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On Pinkeye, Lice, and Love
- Author Elizabeth Laing Thompson
- In Lizzy Laughs Lizzy, on Life
- Date March 29, 2015
"Mommy, my eye itches!"
The whiny voice came from the back of our minivan. We were trundling slowly down back roads, halfway to our vacation destination, loaded down with so many towels and flotation devices and industrial-sized bottles of sunscreen that the bottom of our van nearly scraped the highway.
"I'm sorry, Sweetie," I said, not turning around. "Just close it and let it cry a little. Maybe you have an eyelash in there." From the driver's seat, my husband, Kevin (a.k.a. Mr. Tall, Dark and Handsome), gave his silent nod of approval, renewing our secret pact: Keep it moving, stop for nothing. If we show even a moment's weakness on road trips, then our four kids take turns declaring a bathroom or medical emergency every fifteen minutes.
"No, Mommy, it itches and burns!" The last word warbled dangerously close to a wail.
I plastered on a patient expression and twisted around in my seat. After a long search, I found my seven-year-old daughter's eyes peeking out from behind a purple suitcase and three Pillow Pets. Her left eye was glowing red, Terminator-style. She hadn't looked like that when we left the house.
"Oh," I said. "Um."
Kevin, who after 14 years of marriage had become an expert interpreter of my meaningful ums, tuned in, his voice tipped with worry. "What? What's wrong?"
"Um, it's pinkeye," I said, my mood plummeting.
And in the blink of a crusty pink eye, poof went my glittering plans for a week of sand castles and shell-collecting and long afternoon naps in which all four children, exhausted from swimming, would actually sleep at the same time, allowing Mommy and Daddy to also sleep or . . . not sleep. My mind flooded with words like miserable and contagious and quarantine.
"We need to stop now," I said. "Like, before we even get there and she contaminates the hotel room. We need to get her on those eye drop thingies, and bathe her in bleach, and wrap cellophane around her hands so she doesn't scratch her eyes or touch anyone, and then maybe—just maybe—no one else will get it, and we can salvage some sort of family vacation."
"Um . . ." Now it was Kevin's turn for the meaningful um. "We're in the middle of nowhere."
Out came the smartphone. I typed in, "Urgent Care in the Middle of Nowhere," and we found our target.
Minivan rerouted.
Detour to Urgent Care underway.
At the Urgent Care in Podunk-ville, North Carolina, Kevin and I kicked into let's-do-this-thing mode. We both agreed that because Kevin is taller and capable of being both charming and slightly intimidating to medical personnel, he should take on the role of Parent Who Will Charm and if Necessary Threaten the Doctors Until They Prescribe the Strongest Medicine Allowed. Without complaint, I accepted the painful role of Lucky Parent Who Gets to Entertain Three Bored Kids in the Overloaded Minivan.
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After eighteen rounds of Categories and Eye Spy (oh, the irony), Kevin and our daughter climbed back into the van, prescription in hand.
"And now, let the Thompson Family Vacation begin," said Kevin, cranking the engine. He put his hand up, inviting me to give him a high-five. "If we all wash our hands, maybe none of us will get it." His optimism was infectious. The kids cheered and I laughed. Kevin is right, I thought. I am overreacting. After all, it could be worse. At least it's not a stomach bug.
We spent the afternoon in a flurry of unpacking and happy-dancing, accompanied by the kids' giggly, giddy soundtrack. We were on vacation! Who cared if one kid had Pinkeye? Pinkeye, Schmink Eye! Mr. Tall, Dark and Handsome and I even convinced the kids to go to bed early, with the promise that if they got extra sleep tonight, they'd swim better and have more fun in the morning.
We had just snuggled up on the couch, wine glasses in hand, when Little Miss Pinkeye wandered out in her nightie.
"My head itches," she said.
"Honey, we already know your eye itches. The medicine should help it feel better soon," I said. "Please go back to bed."
"No. My head itches. My hair. Like, really, really bad." She demonstrated by frantically clawing at her scalp.
A low-level alarm started pulsing in my head. No. Please, God, no. No no no. We all have our parenting fears, and lice is pretty much number one at the top of mine, even above amputation and loss of spleen.
She scratched her head some more.
I sat frozen. Maybe if I close my eyes, it will all go away. She will go back to bed and the Lice Fairies will come rescue us, and we'll forget we ever had this conversation. And we can still have our Thompson Family Vacation.
My daughter screeched and collapsed in a writhing heap on the carpet. My alarm leapt from low-level to imminent nuclear threat.
I began to negotiate with God. I'm sorry I complained about Pinkeye. Please don't punish me for complaining about Pinkeye. I LOVE Pinkeye! Please, if you just give us ALL Pinkeye, AND a stomach bug, I promise I will never complain again for the rest of my life—just please, I beg you, no lice. ANYTHING BUT LICE.
"Mommyyyyyy!" she wailed, jumping to her feet and doing a violent ants-in-her-pants dance around the room. Only it was very clear that the bugs weren't in her pants.
Casting Kevin my best save-me-from-the-firing-squad look, I handed him my wine glass and summoned courage from some mysterious inner maternal spring. I ushered my squirming daughter into the kitchen, under the fluorescent lights.
"Um," I said.
"No," Kevin said. "Please, no." He was still sitting where I'd left him on the couch, clutching our two wineglasses in his fists—preacher or not, he was eyeing both glasses with a dangerous gleam in his eye. "Don't say it."
"Okay. But you'd better come look."
The horror etched on Kevin's face confirmed my diagnosis.
All reason abandoned me. I started hyperventilating. "I did this," I moaned, "it's my fault. I've been so terrified of lice that the bugs heard me, and they targeted us and tracked us down. And they did it on purpose on this week, to ruin our vacation."
When I started scratching my own head and babbling about curses and how my fear of lice must have caused the bugs to spontaneously generate on her head and possibly on mine, Kevin started riffling through the hotel kitchenette, searching for a paper bag for me to breathe in. He handed me the bag, and I made him check my head. Meanwhile, our daughter stood there scratching and yawning, a strange smug smile on her face. "I have pinkeye and lice," she exclaimed. "On the same day! Wait till everybody at school hears about this!"
I screamed into my bag. My husband combed through my hair.
When Kevin pronounced me bug-free and I finally started breathing normally again, we debated strategy. We decided there was no use staying up all night de-lousing an exhausted child. The bugs would still be there in her hair when we all woke up in the morning, plus a few cute new baby lice. We might as well get some sleep. Kevin, who has the blessed gift of compartmentalizing his life and "letting tomorrow worry about itself," snored blissfully all night. I tossed and turned and itched and scratched my way through lice-haunted dreams.
As is their custom, our kids woke us up at the crack of no-one-except-night-nurses-should-be-awake-right-now. While I stumbled toward the coffee maker and cereal, Kevin grabbed the car keys. "I'll go buy the lice stuff," he said. I tried not to cry.
Half an hour later, he made a dramatic reentrance, his baritone voice booming. "All right, all right, all right! Who's ready for a lice party?"
I gaped at him. From his arms swung grocery bags filled with a hundred dollars' worth of every de-lousing tool and gel and shampoo ever invented (none of which work, by the way), and in his hands he balanced two cups of steaming coffee, teetering atop boxes of donuts. "Okay, everybody, we're all taking turns eating donuts and getting our hair brushed with these fancy new combs!" The children squealed with glee and tackled him, as if this was the Best Way to Start a Vacation Ever. "A lice party and donuts, a lice party and donuts!" they sang.
Tears threatened again, but now a different kind.
I watched in awe as my laughing husband paraded across the hotel room, holding donut boxes aloft. Two children swung from his elbows; another clung to his ankle, her bug-infested head covered in a shower cap; the baby clapped and cooed at him from the floor.
In fourteen years of marriage, I had never been more in love with my husband than I was in that moment.
Maybe later that week, if we were no longer a threat to society, we might break our quarantine to swim and search for shark teeth and brave the local aquarium—but I knew that I had already experienced my favorite vacation memory. Eventually I might take some pictures to memorialize sandy baby toes and happy sunburned kids . . . but this was the picture I'd always treasure.
This, I thought, is love. This is family. This is real. I have married a man who can take pinkeye and lice on vacation, and turn it into a party . . . now that's a good man. That's a good life. And this might just be the best vacation ever.
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Elizabeth works from home as a writer, editor, diaper changer, baby snuggler, laundry slayer, not-so-gourmet chef, kid chauffeur, floor mopper, dog groomer, and tantrum tamer. She is always tired, but it's mostly the good kind.
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love, love, love this!
Oh Elizabeth…I"m laughing as I read this post. I love it! We had the lice fairies generously come to our house last week and I wish I could say we handled it as gracefully as you both have done. There wasn't a party or donuts, but there was a little wine involved!! Love you guys:)
Oh, I feel for you. I've gone through this both as a mom and as an adult! My husband and I got lice as adults from the movie theater seat when we went out on a date. It was one of the most annoying and enduring ordeals that I've ever gone through. I ended up having a very severe allergic reaction to the OTC meds and had to go to the ER because I had severe chest pain, trouble breathing and hives everywhere. I was sick and itchy and battled both the lice and the physical repercussions of basically poisoning myself with those meds for months. Thank heavens my husband was there to be my rock and help me through it just like yours helped you through. I'm glad you've got a good one. Hope that your kiddos are all cleared up soon!
I am laughing out loud, and now, very close to crying. This has to be my favorite story and blog ever! You have described so beautifully the craziness of raising a young family. What wasn't much fun at the time became one of your most special memories! And, yes, you do have the most amazing husband!! Love this!
Love this-so great and hysterical!
Side note… I have witnessed his Marty Poppins-esque ways with a handful of 2nd & 4th graders, late night….he's like MacGuyver and the Baby Whisperer rolled into one 😉
wonderful story that is a glimpse into the heart of family and love!
Thanks for this laugh-out-loud read this rainy, Monday morning!
I could so relate to this! I'm mom to 6 kids (all grown now), and I can't remember a vacation when something didn't go "off." Though I have to say that the lice invasions usually happened at our house in the midst of a normal crazy week rather than a vacation. Your husband is a saint … is he on loan for lice parties?
This actually happened to us! We were going on a family vacation, and as I saw the sun glinting on my child's hair at the airport, I saw nits. What a horrible downer. That night in the hotel room everyone had olive oil in their hair and shower caps on. (We'd struggled before with resistant bugs, and found recurrent doses of oil works best.) It's funny now to think of the crackling sound everyone made every time they turned over in bed.
Oh my goodness – brings back similar memories (my kids are young adults now) – I love how you candidly and gave such great descriptions of your trip!!!!! Goodness – so glad your husband was supporting and helpful!!!! That makes all the difference in the world!
I think this is my favorite post! Perfect! I am reliving this. I have not yet had the nerve to publicize our last family vacation this past summer. All 16 of us together in one house…and at least half of the time was spent treating and nit-picking. The other half doing laundry…washing sheets, towels, everything every day. Amazing. I can laugh now (and did a little then since I was the grandmother and not the mother) And crazily enough…it was still a special time. The vacation pictures are crazy. We made lots of "crazy hair" designs. The water bill for that week must have been rough for the landlords. Love this (and you)
I laughed until I cried! So glad these kinds of vacation disasters aren't unique to my family 😉 You describe beautifully the hilarious chaos of family life, but what I love even more is the depiction of your moments of insight into the true nature of love– messy, faithful, and breathtakingly beautiful!
Thanks Elizabeth! This is hilarious!
SO funny! (says the girl who WASN'T there dealing with eye-and-hair bugs on a family vaca). And such an inspiration to find happy, fun memories even in the midst of seeming disaster. Thank you for the laugh!
Wow Elizabeth! I laughed out loud! You (and Kevin's) reaction is sooooo encouraging! I'm sure I would have had a meltdown and told Glenn to turn the car around and just go home. I hope I am able to react with love and optimism when our next family hiccup/issue/emergency happens 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
I can sooooo see this happening. I laughed so much that Tim came and looked over my shoulder to see what was so funny. You have a way with words and I could see this happening to our family. Knock on wood quickly!
Is that an actual picture of Kevin treating said child's hair?? What a great post 🙂
You had me on the edge of my seat. This was so beautiful! I've been there…and those really are some raw moments, but how awesome to hear how you redeemed them. These are those "in the trenches" moments nobody tells us about, but in them, love deepens just as you say! LOVED this!
How hilarious and frustrating for you. I have been laughing out loud over here. You and your husband turned lemons to lemonade- that is so awesome that even in the 'worst of times' you can still have the 'best of times.'
I've been in both these situations with my kids, and my eyes and head itch just thinking about it!! Great story!
OMG WHAT A STORY!!!! I could not love this more. I mean the both the hilarity and the beauty of it all. Not the pink eye and lice. No no no…. *Where's my paper bag*
I ADORE this kind of love… THIS is where the good stuff happens…. amidst the messes.
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Feast Canteen will launch at the disused food court area at Hammersmith Kings Mall in January 2018.
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Linyon Demokratik Seselwa expresses its disappointment that President Danny Faure has failed to apply cardinal principles of a democratic system in the appointment of top government officials announced yesterday.
In numerous instances, political figures have been named to positions in the public service, in clear violation of the separation of politics from the structure of the public service. These appointments are unfair to people who have chosen a career in the public service as professionals in that politicians are appointed over their heads, thus depriving them of the opportunity of promotion.
This is the case with the appointments of Mr. Patrick Herminie, Mrs. Marie-Louise Potter and Mr. Dick Esparon as Secretary of State, which is a public service position and presented as such in the announcement. Persons who have held this post up to now have been appointed from the public service and it has been regarded as the top of the career ladder for the public service.
Other political figures have been appointed to positions of Principal Secretary straight from politics. These include Mr. Kevin Vidot and Mrs. Jennifer Jasmin who were both members of the National Assembly for Parti Lepep, and Mr. Fabian Palmyre who was a candidate for the party in the last National Assembly elections. The same criticism applies to a former MNA, Ms. Cheryl Vengadasamy appointed as a Special Advisor, also a public service post, in the Police Department.
The proliferation of Special Advisor posts for persons with previous political connections is also a misuse the public service career structure.
These appointments come after President Faure has expressed his commitment to the delinking process which means the separation of the political and state structures, and also to the creation of a Public Service Commission which would regulate career issues such as promotion. What we are seeing is simply politicians being rewarded with posts in the civil service when the need to depart from such practices has been acknowledged and endorsed.
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Publishing start-ups crowd world's biggest book fair
A rush of publishing start-ups and ever new ways to lure readers in an industry with Amazon breathing down its neck will be a central theme at the world's biggest book fair, opening in Germany on Wednesday.
Faced with competition from the online giant, publishers face an "imperative to be big", organisers of the Frankfurt Book Fair say, pointing to this year's merger to create Penguin Random House.
But the flipside is that start-ups are springing up as continental Europe now follows in the footsteps of Britain and the US, with all eyes on the newcomers shaping the future and hunting for a viable business model.
"The dividing line is no longer between old and new, print and e-books, analogue and digital," the fair's director Juergen Boos said.
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In Germany, the pioneering spirit is seen in innovations such as Tolino, an e-reader produced by bookshop chains and Deutsche Telekom, and Flipintu, an online reader community sharing tips and recommendations, hoping to do for books what Spotify did for music.
Katja Boehne, the fair's spokeswoman, said the mushrooming of start-ups in digital publishing mirrored the switch to smartphones in mobile communications.
From initially offering books in digital format, the range of services around books and content now encompasses self-publishing, 3D educational products with interactive graphics, platforms for interactive reading and new ways of Internet shopping, she said.
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"Accordingly, new solutions for the distribution of books on the Internet are being worked on everywhere," Boehne added.
'Parents investing in children'
More than 7,000 exhibitors will descend on the western German city which annually hosts the five-day showcase of international publishing and its cross-over into film, video games and merchandising.
Brazil's literature, arts and culture will take pride of place, represented by around 90 writers, and backed by a 900,000-euro ($1.2-million) government programme for 2011-13 for the translation of Brazilian works.
The publishing sector is in "relatively good" shape compared to other industries, with children and youth literature a driving force, and school books also doing well, Boos told reporters.
"Parents are investing in their children," he said.
But the environment is changing with the scale of runaway successes such as "Fifty Shades of Grey", the 2011 erotic blockbuster by E L James. It was the first part of a trilogy that has been translated into 50 languages and sold over 70 million copies worldwide.
Not only does it pose questions about the diversity of what people read but also drives up the price of translation rights, Boos said.
"Everyone wants a certain bestseller, they all want the next Harry Potter, or the next Fifty Shades of Grey or Dan Brown... everyone's lusting after it," he said.
Blurring the lines between reality and fiction in today's storytelling is another topic for discussion at the fair, where US-Lebanese director, cameraman and author Ziad Doueiri will reveal how he shifts between Hollywood and Lebanon.
Doueiri has worked with director Quentin Tarantino and will receive the fair's 10,000-euro prize for the Best International Literary Adaptation for his film "The Attack", based on Yasmina Khadra's novel about a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
Doueiri said in April that the Lebanese authorities had banned his award-winning film from cinemas in his home country because it was partly shot in Tel Aviv using Israeli actors.
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Bookstores nevertheless face the need to be inventive.
For hints on how bookshops may look in the future, fair organisers point to initiatives in Britain, such as "The Bookshop Band" which writes literature-inspired songs and plays them in stores.
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Skip to 0 minutes and 11 seconds SIMONE GIBSON: When you're looking at how to use foods as medicine, a great place to start are your own counties' dietary guidelines. Most countries have developed guidelines to help people make decisions about what food to eat and how much of it too to eat. Now, these guidelines are based on huge amounts of evidence. For example, the Australian dietary guidelines are based on tens of thousands of studies. These studies are evaluated and assessed for the strength of the evidence.
Skip to 0 minutes and 41 seconds Some of the things that they consider are things like how many people were in the study, what kind of people were in the study, what sort of foods did they use, were they using foods, were they using supplements, and who was sponsoring the study? So for example, a vitamin company sponsoring a study might have a bias in what kind of output is going to be published. Dietary guidelines aim to summarize all of that information from those tens of thousands of studies into information that everybody can digest and follow. I'm going to discuss the Australian dietary guidelines here, but keep in mind your own country's guidelines.
Skip to 1 minute and 20 seconds They will be very similar to these ones, but they might call the food groups slightly different things. The Australian dietary guidelines include the Australian guide to healthy eating, which is summarized in the form of a plate. So that's divided into five different food groups, which includes grain, or cereal foods, mostly whole grain and/or high cereal fiber varieties. There's vegetables, legumes, and beans, lean meats, poultry, fish, eggs, tofu, and nuts, and seeds, and legumes and beans. There's the dairy section, which includes milk, yogurt, cheese, and/or alternatives, which might include soy milk and their derivatives, and mostly reduced fat. And finally, there's fruit. It's also recommended that Australians drink plenty of water.
Skip to 2 minutes and 4 seconds Outside of the plate, you'll see that there's a small section about healthy fats, which are to be consumed in small amounts. And there's the discretionary foods, which are your typical high sugar, high fat, or high salt foods. And the thing about these foods are that we don't actually need them in our diet, although some people do choose to eat them. These foods don't provide very much nutrition, but they do provide a lot of that saturated fat, or sugar, or salt. The latest Australian dietary survey shown that many people get a significant amount of their energy from those discretionary foods, which is not healthy, because as I said, they don't really provide the nutrients that our body needs.
Skip to 2 minutes and 47 seconds The benefits of these guidelines are that they're very flexible. I'm going to talk about the grain foods, mainly because they're really controversial at the moment, and I'd like to unpack that a little bit. A lot of people think that the grains and cereals group consists of bread, pasta, and cereal. And a lot of people try to avoid that, because they think those foods make them fat. However, this group is so much more diverse than those three foods. For example, it includes quinoa, red rice, brown rice, wild rice, freekeh, oats, whole grain cereals, whole grain pita breads, just to name a few. I want to emphasize how important the whole grains part of it is.
Skip to 3 minutes and 30 seconds When breads and cereals are processed, the milling means that the outer shell of the grain is removed, and that's where most of the nutritious properties are. And therefore the health benefits are largely discarded during this process. The whole grain varieties of this group have been shown to help prevent cardiovascular disease, and diabetes, and colorectal cancer. This food group provides a really wide range of nutrients. These include protein, fiber, lignans, phytoestrogens, different types of carbohydrates, B group vitamins, iron, zinc. So you can see that we do get a lot of our nutrition from this food group. The next group I'd like to focus on is the vegetable group.
Skip to 4 minutes and 13 seconds The reason being that this group seems to have the most health benefits when it comes to preventing chronic disease later in life. Another important reason is the latest Australian dietary survey has shown that only 6.8% of Australians actually meet the recommended intakes of vegetables each day, which is five serves a day. Well it's important to have a wide range of vegetables from this group, to ensure we're getting the wide range of nutrients, it's also important to consider how much we're eating. So what is a serve? A serve is half a cup of cooked vegetables or one cup of salad vegetables.
Skip to 4 minutes and 51 seconds Trying to get five serves of vegetables into someone's diet is quite difficult, and I know that I find it challenging also. Some tips that I have include having vegetables as snacks. So thinking about things like carrot sticks, cucumber sticks, or sliced capsicum, and having that with dips. Or a really great way is to add vegetables into something that you're already cooking. An example of this is making Bolognese sauce for pasta. So usually you just have your meat, maybe some onion, and some tomato sauce, but adding a tin of lentils, some grated carrots, some chopped mushrooms, or whatever else you can find in the fridge or pantry.
Skip to 5 minutes and 29 seconds And just really bulk up that sauce with a lot of vegetables and you'll find that you might make an extra two or three serves just in that dish. It's pretty difficult to have too many vegetables because of the health benefits. And also, the fact that foods from the vegetable group generally don't contain very many kilojoules, so they're not that likely to contribute to weight gain, with probably the exception of the high carbohydrate vegetables, such as potato and sweet potato for example. Contrastingly, with the cereals group, we have to be careful not to have too many of these, because they do contribute to weight gain if eaten excessively. We'd love to hear from you and your experiences.
Skip to 6 minutes and 8 seconds of using your own countries' guidelines. It would be really interesting to see where they're similar and where they're different.
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Watch Simone talk about dietary guidelines, and how they can be used to help you make decisions on the types and amount of food you should eat.
Although Simone uses the Australian Dietary Guidelines as an example, it's likely your own country has developed its own set of guidelines to help you make healthy food choices.
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The creators of https://www.authors.me say they have designed a site "for the writer who wants to get read and get published."
Hey, that's me. Just a second, isn't that every writer?
What they say they've done "is hone the submission process" with a questionnaire that is not unlike preparing your manuscript to be self published.
Anyhow, you answer the questions and the people at Authors.me plug it into a template and make it available to agents and publishers who have also registered on the site.
The benefits for the writer are you don't have to research and prepare multiple submissions, a process that makes writing a novel seem easy.
The benefit for the agent or publisher is they have a standardized and thorough submission, which they can review within minutes and accept, reject or refer as easy as forwarding an email.
So, what's the catch?
Well, until July 15, 2016, there isn't one because until then you can submit your completed manuscript, the first thirty pages or even a non-fiction book proposal free.
After that, well, the creators of Authors.me aren't saying.
Once a price is attached to your submission the question will be how many agents and publishers have signed on, are they using the site and will it make any difference?
Sure the submission process is a pain but if you've persevered and done the research, meticulously followed instructions as to what to submit and what not to submit, incurred the expense, and still haven't got a publisher or agent then is a new, streamlined submission process going to change that?
Put another way, an improved submission process won't improve your writing.
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Description: A cream highlighter with peachy-bronze undertones and golden shimmers.
Review: Rimmel has come out with the new Wake me Up line and this product is one of the new products released in the line. This is essentially a cream highlighter in a squeezy tube. The product was easy to blend and wore for 5 hours and then there is a bit of fading. As you can tell in the swatch it is a bit sheer but this works out great as it only leaves behind the microshimmer which is extremely gorgeous. The texture is very creamy almost silicon but it glides over the skin nicely. Only a little bit is needed everytime you apply it so this little tube will last some time. Overall, a great product especially for the Spring and Summer months. There is one other shade available in this product line and it is 002 Shimmering Rose.
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Southern hospitality continued today at NACM Credit Congress 2011 with a Dolly Parton impersonator who kicked off the morning with lots of energy and familiar tunes. The fun continued in the Super Session where critically acclaimed author, Joe Calloway focused on challenging assumptions and creating new ways to think competitively, improve constantly and act decisively – all good skills to have when protecting and growing your business. Late morning, we were excited to host Joe in our booth where people got to meet him and get an autographed copy of his book, 'Becoming a Category of One.'
In the afternoon, we hosted an in-depth demo of BusinessIQ, our platform that combines all of the credit tools your credit department needs. The platform has been very successful since its launch last July, and the conversations we're having with attendees about BusinessIQ have been great.
Tomorrow, Mary Kathryn Jarcy, one of our Senior Product Managers is speaking on how you can protect your company from credit fraud. The session will cover fraud trends you should be on the lookout for and tips and tools on protecting your business. Find her tomorrow, Wednesday, May 25 at Educational Session 19054 from 10:30-12:00.


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North America Edugame Market Report Released
January 30, 2014
If you're a Mobile Learning supplier, you can thank parents in North America for doing their part in boosting the market for mobile Game-based Learning products and services.
Growth of the North America mobile edugame market—12.5% compound annual growth (CAGR)—is strongest at two ends of the age spectrum: young children (math and language learning) and elders (brain trainers and brain fitness).
However, the brain trainer market is no longer exclusively the province of elders. Savvy suppliers are producing products for youngsters as well; parents see the value in getting a competitive head start (or help staying on track with concentration training).
Lumosity is reaching out to EVERYONE via their massive media marketing campaign that includes paid search, print, and radio. (National Public Radio does seem a logical fit as a "sponsor" venue.)
One of the interesting trends I've been watching in the Game-based Learning market is the increasing use of data–data to drive decisions for developers and platform providers and data shared with parents to offer them increased engagement opportunities with their youngsters who are playing edugames.
The key word in edugames is: engagement. Schools purchase edugames (packaged content) to increase student engagement.
Nonprofits and all levels of government purchase content services or create their own edugames to attract and engage visitors to their museums, parks, and other cultural or heritage destinations. Location-based Learning games continue to rise, however augmented reality games have not enjoyed the same success.
For more info on buyers and the catalysts and inhibitors for this thriving market, download the free Executive Overview of the 2013-2018 North America Mobile Edugame Market, which you can find on Ambient Insight's Game-based Learning Research page. The 76-page report goes into detail about trends and buying behaviors, and identifies the total addressable market for six distinct types of mobile edugames product types.


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Everything I do, as far as my beauty routine goes, is chemical free except for my deodorant. (Which I am working on. I want something that actually keeps me from smelling bad, which seems to be one of the more difficult things to do.)
However, I thought I'd share everything else that I do!
As far as my shower goes, I do no-poo for my hair. (If you'd like to read more on that you can see my post about it.)
Then I use Dr. Bronner's organic lavender bar soap on my body. The biggest thing about using bar soap and using natural soap, is that when you switch, it feels so different. We're so used to the 'clean' feeling chemicals give you. When your in the shower and still wet, your skin will feel different because its not stripped of everything you naturally have to protect your skin. Once you get out of the shower and dry off your skin feels better then ever, but it definitely takes some getting used to.
For my face (and my baby!) I use Canus goat's milk soap. I swear it gets rid of my black heads, plus my face is incredibly soft after using it.
Once week I use the simplest sea salt mask on my face to soften it. (see the end of this post for the recipe and instructions =)
For my stretch marks from pregnancy, I use coconut oil.
Its helps restore the elasticity in your skin and will tighten it back up. It has done so much for my stretch marks. They were bright red 2 months ago and they're already a very light pink. My stomach's skin is almost back to its natural tightness, even my fiance is impressed.
In between hair washes, I use a homemade dry shampoo on the roots of my hair to suck up some of the excess oil from the no-poo switch. And, I would actually suggest using it even if you haven't switched. Its super helpful anytime. Especially if you have someone who won't let you in the bathroom alone very often…… Like a baby……
It works amazingly. Just put it on your roots with a make-up brush and comb it through. Its made with cocoa, so it smells good, and you can find the recipe over here at Wellness Mama's blog.
To whiten my teeth I use activated charcoal once a week, and I brush with Earthpaste.
Super Easy Sea Salt Face Mask
So for the face mask I mentioned earlier, all you need is about a teaspoon of good quality sea salt and a few drops of water. (No seriously, just a few drops of water.)
Add just enough water to make the salt wet, like so ^^, and rub it evenly all over your face.
It should look like your face is horribly diseased and peeling.
Let it sit for 15 minutes, or until its dry again, and rinse it off with warm water. It'll make your face dry (but soft!!) so rub a little coconut oil on to moisturize.
No-poo Update:
I told ya I'd update my no-poo journey.
This is how my hair looks now-
So. Much. Volume!!
Its still in the adjusting stage, so my scalp over compensates on its oil production. It also feels a little rough when its drying, but once its dry its pretty soft. Nothing super exciting yet! Just tons of volume =) I'm hoping it adjust before my wedding in September!
~Courtney, The Crunchy Delinquent
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The Susie Glaze New Folk Ensemble has made the LA Weekly's list of 10 Best Country/Americana Artists In Los Angeles Right Now--coming in at #3
"Suzie Glaze is a flat-out superb vocalist who specializes in what she calls "Americana folk fusion." Growing up in Nashville, Glaze was a theater student and folk fan who found Music City's slick, Vegas-style presentation decidedly unappealing. But after being cast in the original Broadway production of Big River and working with its creator, legendary Country Music Hall of Famer Roger Miller, well, she saw the light. Relocating to the San Fernando Valley with her bluegrass-picking spouse, Glaze abandoned acting in favor of music and the results have been spectacular. As leader of her New Folk Ensemble, Glaze delivers warm, amber-toned vocals that explore the psychic depth of a lyric with deft acuity and technical perfection."
You can catch the band at California Institute of Technology - Caltech (Beckman Institute Auditorium) on November 11th! More info And Tickets HERE


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Early on Sunday morning,* as the new day was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went out to visit the tomb.
2 Suddenly there was a great earthquake! For an angel of the Lord came down from heaven, rolled aside the stone, and sat on it. 3 His face shone like lightning, and his clothing was as white as snow. 4 The guards shook with fear when they saw him, and they fell into a dead faint.
5 Then the angel spoke to the women. "Don't be afraid!" he said. "I know you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. 6 He isn't here! He is risen from the dead, just as he said would happen. Come, see where his body was lying. 7 And now, go quickly and tell his disciples that he has risen from the dead, and he is going ahead of you to Galilee. You will see him there. Remember what I have told you."
8 The women ran quickly from the tomb. They were very frightened but also filled with great joy, and they rushed to give the disciples the angel's message. 9 And as they went, Jesus met them and greeted them. And they ran to him, grasped his feet, and worshiped him. 10 Then Jesus said to them, "Don't be afraid! Go tell my brothers to leave for Galilee, and they will see me there."
11 As the women were on their way, some of the guards went into the city and told the leading priests what had happened. 12 A meeting with the elders was called, and they decided to give the soldiers a large bribe. 13 They told the soldiers, "You must say, 'Jesus' disciples came during the night while we were sleeping, and they stole his body.' 14 If the governor hears about it, we'll stand up for you so you won't get in trouble." 15 So the guards accepted the bribe and said what they were told to say. Their story spread widely among the Jews, and they still tell it today.
16 Then the eleven disciples left for Galilee, going to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him—but some of them doubted!
18 Jesus came and told his disciples, "I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. 19 Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations,* baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 20 Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age."
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By Welcomemat Team, January 30, 2017.
All of us at Welcomemat believe couponing can be challenging for small business because it kills the concept of customer loyalty and, instead, spoils a customer by pushing him to choose businesses solely by the value of their coupons.
Say a local business used a couponing service to get new customers through their door. The owner did great and is happy. But as soon as he stops couponing, those new customers who came in through couponing will stop coming. These are not the kind of customers you want.
We call it the coupon illusion.
Instead, consider sending a free gift or complimentary service from your business when you welcome new movers to the neighborhood with Welcomemat. By doing this, you create a strong bond with the customer before they even walk into your store.
See why new movers are so important for your local business.
In other words, this creates a sincere relationship in which the consumer is willing to pay full price for the service or product provided. It can also have an amazing effect on customer loyalty because it creates a sense of obligation or reciprocation from the gift recipient, leading to long-term customers.
There are various benefits of taking this approach instead of discount couponing.
- Every month you are reaching out to new families—new sets of customers. With a purpose.
Giving them a no strings attached, free welcome gift not only enhances their customer experience but will also give you a chance to make a positive first impression. That is a strong message and, by offering that message, you create a new word-of-mouth opportunity to grow your local business.
- You are not giving a discount or a price cut offer.
But you are welcoming them to the neighborhood by offering them a free, celebratory "welcome" gift. This will go a long way in encouraging repeat visits and increasing customer loyalty.
- You are capturing their interest based purely on customer goodwill and experience rather than a superficial discount.
Now, if you serve them right, you have already converted them into a lifetime fan and encouraged customer loyalty.
Do the math. Say we welcomed 100 new families on your behalf and sent them right to your business after they moved and are new to the area. Even if only 10% of them become your fans and loyal customers, can you imagine what those additional purchases could mean for your small business?
Reach out to one of your local Welcomemat representatives to gain more insights into your neighborhood and learn how you can capitalize on new mover marketing to increase customer loyalty.


text: By Solarina Ho TORONTO, June 26 (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar firmed against the U.S. currency on Wednesday, as the greenback slipped against some major currencies after the release of weaker-than-expected U.S. economic growth data. First-quarter gross domestic product expanded at a 1.8 percent annual rate in the United States. Economists polled by Reuters had expected growth to remain unrevised at 2.4 percent. "It's really being buffeted around by big dollar moves again in the absence of any really significant local moves. So the (U.S.) dollar is really being knocked lower generally by the GDP revision," said Adam Cole, global head of FX strategy at RBC Capital Markets in London. "Markets are just so dominated by the U.S. dollar view at the moment. Nothing much else is really getting a lock in." At 9:10 a.m. Eastern time (1310 GMT), the Canadian dollar was trading at C$1.0468 versus the greenback, or 95.53 U.S. cents. This was stronger than Tuesday's North American finish at C$1.0509, or 95.16 U.S. cents. Reassuring comments by the European Central Bank chief also helped overall sentiment, with Mario Draghi saying monetary policy will remain accommodative. The loonie, as Canada's dollar is nicknamed, was stronger against most other currencies, but was underperforming its commodity-linked counterparts - the New Zealand and Australian dollars. Canadian government debt prices were mostly stronger. The two-year bond rose 9 Canadian cents to yield 1.218 percent. The benchmark 10-year bond rose 59 Canadian cents to yield 2.468 percent.


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Replacement pitcher for BVMC-LV1 Mr. Coffee® Iced Café iced Coffeemaker.
Iced Café Pitcher Assembly (BVMC-LV1) is rated out of 5 by 19.
Rated 1 out of 5 by Dolly from Poor Design This decanter is plastic, thin and absorbs tea and coffee stains. It does not hold up to ordinary household wear and tear. I wish that they could have used a heavier plastic or glass for the decanter. Very disappointed. I am having to replace it because of the cracks and permanent stains.
Date published: 2014-06-02
Rated 2 out of 5 by mbuck6027 from great coffee horrible pitcher Pitcher cracked and coffee all over the counter. I always hand washed it and still didn't last. Wont be buying another one. Probably will try the Hamilton Beach one.
Date published: 2014-10-07
Rated 1 out of 5 by SGriesser from Leaks after two months I read a number of reviews about the tendency for this to start leaking and just thought that it was only happening to a few upset customers, but after two months it started to leak for me as well. My advice would be to find a more durable products
Date published: 2015-04-30
Rated 1 out of 5 by Silly from Pitcher is terrible I have had this less than a year. It makes great coffee but the pitcher cracked. Now I find that I can't get a replacement pitcher. Have to rebuy the whole unit. I can tell you it's replacement won't be Mr Coffee brand.
Date published: 2015-10-13
Rated 1 out of 5 by Jim Jackson from Terrible quality of plastic My wife and I have been using the Mr. Coffee Iced Coffee maker almost daily for some time now. Unfortunately we have had to replace the machine 3 times because the pitcher cracks within a week or two. It doesn't leak for about a month, and now that the carafe can be purchased separately, we fortunately needn't throw the coffee maker out just because the carafe leaks. We will be seeking an alternative to the Mr. Coffee product as soon as this carafe begins leaking.
Date published: 2018-04-06
Rated 5 out of 5 by Dumbbells from Dink I've had the coffee maker that uses this pitcher for over two years now! It is the best iced coffee maker I've ever owned! Although I did not have any trouble with the pitcher I thought it would be a good thing to have on hand! I have been using Mr. Coffee products since the 1970's and never had any problems! Great products, amazing Company!
Date published: 2017-11-14
Rated 4 out of 5 by daylily from Cheap pitchers and not standard Have 2 Mr Coffee ice tea makers in my closet. Both work great- its just the cheap pitchers that don't stand up to use. Please at least make the pitcher last as long as the brewer. can't find replacement pitcher for my brewers. Why not make a standard pitcher instead of changing with each new brewing unit????
Date published: 2020-03-16
Rated 5 out of 5 by MACHINE from Loved it This was an OEM replacement of the original pitcher that came with the Iced Tea machine. The original pitcher lasted many years before the plastic gave out, hopefully this replacement will be just as durable.
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The right therapist
In looking for a sex therapist, it's particularly important to find someone whom you trust, respect, and with whom you share compatible values. Don't be afraid to ask questions about the therapist's background, philosophical orientation, and client-related experience with your problem.
A sex therapist can be very influential, says Gina Ogden, a certified sex therapist in Cambridge, Massachusetts and author of "Women Who Love Sex," because "there are fewer people who you can talk with about your sexual issues." She warns against therapists who have rigid ideas of what human sexual response should be. Myles agrees: "Sex is such a subjective experience. You can't impose your own beliefs on a patient."
If you see a therapist who says or does anything suggestive, or that involves nudity, terminate the relationship immediately. "Sex therapy is strictly talk therapy. There should be no 'show and tell'," asserts Seifer, a former president of AASECT.
Most sex therapists today, according to Dennis Sugrue, "look at the whole person and try to help men and women redefine what it means to make love." The effects of aging or physical problems "don't mean that a couple can't experience the pleasure and joy of being physically intimate with each other."
Further Reading
Barbach L. For Yourself: The Fulfillment of Female Sexuality. Signet Books, 1975
Barbach L and Geisinger D. Going the Distance: Finding and Keeping Lifelong Love. Plume Books, 1993
Dodson B. Sex for One: The Joy of Self-Loving. Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1996.
Heiman J, LoPiccolo J. Becoming Orgasmic: A Sexual and Personal Growth Program for Women. Simon & Shuster, 1987.
Kaplan HS. How to Overcome Premature Ejaculation. Bruner/Mazel Publications, 1989.
Kaplan HS. The Illustrated Manual of Sex Therapy. Brunner/Mazel Publications, 1975.
Ogden G. Women Who Love Sex. Ogden Books, 1995
Walker R.The Family Guide to Sex and Relationships. Macmillan, 1996.
Zilbergeld B. The New Male Sexuality. Bantam Books, 1992.
Bellows, A. (2020). An Overview of Sex Therapy. Psych Central. Retrieved on August 6, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/lib/an-overview-of-sex-therapy/
Last reviewed: By a member of our scientific advisory board on 30 Jul 2020
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It is nice to have a great scooter that I can use to ensure that I am not missing out on any kind of fun. I love being able to get around easily with a good scooter. I can get anywhere that I want to go with my scooter, whether I want to go shopping or to go to the park. Having a great scooter to use is so convenient and I am glad I found the perfect one.
My electric scooter has been awesome for allowing me to be able to easily get around. The scooter has a stylish design and I can easily join my grandkids for a trip to the mall or spend some time at my favorite waterfront area. The scooter is perfect for me to use at home and when I want to get outdoors alike. I love using it all the time.
I no longer have to miss out on any fun thanks to the senior electric scooter. The scooter is just what I need to be able to have some great mobility. The scooter is comfortable and it also doesn't leave any marks on my floors. The scooter gives me great handling as well and I feel comfortable riding on all kinds of terrain with it.
I have been using a wheelchair to get around and I have found some handy products online for my needs. Ensuring all-day comfort is easy with some great wheelchair supplies that I have loved to get online. There are some nice supplies out there that I love to shop for on my favorite online store. I can get everything that I need in one handy place.
A great cushion for my wheelchair has come in very handy for giving me the kind of comfort that I need to have all day long. The one that I have been using has been working out really well for me. It is a gel cushion and it eliminates the pressure points that you often get with other kinds of cushions. I don't have to worry about the health issues that can come with other cushions.
My gel wheelchair cushion has been working out really well for me and I love having all-day comfort with it. I can have peace of mind with this cushion, knowing that I am not putting too much pressure or strain on parts of my body. The cushion that I have been using is awesome for my needs and it helps me to have the kind of support I am looking for.
It is really nice to have some canes that work well for giving me some added support and that give me some nice style as well. I love to use a cane when I want to get some fresh air and when I am out and about in general. A good cane works well for helping me to have some good mobility at my older age. The cane that I have been using is wonderful for me.
I have loved using some canes of the Carex kind. My cane features a really cool pattern and it is just what I was needing. The cane has an offset design and it gives me great grip. I get less strain on the wrist with this kind of a cane and I can use it all day without any issues. The cane has a high gloss finish and I love the pretty pattern on it.
With some Carex canes, I can ensure that I have some great support anytime. I love to do some walking and some hiking and having a cane to use really helps me out a lot. My awesome cane works really well for giving me full support. I love how sturdy and reliable this cane is and I am sure that I will be using it for a really long time.
My grandpa loves to get out and about and it is nice for him to have a great cane that he can use that is a cane and an umbrella all in one. He loves to use his cane all the time and he can enjoy being outdoors in the fresh air no matter what the weather is like. The cane is a great way for him to have some solid protection from the elements and some awesome convenience as well.
I am so glad that I found the awesome walking cane for my grandpa online. This cane is great for his needs, and it is great here in the Seattle area, where it rains a lot. We have been getting into the dark and rainy colder months and it has been nice for my grandpa to use a nice cane that includes an umbrella for any sudden weather changes.
An umbrella walking cane is just what my grandpa was looking for and it has been great for him to have one that he could really make good use of. He has been taking the cane with him all the time, and it is just what he was wanting. The cane makes it easy for him to be able to get some great protection from the elements anytime he wants to go out for a walk.
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New fertility centre for Bristol gets go-ahead
Press release issued: 19 December 2006
A NEW £3.5 million fertility centre, one of the first of its kind in the UK, has been given the go-ahead to be built at Southmead Hospital by North Bristol NHS Trust. It will combine expertise from North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) and the University of Bristol – which currently has its own private and NHS fertility clinic at Priory Road in Clifton.
It will combine expertise from North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) and the University of Bristol – which currently has its own private and NHS fertility clinic, the Centre for Reproductive Medicine at Priory Road in Clifton.
The unit will comprise two theatres and 11 consulting/scanning rooms and a suite of embryology laboratories. All rooms will be fully equipped with state of the art equipment.
The purpose built fertility centre is expected to be up and running in December 2007 and teams from the University and NBT will be working closely together over the next 12 months in preparation for the move.
Peter Wardle, Senior Clinical Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Bristol University and Consultant Gynaecologist and Obstetrician at Southmead, said: "This really is great news for patients needing fertility treatment in Bristol.
"For many years we've had two dedicated teams in the city working at Priory Road and at Southmead. This new state-of-the-art centre will bring those teams together under one roof.
"Everyone here at North Bristol NHS Trust and at the University of Bristol is really excited about this news and the prospect of working together from next December."
The new unit will offer a wide range of fertility treatments including fertility investigations, intra uterine inseminations (IUI), IVF and ICSI. Fertility-related referrals will be accepted from across Bristol and the South West. NHS treatment will be subject to PCT eligibility and criteria.
Gill Ryan, General Manger at the University's Centre for Reproductive Medicine, said: "This is a great opportunity to combine fertility services for the people of Bristol and the surrounding region.
"The new centre will provide a single patient pathway that will combine expertise and give continuity of care in a high quality purpose built environment."


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MATHEW WAGNER - Friday, August 9, 2013
The Bundesliga season starts this weekend, with John Anthony Brooks receiving his first taste of top-division action.
Hertha Berlin - Eintracht Frankfurt
John Anthony Brooks will make his Bundesliga debut when Hertha Berlin hosts Frankfurt on Saturday.
After yo-yoing between the top two divisions in Germany for the past four seasons, Hertha is hoping that this year to break the trend and remain in the Bundesliga. The Old Lady has some cause to believe this could be the year, as the team ran away with the 2.Bundesliga title last season.
Last season's shock team, Frankfurt should be a good test for the newly promoted Berliners. Frankfurt returned to the Bundesliga for the 2012-2013 season after a one-year hiatus, and the Eagles finished in sixth place and the final Europa position, having been in the mix for a Champions League spot for much of the season.
Hertha will be without Maik Franz and Pierre-Michel Lasogga because of a red card suspension and an ankle injury, while Sonny Kittel is out for Frankfurt as he continues to recover from a knee injury.
FC Schalke 04 - Hamburger SV
Jermaine Jones and Schalke open up their Bundesliga season by hosting Hamburg on Sunday.
Schalke started off last season with its best start in 40 years, winning six of its first nine matches, but thanks in large part to a mid-season collapse, the Royal Blues had to claw their way into the Champions League picture late in the season. Despite these struggles, Schalke goes into the season slightly optimistic about its chances for a high finish because of the depth added during the offseason.
In the team's first full season under Thorsten Fink, Hamburg jumped up from being a relegation candidate to almost playing in Europe at the end of the 2012-2013 season. The Rote Hosen's goal is to make that jump into European competition.
Schalke will be without Kyriakos Papadopoulos as he continues to recover from a knee injury, while Hamburg will not have Johan Djourou with a groin injury, Michael Manncienne with an ankle injury and Ivo Ilicevic with an abductor injury.
Fortuna Düsseldorf - 1860 Munich
Bobby Wood leads Munich into a big match against Düsseldorf on Friday in an early season showdown between promotion candidates.
While looking to be the odd man out in the striker pool heading into the season, Wood has forced his way into the starting lineup the past two matches, helping to set up Moritz Stoppelkamp's goal in the Lions' win over Heidenheim in the first round of the DFB Pokal. He and the Lions are hoping to return to the Bundesliga for the first time since 2004.
Düsseldorf collapsed in the Rückrunde last season, which ended with the team being relegated on the final match of the season. The team has recorded four points through the first two matches of the 2.Bundesliga and is in prime to position to vault itself right up to the top of the standings with a win.
Munich will be without Kodjovi Koussou, Daniel Bierofka and Dominik Stahl because of a knee injury, an inflamed foot and a back injury, respectively. Martin Latka and Stelios Malezas will miss for Düsseldorf because of thigh and knee injuries.
FC Ingolstadt 04 - Karlsruher SC
Alfredo Morales will move from defensive midfield to right back for Ingolstadt when the team hosts Karlsruhe on Saturday.
The usual right back, Danny de Costa, received a yellow-red card in Ingolstadt's 3-1 loss to Ingolstadt last week, meaning coach Marco Kurz must find someone to fill in the hole. Morales, who returns to league action after receiving a straight red card in the Schanzer's season opener, has some experience playing the position and seems a good fit for the team.
Karlsruhe won the 3.Liga last season and earned promotion into the 2.Bundesliga. The team has enjoyed a solid start to life in the German second division, recording four points through two matches and not allowing a goal yet.
Along with de Costa, Andre Mijatovic, Malte Metzelder and Moritz Hartmann are out for Ingolstadt with a broken metatarsal bone, an ankle injury and a torn cruciate ligament, respectively. Karlsruhe will be without Dennis Kempe and Martin Stoll because of a thigh injury and abductor muscle problems.
Preußen Münster - Rot-Weiß Erfurt
Matt Taylor and Münster look to continue their hot start to the season against Erfurt on Saturday.
Taylor and the Eagles claimed another upset in the DFB Poakl last weekend, one year after beating Werder Bremen. The American forward scored the only goal of the match against St. Pauli last weekend, giving him two early in the season.
Erfurt has continued its good run of results from last season, when the team from central Germany collected 26 points in the Rückrunde to stay in the German third tier. Erfurt won its first two matches of the season and is currently in third place in the 3.Liga.
Münster will be without Robin Neupert and Kevin Schöneberg with a hip injury and a shin injury, while Erfurt is not reporting any significant injuries.
Having returned to full practice just this week, Fabian Johnson will hope to make Hoffenheim's bench in the opener against Timothy Chandler and Nuremberg on Saturday. Chandler could be relegated to the bench following an underwhelming performance in the team's 4-3 loss in penalty kicks to Sandhausen in the first round of the DFB Pokal.
Steve Cherundolo is unavailable for Hannover in the team's opener against Wolfsburg on Saturday, as he continues to recover from knee surgery.
Andrew Wooten should be a bench option for Kaiserslautern coach Franco Foda for the Red Devils' match against Greuther Fürth on Monday.
Royal-Dominique Fennell could make the Stuttgarter Kickers' bench for the first time in 2013 when they take on Holstein Kiel on Saturday in 3.Liga action.
Jerome Kiesewetter will hope to dress for Stuttgart II at Hansa Rostock on Sunday.


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Since getting our puppy in June we have thoroughly enjoyed (almost!) every phase that she has gone through: the sleepy cuddles of the early days were a fleeting joy, puppy socialisation classes were hugely entertaining and now we are venturing out on proper dog walks. Far from being a chore, it has been a real joy to have to get out and about every day and explore more of the beautiful countryside on our doorstep.
From seeing the grass meadows turning to gold at the end of the summer, the purple heather gently fading and, more recently, admiring webs adorned with sparkling dew drops, our morning outings feel like a perfect opportunity to appreciate the subtle changes in the seasons as well as enjoy a few moments of peace before the day begins in earnest. It has also had the added bonus of enabling us to keep tabs on the berries ripening in the hedgerows which have been picked and put to good use in jellies which will see us through a winter of roast dinners.
I've been sharing more moments from my dog walks, as well images from my home, garden and travels over on my recently resurrected Instagram account – I'd love to see you over there.


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Linux Tutorial Glossary
Uniform Resource Locator. A 'network extension' to the standard filename concept. This allows access to files and directories on remote machines, to which you may not have a constant connection, such as NFS. URLs can also point to resources on the local machine and provide a means of transporting the base files without having to change paths.
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Landfill and Solid Waste
Answer: The Solid Waste Disposal Fee is a dedicated fee to pay for all things solid waste – from operating the landfill to buying new equipment and land for convenience centers to setting aside money to close the current cell of the landfill when it's time. The fee goes into the Solid Waste Enterprise Fund, which cannot be used for any other part of the county government at any time.
Answer: The fee for 2018 is $120. The fee can be changed annually by the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors.
Answer: All citizens who own a residential parcel – including homes, rental homes, apartments, duplexes, trailer parks or courts, and campgrounds – within the bounds of Pittsylvania County must pay $120 per each residential unit, unless they meet the requirements for one of the exemptions.
Answer: Yes. Town trash fees, which are set by Town Councils and not the County BOS, are curbside pickup convenience fees. The SWDF is a County landfill availability fee.
Answer: If payment of the fee is not made by June 20, then a notice of delinquency will be mailed to each property owner(s) not having paid the fee, advising that collection proceedings will begin in thirty (30) days. Supplemental assessments may be issued after the due dates and such assessments will be due thirty (30) days after mailing.
Any person, owner, or household who fails to make payment of the fee shall be required to pay penalty and interest on the unpaid fee, as set forth in Virginia Code § 58.1-3916.
In order to acquire an application for rezoning, special exception or other land use permit, all due and owing fees, penalties and accrued interested must be paid.
To the extent allowed by Virginia law, failure to pay the SWDF can result, after due process, in the placement of a lien on the property in question in favor of the County.
Current local, state, and federal regulations prohibit the burning and/or burial of residential waste on private property without adequate and appropriate permitting.
Once a determination has been made by the County's Building Official, the information will be given to the County Commissioner of the Revenue for removal of the SWDF, and no assessment will be generated.
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Moyers & Company | Episode | S2 E27: Distracted from Democracy
In a country as rich as America, why is there so little outcry about the ever-increasing economic divide between the very wealthy and everyone else? Media scholar Marty Kaplan points to our well-fed appetite for media distraction. Later on the show, acclaimed historian Gary May puts the recent Supreme Court decision gutting the Voting Rights Act into historical perspective.


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Gillio Spotted! (2)15 December 2017
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For this second edition, our team loved this video we found on YouTube, by a user called Diary of a Planner Girl:
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Irregardless - it's not a word. You mean regardless. My father-in-law uses it all the time, and I scold him every time I hear him. It's been 14 years, and I haven't gotten through to him yet.
And don't even get me started on making verbs out of nouns. Impact is a noun, and sometimes an adjective, but not a verb. Something can have an impact, but you cannot impact something. Use affect instead.
I take this pretty seriously and have been known to yell at back at the radio during NPR's "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition." My kids are used to my rantings. But my husband did think I was having a heart attack the day I heard Jodie Foster, who graduated from an Ivy League college, talk in an interview about the "impactfullness" of a movie.
Yesterday I almost crashed the car when I saw a new made-up word. I was driving north on Lamar after taking the girls to see "Wall-E" when I passed by a construction site. The sign on the construction fence read, "Architected by Such-and-such Company." I did a triple take, not sure I'd read the sign correctly, but I had.
I called my sister, who works for an architectural/design firm in Los Angeles to see if "architected" is an accepted term in her world. She assured me that it isn't, but she did say that she's going to put it on all of her work from now on - "Architected by Keeffer." She was at the office when I called her, and one of her co-workers overheard her say that and cracked up.
I need to drive by the place again and take a picture, just to prove what I saw. And then I may just send an e-mail to the company to scold them for their mis-use of the language.
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Dear Athletes
Please be advised that we shall leave at 6.30am on Saturday from the Bell Tower for a 100+km ride out to Mundaring Weir as per the map below. This will be a very challenging ride. Those not up to the full distance might like to ride out up Welshpool Road and then take the short cut through Kalamunda back to Perth. If you can't see the map, please see the details at: http://www.mapmyride.com/view_route?r=3579c484701c9776caac59b61f2b6654&rs=http%3A//theteamcore.blogspot.com/


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Wireless IP Doorbell With 720P Camera Video Phone WIFI Door bell Night Vision IR Motion Detection Alarm Security Doorphone
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We highly recommend this door bell for security and also convenience.
Product introduction
This is a wireless wifi smart doorbell. support for mobile phones (Android and IOS system), When the visitors ring the doorbell, the mobile phones and doorbell can be real-time video and talk, take pictures, record video.
This product has motion detection alarm, day and night monitoring, local TF card recording ( the micro sd card slot: carefully open the back cover, it has the built-in micro sd card slot).
Note: Due to the airmail policy, a product with batteries inside will have a high chance to encounter the customs issue. This product is using 18650 battery, the default package doesn't include any batteries and micro sd card. Please purchase it at your local market.
If you want an indoor doorbell chime to work with this video doorbell. you can click this picture and buy the optional accessories.


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As you hopefully already know, we offer quick reference services to our patrons via both text and online web chat. Anyone can easily access our "Ask a Librarian" chat service by clicking on the link from the library homepage, and now it is even easier to text our librarians for your reference needs. Simply scan this QR code with your smart phone or mobile device:
This will open a text message already addressed to our texting services, all you need to do is type in your question and hit send and help is on the way! These quick reference services are available
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