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The Plans for Steve Jobs' New House
You knew Steve Jobs was tearing down his old mansion. You didn't know what he was building in its place. Until now.
After nearly a six years of detailed cost comparisons, environmental impact surveys, court appeals, and unrelenting legal kung fu with state and local preservationists, it appears the 1920s Woodside mansion Jobs bought in 1984 will finally have its date with the bulldozers.
In its place, the Apple CEO plans to erect a brand new $8.45 million single family home. And what might a man who's described design as "the fundamental soul of a human-made creation" do when given the chance to build a new residence? Exactly what you'd expect…and also kind of not.
But first, some history. The house that currently occupies Steve's lot, the (now dilapidated) Spanish Colonial Revival home designed for copper baron Daniel Jackling, contains 30 rooms, 14 bedrooms and 13 1/2 bathrooms. Jobs initially purchased the mansion back in 1984, lived in it for about 10 years, and then intermittently rented it out. It's been vacant for almost a decade. Back in 2004, the Woodside Town Council first approved Jobs' application for a demolition permit, but agreed with the preservationist group Save Our Heritage that the building was a historic resource. What's followed has been a fierce legal battle between an unsentimental future-oriented tech CEO and a group focused only on the past. It hasn't been pretty.
As for Jobs' new home? It couldn't be more different than the Jackling estate. Measuring in at about one third the size (4,910 square feet) of the existing main property, Jobs' future residence is the ne plus ultra of utilitarian modesty—even when you remove the billionaire standards.
If anything, the conceptual plans submitted to the Woodside Town Council depict more of a small, private retreat than any towering glass-and-steel tech chapel or totem of wealth. According to these initial designs, Jobs intends to populate the 6 acres with an assortment of indigenous flora; a simple three-car garage; a modest 5 bedroom home with plenty of windows and decks; a network of lighted stone walkways; and even a private vegetable garden. Everything is neat, tight, pragmatic, and in its place.


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Last Friday, Wal Mart Inc in an attempt to fend off crtics of its policies took the desperate step of having a summit about itself and, most dangerously, asking economists what they thought.
Here's the summary:
The company has even asked the consulting firm of Global Insight Inc. to commission academic studies of its economic impact, several of which were presented last week at an open forum in Washington. They showed that in areas where its stores are located, Wal-Mart has lowered wages, cut food costs and increased Medicaid spending but lowered spending on other kinds of public assistance.
No company enjoys this kind of scrutiny and attention. But with its same-store sales rising only 3 percent, its stock price languishing and even once-loyal customers beginning to turn away because of all the bad publicity, Wal-Mart probably has no choice but to deal with it.
Another economist unquoted here (of course – it's the Washington Post after all) presented statistics that Wal Mart also saves the average family over $2,000 per year if that helps round out the picture.
No mention of the economic effect Sam Walton had in turning relatively low wage workers into millionaires through the profit sharing plan in effect while he was alive.
My questions are this… by saying Wal Mart is responsible for rising Medicaid expenditures are we saying that people leave jobs with health insurance to work at Wal Mart for close to minimum wage with no insurance? That's unbelievable. How many people do you know who went from a job with insurance to a job without insurance because they loved Wal Mart? It's hard to believe how this "fact" was discovered and if there's any real connection to Wal Mart.
It's good to recall that the position of economist is the only profession in which one never has to make a correct prediction and still remain employed.
But for those who feared Wal Mart might take over the world as we know it, perhaps the danger is averted.
Wal Mart has swallowed the poison pill of sticking its corporate finger in the air to see which way the wind is blowing.
Sam Walton would have just addressed the situation honestly in a series of TV commercials and people would have believed him.

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18-Month-Old Girl Turns Up On No-Fly List
JetBlue Airways apologized after removing a passenger from her flight because she was on a no-fly list. The passenger looks innocent enough — maybe because she's 18 months old. Her mother told WPBF-TV in Florida that the idea her daughter is a threat was "absurd" and "made no sense."
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Good morning. I'm David Greene. JetBlue Airways apologized yesterday after removing a passenger from her flight, saying she was on a no-fly list. The passenger looks innocent enough. She's 18 months old. Her name is Riyanna. Riyanna's mom told WPBF-TV in Florida that the idea her daughter's a threat was absurd and made no sense. The family was so embarrassed, they decided to skip their flight from Fort Lauderdale to Newark. The airline is blaming a computer glitch. You're listening to MORNING EDITION.
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Booze is at Defcon 1. Repeat: BOOZE IS AT DEFCON 1.
After drinking down our whiskey supply last week to the unspeakable amount of none, on Friday night the PhoBlograpHusband and I (were we drugged? hallucinating?) offered to supply the hard liquor at a friend's get-together in her nearby Plateau apartment. Sean put together an impressive travel bar backpack full of drinkies-poo: gin, both vermouths, Campari and I think dark rum and bitters. This was not the most experienced cocktailing crowd, which was more than fine, because all we had to do was mix up a nice round of Negronis and we were regarded as freaking geniuses.
Also dry geniuses: Four weeks to go 'til the end of Sean's semester, and what remains of the home stock is… vodka. And I think Calvados. And like two bottles of ouzo. So when Sean mentioned that he came across this Absolut Maple Sour recipe from a Google ad or spam mail (if I were in his shoes, I wouldn't fully cop to it either), what else was a girl to make? Times is tough, and recessions ain't just for breakfast anymore.


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EU-Project Safety in Sports
Gemeinsam mit Partnern aus Europa haben wir "General Guidelines for Sports Injury Prevention" entwickelt.
A majority of European citizens regularly participates in physical activities, as a member of a sports organisation or on an individual basis.
There are many reasons for sports to be popular: We all need regular physical activity in order to feel well and to prevent chronic illnesses. Sport has both a strong educational dimension and a sociocultural function.
But certainly sport also holds a risk of injury. About one in five medically treated injuries is related to sporting activities. For the EU-27 region, the number of sports related injuries treated in hospitals can be estimated at 5.2 million cases a year.
Fortunately, there are many possibilities that have already shown to support sports injury prevention:
- sport specific training and advanced athletic preparation
- promotion of protective equipment and safe facilities
- political and technical approaches
- medical and non-medical support
- coaches' education In the light of the global dimension of sporting activities it is important to share best practices and to assist European and national organisations in promoting sports injury prevention.
Less injuries – better performance
The project "Safety in Sports" was co-financed by the European Commission (Grant Agreement 2007329) and aimed at the following goals:
- increasing the awareness of sports injuries and creating a positive image of injury prevention
- reducing the magnitude and severity of sports related injuries in Europe as an ultimate goal.
Each sport has its specific character and related injury risks. Therefore preventive training methods have to be tailored to the specific type of sport and integrated within currently accepted training practices. Experience also shows that compliance can be enhanced if athletes and coaches also recognise the performance enhancing character of the measures.
Project activities
The project wanted to establish a sustainable European network of experts from science, sports clubs and sports associations as well as from other institutions that have a keen interest in preventing sports injuries. On the long run these experts will work together to identify, evaluate and widely disseminate best practices in implementing safety promotion strategies for individual and team sports.
For the mid-term, the project focused on the two chosen pilot sports handball and basketball which enjoy great, European-wide popularity. In close collaboration with the EHF (European Handball Federation) and FIBA Europe (Fédération Internationale de Basketball), national sports associations and a network of experts, the project team worked on:
- an up-to-date inventory on the burden of sports injuries.
- identification of existing injury prevention measures and safety promotion strategies in sports, especially in handball and basketball.
- consensus building on best practices in sports injury prevention and implementation strategies for handball and basketball.
- developing toolkits containing the most promising preventive measures and promotion strategies, always regarding the special demands of the collaborating sports federations, stakeholders and target groups in handball and basketball.
- pilot implementation of these toolkits for handball and basketball as pilots in two national associations, respectively.
- elaboration of general guidelines on how to develop, implement and sustain safety management schemes in basketball and handball as well as in other team sports.
Target groups
The project results are of interest for:
- sportsmen and -women
- experts (coaches, sports scientists, physiotherapists, sports medicine specialists etc.)
- representatives of sports associations (at European, national and local level) and other institutions (e.g. insurances, sports policy)
- policy makers working in national and local government with a keen interest in promoting safe sporting
Project deliverables
- Project flyer
- Burden of sports injuries (report)
- Safety in Sport: why it is time to act (factsheet)
- General Guidelines for the Development and Implementation of Safety Management Schemes (report)
- Promoting Safety in Sport: how to put actions in place (factsheet)
- Inventory on the burden of Handball injuries, existing prevention measures and safety promotion strategies (report)
- Acute injuries in Handball (poster)
- Best injuriy prevention measures and implementation strategies in Handball and Basketball (report)
- Safety management schemes in Handball –implementation and testing (report)
- Preventing injuries in Handball (factsheet)
- Injury prevention in Handball (poster)
- Inventory on the burden of Basketball injuries, existing prevention measures and safety promotion strategies (report)
- Best injuriy prevention measures and implementation strategies in Handball and Basketball (report)
- Safety management schemes in Basketball –implementation and testing (report)
- Preventing injuries in Basketball (factsheet)
- Injury prevention in Basketball (poster)


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Serum IgA anti-gliadin antibodies in an adult population sample
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IgA-class anti-gliadin antibodies (AGA) and IgA-, IgG-, IgM-class anti-reticulin antibodies (ARA) were determined in 1461 persons, representing 84% of a population from the village of Karksi-Nuia. AGA were detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and ARA by indirect immunofluorescence. Fifty-two (3.5%) persons had IgA-class AGA, of whom 48 and an additional three of four persons with diarrhea were biopsied. All biopsies showed normal small intestinal mucosal architecture. All 1461 persons were negative for ARA. Our results demonstrate that AGA are frequently detected in an adult Estonian population and positivity increases with age in persons with normal small intestinal mucosa. Positivity for AGA does not predict silent undetected celiac disease but rather represents a normal response to dietary antigens in the elderly. Inability to detect ARA suggests that celiac disease does not exist in this population. As none of the AGA-positive but ARA-negative biopsied persons had celiac disease, ARA might be a more specific serologic marker for celiac disease than AGA.
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- Volta U, Molinaro N, Fusconi M, Cassani F, Bianchi FB: IgA antiendomysial antibody test. A step forward in celiac disease screening. Dig Dis Sci 36:752–756, 1991
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- Serum IgA anti-gliadin antibodies in an adult population sample
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- 1993-11-01
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- 0163-2116
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- 1573-2568
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- Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
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- IgA anti-gliadin antibodies
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- T. Jõgi BM (1) (2) (3) (4)
- M. Mäki MD (1) (2) (3) (4)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Pediatrics, University of Tartu, Veski 34, EE2400, Tartu, Estonia
- 2. Institute of General and Molecular Pathology, University of Tartu, Veski 34, EE2400, Tartu, Estonia
- 3. Labmaster Ltd., Turku, Finland
- 4. Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland


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I was treated like royalty upon arrival. |
It's not as bad as it sounds, people. It
was really fun seeing where our CHAIR John Funkhouser goes to work every day. I
traveled with Nikki, our new Communications Director, to Danville and JohnsonPohlmann Insurance. I got to shake hooves with John… or as I like to say
"Funk", Ray Whitehouse and Scott Burks.
sat down with Funk and asked him a bunch of questions about his time as our
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Check out the fun we had and there is a fun QUIZ at the end.
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The Gang NERF ready. |
Patricia Lucas and me. |
Megan Allen and me. |
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And Now… A Sneak Peek at ABC's FOREVER
By Alicia Lutes on July 21, 2014
Ever wonder what would happen if they crossed Sherlock Holmes with Ichabod Crane from FOX's Sleepy Hollow? Well, ABC has the answer and his name is Dr. Henry Morgan, the illustrious medical examiner in New York City. Played by the typically very Welsh Ioan Gruffudd, the man at the center of Forever has a secret: he's been alive for over 200 years and he has absolutely no idea why. Guess being able to study the dead is a pretty convenient job to have then, eh?
That's the premise of the series set to premiere this fall and below we've got your first preview of the whole shebang — an interesting choice of words you might say, considering the whole thing is just a sweeping look at Gruffudd's naked body. Although we are also extremely curious about that water. Also: does he sleep at the morgue? We totally believe him when he says it's a long story. It would have to be to explain all of that.
With the help of his best friend Abe (Judd Hirsch) and his Detective partner Jo Martinez (Alana De La Garza), the trio help Morgan on his quest to figure out just why and how he's still alive. Is he one of a kind? Are there others out there like him? And could the whole thing possibly, one day, just stop? Will Jo ever figure out his secret? Will there be enough flashbacks of Morgan's recent and long-forgotten past, complete with silly period-appropriate outfits? Fingers crossed.
What would you do if you woke up one day to find you were immortal? Let us know in the comments.
Makes me want to watch Highlander again… but then, most things make me want to watch Highlander again…
Gruffudd is an actor who has never, for me, really looked comfortable, (in fairness discomfort was a big part of Hornblower, he was supposed to be out of his depth, and his Reed Richards was, in my opinion, poorly written as a nerdy bumbly fool, hence more discomfort), hopefully being 200 years old will give the character a bit more of a grounding so he can cut loose a bit.
I suppose Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is too busy to restart "New Amsterdam", huh?
any connection to the novel by the same name by Peter Hamil with a similar premise?-
Fox already ran New Amsterdam as a show. It was really good but only lasted one season. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam_(TV_series)
Perhaps he and Captain Jack Harkness should get together and research this immortality issue!
captain jack is not immortal he dies in Gridlock (as the face of boe)
and how old was he when that happened? far more than "over 200."
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This is turning out to be a really good show and is about to really ramp it up, if all the spoilers I am reading are right. Check it out AND listen to the Forever Fan Podcast so we can Share Forever Together!


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Go to Chapter 11 - Bagels | Go to Chapter 13 - Sonar Treasure Hunt |
This chapter does not introduce a new game, but instead goes over some simple mathematical concepts that we will use in the rest of the games in this book.
When you look at 2D games (such as Tetris or old Super Nintendo or Sega Genesis games) you can see that most of the graphics on the screen can move left or right (the first dimension) and up or down (the second dimension, hence 2D). In order for us to create games that have objects moving around two dimensions (such as the two dimensional computer screen), we need a system that can translate a place on the screen to integers that our program can deal with.
This is where Cartesian coordinate systems come in. The coordinates can point to a very specific point on the screen so that our program can keep track of different areas on the screen.
Negative numbers are often used with Cartesian coordinate systems as well. The second half of this chapter will explain how we can do math with negative numbers.
You may already know about Cartesian coordinate systems and negative numbers from math class. In that case, you can just give this chapter a quick read anyway to refresh yourself.
Figure 12-1: A sample chessboard with a
black knight at a, 4 and a white knight at e, 6.
A problem in many games is how to talk about exact points on the board. A common way of solving this is by marking each individual row and column on a board with a letter and a number. Figure 12-1 is a chess board that has each row and each column marked.
In chess, the knight piece looks like a horse head. The white knight is located at the point e, 6 and the black knight is located at point a, 4. We can also see that every space on row 7 and every space in column c is empty.
A grid with labeled rows and columns like the chess board is a Cartesian coordinate system. By using a row label and column label, we can give a coordinate that is for one and only one space on the board. This can really help us describe to a computer the exact location we want. If you have learned about Cartesian coordinate systems in math class, you may know that usually we have numbers for both the rows and columns. This is handy, because otherwise after the 26th column we would run out of letters. That board would look like Figure 12-2.
Figure 12-2: The same chessboard but with
numeric coordinates for both rows and columns.
The numbers going left and right that describe the columns are part of the X-axis. The numbers going up and down that describe the rows are part of the Y-axis. When we describe coordinates, we always say the X-coordinate first, followed by the Y-coordinate. That means the white knight in the above picture is located at the coordinate 5, 6 (and not 6, 5). The black knight is located at the coordinate 1, 4 (not to be confused with 4, 1).
Notice that for the black knight to move to the white knight's position, the black knight must move up two spaces, and then to the right by four spaces. (Or move right four spaces and then move up two spaces.) But we don't need to look at the board to figure this out. If we know the white knight is located at 5, 6 and the black knight is located at 1, 4, then we can just use subtraction to figure out this information.
Subtract the black knight's X-coordinate and white knight's X-coordinate: 5 - 1 = 4. That means the black knight has to move along the X-axis by four spaces.
Subtract the black knight's Y-coordinate and white knight's Y-coordinate: 6 - 4 = 2. That means the black knight has to move along the Y-axis by two spaces.
Another concept that Cartesian coordinates use is negative numbers. Negative numbers are numbers that are smaller than zero. We put a minus sign in front of a number to show that it is a negative number. -1 is smaller than 0. And -2 is smaller than -1. And -3 is smaller than -2. If you think of regular numbers (called positive numbers) as starting from 1 and increasing, you can think of negative numbers as starting from -1 and decreasing. 0 itself is not positive or negative. In this picture, you can see the positive numbers increasing to the right and the negative numbers decreasing to the left:
Figure 12-3: A number line.
Figure 12-3: A number line.
The number line is really useful for doing subtraction and addition with negative numbers. The expression 4 + 3 can be thought of as the white knight starting at position 4 and moving 3 spaces over to the right (addition means increasing, which is in the right direction).
Figure 12-4: Moving the white knight to the right adds to the coordinate.
Figure 12-4: Moving the white knight to the right adds to the coordinate.
As you can see, the white knight ends up at position 7. This makes sense, because 4 + 3 is 7.
Subtraction can be done by moving the white knight to the left. Subtraction means decreasing, which is in the left direction. 4 - 6 would be the white knight starting at position 4 and moving 6 spaces to the left, like in Figure 12-5:
Figure 12-5: Moving the white knight to the left subtracts from the coordinate.
Figure 12-5: Moving the white knight to the left subtracts from the coordinate.
The white knight ends up at position -2. That means 4 - 6 equals -2.
If we add or subtract a negative number, the white knight would move in the opposite direction. If you add a negative number, the knight moves to the left. If you subtract a negative number, the knight moves to the right. The expression -6 - -4 would be equal to -2. The knight starts at -6 and moves to the right by 4 spaces. Notice that -6 - -4 has the same answer as -6 + 4.
Figure 12-6: Even if the white knight starts at a negative coordinate, moving right still adds to the coordinate.
Figure 12-6: Even if the white knight starts at a negative coordinate, moving right still adds to the coordinate.
Figure 12-7: Putting two number lines together creates a Cartesian coordinate system.
The number line is the same as the X-axis. If we made the number line go up and down instead of left and right, it would model the Y-axis. Adding a positive number (or subtracting a negative number) would move the knight up the number line, and subtracting a positive number (or adding a negative number) would move the knight down. When we put these two number lines together, we have a Cartesian coordinate system like in Figure 12-7. The 0, 0 coordinate has a special name: the origin.
Subtracting negative numbers or adding negative numbers seems easy when you have a number line in front of you, but it can be easy when you only have the numbers too. Here are three tricks you can do to make evaluating these expressions by yourself easier to do.
The first is if you are adding a negative number, for example; 4 + -2. The first trick is "a minus eats the plus sign on its left". When you see a minus sign with a plus sign on the left, you can replace the plus sign with a minus sign. The answer is still the same, because adding a negative value is the same as subtracting a positive value. 4 + -2 and 4 - 2 both evaluate to 2.
Figure 12-8: Trick 1 - Adding a positive and negative number.
The second trick is if you are subtracting a negative number, for example, 4 - -2. The second trick is "two minuses combine into a plus". When you see the two minus signs next to each other without a number in between them, they can combine into a plus sign. The answer is still the same, because subtracting a negative value is the same as adding a positive value.
Figure 12-9: Trick 2 - Subtracting a positive and negative number.
A third trick is to remember that when you add two numbers like 6 and 4, it doesn't matter what order they are in. (This is called the commutative property of addition.) That means that 6 + 4 and 4 + 6 both equal the same value, 10. If you count the boxes in the figure below, you can see that it doesn't matter what order you have the numbers for addition.
Figure 12-10: Trick 3 - The commutative property of addition.
Say you are adding a negative number and a positive number, like -6 + 8. Because you are adding numbers, you can swap the order of the numbers without changing the answer. -6 + 8 is the same as 8 + -6. But when you look at 8 + -6, you see that the minus sign can eat the plus sign to its left, and the problem becomes 8 - 6 = 2. But this means that -6 + 8 is also 2! We've rearranged the problem to have the same answer, but made it easier for us to solve without using a calculator or the computer.
Figure 12-11: Using our math tricks together.
Of course, you can always use the interactive shell as a calculator to evaluate these expressions. It is still very useful to know the above three tricks when adding or subtracting negative numbers. After all, you won't always be in front of a computer with Python all the time!
The absolute value of a number is the number without the negative sign in front of it. This means that positive numbers do not change, but negative numbers become positive. For example, the absolute value of -4 is 4. The absolute value of -7 is 7. The absolute value of 5 (which is positive) is just 5.
We can find how far away two things on a number line are from each other by taking the absolute value of their difference. Imagine that the white knight is at position 4 and the black knight is at position -2. To find out the distance between them, you would find the difference by subtracting their positions and taking the absolute value of that number.
It works no matter what the order of the numbers is. -2 - 4 (that is, negative two minus four) is -6, and the absolute value of -6 is 6. However, 4 - -2 (that is, four minus negative two) is 6, and the absolute value of 6 is 6. Using the absolute value of the difference is a good way of finding the distance between two points on a number line (or axis).
The abs() function can be used to return the absolute value of an integer. The abs() function is a built-in function, so you do not need to import any modules to use it. Pass it an integer or float value and it will return the absolute value:
Figure 12-12: The Cartesian coordinate system on a computer monitor.
It is common that computer monitors use a coordinate system that has the origin (0, 0) at the top left corner of the screen, which increases going down and to the right. There are no negative coordinates. This is because text is printed starting at the top left, and is printed going to the right and downwards. Most computer graphics use this coordinate system, and we will use it in our games. Also it is common to assume that monitors can display 80 text characters per row and 25 text characters per column (look at Figure 12-12). This used to be the maximum screen size that monitors could support. While today's monitors can usually display much more text, we will not assume that the user's screen is bigger than 80 by 25.
This hasn't been too much math to learn for programming. In fact, most programming does not require understanding a lot of math. Up until this chapter, we have been getting by on simple addition and multiplication.
Cartesian coordinate systems are needed to describe exactly where in a two dimensional area a certain position is. Coordinates are made up of two numbers: the X-coordinate and the Y-coordinate. The X-axis runs left and right and the Y-axis runs up and down. On a computer screen (and in most computer programming), the X-axis starts at 0 at the left side and increases on the way to the right. The Y-axis starts at 0 on the top of the screen and increases on the way down.
The three tricks we learned in this chapter make it very easy to add positive and negative integers. The first trick is that a minus sign will eat the plus sign on its left. The second trick is that two minuses next to each other will combine into a plus sign. And the third trick is that you can swap the position of the numbers you are adding. This is called the commutative property of addition.
For the rest of the book, we will use the concepts we learned in this chapter in our games because they have two dimensional areas in them. All graphical games require understanding how Cartesian coordinates work.
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Power Integrations has published the DER-287 reference design for a 25W LED T8 tube ballast power supply designed to reach 91 per cent efficiency and to be used in commercial and industrial lighting.
The DER-287 is a single-stage converter built around LNK409EG, from the Linkswitch-PH family of LED driver ICs, and meets commercial requirements for power factor (PF greater than 0.9) and harmonic distortion (EN61000-3-2 Class C).
According to Power Integrations, single-stage technology increases product lifetime by eliminating the opto-isolators and large aluminium electrolytic input bulk capacitors required by conventional two-stage solutions.
The single-stage IC DER-287 has a monolithic design that combines controller, driver, switching MOSFETs and protection features into a single package, meaning that implementation requires very few external components — which is beneficial to compact T8 tube enclosures.
The Linkswitch-PH video, data sheet, application notes, and other design examples are available on the company's website.
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Diet 101: Wheat Belly Diet
by Toby Amidor in Diets & Weight Loss, October 26, 2012
Here''s a look at the newest diet being promoted on the "popular diet book" table in book stores around the country. But is eliminating any and all wheat the healthiest way to lose weight?
If you're walking around with a gut—it's no longer called a "beer belly" but rather a "wheat belly"—or so says William Davis, MD, the creator of this diet. He claims that whole-wheat grain has become unhealthy due to over-breeding and modification over time. In addition, wheat and processed foods made with wheat are like opiate drugs and eating bread is just like taking crack. The theory is that wheat promotes high blood sugar which though a series of reactions, causes the body to accumulate more visceral fat.
The Plan
Wheat isn't the only bad boy in this diet. Many other foods are either eliminated or eaten in limited quantities such as fruit, starchy veggies, whole grains, legumes, dried fruit, corn starch and corn meal. Three meals a day are encouraged without any snacks.
So what can you eat? Here's the basic list:
In unlimited quantities:
- Veggies (except potatoes and corn)
- Raw nuts and seeds
- Oils
- Meats and eggs
- Cheese
- Non-sugary condiments (like mustard and salsa)
- Ground flaxseed
- Avocados, olives, coconut
- Spices
- Unsweetened cocoa
In limited quantities:
- Dairy (except cheese)
- Fruit
- Whole corn (like on the cob)
- Fruit juice
- Non-wheat, non-gluten grains (like quinoa, amaranth, and rice)
- Beans, peas, and lentils
- Soy products (fermented soy products preferred)
Unlike other diet plans, there is basically one phase: toss out all your wheat foods and go cold turkey. Once you go wheat free, the author claims that the pounds will come right off and you'll immediately feel better. Fasting, defined as drinking water only, is highly recommended for several days or even weeks at a time.
The Costs
The website (with its grotesque weight loss transformation of bikini-clad women) is free and has a recipe library, success stories, blog, and links to the Wheat Belly book, which sells for about $26.00. Other costs associated with the diet include the money lost when you toss all your wheat products and the notion of completely eliminating any sweets or processed goods FOREVER. There is no going back or reintroducing these banned foods into your diet.
The Good
- Whole foods are recommended on this plan including nuts and vegetables.
- No calorie counting necessary.
- Frying and fried foods are discouraged.
- The notion that processed foods like cookies, cakes, and other such processed foods are overly consumed and contribute many unnecessary calories in our diet.
The Not-So-Good
- Many statements made by the author can be refuted or are controversial as seen in this in-depth analysis written by Dr. Julie Jones.
- Many healthy foods are eliminated or significantly decreased including whole grains, fruits, and legumes (beans, peas and lentils). Many nutrients and variety is also limited or eliminated from the diet.
- It is virtually impossible to follow this plan while traveling or dining out.
- Going cold turkey isn't an effective way to teach someone good habits. Many folks will stop this diet just as quickly as they started it.
- Fasting for prolonged periods of time is unhealthy and unsafe.
The Bottom Line:
Although the creator of this plan is very motivating and convincing, this diet is just plain unrealistic and unhealthy. Every food (even wheat) can have a place in your healthy eating plan.
TELL US: Have you tried the Wheat Belly Diet?
Toby Amidor, MS, RD, CDN, is a registered dietitian , consultant and owner of Toby Amidor Nutrition, Inc., who specializes in food safety and culinary nutrition. See Toby's full bio »
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The shooting occurred around 10 a.m. Friday morning at the Ventura County Sheriff's Department shooting range in Camarillo. According to sheriffs, the agent was putting his gun back in its holster when it accidentally fired. He was transported to a local hospital with a non-life threatening injury to his hip.
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Reviews To Do
- Posted by Johanna on June 22, 2006 at 7:39 am
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Wonder why I always feel guilty about how many good books there are out there to talk about that I haven't had a chance to cover yet? Here's my To Do lists:
- Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy & Goth Girl novel
- Path of the Bold/Just story collections
- Go Comi manga titles
- Pinned!
- Clumsy
- Kings in Disguise
- First Second titles
- Girl Genius
- Sketch
- Cobbler's Monster preview
- Fragile Prophet
- Suburban Folklore
- Art Out of Time
- American Way
- American Virgin
- Dorothy
- Demi the Demoness
- Wonderland
- Wonder Woman 1
- Alice in New York
- Madeleine Smith
- X-Isle
- Mail Order Ninja
- Tough Love
Graphic Novels
- Age of Bronze
- Age of Bronze: Sacrifice
- Akiko
- Beanworld
- Billi 99
- Blankets
- Buck Godot
- Complete Peanuts
- Copybook Tales
- Daydream Lullabies
- Demo
- A Distant Soil
- Dork
- Dork Tower
- Dykes to Watch Out For
- Eyebeam
- From Hell
- Finder
- Gemma Bovery
- Hicksville
- Howard the Duck
- It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken
- Kane
- Locas
- Maus
- Odds Off
- Pulpatoon Pilgrimage
- Rabbi's Cat
- Safe Area Gorazde
- Scrooge McDuck
- Scott Pilgrim 3
- Shades of Gray
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- Strugglers
- Understanding Comics
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- Hana-Kimi 12
Please note, that's not all of them, because there are three stacks I haven't yet moved into the office. Ah, for two weeks with nothing to do but read comics…
Which are you most interested in hearing more about?
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- Katherine F. Says:
June 22, 2006 at 11:07 AMI'd love to hear about Rabbi's Cat and Safe Area Gorazde.
For your own enjoyment, I would recommend Gemma Bovery, and note that it has an unusal history, having been first serialised in the Guardian (at the rate of one or two pages a week) before being collected. Posy Simmonds' current work, Tamara Drewe, is also being serialised in the Guardian. This strikes me as an interesting potential future path of development for graphic fiction. The Guardian has also published short graphic stories by Joe Sacco.
- Guy LeCharles Gonzalez Says:
June 22, 2006 at 11:31 AMI'm looking forward to your opinions on these: First Second titles (specifically Deogratias and Lost Colony), American Way, and Demo.
- patrick maliksi Says:
June 22, 2006 at 11:44 AMi like to read about CASTLE WAITING, WONDERLAND and X-ISLE….
- David Oakes Says:
June 22, 2006 at 12:05 PMI seriously want to hear your opinions on "Demi" and "Godot".
I want to hear about "X-Isle" and AAoFB&GG just because I am too lazy to hunt them down for myself.
- Lyle Says:
June 22, 2006 at 12:14 PMI'm curious about your reaction to Wonderland and Dorothy, since those are high on my own to do list, as well as Dramacon since it's been on my to read list for some time.
- Kneon Transitt Says:
June 22, 2006 at 2:55 PMJamie Cosley's "More Than Sparrows" from Blindwolf Studios is a *must read*.
I blogged about it here:
http://kneontransitt.blogspot.com/2006/06/more-than-sparrows-more-than-funny.html - Craig Says:
June 22, 2006 at 3:17 PMI'd love to read your thoughts on Wonder Woman, Billi 99 (an old favourite) and Castle Waiting.
- Aro Says:
June 22, 2006 at 5:08 PMThat's quite the list! I imagine it must a little frustrating since I'm sure it grows faster than it shrinks, but on the other hand, you'll always have something to write about.
I'd particuarly like to know your thoughts on Scrooge McDuck, which is an old favorite of mine since I was a kid. - James Schee Says:
June 22, 2006 at 6:50 PMHmm, some of these I've read your thoughts on before and know it is just a matter of you updating and bringing those over to here.
Of those that I don't think you've covered before, I'd most like to see your thoughts on:
American Virgin – The premise of this series sounds interesting, and I'm guessing they must be close to a collection. So a review would be timely to know if I want to read it.
Monster – I had a weird reaction to these two volumes, and I'm curious to see how you do with them.
(a manga you don't list, but I know you have to cover that I want to see you do so is Death Note too)
I'd be curious to see your thoughts on
Wonder Woman #1 – Heinberg really handled female characters well on Young Avengers, so this has me curious. (if good, it'll hopefully last past the so far planned 6 issue run)
Nana #3 – I just wonder if this volume focuses more on the cool, rocking Nana, than the wishy washy wimpy one.
- Johanna Says:
June 22, 2006 at 8:29 PMThanks, everyone, for your input! I'm reworking the lists to take your comments into consideration.
Katherine, I'd read that about the serialization, and I wish more of Posy Simmonds' work was available over here.
David, I'm glad I have a Find feature — for a second, I was wondering why you thought I was planning to read Waiting for Godot. (Wouldn't that make for one boring comic?)
Kneon, given the length of that list, you think I'm looking to ADD to it? Sheesh!
Craig, I'm so happy someone else has heard of Billi 99! It was a very nice surprise to come across it.
Aro, yeah, I try to look on the bright side, although I hate disappointing people who do good work that I don't talk about.
James, glad to see someone interested in the manga!
- John Says:
June 22, 2006 at 10:11 PMRegarding serializations in newspapers, Art Spiegelmans, "In the Shadow of No Towers" was serialized in the German newspaper, Die Zeit, and excerpts appeared in The Independent, and The Forward.
Neither Safe Area Gorazde or Maus are light reading, but it's possible they might make an interesting comparison. (I don't know for sure, as I haven't read the former yet. I have read Sacco's Palestine, though.)
- Sean G Says:
June 22, 2006 at 10:13 PMI do highly recommend Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga, which I think is hysterical, and I do wonder what your thoughts are…
- James Schee Says:
June 22, 2006 at 11:16 PMJohanna, I have to sort of wonder if part of the lack of "read the manga first!" commentary is because you listed mostly volumes of series that you've covered previously.
While one like Skip Beat! I have never even heard of.
I know that second part is why I didn't list many of the GNs and submissions. Because those I'd heard of you'd covered before, and was usually how I heard of them. Or were thing I have no idea what they even are so I wouldn't know whether to say "yes cover them!' or not.
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June 23, 2006 at 1:06 PMBy the way, I'd second the request for Death Note, which I believed you mentioned was on your 'to read' list earlier.
Having just remembered what Skip Beat! is (due to grabbing the wrong issue of Shojo Beat on my way to the doctors' office yesterday and getting to reread the preview) I'd be curious to hear more about that one. My reaction to the preview was that it looks cute, but not compelling enough to add to my crowded reading list.


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WSCF is an autonomous local fellowship, but part of (and accountable to) the larger church in Wellington.
We believe in plural leadership and the fellowship is served by elders and deacons and others who, from time to time, take on various responsibilities and lead programmes to serve the body of Christ.
We encourage variety and freedom in our expression of praise and worship by welcoming the power and presence of the Holy Spirit. Several worship leaders and musicians take turns in leading the worship.
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after cleaning i spray them with brake clean or gum cutter to remove any of the parts cleaner before packing them
In a Detroit Allison class that I was in, some time ago, they advised us NOT to use compressed air to blow the bearings off. They just told us to clean the grease off, inspect and repack. I, too, think it's a time thing now.
How can you give it a good inspection for wear as stated earlier Jester |
If there is any "fun" in repacking bearings, it's in the cleaning and blowing them dry. No, I have never "wound them right up to warp factor 7" ... always have used a bit of drag to keep the speed down. Right or wrong, it's never caused any trouble, and bearings were always replaced if there were ANY visible defects in either the cone or the cup. For that matter, then ... IF my car was in a shop, and if economics only allow time for a "greasy inspection", I'd just instruct them to replace them all. The world has gotten WAY carried away with "numbers", "productivity", and "efficiency". |
todays flatrate shops pay the same time to do todays cars, that if you haven't noticed, don't have servicable bearing.. so the "tme alloted" isn't enough time to even open it up and clean or heaven forbid, turn the rotors .. and because you have a service writers that job is more cars in per hour, you CAN'T DO IT RIGHT do it correctly, you're replaced because your not producing pull short cuts 1 out of 100 might come back.. so like try'n to fight city hall, you do the job to produce and keep your job.. why you think rotors get replaced and not turned anymore..? time.. |
Most new rotors cost less than the labor to turn the old ones so why not replace it, no rocket science there.
um, nope, rotors are not cheaper.. when your a customer thats paying someone to do the brakes.. they pay list price+mark up.. |
Shop owners/dealerships/companies just want more more more. They don't want to pay their employees, they don't want to provide ANY benefits, but they want a specific volume of business done everyday. Too many shops today cut corners and outright CHEAT the customers. They sell work that is not necessary, and I even know about some local shops around here that remove a part, clean it, paint it black with a spray can, put it back on, and charge the customer for a new one. It's a greedy cutthroat business. It's become a thankless business. I was a professional mechanic for 25 years. I walked away from it because I can't accept what it has become. We are no longer rewarded for taking pride in our work. We are just constantly chastised because we cannot crank enough work out to meet the ridiculous goals of greedy a$$holes. A waiter in a crappy restaraunt gets a tip once in awhile from a customer. Nobody ever tips their mechanic. Engineers are designing junk, because they know they won't ever have to work on any of it. ( It's okay, the overworked underpaid mechanics can deal with it. ) |
crap nowadays
Expanding on 623 mantis' reply, I've noticed that cars are designed to be assembled, not repaired. I had to pull the entire sub-frame off a camry to change a clutch because some idiot didn't design an extra 2" clearance between the trans & body. My friends agree with me that engineers should be required to spend 3-5 years as mechanics first, then ,I bet, a lot of things would be better designed.
I was taught the same way.. I also pack them the old way too..By hand..
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It is really hard to find a NFP that are welling to help with my project locally. Ad to Artisans is not welling to help, because they do not deal with anything in Taiwan. For my NFP, I'm going to take on a different path. I interviewed, and will keep interview and meet with people who are working on similar projects and ask for their opinions and further critique my work.
Cynthia Lawson – She's currently working on the Guatemala Project with Pascale Gatzen. During the meeting, we not only learned about their project, but also got a lot of interesting ideas from the meeting. For their Guatemala Project, they took the path of learning from the Guatemalan and Guatemalan will learn from them. This up coming winter break, both Lawson and Gatzen will travel back to Guatemala to see how they are doing. This year's goal for Lawson and Gatzen are to build a market for them in the US. Their goal is to enter the luxury market in the US. How can you market an art and design in a high end? It is a question they are asking themselves as well. Can the people in Guatemala make their living out of craftsmanship? Will the working condition become factory like?
Sangay Choden – she's a master weaver from the village of Khoma in northeastern Bhutan. Currently she's woving a kira; woman's cloth, the dimension is seven feet by 4 feet. Woman wears it by "wound around the body, secured at the shoulders by silver clasps, and gathered in at the waist by a wide belt." Hand-woven fabrics are the pride of Bhutan. We will be interviewing Sangay Choden on Nov, 6th, 2008.
George Gaw – during the visit of Rubin Museum of Art, I met the RMA Guide, he's name is George Gaw. He introduced me to the traditional Tibetan tangka painter Pema Rinzin's half finished work. The traditional Tibetan begins with a sketch in pencil or charcoal, when it's finished the painter trace it with brush and ink. Than painter will grind up mineral pigments for blending the color. Each color is a hue, by blending the color, to create the depth of field. The color of gold in the painting will always be 24K gold, other wise it will be disrespectful for the god. I was really lucky to met George Gaw in RMA. George Gaw was a former professor in Art Center; when the Art Center Europe was created, he's one of the people to be in Art center Europe. He was several company's CEO.
Tribe Asia – created by Cheryl Robbins. Tribe Asia's mission is to bring together a large selection of ethnic and indigenous art works and handicrafts from the Taiwan's indigenous arts. Cheryl Robbins not only created Tribe Asia, he also written a lot of articles introducing different tribes. I've been contacting him for a while, Robbins' been really helpful on providing me with a lot of helpful information.
MACY's Rwanda trade – three years ago MACY's partnered with the local women from Rwanda to create a line for selling in MACY's. MACY's vision, this partnership is focused on trade instead of aid, the sale of these baskets puts real, sustainable income into the hands of the artisans who create them, changing their lives in remarkable ways. During the visit of MACY's I was trying to contact anyone who was working with the project. But I did not have any luck. I did talked to a cashier; Kay Henry, she told me that the sell of Rwanda lines sells really good, infact the day I was visit, one customer bought 100 pieces, and spent around 4500 dollars. Normally they sell 10 pieces per day, and each customer normally buy 2 to 3 baskets. Each baskets tells you who made it and what date they finished this piece.
Nidhi Srinivas – is Assistant Professor of Non-Profit Management at the Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy. He's doing a project in India. It will be really helpful to have a meeting with him face to face.
Charrette Proposal:
The Charrette for me will be held online through online chatting programs. Not a lot of programs in the US are dealing with the issues I wanted to touch on. I think it will be better for me to do a Charrette with the people from Tribe Asia online. Although, it might not be a normal Charrette, it will have a better result by doing a Charrette with people who knows the situations of the problem.


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SRT Tool version 1.3 (download link on the Download page) has drag and drop support, and new functions for easy left and right time shifting.
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SRT Tool 1.2
SRT Tool is upgraded to version 1.2. You can download it from the Programs page.
Synchronizing subtitles using the SRT Tool
My aim with SRT Tool is to make synchronization easy. Imagine a scenario where you have an Xvid movie that you want to view. The source might be an imported DVD or something, the point is that you don't have the subtitles for your particular language, so you download it in SRT format from the web. The usual way to connect a SRT file with an AVI file is to place the files in the same directory and to give the two files the same filename, making the file ending the only difference in the name. Now, when you start the movie (let's say in VLC) you notice that the subtitles are out of sync. This is how you fix that:
Start the movie. Make a note when the first line is being said. Hour, minute, second and millisecond. Also, write down when the last line is being said. Close your media player.
Start SRT Tool and open the SRT file.
The text file might begin or end with information about who wrote the subtitles or perhaps who ripped it. This has to be deleted, so that the first and the last item of the subtitle file is movie translation (of dialog or other). Let's say that you want to delete the last item. Do this by pressing End on your keyboard, followed by clicking Delete current in the Edit menu.
Click on the time stamp labeled "First in" to be able to edit it. Correct it with the time you wrote down. Click OK.
Do the same with time stamp labeled "Last in". Correct it and click OK.
Finally, click Save in the File menu to save your changes to the SRT file. Now, when you start the movie, the subtitles are displayed correctly in sync with the dialogs.
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11.16.2006—The North Carolina Technology Association is launching a new program targeting "underrepresented middle school students pursuing college majors and careers in astronomy, physics and related disciplines." The program—dubbed "ROBOTS" (Robotics: Opportunities for Building Outstanding Talent in the Sciences) is being launched in conjunction with the North Carolina Mathematics and the Science Education Network out of the University of North Carolina.
The aim of the pre-college program is to "enhance the learning of astronomy and physics" for middle school students and encourage them to pursue science, technology, engineering and math majors. Students selected for the program—some 210 sixth-graders in total—will work with a curriculum developed by scientists at Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI). In spring 2007, there will be seven classes covering radio astronomy and the controlling of a robotic telescope. In summer 2007, there will be 15 classes covering radio and optical astronomy. And in fall 2007, there will be seven classes in optical astronomy, with students exploring the Main Belt (the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter). Students will attend Saturday Academy Summer Scholars programs, for a total of 200 hours of "contact time" each year.
In total, the program will last two years (through 2008), with teachers selected from participating districts and trained by PARI. Selection of students and teachers involved in the project will be handled by the pre-college programs at each site. The ROBOTS project received a grant of $798,124 from the National Science Foundation (one of the eight grants funded out of 153 proposals submitted to NSF).
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David Maraniss, an associate editor of The Post, is the author of "First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton" and the forthcoming "Barack Obama: The Story." This is the fifth column in an occasional series on the 2012 presidential candidates' political lives.
Barack Obama's mother died on Nov. 7, 1995, a few weeks before her 53rd birthday. She was less than two years older than the president is now. Her death from uterine cancer came between two key events in her son's life. Four months earlier "Dreams From My Father" had been published; it seemed destined to drown unnoticed in the deep ocean of books. One year later Obama won his first election, to the Illinois state Senate, the initial stop on his swift journey to the White House that, along the way, brought a mass audience to that forgotten memoir, which in its best-selling revival defined his political image and provided him with lifelong financial security.
The title of the book was at once understandable and misleading. Obama barely knew his father except in dreams, or nightmares. He spent time with the old man only once, when he was 10, for an unsatisfying month. It is harsh to say but nonetheless likely that Barack Obama II was lucky never to have lived with Barack Obama Sr., an abusive alcoholic. By far the most influential figures in Obama's early life were his mother and grandmother. He has some of the demeanor of his grandmother and the will and much of the outlook of his mother. "Dreams From My Mother" better evokes his life's story.


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Judy Peters
All my life, if anyone asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, my answer was always the same: I wanted to be a mother. I was lucky to find my soul mate early in life. We married at 21, and although our first pregnancy wasn't planned, we were so excited to learn we were pregnant with our first daughter, Emma, when I was 25.
When Emma was about three years old, we thought it was about time to add to our family. We thought having another child would come easily to us. However, to our dismay it didn't. It took us over seven years to conceive our second child. My pregnancy was rough from the start. To our horror, my bag of waters broke when I was only 23 weeks along. I was rushed to the hospital, where we were told that our chances were slim to none of having our child survive even 24 hours. We were completely devastated. After a few days became a few weeks, our chances of having our baby greatly improved, and after being in the hospital for a month, our second child, our daughter, Angelina, was born at 28 weeks. Angelina weighed in at a little over a pound. She was absolutely beautiful. We lived the next entire month in the NICU, with hopes and reassurances from the Doctors each day that everything would be fine. Then one horrible night, our little princess left our lives. It was the worst time our family had ever known. For months, I can't tell you how empty my arms felt. Looking back now, I'm sure part of Angelina's purpose was to prepare us for our future. We knew that with her being so early and so small, our chances of having a perfect little "average" child were slim, but we didn't care. We would take Angelina anyway we could. We loved her and still do.
Never did I think that another pregnancy could be right around the corner. Almost four months after Angelina passed, I learned that I was pregnant once again. I told my daughter first, and as an early Father's Day gift, Emma told her Dad the good news. We were so happy. We were scared, but so happy.
This pregnancy went perfectly, but because I was 38 years old, my doctor recommended a test called a triple screen to help rule out some birth defects. The day of our ultra sound, the three of us went as a family to hear any news. Boy or Girl-we thought that was going to be our biggest question. We left the ultrasound being told that everything looked good, and a slip of paper was placed into Emma's hand from the nurse saying if she was going to have a little brother or sister. Later that night we went out for dinner, where Emma opened the paper to say it was a boy. We were to have a little boy in our family!
About two weeks later we came home to several messages from our doctor asking us to call him. We paged him and waited anxiously for any news. When he returned our call, we learned my blood work showed I had an increased risk for having a child with Down syndrome. They said our odds were about one in 33. Not that bad of odds, he assured us. We were stunned. Down syndrome...us...hadn't we used up all the bad luck in our lives after losing Angelina? We knew nothing about Down syndrome. Even though we were told that our odds of having an "average" child still looked very good, I think in my heart I always knew...although at that time I had hoped for the best. As we educated ourselves on Down syndrome, we learned of the many health issues that could come with this condition; this scared us. We had just spent a month in the NICU with our daughter before we lost her. The thought of going through that again was a lot to digest. From that day on, whenever I prayed to God about our child, I prayed only for health.
We knew we could have further testing to tell us if our child had Down syndrome, but we decided not to. Over the next few months we had many ultra sounds performed to look for any other markers or health issues. Everything always looked good. Maybe this little voice in the back of my head was wrong...maybe everything was going to be okay.
The day of our son's birth was so exciting. He was a planned C-section, and he was to come a month early due to some complications from my previous pregnancy. We knew with him coming early that we might have to spend time in the NICU, and that scared the heck out of us, but we were ready to meet our little guy.
My C-section went well, and into our world came our little boy, Matthew, all pink and beautiful. He weighed in at 6lbs 8oz - pretty big for being a month early. He was breathing great on his own. He was healthy, my husband said to me, with tears streaming down his face. As the doctors finished working on me, I noticed the neonatologist talking to my husband. A minute later he walked up to me, still strapped to the operating table, and bluntly said,"we think your child has Down syndrome." I'll never forget the gasp of the anesthesiologist. I went blank. I just couldn't believe what I was hearing. Where was my husband? How was he...during the pregnancy he was more afraid of this outcome than me. Dave walked over to me with the most gentle look on his face (even though he was angry not to be the one to tell me), looked me in the eyes and said,"Honey, he's perfect." I don't think he ever looked back after that. I wasn't that lucky.
Our first concern, after learning that Matthew looked perfectly healthy, was how Emma was going to take this news. She was aware of our risks throughout our pregnancy but was always the voice of optimism. I was so worried for her sake, and that was the only thing that kept me strong. How Dave was so okay with this news shocked me. "Everything was going to be fine," he kept saying so convincingly. Emma joined us in the recovery room, where to her delight she got to hold Matthew right away. "Where were all the tubes and lines like Angelina had?" asked Emma. After she held him for a short while, we told her the news. She took it like a little trooper and like my husband never looked back.
The people at the hospital were kind to us. A nurse later that day gave me information on NADS and suggested we call. Meanwhile tests confirmed that Matthew was indeed perfectly healthy. Thank God for that. Especially now that so many of our friends we have met through NADS shared a different story. Later that day my husband called NADS. I could not at that time. He talked to Ann Garcia, a kind caring woman who is also the parent of a child with Down syndrome, and she said she would love to help us by setting us up with a parent who has been there and could understand our feelings. I don't think I could have gotten by without the help of these people.
The day we came home with our baby was the day before the year anniversary of the death of our daughter. I was a hormonal basket case. How was I going to do this? How was I going to be the kind of mother I needed to be for my little guy? It took me about a week or so to call my parent volunteer back. She was so nice and assured me that everything that I was feeling was a normal part of the grieving processes that we all go through. She assured me that I wasn't a monster for feeling this way. That in time I would get past all this.She was so right. I don't remember who said this to me, but it was one of the biggest things that helped me, "there will come a day that I would wake up and Down syndrome wouldn't be the first thing I would think of". I couldn't wait for that day to come. It came so much sooner than I thought. As the days went by, we fell more in love with Matthew. We realized that he really didn't seem different than other babies. He was such a bundle of love. He was such a smiley guy. But more than anything, he made us all feel complete.
Our family and our friends couldn't agree more. Matthew is a hit everywhere we go! To know him is to love him, and boy is he loved! When I meet a new parent of a child with Down syndrome, I like to assure them that the way they feel today IS NOT the way they will feel in days to come. Today I feel blessed to be able to see the world through Matthews's eyes, eyes that only know love. I believe that if we all had a child with Down syndrome, the world would be a better place.
Today, Matthew is 18 months old, and he is into everything! The personality of this little guy is so funny. I know that we are going to face some challenges in life due to his Down syndrome, but I also know we will reap more riches than most will ever know.


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dolores brincat - 03/04/2007
it's you,it's,you,it's you
bridie mc elhinney - 04/02/2007
brilliant dance great music . why is it not in the charts /
Pat - 03/02/2007
An easy teach for my improvers and intermediates to a catchy tune. Love the twisting struts. A firm favourite with all the dancers.
John - 01/02/2007
Not a bad dance but not keen on the music.
Audrey Watson-The Centre Liners - 12/01/2007
Taught this dance to my easy intermediate class and they loved it, they wanted to do it again straight away, a sure sign this will be a class favourite,a very easy teach, so now taking it to my intermediate class as I know they are going to love this one as well.Well done John, I hope it does well for you.
Heulwen Astley Ravi'n Stompers - 05/01/2007
Lovely piece of music,nice dance,Very popular with the dancers.Good luck, keep up the good work!


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