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You eat out 3 nights in a row.
You have so many emails, the new ones go onto the next page.
You can't watch American Idol because you can't stand to watch the heartbreak of rejection.
You've been wearing the headphones for three hours and haven't heard a single song--because you forgot to turn on iTunes.
Your MS is in pieces and you're about to throw the laptop through the sliding glass door. Oh, and you're over your word count. Again.
The sun hasn't been shining in a week. Srsly, winter. END.
Your daughter has inherited your unibrow. Dang genetics dooming her to a life of Bert-dom and/or painful hot wax treatments.
You actually care that your daughter has inherited your unibrow. In fact, this is cry-worthy.
You lay in bed reading at all hours of the day. In your pajamas.
You buy a can of those "garnish" French-fried onion things and eat them for a meal.
How do you unwind/find yourself/achieve balance/etc. when you have days/weeks/months like this? And this totally wasn't my week, in case any of you were wondering. I know this other girl who has a unibrow. It's sexy. *wink*
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|Digging a Grave
Moving a body from one cemetery to another used to be a rare occurrence, but nowadays, it's becoming more common.
Families may move away from their hometowns and want to relocate a beloved relative with them to the new area.
|Family Plot
The dearly departed may have been buried in another state and their closest kin wants to move them home to the family burial plot.
|Cramped Quarters
The cemetery they are located in may be too crowded to allow the remainder of the family to be buried there, so the remains are relocated to a larger cemetery where everyone can be buried together.
Regardless of the reason, there are certain things to be considered before a body is relocated, or transferred, to another cemetery.
First, find out what is required by the state where the body is currently buried. If you are relocating the remains to another state, you will also need that information. Most states require special permits and licenses, and many require that the family be in agreement on the move.
Next, contact your local funeral home for advice on the process of having remains exhumed and transferred, and find out what is legally required. You will also need a funeral home at the new location to receive the remains and oversee the re-interment at the new cemetery. That funeral director will be in charge of burial arrangements made with the new cemetery, and securing all necessary certificates and permits for re-interment.
|Church Cemetery
If your loved one is buried in a church or religiously affiliated cemetery, you will need to get their approval to have the remains removed. Being buried in consecrated ground is considered a sacred act, and the church, or acting officials, may have the right to deny your request.
You will need to contact the current cemetery and the new cemetery to coordinate plans for the transfer of the body.
There are many costs involved in transferring a body -
When having a body disinterred and moved, you may need to purchase a new casket for the transportation and reburial. (A very basic casket starts at $500 and up.) If the casket was placed in a concrete vault, it may be an option to move the entire vault, if deemed necessary. (Disinterring and transportation fees for a vault may be very expensive.)
|Opening a Grave
|Closing a Grave
There will be the cost of opening the grave at the current cemetery, and then the cost of opening the grave and closing it at the new cemetery. (Beginning at $1,000 and up.)
A funeral director may be required by state law to be on hand for the disinterment, and another director may be required at the new location to receive the body and oversee reburial. (Beginning at $1,000 for each and up.)
|Overland Transportation
Transportation of the remains will vary widely, depending on the distance between cemeteries. If it is a local move, from one cemetery to another within a short driving distance, a hearse may be used (Check with funeral homes for prices.) If the remains are to be moved hundreds of miles away, an overland carrier will likely transport the casket. (Rates will vary, but could be extremely expensive, depending on casket weight.)
|New Stone
Remember too, at the new cemetery you will have the opening and closing costs for the re-burial. (Estimate $1,000 and up.) Plus, the cost of a new vault, (Estimated $1,200 and up.) And a new headstone. (Varies)
|Service and Interment
If you want a memorial service at the new cemetery, there will most likely be a charge for that. (Check with the funeral home.) And there may also be a charge for annual or perpetual care at the new cemetery. (Usually 5% to 15% of the grave site price.)
It may be judicial to get estimates before you begin to consider if the move is financially feasible and also to help you control costs by selecting providers you can afford.
|Veteran's Cemetery
Do your research. Veteran's Cemeteries may waive some or all of the fees to transfer the remains of a veteran to their location. Private and public cemeteries generally do not.
If you decide that the process is too costly or too involved, you might consider having a headstone placed in the new cemetery with an acknowledgement that the remains are located elsewhere. This would still give the family a place to visit and feel closer to the deceased. (But keep in mind; you may have to purchase a grave space on which to place the headstone.)
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Apparently, bears have replaced the strange summer weather, politics and even the debatable worthiness of plastic bags as the most popular dinner table conversation.
Whats with all these bears? They were never this bad when I was a kid!
Did you see the look that bear gave me yesterday? It was like he owned the place!
They have also become the source of jokes:
How many bears does it take to turn over a trash can?
Three: one to turn it over, and the other two to smile at the camera.
While I am no expert on our local ursine inhabitants Bear Smart Durango and Colorado Parks and Wildlife fill that role I, too, have noticed that the number of bears passing through my north Durango property has risen sharply this year. Never knowing why animals do what they do (e.g., our new dog, Max, who is deathly afraid of the other dog staring back at him in his water bowl), I have some conjectures as to why they are roaming our streets:
The most obvious is the ever-confusing, baffling and oddly disturbing resident who leaves his trash-filled container out in the open. Yes, I realize that not everyone has a secure place for his or her trash can. Luckily, you can get a wildlife-resistant can and greatly reduce the chance that you will be cleaning up garbage (or in the case of my neighbors, Ill be cleaning up the garbage you consistently ignore) throughout the non-hibernation seasons. Its $4 a month to have one, and in the world of comparing everything to the price of a cup of coffee, thats one skinny latte with half cream, half soy and two Splenda a month.
Bryan Peterson with Bear Smart Durango mentioned to me that he noticed less acorn and berry production in the higher elevations. While this is a generalization (microclimates abound in our area), the lack of food may have driven some of the bears to the urban fringe and then into our communities.
Now, add in this years tree fruit cornucopia like no other recent tree fruit cornucopia, and it is easy to understand why the bears arent leaving. Typically, fruit trees dont have a harvestable crop every year. Late spring frosts and freezes usually kill at least of a portion of the blossoms. But this year remember to take into consideration microclimates found almost all fruit trees with a bumper crop. Apricots, cherries, plums, pears, peaches and apples (and bears, oh my!) weighed down the branches of hundreds of trees. Easy access equals easy picking.
Will this be a yearly occurrence? Who knows? But I dont remember this many bears in town when I was a kid, and now, one-half block from Main Avenue, I see bears multiple times a week and remnants almost daily.
So if you can, pick your fruit. Preserve it. If you cant use all of it, put an ad in the Free section of the Durango Herald, try to pair up with someone who doesnt have access to fruit trees or donate the bounty.
In 2013, Colorado State University Extension will have a bulletin board on our website listing fruit trees for-the-picking in our area. That way, local residents, college students and even livestock, can enjoy the literal fruits of both summer and fall.
And the bears can stick to their acorns.
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We are aware of the issues with our scoreboard, and are awaiting assistance from the Columbus Fire Dept. More details to follow. #Crew96— Columbus Crew (@ColumbusCrew) April 27, 2013
Columbus Fire Dept is on the scene and is extinguishing the fire as we speak. We will have more details shortly. #Crew96— Columbus Crew (@ColumbusCrew) April 27, 2013
The fire is under control and the players are heading back into the locker room. They will begin warming up in the next half hour. #Crew96— Columbus Crew (@ColumbusCrew) April 27, 2013
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STATEMENT [11:00 p.m.] Club response to scoreboard fire at Crew Stadium - READ
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#crew96 stadium video board is fully functional and ready for Saturday's game. Auxiliary sound from stage will be only noticeable difference— Mark McCullers (@CrewPrez) May 1, 2013
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One of the most popular steroid stacking cycles for athletes and bodybuilders is the Equipoise and HGH stack.
Human Growth Hormone and Equipoise both have reputations for being mild relative to other anabolic substances on the market.
Both of these are used in combination when steady muscle mass gains as well as added strength and endurance are desired.
The combination is particularly highly rated for its extremely reliable production of solid and well defined muscles without many of the side effects. Kupiti pravni steroidi online ovdje.
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The combined use of two or more different steroids as part of a planned regimen is known as stacking.
Both Equipoise and Human Growth Hormone are almost always used as part of a stacking combination versus on their own.
The reason for this is that there is a synergistic effect from the combined use of these two supplements.
The Equipoise and HGH stack specifically produces greater muscle mass, hardness and vascularity.
The use of HGH on its own will not produce significant muscle gains or added strength, however when combined with an anabolic steroid such as Equipoise, the results can be quite impressive.
It is important to note that stacking EQ and HGH is not recommended for people who are new to the use of steroids as they can cause serious health issues if misused by someone who is unfamiliar with their uses and effects.
It is also not recommended for women due to the masculinizing effects that the stacked combination generally produces and it should not be used by adolescents or young people who are still developing.
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Taking Vitamin D supplements is also a good idea since this will aid in the production of muscle and stimulates natural hormone production.
Na kraju, it is generally recommended that Testosterone also be included in any steroid stacking cycle due to the fact that with any supplemental steroid use, the body's natural production of testosterone will be suppressed.
Even with these recommendations in mind as well as careful consideration of the numerous and powerful physical, mentalno, and sexual effects that starting a steroid cycle can produce on the human body, caution should always be taken with beginning steroid use.
If starting a cycle of steroids is still desired, the following can be used as a suggested cycle for stacking Equipoise and HGH.
Prije svega, there are various methods for the ingestion of HGH and Equipoise but the most common method is intravenously.
The guidelines that are included here are based on intravenous use. The stacked combo of EQ and HGH shouldn't be used for more than 16 weeks however many users continue to use HGH for up to 47 tjedna.
When Equipoise is used for the purpose of bulking, a good dosage to start out at is 400mg/ week or 500mg/ week for a more advanced level.
The amount of HGH should be 4iu/ every day but this intake could even be lowered to five days a week to still achieve similar results.
If used for the purpose of cutting, or preserving lean muscle mass, then the dosage would also be 400mg/ week and would be combined with at least one or more other anabolic steroids.
This sort of cycle would be most suitable for bodybuilders or those who are seeking more extreme levels of muscle gain.
At the advanced level this dosage of Equipose would increase to 200mg every other day but once again, this is certainly more than even the seasoned user would ever need.
Also known as Boldenone-Undecylenate, Equipoise is actually considered to be one of the most versatile anabolic steroids for both bulking and cutting.
For proponents of steroid use, Equipoise is perhaps rivalled only by Testosterone as one of the most essential steroids that should be part of a steroid user's cycle.
Equipose has the main function of increasing and preserving strength and metabolic action and its secondary functions are for developing lean, solidan, muscles and aiding with muscular definition and hardness.
It's original use is as a veterinarian steroid and it is still used for the development of both horses and cattle.
Human Growth Hormone is a natural product that is produced by the pituitary gland and is present in all people.
It's presence in our bodies is at a peak during puberty but the production of it goes down as we age.
It's primary function is for the development of internal organs and for the skeletal system including bones and muscles.
HGH is unique as a hormone because it has qualities that mimic an anabolic steroid however it is not a steroid by definition.
The first time that HGH was used as a performance enhancing supplement was in the year 1958 i od tada, it has been produced with many variations and has today become very popular with athletes and bodybuilders.
The venn diagram of side effects between HGH and Equipoise shows there isn't a lot in common between the drugs when it comes to adverse outcomes.
HGH is perhaps the safest hormone available. Common side effects are mild and include headaches and joint pain. Water retention is also possible, which can lead to carpal tunnel syndrome in some.
If abused, HGH can lead to type-2 diabetes and enlarged hands and face.
The possible side effects of Boldenone-Undecylenate are a bit more serious, though this drug also has reputation for being mild by nature.
The drug can lead to the suppression of testosterone to a greater extent than some other anabolic steroids.
Symptoms for men include:
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Women should approach Equipoise with extreme caution as it can lead to virilization because of its androgenicity.
If you are a woman, only take Equipoise at very low doses and cease using immediately if virilization symptoms such as increased growth of body hair or deepening of the voice begin to occur.
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Test Finds Samsung Galaxy S4 More Breakable Than S3, iPhone
When designing its new Galaxy S4 flagship smartphone, Samsung said it considered the question, "How can we change people's lives for the better?" The answer: By designing a handset that was also a "meaningful life companion." But evidently that required certain trade-offs, because while the device has been generally well received, it has taken a fair bit of flak for its physical design. AllThingsD's Walt Mossberg said the Galaxy S4's "plastic body felt a bit insubstantial," and The Verge complained about its "unpleasant, cheap design." Now, consumer electronics warranty provider SquareTrade says that according to its breakability tests, the device is actually more fragile than both its predecessor, the Galaxy S3, and its archrival, Apple's iPhone 5.
SquareTrade reviewed the S4, S3 and iPhone 5 for susceptibility to everyday damage, evaluating factors like water resistance, grip-ability, edge construction and drop resistance to come up with an overall breakability score. And the company found that the S4 was the most fragile of the three. While the S4 garnered high marks for water resistance and front- and back-panel design, it scored poorly on SquareTrade's slide and drop tests, as well as the company's rankings for size and grip-ability.
The S4's overall breakability score? Seven. That's half a point worse than the Galaxy S3, and two points worse than the iPhone 5. Now, to be fair, SquareTrade said all three smartphones are at medium risk for common accidents. But it concluded that the Samsung devices are generally more breakable. And the overweening reason seems to be their large size and chassis design.
Those giant 4.8-inch and five-inch displays that the Galaxy S3 and Galaxy S4 boast might look great, but when you pair their width with a plastic chassis and the increase in weight and damageable surface area they bring with them, grip-ability suffers and breakability increases. It's worth noting that the iPhone 5, too, lost points for its larger size. But it tempered that loss with better grip-ability.
"Accidents are inevitable," said Ty Shay, SquareTrade's chief marketing officer. "We all know someone that has broken their phone. … There is no denying the Samsung S4 is a terrific smartphone, but our results show it is not as forgiving as other devices to the clumsy among us."
Makes you wonder if fragility is yet another issue that is preventing Apple from shipping a larger iPhone. As CEO Tim Cook said last week, "Our competitors have made some significant trade-offs in many of these areas in order to ship a larger display. We would not ship a larger display iPhone while these trade-offs exist."
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Aging adults may joke about memory lapses and "early Alzheimer's." They may worry when they can't understand a drug plan or lose track of the characters in a novel.
But they have more control over their "cognitive vitality" than they may realize, says Elizabeth Stine-Morrow, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Illinois, who has spent 20 years studying learning throughout the lifespan.
Aging adults have choices in the way they allocate effort in everyday mental tasks like reading, Stine-Morrow said. They can compensate for subtle age-related changes rather than either giving in to them or giving up completely on the activity, she said. They also have choices in the way they stay mentally engaged and embrace challenges throughout their lifetimes and into older age.
It's all part of what she has playfully named the "Dumbledore hypothesis of cognitive aging," based on a line from the headmaster Dumbledore in the third Harry Potter novel: "It is our choices … that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
Certain "fluid abilities," or "mental mechanics," do tend to decline with age, Stine-Morrow said, but it matters how we respond. "Minor glitches in the cognitive system can loom larger than they perhaps need to because we've got these preconceived ideas about what happens with aging," she said.
She will discuss her "Dumbledore hypothesis" on Aug. 19 at the American Psychological Association conference in San Francisco, in a presidential address for the Adult Development and Aging division. A paper on the subject has been accepted for publication in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science.
In her reading research, Stine-Morrow, also a professor in Illinois' Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, has paid particular attention to changes we make – or fail to make – in the way we process and regulate our reading as we age.
More recently, she has initiated a program called Senior Odyssey, designed to engage older adults in team-based creative problem-solving and other brain-teasing challenges. After a pilot study, she is now at the start of a five-year, $2.8 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to develop the program and study its effectiveness.
Much of her reading research has involved measuring small split-second differences in the way people move through text, and in how and where they pause, noting how those differences affect what they gain or remember from the text.
She has found that older adults who remember more of what they've read tend to read differently from either younger readers or older readers who remember less. They had learned, consciously or unconsciously, that "in order to maintain the same level of comprehension and memory for text as you get older, you have to do it differently," she said.
One thing they do is to spend more time building a "situation model" at the beginning of a story or book. They take time to get a feel for the setting, to get to know the characters, and to get grounded in important details of the story. By doing so, they find it easier to integrate new information later on, Stine-Morrow said. "Page-turners are page-turners later (in a book or story); they're rarely page-turners early on."
Older readers with good comprehension also spend more time at what Stine-Morrow calls the "micro level" of their reading, pausing longer and more often to integrate new concepts or to orient themselves to a change of setting in the text.
"Younger adults who have a better memory (of what they've read) spend more time doing that conceptual integration, or what we call 'wrap-up,' at the ends of sentences, whereas older adults tend to do that more in the middle of sentences," she said.
In both cases, older readers with good comprehension have learned how to adjust their allocation of effort to compensate for losses in areas such as working memory and language-processing speed. Current research, yet to be published, is looking at how readers respond when they are coached on using these strategies.
"Effort is a good thing; effort doesn't mean you're deficient," Stine-Morrow said. "It's just the nature of cognition that it requires effort. Every time you allocate effort, it increases your capacity to do that thing in the future. And that becomes even more important as we get older."
Aging adults can find themselves "embedded in cultural expectations about aging," Stine-Morrow said. "They buy into cultural stereotypes of diminished cognitive capacity."
Drawing on another reference from Harry Potter, Stine-Morrow compares those cultural expectations to the "sorting hat" that Harry dons to select which house he will live in at the Hogwarts school. The hat tries to convince him of one choice, but Harry insists on another.
In Stine-Morrow's analogy, the "sorting hat of cultural expectations" suggests to aging adults that their abilities are in decline. If they listen, they may shy away from intellectual challenges, and in the process possibly hasten a real decline.
"Fundamentally, it's a choice," she said. "We make the choice to listen to those murmurings of the sorting hat, or not."


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Notes from the Connected Generation Conference 2010 – Part One
WoW! What a day! Thanks to Tim Davies and Katie Bacon!
I am currently reviewing my notes from the Connected Generation Conference and my brain is brimming over with ideas, thoughts and actions!
The day started off with a number of thought provoking speakers. Amy Sample Ward gave a quick ( 🙂 ) and inspiring talk setting the context for interacting and engaging young people online, Joanne Jopling discussed the detached work she has been delivering with young women in Gateshead and how this moved on line with some of the pros and cons of using Facebook and MSN. Katie Bacon discussed the use of social networking for youth participation and talked through some of her experiences in Devon, again highlighting areas that youth workers need to consider when interacting online. Kieron Kirkland, a learning researcher for Futurelab talked through InfoCow an online resource that supports young people to explore their aspirations and entitlements and engage with the information, networks and tools that can help put these into practice. And finally Mog talked about Digital Storytelling
So – already mind shocked and the cogs whirring we broke down into work shops for further discussions and presentations. Points that I picked up to reflect on were:-
- How much should we use offline policies as the basis for developing online ones? Whilst I can see that this would be useful I think that it is important to note that young people use and react differently online. Currently they tend to be much more open, will talk, post, and share personal things that they wouldn't share face to face. Should this therefore be reflected more in online policies?
- How we include data protection, the use of cookies etc in the policies we develop (still not too clear on this area myself as it is more techy but it was an area I thought needed noting.)
- The need to ensure that colleagues keep records of their online interactions, just as they would if they had had a telephone conversation, meeting etc with a young person.
- The need to educate young people around safety and privacy settings. For instance if they are interacting with us online through an SNS and we note that their profile is 'open' should we send email messages to let them know and advice on how to change it?
- To remember the digital divide does exisit and not to suppose all young people know how to use IT and apps that are about.
- How do young people know they are talking to a bona fide staff member?
- Making your online space welcoming and youth friendly and maintaining this.
- The training needs of both staff and young people, including work around personal boundaries, code of conduct , the impact of their digital foot print – thinking about what is behind the profiles and groups, moderations policies etc.
And that was just the morning!!!!! 🙂