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Monday, July 2, 2012
Baby Kellam's Quick Arrival
It is hard to believe that I was in labor over a month ago anticipating the arrival of my sweet Kellam and my "perfect" birth. Through my whole pregnancy my sweet sister told me not to plan anything because I would be sadly disappointed if things didn't go the way I wanted them too. Boy was she right! I should have listened to my younger wiser sister. Thanks for trying Jess! (;
May 16, 2012, was a normal feeling day for me. Jack and I woke up to our normal routine. He watched his favorite program and I was tired but began some house work. Around 11 am I looked in the pantry to decide on lunch and realized that I had not been to the grocery store in almost two weeks due to the fact my husband's grandmother had been in the hospital and then had passed away on Mother's day and we buried her on that Tuesday. Needless to say we needed food. Jack and I loaded up and went to the grocery store. I had felt some strong Braxton Hicks contractions but I had been having them "strong" since I was 36 weeks along. Along with lots of "false labor." Which I have renamed "getting me ready to deliver in hours labor." I was 39 weeks 3 days and was very pregnant so moving around the grocery store with a toddler that had his own cart took a long time. Almost two hours later we were home unloading the groceries. After unloading them I fixed us lunch and was extremely tired. So nap time it was. My husband Brad arrived home from working around 6? I had had some "pressure down there" and had a burst of energy. (Should have been a sign.) Brad made dinner for us. After dinner he had to go run an errand and I decided to clean up the kitchen. Around 7:30 pm I started having irregular contractions. I was cleaning and Brad had gotten home. It was 9:30 pm at this point. I calmly told Brad that "I maybe in labor" mind you false labor was still on my mind. I text members of my birth team gave them the heads up. I told them I was in early labor. I believed I was since everything I knew stated that contractions became regular during real active labor. I called my midwife around 10 pm she believed I had a ways to go yet and said she would send her student midwife who was an hour away at the time and she would be along shortly. I continued to labor contractions were getting really intense fast. I decided to get in a warm bath to help ease them. I laid on my right side and felt relief for a bit. The pressure began to build again. I decided to get out and get on my yoga ball. I bounced, rotated clockwise and counter clockwise. Still climbing with intensity my instinct was to go sit on the toilet. Sitting on the toilet helped greatly. It helped relieve the pressure from "down there." Around 11:15 Christine my midwives student arrived. She took my vitals and then helped Brad with the birth pool. I went back to sit on the toilet. I decided I needed to get back in the water. The birth pool was not ready so I ran a tub of water. I realized that after the fact I probably should not have done that since I need to fill the birth tub with warm water. In the bath tub I began to feel myself enter into "labor land." My midwife arrived at some point. At this point I had lost track of time and was working calmly through each intense contraction. I don't remember when I decided to get out of the bath tub but I did and moved to the toilet. Vicky came and asked me if I wanted to be checked and to my surprise I said yes. Something I had not planned on. She checked me and I was 8 cm! I was so shocked! I turned to Brad who was on his way to Walgreens to get a few things and said I am 8 cm. That didn't seem to make him moved he said "okay how is that relation to when the baby gets here?" I smiled because this was a honest question and he really had no clue. This also told me how much he listened to the birth stories I told him about! Brad went to the store. Pressure and contractions were intense I was breathing and doing really well on the toilet. I tried to sit down on the toilet and that was a no go. I yelled to Vicky I think I need to push. She instructed me to go get in the birth pool to see if that relieved the pressure. AWWW….sweet relief!!! I highly recommend being in a large warm tub of water while in labor! The contractions were still coming fast but there was so much pressure relieved I could finally breathe. Well, for a minute anyway. Christine kneeled down in front of me and helped talk me through the contractions. I was breathing but the turning point came very quickly I was calm on the outside but very irrational on the inside. I was panicing in my head. I was scared and afraid of all of this at once. I even told myself in my head that it would be easier to go to the hospital. I laugh now because there is nothing they could have done for me at that point. I snapped myself out of it and told myself I could do this, I wanted to do this and I was going to do this. I also reminded myself that I knew when I had gotten to this "panic" feeling my baby would be here in my arms soon. I finally began to vocalize and moan a bit. My midwife jumped up and I heard Christine say "She knows what that means!" She did I looked up and said "ohhhhh I need to push!" She said go ahead. Well I barely began to push when my body began to work all on its own. The most amazing thing I have ever experienced!!! My body was pushing all on its own! I was in the birth pool on my hands and knees leaning over the side. I heard a "pop" and asked what was that? Christine told me it was my waters breaking. My body then gave my baby an eviction notice so fast I barely felt the crowning of the babies head. I felt my baby move out of my body. I felt his head, his shoulders, body, legs and feet. It was amazing!! My midwife almost couldn't reach the baby to help me bring him up. She almost ended up in the birth pool with me!! I grabbed him and brought him out of the water. He was so cute. All I could say was how cute he was over and over. I felt relief that was very nice!! I had the overwhelming but most welcomed feeling of oxytocin! That was an unbelievable high!! It was wonderful. I was smiling like a Cheshire Cat! Grinning from ear to ear!! There are no other words other than AMAZING!! That describes this kind of experience and feeling. You cannot buy this kind of high. The baby came out looking to nurse so as soon as the cord stopped pulsating and the placenta was delivered which was like 5 mins later then we moved to the couch and began to nurse. He nursed like a champ!! Which made me even more excited!! Big brother woke up was very excited that he had a "cute" as he put it baby brother. Jack held him with pride.
I loved this experienced and although I didn't get my video or pictures I am very happy with the labor being fast! Kellam McCommas Taylor was born May 17, 2012 at 1:26 am, weighing 7 pounds 9 oz 20 ¾ in long.
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Island Enterprises, Inc.. is looking for a few good men/women.
An equal opportunity employer, the following are positions that we are looking for:
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Venue : Cracow Technology Park
Address : ul. Podole 60, 30-394 Kraków, Poland
Rules of participation : Please read the rules of participation in Hackathon carefully : click to download (PDF file)
List of challenges :
The Copernicus Hackathon Poland aims at development of the Key Intelligent Specializations (http://www.smart.gov.pl/en) in Regions on the East (Lublin, Lubelskie region), South (Krakow, Malopolskie region), Center (Warsaw, Mazovia Region), and support the teams in answering the local challenges with the means of the Earth observations data.
Below you can find a list of challenges for individual cities. However, if you are interested in a challenge from another city, you can also take it up. If you would like to take up another challenge that is not on the list, we have an open challenge for you.
- Cracow:
- Life Sciences
- Sustainable Energy
- Information and communication technologies
- Creative and leisure industries
- Open challenge
Description of challenges in Cracow you can find here : RIS Krakow
Phase 1: Day 1, 9th of November
08:00 – 08:45
08:45 – 09:00
Welcoming Speech presentation of the Copernicus Relays and organizers
09:00 – 09:30
Mr Andras Roboz the EC Representative
09:30 – 13:00
Technical workshop, run by Creotech, Astri Polska and IGIK
09:30 – 09:45
Presentation of DIAS platform – Creotech
09:45 – 10:00
Coffe break
10:00 – 10:30
Introduction to the Copernicus Services and satellite data – (for all participants)
10:30 – 13:00
"BASIC" workshops in the field of acquiring and processing of satellite data + introduction to the analysis – (for those participants who do not have advanced knowledge of satellite data)
10:30 – 13:00
"ADVANCED" workshops discussing the creation of products for specific applications, in line with regional specialization – (for those participants who already have basic information in the field of EO)
10:30 – 13:00
How to pitch to win? How to sell your products? Where to find funding for my solutions? Bring the member of your team, responsible for presentation and marketing to be prepared to present your brilliant ideas in the most efficient way.
13:00 – 13:30
13:30 – 17:30
Creathon, work of the teams on the business ideas. It is your time to work. During the creathon you can meet our experts, design thinking coaches.
17:30 –18:30
Pitches selection of the ideas for the National Final in Warsaw
18:30 –19:00
Jury deliberations;
Closing the first phase of the Hackathon announcement of local winners
Phase 2: Day 2-6, Support week, 12,13,14,15,16 of November
Monday 12th November
Self work
Tuesday 13th November
15:00-18:00 – Consultations with selected Technical experts, the consultations will be provided either in physical meeting if experts are available in the city or my means of teleconference with experts from abroad or different cities
Wednesday 14th November
15:00 – 18:00 consultations with selected by each team business expert. By organized meeting if the expert is in the city, or by means of teleconference
Thursday 15th of November
Self Work / 15:00- 18:00 Review of the progress with hackathon organizer, preparation for the pitches
Friday 16th of November
Self work / 15:00 – 18:00 Final review for all teams
Phase 3: Day 7, Final, 17th of November
Saturday the 17th of November
Final in Warsaw 12:00 – 16:00


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Julie Stokes
I planted a lettuce called Anuenue that I bought from Johnny's Selected Seeds catalog this summer. Our weather is very hot and dry here and it did well. I lay down soaker hoses and then cover the whole business with black plastic to keep it weed-free. I work full-time and couldn't garden if I didn't do it that way. This was the first lettuce I had tried to grow in a long time because I never liked homegrown, but it was very good and this is their description:
50 days (suitable for container and greenhouse)
"Compact, crispy, and totally non-bitter. Thick crisp outer leaves surround a round, well-packed heart. Bright, glossy green. At maturity, resembles a very small iceberg lettuce, only much more heat resistant and easier to grow. Spring, summer, and fall crop. Developed by the U. of Hawaii where the name (pron. ah-new-ee-new-ee) means rainbow.
Here is a link to buy some seeds: http://www.johnnyseeds.com/


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I'm finishing Betters Days for good today, so I'll be out of material again. Since I just got the archives downloaded on The Wotch, this will be my next project. About time, too.
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Number of posts: 12
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This comic is indeed quite overdue for a review.
Good luck Seagate.
Are you still planning on doing this? Because I've read the entire archive, loathe the thing with the fury of a thousand suns and wrote an article on it last year that managed to get back to Anne, so I'd like to give it a shot here unless you've officially called dibs on it.
I'd say do it. Anyone could add to it.
Who's to say we can't have multiple author articles?
Please do it.
We haven't reviewed this comic yet?
Sorry for the long abscence, guys. My life's been complicated these last 2 months, and my health went to shit a couple of times. But things are looking up now.
About the Wotch, I've read half of the archives up till now, perhaps I'll read a bit more tonight. This thing is DENSE. At least Dominic Deegan entertained me a little. Wotch is so ridiculousy boring and ridiculous period that you can¿t read more than a handful in each sitting. If anyone wants to start up a review already, go ahead. I'll add in when I'm done.
OK, I'm going to start up one tonight.
I think I'm finished with it. It's almost 5000 words long, but in my defense, it is The Wotch. There's a fucking PhD in the thing.
I hosted the images on my own server because I'm not an admin and can't upload to this one. I don't mind leaving them there, but someone might want to transfer them to the BWW server.
Excellent, this is exactly the sort of reasoned evisceration I like to see — and seeing the Wotch as its victim is even better. One question, I think I remember that you posted some reviews of Wotch storylines on your own site. Would those be worth adding as links?
I figured they'd be redundant because I covered the same ground in this one (also, I'm not entirely happy with the other ones I wrote, so this one is my third-time's-a-charm attempt at doing it "properly").
I don't think they're necessarily redundant, since on your blog you went in depth on specific storylines that didn't really touch on in your wiki piece. And when you're dealing with the Wotch, I don't think it's possible to hammer too much on just how repetitive the whole strip is. Then again, if you're not happy with those earlier pieces, that's fair enough.
Just sayin' I liked them, for whatever that's worth.


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If you haven't guessed it yet as I get towards the end of my pregnancy I am getting more and more uncomfortable. I find I am spending less time on the farm and more waddling around the house whining about my back. Which mean I want to spend less time on the computer in a typing position and one where I can just maneuver the mouse.
Today is another one of those days, a youtube day….but a really great youtube day.
I am going to let Mary Courtney, another CommonGround volunteer from Kentucky, share her thoughts on farming organic v conventional.
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Quadre is turning 18! We can vote - how timely!
For our birthday, we are presenting some great concerts in the SF Bay Area in 2016 including Schumann's Konzertstück for four solo horns with the Peninsula Symphony on March 18 and 19.
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Exotic car rentals have recently gained immense popularity. The reason behind their rise in popularity is rather evident. From offering low cost rental options to providing an extensive variety of cars to choose from, these service providers are ready to take every step necessary to win more and more clients on a regular basis. However, now that there are so many car rental companies out there, people tend to get confused about which one to pick for their exotic car rental in Dubai. Now, there are multiple approaches that you can take in order to find the best car rental company around you. Let us take a look at a few of them.
Acquire information from your family members and friends
If you know someone who had recently acquired a car rental, then it is highly recommended for you to reach out to them and get a referral. Speak to them and find out if the car rental service that they chose offers exotic car rental services or not. When you talk to them, make sure that you also acquire information about the sort of experience they had with the company that they are giving a recommendation for. Find out about the prices that were charged by the company as well.
Conduct online research
Another approach that you can take in this regard is that of conducting research on the internet. What you basically need to do is search for exotic car rental companies online. This can easily be done by type certain keywords related to the service and your location in any search engine. The best part about this approach is that it will make it possible for you to find car rental companies that are located close to you. Apart from speaking to them over the phone, you can actually even visit their office and finalize things with them if you are satisfied with the services that they have to offer.
Local classifieds can work too
Another approach that might help you find a reliable exotic car rental service provider is that of going through the classifieds section of a newspaper. Check out this section or go through the local business directory to find car rental companies located in your area. If you want to, feel free to visit their office and ask them about their availability for the day that you wish to acquire the rental service for the look at here now. Apart from that, make sure that you discuss their prices as well.


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This is a wonderfully healthy recipe! All of the veggies are Fresh! Not frozen... not canned!
If you like, you can substitute a low-sodium broth for the gravy mix. Add a tsp. of cornstarch to thicken the broth if you do.
Also, if you want to make it a vegetarian dish, leave out the kielbasa (and also remove 585 calories!).
Check the crockpot after two hours -- some folks like their veggies cooked longer than others. Cook to your own taste!
Green Beans (snap), 40 beans (approx. 4" long)
Green Giant Fresh Baby Cut Carrots, 6 oz
Green Onions, 1/4 cup
White Potato, medium, 3 potatoes, diced
Great Value Brown Gravy Mix, 4 tbsp = 1 package
Water, tap, 3 cups (24 fl oz)
Hillshire Farm Turkey Kielbasa, 13 oz package
Wash all the vegetables first!
Place dry gravy mix in bottom of crockpot and add 3 cups of water,
stir well.
Place all veggies into crockpot and cook on high for three hours. (Vegetables often take a long time to cook!)
Cook kielbasa in oven for 20 minutes until hot.
Drain on paper towels to remove any excess fat.
Slice Turkey Kielbasa into 4 pieces (or eight smaller pieces if you prefer). Add to the vegetable stew and serve!
Number of Servings: 4
Nutrition Facts
Servings Per Recipe: 4
Serving Size: 1 serving
Amount Per Serving
Calories 328.0
Total Fat 8.9 g
Saturated Fat 3.3 g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.1 g
Monounsaturated Fat 0.0 g
Cholesterol 56.9 mg
Sodium 868.4 mg
Potassium 267.4 mg
Total Carbohydrate 42.6 g
Dietary Fiber 5.8 g
Sugars 7.8 g
Protein 17.2 g
Vitamin A 152.3 %
Vitamin B-6 2.1 %
Vitamin C 46.9 %
Vitamin E 1.1 %
Calcium 4.9 %
Copper 2.6 %
Folate 5.1 %
Iron 7.7 %
Magnesium 3.9 %
Manganese 5.9 %
Niacin 2.1 %
Pantothenic Acid 0.5 %
Phosphorus 2.1 %
Riboflavin 3.4 %
Selenium 0.5 %
Thiamin 3.0 %
Zinc 0.9 %
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Turkey Kielbasa and Fresh Veggie Stew!
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Mmm.. this sounds delicious! Thanks for sharing! Definitely soup weather now! lol!
- October 13, 2009 at 5:56 PM
- Leslie said...
Sounds great and I will definitely try it. I love soups and stews in the cool weather. BTW, I used to live in Georgia and have a kid at Emory, as well as a ton of family. Your blog is great, as well as your positive attitude.
- October 14, 2009 at 6:57 AM
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As I've gotten older I've realised how important it is to look after your skin and stay safe in the sun. Gone are the days when I would spend all day lying on a sun-bed by the pool getting completely frazzled and burnt. I'll confess, when I was younger I used to use tanning oil when I was abroad. I'm so ashamed and embarrassed about that. I hate to think of the damage I caused my skin.
These days I am slathering myself and the kids in high factor sun cream to protect us. I also make sure we use it at home in the UK. Before I had children I was rubbish at using suncream in the UK. For some reason I just never used it.
An important tip for protecting yours and your children's skin when you're on holiday is to always reapply your suncream after a swim. I must admit I need to get better at this. We also avoid sunbathing and playing in the sun during peak hours when the suns rays are at its strongest.
Having said all that, I still crave that bronzed glow. One way to achieve this all summer long is to use a Gradual Tan St Tropez. I'm quite fortunate to have a nice shade to my skin and therefore i'm not very pale. However, I do love the natural sun kissed look so using a gradual tanning lotion would be a perfect alternative to sunbathing this summer. It's not something i've actually used before but i'm keen to try it.
It would also be great for making sure you're not the palest person on the beach when you arrive on holiday. You could start using the lotion a couple of weeks before hand and whilst you were there.
Have you used a gradual tanning lotion before? Have you used any St Tropez products? Are you a fan of fake tan?
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Finally, I can share my interview with Balter Brewing Company Head Brewer, Scotty Hargrave.
Scott is such a wealth of knowledge, having risen up from the home brewing ranks to be at the helm of one of the hottest breweries in the country right now. This is part 1 of my interview, cos Scott had so much to share with me - his journey, why he chose to brew Alt Brown and tips for home brewers.
Do you guys like seeing interviews with brewers? It's a lot of work to bring these longer videos to life, but I think it's worth it when you get such great insights from people in the industry.
Let me know what you think!


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For this week's Coach's Corner, we spoke with Lamar coach Tom Nolen about last week's close loss to Elkins, his team's highly-anticipated showdown against Brenham –– the No. 3 ranked team in the Class 4A state rankings who also defeated the Redskins 24-7 last season –– as well as preparing for the parity that awaits them in District 20-5A.
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There ready and negative to Both Digital and Conventional based Products & Organisations so I hope via analysis this you could understand which you would prefer to do Business in. Beginning with Conventional Products (Physical Products); first of all the consumer gets something literally for the purchase as well as can this way value a physical item, a consumer might see the exchange of money for material as a fair trade also if the item itself does nothing yet being in the corner of a room, a physical product could fix an energetic problem in your day-to-day regimen and perhaps could not pass without it, most of us usage as well as acquisition physical items as well as require them in our lives. They keep us Entertained, Educated, Managed, Alive and also in Business, without physical items life would be various in a big way.
Physical Products are always obtaining improved on as well as for that reason always satisfying a new requirement so as Manufacturers are beginning to market their brand-new product one more far better version is currently on their minds or someone else's. The competitors for Producers of physical products is very high as well as in the International Market it is really competitive so to say as Fastly creating countries find cheaper much faster and a lot more effective ways in Production Physical items. Physical items unfortunately have a lifetime that is dependent on the top quality as well as the kind of product how typically it is utilized. A physical item takes up area in your life very differently. These things need to be calculated before the acquisition subsequently to reduce the scatter of your unused products. Physical items have actually been infamous for putting us in danger; electronic devices, power devices, chemicals-toxins, lorries, equipment yet are all regrettably necessary evils which we use to facilitate our lives somehow.
Physical products shed financial value after acquisition and could be difficult to sell for the very same quantity you purchased it for after opening up the packaging. Physical products have the tendency to get more affordable over time as the market is filled with Makers competing on the comparable type of product offer for sale. For physical items there is always a price to pay in manufacturing it. There is always a percentage of the amount it was cost at expense to the supplier, A manufacturing of a product might include requiring elements and also products for the product to be made, machinery to prepare the product used for the item, worker's to run the machinery, a center or factory with overheads consisting of; insurance, maintenance, incomes, materials, power and also guidance rates, Legal start up expenses such as Patenting for ex, safety monitoring systems, OH&S Obligation. A product creating Business is a Slave to the financial times and also social patterns of people and also Lifestyles as well as the advance of technology.
Digital Item Business; exactly what are the trends?
A digital product business could be either extremely tech made complex to manage or really easy to do. Either way there is a lot of looking into and also checking to do. An electronic based business has the benefit of being saved in a computer's memory someplace and does not need such pricey rates of rental fee for your business. Checking out it in this manner a business can pay just $25 a year rent if all you desire is minimum costs and benefits yet typically you could pay around $10/month for unlimited access plans. On the down side Computer systems occasionally go down and your business is quickly turned off, yet this is additionally convenient by purchasing a reliable committed server that will certainly maintain your business on line 24/7. A digital Item needs a niche market, with your study done you ought to choose a target audience with little competitors for the info or software you are trying to offer.
The digital book businesses that make sure to development in their venture are Services with outsourced work, it is not a smart idea to do all the work on your own as your understanding and also time is restricted with various other things such as client enquiries and also support of team members, it is a good idea to earn your business plan to include staff member's with experience in the locations of job you are not confident with, Post creating, Search engine optimization, Publishing and also e-book, building the web site as well as obtaining it prepared to approve orders on auto-pilot. The advantages of a digitally made item is that it will cost you only once making, it is after that stored on your computer you could then market this item over as well as over countless times and also not have to pay a worker for the manufacture or dispatch of the product to your consumer it is all done instantly.
The down side of digital items is that the refund demands are higher than with physical items, yet like everything you could manage numbers if you dedicate research or proceed to much better your video game. The concern of Digital based business is that you often need to be in the game to examine things out first and also after that after handling your strategy and also approaches you will certainly begin to see results.
Starting with Standard Products (Physical Products); to start with the client gets something literally for the acquisition and might in this method value a physical product, a customer may see the exchange of loan for material as a fair profession even if the product itself does nothing yet rest in the corner of a space, a physical item could resolve an energetic problem in your daily regimen and also possibly can not go by without it, we all use as well as purchase physical items and also require them in our lives. The competitors for Manufacturers of physical items is really high and also in the International Market it is really cut-throat so to claim as Fastly creating countries find more affordable faster as well as more reliable means in Manufacturing Physical items. Physical products regrettably have a life period that is reliant on the high quality and the type of item how usually it is made use of. There is constantly a portion of the amount it was marketed for at expense to the manufacturer, A production of an item can consist of requiring components and also materials for the item to be made, equipment to prepare the product utilized for the product, staff member's to run the machinery, a facility or manufacturing facility with expenses consisting of; insurance policy, upkeep, incomes, products, power as well as advice rates, Lawful begin up prices such as Patenting for ex lover, protection administration systems, OH&S Obligation. The down side of digital products is that the reimbursement requests are higher than with physical products, but like every little thing you could take care of numbers if you devote study or continue to better your game.
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Top 3 Pet Trends in 2016March 1, 2016
Raise your hand if you love to spoil your pet! Us too.
Sometimes that simply means keeping up with the latest trends so your fur-buddy is the coolest pet on the block.
Here are 3 predictions of the most popular pet trends we'll see a lot of in 2016.
1) Space-Saving Pet Products
It's all about maximizing the space you have in your home and keeping things organized. This includes pet products that don't clutter. The "Kitty Cot" is a perfect example and allows your feline to judge the neighbours from the comfort of a perch that sticks onto your window panes (link: http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/cat-perch)
2) Growth in Pet Grooming Services
Does your pet have their own Instagram or Facebook account? With the growth of Insta-famous pets comes a focus on keeping them lookin' selfie ready 24/7. On par with celebrities, these pets need their glam squad and that includes visits to the groomers to keep their fur on "fleek."
3) Pet Play Dates and Round-Up Events
It's a great way for pets to meet new besties and for humans to connect with other pet-loving individuals. From Woofstock to Pet Expos there are tons of local events you can attend (not to mention most have great free pet SWAG and samples!) Your pet may have a busier social calendar than most humans in 2016!
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Controlling and managing the spread of Johne's disease is a priority in dairy operations of all sizes, but farm managers at the Michigan State University (MSU) Dairy Cattle Teaching and Research Center have an even greater incentive riding on achieving this goal than do most: diagnosing a cow infected with the disease can result in erroneous data results on university-led research projects.
Though Johne's disease, a contagious and untreatable disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium paratuberculosis, or MAP, typically occurs in calves, animals generally don't express clinical signs of the disease until later in life.
So, in 2002, the MSU Dairy Cattle Teaching and Research Center signed their cattle on as a test herd for the Johne's Disease Control Demonstration Project, a near decade-long research project conducted by MSU researchers and MSU Extension specialists that evaluated Johne's disease control strategies in an effort to identify which management practices are the most effective at controlling the spread of the disease.
"We were very interested in participating in the Johne's Disease Control Demonstration Project," said Bob Kreft, farm manager at the MSU Dairy Cattle Teaching and Research Center. "We wanted to identify and quickly eliminate any Johne's from the herd because if our animals are Johne's-positive, it can confuse the other research going on in the barns."
The herd's 250 head of lactating dairy animals were tested for the disease and any animals confirmed positive with Johne's were culled. The project team members also conducted an on-farm audit for possible areas of transmission and determined that the two areas of concern were the calving area and the practice of feeding pooled colostrum to newborn calves. Though testing had confirmed that the prevalence of the disease in the herd was very low, Kreft worked with the research team to modify management practices to reduce it even farther.
To control the spread of Johne's disease in the calving area, farm employees designed warming boxes for outside of the maternity pens. Now, as soon as calves are born, they are transferred from the pen in which they're born to one of these separate calf boxes. The boxes are built on an elevated, grated floor equipped with small space heaters that can be turned on during cooler weather.
Additionally, the tractor and feed mixer no longer travel through areas in the barn where there may be manure. MAP can be spread throughout the barn when manure clings to the tires of farm equipment. The tractors now drive into the feeding alley, backing out after delivering feed instead of driving over the areas where the cows walk. This eliminates the spread of MAP.
Animal pens have also been rearranged so that the breeding-age heifers don't come in contact with the milking-age animals. Previously, the two groups were only separated by a gate, which still allowed contact between the younger and older animals.
"On this farm, a heifer doesn't meet a cow until she's 22 months of age," Kreft said.
MSU continues to monitor the herd's progress by conducting herd tests at mid-gestation and when cows calve. Despite the aggressive strategy, occasionally an animal tests positive for Johne's, further justifying the importance of having a long-term evaluation and management strategy in place.
The Michigan Johne's Disease Control Demonstration Project was a partnership between the MSU College of Veterinary Medicine and Diagnostic Center for Population and Animal Health, MSU Extension, the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and the U.S. Department of Agriculture in collaboration with nine Michigan veterinary clinics. Findings from the Michigan farms involved in the study were pooled with data collected from 17 other states as part of the larger, multi-state project, the National Johne's Disease Control Demonstration Project.
Find additional information on the Michigan Johne's Disease Control Demonstration Project at http://cvm.msu.edu/johnes.


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Imagine sitting in a lone coffee shop in the desert fingering an empty cup not knowing what to do next and then your phone beeping, "Pyramids of the Lou'wa—only 5 km away!" Walking the unknown roads will no longer be a romantic notion with geo-location media becoming a reality. It's like even when nobody knows where you are, your phone knows!
It is expected that by 2014, all the phones in the market would be smart phones. Smart phones are location aware and they are deemed as the next big thing in the area of marketing where smaller businesses and location specific enterprises are expected to raise their threshold market reach.
What geo-location marketing or location based marketing offers us is the opportunity to reach people as they are on the move via GPS mapping technology. It is definitely 'the' chance for small businesses to have real reach over people as this technology kicks in. Only thing is they need to be absolutely ready for this futuristic technology. Well, it was boggling for us too, the effect this technology could have over world markets. While we are in the business of internet marketing, it does us little good if we do not keep a check on emerging, especially ground breaking technologies, does it?
First things first Geo-location media is not a thing of tomorrow. It is happening now! By the end of 2010, geo location marketing is expected to change global
As mobile applications are still in the developing phases to enable wide range location based marketing possibilities, there is always the sidle-line contenders like email marketers for example who are vying for location-prioritizing too. Applications are being developed on a large scale to sort email addresses according to location. The sudden frenzy to find location optimized marketing technology only points at the global marketing trends inevitably shifting in favor of location based marketing.
Making sure your small business is geo-location ready is one of the first things you need to do—drop whatever's in your arms now! Are you marked on the current geo-location maps? Are you geo-tagging your applications? Are you building loyalty generating programs to go with your digital presence? Keep watching this space as we guide you to make your business location centric as you still mark your presence in the global village.
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Mariah Carey Cancels Las Vegas Show
Mariah Carey canceled her Las Vegas show on Wednesday due to bronchitis. "Doctor's orders," she wrote on Instagram at 9:30 PM PT.
She wrote:
Hey guys.. I've been fighting bronchitis for the past few days.. almost better but on mandatory vocal rest per doctor's orders. I'm so sorry to cancel tonight's show but I promise to make it up to you!!! Love you always, MC
How disappointing. She canceled her fourth show hardly into second week. And yet, she had time to shoot a music video for her song "Infinity" this week and get a lap dance from Tyson Beckford in a Chippendale's show.
Fans literally went to Las Vegas just to see her and now all of that is WASTED.
So classy. I mean she's not singing anyway, so might as well perform!
Mariah Carey can't sing anymore. She shouldn't be doing this. The reviews were horrible.
The canceled show will not be rescheduled as noted by the Caesars Palace box office. Mariah also has shows on Saturday and Sunday. I DOUBT she will be performing. What a joke!
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Have you ever managed to change directly from 1st Gear to the 4th Gear in a Car? If yes, this article is not meant for you.
I presume you are also just like me who goes from 1st to the 4th gear while driving the vehicle of life. More often than not, most of this driving is on auto pilot.
The other day I was talking to a friend of mine who was desperately wanting to make a change without going through this cycle. What makes us then try and achieve change overnight without going through the "Gears"?
Myriads of examples came to my mind. Here is a sample of them
§ New Year Resolution
§ Learning a new subject
§ Acquiring a new skill
§ Going back to school for continuing education
§ Learning to cook
§ You can add more
Whether it be the New Year resolution that we make or any new habit that we want to acquire, or for that matter, any habit that we want to replace, it only helps to become aware of this cycle of change. Else, we are setting up a trap designed to crash.
Changing Gears is a metaphor I coined to help ease the process of #change I am undergoing. It works for me, and with this belief I am offering it for your use. Before you decide to throw it, I suggest you to apply its simplicity of use. You always have a choice of junking it anyways. Most of us know the importance of each gear in the mechanical world of motor vehicles, hence I will not elaborate on it here and share a few examples of my life to be able to relate to.
I have very recently going into a fitness regime which covers all the 4 dimensions of my awareness. (Refer 4 dimensions image). Before embarking on a journey, especially a long one, do you check whether your vehicle fitness for the long haul? I can see you nodding a "yes". I did exactly the same. I checked myself (vehicle) to take stock of my current levels of fitness on these four viz. physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. The physical one was done through a doctor. For the remaining three, I started writing a journal which captures key elements of the current state. As I started writing, layers within me started surfacing, rich in intensity, unleashing a catharsis in my life. The initial journal writing was designed for only 4 weeks, however, it has now become a part of my life.
The vehicle was now ready for the journey. Having ignited the desire of change, I stepped on the clutch of inspiration and put the first gear of influence. The vehicle roared to life. The immediate temptation was the race the engine of life and cover maximum distance in the shortest possible time. Acknowledging this temptation, the engine of my life reminded me of the mechanics. These mechanics are not alterable, unless you want a breakdown. The first 2 months has seen me journey the terrain of physical and mental fitness. Under random circumstances, I would have said to myself "that's it, you could have achieve more". However, with my new found awareness of change, I continue to appreciate and celebrate small victories of change. The results are visibly tangible. Gathering momentum releases its own dopamine of growth. Putting the vehicle into 2nd gear has given acceleration a completely different meaning on the road to change. Unlike roads with potholes, I am already on the expressway of change, with toll gates designed to give out "R&R" rather than collect usage fees. Isn't that exhilarating? The dashboard of life is exuding vibrancy. The physical body is light and bubbling with energy. The mind is alert and churning out ideas of change. I truly believe I can touch the sky.
As I changed gears, my eyes fell on the horizon of #clutter. #Cluttering was impairing my mental fitness and it was visible on the dashboard of life. The indicators were blinking RED to the point of breakdown. You may be familiar with situations of not finding crucial papers in place or missing deadliness on important projects and simply, getting frustrated with the inefficiencies that clutter breeds. It was time for a pit stop at the motel called #De-clutter. During this halt, identifying, assimilating and acknowledging the #clutter details in every area of life put my vehicle in motion. Once the vehicle is in motion, it is a matter of maintaining lane discipline and speed in the right lane of change. Every single day, I give 15 minutes for getting in to the first lane of "De-clutter". The first lane is the speed lane, where I am able to drive at the speed I desire. What started as a simple act of de-cluttering unravels change at its best. Change that leaves me energized and radiating with a sense of fulfilment and completion.
This simple act of awareness has reconnected me with the elixir of peace within. As Peter Senge says, "Small changes produce big results". I am constantly looking for those small changes.
Let me share my final example to highlight the power of changing gears. I was introduced to P90X by my friend in Feb'14. A series of fitness videos by one of the most dynamic fitness legends in current times, Tony Horton (http://www.beachbody.com/product/about-trainer-tony-horton.do). I was so impressed that I took it upon me to master the game. I started working out in Feb'14 with only the stretching piece for the first 4 weeks. I was just igniting my engines of change. The stretches are powerful and I was getting back to exercise after almost a decade. The junk my metal had gathered resisted, objected, shouted. Yet the engines had to move. During this time, I was focused on moving the body and gently, I did. 4 weeks later, I could literally see my body expand in flexibility. Exhilarating!! Shifting gear to 2nd, routines have been created to help achieve total physical fitness. As my vehicle accelerates in physical fitness, I can see the signage of #Yoga and #Plyometric beckoning me to get into 3rd gear.
Each one of us has the inherent ability to make #change. Recognizing this ability begins the #change. I experienced #conscious adaptability of the body for the first time.
Learning to "change gears" is one of the best investments I made in navigating my vehicle through the narrow lanes, bylanes and expressways of life. These narrow lanes or bylanes or expressways are symbolic and represents the journeys of our life. In some part of our journey, we come across bumper to bumper traffic where life seems to be standstill while there are moments, when life is moving through the narrow lane of slow growth. Are you then ready to seize the moment when you hit the expressway of change, in your life? Be alert then and look out for the signs in your life. You are your own GPS.One last question - How do you "change gears" in your family, organization, society and global community at large? Do you recognize these in them too?
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An early start to summer may be bad news for those clinging to the last flakes of snow on the mountain, but for those who make their living in the soil?
Make hay while the sun is shining.
This year the region's producers are taking full advantage of the sunshine — including a three-week headstart at the Whistler Farmers' Market.
"It's translated into a whole lot of happy customers and ecstatic vendors," said Whistler Farmers' Market manager Chris Quinlan of the early start.
Typically the market opens on Father's Day weekend, Quinlan said. This year's late-May start was the earliest in the market's history.
This year's market features some new vendors — like Plenty Wild Farms out of Pemberton or North Arm Knives out of Burnaby — but there's also an entirely new novelty intoxicating patrons.
"The really cool thing that's been happening is the addition of being able to sample and sell B.C.-made beer, wine and liquors," Quinlan said.
While the Whistler Farmers' Market continues to grow — Quinlan said the market would top out at a record 94 vendors this year — it isn't alone.
Farmers markets across the province are surging.
"It's really incredible, the growth we've seen at markets," said Georgia Stanley, manager of communications for the BC Association of Farmers Markets (BCAFM), which now represents more than 125 markets throughout the province.
Hoping to keep the momentum going, the BCAFM is introducing a new social media campaign to encourage market shoppers to bring a friend along.
"The purpose of the (#MeetMyMarket) campaign is to really highlight farmers markets as a great source for fresh local food and highlight our markets across the province," Stanley said. "We want to reach out to people who are already farmers market converts and encourage them to bring a friend to the market, so that we can introduce new people to the markets."
Take a friend to your favourite market this July and you can fill out a ballot for the chance to win, among other things, a three-night getaway for two to Sparkling Hills Resort in the Okanagan.
The contest can also be entered via social media. Check www.bcfarmersmarket.org for more details.
The Pemberton Farmers' Market is one of about 60 in the province confirmed to be taking part in the campaign. Like its Whistler counterpart, the Pemberton market has benefited from the warm weather.
"We're finding that we're just coming into some early season offerings from the farms. With the weather being the way it is things are ripening a bit earlier, so that's been great," said market manager Dawn Johnson.
The Pemberton market — open Fridays from 3 to 6:30 p.m. — sees about 30 vendors per week, Johnson said.
This year the Pemberton market is offering prepared food and live music at its new location in the Downtown Community Barn.
The Whistler Farmers' Market is open Sundays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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High Protein Breakfast Meatballs
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By: Rita P. Smith, MS, RD, CDE, Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital
- 2 lbs. lean bulk turkey sausage
- 1 lb. lean ground beef
- 3 eggs
- 2 tablespoons dried onion flakes
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- ½ lb. shredded 2% reduced-fat cheddar cheese
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- In large bowl, using hands, blend together all of the ingredients until mixed well. Form into 48 meatballs. Place on a cookie sheet coated with cooking spray.
- Bake for 25 minutes. Remove from oven and cool. Freeze the extras for a quick breakfast protein at a later date.


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Software Development on an Intel XScale® Technology-Based Virtual Prototype
Abstract functional models allow an early start to the software development, but they need to be supplemented in order to ensure timing accuracy and consistency with the hardware models.By Markus Wloka, Ph.D. and Guy Shaviv, Ph.D.
One major challenge in today's embedded system-on-chip (SoC) designs is the ever-increasing amount of software, with more features and more interfaces to the underlying hardware. The use of mixed-level models in virtual prototypes helps developers address the increasing software demands by permitting parallel development of software and hardware. A pure functional-modeling approach poses concerns in regards to timing accuracy, yet timing-accurate models are too slow to run software effectively. What is needed is a blend of functional and timing accurate models that addresses timing-accuracy issues only where necessary.
Abstract functional models offer two distinct advantages for software development-simulation performance and early availability-both of which are a direct result of the modeling abstraction level. Simulation performance is crucial if a model is to run substantial amounts of software such as a modern operating system or a multimedia decoder. Early availability is important for launching software development early in the project timeline; software development tasks often are on the critical path for product release.
Although today's model-development tools for pure functional models can enable the delivery of a full platform model within weeks, there are problems you cannot solve with only an abstract functional model that has no-or incomplete-timing information. The challenges include hardware or software tasks that depend on the timing, throughput, input rate, or other timing-related properties of a system. Fortunately, these development tasks do not need the entire model to be timing accurate. The model can introduce timing only where it is needed, and thereby reduce the level of abstraction only for a fraction of the system.
The ability to compose a mix of functional and timed models, often referred to as hybrid or mixed-level modeling, and the capability to efficiently simulate such a model become more and more vital for today's SoC projects. Tight integration of tools that support timing-accurate modeling with functional models allows such hybrid modeling, and enables a methodology that lets designers make the trade-offs between performance and accuracy.
This integration also addresses another key requirement for software development: the ability to interface and work with common software debuggers. Software developers have different debugger preferences, so a mixed-level verification platform has to provide interfaces to multiple software debuggers, and these interfaces have to operate together with the debuggers in the hardware and verification domains.
Virtual Prototypes Require a Unified Verification Environment
While it is a great benefit to have an accurate functional model or virtual prototype for software development available early in the design cycle, and many months before the hardware design has been completed, it also comes with a certain risk. The functional model is built using the initial specification of the system. When architectures are being refined and the hardware (RTL) is being developed, changes may occur that affect that system specification. Therefore, the hardware and the functional model (used for software development) may get out of sync. This loss of sync might be due to bug fixes, changes in the structure, or any of several other reasons.
An inability to ensure the consistency of the actual hardware that is being developed with the functional model runs the risk that the software will not function properly once the hardware design has been completed. This defeats the purpose of concurrent hardware and software development. Hence, the modeling tool also needs to provide a verification environment that allows continuous integration of hardware and software. It is therefore mandatory to provide a common test and regression environment for the virtual prototype, mixed-level models, and the hardware platform to make sure these models are in sync.
A common test environment is possible if the test benches are designed to participate in both cycle-accurate verification and abstract functional model verification. This can be achieved by a layered design in which the core of the test bench is functional and an adapter layer lets it participate in cycle-accurate model verification. Assertions can then verify consistent behavior of the cycle-accurate and functional models when exercised by the test bench.
An example of such tools comes from a Synopsys-Virtio partnership that allows the use of System Studio, a SystemC-based architecture design and analysis environment, as an integrated development environment for mixed-level modeling. In System Studio developers can assemble and simulate models at different and mixed levels of abstraction, including using Virtio's functional models, dataflow models, C/C++/SystemC models, and RTL models. Transaction-level models are attached to functional models with interfaces containing timing information to tailor the hardware architecture to the requirements of its core applications, including bandwidth, throughput, latency and buffer sizes.
Virtual Prototypes for Intel XScale® Technology
Virtio offers several functional models for the Intel XScale microarchitecture that fit into the integrated tool set. The VPXS Virtual Platform, for instance, is a fast, full-function software emulation of the Intel® PXA250 Applications Processor development board. The Virtio VPXS-WM Virtual Platform is an architectural variant in which the Intel XScale core is enhanced with the Intel® Wireless MMX instructions.
Figure 1 illustrates where timing enhancements may be applied to a virtual prototype for a typical SoC architecture that includes an embedded Intel XScale technology-based processor, high-speed memory and networking units, and several lower-speed peripherals. In such a prototype, the Intel XScale core is modeled with an instruction-accurate instruction-set simulator (ISS) and all of the peripherals are implemented with functional models. Coupled to the functional models is a timed cycle-accurate model of the on-chip bus, written in SystemC using Synopsys' System Studio.
Figure 1 - A mixed-level model uses functional modeling for most blocks, with timing-accurate modeling reserved for critical functions such as the processor bus. Transactors allow blocks to function either way, depending on test needs.
The SystemC bus model lies between the ISS and the functional models of the peripherals. The CPU is represented to the bus as a master component and all the functional peripheral models are represented to the bus as a slave component. The models connect with transactors to the on-chip bus. These transactors are responsible for converting transactions in one domain to the other. There are two types of transactors: Virtio to SystemC and SystemC to Virtio.
The cycle-accurate bus model takes control of simulation when a transaction is pending and receives updates with the simulation time before processing each transaction. To increase the performance, a switch allows disengaging the SystemC bus model for high-performance tasks, for instance booting an operating system, then engaging the SystemC bus model again for performing specific tests after the operating system is running.
Switching from an abstract functional model to a timed model requires a state transfer between the two models. This may not always be a simple task. It may not be easy to infer the state of the abstract model from that of the timed one. Also, the state of the abstract model may map to more than one state of the timed model. To resolve this problem, switching can happen only at times when the state of both models is known, such as when the bus is idle.
This level of integration allows developers to perform bus-analysis tasks during complex software operations such as booting Linux and running networking applications on top of it. For instance, they can measure utilization of the on-chip bus by connecting System Studio monitors to the simulation. Although performance can vary depending upon the particular SoC being modeled and the efficiency of the model code, typically results show that booting an operating system such as Linux happens at least 50 times faster with the functional model than with the timed, cycle-accurate bus model.
These mixed-level simulations, then, allow the development and debug of drivers, OS ports, and application software very early in the design cycle. Yet the models can be refined by adding more detailed information, such as cycle-accurate timing and RTL implementations. This ability also allows the models to remain concurrent with the hardware design. The result is that a mixed-level design and verification environment will speed up the design cycle for an Intel XScale technology-based embedded design, and will reduce the number of bugs in hardware and software.
Markus Wloka is Director of Research & Development (R&D) for the Synopsys Verification Group in Herzogenrath, Germany. He received his Vordiplom in Informatik from Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet, and an M.S.C. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University. Guy Shaviv is the VP of Engineering at Virtio Corp and has over 15 years of hands-on experience in software development. Shaviv received his Ph.D. from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.


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Having done this for years at work and home this seemed like an easy, nap-time appropriate event. Two days later I have remembered a little
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that just saved my holiday spirit and might give yours a boost as well. For some reason my printer has a hard time with unusual sized paper and just defaults, over and over, and over. Now I am sure there is a "quick fix" for this, but trust me, this thing has it in for me. Anyways, while it resists my pleading when I use my own templates, it does however behave brilliantly when other templates are imported. So much like my two year old who hates cheddar but loves Gorgonzola, our printer likes imports. That said I have had FANTASTIC luck using the templates at Gartner Studios. Having used them after purchasing their products in the past this little nugget of information popped into my head right before IT was about to explode.
Over to their site, entered the paper size, selected a wedding invitation with RSVP cards in the same dimensions. Downloaded the template, replaced their blanks with my sentiments, hit print and VOILA! Amazing. Not to mention if you are wanting a basic template for labels, RSVP cards, etc.... it is all there.
My renewed-holiday-spirit wish for you is that your cards, letters, cookie packages are created with your holiday spirit intact. Hohoho!!!
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Since he joined Twitter in January 2009, Narendra Modi has tweeted over 10 thousand times. His lightning fast messages on his social media sites, which includes Facebook, are all his own doing, a recent RTI query reveals.
The eye-popping factoid in a series of interesting facts about Narendra Modi's life as PM revealed under the Right to Information Act is perhaps the internet speed he enjoys in office--34 mbps!
The Prime Minister hasn't taken a single day off since he took charge on 26 May, 2014. In fact, his office claims he is "on duty all the time".
While he has been abroad for 18 foreign trips in the 18 months he has been PM, he has also been on 10 domestic trips, which means he has been on the move for 100 days since last May.
While there has been much debate over his educational qualification — his claim that he has a masters degree from Gujarat university has been contested by some — the PMO said that Modi has a masters in political science.
Getting in touch with a PM has never been so easy — or so difficult, depending on which way you look at it. While the public channels of communication to the PM have opened up — you could message him on Twitter and Facebook, or "interact" with him via his personal website — he has no official mobile phone number, since the PMO apparently never gave him a phone, according to another response to an RTI query. The PM also has not appointed a media advisor, in a departure from the convention set by his predecessors.
Modi also pays for all his grocery bills himself, as according to the RTI response "kitchen expenses of the PM are personal in nature and not incurred on government account".
Interestingly, Modi has not attended any Roza-Iftaar party after becoming the prime minister, according to reports.
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White SC officer charged with murder in black man's death
(AP) Dramatic video that shows a white South Carolina police officer shooting a fleeing black man after a traffic stop has led authorities to file a murder charge against the officer amid public outrage over a series of deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of law enforcement agents.
A protest began with about 40 to 50 people Wednesday in North Charleston, led by a group formed after the fatal shooting of another black man in Ferguson, Missouri.
The video, provided to the dead man's family and lawyer by an unidentified person who shot the footage, shows North Charleston Patrolman Michael Thomas Slager firing eight shots at the back of Walter Lamer Scott as he runs away. The 50-year-old man falls after the eighth shot, fired after a brief pause.
Scott's parents appeared separately on TV shows Wednesday morning, a day after the officer was charged.
Walter Scott Sr. told the NBC "Today Show" that his son may have run because he owed child support and didn't want to go back to jail.
Scott Sr. said that in the video, the officer "looked like he was trying to kill a deer running through the woods."
Judy Scott called the video "the most horrible thing I've ever seen."
"I almost couldn't look at it to see my son running defenselessly, being shot. It just tore my heart to pieces," she said on ABC's "Good Morning America."
Attorneys for the family said the man who shot the video is assisting investigators. The person has not been identified.
North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey announced the charge at a news conference Tuesday. Summy said Slager had made "a bad decision." Authorities said Scott was shot after the officer had already hit the man with a stun gun after a traffic stop Saturday that began over a faulty brake light.
"When you're wrong, you're wrong," Summey told reporters. "When you make a bad decision, don't care if you're behind the shield or a citizen on the street, you have to live with that decision."
Slager, who has been with the North Charleston police for five years, was denied bond at a first appearance hearing Tuesday. He was not accompanied by a lawyer. If convicted, he could face 30 years to life in prison.
The shooting comes amid ongoing public issues of trust between law enforcement and minority communities after such prominent deaths as those of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner on Staten Island, New York.
Heightened scrutiny is being placed by Americans on police officer shootings, particularly those that involve white officers and unarmed black suspects. A grand jury declined to indict Ferguson, Missouri, officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Brown last August, leading to nationwide protests.


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Mixtape Monday: G-Eazy – The OutsiderApril 25th, 2011 by Siegz | Alternative/Indie, Hip-Hop/Rap, Mixtape Monday |
G-Eazy has this style where he samples chill indie songs and turns them into dope hip-hop jams. Yet he shows his dope chill flow putting together dope hip-hop productions. Not sure where I'm going with this except to say that I look forwar to more from G-Eazy and his growth as an artist. Here's my 2 favorites from The Outsider (Download).
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G-Eazy – Netflix
Shout out to my boys over at This Bonus Track and GMAD for getting the sponsorship on this dope tape.


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But the media seems to have taken this story and run with it, starting to question what other bridges may be unsafe around the country. On the local news last night, the brief headline was about the bridge collapse and whether there was a danger of something similar happening in Chicago, with shots of several bridges downtown. It's not like 3 bridges collapsed in a week, so why are they trying to imply this is going to happen elsewhere? Sure, it doesn't hurt to be safe, but stop trying to instill fear for no reason. Bad things happen everyday...that doesn't mean you should start fearing it's all going to happen to you.
And yeah, the media has a history of fear mongering with their headlines, but this one seems more over the top than usual. For instance, CNN's got 12 links in just the top section of their homepage related to the bridge incident:
The line that's the best example of the fear mongering is the last link: "Collapsing bridges, exploding streets -- is America's infrastructure crumbling?"


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The recent Summers Woodworking Birdhouse Challenge encouraged me to get into the shop and resurrect my birdhouse plans. Although I didn't create a fancy birdhouse and I didn't finish it in time to enter the contest, I enjoy making bird houses.
Some 10 years ago I had the honor to coach a scout for his Eagle project. It was hard to contain my excitement when the scout asked if he could do a woodworking project. Another member of our scout group suggested that we build birdhouses and contact a local Audubon Society member to get guidance and to be the project sponsor. The project developed from that point on, and soon a group of young men, young women and several adults began the construction of 150 kestrel nesting boxes. The kestrels were struggling in Florida at that time due to destruction of their habitat by fires. At the completion of the project, many of the youth were able to see the boxes they made mounted some 30 to 40 feet above the ground on power poles. The following year, the sponsor reported that many of the boxes had been used by nesting kestrels and that the project had been a major success. A year or so later, we found ourselves working on another project for our sponsor: blue bird boxes.
Currently, we've decided to build a blue bird box for a blog project. I hope the information we share here will encourage woodworkers to seek out their area's local needs for bird nesting boxes, and will participate when possible.
On the Cranmer Earth Design Information website you can find an interesting history of birdhouses. The use of man-made birdhouses goes back as far as the 15th century. Materials used for birdhouses ranged from baskets to bark to pottery. When English immigrants reached the eastern coast in the 18th century they found that Native Americans were making bird houses out of birch bark. The Native Americans saw a need to bring birds to their area, and recognized that birdhouses could help accomplish this goal. Europeans built birdhouses to collect eggs or trap birds. Early American settlers wanted to attract birds for insect control.
So why do we build birdhouses today? Birdhouses can help offset habitat destruction by either natural or man-made means. It's interesting to note that we build birdhouses for birds who do not naturally build freely supported nests in trees or structures, but look for cavities to nest in.
The birdhouse construction for our blog project follows the recommendation of the Audubon sponsor we used on earlier projects. It also follows fairly closely the recommendations outlined in the website www.nabluebirdsociety.com . This website provides the dimensions used in this project, specifically the size recommended for an Eastern blue bird.
The hole size and location accommodates the habit of the blue bird to fly directly into the birdhouse. There is no perch, because one is not needed, and a perch would provide predators a platform for entering the birdhouse. The wood used is untreated cedar (treated lumber should never be used). It was also our impression that, for at least these bird types, the house should not be painted. One side of the box is hinged, to open for periodic cleaning.
In many cases other animals may use the box when the birds are not nesting and their nesting material needs to be removed. A removable nail is used to lock this side in a closed position. This side is also designed to leave a gap just under the roof's edge for ventilation.
Another side is also cut to assist ventilation. The floor of the box is notched for drainage, and slightly elevated from the sides of the box to help keep the interior dry.
It is also recommended that a ¼ inch groove be cut underneath the three exposed edges of the roof to prevent rainwater runoff from following the edge of the roof and curling back on the nesting box walls. The diagrams do not show it here, but it is also a good idea to cut a series of grooves on the inside face of the front side of the box. This is better illustrated in the construction photographs. The grooves provide a "toe hold" for the bird fledglings to climb out of the box.
When the nesting box is completed, it can be mounted on a pole or fence post four feet above the ground, in an open area. The website above gives specific positioning guidance for various types of bird houses. Our Audubon consultant suggested mounting the blue bird boxes on a post in a location with bushes about 10 feet in front of the box. This provides an opportunity for the fledglings to practice flying back and forth from the bushes to the box.
It isn't always easy to insure that the location you pick will be free from predators such as cats, snakes or raccoons. The website above provides some guidelines for adding structures to the birdhouse or support to protect against predators.
For our project, we selected cedar as the construction material, specifically nominal 1×6 cedar planks. A four foot length will provide enough wood to make all but the roof. A 1×10 board is needed for the roof, but if you are only going to make one birdhouse, you can purchase some extra 1×6 and glue up a panel for the roof. This is what we did, since we had extra 1×6 boards and no 1×10's. We used Titebond 3 glue since this joint would be exposed to the weather.
You'll find that for some other box types, the back board for the box not only extends below the bottom of the box but also above the roof. This expedites attaching the box to a pole or other structure. This was the case for the kestrel boxes we built. In the case of the kestrel boxes, the roof butts up against the back board, leaving a seam where water could leak in. To prevent this, a sealant was run along this seam.
The construction of the box calls for galvanized nails. We found during the assembly of the 100 plus birdhouses that it was quicker to apply Titebond 3 glue to the joints and then use a pneumatic crown stapler to hold the joints together while the glue dried. This method seemed to hold up as well as using galvanized nails. The main reason we chose the method we did, was because we had several young people doing the construction and driving galvanized nails into the cedar with a hammer proved to be a challenge, unless we predrilled the holes. The cedar was very prone to splintering.
Here's a little you-tube of the nesting blue bird box build:
The cedar boards from the big box stores could be easily cut to size with a chop saw. It would be recommended to use some kind of jig to nip the corners off the floor piece, to keep your hands well away from the chop saw blade. The hole for the entrance was drilled with a Forstner bit. A jig was also used to cut the grooves on the back side of the front wall. The depth of cut was set on the chop saw to 1/8 inch, and the board was fed by hand as the chop saw was repeatedly lowered onto the board.
If you'd like to provide some housing for our feathered friends, get into your shop and chop some wood! And as always, focus on what you are doing, and be safe!


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We ALL want rock solid self confidence, but what is it and where does it come from? Here are some of my current thoughts on confidence.
I don't see myself as confident. Most of my life, I've attempted things I didn't feel equipped for, but I tend to put my head down and go for it anyway. Some might call me naïve! Persistent? YES, that's my middle name! In any case, realizing that I'm not particularly confident but I AM persistent and I am generally optimistic made me wonder about three things.
1. What's the difference between confidence and optimism?
2. When is confidence blind or naive?
3. Where does persistence come from, if not from confidence?
Confidence and Optimism
Confidence and optimism are in the same wheelhouse, but they are quite different beasts.
The big difference? Evidence. Confidence looks for evidence, and optimism thumbs its nose at evidence.
Harvey Penick, professional American golfer and hall of famer, described this well,
Confidence is when you have hit this particular shot many times in the past with success, and you know you are capable of doing it again. Optimism would be if you had never hit this shot successfully in your life, and are hoping this will be the first time.
That's a great distinction, but its not the whole story. Confidence is generally your belief in your own ability (based on past experience) while optimism is a big picture perspective. In other words, I don't know if I can do this, but I will do my best and trust that it will all work out as it needs to.
Confidence depends on me. Optimism depends on me + forces beyond me. Optimism operates despite confidence, but true confidence needs the guiding hand of optimism to make sure ego doesn't spin out of control. And then when my sense of purpose gives me confidence that I can play a valuable part in optimism's plans, watch out! That's confidence I want to sign up for; measured by time and perspective, in service of something more than my own feelings!
This makes me think that persistence partners more with optimism than confidence. I persist as an act of defiance. Even though I'm 46 and stand at a pretty major crossroads in my life, I persist with my direction, often with little reason to believe (confidence) that it's all going to work out, but driven by a sense of purpose.
So, how do you build self confidence?
With evidence– Push yourself out of your comfort zone and prove to yourself that you have reason to be confident. This is well expressed in this William Jennings Bryan quote,
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
And second, forget the evidence. Keep on keeping on (persistence), and learn to trust the big picture (optimism).
When is confidence blind or naive?
Eoin Colfer wrote in Artemis Fowl, "Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know."
The problem with anything evidence based is that we never know everything there is to know; hence the need to balance assertive qualities like confidence and certainty with more humble, receptive qualities like trust and surrender (and the unsexy quality of persistence).
Confidence can only ever be conditional, based on what you know at the time. In July, 1911, stuntman Bobby Leach survived tumbling over Niagara Falls in a barrel. You'd think that would give him an air of unbreakability. A few years later, while skipping down the street in New Zealand, he slipped on an orange peel, fell, and fractured his leg. He was taken to a hospital and later died of complications from the fall.
He was well prepared for his tumble over Niagara. He was not prepared for danger walking down the street. How could you be?
A common message from the personal development world is, "Believe you can do it, and you WILL do it easily." That's confidence! But is it true? To a point. There's no question that our beliefs are powerful. But it's naïve to drive a car without lessons or sky dive without preparation, it's cocky to think you are unbreakable and it's narcissistic to think that everything should work out the way you want it to.
A more accurate statement might be, "Believe you can do it, know that's it worth bleeding for, dust yourself off every time you fall, and trust a time frame and plan beyond your wildest dreams, and everything will work in exactly the right way." Confidence without persistence and purpose (optimism) can so easily become cocky and self satisfying.
On the positive side, confidence that grows out of persistent optimism can never be naïve. This is the confidence I want to nurture.
Persistence, Optimism and Confidence
Confidence is a roller coaster ride of elation and devastation, based on circumstances, because it looks to success and failure with puppy dog eyes, hoping for a morsel of encouragement. Optimism has a much larger perspective on failure. It's not tossed around in the winds of change. Another way to think about it goes like this,
For a pessimist, failure is to be expected, its permanent and personal while success is a surprise, its temporary and external. In other words, when things go well there is some other way to explain it. When things go poorly, it says something absolute to and about me.
An optimist, on the other hand, sees success as expected, permanent (because it's always working itself out) and external (it's rarely just about us) while failure is a surprise, temporary and in process. In other words, when things go poorly there is another way to explain it (even if I can't yet get there) and when things go well, it's the collusion of all the right people, purposes, effort and timing.
Confidence, when coupled with persistence and optimism, holds loosely to evidence. When you think about it, it's your mind's voracious desire for evidence of confidence that leads to so much pain. It flirts with you, teases you with great moments before leading you out the front door with your fly down. Confidence needs a sense of humor to balance it's cockiness (pardon the pun).
Footballer, John McKay, tells a great story about confidence with a sense of humor. It involves University of Alabama football coach Bear Bryant: "We were out shooting ducks, and finally, after about three hours, here comes one lonely duck. The Bear fires. And that duck is still flying today. But Bear watched the duck flap away, looked at me and said, 'John, you are witnessing a genuine miracle. There flies a dead duck!'"
That's the type of confidence I want to nurture. I don't want to be victim to the agonizing twists and turns of fortune and evidence. I want to believe, in the largest sense, that my life has a place in the whole and that undying persistence comes from a deep knowing of this purpose rather than my own brilliance. Sometimes I will be brilliant, sometimes not.
I don't expect to find a super confident swagger any time soon. But I can live with that. It's when my persistence starts to wane, that's when I will get worried. Now, can persistence be naive? Well, that's a great question for another article.


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My brother got one of this media boxes for holidays, specifically a Woxter i-Cube X-DIV 35 XP Rec Lite, which seems to be based on chipset RTL1262 (not RTL1261, I know). The problem is that we want to use NTFS partition through Samba, but as you know NTFS partition is read only for the device.
Playing with the device I think I have found a method to change that partition from NTFS to ext3, so it can be written through Samba, but I don't wont to try it yet, because Woxter have not released any firmwares and I don't wanna brick my device (the device is in read-only mode, except some things, so this would involve writting directly to the flash).
But in the case I didn't find some method or Woxter didn't release any firmware I have send them an email arguing about the GPL-derived binaries I have found, and that they should offer their clients the source code. Picture me surprised when I get an email back saying that they will give me a CD with the source code.
So I have the CD, which came with three files: linux-2.6.12.tar.bz2, RTD1262_APP_GPL.tar.bz2 and RTD1262DTV_APP_GPL.tar.bz2. I have uploaded those three files to my personal server at <http://ruido-blanco.net/descargas/rtd1262/>, so you can download them.
As far as I can see, RTD1262_APP_GPL have the source code for freetype-2.3.5, jpeg-6b, HTTPC (seems to be from here <http://www.webdav.org/neon/>), libPNG, miniupnp (from here <http://miniupnp.free.fr/>), zlib-1.2.3, database? (seems relate to <http://ebase.sourceforge.net/>, and have one doc in Chinese), mp3info (seems to have something to do with <http://sourceforge.net/projects/mplib>), qDecoder (<http://www.qdecoder.org/>), Samba 3.0.23c, SQLite 3.3.7 and 3.5.4, upnp2_lib and upnp3 (with some files marked as INTEL CONFIDENTIAL… umm, maybe they didn't mean to give me that), and wpasupplicant-0.5.8.
RTD1262DTV_APP_GPL have a lot of the libraries from the one above, but they are different source code (not all different, little parts, mostly paths, but some source code too). There are also some "libraries" not found in the other file: A library for IPC (Sun RPC), some library to read INI files (seems to be libini <http://sourceforge.net/projects/libini>), InputVCD (seems to come from Xine project), libdvdread and libdecss (from <http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/> and VideoLAN project) and udfaccess (I don't know where that come from).
The kernel file seems to be a 2.6.12 kernel slightly modified. They include all the config files, so a "make" with the good compiler chain should give us the same kernel our devices have. I have diffed the source with an official 2.6.12 kernel and there are also differences in some source files.
What can we do from here? Well, not much. The "real" program is still closed source (maybe it should not be, because they are compiling statically with GPL code, but they will probably don't think the same). The Linux kernel is more interesting, if we can compile it with new modules we can make other USB WiFi dongles work, and (as I hope) compile FUSE and NTFS-3G for our devices.
I know many of you might say that this is for another device, but maybe the kernel they use is the same, or maybe they have left the old RTD1261 sources around. But my main pourpose is that this code gets circulation in the comunity. Maybe somebody can tell where else can I post the links and this little information.
Thank you very much and sorry for the extension.


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I want this blog to be about the work that I do and not about my person. But there will be a change in the the content of the blog which can only be explained by the change in my professional situation. So far, computational topics have been about FDTD simulation, molecular dynamics simulation, python, and scientific computing in general. I've been a graduate student at Vanderbilt University for four and a half years where I've learned an incredible amount in the areas of nanoscale science & engineering and computing, both of which are areas I did not have the background for. This was all under a mechanical engineering degree but I'm leaving with 'just' a master's degree in "mechanical engineering" as I did not pass my PhD qualifying exam in...(classical) mechanical engineering. Now, I was quite disappointed for a while since I enjoyed my research very much and was looking forward to making contributions to energy conversion device research using computation.
But, looking back only a few months later, I'm glad it happened. I felt that I had a programming talent lurking inside me as I was conducting my computational research and it would be wise to enhance my computational skills which would qualify me very well for certain job types. So, I've started a (second) master's in computational science at George Mason University customizing my curriculum for 'big data'. I've identified 'big data' as a field that I want to get into because I feel that I have the right combination of communication, business, and technical skills to be successful in this field. This potentially means that I might turn my back to science and engineering as an application area of my skills which is something a bit discomforting to me as I've always seen myself as a scientist and engineer. At the same time, advanced scientists and engineers have the potential to be great data scientists.
What does this mean for the blog? I still expect to post about (pure) scientific computing but not about applications like finite-difference time-domain simulations and molecular dynamics simulations. Python will stay with me as a base of my programming skill but it will be complemented by other computing languages that I will learn like SAS, R, C, and Fortran (working on working in HADOOP!). This is what I'm able to predict for now.
Ending with a positive personal note, for most of the past decade I've been striving to get into a job type that I want. I'm very optimistic that I'm almost there.


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