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- You do not have to turn your child forward facing when they meet the "legal" limit of 1 and 20/22 pounds. Rear facing is much safer than forward facing for a young child. Statistics show that a child between the ages of 12 and 24 months is %500 safer if rear facing. Please consider laving your baby rear facing until at least 2.
- Always make sure that the chest clip is at arm pit level and you can't pinch any slack in the harness at the collar bone area.
- For a rear facing child, always make sure that the straps are coming from at or below their shoulders.
- A seat is outgrown rear facing when your child has reached the maximum allowed weight specified for rear facing or until the top of their head reaches within 1" of the top of the car seat shell ( check your manual, some car seats allow you to use within 1" of the top of the shell while others allow for you to use it to within 1" of the top of the adjustable headrest.)
- Every time you put your child in their seat, check to make sure that it is still properly installed into the car and hasn't become loose. There should be no more the 1" of movement, front to back or side to side. To check your install grab the seat at the belt path with your non dominant hand and give it a slight tug. ( I once drove around for an hour before realizing the my son's seat wasn't straped into the car ) It only takes a second to check and could potentially save your child's life.
- Never wash the harness of your child's seat in a washing machine or by submerging it into water. You can wipe it down with a baby wipe for the simple messes and for the more yucky messes you can use a little baking soda with a small amount of water and a soft bristled tooth brush. You may then rinse it off, but try your best not to saturate it, and then pat it dry with a towel.
- Never use anything on your car seat that didn't come with it. After market covers and such will void the manufactures warranty. They can also make it so that your child's seat doesn't fit them properly. For the winter time, the shower cap type cover for the infant seats can be used safely, as it doesn't interfere with the straps in any way.
- For a forward facing child always make sure that the straps come from at or above your child's shoulders. If the straps are below your forward facing child's shoulders in an accident they could have spinal compression and end up paralyzed from a broken back or worse.
- Some seats say that they will be the last seat you will ever have to buy for your child. Please don't be fooled. There are not too many seats that will safely get your child from birth until they are ready to ride in just a seat belt. Make sure that you double and triple check your manual. Just because your seat says that it can be used up to 100lbs., it doesn't mean that you can use the harness that long. If you use the harness over the specified weight limit, your child could be ejected in a crash.
- Most children are not developmentally ready for a high back booster until around 5 yr's old. You will know your child is ready for a booster when they can sit still 100% of the time. They can not put the shoulder strap behind them or lean out of it because they dropped something. The seat belt must also lay across their hips and not the soft part of their belly. And the shoulder portion of the belt needs to be centered on their shoulder, not too close to their neck and not falling off of their shoulder.
- Never have your child wear big puffy coats in their seat. Put your child in their regular clothes and then add a sweat shirt or a light weight fleece sweater. They can wear their big coat out to the vehicle, but remove it before putting them in their seat. A heavy coat can compress in an accident, leaving your child improperly restrained.
- Make sure that you know when your car seat was made and when it expires. Yep you read that right car seats do expire. After all they are mostly made out of plastic, we can't expect them to last forever. Most car seats expire in 6 years but there are some that last longer.
- Never use a seat that has previously been in any kind of accident. Just because the car seat held up well in the first crash doesn't mean it will a second time. Children aren't crash test dummies, please don't treat them that way.
- Never buy a used seat unless you know the person you are buying it from and know that they treat their seats properly and that they have never been in an accident. ( For example, you need to know that they have never washed the straps inappropriately, and that nothing has ever been altered on the seat in any way)
I'm sure there's a lot more but these are the main things that come to mind.


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Small Little Remix Of The Song "Techno Rocker"
Made in about 1-2 hrs.. nothing really speical, you may notice some distortion right at the build up.. idk whats happening there...lol
anyways, enjoy :)
Ok, I Changed Up The Ending A Bit, With My Own Counter Melo, And Allot Louder Kick..
Rated 5 / 5 stars February 13, 2014
when I hear this song I imagine the day of a normal guy.
At the start he wakes up, brushes his teeth and get ready to work.
then when the work is going to end he looks excited to the clock.
The clock ticks to to the end of work( 00:35) he then jumps after the "are you ready" in excitement
After that he goes directly to a night club and dance non stop, when he notices a pretty lady looking sensually at him, they then dance a little, go to the open area of the club, with a gigantic moon behind them, they kiss. Then it fades to him opening his Ap, taking all the work clothes, and jumping into bed, to sleep and wait for the next day, the camera then would move fast up through the celling and, at the end of the music, stop at the gigantic moon.
Rated 5 / 5 stars August 4, 2012
great sounding song. at about 00:37 my favorite part starts up.
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Around 00:36 it just seemed to me that it dropped a little to low, but other than that GREAT song :) keep it uppp
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In their quest for a 65 percent rate increase, the San Lorenzo Valley Water District has stated that their 17,500-square-foot new campus building in downtown Boulder Creek will cost $6 million. But it was recently discovered that the SLVWD had already spent nearly $3.5 million in pre-construction expenditures such as real estate, permits, landscape and architectural design. Now, after looking at their own accounting it appears there is an additional $3.3 million in loan costs and interest that must have slipped their minds during their press interviews, board meetings, and public relations missives. That's a grand total of $12.8 million! All of this after having already spent $500,000 remodeling their existing building.
The SLVWD places this campus Taj Mahal in the category of "infrastructure projects" which is clearly an improper use of public funds, not to mention terribly misleading to the good people of the San Lorenzo Valley.
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a great video. i posted it on my blog just a few days ago. just a little twist of words makes such a big difference.ReplyDelete
Deb that brought tears to my eyes. You are such a good person. Visiting and sitting with your gramma. I value you as a blogging buddy. Blessings.ReplyDelete
Incredible post, Deb. A lot to think about.ReplyDelete
When I fist saw this little video, I was so "inspired" by it. That was a few years ago; but has never left my mind. What a wonderful reminder! Thanks Deb.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing this inspiration today. It was a great way to start my day.ReplyDelete
Isn't that true? Love this video, very inspirational, thank you Deb. xox RikiReplyDelete
Oh DebReplyDelete
Isn't that the truth - beautiful.
I've got a lump in my throat.
We are blessed.
Gosh, this brought tears to my eyes.So TRUE Deb. Made me think about words people have said to me that have changed my life for the better.ReplyDelete
Being kind with our words- very powerful.
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More than creative thinking.
A state of mind.
xx, Carol
Thank-you for sharing this Deb, I had never seen it before, what a powerful message.ReplyDelete
That made me cry! Hugs.ReplyDelete
Well, between the previous post about your nearly-lost friend and this one with a blind man, I'm bawling my head off! Your white embroidery (what I could see of it through the tears) is lovely.ReplyDelete
best, nadia
What a lovely post Deb.ReplyDelete
It is so true that a word well chosen can make a big difference. It is also true that we have a difficult time associating and assigning meaning to phrases and sentences and sometimes we literally need it spelled out for us.
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Q&A: Is sleep feeding my baby normal?
I have a four-month-old daughter who refuses to take a bottle when she is awake. This started when she was five weeks old, when we were told she had acid reflux. She is now on Zantac twice a day but there is still no improvement. At every doctor's appointment I explain how hard it is to have to sleep-feed her, and they tell me that she will grow out of it.
This has been the most difficult four months for me as I am always trying to get her to sleep so that I can feed her. Even when she is sleep feeding, as soon as she realizes that she is sucking on the bottle she wakes up and that's the end of the feed. She only consumes about twenty ounces in a given 24 hour period.
1) This does not appear not normal to me. Will she eventually grow out of this? We've tried a sippy cup, everything we could think of.
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Another factor may be behavioral. If she's learned to associate drinking with pain, she'll avoid the first to escape the latter. Though most four-month-olds drink between 28 and 32 ounces a day and may be ready to add solids to that, the more important question is whether your daughter is gaining enough weight on what she is getting. The problem is much bigger if she isn't.
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1. No, this behavior isn't the 'norm' and she may not grow out of it until she is medically and behaviorally ready to.
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3. I wouldn't recommend pouring powder onto her solids, as the formula needs to be mixed with the correct proportion of water.
The priorities in your approach should be: make sure her reflux is fully controlled and that she is gaining adequate weight, then retrain her to drink. If you need help with the re-training, ask for a referral to a feeding or "Failure to Thrive' clinic, where you will find specialists to work with you.
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Want to know how to make a delicious dinner in 10 minutes or less? Of course you do! It's everyone's dream to spend less time in the kitchen making the food and more time with your family at the table eating it. Now, there's an often-neglected piece of equipment in everyone's kitchen that saves tons of time and calories- the broiler! So let's put it to good use and make some fast, flavorful food that is also low in added fat and calories.
What is it?
Broiling is similar to grilling because of the direct and intense heat it supplies, but instead of the heat coming from below the food it comes from above. You can broil any cut of meat you would normally grill- the best cuts are always meat, fish, and poultry portions less than 2 inches thick. A great benefit of broiling is that no added fat is needed to cook it. There's no need to oil the broiler pan to prevent sticking, so not only are you saving time, but you're also saving fat and calories.
Where is it?
The broiler is often in what looks like a drawer at the bottom of the oven. Or, if your range is not equipped with a drawer broiler, your broiler will be located in your oven. It will be the top of the oven's heating element (you'll just have to adjust the oven racks to a few inches below the element). There are usually two heats: high and low.
How do I start?
Always preheat not only your broiler, but also your broiler pan for at least 5 minutes before you begin. The hot broiler pan will add a nice browned crust to the bottom of whatever you happening to be broiling (and we all know that brown means flavor). The intense heat that is coming from above the food browns the top, giving it a delicious crust.
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Keep the broiler door slightly ajar to avoid flare-ups and to keep the temperature from reaching the broiler's maximum heat, which will sometimes trigger the broiler to turn off in some models.
For thinner cuts of meat, set the broiler closer to the flame. For thicker cuts, set the broiler further from the flame. Thin cuts need a chance to brown on the outside before being over-cooked in the center and thick cuts should reach proper temperature in the center before burning on the outside.
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Always bring your meats up to room temperature before broiling so it cooks evenly.
Since your meat will be so close to the heat source, it's a good idea to keep an eye on your meat while you're broiling. It can go from perfectly cooked to perfectly scorched in less than a minute. We always set a timer a few minutes before the recipe calls for a safety precaution. Better safe than sorry!
Not only can your broiler be used to prepare steaks, chicken breasts, and fish filets, but it's also a great way to brown casseroles, melt cheeses, and even prepare vegetables!
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Our Test Kitchen's secret snack is a broiled open-faced grilled cheese, which is a perfect quick and easy after work snack. Broil a slice of bread until golden brown (about 2 minutes), flip, then top with a few tablespoons grated cheese, put back under the broiler for 1 to 2 more minutes and broil until melted. It's a very satisfying 5-minute snack!
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Adjust broiler pan to 4-6 inches below broiler. Heat broiler on high for 5 minutes.
Season the salmon on both sides with salt and pepper. Place the salmon on the hot broiler pan and place under the broiler. Broil for 8 to 10 minutes, until browned and fully cooked through.
While the salmon is broiling, add the greens to a large bowl along with the cherry tomatoes, almonds, and feta cheese. Drizzle with lemon juice, olive oil, and season with salt and pepper. Toss all together. Divide the salad among 2 large plates.
Check on salmon, if cooked through and golden brown, top salad with broiled salmon. Dig in!
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Substantial interest has arisen recently regarding how much household income and workers' earnings bounce around from year to year, prompted in part by the work of Jacob Hacker at Yale University. This topic is important not only to understand potential sources of household anxiety, but also in designing social insurance systems and the tax code. In previous work released in 2007, CBO examined the volatility of workers' earnings. That report concluded that earnings were surprisingly volatile, but had been roughly as volatile since the early 1980s -- in other words, earnings volatility had not increased. In preliminary work that I discussed in the latter half of a talk hosted by the Society of Government Economists at the ASSA meetings in New Orleans over the weekend, CBO has now examined the volatility of household income (rather than workers' earnings volatility, the subject of our study in 2007). The preliminary results suggest that household income is much less volatile than individual worker's earnings, and that household income volatility has not increased over time -- and perhaps even declined slightly. Some other recent studies relying on other data sources have suggested increases in household and family income volatility, but various problems in the surveys used in those studies may be contaminating those results. CBO will soon be releasing our final report on the topic. CBO's work on income and earnings volatility is led by Molly Dahl and Jonathan Schwabish of CBO (along with Thomas DeLeire of the University of Wisconsin-Madison) .
- Molly Dahl joined CBO in 2004 and is currently a Principal Analyst in the Health and Human Resources Division. Her work focuses on labor issues, especially those pertaining to low-income households. Her recent CBO publications include Changes in the Economic Resources of Low-Income Households with Children and Changes in Low-Wage Labor Markets Between 1979 and 2005. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Georgetown University. She received her B.A. in mathematics and economics from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (she is a life-long fan of their mens basketball team) and her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
- Jonathan Schwabish joined the CBO in 2004 and is a Principal Analyst in the Long-Term Modeling Group. He recently authored an article on measurement error for the Journal of Economic and Social Measurement and has a paper forthcoming in the journal Public Finance Review about the relationship between inequality and state public spending. His publications include articles in Contemporary Economic Policy, The Monthly Labor Review, Public Finance Review and the award-winning book, Human Capital in the United States from 1975 to 2000: Patterns of Growth and Utilization, published by the W.E. Upjohn Institute. Most of Jonathans work deals with CBOs long-term Social Security and Medicare model (CBOLT) where he is mainly engaged in projecting earnings and labor force behavior. A co-authored CBO paper issued last year described those processes in detail. Prior to joining CBO, Jonathan worked on a variety of state and local governance and economic issues at a nonprofit in New York City. He also currently teaches graduate statistics at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute. A fan of the 26-time World Champion New York Yankees and the New York Giants, Jonathan received his undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and holds a masters degree in economics from The Johns Hopkins University, and masters and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.


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Smoke rises from railway cars carrying crude oil after they derailed in downtown Lac Megantic, Quebec, on Saturday. The derailment sparked several explosions and forced the evacuation of up to 1,000 people.LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec A large swath of a town in eastern Quebec was destroyed Saturday after a train carrying crude oil derailed, sparking several explosions and forcing the evacuation of up to 1,000 people.
Several people were reported missing but Quebec provincial police Lt. Michel Brunet said it was too early to say if there are any casualties in the town of Lac-Megantic, about 155 miles east of Montreal.
The explosions ignited a blaze that sent flames shooting into the sky, and billowing smoke could be seen from several miles away hours after the derailment.
Some of the trains 73 cars exploded and the fire spread to a number of homes in the lakeside town of 6,000 people, which is close to the border with Maine and Vermont.
When you see the center of your town almost destroyed, youll understand that were asking ourselves how we are going to get through this event, an emotional Mayor Colette Roy-Laroche told a televised news briefing.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper tweeted: Thoughts & prayers are with those impacted in Lac-Megantic. Horrible news.
The cause of the trains derailment was not immediately known.
Authorities set up perimeters as firefighters battled to control the fire, and worried residents looked on amid fears that some of their friends and loved ones may have died in their homes
Were told some people are missing, but they may just be out of town or on vacation, Brunet said.
Lac-Megantic resident Claude Bedard described the scene of the explosions as dreadful.
Its terrible, Bedard said. Weve never seen anything like it. The Metro store, Dollarama, everything that was there is gone.
Bernard Demers, who owns a local restaurant, had to evacuate his home after the derailment.
Early this morning (there was) a big explosion like an atomic bomb, he said. It was very hot. ... Everybody was afraid.
Environment Quebec spokesman Christian Blanchette said a large but undetermined amount of fuel had also spilled into the Chaudiere River. Blanchette said the 73 cars were filled with crude oil, and at least four were damaged by the explosions and fire.
Right now, there is big smoke in the air, so we have a mobile laboratory here to monitor the quality of the air, Blanchette said.
We also have a spill on the lake and the river that is concerning us. We have advised the local municipalities downstream to be careful if they take their water from the Chaudiere River.
Firefighters and rescue workers from several neighboring municipalities, including Sherbrooke and Saint-Georges-de-Beauce, were called in to help deal with the disaster.
Firefighters from northern Maine were also deployed to the Quebec town, according to a spokesman at the sheriffs office in Franklin County. The town is about 135 miles (217 kilometers) north of the Maine border.
The train, reportedly heading toward Maine, belongs to Montreal Maine & Atlantic. According to the railroads website, the company owns more than 500 miles of track serving Maine, Vermont, Quebec and New Brunswick.
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NOWNESS Calls Time at the Bar for a Doomed Cocktail Party to Mark the Titanic's Centenary
In a fun recreation of the last moments aboard the Titanic, still life photography duo Bohman+Sjöstrand shot the last drinks orders of NOWNESS favorites Glenn O'Brien, Jeremy Langmead and Margherita Missoni. This Sunday will mark a century since the ill-fated, and infamously "unsinkable," luxury liner RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in the Atlantic Ocean, subsequently inspiring one of the most iconic disaster stories of all time. Until his recent blockbuster Avatar set a new record, director James Cameron's eponymous aquatic hit was the highest grossing film of all time, and may well reclaim the title through its upcoming 3D re-release. Today NOWNESS commemorates the anniversary with a lighthearted twist, bypassing the lifeboats in favor of the doomed vessel's cocktail bar. Filling the stools of famous passengers aboard in 1912, which included Macy's owner Isidor Straus and industrialist Benjamin Guggenheim, are our own first class passengers: Glenn O'Brien, fashion designer Margherita Missoni, Mr. Porter's Jeremy Langmead, model and singer Josephine de la Baume, composer Nico Muhly and artist Jennifer Rubell. Echoing the immortal line from Titanic, "We've dressed up in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen, but we would like some brandy," NOWNESS asks each to discuss their last drink of choice. Easy on the ice please…
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All I want is a margarita I had once at La Roca in Nogales, Mexico. It was Easter Sunday after a friend's wedding, her father had rented out the restaurant and the margaritas were beyond. Plus the room, the terra cotta…
Jeremy Langmead
I would have to opt for a dirty vodka martini—which, if drunk as the Titanic sank, would both be shaken and stirred by the time I'd finished it. A civilized person, the barman at Dukes Hotel in St James's, will tell you that you should never have more than two. I find eight rather pleasant. Despite leading to horrid hangovers, too many martinis have always, in my experience, been worth the pain. The first time I got horrendously drunk on martinis, in the little vodka bar at the Royalton Hotel in New York in about 1994, I fell asleep on the floor with my head resting on Linda Evangelista's feet. The second time, last year, I met my current partner. I can't recommend one enough.
Jennifer Rubell
Aperol, cava and Rose's lime juice. It's my house cocktail—every great dinner party I've ever had has been fueled by a pitcher of this.
Josephine de la Baume
A Moscow Mule: vodka, lemon, cucumber and ginger ale on the rocks.
Glenn O'Brien
The best drink I have ever consumed was a bottle of 1947 Petrus I got on a big birthday. But since we are talking 1912 consumptions this would not be doable. I consulted the best drinks book ever, The Gentleman's Companion by Charles H. Baker Jr., which first appeared in 1939. Mr Baker drank all over the world, with the likes of Faulkner and Hemingway, collecting cocktail recipes wherever he drank. I found one that seemed appropriate: Death in the Gulf Stream, or Hemingway's Reviver. "Take a tall water tumbler and fill it with finely cracked ice. Lace this broken debris with four good purple splashes of Angostura, add the juice and crushed peel of one green lime, and fill glass almost full with Holland gin." I figure if this drink doesn't kill you it will keep you warm until help arrives.
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A piscine (ice and champagne) would be a very appropriate pre-sinking drink. It's my drink of choice in general when it comes to cruising on a boat.


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Nearly every day I get a new announcement about a service that helps e-retailers set up stores on Facebook. I'm not talking about a fan page, I'm talking about putting products, descriptions and even a shopping cart on a Facebook page.
Nearly every day I get a new announcement about a service that helps e-retailers set up stores on Facebook. I'm not talking about a fan page, I'm talking about putting products, descriptions and even a shopping cart on a Facebook page. This made me wonder: Do people really want to shop on Facebook? I certainly don't.
When I want to shop, I go to an e-commerce site. When I want to connect with friends and family, I go to Facebook. I like it that way. Maybe it's because I've always liked clear distinctions. I always keep my peas and mashed potatoes separate on my plate and I cannot a random summer day in the middle of winter.
My point: E-retailers shouldn't be pushing products in an online arena designed for socializing.
It's a bit like putting a big Macy's store in the middle of a bar. I don't want to shop when I'm having a beer with a friend—and a big storefront would just get in the way when I'm trying to grab the next round of Miller Lites.
One of my trusted analyst sources, Nikki Baird of Retail Systems Research, captured my thoughts exactly on this topic exactly recently:
"I'm not certain yet how much commerce needs to be available when people are in community mode," she said. "If retailers aren't careful, they could undermine the enthusiast nature of their fans by trying too hard to sell to them. They're already fans."
Well said.
I want to be clear that I don't shun social marketing. I use Facebook—a lot. (Ok, I'm slightly a closet addict). And I shop online frequently (does nearly every day count as frequent?). Social marketing, if done with finesse, can actually be a solid vehicle for building brand loyalty. Offering coupons, discussing new products and answering questions on a social network are great ways to keep customers in the loop and encourage them to shop. But that extra step, putting products and prices and a shopping cart on a social network page and turning it into an e-commerce site, to me, is crossing the very fine line between friendly and frustrating. Shoppers are smart. They know the ultimate goal of a brand on Facebook is to sell product. If a company offers great information and advice, consumers will remember. And when they want to buy, they will go to you.
Many e-retailers today feel they need to be everywhere. And, I can see their argument: Offering products in more places creates more opportunities for a sale. However, merchants should realize they don't need to sell everywhere just because they can. E-commerce is available everywhere. On mobile devices, netbooks and PCs—when consumers are in shopping mode, they will come. After all, it's just a click away.
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Rebuilding Days are held in the Fall and Spring each year. We are expanding our service area to include the greater Tri-Cities. Volunteer teams will work to repair between 12 and 15 houses in selected neighborhoods in Petersburg, Hopewell, Colonial Heights, Dinwiddie, Prince George and southern Chesterfield.
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We aim to develop a new, practicum-based science ethics training program which will be particularly appropriate for the diverse, practically oriented student population at the University of Houston. This project, "Experiencing Ethics", is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Click here to read more about this effort.
I. Pavlidis, A.M. Petersen, and I. Semendeferi published an article in the October 2014 issue of Nature Physics. The article, entitled "Together We Stand", articulates policies that will harmonize academic structure, function, and ethics in the team science era. This harmonization involves rethinking graduate education and research.
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The talk explores how public research organizations and scientists respond to incentives and costs. It's a good news/bad news story: get incentives and costs right and one can enhance productivity and use resources more efficiently. Get them wrong and there are severe consequences for productivity and efficiency. Examples of how incentives and costs affect behavior are provided primarily for the United States. The discussion of costs examines how costs play a role in determining where research is done, how research is done, who does the research, the kinds of materials that are used, when the research is done and what research is done. The talk then focuses on the various forms that monetary and non-monetary incentives take in science and how they shape the behavior of both scientists and the institutions where they work. It closes with a discussion of examples of areas where outcomes in science are inefficient. These include incentives for submitting papers to top tier journals such as Science and Nature, incentives for constructing new buildings, incentives that encourage scientists to be risk adverse, and incentives and costs that lead the United States to 'over produce' PhDs in a number of fields. Read more...
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Engineering ethics are mostly technical: how to design properly, how to not cut corners, and how to serve our clients well. Photograph: Bloomberg
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The brain is the most complex organ in our bodies. It consists of millions of inter connected neurons that work together to give us our personalities, motivations, memories, etc. The brain is capable of things beyond our imagination; we have just started to see what it might be capable of doing. However, the complexity of the brain also makes it a very difficult organ to study because we are still unaware of all of its functions. As scientists, we have to be extremely careful about how we deal with the brain and what advances we make public because any wrong decision could become detrimental and costly for the human race. Read more ...
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Energy security demands innovation and innovation requires an investment in intellectual security," Shirley Ann Jackson, PhD, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute told some 200 faculty, staff, students and others on Feb. 9. Jackson said that energy security and the "quiet crisis"—stemming from the gap between the nation's growing need for scientists, engineers, and other technically skilled workers and its production of them—are "inextricably linked" and, if permitted to continue unmitigated, could reverse the global leadership Americans currently enjoy. "We can no longer drill our way to energy security," Jackson said. "We must innovate our way to energy security." >>


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Biomarkers and Quality of Care, Key Presentations at
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Dr. Leland Hartwell, Nobel laureate and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, began his presentation by noting that the case for early detection through biomarkers is founded in both economics and patient outcomes. He said that a more organized and systematic approach for discovering biomarkers for cancer exists than that which is currently available, and stated that even with existing technology, "If we take a divide-and-conquer strategy" beginning with 1,000 biomarker candidates and splitting the work among different laboratories, "we could end up with something in the order of 30 to 40 good things in the end."
The principle obstacles in this process, he noted, are a lack of reagents and a lack of standards within this research field. He called on NCI to lead and oversee a new biomarker initiative, and proposed a structure whereby centers are funded for focused work on reagents, technology, and informatics, with smaller pilot projects led by individual researchers.
BSA members were largely supportive of Dr. Hartwell's proposal, but identified key concerns that should be reviewed, including legal issues surrounding the collection of samples for biomarker testing; the size and nature of the patient population for this research; the ultimate cost during clinical trials of biomarker candidates; and the other programs and initiatives, such as the NIH Roadmap and the Early Detection Research Network, that should dovetail with this new effort.
Dr. Mark Clanton, NCI's deputy director of Cancer Care Delivery Systems, followed with an overview of health care quality assessment as context for future discussion. "The public health impact of cancer can really only change if we can increase and enhance the performance of the health care system," he said. Staff from NCI's Outcomes Research Branch in the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences then presented a summary of the research dissemination tools that NCI makes available to the health care community, the challenges in translating research into practice, and two programs to improve palliative health care in specific populations, with following discussion of the appropriate role for NCI in provider training and in evidence synthesis and dissemination.
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Signs of a confused market
A peek at the charts shows there may be a reversal in sentiment coming soon.
Everyone is embracing a Golden Cross pattern in the moving average of the market, and bullish prognosticators say that when this has happened in the past, the market sees an average 4.6% increase in the following six months 75% of the time (What happened in the other 25%?).
A Golden Cross occurs when a security's 50-day moving average crosses above its 200-day moving average. In this case, we're talking about the Golden Cross in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index ($INX).
Although the market increases most of the time anyway -- and there were surely periods of setback in between those 4.6% increases -- this technical indicator should not be ignored by investors using moving averages to guide their decisions.
Moving averages are not exact. They do not offer exact entry levels and exit points for trading strategies, but instead they pinpoint general sentiment. I have found that only straight-line technical analysis offers the exact turning points necessary to profitably manage risk and beat the market. Furthermore, combining straight-line analysis with candlestick patterns is much more accurate than using moving averages.
In the following video, one technical analyst discusses whether the S&P 500 will make a run at new highs.
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Other unique indicators within candlestick patterns can more reliably gauge sentiment and direction. One of those appeared last week in the longer-term chart of the S&P 500 that I offer to my clients regularly. The candles that I use in that chart are one week candles, meaning that it takes an entire week for the candle body and legs to develop. Of course, I overlap these weekly candles with straight-line technical analysis, but the standout technical observation I am referencing here would have come without my addition.
Last week, the S&P 500 was confused. It lacked direction and closed almost exactly where it began. The market attempted to increase at one point, but failed. When the market threatened to decline, it was countered with buyers. At the end -- near a relative peak -- the market was directionless and looked confused.
The candlestick chart pattern that developed last week is also known as a Doji. A Doji is in the shape of a cross, since the opening and closing prices were nearly the same. It is a candlestick pattern without a body, basically, and it typically appears when the market is confused. Furthermore, when it happens at relative peaks or valleys it often marks a reversal in sentiment, so these are commonly referred to as Reversal Dojis.
A complete explanation of this technical pattern is difficult given the limited space allotted to me in this venue so I have created a short video to help explain what this pattern is and what it could say about the future. Here it is: explanation of Reversal Doji.
In addition to the Doji pattern that appeared in the longer term chart of the S&P 500, weekly Dojis also appear in the chart patterns of Broadcom (BRCM), Walmart (WMT), JPMorgan (JPM) and Norfolk Southern (NSC). Uniquely, the Doji for Norfolk Southern appeared the week before last, and it was followed by a negatively engulfing red candle (The engulfing red candle is a sign that sellers outnumber buyers). That made it a bearish reversal Doji and a bearish indicator.
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|Hi all,
I just purchased a beautiful Dragon Tree that stands about 24 inches high and has a "twisted" trunk. It came in a very small pot and when I took it out of the pot, it was rootbound. I trimmed the roots and put it in a pot 2x bigger with some potting soil. Is there anything else I need to know about this lovely species? Thanks.
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- Posted by staceybeth 6-7 (My Page) on Mon, Jun 18, 07 at 11:12
|Before anyone scolds me for touching this beauty's roots... let me just explain that the poor thing was strangling itself and it was "more than rootbound". The person that sold it to me told me that it was rootbound (but I knew that before I bought it) and showed me how the roots were wrapped around the bottom and intertwined with each other.. why they didnt move it into a larger container beforehand just stumps me.
- Posted by trace00969 zone 2 (My Page) on Mon, Jun 18, 07 at 15:00
|I have a couple of these, mine are about 18 inches tall, one is smaller, and they thrive on neglect. I water mine when they are pretty dry, I mist them along with my other plants a couple times a day, and I think I have fertilized it once. They are cool plants that need no special care.
- Posted by hopefulauthor z5IL (My Page) on Mon, Jun 18, 07 at 15:15
|Stacey, I'd have let the roots grow..did you cut back the smaller roots? How's the plant doing now?
My question is, why cut the roots if you were going to transplant in a pot 2 times its size? (S)
Most often, roots on all plants tangle..a large pot with fresh soil usually solves the problem. Good luck w/your MP and keep us posted..
Follow Tracy's directions..Toni
Trimming the roots may have been a good thing. There is a condition called girdleing, in which the roots wrap around the trunk/stem and each other and actually strangle the plant. This often happens with pot bound trees, not good for the plant.
However, be warned not all plants take well to root pruning. I've lost many a beauty over the years.
|Alot of times the plants I purchase are rootbound when I get them home. When I buy plants I always buy a pot a size bigger to place it in when I get it home (unless I have a pot at home from a unfortunate demise) but my dragon tree was horribly rootbound when I pulled it out of it's pot, so I too went up 2 inches instead of my standard 1. It has been in my sons room for awhile and is doing great:)
hope you have as much luck with yours, these plants are really neat.
- Posted by watergal z6/7 Westminster, MD (email@example.com) on Tue, Jun 19, 07 at 23:35
|You've already gotten good advice. In the future, though, I would be a little more conservative when increasing pot size. Generally you only increase the diameter across the pot by no more than two inches at a time (from 6" to 8", for example).
- Posted by staceybeth 6-7 (My Page) on Wed, Jun 20, 07 at 12:27
|Thanks all for your great advise!! CHAZ....You are right... the roots were basically strangling the base of the plant... really tightly too... I only trimmed a little off the bottom roots and loosened the bottom up a bit... It is simply amazing and seems to be taking well to its new home. I will take photos and show you all when I get home.
|I personally have the same plants and I defoliate mine every summer when taking them outdoors completely and prune them and new buds form within 2 weeks and they grow vigiriously until I take them indoors in Autumn
|hi all i to have one of these plants from the minute we got i thought something was wrong with it the leaves were turning brown and falling off.ive since then put it in a bigger pot,now 1 of the stems or trunks seems weak and soft and all the new leaves are droping and just hanging not on all the trunks,my guy thinks we have to take it out and cut the roots and i dont want to for fear of losing the whole plant.i cut 1 of the shoots down,actually 2 of them, any suggestions will be greatly appreciated thanks eve
- Posted by hopefulauthor z5IL (My Page) on Thu, Jul 5, 07 at 18:14
|Eve, it sounds like you overpotted..You don't want to plant in too large a pot..
In the process you probably overwatered...Soil needs to dry out before adding more.
Also, what type of soil did you use? It's best using a well-draining mix..if it's heavy the roots will stay wet until they can no longer take up water through the roots.
If it was my tree, I'd remove from its current container, check roots..if new pot looks way larger than roots, put back in older pot, or one 1-2 sizes larger..Toni
|this is somewhat of an old thread so i hope someone sees this! :)
i also have a "Dracaena marginata (Madagascar Dragon Tree or Red Edged Dracaena)". my husband bought it as a "baby" (about 5 inches high) more than 6 yrs ago and i have gradually repotted it as it's grown (now about 4 ft high!). what i need to know is, is there a certain way to trim the roots? like, at a certain point on the root? at a certain angle? i can't seem to find this specific info on the web. i did cut the roots once and, luckily, it still survived! i just want to be sure when i take it out and trim the roots (which i'm sure probably look like a bird's nest at this point...), i'm doing it the right way. also, i tended to take off the older shoots, allowing the new ones to come through better but this just makes it even taller! so, is there a way to keep it at a certain height? and how do i intertwine the twisty "trunks" so as to not hurt the plant? if i don't tie them up the get top heavy & droop over really far!
- Posted by Dorothy77550 none (My Page) on Thu, Jun 27, 13 at 21:00
|I have a madagascar dragon tree about 6 ft tall. I've had it for 2 yrs. When it came to me it had ivy planted at its' base. Recently i felt too many of the leaves were turning yellow so I did some reading and decided I had been watering it too much. I was watering it once or twice a week (mostly because of the ivy). Now I am wondering if the ivy may be crowding the tree roots and if I should try some way to remove the ivy. The ivy is flourishing. It's still in the same pot I received it in. Any ideas?
- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Fri, Jun 28, 13 at 10:10
|Hi Dorothy! The ivy may not be as thirsty as you think. And after 2 years, both plants would probably appreciate being repotted. Tap water chemicals may have built-up in the soil, Dracs are very sensitive to those. Do you have a pic you could include?
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ASAT Responds to WPMI Local 15 News "Local Family Using Breakthrough Autism Treatment"
Sunday, February 03, 2013
Dear Editor:
Your January 2, 2013 article brought attention to the growing numbers of children diagnosed with autism—and the struggles families face in locating and obtaining effective treatment services. It also highlighted the increasing role technology has played in therapeutic contexts, such as the use of MP3 players like iPods.
The article stated that autism "has no means of detection or cure." Diagnoses are based on the presence of specific symptoms listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). There are three main symptoms to look for, which can vary in appearance from one individual to another: abnormalities in social interaction, deficits in communication, and the persistence of a narrow range of interests and/or repetitive activities and behaviors. The Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (Robins, Fein, & Barton, 1999) and the Child Autism Rating Scale, Second Edition (Schopler, Reichler, Devellis, & Daly, 2010) are just a couple of well-respected diagnostic tools used to identify autistic symptoms. Relative to the last decade, the medical community is doing much better at diagnosing children with autism early. Yet there are scores of children who are not accessing science-based treatment: parents and providers are often distracted by a litany of 400+ so-called therapies, many of which have been touted by the media, despite a lack of scientific evidence.
Presentation of the Integrated Listening System (iLs) as a "breakthrough" for autism may be misleading for families who are in a particularly vulnerable position, desperate for something—anything— to help their child make progress. The iLs program falls into the category of auditory integration training (AIT). The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Working Group on Auditory Integration Training adopted a technical report in 2003 emphasizing that there is little research to support AIT's use for improving behavioral symptoms; this has not changed in the last ten years. In fact, a recent attempt was made to conduct a meta-analysis of the published literature on AIT and other sound therapies on the core symptoms of autism. The investigators were not able to perform the analysis due to a variety of design issues, such as the use of questionable assessment method and the characteristics of participants. While AIT may potentially benefit certain medical conditions, it lacks evidence to support its use with individuals with autism.
The iLs approach is based on a research study that has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal, where it would have undergone rigorous scrutiny by other scientists. Other treatments the children were receiving prior to or during their participation in the study are not described in the preliminary paper iLs released. Channel 15's article does not address what other therapies Huey had received and whether these treatments were carried out properly by qualified providers. Progress reported in the iLs study was based on clinicians' subjective impression of whether the children's symptoms had improved.
Research in childhood autism treatment strongly supports the use of intensive, highly structured, and consistent therapeutic programs started at a young age, and individually tailored to the child's pattern of strengths and deficits. The clock is ticking for children with autism, and every moment and dollar spent on a questionable approach is time and money that could have been allocated toward an effective treatment. Interventions with the strongest evidence of effectiveness do not work in mysterious ways, but are described objectively to allow the study to be repeated by another investigator. Before encouraging readers to seek out the next "breakthrough" intervention, it is our duty to first look at the research supporting it. The current scientific evidence of commonly-endorsed autism interventions can be found on our website at http://asatonline.org/treatment/treatments_desc.htm.
We live in a world overwhelmed by marketing and advertising, and autism treatment is no exception. Treatments proclaiming "breakthroughs" and "cures" may grab the spotlight, but treatments with scientific evidence produce results. Clinicians, as well as other professionals who could be looked to as authorities, must take responsibility for staying informed of the current research regarding various autism interventions and pass the information along to parents, other professionals, and the public.
Alice Walkup, MS, BCBA, and David Celiberti, PhD, BCBA-D
Association for Science in Autism Treatment
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. (2004). Auditory Integration Training Position Statement. Retrieved January 31, 2013, from 10.1044/policy.TR2004-00260
Robins, D. L., Fein, D., Barton, M. L., & Greene, J. A. (2001). The Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers: An initial study investigating the early detection of autism and pervasive developmental disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 31, 131–144.
Schopler, E, Van Bourgondien, M. E., Wellman, G. J., & Love, S. R. (2010). Childhood autism rating scale (2nd ed.). Los Angeles, CA: Western Psychological Services.
Sinha, Y., Silove, N., Wheeler, D., & Williams, K. (2006). Auditory integration training and other sound therapies for autism spectrum disorders: A systematic review. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 91(12), 1018-1022.
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How Schwab misled investors
The company played around with 2 key measurements, making one fund look more stable than it really was.
An investigation and charges from the Securities and Exchange Commission show an altogether different side of Schwab's company. Schwab did some bad things with one mutual fund, its YieldPlus, and two executives were charged with fraud and other securities violations.
The lesson from YieldPlus is a good one for any investor. Here's how Schwab went from "on our side" to misleading clients:
Schwab sold the fund as a "cash alternative," an ultra-short bond with a higher yield than a money market fund, the SEC says. Above all, Schwab wanted to get the message across that YieldPlus was safe. It's value would see only minimal fluctuations, and it was just a tiny bit riskier than CDs and other cash alternatives.
For someone looking to park cash, this would have been an attractive investment. Here's where things went bad. Schwab played around with two measurements that are hugely important to investors: the fund's weighted average maturity and its duration.
Weighted average maturity is the average time it takes for the bonds in a portfolio to mature. By 2006, the weighted average maturity had jumped to more than one to two years. More time means more risk, and that didn't jibe at all with the "cash alternative" spin Schwab had put on the fund.
So what did Schwab do? It booted the maturity number and substituted the duration figure in its place. Duration has nothing to do with time but instead shows how sensitive a fund is to interest-rate changes.
As a result, the fund looked like it had an average bond maturity of six months, not 1.3 to 2.2 years.
Cut to the credit crisis in 2007, and investors dumped YieldPlus as its value started to drop. Well, if the average maturity had actually been six months, it would have been easier for Schwab to recover cash for investors who wanted out.
But only 6% of the fund's assets were scheduled to mature in six months. So the fund had to sell assets at a steep loss to get enough cash. So many people fled that its assets dropped by 95% (from $13.5 billion) in just one year. Investors lost billions.
That fund still exists, and The New York Times reports that Schwab now describes it as a "high risk with low return" investment. Sounds great, right?
Charles Schwab is paying more than $118 million to fix this, but the case continues against the executives. You can read the SEC's entire complaint here against the company.
What to take away from this? Be very aware of a fund's weighted average maturity and duration. But know that even then, the numbers may not be what they appear.
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