day with their very lives, offering their whole selves to give a hand in an hour of need. Rather than running from the chaos and terror, they found the courage to run into it. They gave, not according to any calculation, but out of their utter generosity to their brothers and sisters in the human family.
It cannot be denied that our society faces many problems and challenges. We are seduced into surrender, into throwing our hands up and saying, "I'm but one person! What can I do?"
We hear from Pope Francis, perhaps, the best response to this question. Instead of asking, "What can I do?" and then returning to business-as-usual ask, instead, "How can I give a hand?" No, you cannot alone solve the world's problems. No, you alone cannot change the course and flow of history. No, you cannot place yourself at the center of the world and become the architect of a new regime. That may sound like heaven to you, but it's hell for the rest of us!
Instead, offer your hand. I shall offer my hand. Alone, one person's hands may not be able to accomplish much. Together, however, we can offer our hands in the service of the poor, the needy, and forgotten. If we offer our hands only for the occasional handshake or the 45-seconds needed to say the Lord's Prayer in church on Sunday, then we certainly do not do enough! But if we allow our hands to be guided by the hands of the Pierced One, the Risen One; if we allow ourselves to be molded by the hands of the One who cried, "Into your hands I commend my spirit!"; if we offer our hands to the Lord and ask that he guide us, just as one would guide the hands of a child learning to write, imagine the story we could write in history.
It will start with a hand. I'll lend a hand. But where the hand goes, the arm follows. Then the shoulder. Then the whole person. And finally the heart.
If you have the courage to dare asking, "How can I give a hand?" you risk more than a cost of a few volunteer hours. You risk your very heart which, touched by the needs of the world around you, will never be the same after having surrendered itself in the loving service of those in need.


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Should Cyclists Require Compulsory Insurance?
Along with 'You don't pay (the mythical) road tax,' another driver-led complaint often levelled against cyclists is: 'You don't pay insurance.'
So, should third-party insurance be mandatory for everyone who cycles? In short, no. I am personally against compulsory insurance, but I would certainly advise it for regular cyclists.
Many cyclists may already have third-party insurance as part of their household insurance or their membership of a cycling club. It is a good idea to join a cycling organisation such as Cycling UK which for a modest cost provides, among other things, £10m of third-party cover.
At present, there is no legal requirement for cyclists to be insured. Neither is there any legal requirement for them to stop or provide their name and address following a collision. Mandating third-party insurance for cyclists would ensure that in the event of an at-fault cycling accident, compensation could be made available to any injured party, so why not?
Part of the appeal of cycling is that it is so wonderfully simple and impulsive. Regular cycling provides enormous health benefits, produces no emissions and helps to reduce congestion. People cycle because it is a cheap and flexible alternative to driving or using public transport. Compulsory insurance would change this.
Cycling is a relatively low-risk activity. According to Cycling UK, on average:
- one cyclist is killed on Britain's roads for every 27 million miles travelled by bike - the equivalent of travelling more than a thousand times around the world;
- every year eight million cycling trips are made for each cycling death;
- the general risk of injury from cycling in the UK is just 0.05 injuries per 1,000 hours of cycling.
There's a reason why third-party insurance costs so much for drivers. While around six people die every day on our roads and more than 60 suffer serious, often catastrophic injuries, cyclists very rarely kill or seriously injure people. Compared to people killed or injured by drivers, the numbers killed or injured by cyclists is miniscule.
There is no doubt that cyclists who ride on the pavement are a threat to pedestrians. But according to the Times, the majority of collisions between cyclists and pedestrians occur "when pedestrians step out into the road without seeing or hearing a cyclist." In 2012, one pedestrian was killed by a cyclist while 78 were seriously injured. In contrast, 253 pedestrians were killed by drivers in 2012 and 4,426 were seriously injured.
Perceptions about the dangers of cycling deter many from taking to two wheels. Research has shown time and again that even compulsory helmet wearing reduces the number of people cycling by portraying cycling as more dangerous than it is. Imagine the consequences of introducing a nationwide registration system of bikes and cyclists such as the kind needed for identification and tracking purposes to make any licence and insurance scheme viable?
Compulsory insurance would be a major obstacle to cycling and any such barrier would only prevent more people from taking to two wheels, leading to a net negative effect with more congestion, rising obesity levels and poorer general health. In my opinion, such a scheme would be too costly and problematic to enforce and it would be pointless bringing in any kind of legislation that in practice, simply wouldn't work.
Cycling UK says: "whilst we encourage cyclists to undertake cycle training and to have insurance cover, making training or licences compulsory for cyclists is unworkable and would deter people from cycling occasionally or giving cycling a try."
Regular cyclists should have some form of personal injury and liability insurance. Many believe they are covered by their household policies but it is important to emphasise that these do not always go far enough. Household insurance policies are general insurance. They do not provide the kind of specialist third party or public liability cover typically provided by cycling organisations such as the CTC.
Clearly, cyclists should be careful of their own and other road-users' safety and property but making insurance compulsory for everyone who chooses to get on a bike is neither desirable nor workable.
Richard Gaffney is a keen cyclist and Slater and Gordon's principal lawyer for Cycling UK, the UK's national cycling charity.
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Rod Stewart's son Alistair is to be taught via videolink by teachers at an Essex school, while he is based in Las Vegas for the first three months of the singer two-year residency at Caesar's Palace hotel and casino.
Rod Stewart's son Alistair is to start school in Essex via videolink.
The 66-year-old singer is keen for the five year old, his son with wife Penny Lancaster-Stewart, to have a British education even though he is about to embark on a two-year concert residency at Las Vegas' Caesar's Palace hotel and casino.
So Alistair will become one of the first pupils to trial a new internet-based distance learning system at the £2,335-a-year Coopersale Hall School in Epping, Essex.
Despite being based 5,000 miles away with his parents and six-month-old brother Aiden, Alistair will be able to sit in on lessons at the educational establishment, download class work, discuss it with a teacher and have it marked.
Headteacher Matthew Hagger told The Sun newspaper: "We have a wide mix of children and sometimes pupils have to be away for a couple of weeks over term time. This system sits well with their time and needs."
The family will return to the UK - where they have a house near the school - in three months when the 'Maggie May' hitmaker finishes his first three-month concert run, and Alistair is then expected to attend Coopersale Hall on a full-time basis.
Rod - who has eight children with five different women - became a grandfather for the first time after his daughter Kimberly, 32, gave birth to baby daughter Delilah, her child with actor Benicio Del Toro, last Sunday (21.08.11).
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Lindsay Lohan – WHATS EATING HER?
We knew something had been eating Lindsay Lohan, we just didn't think it was still Samantha…
The rumors have been that the two had split, after they had a screaming cat-fight, sending Lindsay to the clubs to blow off steam… That sorta explained Lindsay's post break-up shopping sprees and the stranger behavior, well, strange for Lindsay, anyway…
Reports now say that the two have made-up. They were seen hitting the bars last-night, followed by a sleezeover sleepover… Later today the love birds met back up at a local 7-Eleven. Wonder if they had a Slurpee?
Lindsay Lohan – BUYS SOME NEW THREADS
Lindsay "sticky fingers" Lohan is reported to be out and about shopping for new threads, after her recent breakup with, now former girlfriend, Samantha.
I just hope the shops she's visiting are keeping a close eye on their inventory. Remember, she was questioned a few months ago after a $500,000 necklace and ear rings came up missing during an El magazine shoot.
Jon Gosselin – ATTEMPTING TO GET HIS OWN SHOW
Duschtard, Jon Gosseling has now been reported to be trying to land his own reality TV show. In preparation for his attempt at a solo career is why, supposedly the chubby dad of 8, has been chillaxn with Michael Lohan and his entourage of younger skanks women…
Jon holds fast to his claims that his main concern is his children, but he is focusing on his private and his professional life.
Translation from the Jon Gosselin Dictionary: Jon knows he has to say his main concern is the children or he will look like an even bigger asshole than he already does… But his main focus is trying to establish himself as a "Stud for Hire" but so far has only been able to land skanky drug addicts…. He has also realized he ain't gonna get as much money from his divorce as he once thought, so he better get busyrubbing noses, or any other part that he can, with some influential people and drop the drug addicted skanks that he has been porking up to this point!
He is looking into some major international endorsement deals and it looks like he is going to have his own show." He still has 30 Jon & Kate Plus 8 episodes left on the 40-episode order TLC placed, and the network has no comment on Jon's new reality-show scheming.
Lindsay Lohan – HAPPY BIRTHDAY
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Lindsay Lohan…
Today, July 2nd, she turns 24. I wonder what she is going to do to celebrate turning another year older… I'm sure we will see it on-line tomorrow!
I hope that's not some of the missing jewelry from that photo-shoot she was at!
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When representing people charged with a crime, one of the first things that was necessary was to hear their story. Asking them how they viewed the circumstances would help uncover not only facts, but attitudes. It was common for many criminal defendants to say that they "caught" the charge.
Depending on the situation, I would sometimes stop them there and help them realize the flaw in their choice of words. The choice of words, whether it started out as a mindset or not, can create a mindset which is based in a lie. That is, for them to continually say that when they are charged with a crime, it was something they "caught" can create the idea that somebody threw it at them or it was just bad luck.
Criminal charges don't typically float around and just get on people. They are not like a cold or the flu. Charges almost always come from someone putting themselves in circumstances that lead to trouble. They typically come from bad choices. We don't catch bad choices, we create them, and if we don't own them then we'll make them over and over again.
Whether it's a criminal defendant or anyone else, breaking patterns of destructive decision-making can be difficult. It may be that we have irresponsible spending habits or sloppy time management. The first step for any of us in getting things going the right direction in a particular area of our lives is to own it. It's our deal; we are the ones responsible.
The next thing is to strip it down to its lowest common denominator. We need to ask ourselves "why do I do the things that I do?" The answers are within us and we have to be willing to do the hard work of responsibility and honesty to dig to the core. God will show us if we are willing to ask and examine and He will redeem anything within us that is producing the consequences in our lives that are distinct from the glory He intends from us.
Every time a flaw, insecurity, stronghold or some other expression of our soul is revealed to us it is an act of grace. The revelation of our depravity affords us redemption for security in His identity. We don't have to stay where we are if we are willing to admit that we didn't catch it; we chose it.


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A group of renewable energy experts in the EU have won €3.45 million (£2.4m).
The 'European Commission's 'Horizon 2020 programme' awarded the cash to develop a new wave energy project.
Called 'WETFEET', it will analyse the key issues – technical, economic, financial and environmental – that need to be addressed to improve the wave sector.
Experts from Austria, France, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK will take part in the project, which will be led by Portuguese company WavEC- Offshore Renewables.
They will also develop new materials and components to be incorporated in wave energy devices.


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According to the weather, breakfast is served in the dining-room or on the terrace facing the Loire.


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Students will learn basic strength training concepts with a concentration on functional fitness and foundational multi-joint movements. During the unit students will learn how to perform the core movements and practice them within workouts of their choice.
Non-Traditional Team Games - (Recreational Activities)
These games are a collection of non-traditional team games that incorporate concepts of team play, movement patterns, and fitness. The focus of the unit will be on effort and participation. The games in this unit will include gatorball, ultimate frisbee, tchoukball, kickball, and others.
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The Overlanding Podcast #14
A few months ago we were lucky enough to be invited to attend a podcast recording with Andrew from The Overlanding Podcast. It was great to sit around his virtual campfire and chat about all of our overland travels from Morocco through to our big trip getting to Australia. I had to dig deep into the memory to recall some of the details but it was great to discuss all things overlanding. If you have a spare hour, pop the kettle on, plug in the headphones and give it a listen. Apologies for the sniffles, I was quite ill the day of recording.
Click here to go to The Overlanding Podcast website
Off The Road – Our Story
If you have been following along on Facebook or Instagram recently you might have heard that our story has been published in a book by Gestalten (yes, a real paper, hold in your hand, book!). But it is not just us, there a several other travellers stories filling this book with great adventures from around the world. We were however lucky enough to score the front cover.
Many people have been asking where to buy the book from. I am not really best placed to answer this question as we really have no input on the book or its publishing, we have merely contributed our story and photos.
You could always support your local book store and go directly there. The ISBN is: 978-3-89955-594-3 which should make finding it a whole lot easier.
For those in Europe you could buy it online direct from Gestalten:
For those in Australia you could buy online from Langsom:
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Let's have a little fun before the Memorial long weekend.
States, cities, towns, little towns…all try to win money from tourism. These days they commission, with taxpayers' money of course, studies to find their "unique" feature for "branding." But hey, when you plan a vacation, do you ever pick a place based on a slogan, catchy or not? New York Times' Gail Collins offers some thoughts about tourism, slogans and their unintended consequences in her May 15th column. And the readers provided more fodder.
Here is a partial list to put a smile on your face, or an "uh?" look.
North Dakota: "Legendary"
North Carolina: "Beautify Amplified"
Texas: "It's like a Whole Other Country"
Montana: "Step Out of Bounds"
Montana, even better: "Get Lost"
Washington: "The State"
New Mexico: "New Mexico True"
The old tradition of emphasizing agricultural products seems to have disappeared. Wisconsin's old "America's Dairyland" is going to be replaced. So far, "Eat Cheese or Die" has been rejected. (Someone must have already considered, and quietly rejected, "Eat Cheese and Die.") And evidently, someone once made some bumper stickers without the apostrophe.
Slogans are short by nature. A mistake, intentional or not, can impart significant change; for example, "Escape to Wisconsin" too easily becomes "Escape Wisconsin." Idaho used to have "Great Potatoes. Tasty Destinations." As Ms. Collins points out, when you pay money for an outfit to do branding study, you aren't going to get a root vegetable in your slogan.
What would market research, branding study, or PR strategy inform you about your location? That your place is unique? That it's beautiful? That your people are friendly? Do we need to pay others a lot of money to tell us something obvious? I have said it often, and will say it whenever I find the opportunity: We don't need to spend a lot of money to find creative solutions to local issues; just go to our elementary schools, and we can get a lot of wonderful suggestions.
One of the major problems for relying on slogans to capture a place's essence is that it will always miss something, and it will never please the majority of the residents because everyone has his/her take regarding what's special about where they live, for better or for worse. The slogans often end up serving as an outlet for counter-punch creativity. For example, "Virginia is for [Some] Lovers." Or, "South Carolina: The Schools are Bad, but the Beaches are Nice." Pennsylvania's old slogan was, "You've Got a Friend in Pennsylvania." Gee, and I never once received an assigned visitor to be friends with when I lived in PA. "Sunshine" state recently found itself wrestling with whether to invest in solar power because "sometimes it's cloudy." The very same Florida whose old "Florida: Rules are Different Here!" certainly has elicited much sniggering given its recent news headlines. And New Jersey's reputation aligns well with "NJ: Indicted but Proud."
Branding research tends to inflate self-importance. Most people love where they live, but bragging seldom sounds inviting. Our small town recently engaged an out-of-town consulting firm to come up with a catchy (not) slogan: "Living Exponentially." After you trip over your tongue saying these two words, you wonder what it actually means. And if I followed the logical consequences of living "exponentially," I'd die from exhaustion. Very smart.
My favorite reader's response to Collins's column is this: A few years ago, Scotland spent 1/8 million pounds to come up with…(drum roll, please) "Welcome to Scotland."
On the other hand, there are oldies that stay with people, like "I Love New York" or "Golden State." You don't forget them, and I wonder if those slogans came as a result of branding studies, or, from years of listening to visitors who happened to like the place, or just maybe, a resident with a good idea.
Whatever your plans for the Memorial long weekend, I wish you safe travels and a happy time. Till June 1st,
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Acromioclavicular joint (AP weight-bearing view)
Dr Kieran Kusel and Andrew Murphy ◉ et al.
The acromioclavicular AP weight-bearing view is an additional interjection often performed to rule out displacement when it is suspected but not confirmed on the AP view
See also, acromioclavicular joint injuries.
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Patient position
- the patient is erect holding a weight in the affected sides hand
- the midcoronal plane of the patient is parallel to the image receptor, in other words, the patient's back is against the image receptor
- the acromioclavicular joint of the affected side is at the center of the image receptor
- affected arm is in a neutral position by the patient side
Technical factors
- anteroposterior projection
centering point
- at the acromioclavicular joint
- superior to the skin margins
- inferior to the humeral head
- lateral to include the skin margin
- medial to lateral third of the clavicle
- landscape
detector size
- 18 cm x 24 cm
- 60-70 kVp
- 10-15 mAs
- 100 cm
- yes (this can vary departmentally)
Image technical evaluation
- the acromioclavicular joint is central to the image with no overlap
- the image is appropriately annotated weight-bearing
Practical points
This projection can be very painful for a patient with an AC joint injury; it is highly recommended that everything is set up and positioned, so the last thing you do is hand the weights over.
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Radiographic views
- imaging in practice
- paediatric radiography
- general radiography (adult)
- shunt series
- chest radiography
- abdominal radiography
upper limb radiography
shoulder girdle radiography
- scapula series
shoulder series
- AP view
- internal rotation view
- external rotation view
- superoinferior axial view
- inferosuperior axial view
- modified trauma axial
- supine lateral
- modified supine lateral
- Y lateral view
- AP glenoid view (Grashey view)
- apical oblique view (Garth view)
- humerus (neck) AP view
- humerus axial (bicipital groove) view (Fisk view)
- outlet view (Neer view)
- Stryker notch view
- acromioclavicular joint series
- clavicle series
- sternoclavicular joint series
- arm and forearm radiography
- wrist and hand radiography
- wrist series
- scaphoid series
- hand series
- thumb series
- fingers series
- rheumatology hands series
- bone age series
- shoulder girdle radiography
lower limb radiography
- pelvic girdle radiography
- thigh and leg radiography
- ankle and foot radiography
- skull radiography
paranasal sinuses and facial bones radiography
- facial bones
- Caldwell view (angled skull PA view)
- nasal bones
- zygomatic arches
- orbits
- paranasal sinuses
- temporal bones
dental radiography
- orthopantomography (OPG)
- mandible
- temporomandibular joints
spine radiography
- cervical spine radiography
- thoracic spine radiography
- lumbar spine series
- sacrococcygeal radiography
- scoliosis radiography


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I smell Envy? Do you? Well, I just wanted to be a bit melodramatic with this one. However, you might not get to smell Envy, but you will be able to get your hands on one really soon. The all new HP Envy X2 is set to make a debut on 14th November and as per HP claims; it will be something ultra-thin and will pack one heck of a style statement. We can't say much about that, but looking at some recent hands on reviews and pictures; Envy X2 might just stand a chance.
Having drooled over the Envy X2 above, let's discuss why it is happening. Microsoft's giant leap into the tablet market with exclusive Microsoft Surface RT was seen as an attempt to gain monopoly. However, the existing tablet manufacturers, who were currently replying on Android for their portfolio, saw a whooping opportunity in selling a tablet that is Windows based to masses which are already accustomed to having used it on their desktops and laptops. And this Christmas, it will be a war of Windows 8 / RT tablets and we shall all see who is going to beat who. For now, the manufacturers and flexing their muscle by announcing their Windows 8 and RT based product range.
Hp Envy X2 Windows 8 Tablet
Like Lenovo, Asus, Acer and all concerned, HP has already announced its flagship Windows 8 and RT based tablet cum notebooks. The HP Envy X2 will come with a clamshell keyboard dock design and Windows 8 on board. The processor of this machine is 1.8 GHz Intel Atom Dual core with L2 cache of 1 MB. There will be 2 GB of RAM complete with a 64 GB SSD packaged in the HP Envy X2. The display of this tablet cum notebook comes with the latest IPS LCD and measures 11.6 inches. Extra features include built-in HD bright view, a primary 8 MP camera with a 2 MP front and exclusive integration with Beats Audio. All other necessities, such as the USB 2.0 ports, HDMP and card reader are also a part of HP Envy X2.
Surface RT Vs Hp Envy X2
As for the analysis, this tablet was really cool unless I came across the processor specs. Unlike the Windows Surface RT Tablet, the HP Envy X2 comes with an Intel Atom processor that can't really take the load of a complete Windows 8 system. I hope I am proven wrong and Atom does some miracle to save its face. And then the price! Well yes, only who earn great amounts of green might get their hands on this beauty first. HP has set a starter tag of $ 849 with the HP Envy X2 32 GB cum notebook which is way too steep for many of us in a wobbly economy we face. On the other hand, the Microsoft Surface Windows RT costs complete 200 bucks less at $ 649. And the MS Surface Windows RT tab boasts of an Intel i5 processor that is far better than an Atom on-board.
Having said all this, it is up to you to decide whether you are going to Envy everyone with an HP Envy X2 or going for the Microsoft's Surface RT Tablet. In both cases, you need to have money for sure.
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|HP Envy X2 - 32 GB
|Surface RT
|HP Envy X2 - 32 GB
|Dimension (HWD)
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|8.12 x 11.93 x 0.66 inches
|1.5 pounds, 1.9 pounds (with Touch Cover)
|1.5 pounds, 3.1 pounds with keyboard
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Back Test Your Stock Trading Strategy & System
You need to back test your system and your strategy to see if you would be profitable in the stock market. I think it is critical for you to test your system and your strategy before you enter any real trades. Especially if you are brand new…
You need to make sure that you understand the panel, you understand how the stock is trading and moving, what it all means when you are looking at the quote window.
Once you have those things in place just put on a few system testing trades. The reason for this is to see if you would be profitable or not. If you are not profitable with a fake system one that you can get in and out of any time with no pressure and no emotions than it makes it much more difficult to be profitable with real money.
It does not mean that when real money is on the table you are going to be much better, it just means that things are a little more emotional and a little more difficult. So having a system that you have tested and proven over time will give you more confidence to ensure that it is working.
Testing a system
There are many different ways to test a system, one of my favorite ways it to just take a regular notebook, write down how many shares you have, write down how many shares you would purchase on a certain date, what your commission rate would be, what the quote of the stock is and the stock you are purchasing, and just watch it. You should watch it for multiple weeks, months, or years.
It really may take two or three years for you to test your system out and I know that sounds like a long time but when you take into context the 60 years of life, two or three years to test a system out if it works, than it is worth it because then for the next 50 years of your life you can use that system because things very rarely change that much in the stop market. You just have to make sure you have a timeless system.
If you do not want to take the notebook approach I have created a trading workbook it's called "My Trading Journal: Your workbook to tracking and managing your stock trades" and it is available on Amazon. It is about 200 pages of a lot of different worksheets where you just fill in your trades and you can go and see your win ratio, commission, largest win, largest loss, average win so it just gives you a nice little set up so for a few bucks you can get this journal and enter your trades.
The journal does come in different colors, you can get green, blue, pink, or black. If you want to go a little more sophisticated you can get the journal but the notebook works just great.
Why write it down?
I like writing my trades down, I think writing them down is much better than digitally entering them just because I think the human nature to write things down allows a person to soak things up a lot better than just typing them because there is more of an emotion to connect whether you win or lose so to me writing these trades down is a lot better and you are able to digest things. You are able to see where you have made mistakes. Of course you can attach charts to these, you can attach a lot of different things to the notebooks and it is just another way of tracking the trades.
Digital testing
If you are thinking you want to back test your system a little more digitally one of the ways to do that is by getting an app or registering to a stock market game online and you can do that by searching Google for stock market game or play money for the stock market. They have a lot of games on there and also your mobile devices have a lot of stock market games out there so they give you fake money or what is called "paper money" and you are able to manage your trades, your portfolio and execute your trades.
One of the great things about this is that you can digitally just make changes as you are sitting at the office or maybe you're at the store or getting your oil changed, you are able to adjust your portfolio if you want to buy shares, if you want to sell shares, you can make adjustments. Then it tracks it for you automatically and you get to see your profit and loss and see if your system is working.
So those are a few ways that you can look at your system, you can test your system and see if it works. It may take multiple months or multiple years to really see if it works but as I said earlier if you look at the long term perspective, than the two or three years that you spend testing your system out of the 50 to 60 years of your life really is not that bad as long as you have a profitable system.
If your system works, great use it and move to real money and start trading lightly. If your system does not work than try a new system, you might test multiple systems at the same time and that is just a good way to see which system works better than others.
An issue with systems that you should understand it that once you start placing real money and real trades on the table it may actually shift the market slightly. If you are trading 100 shares, 500 share, 1000 shares on a highly liquid stock like Bank Of America than it may not move it that much but realistically placing a 200,000 share order, 10 million share order in one single day on any given stock would really move that stock quite a bit. So you need to take this into account so as you start moving to real money if you are trading lightly that won't shift the market and it won't really have a huge effect, but if you are trading a couple thousand shares on a stock that only trades five or ten thousand shares a day than it will shift that stock so your system may not work as great as you anticipated it would on paper.
So make sure you take these things in to account and understand what is going on in the market because it does come down to your actions as well influencing the market or the stocks direction.
Final Thoughts
Always test a system before you implement it with real money. This is just a way to save a little bit more in the bank and avoid losing money to quickly. So take this into account, get a stock market game, play it, and if it works, implement it, use it to your advantage, and make a living from it.


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Dear Miss Snark:
Your blog is a delight; it almost makes coming to work every day worthwhile, just to check it out. (I only have Internet at work -- thank heavens, or I'd never get anything done at home!)
Now that the synopsis analysis is over, might you perhaps consider discussing book titles? What works, what doesn't -- that sort of thing. For instance, MASTER OF CROWS made me want to pick up the book. Titles such as THE CHOICE, while serviceable, don't have any pizazz. And some will actively repel readers.
And of course, there's another thing to consider: the possibility that the author will wind up with a hit series. This is another reason to think carefully about titles (even though most of us will never wind up with hit series, but hey, you never know, right?). Sue Grafton must be a bit nervous about now...and Janet Evanovich runs contests on her website to get titles for the next Stephanie Plum novel.
Thank you for all your kindness to writers, and Happy 2006!
Also a scritch behind the ears to Killer Yap. (Is Yap a Standard, Miniature, or Toy Poodle?)
Sincerely yours,
A Dedicated Snarkaholic
First, and most important, Killer Yapp is a New York poodle. Size is irrelevant. Attitude is all. The idea of describing anything about him as standard, miniature or toy makes him growl. When I asked him how to answer this question he replied "I'm a super poodle; I leap puddles in a single bound; keep the mailman away from the foyer; AND make sure Miss Snark gets off her slacker ass and runs around the reservoir daily" Other than the slacker ass part, it's pretty accurate.
Now about titles. Don't worry. Don't even think about it. Titles get changed all the time for reasons you can't even begin to list. Even if you end up with a series like Janet Evanovich or Sue Grafton, it may not end up titled like theirs are. Example: Elaine Viets. Her series is "the dead end job" series, but the titles are puns. Example: Roberta Isleib. Her golf series also has a play on words for the title, but the titles change before publication on occasion.
And sometimes titles change even later. I'm reading THE RECORD MEN by Rich Cohen, a brilliant book about Leonard Chess and Chess Records. The copyright info and LoC registry show it was originally called "Machers and Rockers".
So, just write a brilliant novel. Titles come later. After you find the prince of a poodle.


text: Banca Rotta by goldin + senneby Unveiling of a new permanent work in the SSE Art Collection The unveiling of the permanent sculpture Banca Rotta (Switzerland, 17th Century, oak) by artist duo Goldin + Senneby in the SSE library is followed by a short introduction by professor Örjan Sjöberg. This new acquisition is made possible by a generous donation by Helena Saxon, SSE alumna, who will equally honor the inauguration by her presence. Goldin + Senneby have previously showed works connected to economic transactions and financial systems at SSE. Adding Banca Rotta to the permanent collection SSE Art Initiative further strengthens the bridge between art and business understanding. This antique money-changer´s table, sawed in half, is an economic memento mori of the dark side of business; failure and bankruptcy. Banca Rotta reminds us of a dimension that tends to be forgotten and even repressed in an educational milieu focusing on success and progress. In times when this very table was the instrument of trade of a banker bankruptcy meant a definite end; the death of a salesman and ruin of his whole house of trade. Today we take it for granted that "limited liability companies" offer any entrepreneur several lives, and thereby making "limited liability" one of the most fundamental institutions of modern capitalism. So what are is the messages of Banca Rotta to us today?


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What are negative stereotypes?
When others dismiss your abilities because you belong to a particular group, it can leave you feeling demoralised, uncertain and anxious. Worse still, when negative stereotypes are used to describe you, it can seriously hamper your performance or even convince you that your dreams and goals are futile. Psychologists refer to the act of assessing someone's capabilities as low because they belong to a specific group as 'stereotype threat'. [Read more…]


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During the stress of severe illness or major surgery, blood glucose levels often rise to high levels, resulting in so-called 'stress hyperglycaemia'. The CHiP trial, led by Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, included 1,369 children at 13 children's intensive care units across the country.
Researchers compared the effects of allowing a natural rise in blood glucose to occur (conventional or 'usual' management) to the effects of controlling the rise using insulin to maintain normal glucose levels (tight glycaemic control).
The study findings show that there was a remarkable difference between the two treatment groups during one-year follow-up.
Among those children studied in intensive care who had not undergone heart surgery, tight glycaemic control resulted in an average length of hospital stay 13.5 days less that those children receiving 'usual care', in whom glucose levels were allowed to rise naturally. No such benefits were seen for children who had undergone heart surgery.
Study co-author, Dr Richard Grieve, Reader in Health Economics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, calculated that implementation of tight glycaemic control for similar children admitted to all PICUs in England and Wales, could save the NHS about £12 million each year.
Dr Grieve said: "For children admitted to paediatric intensive care who have not had heart surgery, a policy of tight glycemic control could reduce costs by about £10,000 per child. With around 1,200 children admitted to paediatric intensive care units in England and Wales who meet these criteria, this policy could save the NHS up to £12 million each year.
"While careful consideration should be given to the small increased risk in hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar), the potential benefits for children in going home sooner, and the release of hospital beds for other severely ill patients, would be significant."
Lead author Dr Duncan Macrae, a consultant in children's intensive care at Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, added: "The findings of our study have important implications for the way blood glucose levels are managed in very sick children. Although we do not fully understand why controlling blood glucose levels during a child's most critical days leads to a quicker recovery, evidence from this study suggests that doctors caring for very sick children, who have not undergone heart surgery, should consider controlling blood glucose levels more closely during intensive care.
The study was funded by the National Institute for Health Research.
- Duncan Macrae, Richard Grieve, Elizabeth Allen, Zia Sadique, Kevin Morris, John Pappachan, Roger Parslow, Robert C. Tasker, Diana Elbourne. A Randomized Trial of Hyperglycemic Control in Pediatric Intensive Care. New England Journal of Medicine.DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1302564.
* The potential £12 million saving to the NHS was originally calculated in UK pounds and then converted into US dollars for the journal publication using purchasing power parities (PPP), which allow for currency fluctuations over time.
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Without a website today, your business or campaign is flying the white flag of surrender to competition. Today, 64% of millennials get their election information from digital sources, which means that if you don't have a website, there's nothing for them to share with friends. On top of that, Yelp showed that 85% of consumers use the internet to find local businesses.
Understandably, navigating through the waters of the web to find a solution can be daunting, but Naumann Consulting is dedicated to helping you get a website up and get your business' message out on the internet. We've designed dozens of websites for small businesses, local candidates, organizations, etc, and would love to help you bring your business in front of new voters or consumers. We understand that not everybody needs a $5,000 website, and that's why our websites are affordable and tailored to your needs.
If Naumann Consulting builds a website for your business or campaign, the next step is to help assist bring traffic to that website via Search Engine Optimization, or SEO. If you decide to add an SEO package to your website design, Naumann Consulting will work with you to identify what search terms you'd like to target, alongside your audience, and help ensure that your website had the correct keyword density and SEO settings to bring more customers or voters to your website.
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Crazy Heart trailer online
I missed this trailer when it popped up, it's the trailer for Crazy Heart, a new film starring Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Colin Farrell and the superb Robert Duvall.
It tells the story of an aged country music singer whose life has really broken him down and through his many marriages he now finds himself drinking too much and travelling from small time gig to small time gig. Then a journalist arrives and tries to bring out and document the real man and we follow him through redemption.
It's a similar tale that we've heard before, but that cast front list is a superb one, particularly with Jeff Bridges taking the lead. We all know the way it will go and that it will turn with the traditional emotional redemption drama, but these actors might be the ones to bring something different to it.
Here's the trailer for Crazy Heart you to be led along the worn path.
Anything different there?


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Robert E. Lee statues and those of other Confederate soldiers are coming down across the south.
They are coming down at the instigation of Lefty agitators who argue that the statues honor the Confederate soldiers who fought to maintain slavery.
I do not want to get into the complexities of the civil war here. I am more curious about the Lefty argument to take the statues down even if we grant them that the war was fully about slavery.
They are certainly not making their pull the statues down demands from a libertarian perspective. Harvard Professor Jefferey Miron comes close in making that
libertarian perspective. Harvard Professor Jefferey Miron comes close in making that argument:
Why should a city, state, or federal government put statues in public parks? Doing so addresses no plausible market failure, while using taxpayers funds and, as demonstrated tragically over the past few weeks, generates controversy, polarization, and violence. Thus governments should take down all statues, regardless of their political implications.He slips from pure libertarianism only by introducing the shaky concept of "market failure."
This is not "erasing" history but instead leaving it where it belongs, in the hands of private actors and mechanisms. Historians, textbook authors, universities, learned societies, the History Channel, and many other individuals and organizations can all present their own views of history and battle for the hearts and minds of the public. Government statues are government putting its thumb on the scale, which is one step down the slippery slope of thought control.
But it appears what Lefties are doing once again is attempting a sort of thought control.
They block conservatives from speaking, they "demand" the firing of conservative employees and now they argue for the taking down of imagery that they dislike. Like the imagery or not, their demands are continuing steps on the thought control road.
It is remarkable that they are doing so in the case of the statues. In their full-on attempt at total thought control, they have lost all creativity.
What could be easier to mock than statues of Confederate soldiers who LOST a war?
Indeed, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson was shot by one of his own soldiers and died just days later.
This was a bloody horrific F-Troop before living color television.
Has the Left lost all creativity?
Can the Left only move in the direction of thought control?
We are told that most of the Confederate statues were not erected in the aftermath of the Civil War but during the Jim Crow period as a way to intimidate blacks.
Well, gee, how did that intimidation work out?
If the Left was creative and not fully obsessed with thought control, they would leave the damn Confederate statues alone and buy small parcels of land in the South and put up their own statues.
How about one of Michael Jackson doing the moonwalk on Lee's coffin?
And maybe one of Tina Turner on Jackson's coffin?
The tear down the Confederate statue call of the Left is just plain confusing/
They want the statues torn down because of the slavery in the south and the Confederate support of that slavery. But to be anti-slavery (a good thing) is about freeing men from control by other men.
There is nothing good about control, be it thought or physical. by others. And, yet, the teardown the Confederate statue effort is about control of imagery (thought). And, I point out again, quite wacky imagery since the Confederates lost the war. Who the hell puts up statues to losers?
Perhaps the Left can put up even another statue. A Confederate soldier shooting by accident Stonewall Jackson, with a tiny-fingered Trump holding a megaphone to the side shouting at them "Losers!'
It appears to me that the Left in calling for the removal of these statues is more in line with the tactics of Confederate generals than they understand.
We are told, for example, that Lee was a great military tactician but that he may have lost the war because of weak strategy.
Dan Zeiser writes:
Lee, second in his West Point class, an engineering officer, a career military officer, truly was a great general. As a tactician, he was head and shoulders above Grant... Good defensively, Lee was even better on the offensive. He was bold and decisive, a calculating gambler. Can anyone who has studied the battle of Chancellorsville deny it? Splitting his army on several occasions, he surprised his opponents and won the day. Lee was a master of the holding attack, a tactic George Marshall would later instill as the only tactic taught at the Army War College prior to World War II...The Left has made a great tactical move of its own by calling for the statues to be taken down. It is hard to argue in favor of Confederates but most people know at a gut-level something else is going on. It is a strategic blunder, of the enormity of Lee's blunders, to attempt this type of thought control. It builds resistance.
Lee's major flaw, though, was as a strategist. In a word, he was not. His concern was northern Virginia and nothing else. Throughout the war, he resisted attempts by Jefferson Davis to draw forces from the Army of Northern Virginia to reinforce the western armies. Only once did it happen, when Longstreet went west and fought at Chattanooga, but not without Lee's efforts to stop it. He also opposed attempts to make him commander-in-chief of Southern forces until it was too late for it to be of any benefit.
Additionally and most importantly, he failed to realize that the Confederacy's best hope of survival was to hold out. Since the South had a lack of fighting men compared to the North, its best hope was to keep casualties to a minimum, to live to fight another day. Lee's offensive tactics ensured the Army of Northern Virginia sustained greater casualties than it could afford. Had he fought defensively most of the time, Lee would have saved soldiers who could fight again, perhaps outlasting the North's will to win.
The election of the very flawed Donald Trump as president is an indication of the resistance to the cultural Marxist, social justice warrior, tactical thought control.
There will never be a full-out thought control win by the Left. It is an attempt to win against nature.
Slavery didn't survive, the Jim Crow laws didn't survive and neither will Lefty thought control.