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With childhood obesity on the rise, should parents be concerned about the weight of their babies?
Experts say parents should ask their child's healthcare provider to keep track of their child's weight from birth on up. But they shouldn't worry about the weight of a child younger than age 2.
Experts say there is no information to support the belief that children in this age group who are chubby are more likely to be heavier later.
Here are some healthy habits to try:
Breastfeed only for the first 6 months, and then continue to breastfeed along with supplemental foods until age 1 or longer as desired by mother and baby. Babies who are breastfed for the first 6 months tend to be leaner. One reason is that breastfed babies only eat when they are hungry, not when encouraged by parents.
Unless instructed by your child's healthcare provider, don't encourage your baby to finish every bottle.
Offer more fruits and vegetables, and less cereal and grains. Continue to offer fruits and vegetables as finger foods are introduced.
Give only breastmilk or formula in bottles, unless told otherwise by your child's healthcare provider.
Juice isn't necessary and is actually less nutritious than actual fruit. Avoid introducing fruit juice or wait until your child is a toddler. If you choose to offer juice, wait until age 6 months and give no more than 4 ounces of 100% juice daily.
Don't give your child fruit punch, soft drinks, and other sweetened drinks.
As parents, eat well and stay active. Your children will model what they see you doing.
Babies stay active naturally as they learn to roll over, move their heads, crawl, and walk. Their growth slows between the ages of 12 and 15 months. Parents should understand this is normal and it doesn't mean there is something wrong with their baby.
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With texting while driving becoming illegal today in Florida, some lawmakers are already working to increase the ban on drivers using electronic devices while behind the wheel.
As of midnight, texting while driving became a non-moving secondary traffic offense — meaning motorists can be fined $30 for texting if they are stopped for some other reason, such as speeding. Another violation within a five-year period would bring a $60 fine and three points on a driver's license.
Critics say that is not good enough and want to make texting while driving a primary offense, putting it in the same category as seat-belt use and allowing law enforcement officers to stop motorists if they see them texting.
Lawmakers, including Sen. Nancy Detert, R-Venice, and Rep. Doug Holder, R-Venice, who fought a four-year legislative battle to finally pass a texting-while-driving ban, have said making it a secondary violation was the only way to win support in a Legislature that was reluctant to even take up the bill.
Detert and Holder have said they hope the biggest impact of the new law will be on teenage drivers who will know as soon as they begin driving that texting in cars and trucks is illegal in Florida.
To underscore her point, Detert is scheduled to visit Venice High School this morning to talk to students about the risks of texting while driving. The AAA will also be at the school with a driving simulator that can provide an interactive demonstration of the dangers of distracted driving.
Nonetheless, at least two lawmakers are ready to push more sweeping legislation in the 2014 session.
Sen. Maria Sachs, D-Delray Beach, is scheduled to hold a press conference today with Mike Jackson, chairman and CEO of AutoNation Inc., to announce she is filing a bill to make texting while driving a primary offense in an effort to strengthen the new law.
Meanwhile, Rep. Irv Slosberg, D-Boca Raton, has already filed a bill (HB 5) that would make it illegal for anyone under the age of 18 to text, talk on a cell phone or use any other type of electronic device while driving. The bill makes exceptions for emergency communications and for vehicles stopped "outside the normal flow of traffic."
Slosberg, who lost a teenage daughter in a traffic accident and took up the cause of seat-belt enforcement when he first came to the Legislature in 2000, used a similar strategy in making the case for Florida to join the states with primary seat-belt enforcement laws.
Although Slosberg came up short in his first six years as a lawmaker in strengthening Florida's seat-belt law — which was then a secondary violation — he managed to get a bill passed that made it a primary violation for teenage drivers. Three years after he left the Legislature, lawmakers finally agreed to make the seat-belt law a primary violation for all drivers.
Despite the intentions of Sachs and Slosberg, their bids to strengthen Florida's texting-while-driving ban will face a difficult test.
Both lawmakers are members of the minority party in the House and Senate, while Detert and Holder are members of the GOP majority and committee chairs and still faced considerable resistance.
As the legislative debate continues, law enforcement officials, traffic safety advocates and a host of other groups, ranging from wireless phone companies to truckers to rental car companies, all contend Florida's new texting ban will make the roads safer.
In Sarasota County, Sheriff Tom Knight welcomed the new law.
And likening it to the evolution of Florida's seat-belt law, Knight said he expects the texting law to be improved over time.
New law on texting isn't strong enough for some
With texting while driving becoming illegal today in Florida, some lawmakers are already working to increase the ban on drivers using electronic devices while behind the wheel.

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Basement- needs wallpaper, final selections on light fixtures, paint trim, and a countertop for the desk.
Kitchen- counters should be in by 12/5, then can install appliances and plumbing. Then just needs lights.
Mudroom- needs light installed and cabinets
Dining Room- finish crown molding and footboards on built in hutch. Install light and huge mirror. Trim.
|Fresh carpeting really sets off the bannister makeover.
|I spraypainted all the vents an Oil-rubbed Bronze to blend in with the new bamboo flooring.
Guest bathrooom- done!
Guest bedroom- done!
Family room- trim and entertainment center. Fireplace makeover.
Stairs- install handrails
Cadence's Room- done!
Twins' Room- done!
Kids' Bathroom- paint cabinets and install mirrors
Playroom and Bathroom- done!
Laundry/Craft room- wallpaper and craft desk.
Master Bedroom- new light
Master Bath- done 'til phase 2
Attic- done!
Things have really been coming along! I can't believe how much longer it took than I planned. And I won't get into how much more it has cost. Anyway, here is hoping we can get moved in by Christmas.


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Hepatic Safety of Raltegravir Versus Efavirenz as HIV Therapy for Patients With HIV and HCV Coinfection
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01147107
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified March 2017 by University of Hawaii.
Recruitment status was: Active, not recruiting
First Posted : June 22, 2010
Last Update Posted : March 8, 2017
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|Condition or disease
|Hepatitis C, Chronic HIV Infection
|Drug: Raltegravir Drug: Efavirenz
|Phase 4
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|80 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Hepatic Safety of Raltegravir-based and Efavirenz-based Antiretroviral Regimens in Antiretroviral-Naïve HIV-infected Subjects Co-Infected With Hepatitis C
|Study Start Date :
|February 2014
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|December 2016
|Estimated Study Completion Date :
|June 2017
Experimental: Raltegravir based therapy
Emtricitabine/tenofovir DF* 200 mg/300 mg po daily + Raltegravir 400 mg twice daily
Drug: Raltegravir
Emtricitabine/tenofovir DF* 200 mg/300 mg po daily + Raltegravir 400 mg twice daily
Other Name: Isentress
Active Comparator: Efavirenz based therapy
Emtricitabine/tenofovir DF* 200 mg/300 mg po daily + Efavirenz 600 mg po daily
Drug: Efavirenz
Emtricitabine/tenofovir DF* 200 mg/300 mg po daily + Efavirenz 600 mg po daily
Other Name: Sustiva
- Rates of Grade 2 and higher alanine aminotransferase (ALT) elevations [ Time Frame: over week 72 ]To estimate the rates of grade 2*and higher ALT elevations in the two regimens.
- Plasma HIV RNA </= 150 copies/mL by the Abbot M2000 platform [ Time Frame: 24 weeks and 72 weeks ]To estimate rates of HIV virologic suppression at week 24 and week 72
- Change in CD4 count [ Time Frame: from entry to week 24, from entry to week 72 ]To assess changes in CD4 counts from entry to week 24 and week 72
- Time to death and/or occurrence of new or recurrent AIDS-defining events [ Time Frame: entry to week 24, entry to week 72 ]To examine time to death and/or occurrence of new or recurrent AIDS-defining events
- Changes in fasting blood glucose and cholesterol measures [ Time Frame: entry to week 24, entry to week 72 ]To examine changes in fasting blood glucose and cholesterol measures
- Changes in monocyte and T cell immune activation [ Time Frame: entry to week 24, entry to week 48 ]To study changes in levels of immune activation in monocytes and T cells from entry to week 24 and week 72 and assess relationship with clinical, immunological and virological outcomes
- Neurocognitive function [ Time Frame: entry to week 24, entry to week 72 ]To evaluate the neurocognitive function of HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) coinfected subjects undergoing antiretroviral therapy (ART)
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Inclusion Criteria:
- HIV infected patients, age >18 years, meet Vietnam guideline to begin ART (CD4 count < 350 cells/mm3 and/or WHO stage III or IV disease)
- Hepatitis C infection as documented by positive HCV antibodies and a detectable serum HCV RNA level
- AST and ALT ≤ 2 x ULN (≤ 80 U/L)
- Estimated creatinine clearance ≥ 60 mL/min
Exclusion Criteria:
- Any prior ART
- Positive Hepatitis B surface antigen
- Clinical evidence of de-compensated cirrhosis (ascites, encephalopathy, esophageal bleeding)
- Requirement for acute therapy for other AIDS-defining illness within 14 days prior to study entry
- Currently on rifampicin therapy
- In the first trimester of pregnancy, intent to become pregnant, or breast feeding during the study period
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01147107
|Viet Tiep General Hospital
|Hai Phong, Vietnam
|Hospital for Tropical Diseases
|Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
|Principal Investigator:
|Van Vinh Chau Nguyen, MD, PhD
|Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
|Principal Investigator:
|Cecilia M Shikuma, M.D.
|University of Hawaii - Hawaii Center for AIDS (HICFA)
|Study Director:
|Thuy Le, M.D.
|University of Hawaii, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit
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|University of Hawaii
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|June 22, 2010 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|March 8, 2017
|Last Verified:
|March 2017
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Antiretroviral therapy
Hepatitis C
Hepatitis C, Chronic
Liver Diseases
Digestive System Diseases
Hepatitis, Viral, Human
Virus Diseases
RNA Virus Infections
Flaviviridae Infections
Hepatitis, Chronic
Raltegravir Potassium
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C9 Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C19 Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2B6 Inducers
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inducers
Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inducers
Anti-HIV Agents
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The magical weather of Bangalore lends itself completely to the divine taste of the Urban Solace Sangria as you sit on our terrace space and gaze into the placid waters of the Ulsoor Lake; you will be transported to any exotic water location around the globe..... disconnecting from everything that keep you bound... into an alternative Universe of love and light!
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Well I just flew in from Wall Street and boy are my arms tired!
My wife and I made a brief trip up to NY / NJ so that I and the money manager I consult for could get some face time. My last visit just happened to coincide with the Flash Crash. I was all about asset allocation back then, after my candidacy-so-far in the CFA program had put the fear of God into me concerning any ability I thought I might have had to properly analyze financial statements.
These days I'm transitioning back to the land of the concentrated portfolio, searching for businesses that have put the fear of God into their shareholders by some recent slip-up, and therefore can be had on the cheap. If I can find a high ROC business with a low EV/EBIT and some sort of competitive advantage, I'll put a lot more than my standard 1%-of-my-assets into the idea. I've since graduated to 5%!
We spent 24 hours in NYC first – staying with friends who actually live & work in the financial district, so Occupy Wall Street was only blocks away. We strolled by and gave it the old look without looking like we're looking approach of introverts. I was amazed at how small it was – maybe a couple hundred people creating a tent city on a plot of land about the size of the almost-acre our house sits on. It was mostly quiet except for one guy and his mohawked friend shouting at passersby (presumably businessmen) to "Don't Be That Guy!" "Don't Be That Guy!" "DON'T BE THAT GUY!".
I half got it, half didn't – about the same experience I have when viewing conceptual art. My wife spotted a mysterious truck parked nearby. Look but don't look…
Just blocks away our attempt at a pilgrimage to the famous bull statue were met with barricades and police cars. A glance down the street revealed an angry mob swirling in front of Federal Hall. It was a full-fledged riot complete with fistfights and things being set on fire. Not anarchists & occupiers this time though, but actors filming what we were told was "Magnus Rex", which we later learned to be the top secret code name for the next installation of The Dark Knight. It was pretty convincing, have a look…
Afterwards we sipped a quick coffee to the tune of Ghostbusters (of all songs!) at a Wall St. cafe before hopping aboard the SeaStreak ferry ride to New Jersey. It's a beautiful voyage that passes quite close to the Statue of Liberty. But who could afford to pay the $50 round trip ticket to commute in from NJ to Wall Street every day? Hedge fund managers, of course!
The time in NJ passed quickly. Mornings my wife and I would walk from our nice room at a local Jersey Shore inn in Atlantic Highlands to find breakfast. Then the guy I work for would swing by to pick me up on his way in to the office. It was a beautiful drive, taking us through the city of Sea Bright. Along the way he pointed out one huge waterfront property where a famous local hedge fund manager once lived with his wife… only to run into a second huge property of his a couple miles down the road where he died with his mistress "in a sort of Nelson Rockefeller situation, if you know what I mean". On the trip home we'd pass the homes of other famous locals, Mr. Springsteen and Mr. Bongiovi.
Evenings our wives would join us for dinner – sometimes at their place and sometimes out on the town. It all felt more pleasure than business to be honest. On the way home from dinner one night, we passed the headquarters of the somewhat famous Tradeworx quant firm. The lights were still on and engineers still sat at their terminals, presumably HFT-ing in the after-hours markets or maybe just tuning the algorithms for the next day.
And before we knew it, we were back at Newark Airport doing the old iPad/iPhone charge-a-roo as we waited to go back to Florida. I spent the flight re-reading Greenwald and dreaming of finding franchise businesses trading at less than 4.5x normal EBIT. Not a bad way to spend a couple of days.


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Toledo Zoo
The Toledo Zoo, located in the old South End neighborhood of Toledo, is rated as one of the ten best in the country. Its' Highlights include the Hippoquarium, The Primate Forest, African Savanna, Arctic Encounter and a Children's Zoo.
Toledo Zoo (Get Directions) 2 Hippo Way Toledo, OH 43609 419.385.5721419.385.5721 | ToledoZoo.org
Toledo Zoo
Toledo Zoo Hours:
The Zoo is open every day of the year except Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day.
The Zoo opens daily at 10 am. Closing times vary throughout the year:
January - April
Last admission 4 pm—Zoo closes 5 pm
May (until Memorial Day)
Weekdays: Last admission 4 pm—Zoo closes 5 pm
Weekends: Last admission 5 pm—Zoo closes 6 pm
Memorial Day - Labor Day
Last admission 5 pm—Zoo closes 6 pm
September (after Labor Day)
Weekdays: Last admission 4 pm—Zoo closes 5 pm
Weekends: Last admission 5 pm—Zoo closes 6 pm
October - November (until Lights Before Christmas begins)
Last admission 4 pm—Zoo closes 5 pm
Daytime hours during Lights Before Christmas
10 am to 2:59 pm (at 3 pm, Lights Before Christmas admission rate applies)
Hours for Lights Before Christmas (open at 3 pm daily)
Sun - Thurs: Last admission 8 pm—Zoo closes 9 pm
Fri & Sat: Last admission 9 pm—Zoo closes 10 pm
Toledo Zoo Admission:
$11.00 for Adults
$8.00 for Children (2 yrs - 11 yrs) and Seniors (60+)
FREE for Members and Children under 2 years.
With over 5,300 animals representing over 750 species, The Toledo Zoo is one of the world's most complete zoos—it's also the region's top family destination! Let The Toledo Zoo whisk you away, from the Arctic tundra to the wilds of Africa to the tropical rainforest and all points between—all in one great day.
Nature's Neighborhood
(Opening on June 19th, 2009) will be a year-round children's zoo with a focus on bringing kids closer to nature by teaching them what it's like to be an animal. The exhibit will be 100% explorable and will have many hands-on activities, plus places for kids to crawl, climb and discover. And of course, there will be plenty of animals including, goats, guinea pigs, birds, reptiles, dogs and cats to name a few.
The Toledo Zoo is also proud to be at the forefront of many conservation efforts, working to preserve dozens of endangered and threatened species from butterflies and birds to snakes and elephants. Fully accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), The Toledo Zoo participates in dozens of important breeding programs that are helping to ensure a future for some truly amazing species.
Each year nearly one million people come to The Toledo Zoo to experience the wonders of the natural world, stroll through our beautiful grounds and explore our historic WPA-era buildings. Come be a part of this incredible legacy and make a few memories of your own!
A Local Treasure
It was a largely unnoticed gesture nearly a century ago - the donation of a single woodchuck to the City of Toledo's Parks Board. Little did anyone realize at the time that an institution would emerge that would become one of Toledo's most beloved and valuable treasures. With this single gift, The Toledo Zoological Gardens was started in 1900 and over the years has served as an enduring tradition for families and a source of pride for the entire community. From its rather ordinary beginnings, The Toledo Zoo has become an extraordinary success. Nationally recognized as one of the most comprehensive zoological institutions in the nation, The Toledo Zoo now serves as the top tourist attraction in the area and is the number one reason people visit Toledo. As such, the Zoo is highly regarded for its contribution to both the local economy and quality of life for the Toledo community.
A History of Change
Success for The Toledo Zoo was not arrived at easily, or overnight. From its earliest days, the Zoo faced enormous challenges. Uncertain financial circumstances frequently threatened its ability to operate, while changes to the natural world necessitated an increased role for the Zoo in working to preserve and protect the world's vanishing wildlife.
A city-run Zoo during much of its existence, the transfer of Zoo ownership to The Toledo Zoological Society, a private non-profit organization, in 1982 marked the beginning of a new era of improvements and progress. It was at this time a series of tax levies for operating expenses was approved by the residents of Lucas County. With a mindful eye on the past, as well as the future, the Zoological Society professionalized the management of the Zoo and developed a vision for the institution that can be seen in its operation today.
Although recent changes are widely apparent throughout the Zoo, the importance of its history is still in evidence. Five Spanish Colonial-style buildings that were constructed during the depression by the Works Progress Administration and the Federal Emergency Relief Act are still in use. These architecturally magnificent buildings help shape the character of the Zoo that is uniquely Toledo's.
Keeping Up with the Times
During the 1980s The Toledo Zoo introduced many exciting and significant improvements. Foremost among them, the African Savanna provided a stunning recreation of the plains and jungles of Africa. The now world-famous Hippoquarium - the first of its kind in the zoo world - was developed as part of the Savanna. More recently, the Kingdom of the Apes, exhibits for Siberian tigers, Asian sloth bears and African wild dogs have been added, as well as a renovated Aviary and the Primate Forest. Zoo Visitors are also welcomed by a new parking lot, entry complex, gift shop and a ramped pedestrian bridge over the Anthony Wayne Trail.
The popularity of the Zoo has increased dramatically over the last decade. Restored facilities, new exhibits and a concerted effort to address the needs of the visitor have resulted in an average attendance of 875,000 people each year, with over 1,000,000 visitors in 1988, 1994, and 1999. Special promotions such as the Lights Before Christmas capture the charm and character of the Zoo and have become traditions for Toledo families.


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Branstad leading trade trip to China
Gov. Terry Branstad says he'll lead several governors on a trade trip China later this month.
Branstad said Monday that the mission will help continue Iowa's trade relationship with China. He will be joined on the trip by three Republican governors, from Virginia, Wisconsin and Guam, and 46 people representing Iowa businesses and other organizations.
"We have a unique and longstanding relationship -- nobody can take that away from us, but if we can improve the relations for the whole nation and for other states and increase trade opportunities, I think that's a very positive thing," said Branstad.
The group departs April 12 and returns April 18.
Branstad said they will visit Beijing and three other cities.
Branstad says they will meet with government officials and business leaders in China. A meeting with China's new President Xi Jinping is not confirmed.
Branstad's ties to Xi date back to a 1985 diplomatic trip that Xi took to Iowa, during Branstad's first stint as governor. Branstad last visited China in May 2012.


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Waiting Staff - Lincoln
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At Wildwood we care about great food, great places to eat, and great people. We are looking for exceptional waiting staff, which means this could be the start of an exciting journey.
We are constantly looking for the leaders of tomorrow.
This is why we are passionate about working with the best people. Key to this is creating a great environment to work, where people have fun and can achieve their ambition.
If you are:
- Full of enthusiasm.
- Ideally experienced waiting staff team member.
- Naturally caring.
- Fluent in English.
- Organised and a quick learner.
- A complete natural with customers.
Then Wildwood is the place for you. Whether you are looking for a career or some money to support your studies, with Wildwood you have the opportunity to have a lot of fun and the potential for a fantastic career.
As a member of the waiting staff team, we offer a completive salary. However, equally importantly there is ongoing development, training, and a great family atmosphere which will develop you both as a person and if you wish as a potential manager of the future. You can also expect staff meals, staff discounts, and pension scheme.
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Dec 07, 2012– Washington, USA (Techreleased) – Denmark selects U.S. Navy's MH-60R SEAHAWK Helicopter. The U.S. Navy announced today that the Danish government signed an official letter of offer and acceptance formalizing its intent to buy nine MH-60R SEAHAWK®helicopters and comprehensive logistics support for its Maritime Helicopter Replacement Program.
Valued at US $686 million (Kr 4 billion), the aircraft will be procured via the U.S. government's Foreign Military Sales program.
"It's great news that the Danish government has selected the U.S. Navy's MH-60R, an aircraft we believe is the world's most capable multi-mission maritime helicopter," said Rear Adm. Paul Grosklags, Program Executive Officer, Air, ASW, Assault and Special Mission Programs. "Danish pilots and crew will be able to fly with the confidence that these aircraft have been proven operationally capable at sea and have the full logistics support already in place to ensure they are ready and able to fly anytime, anywhere in the world."
Denmark is the second country to buy MH-60R helicopters following Australia's purchase of 24 aircraft in 2011. All nine aircraft will be delivered to the Danish government by 2018.
The Danish aircraft are configured for anti-surface warfare operations, including defending Danish interests in the North Atlantic, executing anti-piracy operations, and conducting other missions during international deployments.
The U.S. Navy was supported in its winning proposal by Team Seahawk, consisting of MH-60R airframe manufacturer Sikorsky Aircraft, mission systems integrator Lockheed Martin, engine manufacturer GE, sensor supplier Raytheon Corp., and training supplier CAE.


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Former Roc-A-Fella Records CEO Dame Dash recently launched his online store DDPoppington.com. With some very exorbitant prices for his wears, we are unsure if Dame's business savvy is beyond our comprehension or he's turned snake oil salesman.
DDPoppington.com is the online gift shop to his brick and mortar Poppington art gallery. Located in the very artsy Lower East Side section of Manhattan, the gallery is a hub to several independent ventures all presumably backed by Dash.
Included in the portfolio is the newly relaunched CEO brand, Raquel M Horn's women's lifestyle brand RHM, a dog line aptly named Pups and Dame Dash's own DD Poppington men's line.
With only a couple pieces available for sale, the merchandise is high priced to say the least. A CEO French Terry Fleece sweater is set at $150.00. Things get steeper with RMH as the dresses start at $550.00 and a DD Poppington Four Pocket Military Jacket goes for a whopping $2000.00.
Since vowing to no longer be corporately controlled, Dash has become an advocate for the independent hustle as explained to Details in an recent interview.
You can view the big ticket items from DDPoppington.com on the following pages. Think these pieces are purchase worthy? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Tim McGraw's publicist is playing down video footage posted online that appears to show the country star slapping a female fan at a concert.
The damning footage was taken at a show in Atlanta, Georgia on Sunday, while McGraw was walking into the crowd.
Reports suggest he turned on the unnamed fan after she grabbed his manhood, but his publicist tells TMZ.com the incident looked a lot worse than it was, stating, "Tim was singing out in the audience and someone firmly grabbed onto his leg and wouldn't let go as he was moving through the crowd.
"He instinctively swatted to try to keep them from ripping his jeans, which they succeeded at doing, and so he could get to more fans who could slap hands with him before the end of the show."
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A dystopian nightmare is unfolding in North Carolina. It is what the whole country would look like if you were to marry David Koch to Ted Cruz, with a prenup by ALEC, the outside agitator also known as the American Legislative Exchange Council.
ALEC is the group that writes regressive laws, saving right-wingers the trouble of having to do it themselves.
Republicans in North Carolina took over both houses of the legislature with the election of Gov. Pat McCrory in 2012, the first time the party has had complete control of state government in more than 100 years.
They went straight to work. If the Republicans were to inscribe their philosophy above the statehouse door it would read: "Let us seek to deregulate business and regulate everyone else."
The legislature promptly raised taxes on the bottom 80 percent, eliminated the earned income tax credit for 900,000 people, slashed education spending, declined the Medicaid expansion (leaving 500,000 of its poorest residents without health insurance), and grafted a draconian abortion restriction onto a motorcycle safety law.
If you were a worker, a minority, a teacher, a woman, a doctor or poor, the legislature got you.
When it wasn't kicking kids to the curb, lawmakers found time to attack one of the right wing's most pressing issues, keeping Shariah law from taking over the judiciary.
They passed a bill that sought to keep the epidemic of foreign laws taking over U.S. courts from finding its way to North Carolina. McCrory declined to veto it.
If you were trying to put guns into the wrong hands, you couldn't do better than the bill to prohibit police departments from destroying confiscated firearms.
Just short of dealing out of the trunk of their squad cars, police officers are supposed to sell or auction off the weapons they seize, rather than destroy them, as is done elsewhere.
This is one of the model laws devised by ALEC and blessed by the National Rifle Association.
Another hobby of conservatives is providing a solution to the pressing, yet nonexistent, problem of voter fraud. In 2012, of the almost 7 million ballots cast in North Carolina, 121 were referred to the Board of Elections for fraud, a rate of .00173 percent.
A new law invalidates the identification documents Democratic voters are most likely to use: IDs used by college students, public or municipal employees, public assistance agencies, and out-of-state driver's licenses (unless the voter registers 90 days before the election).
If you aren't a frequent international flier, driver, veteran or American Indian who belongs to a tribe, you are out of luck. You are also facing interminable waits as voting places have become as inconvenient and poorly located as possible.
Hillary Clinton gave a speech decrying the law, as did Gen. Colin Powell, in one of his very rare forays into the political fray. The state estimates that as many as 318,000 voters could now lack appropriate identification.
In the meantime, McCrory was doing what he could to remove regulations on business so they could do pretty much what they wanted.
It usually takes a while to see what happens when business are allowed to conduct unfettered business, but not in North Carolina.
According to the New York Times, the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources was ordered in June to focus on customer service -- expediting environmental permits for businesses.
The results were quickly apparent. In February, as many as 27 million gallons of water and 82,000 tons of coal ash spewed into the Dan River after a storm drainage pipe ruptured under a containment pond at a shuttered coal plant owned by Duke Energy Corp.
Last year, operating under their new business-friendly mandate, state environmental regulators forged a deal with Duke over pollution from its coal ash ponds, which were known to be leaky and unlined.
Critics said the deal was overly favorable to Duke, where McCrory worked for 28 years until he ran for governor in 2008.
Federal prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into the spill that will look at the company's possible ties to the state regulator.
Beleaguered North Carolinians aren't taking this sitting down. Monthly protests, organized under the aegis of HKonJ (Historic Thousands on Jones Street) and the NAACP have gained momentum to the point where between 80,000 and 100,000 people turned out last month.
The protests are called Moral Mondays as a way of showing the Christian right that laws favoring the rich over the poor aren't a bit Christian.
We know what Jesus and Pope Francis would do for the poorest and most vulnerable. Let Republicans in North Carolina do it, too.
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We are looking to recognize 10 promising startups across technology, including digital media, social media, consumer Internet, software, SaaS, iPhone apps, mobile, etc.
Two keynotes will also share their lessons learned. Care.com's founder and CEO Sheila Marcelo will share her startup stories and how she grew her company, raising $100M since she founded it. Jeremy Allaire, founder and CEO of Brightcove, will share lessons about starting his company and taking it to an IPO exit earlier this year. Other speakers and judges include top NY-based VCs/angels/investors from RRE, FirstMark, IVP, Viacom, First Round, DFJ Gotham, Founder Collective, Great Oak Capital, Metamorphic, MentorTech, ffVenture Capital, and more, plus top NY-based startups, such as Warby Parker's CEO and founder, About.com's founder and CEO. We expect about 350 entrepreneurs/investors. Past startup winners include DogVacay, Getable, Thumbtack, Tripping, Astrid, Apartment List, to name a few.
Enrollment is now closed.
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On the night of Dec. 5, the audience will choose their favorite, which will be the People's Choice winner and the judges will choose their favorite, which will then become the Splash Winner.
Splash winner (voted by judges) and People's Choice winner get: Same as top 10, a magnum of wine, courtesy Culto of 8; a demo table at the next Splash event; Discounts to Vator events; opportunity to be an online judge for the next Splash and other goodies. Two-hour accounting consultation courtesy KPMG; two-hour legal consultation courtesy Royse Law Firm. A sit-down VC meeting with FirstMark Capital.
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Snowbound Connecticut residents aren't the only ones welcoming the melting weather conditions that have occurred over the past several days.
The Blizzard of 2013 has presented home heating oil dealers with a whole host of challenges. From stuck delivery trucks to the physical exertion experienced by employees carrying a 150-long hose through three or four feet of snow, the past few days have been trying times for those who provide oil heat for a living.
"Every day it gets a little better, a little easier," said Ed Ryan, owner of Ryan Oil in Hamden. "We haven't failed to serve any of our customers, but trying to pull an oil house through that much snow is a real trick, I can tell you. And for one delivery in Hamden, we had to walk through a stretch of unplowed road to get to a customer."
George Perrelli, owner of F. Perrelli & Sons in East Haven, called carrying the oil hoses "a real cardio workout."
"But we suck it up, because that's what it takes to service our customers," Perrelli said.
Perelli's staff calls every customer the day before their scheduled delivery and asks them to clear a path to the intake pipe for filling their heating oil tanks.
He acknowledged that his crews are getting less work done now than during normal weather conditions. Part of the reason for that, Perrelli said is that deliveries for now are being done by two-person crews rather than by the standard single person refueling.
"That way they can alternate between driving the truck and carrying the hose through the snow," he said.
Perrelli said he's had several colleagues in the industry tell him they've needed to have tow trucks pull their delivery trucks from the snow. Perrelli's drivers haven't gotten stuck yet, but he said some customers who need refills haven't received deliveries yet because their roads or driveways don't have wide enough path cleared to get a fuel delivery truck close enough to their homes.
"People clear a path for a car, but people forget that the wheelbase for a truck is at least four or five feet wider than that of an automobile," Perrelli said.
Even in places where roads are passable, Ryan said that his drivers "have to keep stopping to let oncoming traffic get by."
As the storm made its way into Connecticut last Friday, Ryan said his office was besieged with calls from customers "who wanted their tanks topped off."
"After the storm passed, we got a lot calls from customers of other home heating oil dealers who weren't able to get to them," Ryan said. "We also heard from people who were concerned that their exhaust vents were clogged with snow. We were able to deal with 90 percent of those over the phone."
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Complexity, it's an ironic enigma cloaked in politics.
If you think that opening line's hard to follow, you can get your head on straight by reading some terrific articles published by Ashvin Pandurangi on his new Simple Planet Blog mockingly located at www.peakcomplexity.blogspot.com.
The irony struck me about 30 minutes into Ash's latest piece, A Complexity Manifesto, that it's taking entirely too long to comprehend this wonderful piece on complexity discussing how the world is overly complex but yet it's quite possible that the solutions are really very simple.
And I let Ash know that it's NOT his fault! His articles are well written, substantive, and well… long. And further more, he's right! Yet, I found myself running short on time and skimming/ glossing over his solutions to get to the end. I'm sure you've been there yourself, perhaps it was the first time you tried to read Freedom's Vision? Snore, head nod, chin bounces from chest…
This is the exact same problem I (and everyone else) have in presenting SIMPLE solutions to the complex problems confronting our nation and economy. The solutions don't seem so simple, not that the solution is complex, but that to address an overly complex system you must describe how you're going to solve that complexity, and it's NOT simple! Are your eyes glossing over yet?
In fact, the biggest critique of Freedom's Vision is that it doesn't fit into a 15 second sound bite! A valid critique, one for which I have not yet found the answer – can anyone help? [Please submit your proposal in triplicate, not to exceed 78 pages, in .pdf form to any of the following four email addresses, thank you!]
Here's just a portion of the response Ash gave to my blatantly over-simplified critique:
"The system itself is designed to make increasing complexity the least path of resistance. I recently wrote a short piece called "Tweaks at the Margin", where I just focused on the fact that our leaders want to keep making small tweaks here or there to our existing systems, because its politically and economically convenient in the short term. The bush tax cuts debate, financial reform, HC reform, stimulus, monteary policy, etc. are all examples of that mentality. Ironically, adding on more complexity becomes the simplest thing to do."
And with that one simple paragraph, Ashvin really has summarized a big part of the complexity paradigm. Yet paradoxically, I wonder which was it that came first, the chicken or the egg? Could it be that I was wrong in thinking the root cause of over complexity was the never ending growth mantra created by the central banker debt-backed money paradigm that created all the complexity in the first place! Not to mention the obscure ownership trail of the completely private "Federal Reserve" where all dollars lead back to only a few private individuals! But perhaps I'm over-thinking it?
Remember article after article about the Math of DEBT, Death by Numbers, Debt Saturation, the Diminishing Productivity of Debt, and how the math simply doesn't work? Well, it turns out that I was using far too many facts, figures, graphs, simple arithmetic (like addition), and words mostly not comprehended by the masses. This was thoroughly too complex, as effective cerebral cortex metabolic absorption transfer rates are entirely blocked, it turns out, by having too much corn syrup in a person's diet.
What I discovered today by reading Mark McHugh's blog, Across the Street, is that I should have been using Sesame Street characters with my charts! It's true! This one simple chart eloquently captures exactly what I've been trying to say all along – that incomes cannot support debts! But I know you probably didn't read that, and most of us have far too many histamine producing, free-floating, vascular inflaming corn based particles in our bloodstream to comprehend it, so take a look at the chart and it will all make perfect sense!
Ahhhhh… what a great chart, and a great article for the masses! So simple, so short, so un-complex-like! And here I was about to resort to pictures of half-clad beauties carrying assault rifles just to get the masses' attention. But I'll leave that for our political candidates and those with Presidential aspirations. Me and Ash can now rest easy knowing that simple solutions are soon going to be flooding our inboxes, mine can be found at www.economicedge.blogspot.com, or www.swarmusa.com, or firstname.lastname@example.com, or email@example.com, and Ash can be found at www.simpleearth.blogspot.com (his Peak Complexity blog), OR, you can go to "My Blog List" at my blog, www.economicedge.blogspot.com, and scroll down 3.6 pages (depending on screen size and resolution), looking in the right hand margin and you'll find it there – that is if you can still remember what "it" is that you're looking for. Glad we could simplify the situation for you.
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The Oracle v. Google patent case is now in the hands of a jury, as lawyers for the two tech giants presented their closing arguments this morning. The closings were fairly technical diatribes about how Android's Dalvik virtual machine works: the talk was about "symbolic references" versus "numeric references," field resolution, and static arrays.
For Oracle especially, a great deal is on the line now. Oracle is unlikely to get much from the mixed verdict that came in the copyright phase, and if it can't convince these jurors that Android infringes the two Java-related patents it has presented to them in a San Francisco courtroom over the last week, what was recently being called the "World Series of IP Trials" is going to end with a whimper.
Oracle: "Clean Room," "Open Source," "Fair Use" are irrelevant
Oracle's lead lawyer, Michael Jacobs, started out by reminding jurors that many of the defenses that would have applied in the copyright phase don't apply in the patent phase. If Oracle describes something in its patent that Google does—it infringes, period.
"This case is based on the claim language," said Jacobs. "It's not based on ancillary issues, not based on things like whether Android is open or not, nor whether Java was dedicated to the public in some way."
He showed a slide with bullet points reminding jurors what doesn't matter in this section of the case: "'Fair use' is irrelevant; 'clean room' is irrelevant; 'open source' is irrelevant."
The first patent, Jacobs continued, was filed in 1992, invented by James Gosling, an ex-Sun employee who is considered the "father of Java." Despite the fact that Oracle's two patents were filed well before the smartphone era, they are relevant to Android, Jacobs said. "They [Google] confronted on a cell phone the very same problems Java programmers were then dealing with on desktops," Jacobs told the jury. "There's a reason these patents are infringed. Google started out [building Android] by using the basic Java architecture."
Oracle's '104 patent—acknowledged as the more valuable of the two—describes a system that uses "symbolic references" to retrieve data from specific areas of memory. Jacobs told the jury that Google's own engineers—primarily Andy McFadden—admitted in their testimony that the Android's Dalvik virtual machine gets data in a way just like Oracle's patents describe.
Google was trying to pretend that certain numbers in the code weren't symbolic references, Jacobs said. "Numbers are symbolic references all the time," he explained, citing athletic uniforms, social security numbers, and student ID numbers as examples. He also argued Google infringes a patent which describes a way of initializing static arrays (the '520 patent). The Dalvik file simulator.java, "aligns almost directly with the claim language," Jacobs said.
Jacobs used the final part of his argument to talk about the importance of patent rights. "Patents are right there in the Constitution," he said. "You can tell by the level of resources being given to this trial how important this dispute is, how important your role is, and how important these patents are to Oracle."
Google: Android is "fundamentally different"
The evidence is overwhelming, Google lead lawyer Robert Van Nest told the jury. On one side, there's Oracle's technical expert, Dr. John Mitchell. But Mitchell was defied not just by Google's own paid expert, but by Google engineers and the Android source code itself, which doesn't correlate with the terms used in the patent. Even though independent invention is not a defense to patent infringement, Van Nest also pushed the point that Android is an original, in-house creation.
"The features in Android that are accused are fundamentally different from any of the claims of the '104 or '502 patents," Van Nest said. "They were designed from scratch by Google engineers—Bornstein, McFadden, and others. They were designed to work in a smartphone, without any reference at all to the Sun patents."
No one at Google was even aware of the Sun patents while they were building Android, Van Nest said. "This case is not about Java versus Android," Van Nest said. "We're dealing with two specific patents with some very narrow requirements."
The '104 patent involves "symbolic references," something that "Android never uses—never," said Van Nest. It also describes a dynamic system, whereas
dexopt, a Dalvik optimizing program, "is a static operation."
As to the '520 patent, he described it as a very small feature. The patent describes a way of initializing arrays, which Oracle says is used by the Android "dx tool." Google says what that tool does is "pattern matching," not "simulating execution," as the patent says.
Van Nest also discussed willfulness—a separate question on the jury form, which the jury won't need to consider if the patents aren't infringed. He again brought up Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz's public praise of Android after its launch. "Their reaction was not, 'Oh my gosh, you're a terrible infringer,'" said Van Nest. "It was, 'Thank you. You've strapped a rocket onto Java.' Why would somebody go search Sun patents when Sun itself was saying, 'Welcome to the Java community?'"
He also replayed the video deposition from Andy Rubin, who said he didn't recommend engineers look at patents. "Honestly, engineers aren't lawyers," Rubin asked when he was grilled by Oracle's lawyer on tape. "Some of the questions you've asked me today are so complicated, my head could explode. I don't want my engineers to focus on that, I want them to write code."
What happens next
The jury will begin deliberations now and can take as long as they like. In the first phase, the jurors took longer than expected—a full week of deliberations—and still weren't able to reach a verdict on one key question. After that, there will be a final "damages phase" to the trial, but there might not be much to that after the copyright verdict was muddled.
If Oracle wins, it will have a shot at millions—but it still may not amount to much by the standards of these companies. Oracle's own damages expert valued the two patents left in the case at a bit over $4 million in late March. That might get stretched a bit, but whatever it wins will be a far cry from the $6 billion it once believed it could wring from Google. Oracle would also be able to ask for an injunction that could force Google to alter Android's programming. The standards for getting an injunction are high, though, and Google would surely fight that every step of the way.
Mostly, though, a patent win would show that Oracle's long legal crusade has not been in vain. If Oracle loses this patent skirmish, getting anything from Google will be like squeezing water from a stone. Oracle has said it intends to demand "infringer's profits" over one nine-line function that was copied in Android, and several decompiled Java files used in testing.
Alsup has called asking for a big payout based on that evidence "ridiculous" but promised Oracle's lawyers they will get a chance to present them to the jury regardless.


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A Very Bright Idea
I use a press and mobile light device (sometimes called a "tap light") to motivate and reward my students. When a child contributes an idea that goes beyond a simply correct answer, I allow the child to remove the unlit device from a display on the wall that says, "We have bright ideas!" The child presses to light it up, and then he or she places it back in its special place on the display. Then I comment that the child really was thinking in a new way or had a bright idea that helped us see things in a new light. I make sure that the class hears the idea again. Later, I quietly press it to turn off the light, explaining if I need to, that we must save the batteries.
The lights always have a hole in the back of them to allow them to hang easily from a screw. The lights are readily available almost anywhere, are inexpensive, last a long time, and sometimes come in a variety of shapes – even stars! I get mine from a dollar store. The kids love it when their contributions are recognized with the light.


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*Super Smash Bros. Brawl Friend Codes*Meet up with fellow OLR listeners in your favorite multiplayer video games. Remember the cardinal rule of the OLRmy: Don't be a dick.
*Super Smash Bros. Brawl Friend Codes*
Well the game is finally here (earlier for some)... This thread is for anyone who wishes to play online with other people of the OLR community... Please be sure to throw up your friend codes as soon as you can so we can begin beating each other to a pulp ...
*Special Note: Yes there WILL be OLR Community Tournaments coming in the near future. Stay tuned for more info.*
Here is the layout preferred for when you put in your info...
Your 5 letter in game name: _______
Friendcode: _____-_____-_____
Alright folks lets see those codes. Hope to see you all in the in game lobby soon. Happy Brawling
Oops, I didn't see this thread, my bad... Will update this post tomorrow night when I finally get ahold of it!
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OLRev 2nd MIX OUT NOW | OLR Wikia | OLRchive (Now with the entire 1st season!) | OLR: Best Hits Volume 1 (highlights from our first 30 episodes) out now! | OLR: Best Hits Vol. 2
Just a heads up for you guys:
Even though I said I pre-ordered brawl, I may not be able to pick it up Sunday. Seeing that I live in north-east ohio, we just got obliterated with blizzard-like weather and now our 200ft driveway is covered in 20-ish inches of snow.
Also note, even though we have a decently long driveway and live in the snow-belt, my family ONLY has hand-shovels. (WTF? come on...)
And we have no 4-wheel drive vehicles either >_> (though my dad's buick pulls though the snow pretty good )
EDIT: In reply to ssj100matt's comment below, remember, I'm not an adult yet (17). I'm not the one making decisions around here. And also, I said MAY not be able to get brawl, not WILL not.
EDIT 2: Holy crap we got enough of the driveway shoveled to get the car through! (pics will come soon) Now I just hope my Wii won't give me a DRE attempting to read the brawl disk. (nor will I die from inpending über soreness from shoveling)
EDIT 3: I got it!
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Edit:: PLEASE don't leave me 1000 messages telling me to add you, because i won't...
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Sorry to derail the thread, but I think that song may have a home in Orange Lounge Revolution 2nd MIX...
We now return you to your regularly scheduled ssbb friend codes. (Gonna take off soon to go get mine, so I should have my code in the next couple hours.)
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also do wifi options BEFORE YOU PLAY ONLINE!
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AGREED, we need more GREEN LEAVES and YATTA
*Super Smash Bros. Brawl Friend Codes*
Brawl Name: SHADC
Brawl Number: 5069-3581-7251
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Along with NM64, us here in south-west Ohio (along with the rest of us in this region) got BLIZZAR'ED around 10 to 20 inches of snow. And still Toys R Us had stacks of Brawl. There was even a small line of people in the store buying Wiis.
Friend Code coming soon once I unwrap my coppy.
I plan to obtain my copy today; hopefully SSBB's not so big here in the 408 (I've seen my friends post bulletins for Madden and Halo 3 in the past, but I've yet to see any of them discuss Brawl) that I have to go hunt for copies.
FC coming soon.
This spot is reserved for SakuraMaxX
EDIT: 5 letter limit means my name is PHANT (short for Phantasmagoria)
I'll get it when I finish my homework.
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text: Just this spring I crossed Cho La for the third time from Khumbu side. More easy than other way around. Only late in the year ice can make the tour quite heavy (crampons or iceaxe!). Kong Ma la is the best approciable from Dingboche or Chuckung, it's a long walk and if there is any snow .....can be dangerous too. Renjo La, easiest way from Gokyo side. From there you have a splendid view on Makalu, Everest and Lhotse. Might say even better view as from the Gokyo Ri and more relaxed, no people around you.


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Rails' ActiveRecord logger writes log files like:
Post Load (735.8ms) SELECT `posts`.* FROM `posts` where post.title = 'foo'
You may want to know the longest SQL queries for performance optimsation purposes, and general troubleshooting. To list recent queries in order of duration, with longest queries shown last, use this:
head -10000 development.log | grep '([0-9.]+ms)' | sed 's/.*(([[:digit:].]+)ms.*/1ms &/g' | sort -n
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Black Caviar makes magnificent return
She arrived for her much-anticipated matinee performance like a shy starlet, head down and stealing coy looks at her fans.
Then she turned her back and lifted her tail and she was what she is. A horse.
Black Caviar is one of the best of her breed on earth, and even though the fence around her racecourse stable was lined with television cameras, kids in her orange and black silks and mothers and fathers with snapping cameras, she wasn't going to pretend to be anything else.
Black Caviar came to Caulfield on Saturday to perform an elementary task that was as vital to her future as anything she had done in the past eight months.
She ambled around the saddling paddock, bounced onto the track and did a jig-jog past the grandstand that her trainer Peter Moody interpreted as simple joy.
"She's enjoying it," Moody said.
"She's happy and that's as important as anything else with her."
Her jockey Luke Nolen let her idle around to the 1000 metre pole and then eased himself forward over her neck and she started to flow.
After 200 metres, Nolen gently squeezed his knees together just behind her wither and she got a bit keener, and at the 400 metre mark Nolen asked her for an effort.
"She loved it," Moody said.
"It's what I wanted to see."
Black Caviar hadn't appeared in front of an audience since last June when the Queen cheered her home at Royal Ascot in her 22nd win from as many starts.
She tore some muscles in her back in that run and the enforced rest she has had since has helped her to return to training in the best condition she's been in for years.
"This is the best that we've had to work with in a long time," Moody said.
"Her muscles and joints are good and she's happy."
For part-owner Gary Wilkie the workout proved he and his fellow owners were doing the right thing by asking Black Caviar to race again.
"The last time we saw her there were bits and pieces falling off all over the place," Wilkie said.
"But this was fantastic.
"We will go on to the race in two weeks and then have another look at her. There's plenty of races but we'll take notice of whatever the trainer says.
"He will decide and he will decide for her benefit, not ours."
Black Caviar will run in the race named in her honour, the Black Caviar Lightning Stakes, at Flemington on February 16.
It will be her 23rd start, and she'll win it just as she has the previous 22.
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Not only do they add something special to your decor, wedding favours are the perfect way to say 'thank you' to guests for attending. If you are after a great quality, unique and personalised gift, we suggest shortlisting vendors based on their product, their customer reviews and your estimated budget per guest. The options are endless!Wedding Favours Greater Manchester
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Going back in time with bread - earth oven - lots of pix
I occasionally re-enact Celtic history with my good friends from Ancient Celtic Clans. This weekend we attended the Celebration of Celts event. One of the things we did was to make an earth oven. None of us had ever done anything like it before, so it was a definite learning experience. Here I am putting the finishing touches on the chimney we didn't think to add until it was already roaring hot.
This was also my first time going without a net - no scales, no measuring cups, no recipes. I put a big pile of flour in a bowl, added some yeast, added some salt, then water until it looked and felt right. I did a quick knead just to incorporate everything, then at 45 minutes did a stretch-and-fold, 45 minutes later either another stretch and fold if it needed it, or forming into a boule.
The first loaf went in and I realized I had forgotten to slash it after the bottom exploded out of it.
The loaves got progressively better as the day went on, until they were looking like this - a beautiful currant loaf:
One of my other hobbies is woodturning. We churned some fresh butter by putting cream into the wooden box on the left and shaking the heck out of it. The butter went into the little tub on the right. You can see the buttermilk still in the box on the left with the wooden agitators floating in it.
I also juggle :) Hey, I had to shake it up somehow!
I was astounded at how well they came out. Even without doing any measuring, I was able to crank out 6 beautiful, delicious loaves from a hole in the ground. Amazing.
And with freshly-made butter to slather all over them, we were in heaven!


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Listen to The Meeting , the new track by K-Def featuring Blu which was dropped on Wednesday, August 14th, 2013. K-Def's odds keep getting better with each new leak, and The Meeting will undoubtedly improve his chances of winning. It's a worthy addition to a respectable catalogue that has seen a lot of growth since K-Def debuted in this game. We're looking forward to the follow-up.
If your interest is piqued, hit up K-Def's profile for more info, news, songs, and mixtapes. Make sure to hit K-Def with a follow and/or like on Facebook and Twitter.
Who else would you like to have seen on the track? Can you appreciate the bars here?


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And my layout:
The title says: With grandfather Eli
The subtitle says: No. 1 fan.
The journaling says: At the weekly visit of grandfather Eli. View from above...
I used: Miss Elizabeth's Bright White cardstock, Autumn Leaves Kaleidoscope printed paper, sonburn cardstocks, Fiskars Threading Water border punch, Unity stamps (July KOM), ribbon, hebrew letters stickers & stamps, sharpie.


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Journalist harassed by police officer in Liberia
New York, February 15, 2012-A Liberian police officer roughed up a journalist trying to cover allegations of harassment of motorists by police on Sunday, according to news reports.
Edwin Genoway, a journalist for the daily New Dawn newspaper, was assaulted and threatened by a police officer while reporting on alleged police harassment at ELWA Junction in Paynesville, a suburb of Monrovia, the capital, according to news reports. Motorists had told the journalist that police were seizing drivers' keys and demanding money from them, New Dawn reported.
When Genoway attempted to photograph an officer taking a driver's key, the official approached him and "slapped the camera from his hand," New Dawn reported. Genoway told CPJ that even though he identified himself as a journalist, the officer repeatedly hit him while trying to take his camera and delete the photograph. The journalist managed to keep the camera and the photograph and told CPJ that he intended to file a complaint.
"I have a bruise on my hand. It is difficult to use my right hand, even to write. I am still taking pain relievers," Genoway told CPJ. "He punched me as he tried turning my hand to take the camera from me."
The officer allegedly threatened to "deal with" the journalist if the story got published, the Liberian Times reported.
"Liberian police accused of harassing citizens do themselves no favors by harassing a journalist trying to cover the story," said CPJ Africa Advocacy Coordinator Mohamed Keita. "Police supervisors need to hold their subordinates accountable, make public their findings, and end this sort of press harassment for good."
New Dawn reported that Julius Kanaba, the former assistant secretary general of the Press Union of Liberia, arrived at the scene shortly after and told police that as public figures, they could be photographed by journalists at any time and that the act could never be considered an offense.
Police spokesman George Bardue told CPJ that though the police had yet to receive an official complaint, an internal investigation had begun. "But we are not waiting for that complaint," he said. "On our part, we have started an investigation. Once investigations are completed and if the officer is found liable, actions will be taken."
Othello Garblah, the publisher of New Dawn, told CPJ that an official complaint would be filed in the coming days. He also said that the paper had been threatened in the past. "This is not the first attack. We have had a series of text messages of death threats from people-not only the police-for stories we have written. But we said we are going to do a formal complaint this time around," Garblah said.


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Florence R. Koester
Florence R. Koester, 89, of Fort Dodge, died Sunday, March 24, 2013, at Trinity Regional Medical Center in Fort Dodge.
A service honoring Florence's life will be 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 28, at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Fort Dodge. Interment will be in Colfax Township Cemetery following the service and luncheon.
Gunderson Funeral Home & Cremation Services in Fort Dodge is assisting the family.
Florence is survived by her children, Colette (Nick) Salmon, Fort Dodge; Sherrie (Dennis) Mandsager, Middletown, RI; Rodney (Ellie) Koester, Mason City; Bradley (Colleen) Koester, Duncombe; and Terry (Joe) Neary, Emmetsburg; 12 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren.
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DNA project could reunite adoptees with birth parents
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SARASOTA, Fla. -- Linda Hammer has helped thousands of adoptees find birth families through her people-finding Web site, weekly radio show and newspaper column.
Now she wants to add another tool: a database that would contain DNA evidence from thousands of people. The theory is that DNA could be the only way to reunite adoptees with birth parents in the many cases where names were changed, birth certificates were altered or babies were bought on the black market.
"This isn't really about search and reunions, it's about knowing who you are," said Hammer, a former private investigator and co-founder of the nonprofit Touched by Adoption advocacy group, based in Walton, Ky. "A lot of this stuff is life or death."
Hammer wants the service to be free, which means her organization is starting to raise money for the project, to be based at DNA Diagnostic Center Inc. in Cincinnati. It is expected to cost more than $1 million to set up the project and bank the first 5,000 samples.
While many labs offer paternity testing and various other services, this is likely the first time the technology has been used to assist people searching for family members, said Jim Hanigan, a spokesman for DNA Diagnostic Center, one of the country's largest labs.
Adoptees and birth parents who want to participate will be sent a kit with cotton swabs to take three samples from the inside of their cheeks, Hanigan said. The swabs are then mailed back to the DNA lab.
Hammer, 50, who is not adopted, said she has seen the profound impact that such reunions have had on people's lives. She remembers a caller to her radio show who told of spending $100,000 for medical tests trying to find the cause of a young daughter's mysterious illness.
The child eventually died, without doctors ever figuring out exactly what happened. It wasn't until two years later -- when the girl's mother found her own birth mother after years of searching -- that she learned of a rare genetic disorder in her biological family, a problem that likely killed her child.
If she had found her birth mother earlier, the woman lamented, her daughter might have been saved.
In many cases, the genetic fingerprint could be the only way to reunite adoptees with birth parents. Sometimes no paper trail exists, and adoption records remain closed in all but a handful of states.
"The opportunities for DNA testing are widening all the time, and it's more than the normal forensics things you see on TV," Hanigan said. "And this is a great one."
The National Council for Adoption, based in Alexandria, Va., estimates that 5 million to 6 million people in the United States have been adopted. Lee Allen, spokesman for the nonprofit advocacy group, said many states already have registries for adoptees and birth parents who are looking for each other, which is basically the low-tech method of doing what Hammer wants to do with DNA.
The organization welcomes any effort that will help bring together adoptees and birth parents who want to find each other, Allen said, but he questioned whether the cost will warrant the relatively few reunions such a project is likely to produce.
"I think it could be helpful," Allen said. "I think the difficulty will be promoting it and getting this kind of registry well known."