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BOSTON, June 10, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Press Ganey today announced the acquisition of the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI®), the leading quality improvement and nurse engagement tool developed by the American Nurses Association (ANA) and managed by The University of Kansas School of Nursing. The acquisition strengthens Press Ganey's ability to empower nurses and nursing leaders in their mission to reduce patient suffering and improve the patient experience.
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I know its still so new... and in time it will fade. But today is the two week mark and I feel worse today than I have since the loss happened.
I don't just have one day that hurts worse... its like a 4 day trail... Thursday is the day I felt the pain then led me to the doc in the first place. Friday (today) is the day we got the news she was gone. Tomorrow is the day she was born, and Sunday will be the day we buried her. And every day hurts more than the last... I wish everything would have happened on ONE day. Then there would only be THAT day that I remembered. KWIM?
Thanks for listening... *sigh* this is poo...
Sending hugs.
I know what you mean. The 5th was when I went into my pcp's office for what I thought was a nasty stomach flu I couldn't shake, the 11th is when I went into my obgyn's office and was told the pregnancy was not viable, the 12th is when I had the d&c. I still know these dates, I know what day of the week each one was. But it has faded for me, although I really don't like the second thursday of the month, it just gives me a date to say "I would be x weeks along now..."
Hugs! I hope that it starts to ache a little less for you soon.
Hugs hon. I do that too. I get stuck on the finding out day, actual day of d&c, due date, date I found out I was pg, it goes on and on, and it sucks.
Hugs and prayers!
I also did that. Even the 2nd of every month. But as time has passed, even though I still think about it, it is not an every day thing like before. It will get a little easier as time goes by
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joee, i promise it will get better. i too remember it all. feb. 12 found out the baby was gone, and then had every day in between until feb 16 when i had the d&c. that was an awful week. i still remember every year. but it does get better. the pain lessens. you will always remember though. and that is ok. (((hugs)))
April will always be the worst month of the year for me. I hate it. I ost two babies in April. I know how you feel. I don't know if it fades per say, as I"m still having bad days. But it does get easier to live a good daily life.

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Preparing for the biggest day of your life can be one of the most stressful challenges you'll ever face. With so many choices to make, places to go and people to see, it's hard to know where to start.
That's where The Bride Show Dubai comes in. With more than 300 exhibitors under one roof, the event at the Dubai International Exhibition Centre is the only place to be if you have the big day to plan for.
Even so, stepping into the venue is somewhat daunting to say the least. The endless aisles of stands offer everything you can imagine.
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Hana says: "All the dresses we have are exclusive to us and nobody carries our lines. This is the first time that we are participating and we are excited to see what the response will be."
As well as European-style dresses on offer, there were numerous Arab designers featuring shaylas and abayas with subtle adornments for the discerning customer. Traditional Indian bridal saris and lehengas in richly embroidered fabrics were also to be found in the maze of stalls.
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A white wall was splashed with the name of the store seemingly written in blood, graffiti style, underneath swathes of scrunched up cellophane sheeting.
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On hand to explain was the Filipino designer Rocky Gathercole.
"I'm a bit weird," he admits. "The white represents purity and cleanliness, and the red, which looks like blood, is kind of scary. But for me, red is life and joy and happiness."
The obvious wedding dress among them was a Dh30,000 white gown, created using seven different fabrics and Swarovski crystals and pearls.
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Over at Marriagement, the Deira-based wedding planners, I caught up with Rutania Baker who informed me the company charged from Dh10,000 for a basic package up to Dh25,000 for their services.
Among their more unusual requests was from a couple who wanted to walk barefoot on broken glass during the ceremony to symbolise how they met. But the challenging demand was eventually dropped when the families of the bride and groom protested.
Assistant wedding planner Baker said: "We once had a couple from the UK and they had nothing planned - no menu, no stage - they had invited the guests and that was it, and we had only three days to plan everything.
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Thankfully for them, most couples seek their help three to six months in advance of their wedding day.
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Perhaps most important of all for any bride-to-be is making sure you look your best for the moment you walk down the aisle. Karisma Ladies Centre has a large stand dedicated to just that. Their hair, beauty, nail and wellbeing techniques were all being tried and tested while I stopped by.
General manager Alia Madanat says: "It is our third year at The Bride Show and every year is really busy. The impact is really good and we had a lot of clients after last year."
Providing the works before the big day, the centre offers a bridal package for Dh5,000 which includes everything from facials, massages, hair, make-up, full body detox, hair removal and a Morrocan bath.
Looking forward to her wedding day in July, Sudanese Namariq Abdelrahim, 27, enjoyed browsing through the stalls.
Speaking of the event, she says: "I would recommend it otherwise you have to run here and there to many places. At least everything is in one place here and you can find most things."
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I'd gone to them to speak about the roach problem, but
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"As 2012 winds down and Thanksgiving approaches, I have much for which to be thankful -- personal, professional and Presidential," Banks wrote on her website when announcing her family's happy news. "However, nothing can match the joy and excitement my husband and I felt when we recently welcomed our second baby boy, Magnus Mitchell Handelman. Magnus joins older brother Felix, thus commencing a decade or more of close hand-to-hand combat."
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Lead performances find the soul in wearying "Rust and Bone"
The main characters of "Rust and Bone," played by Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts, have names, but they might as well go by the title's featured elements. They're both broken and beaten people, their wounds – both emotional and physical – covered with gritty, tough calluses. Yet somehow, beneath all that hurt and pain, they find a way to feel, love and survive.
French director Jacques Audiard presents a hard, rough tale, beautifully shot and guided by two captivating lead performances, but there's something missing. For all of its seemingly natural and realistic grit, a strenuously heavy hand for drama pulls "Rust and Bone" down. It's less of a serious movie than a movie that wants to be serious. I don't want to use the dreaded p-word, but it's unfortunately the one that fits best: pretentious.
Schoenaerts (from last year's "Bullhead") plays Ali, a wannabe kickboxer suddenly put in charge of his young son (Armand Verdure). Ali has almost no money for himself, much less for a child, so the two move in with his estranged sister Anna (Corinne Masiero) while Ali attempts to find a job in between trips to the gym and quick one-night stands.
He eventually wrangles a job as a bouncer at a popular nightclub, where he meets Stéphanie (Golden Globe nominee Marion Cotillard), a killer whale trainer at a French SeaWorld. He's graceless and awkward. She's bloody and bruised after a fight at the club. Things don't go far, and the two don't appear too intent on seeing each other again.
That is, until Stéphanie suffers a terrible accident at SeaWorld that leaves her without both of her legs. In her loneliness, she gives Ali a call, and the two form a vaguely sweet relationship from their broken selves – complicated by Ali's immaturity and responsibilities.
Audiard's last movie, the gritty prison drama "A Prophet," won itself an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film with its intense performances and authentic story with a few ethereal touches thrown in for art's sake. "Rust and Bone" plays much the same way, for better and for worse.
The French writer-director captures some beautiful shots – orcas slowly flying through the water, a bloody tooth skittering and spinning across the pavement – but he struggles to integrate them into his story. Stéphanie's big accident, a gorgeous but messy blur of images, suffers from emphasizing art over coherence. He has a similar problem with his soundtrack, with Bon Iver and strangely Katy Perry often intruding on the action. "A Prophet" sometimes had the same problem, but maybe I just like Turner Cody's "Corner of My Room" more than "Firework."
Where "Rust and Bone" really shows its wear, however, is in the story. Its source material is a collection of short stories by Craig Davidson, and as adapted by Audiard and his "A Prophet" co-writer Thomas Bidegain, it feels like it. The screenplay attempts to cover several relationships and story elements over its two-hour running time, and the emotion gets lost in the process. Ali's son disappears for large portions of the film, so when the movie turns its focus toward their bond, the audience's connection just isn't there.
It doesn't help that most of the material is so steeped in heavy seriousness that it pangs more of indie importance rather than a natural story of wounded people struggling to heal.
Luckily, most of the film's focus is on the relationship between Cotillard and Schoenaerts, and they don't hit a false note. Cotillard is mesmerizing, finding the wounded, bitter and raw humanity left inside Stéphanie after her horrid accident. The audience really feels like it is witnessing a woman heal before its eyes. Schoenaerts is her equal. Ali can be selfish and caring – sometimes in the same moment – not realizing how important he is to the people around him. It's a hard role, played with crucial sympathy.
Together, the two make "Rust and Bone" work. Even when the story feels off, Cotillard and Schoenaerts are on, making their complicated relationship come off the screen. Sometimes they're sweet. Other times, they're tragic.
But they're always fascinating to watch, and when Audiard's visual ideas bind with their performances – Cotillard's beautiful return to the orcas, Schoenaerts's harrowing ice skating trip with his son – you get a glimpse of a great movie. Those glimpses, however, can be exhausting to find through all the important drama – with important written in all caps.
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Redistricting Redux
You know something's fishy when two guys on opposite ends of everything come together with a common mission. But that's exactly what's happening right now with Chris Fitzsimon and John Hood both singing the praises of some recent baby steps on redistricting. Distressed by the lack of competitive races in North Carolina, the two pundits have jumped on the redistricting bandwagon with all four feet.
From the left:
That's why the N.C. Coalition for Lobbying and Government Reform, the folks who brought you lobbying and ethics reform(on which more needs to be done) is now trying to change the way legislative and congressional districts are drawn, to take them out of the hands of the politicians as much as possible. The Coalition believes that districts should be drawn by an independent commission. The easiest way to explain this idea is that politicians shouldn't choose their voters, voters should choose their politicians.
It is not as far-fetched as you might think. Several states already have an independent redistricting commission, appointed in various ways. In most instances, the commission's plans are submitted to the legislature for an up or down vote. Lawmakers can't amend the plan. If they reject a plan, the commission tries again.
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Entrusting the power to draw district lines in an independent commission can be accomplished in a variety of different ways. Our Coalition is not yet committed to any particular design element, such as the way commissioners would be appointed. Nor is a commission a sufficient condition for reforming the system, because what we also need are clearly defined criteria for ensuring fairness and defining a compact, comprehensible set of coherent political communities. An effective commission will need to rely on criteria that are largely numerical, minimizing discretion and reducing the potential for subsequent litigation (though the prospect of litigation cannot, and really should not, be entirely precluded). And we should keep in mind that even in the states with independent commissions, redistricting can still be problematic.
There is no perfect way to draw political boundaries. What we can say for sure is that the current system is deeply flawed. It's time to start a broad, statewide conversation about what to set up in its place.
The politicians recruited to stand out front on this independent commission are Bill Cobey and Tim Valentine. They've been blitzing the airwaves recently, pushing for sanity in a world gone wild with political power.
Though I wish them the best of luck, I don't hold out much hope. Because gerrymandered districts are only a tiny part of a much bigger problem: the corrupting influence of money in politics.
When a guy like Art Pope can throw a few hundred thousand dollars into electioneering and tilt the outcome of legislative races, something is very, very wrong. When Congressmen spend more than half of their time raising money to run for re-election, something is very, very wrong. When 527 organizations can pour thousands of dollars into House races without disclosing their contributors, something is very, very wrong.
Hood and Fitzsimon aren't focused on the money problem because it's just too hot to handle. There is not middle ground for reasonable discussion. Hood thinks elections should be bought and sold like pork bellies, the natural extension of his free-market fantasies. In John's muddled mind, the measure of a candidate's worth is a function of how much money he or she can raise to buy influence with potential voters. It's a model in which the wealthy have a structural advantage over everyone else, which is why he's is so fanatical about it.
Independent redistricting is only one piece of the puzzle, and hardly the most important. Public financing of elections has much more potential to level the playing field so that money and connections aren't the sole determinants of political power. Establishing reasonable term limits for elected officials could also have huge positive impact on furthering good old-fashioned democracy.
But don't expect to see left and right coming together on these issues. Because the idea that rich old white men might lose some of their clout is unthinkable to the rich old white men running the show these days.
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YMCA soccer camp coming upPublished 8:27am Monday, July 8, 2013
By Daniel Evans
The Selma Times-Journal
The YMCA of Selma-Dallas County will be hosting a soccer camp conducted by Judson College from July 22 through July 26.
The camp is for players ages 4 to 18-years-old. The fee for the camp is $65 for members and $80 for non-members. The fee includes a t-shirt, but to guarantee a shirt the child must be signed up July 12.
Ken Headley, the women's soccer coach at Judson College, will help conduct the camp.
[Headley] and a few of his soccer players are going to come down and conduct the camp," Kasey Burton, program and fitness director of the YMCA of Selma-Dallas County, said. "[For] the little kids, they are going to kind of keep it fun and keep it soccer-based; doing games that relate to fundamentals. The older kids will work more on fundamentals and techniques."
Last year, approximately 75 youth participated in the camp.
Burton says she expects that number to grow again this year.
"It is not like football and baseball in Selma, but it is growing. There have been several schools to pick up the sport," Burton said of soccer in Selma.
The 4 to 6-year-olds will hold camp from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the YMCA Gym. The 7 to 10-year-olds have camp from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the old softball complex. The 11 to 18-year-old camp is from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the old softball complex. For more information, contact the YMCA of Selma-Dallas County at 874-9622.
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A Theory of Income and Dividend Smoothing Based on Incumbency Rents
AbstractIncome smoothing is the process of manipulating the time profile of earnings or earnings reports to make the reported income stream less variable. This paper builds a theory of income smoothing based on the managers' concern about keeping their position or avoiding interference, and on the idea that current performance receives more weight than past performance when one is assessing the future. When investment is added to the model, so that income reports and dividends can be set independently, the authors find that both dividends and income reports may be smoothed and that dividends may convey information not present in the income report. Copyright 1995 by University of Chicago Press.
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Iran nuclear deal start date announced
An interim nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers and Iran will start on 20th January, the EU's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said.
Ashton represents the six nations - the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany - in diplomatic contacts with Iran related to the nuclear standoff.
She said the sides would now ask the United Nations' nuclear watchdog to verify the deal's implementation.
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Taking a look around the happenings in the Big 12.
K-State fell to 0-2 in Big 12 play with a 33-29 loss to Oklahoma State. BOTC goes beyond the boxscore to break down what happened.
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Baion is the main antagoinst of Solatorobo: Red the Hunter. He is the last surviving inhabitant of the original Earth. As a leader of the Hybirds, Baion was pre-mature weakend and started an Operation CODA from Juno citizens.
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Baion was created for an unknown project. He was put to sleep inside a pod and awoke several years later, when some miners discovered him and his pod malfunctioned. Several years before the start of the game, Baion was the man responsible for destroying Elh and Beluga's village, Ragdoll. He burned everything and everybody that the paladins loved as stated when he confronted Red, Beluga and Elh.
Some 9 years before the game, Baion worked with Merveille Million and created three Hybrids: Blanck, Nero and Red (who was the only one who could Trance). Baion stated that Red was officialy a failure and ordered him to be destroyed. However, when Merveille allowed Red to escape, this made Baion furious. He eventually betrayed her, and countinued his own plan to bring forth Tartaros and activate CODA.
Baion is portrayed as a middle-aged man with dark cyan hair and a full beard. He wears orange sunglasses and wears an outfit that resembles those worn by Juno citizens.
Baion is portrayed as arrogant even more malicious than Bruno. He has the ambition to rule the world and try to reset the earth from RE-CODA Button. Baion knows very little about Merveille, with whom of which he had worked with to create the three hybrids, he showed this when Red tells him about Her. However, Baion changed his course at the very end of the game when Red told him how he was cared for and how Baion too could be cared for.
After Red and his friends spoke with Yurlungur, the three head down to the terminal room of Uzu tower where they finally confront him. With this, Baion reveals to Elh and Béluga that he's the man responsible for the destruction of their village. But he, Nero and Black flee the scene afterwards, having downloaded the data to initiate CODA.
Baion finally started his plan, summoning a gigantic spherical entity named Tartatos. He's planning to use it to initiate CODA to lower the continents back to Earth. Lowering the continents would kill each and every one of the citizens of the islands though, because it must pass through the giant plasma sea underneath the shepherd republic, essentially starting the world off anew.
Baion then appears on top of Pharaoh, brainwashing Red with the Order to kill Nero and Blanck. He then attempts to kill Elh. However, Red manage to break his control over him.
Barion then appears as an Hologram inside Lemures.
Since afterwards, Baion enters inside Tartaros. As Red made his way inside, he shows him all holographics of how the world was and mocks Humanity and the entire world, including Red, as being failures to his eyes. The final showdown then began. He attack with the core of the Juno, which has godly-jelly-like features, but Red managed to get inside Tartatus Core. Baion then tried to kill him with his own robot, but Red manage to defeat him, despite having the Dahak reverted to his original appearance.
After being defeated, Baion still stated that the people of the world could destroy it one day. But Red managed to convince him otherwise. Baion then admits he has lost, and open the acces to Tartaros's true core, allowing Red to successfully enters RE-CODA.
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With the upcoming unveiling of the Charlotte Hornets uniforms in June I have found myself not being able to sleep at night with dreams of what the new uniforms could look like. Very recently a commenter on here who's name I am afraid alludes me right now spoke about rumors that the new uniforms away jerseys were going to be purple instead of teal.
Me being a hug fan of the teal and how unique it is to the Hornets as a sports franchise, I was disappointed to hear this news. At the same time I had a feeling this would happen. I think that the Bobcats management has been very skeptical of using teal as a main color in the new Hornets color pallet. Based off of early promotional "Buzz City" signs and shirts that included the colors purple and what seemed to be a very light blue. I was shocked but excited when news came out that teal would be one of the main colors.
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