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every month gets sweeter and sweeter. and better and better.
parks has developed the cutest personality... let's just say that i didn't have to work very hard for these smiles this month! i am trying to savor each and every day and am so glad God chose me to be his mom.
milestone blanket: batzkids
who's cute? me.
bath time is a favorite - every time
we love to put jams on {loves the 'bare necessities' and 'don't worry, be happy'} and he loves to splash and play with his rubber ducks
here is a five month update:
almost everything regarding his likes/dislikes, etc. is the same as month four so i thought i would share a little differently this month
+ two bottom front teeth! {they popped on june 11 and june 12}
+ so close to rolling over - tear.
+ still sleeps through the night {thank you so much, baby merlin's magic sleepsuit}
+ jumps up and down on my legs without help
+ able to hold toys well
+ holds his own bottle
+ he reognizes his name
+ coos and giggles and talks a lot
+ rolls from front to back {again, so close the other way!}
+ close to sitting up on his own ... the balance gets better every day
+ can give a mean 'high five'
+ loves to swing on his adorable lil swinglets homemade swing outside
+ entered the catholic community on sunday, june 12 {post coming soon!}
+ how you nuzzle into me
+ your sweet smile
+ how you love your little toes
+ how you laugh so hard at every new thing you learn
+ your beautiful baptism
+ how you look up at me
+ the way i feel when we sleep next to one another- so peaceful.
+ your chunky squishy thighs!!! i can't handle it!!!
+ morning snuggles
+ storytime
+ how you love to chill on your boppy lounger while i get ready for the day
+ how talkative you can be and your huge smiles
+ how you love to give 'free hugs!!'
- you love blankets
- you love to practice your yoga moves
- you love car rides and walks
- you love baths
- you have fomo
- you love books
- you love a good nap
- you love acoustic/folk music
- sometimes you are introverted and sometimes you are extroverted
- you enjoy target, starbucks, ikea, flea markets, and cafes
-my sleeping angel boy-
ways you are like your dad:
- you rock an american flag hat well
- you always finish your meal
- the summer heat doesn't seem to bother you
- you love spanish music
- sometimes you like you to sleep late in the morning {yay!}
- you're a little gentleman and are {almost} always well behaved when we are in public
- you love t.v {even though we don't let you watch it}
- you love momma {or at least it seems like you do! and i love you}
- you love to laugh
- you love country music
- you love food {and sleep}
- you love to hold hands
- you appreciate both being out and about {esp. enjoying breweries} and being at home
sycamore brewing company- may 21
--next week is going to be a big one for parks--
he's going to be with his extended family for a week, will get to see the ocean for the first time, will experience fun in a swimming pool, will get to explore charleston {our favorite southern city/where we got engaged} and will experience solid food for the first time!
any advice for beachin' with a babe?
here's to another month with parks james!
we absolutely can't wait for month six
...parks james | one month


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Though sugary sodas have been banned for some time in the state's public schools, in middle and high schools, sugar-sweetened sports drinks are allowed. SB1255, already passed by the State Senate and today passed by the Assembly's Education Committee, would ban sale of sugar-sweetened sports drinks during school hours too.
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H.R.597 - Export-Import Bank Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2015114th Congress (2015-2016)
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|Rep. Fincher, Stephen Lee [R-TN-8] (Introduced 01/28/2015)
|House - Financial Services
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|Senate - 10/29/2015 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 282. (All Actions)
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Export-Import Bank Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2015
(Sec. 101) This bill amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to set at $135 billion, for each of FY2015-FY2019, the authorized aggregate amount of loans, guarantees, and insurance the Export-Import Bank may have outstanding at any time.
If the rate at which borrowing entities are in default on a payment obligation (default rate) is 2% or more for a quarter, the Bank may not exceed the amount of loans, guarantees, and insurance outstanding on the last day of that quarter until the default rate becomes less than 2%.
(Sec. 102) The Bank shall build to and hold in reserve, to protect against future losses, at least 5% of its aggregate amount of disbursed and outstanding loans, guarantees, and insurance.
(Sec. 103) This bill amends the Export-Import Bank Reauthorization Act of 2012 (EIBRA) to require the Government Accountability Office's quadrennial review of the adequacy of the design and effectiveness of the Bank's fraud controls to include review of the Bank's compliance with these controls.
(Sec. 104) An Office of Ethics is established within the Bank to recommend administrative actions to establish or enforce standards of official conduct.
(Sec. 105) A Chief Risk Officer of the Bank is established to oversee all issues relating to risk within the Bank.
(Sec. 106) A Risk Management Committee is also established to:
- oversee periodic stress testing on the entire Bank portfolio and the monitoring of industry, geographic, and obligor exposure levels; and
- review all required reports on the Bank's default rate.
(Sec. 107) The Bank's Inspector General shall conduct an audit or evaluation of the Bank's portfolio risk management procedures, including its implementation of the duties assigned to the Chief Risk Officer.
(Sec. 108) The Bank may establish a pilot program under which it may enter into contracts and other arrangements to share risks associated with its provision of guarantees, insurance, or credit, or participation in the extension of credit.
The aggregate amount of liability the Bank may transfer through risk-sharing under a contract or other arrangement may not exceed $1 billion, nor a total of $10 billion during a fiscal year.
(Sec. 201) This bill directs the Bank to:
- increase from 20% to 25% of its lending authority the amount made available to finance direct exports by small business concerns, and
- include in its annual report to Congress a report on its programs for U.S. businesses with less than $250 million in annual sales.
(Sec. 301) This bill requires the Bank to implement policies to accept electronic payments and transaction documents.
(Sec. 302) The Bank's authority to use a portion of its surplus to update its information technology systems shall extend through FY2019.
(Sec. 401) The bill reauthorizes through FY2019 the Bank, the Sub-Saharan Africa Advisory Committee, and authority for dual use exports (of nonlethal defense articles or services primarily for civilian use).
(Sec. 402) The principal amounts of medium-term financing by the Bank shall be limited to $25 million.
The bill increases from a minimum of $10 million to a minimum of $25 million the amounts of:
- long-term loans or loan guarantees the Bank shall seek to ensure that U.S. insurance companies have a fair and open competitive opportunity to insure in connection with any transaction for which the loan or guarantee is provided,
- working capital export loans and guarantees to small businesses, and
- long-term support for projects to which certain procedures apply regarding the potential beneficial and adverse environmental effects of goods and services for which direct lending and guarantee support is requested.
If the long-term support for projects subject to environmental effects consideration is less than $25 million, the minimum threshold shall be the one established pursuant to international agreements, including the Common Approaches for Officially Supported Export Credits and Environmental and Social Due Diligence, as adopted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Council on June 28, 2012, and the risk-management framework ("Equator Principles") adopted by financial institutions for determining, assessing, and managing environmental and social risk in projects.
(Sec. 501) This bill prohibits the Bank from:
- denying an application for financing based solely on the industry, sector, or business that the application concerns; or
- promulgating or implementing policies that discriminate against an application based solely on the industry, sector, or business that the application concerns.
These prohibitions apply only to applications for Bank financing for projects concerning the exploration, development, production, or export of energy sources and the generation or transmission of electrical power, or combined heat and power, regardless of the energy source involved.
(Sec. 502) The EIBRA is amended to require the President instead of the Department of the Treasury to initiate and pursue negotiations to end export credit financing.
The President shall propose to Congress a strategy to pursue with other major exporting countries, including Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) members and non-OECD members, to eliminate over a 10-year period subsidized export-financing programs, tied aid, export credits, and all other forms of government-supported export subsidies.
(Sec. 503) The Bank shall study the extent to which products it offers are available and used by companies that export information and communications technology services and related goods.


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Last Update: I am completely overwhelmed by the response to the "Blog about Brett Kimberlin Day." I don't have anyway to know for sure, but when I Googled either Patterico or Brett Kimberlin the number of hits that came up was staggering.
Glenn Beck interviewed Patrick Frey (Patterico) and Aaron Walker on his radio show. Since I'm in the Pacific time zone his program airs at 3PM here so many of you heard it before I did.
If you haven't - here they are:
The first one is Patrick and the second one is Aaron
Update (11:52 PDT): Breitbart: Kimberlin Funders Stunned to Discover they Fund Kimberlin
My previous post links to Patterico's Pontifications and his ordeal. I consider it the must read of the day.
Radio Patriot has a list of participating blogs - and we thank him. I'm sure he'll forgive me for swiping the list.
There's probably more by now. If you want to be on the list, let me know...
The republican Mother has a list of all the contributors to this scum bag. Good work!
Ooops. I don't see Stacy McCain or Chris Wysocki.
Adding on: McNorman's Weblog
Welcome: Subvet, Shout First - Ask Questions Later, Capitalist Preservation, Israel Matza, and Valleetrails
our very own Agnes Bullock who has post after post.
Gateway Pundit
Three Beers Later
Carol, Christian Soldier
And here's the "Discussion" links from Memeorandom (gleefully stolen since they never link to me anymore.) Radio Patriot's links below...
Simple Justice, The Moderate Voice, protein wisdom, The Jawa Report, NoOneOfAnyImport, Villainous Company, Catholic Bandita, Riehl World View, Conservative Commune, Rick's Rants, The Trenches, Me and My SoldierMan, The Write Side of My Brain, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Wake up America, EBL, All American Blogger, Long Time Gone, The Diary of Daedalus, The Radio Patriot, Twitchy, Bookworm Room, The PJ Tatler, RedState, Allergic to Bull, The Camp Of The Saints, beatcanvas.com, FilmLadd Blogs, Datechguy's Blog, Full Frontal Nerdery, Pundit & Pundette, WyBlog, Popehat, The Political Commentator, 'Cause I Said So, National Review, Politicaljunkie Mom, HillBuzz.org, The American Catholic, Cold Fury, Nice Deb, Pull My Chain, The Coalition Of The Swilling, Rhymes With Right, American Power, Hit & Run, The Lonely Conservative, That Mr. G Guy's Blog, FreeSpeech.com, Bob Owens, doubleplusundead, Truth Before Dishonor, Moe Lane, hogewash, The New Editor, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and LEE STRANAHAN dot COM
- Michelle Malkin
- Bookworm Room
- The Radio Patriot
- Dr. Melissa Clouthier
- BlackFive
- The Jawa Report
- Gay Patriot
- Kim Priestap and here…
- Instapundit Glenn Reynolds
- iOwnTheWorld
- The American Thinker
- Walter Olson at Overlawyered
- Blazing Cat Fur
- Donald Douglas at American Power
- The American Catholic
- The Lonely Conservative
- Kathy Shaidle at Five Feet of Fury
- Nice Deb
- Sundries Shack
- PJMedia Tatler
- Dan Riehl
- Film Ladd
- The Coalition of the Swilling
- DaTechGuy
- Richard Fernandez
- Legal Insurrection
- Doubleplusundead
- Daley Gator
- The Camp of the Saints
- Wake Up America
- Darth Chipmunk
- Zilla of the Resistance
- Lady Liberty 1885
- Goldfish and Clowns
- Small Dead Animals
- Hillbuzz
- Yid with Lid
- Evil Blogger Lady
- Israel Matzav
- Lisa Graas
- Bob Owens
- Catholic Bandita
- Ironic Surrealism
- An Ex-Con's View
- Pierre Legrand's Pink Flamingo Bar
- Adrienne
- Zilla of the Resistance
- PL Birnam Wood
- POH Diaries
- Granite Grok
- PJ Tatler
- Wake Up America
- Capital Research Center
- Day By Day Cartoon
- Bookworm Room
- Daley Gator
- Adrienne
- Political Junkie Mom
- Sister Toldjah
- Ask Marion
- Reform a Liberal
- Absolute Moral Authority
- Wicca Pundit
- The Camp Of The Saints
- Gulag Bound
- The Neosecularist
- Knowledge Creates Power
- Daily Thought Pad
- SocietyBytes
- Fly Over Here
- Adrienne
- Political Junkie Mom
- PL Birnam Wood
- Capital Research Center
- Day By Day Cartoon
- Lady Liberty
- That Mr. G. Guy
- Evil Blogger Lady
- Sister Toldjah
- Ace of Spades
- Reform a Liberal
- Liberty Chick
- Patterico
- Aaron Walker
- Popehat
- Conservative Hideout
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I went to Ulta the other day to get a new UD 24/7 eyeliner in zero. As we all know, they run about $17-$18. Well... for $19.99 I got FOUR liners and Heavy Metal Glitter liner set! I was also on the hunt for an eye primer that was in a reasonable price range. I LOVE Too Faced Shadow Insurance but come on... its $18??
My Look:
L'Oreal De-Crease primer (not bad I must say!)
TSS Touched by Truth: Lash to crease
BE Light foundation: crease to brow
Urban Decay 24/7 eyeliner in Crash: top lid only
Urban Decay 24/7 eyeliner in Zero: water line and lower lid
TSS Lucky Charm: lightly patted on lower lid to set liner
Applied some fake lashed (first time being successful!!)
Curled lashes to combine fake and real
UD Heavy Metal in Midnight Cowboy lined on top
Cover Girl Lash Blast mascara on the bottom lashes only
I had a lot of fun with this look. It is definitely not my normal daytime look but still fun to wear.
Thank you for stopping by!
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010
Introduction to ME!!
So I've always loved makeup. I believe I was wearing it when I was born. My problem is, I never really knew how to use it. I started using makeup before YouTube and the Internet became available to watch tutorials. My friend came to visit me a year ago and I just loved the way her makeup always looked. She looked great. She introduced me to Bare Minerals/Bare Escentuals. I had seen them plenty of times on QVC and they always had great reviews so I went down to my Ulta store and bought some foundation and warmth. I was in love. The things you can do with warmth! She came out to visit again about 8 months later. She then introduced me to Urban Decay. I started getting curious about mineral eye makeup. It seemed so fun being able to mix it with stuff and create a whole to color essentially. I had a really hard time seeing how an eyeshadow could actually be worth $13+. I started looking around online for "powder eye makeup" and got nowhere. I later learned that it is called pigments or mineral eye makeup. WHOA... I found a TON of stuff. I found all kinds of websites. I narrowed my search down and decided to place sample orders with Fyrinnae.com, theshespace.com and taylormademinerals.com. They all offered the same amount of pigment, if not more, for 50%-75% less. My favorite though it TheSheSpace. They have absolutely WONDERFUL customer service and Heather has a forum where all of us addicts can talk with each other about all kinds of stuff. I found a support group!! Sadly, TheSheSpace is discontinuing About Face Cosmetics to pursue a more personal makeup/inspirational company designed around Hope Quest. Right now you can get 3 gram jars of piggies for only $2.50!! So anyway, that's my story. I hope you enjoy!!
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What I can tell you is that this has to do with jewelry, a necklace in particular, a camera, a tree and me!
I know don't tease right?? Sorry, you will just have to wait... for now...
Just so you don't think you have wasted your time at this moment as you stumbled upon my blog here is a pretty piece of eye candy 'just 4 u'...
After many months off on a much needed sabbatical, traveling for my sanity, fiddling and rearranging my house and my studio; and finally getting used to the empty nest syndrome, and I don't mean the "Ozzie and Harriet" way. I decided last night to return to what really motivates me best.
creating and designing bracelets from artisan lampwork beads and things!


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Shabby Chic
Learn how to get the look with these tips and tricks, then check out our gallery for inspiration.
1. Choose a muted palette of soft pinks, pale blues, sea-foam greens, and creamy whites. Repeat hues on walls, furniture, artwork, fabric, and accessories.
*Our Favorites: Green Tease (208-1) from Pittsburgh Paints (pittsburghpaints.com); Lemon Chiffon (932) by Benjamin Moore Paints (benjaminmoore.com).
2. Keep rooms from looking too pristine by combining new furniture with one-of-a-kind antiques. Worn pieces add to the overall look and make a room feel warm and comfortable.
3. Mix and match fabrics, textures, and patterns. Combine wood, wicker, and slipcovered and upholstered pieces.
4. Pile on the plush pillows and throws to create a cozy and inviting space. Be bold with fabrics, mixing polka dots and stripes with florals and plaids.
5. Accessorize with personal collections of seashells, dishes, and antique items. The more lived-in the space looks, the more authentic the style.
Get Inspired. View a gallery of our favorite shabby chic rooms.


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My Bibliography is a component of the My NCBI service and allows authors to create an online collection of their published work. While editing their bibliographies, authors can import citations for their articles directly from PubMed, and the system will automatically check for duplicates and will remove citations imported more than once. However, authors may still end up with duplicates in certain situations, and sometimes it is not obvious how to remove these duplicates. In this post we will describe three situations where duplicates may persist and will discuss ways to remove them.
Monthly Archives: September 2013
NCBI's Open Data – A Source of Experimental Data for Important Discoveries
On a typical day, researchers download about 30 terabytes of data from NCBI in an effort to make discoveries. NCBI began providing online access to data in the early 1990s, starting with the GenBank database of DNA sequences. Over the years we've greatly expanded the types and quantity of data available. You can now find on our site descriptions and data from experimental studies such as next-generation sequencing projects, bioactivity assays for small molecules, microarray datasets and genome-wide association studies.
The White House recently recognized these efforts by awarding NCBI Director David J. Lipman with the "Open Science" Champion of Change Award [1]. The scientific community has recognized the benefits of open data. Access to this information serves as a source of both original and supplemental data for exploration and validation [2-4], which improves the power of experimental data [5] while increasing the speed and decreasing the cost of discovery [6].
In this post, we summarize three recent cases where researchers used data from an NCBI resource/database to make significant discoveries.


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Back in the day, when the Lakota still carried power in their feathers they would call on the Wind Spirit to protect them from the sharp eyes of their enemies.
The Wind Spirit would howl, blowing in a ferocious storm so that not even the hawks could see the lodges of the people, barely seeing the pine trees through the snow.
And the Wind Spirit continued to howl until all fear was gone having been breathed through, the nostrils of the Lakota ponies.
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ELIXIR is pleased to announce three new appointments to strengthen the coordination capacity within the ELIXIR Hub. The three new members will work as Technical Coordinators for two ELIXIR Platforms (Tools and Interoperability) and the ELIXIR Human Data Use Case.
Jen Harrow
Jen has taken up the post of ELIXIR Tools Platform Coordinator. Working closely with the Tools Platform leadership team, Jen will play a key role in the aligning the development of ELIXIR Tools and Services Registry with other ELIXIR services. Jen will also drive ELIXIR benchmarking strategy and facilitate collaboration with other ELIXIR Platforms and Use Cases.
Jen joins us from Illumina, where she was Program Manager for Population Genomics, primarily involved in collaborating with Genomics England to develop an Interpretation Platform for Cancer and Rare Disease. Prior to this, she was leading the GENCODE project at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, producing the curated human and mouse reference gene sets. She also collaborated with the Gerstein Group in Yale on Pseudogene analysis and worked with the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona on identification of lncRNAs. Jen Harrow holds an Mphil from the Sussex University and a PhD in Plant Sciences from Cambridge University.
Sirarat Sarntivijai
Sirarat Sarntivijai works as the ELIXIR Interoperability Platform Technical Coordinator, supporting the Platform scientific leadership. She drives the development and implementation of the Platform portfolio of interoperability services and manages collaboration between five ELIXIR technical Platforms and the associated Use Cases.
Sirarat is a domain expert in ontologies and linked-data in biomedical sciences and translational healthcare. In her previous post at EMBl-EBI she was working on the Experimental Factor Ontology, and was involved in the development of ontology-assisted data integration framework in many projects including the Human Cell Atlas, OpenTargets, and PredicTOX. Sirarat received her PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Michigan, US, and completed her postdoctoral training at the US FDA Office of Clinical Pharmacology.
Gary Saunders
Gary Saunders joins ELIXIR in the role of Human Data Coordinator. He will lead the implementation of the ELIXIR-wide strategy to enable responsible sharing of human data consented for reuse in scientific research. A major focus of this role will be working with the existing Human Data Communities to ensure that all data generated is compliant with the FAIR data principles, and to coordinate these efforts with the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH).
Gary joins us from EMBL-EBI where he was the data manager for the European Variation Archive (EVA), and the Database of Genomics Variants Archive (DGVa). He has a PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Glasgow, UK, and has a background in comparative genomics.


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Michael Sedano
Among the most valuable experiences available to writers attending the conference are one-on-one meetings with agents, publishers, and authors. Here are a few shots from the 9:00 set of meetings.
By the way, technology is a wondrous way to pass a lay over. Like in Las Vegas, where the airport provides free wi-fi throughout the building, along with dedicated stations with AC plugs to keep the Mac running and charging while the camera uploads to the drive, and Adobe Fireworks does its magic shrinking the files to acceptable size. Tan cool, que no? Que si!
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Saturday, May 23, 2009
National Latino Writers Conference Day 3
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- Linda Rodriguez said...
Thank you for doing such a great job documenting this conference, both last year and this year. It's a treat for those of us who can't attend, and your photos are always so clear that it feels like being there.
Mil gracias,
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Some vast changes coming to abbreviated accounts that is worth a read.
Accountants will have heard by now that the Companies Act 2006 has been revised for small and micro-entities as a result of the transposition of the EU Accounting Directive into UK legislation. This will have quite a significant effect on the way that small companies prepare their annual reports and the revised Companies Act 2006 comes into mandatory effect for accounting periods commencing on or after 1 January 2016.


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Something strange happened to mRemoteng 1.63 on Windows 7 today.
Putty now opens in a separate window - see in attachment. And I can't turn it back. Reinstall, cleaning of conf files didn't help.
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Enter your blog or websites name.
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Barcelona, Spain – Sunday 31 August 2014: Obese youths have a nearly six fold risk of hypertension, according to research in more than 22 000 young people from the PEP Family Heart Study presented at ESC Congress today by Professor Peter Schwandt from Germany.
Professor Schwandt said: "The prevalence of hypertension and obesity in children and adolescents is continuing to rise in most high and middle-income countries. Because adiposity is considered a driving force for cardiovascular disease, we examined whether elevated blood pressure was associated with body fat distribution in young people."
The current study included 22 051 children and adolescents from the PEP (Prevention Education Program) Family Heart Study (1). In each participant, the researchers measured blood pressure, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), waist-to-height ratio (WHtR), skinfold thickness (SFT) and percent body fat (%BF).
Professor Schwandt said: "These measures are simple, inexpensive, risk free and can be used in offices, schools and at home. However, they must be performed correctly and age and gender specific cut-off values have to be used in growing children and adolescents." (figure 1) (2)
Prehypertension was defined as a blood pressure reading between the 90th and 95th percentile of the blood pressure curve for children and adolescents, while hypertension was a blood pressure reading over the 95th percentile. The diagnosis was based on several measurements on separate days and on repeated estimations with the child sitting quietly for five minutes. The researchers used an adequate cuff size for the arm in the correct position.The researchers found that compared with normal weight children and adolescents, the risk of prehypertension was significantly higher in youths with an elevated BMI (3). Compared to normal-weight, the risk of being prehypertensive was significantly increased in overweight males and females (OR 1.6 and OR 1.8, respectively) and obesity (OR 2.4 and OR 3.3, respectively).The significant associations with adverse fat patterning were even stronger for the risk of hypertension. In obese boys the odds ratio (OR) was 5.9 and in obese girls 4.3. Professor Schwandt said: "We found that obese boys had a nearly six fold increased risk of hypertension compared to normal weight boys. In obese girls the risk was more than four times greater than their normal weight counterparts."The prevalence of elevated blood pressure increased in boys and girls as body weight went up (figure 2). The prevalence of prehypertension/hypertension in normal weight, overweight and obese youths was 13.2%/5.7%, 18.3/10.4% and 21.9/18.6% in boys and 12.9/5.0% 18.7/9.1% and 24.9/24.4% in girls, respectively.
Professor Schwandt said: "Our study clearly shows that the fatter young people are, the greater their risk of prehypertension and hypertension. Any weight loss they can achieve will help reduce their risk."
The researchers also found increased risk of hypertension with elevated SFT and %BF measurements, (4) and abdominal adiposity (5).
Professor Schwandt concluded: "General and abdominal adiposity, estimated using simple and inexpensive methods, are already significantly associated with prehypertension and hypertension in children and adolescents. This is of great importance because of the ongoing rise in the prevalence of hypertension and overweight/obesity in young people and the tracking of childhood overweight into adulthood."
Figure 1: Growth curves for % body fat in boys and girls (2)
Figure 2: Prevalence of normal blood pressure, prehypertension and hypertension in 22 051 children and adolescents according to their weight groups
(1) The PEP (Prevention Education Program) Family Heart Study is a prospective community-based observational study which was performed from 1994 to 2008 in Nuremberg, Germany. The aim of the study is to assess cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors, examine whether sustained healthy lifestyles can be implemented in 3 268 healthy families, and evaluate associations between lifestyle change and CVD risk factors in 24 927 parents and their 23 740 children aged 3-18 years.(2) Schwandt P, von Eckardstein A, Haas GM. Percentiles of percentage body fat in German children and adolescents: an international comparison. Int J Prev Med. 2012 Dec;3(12):846-852.(3) Normal weight, overweight and obesity were defined using the BMI growth curve for children and adolescents. Normal weight was a BMI less than the 85th percentile, overweight was a BMI between the 85th and 95th percentile, and obesity was a BMI over the 95th percentile.(4) When the researchers looked at SFT measurements, they found that if the sum of subscapular plus triceps SFT was above 35 mm, the risk of hypertension was 5.8 fold in boys and 3.4 fold in girls. The risk increased to 5.6 fold in boys and 3.4 fold in girls when they also had a %BF above the 95th percentile.(5) Abdominal adiposity predicted a 3 to 4 fold risk of hypertension. A WC above the 90th percentile increased the risk by 3.5 in boys and 3.1 in girls, while a WHtR greater than 0.5 increased risk by 3.9 in boys and 3.8 in girls.
The PEP Family Heart Study is continuously supported by the Foundation for the Prevention of Atherosclerosis, Nuremberg, Germany. See abstract here.About the European Society of CardiologyThe European Society of Cardiology (ESC) represents more than 80 000 cardiology professionals across Europe and the Mediterranean. Its mission is to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease in Europe. About ESC Congress 2014The ESC Congress is currently the world's largest international congress in cardiovascular medicine. The spotlight of this year's event is "innovation and the heart". ESC Congress 2014 takes place from 30 August to 3 September at the Fira Gran Via in Barcelona, Spain. For more information on ESC Congress 2014 contact the ESC Press Office.To access all the scientific resources from the sessions during the congress, visit ESC Congress 365. This press release accompanies both a presentation and an ESC press conference at the ESC Congress 2014. Edited by the ESC from material supplied by the investigators themselves, this press release does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Society of Cardiology. The content of the press release has been approved by the presenter.
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Chef Les Eckert, in the culinary industry for 19 years, is a Certified Working Pastry Chef and Certified Culinary Educator at The Art Institute of Tampa. Chef Eckert has a BA in Culinary Management and a MBA with an emphasis in Hospitality Management. She has been an active member of the American Culinary Federation (ACF) since 1992.
Chef Eckert's Tampa Bay work experiences have included Valentine's Artisan Bread House, Mise En Place Restaurant and Tampa Marriott Waterside. In 2002, Chef Eckert started additional endeavors that included her own dessert catering business, Simply Decadent, and teaching pastry classes at Publix Aprons Cooking School and private venues. Joining The Art Institute of Tampa in 2007, Chef Eckert began teaching entry and advanced level Pastry Art classes as a Chef Instructor for the school's Baking and Pastry Diploma and Associates Degree programs.
A Florida native, Chef Eckert's passion for cooking and baking were inspired by her Mom's own culinary interests. That inspiration has offered her cherished experiences including teaching students, coaching the school's culinary competition team, being part of a new hotel bakeshop, baking for 2,200+ guest functions and for high profile guests and events such as government dignitaries, the 2002 and 2009 NFL Superbowl Games, the 2009 Taste of the NFL, the Olympic Planning Committee, Tampa Bay Lightning home games, creating the Cirque du Soleil's celebration cake for the 5000th performance of Saltimbanco and the 2012 Clearwater Jazz Festival.
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By 2020, all disposable dishware, utensils and cups sold in France must be made of "biologically sourced materials" that can be composted. The country's ban comes after a plastic bag ban went into effect in July 2016, according to CBS News.
The decision is environmentally based and aims to reduce "the energy consumed and waste produced by the plastic processing industry, as well as the pollution caused by plastic litter." These new compostable products don't need to break down in a home compost system, though. They only need to break down in an industrial compost system. The people of France will still need to make sure these biodegradable plastics end up in the right place.
Not everyone is happy about the ban. Some people are concerned about the loss of jobs this ban could cause. Other naysayers argue the French countryside will be littered with garbage because people might think they can just leave their biodegradable plates and cups behind to become one with nature. The most puzzling argument against the ban is that it's an "anti-social" measure because "families struggling financially make regular use of disposable tableware," CBS News reports.
I can understand the concern about the loss of jobs — especially by the folks who hold them. In fact, a lawsuit aimed at saving jobs and arguing that the ban violates the European Union rules on the free movement of goods is a real possibility, with the
The other two arguments are lame. Unless there's already a problem of people leaving paper plates and paper cups behind when they picnic outdoors, why would people suddenly leave biodegradable plastic items behind? And, families who struggle financially would be spending more money on throw-away products than they would on durable products. Plus, it's not as if one-time-use products won't still be available; they'll just be made of different materials.
Of course, the best-case scenario to reduce one-time plastic use products would be for individuals, families, schools and businesses to make the choice to drastically cut back on their use without government intervention.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if the government didn't have to intervene here in the U.S. because we made the choice to personally ban (or drastically cut back the use of) one-time-use plastic plates, cups and utensils all on our own?


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Bill Keller in The New York Times on Ron Wyden as the last bipartisan senator Oregon Democratic Senator Wyden, who introduced a Medicare reform proposal with Paul Ryan, has become the bipartisan talking point for Romney-Ryan. The whole thing is telling of "the decline of the honorable craft of lawmaking," Keller says. Wyden is one of the few Senators to still reach out to the other side, and did so with Ryan. But when Ryan drafted a budget, many of the compromises were killed in favor of a Republican-only plan. "[T]his episode may well shrink the already diminished pool of lawmakers who are willing to buck party orthodoxy," Keller says.
Stephen Smith in Bloomberg View on how Americans pay too much to build mass transit American taxpayers pay much more than their European and Asian counterparts to build public transportation. Manhattan's Second Avenue subway plans, for example, costs as much as five times more than European and Asian transit. American agencies haven't been good at keeping private contractors accountable. Politicians here also have different priorities, opting for expensive name-brand architects rather than focusing on user need, like Spain's far cheaper metro system-- ultimately taking more time and money to build.
Allan S. Weiner in The Washington Post on human rights and economics in Vietnam Hillary Clinton announced last month that the U.S. would sign a regional trade agreement with Vietnam by year's end, but economic promises should be reeled in until Vietnam does a better job with human rights, Weiner writes. In the past year, the Vietnamese government has arrested a myriad of people that include social and political activists, religious minorities, and online journalists engaged in "legitimate forms of political expression." "The United States should not reward Vietnam by including it in the Trans-Pacific Partnership while the government in Hanoi uses its legal systems to stifle dissent and perpetrate human rights abuse."
Nicholas Sambanis in The New York Times on identity and ethnic conflict in Europe "The European debt crisis is not just an economic crisis," Sambanis writes, "it is an escalating identity conflict — an ethnic conflict." The EU was at first a political concept to tame Germany. As long as Europe prospered, that identity worked. But as the EU declines, richer European nations are more likely to identify as Germans or Frenchmen than as Europeans. "This will increase their reluctance to use their taxes for bailouts of the ethnically different Southern Europeans, especially the culturally distant Greeks; and it will diminish any prospect of fiscal integration that could help save the euro."
Michael Barone in The Wall Street Journal on the evolution of Republicans Republican voters, throughout history, have thought themselves to be "typical Americans," even though they don't make up a majority of a diverse nation. Those people have changed throughout history. Core Republican voters went from northern Protestants to white, married Christians. But the GOP should keep in mind that it'll need votes from other groups eventually, and Romney will have to govern in a way to hold the larger party together rather than succumbing to the small base. "But that is the challenge the Republican Party has always faced," Barone says, "and over its 158 years it has won more presidential elections than it has lost."
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At the Convocation of Catholic Leaders (July 1-4, 2017 in Orlando), I was honored to be one of the five delegates from the Diocese of Youngstown. The event included break- out sessions, one being "Youth on the Margins: Understanding Those Struggling with Depression, Suicide, Gangs and Discrimination." Obviously, the panel of speakers addressed each of those areas. They also discussed the opioid epidemic and how some of the heroin sold these days is immediately addicting. There is also an increase in reported anxiety issues with teens. It can be difficult to share the Joy of the Gospel (theme of the Convocation) when people are struggling to find joy in any area of their life!
In an interview with Antonio Spadaro SJ in August 2013,
Pope Francis said: "The thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity. I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars! You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else. Heal the wounds, heal the wounds."
As adults called to work with and for young people, we need to be available to assist as needed. In addition to just being available to LISTEN to a young person, here are a few suggestions:
1. Continue to pray for young people and their families, knowing that everyone is going through something or has a loved one that they worry about that is going through something. Pray that they have the strength they need to get through it and to rely on God.
A few Scriptures to consider in your prayer:
• "The Lord heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds" (Psalm 147:3).
• "But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds, thus declares the Lord" (Jeremiah 30:17).
• "Come to me, all who are heavy burdened..." (Matthew 11:28)
• "The news about [Jesus] spread throughout all Syria; and they brought to him all who were ill, those suffering with various diseases and pains, demoniacs, epileptics, paralytics; and he healed them" (Matthew 4:24).
2. Have a "Referral List" handy and updated.
To read more about how to create your list, see:
as well as an idea for helping parents connect for support:
3. Learn more about Pastoral Care so that you can better be of service. Once great option is called "Youth Mental Health First Aid." This is a quick course that covers the basics on identifying and working with youth who may experience anxiety, depression, substance use, disorders, suicidal tendencies, etc. It comes with a manual that you can keep on hand for reference over and over again. (Perhaps a good idea to reread a chapter each month as well as to have on hand as a certain situation arises.)
The diocese is looking into the possibility of hosting a training for parish ministers, but I also found that there is a FREE option offered by the Trumbull County Mental Health and Recovery Board. One training day is coming up on August 25th in Warren. The flyer can be found below. If you are unavailable that day, perhaps contact them for future dates.
What else might you add to this list?
Final thought, Pope Francis encourages us in taking the time necessary to journey with people as Church, "An evangelizing community is also supportive, standing by people at every step of the way, no matter how difficult or lengthy this may prove to be." (Evaneglii Gaudium #24)
"Proclaiming Christ means showing that to believe in and to follow him is not only something right and true, but also something beautiful, capable of filling life with new splendor and profound joy, even in the midst of difficulties." (Evaneglii Gaudium #167)
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Director of the Diocese of Youngstown Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry.
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You simply hook it up using the supplied universal tow loop to your ATV/ Ride on mower (must be at least 10kmh), Ute or car and then drag it along your paddock. It will automatically adapt to any angle which it is pulled in. Once it's full simply park it next to your muck heap and tip at the rear or shovel off to unload.
We have spent hundreds of hours testing and developing the Paddock Blade with a vast amount of animal manure on a vast variety of surfaces. It is engineered to be perfectly safe when used as intended and for purpose.
Yes the Paddock Blade will pick up rocks large and small and we have many customer who bought them for clearing up their rocky paddocks with fantastic results! They will also pick up sticks, organic debris and rubbish. Anything making a mess of your paddock gone with no worries.
The Paddock Blade will work well in grass upto 6 inches tall. For anything longer than this and as general advice to keep a well maintained healthy paddocks we recommend having you paddocks slashed.
Just about anyone in the agricultural world. Primarily for use with horses and pony poop, however, we have had many customers worldwide use them for their Alpacas, sheep vineyards, and rock clearing.
To put it simply – If you have mess to pick up then this Paddock Blade is the solution for you.
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The Paddock Blade will alleviate all those aches and pains caused by the arduous backbreaking task of paddock picking. Long-term it can stop from repetitive strain injuries in your back, neck, shoulder and arms.
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This is a question we often get asked by many people. Will the Paddock Blade damage my driveway or pick up gravel in between Paddocks?
The simple answer is no, not at all. All you have to do is unhook the Paddock Blade and hook it up the opposite way in it's "trailer mode" When hooked up this way the Paddock Blade doesn't pick up anything at all. So your driveway or other surfaces will be perfectly intact. It also doubles up as trailer when hooked up in this way so you can carry hay bales or other heavy items around your property.
The Paddock Blade has had many hours of testing, engineering and design to make sure it performs exceptionally across all terrains.
However like any product it does have it's limitations and as with anything we do we are always open and honest about these.
The Paddock Blade will not work on sand. Either arenas, menages or sand paddocks. It will also (as with any paddock picking device) not work in very wet conditions, Simply let the ground dry out to get the best results.
The Paddock Blade is Specifically designed to pick up horse poo. It does this very well. We have also sold many to customers who have found heaps of other handy uses for them.
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The fashion industry is more or less dictated by trends; current, past and future. What's hot and what's not. As a result, this puts pressure on the fashion forward to keep up with the industry in order to prove their knowledge of and loyalty to the fashion industry. Combine this with 21st century self-worth degradation (especially amongst women) and you get an unstoppable industry. Being predominantly image-based, shopping-savvy fashion consumers will hunt for the perfect balance between trend and price. This is where counterfeiting comes in.
The most coveted fashion pieces are often the most expensive, as often desire correlates with price (see the rising value of the Chanel 2.55). It's not often you come across someone who's lifelong dream is to own a Nissan Micra (no offence Nissan) or a Primark blouse (no offence Primark). The fashion concious long to afford Christian Louboutin, Hermes or rare pieces such as the discontinued Chanel 2.55 original jumbo not maxi handbag with the large clasp not small, or a Louis Vuitton handbag that Audrey Hepburn's friend's sister's dog's puppy pee'd on in that one film in the 70s that got a rating of 3.4 on IMDB. Basically, the more unobtainable and uncommon, the more desirable. However, our dream purchases often increase in unattainability as we get older because we become concious that we're running out of time, especially when we compare ourselves to those similar to ourselves, who have already found a dog pee bag. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that more people are buying counterfeit designer goods than ever.
Firstly, let me outline the difference between designer-inspired and counterfeit. Designer-inspired pieces take influence from luxury brands and mimic the aesthetics in a take of their own. For this example, let's take one of the most influential designer pieces of the moment, the pioneer of the winged handbag; Céline which happens to be a current favourite to copy with an abundance of counterfeit Céline t-shirts currently gracing eBay and the blogging community. Counterfeits are pieces that claim to or suggest that they have been created by a luxury brand when they have not, with the biggest tell-tale sign being logo branding. They're not all cheap and poorly made either, with 'A+++' grade genuine leather replicas being sold for hundreds of pounds. It's also important to note that counterfeiting is not restricted to luxury high-end brands either, especially in the cosmetics industry where brands such as L'Oreal and Maybelline are imitated, as well as mid-market brands in the fashion industry such as Fred Perry.
Drapers recently reported that counterfeits cost the Europeon fashion industry £5 billion each year and an overall of 400,000 jobs have been permanently lost in the past 20 years, as a result and that's in the UK alone. Throughout developed countries, the number rises to 2.5 million which is roughly 19,000 jobs a year. The World Customs Organisation reported that 7% of the world's trade and approximately 10% of the fashion trade is counterfeit with a massive 22% knowingly buying counterfeit products. Costs to the industry include reputation management, legal action, infringement, brand value and of course job losses.
The trouble with mass replication especially within the music industry, is that we soon grow accustomed to it. Music trends such as auto-tuning and dubstep come and go, and much like the over-playing of songs (I'm looking at you, Gotye), the novelty and initial attraction soon wears off. This is the same for designer replicas, remember the Mulberry Alexa bag? The abundance of this design has made it less appealing to people, as it is now perceived as a 'common' piece and has almost no exclusivity any more. Remember, people want what is unobtainable and uncommon.
I've learnt from reading Drapers and The Business of Fashion how hard and far people have come to work for global luxury brands and for that, I truly believe that our obsession with faking is counter-productive. It damages our self esteem, puts jobs and maybe even lives at risk and is certainly not taking the moral high ground. However, there would be a multitude of new issues that would stem from the abolition of this trade. The whole world has become so saturated in counterfeits that even celebrities have their hands on them. Trying to stop or even slow down this illicit activity would prove to be almost insurmountable.
"They don't realise what they are fuelling is criminal activity. We have a generation now that is more worried about image than morality," - Ben Muir
I hope you have found this post as absorbing as I have found researching it and I would love to hear your thoughts and opinions on this issue. I am always up for a healthy discussion. Please remember that at the end of the day, your health and your happiness are what truly matters. Be thankful for what you have and for the privilege of being able to buy such luxuries like handbags. As tomorrow is the last day of March, be sure to check my Philanthropy page to see what charity I will be donating to for the month of March. If you have any suggestions, be sure to leave a comment on the page!


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Recently there has been some confusion as to whether or not Iggy Azalea was signed to Interscope and had been dropped from the label, now the rapstress sets the record straight.
Iggy Azalea cleared up the confusion surrounding her Interscope deal after her show at S.O.B.'s on Thursday night.
The female rapper told XXL that she is managed by Interscope and wasn't dropped from them (she had never actually signed to them), "I wasn't dropped by Interscope," she continued, "I'm still managed by [Interscope], but when T.I. came on board and it became a Grand Hustle thing. We were working on restructuring and we worked down to the final deal. There's things that change when other people get involved. For me, I choose my involvement with Tip because that's my family over other things, so I'm thankful that I have him and he can kinda get me out of that situation; now it's just strictly Grand Hustle."
Interscope's Vice President of Publicity, Yvette Gayle, also commented saying, "Iggy decided not to sign with Interscope, but she is still managed by Interscope Management."
Iggy added, "This has been this way for about two months now. Me or Interscope didn't really feel it was necessary to speak on it because we have a great relationship still. Everyone in that building is my friend and there's a mutual respect there and nobody wants to do anything that makes anyone feel uncomfortable about anything else. There's no bad blood between me and Interscope of course, they still manage me. So they play a big part in my career; but I can't sign something that I don't feel, you know, is 100% right. So I did what was best for me and they did what was best for them business-wise."


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Director: David Ayer
Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington
Rating: R
2 (out of 5) Globes
More than most, filmmaker David Ayer is drawn to evil. His breakthrough screenplay was for "Training Day," whose villain oozed charisma yet was remorseless in his swaggering depravity. "Harsh Times" goes even farther into the abyss; its anti-hero (Iraq vet Christian Bale) isn't even charming. The new "Sabotage" goes further still: It boats a team of crooked DEA vets, and they're each and every one of them obnoxious, unpleasant, unlikable a—holes.
As they prove again and again that only British people know how to swear, you probably can't wait for them to shut up or even die a horrible, needlessly bloody death. So the film obliges you. Very loosely modeled on "And Then There Were None" — albeit with a few more shocking, inane twists — it finds an elite team, led by a stone gargoyle (Arnold Schwarzenegger), getting wiped out one by one. Everyone assumes it's the cartel from whom they just stole millions, only to lose it. But what if it's one of them?
Ayer really isn't a plotter so much as a guy who likes to soak up life amongst the disreputable. The actual mystery is muddled, more an excuse to stage gory demises. Nothing can prepare you for how much blood flows here, so much that you half expect the corpses, when found, to be deflated. The company (including Sam Worthington and Mireille Enos, as the group's token tough chick) gives the film its unusual life. Ayer doesn't sugarcoat them; they're all awful hotheads, each driven totally insane by spending years deep undercover. Scene after scene finds them hanging out by pushing eachother around, one-upping eachother, seeing who can fit as many f-bombs in one otherwise artless utterance.
They're not a fun group to be around, but that's the point. What Ayers is doing doesn't always work: poor Terrence Howard, who can adlib better than any of them — yes, even better than Sam Worthington — can't even get a word in edgewise. He's simply in the wrong group. The only one who's actually enjoyable is Olivia Williams' investigator, who snoops into the murders. She's just as miserable as them, only she's (comparatively) witty about it. (As "The Ghost Writer" and "Hyde Park on Hudson" proved, few are better at being royally pissed off than the otherwise lovely Williams.)
But there's still a mystery to solve, which becomes seriously unwieldy, well before a slapdash but forceful car chase that swipes from "The Killer"'s garage assault. But there's a strange, seriously twisted integrity to it. It seems ambivalent over its nasty characters, at once repelled and respectful. Ayer's camera pushes uncomfortably close in on them, whether they're in action or knocking back cheap whiskey at a strip club and running their mouths. The shots aren't pretty; they're sloppy, underlit, "raw" — as volatile as the characters its frames can barely contain.
Ayer gets too close, for good and ill — for ill, because the action is usually incoherent, and because one should never be too near the hulking Schwarzenegger. The former action titan/politician — sporting an overly-combed nerd 'do that goes nicely with his obligatory neck tattoos — never seems comfortable with the invading cameras or the role. He's usually lost amongst the din, occasionally called on to brood over a video sent by a cartel as they torture his wife to death. "Sabotage" follows its characters into some dark, messed-up places, and by the end it's found a bizarre nobility, if that's the word, in what is truly repugnant behavior. It's weirdly admirable even as it's a drag to watch.
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