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On Preliminary results from an offshore wind farm/recreation survey in North Carolina
Ed,My prior was that respondents would overstate their opposition to wind farms.
On Preliminary results from an offshore wind farm/recreation survey in North Carolina
Margaret,Note sure about the production costs. Our study is to quantify a potential cost whose magnitude is not known.
On He said what?
Two comments:"Handicapping conventional fossil fuel generation so that wind and solar can compete in price, even though they can't do the job of providing baseload power, will bring on economic disaster."
Define "economic disaster."
"Contrary to what we hear from cap-and-trade proponents, we do not in fact have 'all the technology we need.'"
Which proponents are saying that? The standard theory is that the higher energy price resulting from cap-and-trade would provide incentives to develop renewable energy technology.On American Voters Prefer Carbon Tax over Cap-and-Trade, 2 to 1
Why would people care how complex it is? At the consumer level prices rise. Period.On American Voters Prefer Carbon Tax over Cap-and-Trade, 2 to 1
However, the key questions are biased. Cap-and-trade and a carbon tax are explained fairly well but the carbon tax promises a tax refund and incentives for energy efficiency. Cap-and-trade could do the same thing but it is not mentioned.On When a coal state goes nuclear
Ed,You are correct! Yet, I never said otherwise. Most everything has costs. Economists make a living pointing out benefits and costs (think of the "pro" and "con" list). It seems like the knee jerk reaction to any mention of the cost side makes a true believing think that you are the opposition when, in fact, you are neutral.
Note that the paper linked above also includes the transportation of waste on housing prices.
On When a coal state goes nuclear
My obsession? From a single line in the above blog post (that was actually referring to results obtained from the econmics literature; e.g., this)? I consider that an exaggeration.Even so, if everyone agreed that the risks were small there would still be some visual disamenities which would reduce the demand for local housing. All else equal, no one would want to live there. With the resulting drop in property values some would move in giving us a housing price difference estimate for the cost of the facility.
On When a coal state goes nuclear
Gang: Did you miss the part where I said any serious stab at climate policy must include nuclear. Do all nuclear advocates "go nuclear" when someone mentions it is not all fun and games?Charles: In economics, a cost is something you'd like to avoid. I'd like to avoid nuclear waste no matter how little objective danger it poses. That's rational.
Wilmot: Tol makes a serious attempt at answering the question here. The answer is that it is highly uncertain or what I said above.
On When a coal state goes nuclear
Ed,Answer: "the 'cost' of the environmental externalities, should they ever be accurately determined."
On When a coal state goes nuclear
Dan,There is a lot of science to get through before we get to nuclear technology.
On When a coal state goes nuclear
"It is dangerous if it is not controlled through engineering and administrative measures."Which suggests to me that there is a non-zero probability of human error and an accident. Hence, nasty. At least, potentially nasty.
I'd also quibble with this: "our schools must do a better job of teaching people the fundamentals of the technology and the complete nuclear fuel cycle." As a parent, I think there are better things for my kids to be learning than the complete nuclear fuel cycle.
On When a coal state goes nuclear
Dan,Nuclear waste isn't nasty? I'd rather not live near a landfill, a nuclear waste facility, etc. The economics is all the same. There is no oversimplification.
My pride about coal? It is a cheap energy source that powers the homes of millions. A bunch of my friends grew up and went to college on coal money, etc. There are benefits and costs to the stuff. Also, note that I did say "Now, of course, I'm not so sure about that" which might signal that I am aware of the costs.


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(Actually, as well as these two, in the middle of town there's a Yo Sushi and soon-to-be a Wasabi too. I've nothing against those chain shops but I don't think of them as proper sushi, simply because you can usually only get tuna and salmon stuff, they don't have a proper sushi selection. Good for convenient food but not the full deal.)
U-Sushi near the Grafton Centre is a friendly little place that does a lot of takeaway. The fish could have been fresher, but there's plenty of variety on the menu and I particularly liked their vegetarian california rolls, made with asparagus, avocado, cucumber, shitake mushroom and pickle.
Japas just off Lensfield Road has a bit more of a restauranty vibe, if that's what you're after. They also seem to do plenty of takeaway. The fish is the same quality as U-Sushi and the range is pretty similar too. I wouldn't bother with their deep-fried ice-cream for afters though, it's nowhere near as much fun as it should be.
Anyone got any more tips? Let me know. There must be a secret sushi palace secreted around here somewhere...
]]>I've seen many DAB radios in my time. My ex worked at the first BBC digital radio station when it launched, so we saw all the early models.
Old analogue radios, like a lot of analogue things, had this great built-in interface quirk. In the old days you couldn't just choose a radio station, you had to turn a dial and that would tune the frequency to the station you wanted. I'm NOT talking nostalgia here, I'm talking usability. This strange quirk meant you could learn the interface really well - the radio stations were always at the same place on the dial, and you very quickly learnt exactly how much to turn to go straight from Radio 4 to Radio 1.
DAB radio designers didn't really have this, they just had a big list of stations. In fact they had it worse than that: if there was any "natural" interface driven by the mechanics of DAB it would be a hierarchical list where first you choose your multiplex, then you choose your station. The early DAB radios forced you to do this. Firstly, navigating a hierarchical list is fecking annoying on any device that doesn't have a massive computer screen. Secondly, the hierarchical list means nothing to anyone. No-one knows intuitively if Smooth FM and the World Service are on the same multiplex or not, and they shouldn't have to know.
DAB radio designers came up with various ways round this. They added presets of course - lots of FM radios have this too. Trouble is, they generally had to add lots of buttons, especially as they needed to support both DAB and FM. Bleh. Clicky interfaces, menus to scroll through. Bleh.
Well now the perfect DAB/FM radio interface has been settled on and it looks like this:
It's from John Lewis (it's called the "Spectrum"), and it's a little portable thing. It does DAB, FM and USB, it runs off battery or mains, it doesn't take more than 4 seconds to turn on (unlike many other digital radios which sit around saying "hello" while secretly they're frantically booting stuff up).
But the one thing I want you to notice is how easy it is to operate it in the dark, with your eyes closed, or with one hand stirring a pot of soup. There is a very small number of buttons/knobs, and when you grab for it without looking you can instantly feel which button you're on. After a day or two you can change the station, change the volume, change DAB/FM, or turn it on/off without looking, and really that's all you need!
The minimalism continues through the interface too: there are no presets, for example. Some might find miss the lack of presets, but it takes away a lot of interface complexity. There's an implicit "two-preset" character anyway, since of course it remembers one DAB station and one FM station, the ones you had on last.
The two dials on the top are not continuous dials, by the way, they're click-wheels. I do miss a little the ability to be as subtle as you like with the volume control, but I don't mind much. On the station dial, for DAB you're wheeling through the alphabetical list, which you can sometimes do with your eyes shut but not always - but at least the stations are always in exactly the same place, it's still a learnable interface. On FM, the dial changes the frequency, as you'd expect, plus the curiously named "Reset" button does auto-scanning for you on FM, and that works fine too.
I actually bought this radio for my ex. After seeing it in action for a while, I went and bought another one, for myself!
]]>In Linux you can configure anything, including custom keyboard layouts, but it can be tricky to find the advice online that actually matches your system. (Standard Ubuntu has some helper apps that a LXDE desktop doesn't, etc etc.) I think this method will work with any Debian-based system, and I took it from Debian's multimedia-keys guide.
Basically, follow the instructions in that wiki page:
That's enough to enable it for this session. Then you just have to add that last command as one of your autostart programs so it'll be available in future sessions. I did it by running "gnome-session-properties" tool, but also belt-and-braces in my .zshrc because of some other config I have in there.
]]>That changed this year, when Kim Gordon published a book, and Björk published an album, both of which foreground their breakups. But the timing has changed - it's not last summer any more, and I'm not in the heat of it, so I don't need to take solace from these things like I did back then. I can feel some empathy, remotely of course. I really wonder what I would have made of it all last summer.
Björk's album Vulnicura is a heartfelt and very raw heartbreak album. It does some amazing things, some really intense sonic moments, which work on these emotional issues universally, and Björk's lyrics are along similar lines but they often dive really deep into uncomfortably intimate detail. A bit like hearing someone listing all the bad things their ex did, and not being sure quite how literally to take it all:
"Family was always our sacred mutual mission/ Which you abandoned."
It's so direct that it makes me want to hear the other side's rejoinder. (I should say, by the way, that that quote is nothing like what was going on in my case.)
It's really quite striking though that it's Björk and Kim Gordon. Björk has for decades expressed a very open and deep emotional literacy in her music, and in recent years it's increasingly been less about torrid excitement and more about family bonds. Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore were the alt-rock equivalent of the ideal family: together for decades, raising kids while pushing Sonic Youth and their other projects ever onward. And if these paragons are not immune, well on the one hand that's really sad, while on the other hand maybe I can take some solace from it after all. Their lives aren't exactly average lives, but then whose is? We're still all tumbling through the same kaleidoscope.
]]>Firstly here's a quick historical introduction to get you up to speed on what I'm talking about:
It's not as if SSGs are poised to wipe out CMSes, not at all. But an SSG can be a really neat alternative for managing a website, if it suits your needs. There are lots of nice static site generators out there.
So here in academia, we have loads of old websites everywhere. Some of them are plain HTML, some of them are CMSes set up by PhD students who left years ago, some of them are big whizzy CMSes that the central university admin paid millions for and doesn't quite do everything you want.
If you're setting up a new research group website, questions that come to mind are:
So using a static site generator (SSG) might be a really handy idea. So that's what I've done. I used a static site generator called Poole which is written in Python and it appealed to me because of how minimal it is.
Poole does ALMOST NOTHING.
It has one HTML template which you can make yourself, and then it takes content written in markdown syntax and puts the two together to produce your HTML website. It lets you embed bits of python code in the markdown too, if there's any whizzy stuff needed during page generation. And that's it, it doesn't do anything else. Fab!
But there's more: how do people in our research group edit the site? Do they need to understand this crazy little coding system? No! I plugged Poole together with github for editing the markdown pages. The markdown files are in a github project. As with any github project, anyone can propose a change to one of the textfiles. If they're not pre-authorised then it becomes a "Pull Request" which someone like me checks before approving. Then, I have a little script that regularly checks the github project and regenerates the site if the content has changed.
(This is edging a little bit more towards the CMS side of things, with the server actually having to do stuff. But the neat thing is firstly that this auto-update is optional - this paradigm would work even if the server couldn't regularly poll github, for example - and secondly, because Poole is minimal the server requirements are minimal. It just needs Python plus the python-markdown module.)
We did need a couple of whizzy things for the research site: a publications list, and a listing of research group members. We wanted these to come from data such as a spreadsheet so it could be used in multiple pages and easily updated. This is achieved via the embedded bits of python code I mentioned: we have publications stored in bibtex files, and people stored in a CSV file, and the python loads the data and transforms it into HTML.
It's really neat that the SSG means we have all our content stored in a really portable format: a single git repository containing some of the most widely-handled file formats: markdown, bibtex and CSV.
So where is this website? Here: http://c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/
]]>I've been dabbling with the Stan programming environment here and there. It's an elegant design for specifying and solving arbitrary probabilistic models.
(One thing I want to point out is that it's really for solving for continuous-valued parameters only - this means you can't explicitly do things like clustering etc (unless your approach makes sense with fuzzy cluster assignments). So it's not a panacea. In my experience it's not always obvious which problems it's going to be most useful for.)
So let's try putting NMF and Stan together.
First off, NMF is not always a probabilistic approach - at its core, NMF simply assumes you have a matrix V, which happens to be the product of two "narrower" matrices W and H, and all these matrices have non-negative values. And since Stan is a probilistic environment we need to choose a generative model for that matrix. Here are two alternatives I tried:
So here is the Stan source code for my implementations of these models, plus a simple toy dataset as an example. They both converge pretty quickly and give decent results.
I designed these implementations with audio transcription in mind. When we're transcribing music or everyday sound, we often have some pre-specified categories that we want to identify. So rather than leaving the templates W completely free to choose, in these implementations I specify pre-defined spectral templates "Winit".
(Specifying these also breaks a permutation symmetry in the model, which probably helps the model to converge since it shouldn't keep flipping around through different permutations of the solution. Another thing I do is fix the templates W to sum up to 1 each [i.e. I force them to be simplexes] because otherwise there's a scaling indeterminacy: you could double W and halve H and have the same solution.)
I use a concentration parameter "Wconc" to tell the model how closely to stick to the Winit values, i.e. how tight to make the prior around them. I also use an exponential prior on the activations H, to encourage sparsity.
My implementation of the PLCA assumptions isn't quite traditional, because I think in PLCA the spectrogram is assumed to be a sample from a multinomial (which implies it's quantised). I felt it would be a bit nicer to assume the spectrogram is itself a multinomial, sampled from a Dirichlet. There's little difference in practice.
]]>]]>"On the question of images there has always been a debate within Islam. The Quran itself contains warnings against the worship of idols and graven images, but this is taken straight from the Abrahamic tradition and the Old Testament. It's a stricture on forms of worship. After all, images of the prophet were embossed on early Muslim coins to replace Byzantine and Persian potentates. A number of paintings by Muslim artists in the late medieval period depict the prophet with loving care. The Shia tradition has always ignored the supposed ban on images and portraits of Shia imams have never been forbidden. All the different schools of Sunni jurisprudence don't agree on the question. It has only become a big issue since Saudi money pushed Wahhabi clerics onto the world stage to fight communism during the Cold War (with the total backing of Washington). Wahhabi literalism misinterprets the Quran and its hostility to images led the Saudi government to destroy the graves in Mecca of the prophet, his companions and his wives. There were no protests except by architects and historians who denounced the vandalism. One can only imagine the response in the world of Islam had the destruction of the graves been carried out, deliberately or accidentally, by a Western power."
One thing it gives you is a lot of tips about whether the future will be the same as the past. Will inflation, growth, inequality be similar in the next 50 years as in the past 50 years? There are some perennial factors, and some things that are actually blips (caused e.g. by the World Wars) when considered on a timescale of centuries - and many of these are not quite as I had expected. Plenty of interesting titbits about, for example, how the amount of wealth we inherit is or isn't changing as our average lifespan gets longer, and how much "gift-giving" has grown in recent years as an "alternative" to inheritance.
And the readability is enhanced with details from history and literature, such as the way authors such as Jane Austen reflect the financial certainties of their time in their prose.
(It's worth mentioning that the Financial Times briefly smudged the book's reputation by alleging some of the data was wrong. (See here for example.) However, as The Economist noted, "the analysis does not seem to support many of the allegations made by the FT, or the conclusion that the book's argument is wrong." The FT later awarded Piketty's book their business book of the year, perhaps sensing which way the wind was blowing.)
I agree with the LRB's review of the book that "nothing about the book is more impressive than the range and richness of its statistical information. [The book] both insists on the importance of data and, at least where modern societies are concerned, highlights the uncertainties involved in its collection." (Note: the LRB also takes issue with some of Piketty's interpretations - interesting review.)
The LRB review also points out that Piketty's proposed mechanism for fixing some of the problems of modern markets and global captialism - namely, a global progressive tax on capital - may be a nice theory to consider but it's so unrealistic as to be unhelpful. Piketty claims (p515) that even though it's utopian, it's worth considering, maybe even working towards. But to me it seems obviously to neglect so many extremely powerful problems. Of course the richest people have the most political power, and will fight to prevent such taxes being adopted (or if they are adopted, to build a new tax haven state on an oil-rig somewhere). Maybe this is just a practical problem, to be solved by politics. But the tax would require all forms of wealth, owned by every person on and off the planet, to be enumerated. If not, the rich and their financial engineers would transfer their assets into un-enumerated assets. This reminds me of the "information asymmetry" critique of neo-classical economics: many market theories assume that all market participants have perfect information, and this unrealistic assumption is required to prove those markets' effectiveness. Similarly, the effectiveness of the global capital tax in balancing out inequality rests really quite heavily on the idea of some tax agencies somewhere having essentially perfect knowledge. Unfortunately (and as Piketty notes) modern financial engineering means that many taxes, even progressive taxes, become a bit regressive when everyone is subject to them except for the super-rich.
Piketty also says (p519) that the main benefit of the wealth tax (charged at low annual rates, nothing too scary) is "more in the nature of a compulsory reporting law than a true tax" - in a sense, he's less interested in taxing wealth than encouraging transparency in wealth ownership. This again is a bit utopian, since of course people will be motivated to avoid some things being reported, but not so problematic, since the benefits of transparency don't require 100% transparency. And it chimes well with Piketty's insistence that it's not financial rules that can fix the world, but publicly-available information and democratic debate combined with the rule of law. Piketty points out (p570) that most businesses don't publish enough financial details for us to work out how the wealth is divided between profits and wages. If they were required to, that would empower workers. As well as economists ;)
]]>For decades, Noam Chomsky and colleagues have famously been developing and advocating a "minimalist" idea about the machinery our brain uses to process language. There's a nice statement of it here in this 2014 paper. They propose that not much machinery is needed, and one of the key components is a "merge" operation that the brain uses in composing and decomposing grammatical structures. (Figure 1 shows it in action.)
Then yesterday I was reading this introduction to embeddings in deep neural networks and NLP, and I read the following:
"Models like [...] are powerful, but they have an unfortunate limitation: they can only have a fixed number of inputs. We can overcome this by adding an association module, A, which will take two word or phrase representations and merge them.
(From Bottou (2011))
"By merging sequences of words, A takes us from representing words to representing phrases or even representing whole sentences! And because we can merge together different numbers of words, we don't have to have a fixed number of inputs."
This is a description of something called a "recursive neural network" (NOT a "recurrent neural network"). But look: the module "A" seems to do what the minimalists' "merge" operation does. The blogger quoted above even called it a "merge" operation...
As far as I can tell, the inventors of recursive neural networks were motivated by technical considerations - e.g. how to handle sentences of varying lengths - and not by the minimalist linguists. But it looks a little bit like they've created an artificial neural network embodiment of the minimalist programme! I'm not an NLP person, nor a linguist, however: surely I'm not the first to notice this connection? It would be a really neat convergence if it was indeed unconscious. Does this mean we can now test some Chomskian ideas (such as their explanation of word displacement) by implementing them in software?
UPDATE: After chatting with my QMUL colleague Matt Purver - he actually is a computational linguistics expert, unlike me - I should add that there's a little bit less to this analogy than I initially thought. The most obvious disjunction is that the ReNN model performs language analysis in a left-to-right (or right-to-left) fashion, whereas Chomskyan minimialists do not: one thing they preserve from "traditional" grammar is the varying nested constructions of linguistic trees, nothing like as neat in general as the "sat on the mat" example above.
The ReNN model also doesn't really give you anything about long-range dependencies such as the way questions are often constructed with a kind of implicit "move" of a word from one part of the tree to another.
Matt and many other linguists have also told me it's problematic to consider a model where words and sentences are both represented in the same conceptual space. For example, a complete utterance usually implies some practical consequence in the real world, whereas its individual components do not. I recognise that there are differences, but personally I haven't heard any killer argument that they shouldn't exist in the same underlying space-like representation. (After all, many utterances consist of single words; many utterances are partial fragments; many utterances lead to consequences before the speaker has finished speaking.)
I do still believe there's an interesting analogy here. I definitely can't claim that any current ReNN model is an implementation of the Strong Minimalist Programme, but it'd be interesting to see the analogy pushed further, see where it breaks and how it can be improved.
]]>On a medium heat, heat up a blob of marge in a deep saucepan with a lid. Roughly slice the onion and add it. Then add the cumin seed and stir. Slice the garlic and add that. Add salt and pepper. Let that all fry gently to soften, for about 5 minutes.
Roughly chop the tomatoes and pile them on top. Boil the kettle and add enough hot water so that it only-just-about covers the things in the pan (maybe 1/2 a cup). Stir, then put the pan lid on, turn the heat down to low, and let it bubble gently for 15 minutes.
Cut the beetroot roughly into chunks, add it to the pan and stir. Take the pan off the heat. Let everything cool for a minute, then carefully ladle it all into a big blender. (I say carefully because you still want to be careful about beetroot stains!) Whizz it all up, briefly so that there are no pieces left but it's still kinda thick. Return it to the pan.
Warm it up again, adding the milk at the end - not too much, just enough to slacken it and give it a touch of creaminess.
Serve with bread and butter.

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Here's an important news flash to fans of this series and all-black product in general: Video contract dream girl Mocha has a sister. Not a sista sister, the Real genetic McCoy. Her name is Chocolate... and her overall package is equally as drop-dead gorgeous as her flesh-and-blood sibling's! Viewers are likely to spank themselves blind when they get a load of da girl with Jake Steed's root planted up her impossibly pretty pussy. She's also the cover model —and if that prop chair is for sale, we're placing the first bid to scratch 'n' sniff the sucker. (To be fair, we note that Chocolate, while a real looker, is not exactly a Dixie firecracker in bed. Though far from a lox, only time will tell if she becomes totally, uninhibitedly orgasmic. At least she appears to enjoy a dash of Jake's baby batter in the kisser.)
Elsewhere, this volume is packed with more steak (tube style) than a Sizzler franchise. Forget John Holmes, Ron Jeremy, or Peter North. Byron Long and Lexington Steele are hung like goddamn skyscraper girders. To this reviewer, nobody's currently laying more monster pipe than these two guys. Lucky India gets to sit and rotate on Lex's Nubian flagpole in a tasty bathtub session, while Byron and Mandingo (yet another heavy-on-the-artillery stud) run a straight-but-not-so-narrow course up Obsession's Hershey Highway. As promised, all roads in MBGB17 end up as head-on, jizz-splattered collisions. By all means, take the ride.


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Non-line-of-sight ultraviolet single-scatter propagation model |
Optics Express, Vol. 19, Issue 18, pp. 17864-17875 (2011)
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A universal non-line-of-sight (NLOS) ultraviolet single-scatter propagation model in noncoplanar geometry is proposed to generalize an existing restricted analytical model. This generalized model considers that the transmitter and the receiver cone axes lie in the same plane or different planes, where they can be pointed in arbitrary directions. The model is verified by extensive simulations, showing that the proposed model is consistent with the original NLOS single-scatter propagation model and the Monte Carlo model. The path loss performance is further investigated in terms of different noncoplanar geometric settings and path loss dependence is also analyzed for different factors, including scattering volume size, relative position between the scattering volume and the transceiver, and radiation intensity of the transmitter.
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(060.4510) Fiber optics and optical communications : Optical communications
(060.2605) Fiber optics and optical communications : Free-space optical communication
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Original Manuscript: June 29, 2011
Revised Manuscript: August 12, 2011
Manuscript Accepted: August 15, 2011
Published: August 26, 2011
Houfei Xiao, Yong Zuo, Jian Wu, Hongxiang Guo, and Jintong Lin, "Non-line-of-sight ultraviolet single-scatter propagation model," Opt. Express 19, 17864-17875 (2011)
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Fei Teng Yu Xiang: BOILED CATFISH IN CHILLY OIL: MUST TRY!
great food and ambiance!
unfortunately, they didn't accept my visa gold card, or any other credit card i had - why? i have no idea!
Favorite Dish: you have to try their boiled catfish in chilly oil! (that's how the waitress translated it)
it was the best fish dish i've ever had anywhere in the world! -
Fei Teng Yu Xiang: Sizziling Hot and Spicy Fish
If you want SUPER spicy food, this is it.
Your lips will definitely be so numb after tasting the fish but you will still crave for more after eating it... :-)
Favorite Dish: Fresh fish cook in a big bowl of boiling oil, spices and dried chili.- Budget Travel
Fei Teng Yu Xiang: Spicy Galore!!!!!
This place looks SO Asian from the outside with big fluorescent lights against the big white wall backdrop...chinese characters SO big that it would be hard to miss...Its written in pinyin as well in case you cannot read chinese characters!
Walked in on a Saturday night without having booked a table, which is always a bad move but especially for this restaurant as it is newly opened and so EVERYONE wants to go there, or at least be seen there!
I arrived with a table for eight to book. I was ushered to the waiting area and given a number. I don't know how they sort them out but there is a letter in front of each number so you're either in section A, B, C or D. I was very fortunate because it is harder to get a table for fewer people, so i was called to a table within 15mins! But of course my friends didn't turn up for another 15mins..ha ha!!! As it turned out only five of us were there in the end so we were moved to a smaller table!!!
Favorite Dish: We had quite a few dishes as the menu looked wonderful. We ordered 'shui zhu yu' which is a spicy fish cooked in hot oil. Not good for the hips I'm sure, but who cares at this stage when you're starving and you're mouth is watering! We also got some wild mushrooms with fried pork which was outstanding, some little buns which you stuff yourself with minced meat and vegetables, some green veg, fried aubergines and fried noodles...hhhmm, yummy! Their spicy fish was possibly my favourite dish. Its hard to find a good place that does it well as sometimes the fish have way too many bones, or the oil they cook it in tastes several days old and way too greasy. But here it was just right!
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Fei Teng Yu Xiang restaurant chain: spicy fish- you can never forget the taste
It is a popular food chain, but not fast food. Of cos, it offers lots of dilicious dishes, but you will find spicy boiled fish on every table. It is usually a big portion for 2-4 persons( depending on how greedy each person is).
In dinner time, you need to avoid arriving at it from 18:00 to 19:00, otherwise you have to wait outside for a table. But if you go in group, more than 4persons, you can book a table before you go.
There are four places or more. I visited the one in southwest of Beijing often. I can never forget the taste.
Favorite Dish: spicy boiled fish dish.
look spicy, but taste great and no spicy at all.
Don't be scared by the spicy oil, it is just poured down on the slided fish to enhance the taste.
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everything else KNOM is able to offer, for many, one great gift is simply the
ability to pray along with a Sunday Mass. Thank you once again for your prayers and your financial help. We
greatly need both. We honor you for them, and we pray that God blesses
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♥ I like it quite a bit. ^^ Quite a handy update for my birthday~ Not sure how it looks on my phone yet...hmm...I've yet to try that one out. All looks good on my computer so far though! |
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Works great on my windows phone (IE9 mobile), works great on IE9 here at home, does not load at all on IE8 at work at all. Haven't tried Safari with the work macs yet. Just giving a few more data points. I hope that IE8 can be supported in some fashion given it is the most recent version of IE that will exist for XP and that's on a LOT of computers still... |
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im so facinated in it now.
Do not offend the Writer. I think the calendar is really cool. It's nice to be able to see all the happenings laid out like that. My one and only issue is how no one seems to be able to spell this word. Cal-en-daaaar. Like a pirate. Seriously. There's only one E in calendar. see? things like this drive me nuts and I can't help it so sorry if it seems rude. She may put you in a novel and mutate your genome. |
I'd like the calendar to show future events not just things happening today, and in the past. |
I would really love that to happen. |
it help s a lot to me..hehehehe
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Donald Trump isn't much for nuance or insight, but he manages to stay in the news somehow—in many cases without the aid of a publicist. We can't even remember the last time he hawked a real product beyond his own golden-hued face.
Trump showcased his crude PR savvy yet again yesterday by announcing, via his Twitter feed, that he is planning a "big surprise" for the upcoming Republican National Convention. And of course this tweet was catnip for poli-bloggers. Sounds a little fishy–everybody already knows about Chris Christie.
Vanity Fair's Juli Weiner thinks Trump's bombshell might involve scissors, glitter, pipe cleaners and macaroni (we always preferred the star-shaped pasta). And Donald, if you're listening, we feel like Newt Gingrich would make a great addition to the next season of Celebrity Apprentice. He can do his usual routine: condescend to everyone and get cheers for it.
So what do you think? Does The Donald have anything interesting up his sleeve, or is this "announcement" more of the usual smoke and mirrors?


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Honda not interested in plug-in hybrids yet, batteries not ready
The same week that General Motors unveiled the production version of its Volt extended range EV, Honda R&D president Masaaki Kato downplayed the importance of plug-in hybrids, at least in the short term. While GM and Toyota are both developing hybrid vehicles with plug-in capability and a wide array of manufacturers are planning full battery electric vehicles, Honda doesn't believe that battery technology is where it needs to be for plug-in vehicles to be commercially viable. The company believes the latest lithium ion batteries are still too costly, heavy and low in energy density to meet consumer demands. For the time being, Honda will focus on its upcoming new hybrid models as well as developing fuel cell technology. Honda's FCX Clarity already has a range of 280 miles on 4 kg of hydrogen and the company believes it can make more improvements more easily there than with batteries. Honda doesn't rule out a plug-in at some point, but whenever we've talked to them over the last two years they've given no indication of when.
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Christina suprised me Sunday with Rams tickets! The game was crazy and lots of fun, though the Rams were not able to hold onto the victory. On our way back from the game, we were phoned by Josh Sprague who informed us of the availability of 4 Cardinals tickets for Sunday's NLCS game 4. These seats were 8 rows back behind homeplate, with an all-you-can-eat buffet pre-game and all-you-can-eat ballpark food during the game – all for free. Throw in free parking across the street from the stadium and its hard to refuse. I certainly had quite the night eating; its estimated at over $50 worth of ballpark food went into my belly, plus the buffet beforehand. Cards lost, but there's no better way to watch them lose…
What a fun day!
Archive for the 'Sports' Category
A Day Of Sports
Monday, October 16th, 2006Crazy Basketball Shot
Saturday, August 19th, 2006Not in the textbook of plays or shots…
Awesome Moves
Sunday, July 30th, 2006These are some l33t skillz
Damn White Boy
Monday, March 6th, 2006This video is crazy. So much for the 'white men can't jump' theory. This guy has crazy ups.
Who Needs Free Time?
Thursday, January 26th, 2006With games like this, who needs free time? See how long you can stay alive.
eXtreme Me
Monday, September 12th, 2005I have this strange feeling that I am quickly becoming an eXtreme sports enthusiast. I went rock climbing for the first time EVAR Sunday and had a blast. It is quickly evolving into a weekly ordeal with several buddies. Now if I can just get them skydiving, we can really go somewhere with this.
The Plan: Go around the world skydiving. Land at the base of a mountain. Climb that sucker. Base jump off the top. Rinse. Repeat.
Well, The Plan is still in alpha; first I have to conquer climbs higher than 5 8. Anyw00t, I'm probably going diving at the end of the month and hopefully I can con a few friends to go as well. Want to go? Let me know!
Ball Game
Monday, August 1st, 2005We received some Cards tickets today from Gabriel. Freaking awesome seats too! Check it out here. Look for section 148, right behind home plate, and we are in row 9. Did I catch a niner in there? So pretty much this is going to rock! Live is the only way I'll watch baseball, and despite that I still find it fairly boring, so the fact that we're sitting extra close means I may actually enjoy the game! Here's hoping…
UPDATE: It was fun, except for the Cards losing like bums. Definitely have to sit that close more often!
Skydiving Video
Sunday, July 17th, 2005Below is the script of essentially what you'll be watching. Here is the video! Enjoy…
* Warning – 14 MB file, only for broadband users dude.
UPDATE Aug. 4th 12:10 PM: Video file is not currently available as I am switching hosts right now.
UPDATE Aug. 16th 10:22 PM: Video is back up, link works again…video
Bitten By The Bug
Sunday, July 17th, 2005The bug, in this case, is skydiving…it is so hard to explain the feeling, particularly in text. Needless to say, I am addicted to it now, just after one dosage. I am only 24 jumps from becoming certified! That is the goal, probably won't happen for a year or two, but as long as I go more than once every six months, I am good to go.
So, the jump. First I had about 5 hours worth of ground training, which actually was kinda scary at first. We covered pretty much every malfunction that could happen and how to remedy it (most of those remedies consisted of pulling the red velcro and then pulling the emergency chute) but were reassured by the jump master that most of them were rare and that most did not apply because of the beginning rigs that we would be using to jump with. So after we covered how to exit the plane, how to operate a parachute, and how to land properly, the rest of the class prepared to make their static line jumps, which just means they went up to 3500 ft and fell out of the plane while the parachute was deployed for them, much like you see in military movies with paratroopers. Myself, I was doing step one of the Accelerated Freefall and so I went to have another two hours of training on how to exit the plane for freefall, body positioning for freefall, and the jump script. The script was the list of maneuvers I would have to perform during freefall to pass level 1.
After practicing quite a bit, both with the instructor and in my head, it was time to get geared up. The parachute pack weighs 32 pounds but it didn't really feel awkward (no more so than say football pads). What was cool the whole time I was getting ready was that I felt the same way I did before every season opening game of football. Not so much nervous; more curious as to what the experience would be like and then remembering that no matter what, I was probably going to love it and want more. One more practice run through with my instructors and then I boarded the plane with a few other divers and my instructors. On the way up, I rehearsed verbally all the steps I would be executing to my instructor, got my goggles on and checked over my pack one last time. Hitting 14,000 feet, the first couple of jumpers dove and I got to watch them for a moment. On the way up, they were all very somber, visualizing their jump script and anticipating possible hazards. This had a calming effect on me because I did not feel like I was freaking out about every little detail, but simply going through all the checks and visualizing the perfect dive. It felt a lot like during a football game, pre-snap, when I judge down, distance, and situation and try to figure out what I am most likely to see and how I'll react. The parallels between my sports career and this first jump probably helped me stay calm and business-like throughout the process.
My turn. I am jumping with two instructors, one on each side of me to help me stabilize after exiting the plane, correcting my body position, and generally ensuring I remember to pull my cord! Exiting with both of them is a little different from exiting solo. I had to get my feet pointed towards the front of the plane and as close to the opening as possible. Then, because of my height, I was basically kneeling with my knees pointed at the ground below, my face and shoulders outside the plane with just my right hand holding me in. At this point, the jump is entirely in my power. No one goes until I initiate the jump. I did not hesitate once I got into position. Checking in and then out with both instructors, I bobbed up, down, and then jumped! The bobbing was the signal to the instructors letting them know it was go time and so they could get in sync with me.
I honestly don't remember the first couple seconds because all I saw were blurs. Once we stabilized and I got myself into the correct freefall position, I didn't have time to realize that I was falling at 120 mph towards an unforgiving planet. I was on a business trip and had things to do. I only had a minute of freefall, so I had to smooth and not erratic. Checking my altimeter, I then practiced three touches of my ripcord. This was to ensure I knew where it was during freefall so when we hit our pull altitude, I could find that sucker without freaking out. After that, it was alternating between checking my altimeter and waving to the cameraman. The instructors did spin me 360 degrees at one point which was pretty cool. That minute went by so quickly that I almost missed my pull altitude. I was supposed to pull at 5500 feet but did not actually begin to pull until around 5000 ft. I fumbled a bit with the rip cord because on the ground they had asked me not to lose it so I was making sure I had a good hold of it. My parachute actually deployed closer to 4500 ft which, in talking with my instructor afterwards was okay but I had had them a bit worried they were going to have to pull it for me, which would have meant I would have to redo stage 1.
The parachute deployed perfectly, no cord twists, inflated cells, tears, rips; essentially none of the 'high speed' or 'low speed' malfunctions that had been taught to me on the ground occurred. The parachute ride down was very relaxing compared to the freefall. With my huge beginner's parachute and a guide on the ground radioing to me about turning and finding the airport. The parachute is very maneuverable, though I know this only from watching the experienced divers handle theirs. I did some 90 and 180 degree turns and some practice flaring, which is like putting on air brakes, then basically guided myself back to the airport and enjoyed the surrounding countryside. Landing went perfectly with the impact comparable to stepping off a chair; this was through no effort of mine, but my guide telling me when to flare. On the ground, I packed up my parachute and reentered the hanger.
I have many reflections on the whole experience but that would extend the length of this post to too-long lengths. In short, I loved the entire experience and look forward to doing the next phase, where I get to learn how to turn left and right and go forward through the air. After my jump, my instructor and I went through that script so that I could practice it at home until I came back.
Briefly, a misconception I had before had was that all you do is fall and then pull; there is significantly more involved with just keeping yourself stable, let alone performing turns and other tricks in the air. I found that I had quite an adrenaline rush but not out of fear. Maybe it was just how the instructors taught me, but when I was standing on the side of the plane 14,000 ft up with only my hand keeping me in, all I was thinking of was my script. No time for fear. Anyway, I have video of the whole thing and am going to post it once I rip it off the DVD. Hopefully I can capture some stills from it as well. Can't wait to do my next dive!!!
Dance Tips – Napolean Style
Friday, May 20th, 2005So, for those who cannot dance and actually want to learn, or for those who know how but want new moves, you pretty much have to check out this tutorial. It breaks down a dance clip into easily digestible sections, gives slow-motion shots if needed, and allows you to see moves executed to a variety of music. Put this all together and it won't be long before you own a club because you have choreographed dances moves that look hot when combined with the music being played.
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Kancho Hatsuo Royama and Shihan Tsuyoshi Hiroshige visited Beijing from June 23rd to 28th 2004 in response to a formal invitation last October from the Official Chinese Martial Arts Association. The objective was to discuss ongoing exchange, especially the idea of a series of tournaments between Kyokushin Karate and Chinese Kung Fu, in the form of Sanda, or San Shou as it is often know in the West. As Kyokushin Karate was until now completely unknown in China, Kancho Royama saw this as an excellent opportunity to formally take our first steps to introducing our karate to the original home of Japanese martial arts and thus encourage ongoing strong cultural ties between China and Japan based on the common ground of the martial arts.
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Hormone profiles and reproductive characteristics in wild female Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata). | |
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In this study we investigated the reproductive characteristics of wild female Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata fuscata) in 2 nonconsecutive years using noninvasive methods to monitor physiological events. We detected ovulation dates and ascertained conceptions from fecal hormone profiles. First ovulations occurred from middle October to early November in 1997, and from middle to late November in 1999. Most females conceived during their first ovarian cycle. On average, postconception bleeding occurred 18.4 days after ovulation, and menstruation occurred 13.7 days after ovulation. The average gestation length was 176.3 days. The average degree of facial redness and the percentage of females that copulated synchronously changed across the ovarian cycle and peaked in the periovulatory period. Although prolonged periods of postconception copulation have been reported in previous studies, they did not occur in this study, which suggests that such behavior may not be a species-typical characteristic. Female fertility varied between the 2 years. The copulation rates of females with no infant <1 year of age were 100% (14/14) in 1997 and 45.5% (5/11) in 1999. The ovulation rates of the female subjects that we chose for hormonal assays were 100% (9/9) in 1997 and 50.0% (3/6) in 1999. Th conception rates of these selected females were 100% (9/9) in 1997 and 16.7% (1/6) in 1999. The birth rates (the number of females that delivered divided by the total number of adult females in the troop) were 73.3% (11/15) in 1998 and 6.7% (1/15) in 2000. The modified birth rates (the number of females that delivered /the number of adult females with no infant <1 year of age) x 100 were 78.6% (11/14) in 1998 and 9.1% (1/11) in 2000. |
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Alpine Miniatures - 184th Divisione Paracadutisti Nembo, Nettuno 1943
Alpine Miniatures - 184th Divisione Paracadutisti Nembo Nettuno 1943
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Here I am making my return to modelling after a one year hiatus. It's a 1/16 sculpt by Mike Good and it is currently a work in progress for Alpine Miniatures. Not mainstream axis but makes for an interestingly unique painting experience with the with the "Samurai" Beretta magazine-holding vest.
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Young Miniatures - US Marine, RTO, Tet Offensive, Hue 1968
Next in queue on the workbench is another masterpiece from Young Miniatures depicting a youthful looking US Marine RTO(Radio Telephone Operator) at the Battle of Hue in 1968. Hopefully I can get some uninterrupted time this weekend to refine on the painting.
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Young Miniatures - Gebirgsjäger, Caucasus, Summer 1942
Made some changes over the week - notably to the goggles and the color of the wind jacket.
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Notice that Simmons never tried to hotshot record sales with a flurry of one-hit wonders; he handpicked guys who could actually have a career, then promoted them and his label simultaneously. He's one of the masters of the long game, in that respect.
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Teething Baby Pictures
One of the most frequently read articles on Oral Answers over the past year is an article that I wrote back in January called What A Baby's Gums Look Like While Teething.
That article only showed pictures of the two lower teeth coming in. I figured that it would also be helpful to show what the upper two teeth look like while coming in.
Also, since all babies are different, I figured it might be helpful to see pictures of a different teething baby.
Melissa, an avid photographer, did an excellent job of documenting her son's teething experience.
Her son Logan is now four years old and has all of his baby teeth. Melissa generously allowed me to use her photos in this article to show what his teeth looked like as they came through his gums and how he made it through the teething stage.
How A Baby's Teeth Look As They Cut Through The Gums
Here's a picture of Logan's two upper front teeth as they came poking through the gums:
Here's a slightly different angle of the same picture:
Here's a photo of Logan 8 days after the two above pictures were taken:
Melissa says that Logan's teething lasted about one week per set of teeth that came in (teeth usually come into the mouth in pairs.)
How to Help Your Baby Survive Teething
There are many things that you can do to help your baby survive the teething process — I don't mean survive literally, as modern science has shown that babies don't die from teething!
Melissa states the following about how she helped Logan make it through his difficult teething experience:
"Since he did have one set come in right after another, it was hard to tell when he wasn't teething minus the spike of a fever right before his teeth would come in. We constantly kept a bib on him to help soak up the drool. He had eczema and the drool made it worse, so I used a clear diaper rash ointment down his chin, neck and chest to protect that area and treat and prevent the rash from getting worse. Logan liked small, plastic, water filled teething rings that you put in the refrigerator. He also liked cold, wet wash cloths to chew on. Apples helped for some of his teeth, but he didn't like them every time. We tried Orajel, but he didn't really like it that much. It did seem to help when he would let us get it in there.
Mostly, he liked chewing on our fingers. It could hurt us, but at a certain point you will do anything to give your little one some relief. Baby Tylenol for the fevers and night time pain helped once in a while, but if you have a baby who is constantly teething, like Logan, you can't exactly keep them hopped up on Tylenol. Hyland's has a teething pill that is natural that really helped Logan and I highly recommend. I also nursed Logan until he was 12 months old, and I think that helped. He never bit me, but it seemed to sooth him somehow."
Here's a link to the Hyland's Teething Tablets that Melissa mentioned. They seem to have pretty good reviews on Amazon – I wish I'd known about them with our first child!
Here's a few photos that show Logan easing his teething pain with plastic teething rings, a toy he ripped off his bouncer, and an apple:
Just as a comparison, here's two photos that show Logan teething as a baby, then again as a toddler. It seems like he didn't mind it as much once he got a little big older.
You and Your Baby Will Make It Through Teething
I remember when our oldest son was teething for the first time, my wife and I had no idea what to do. He was extremely irritable. At the time, I was going to school full time and my wife was working full time. We were both exhausted and I vividly remember one night we were both up with our son and my wife ran out to go get some Orajel (which we've since learned more about).
Those days are far behind us and we now have a couple of kids with full sets of teeth. In retrospect, teething was just one small part of their infancy. Although it was uncomfortable for them at the time, it really is just a distant memory now.
Near the end of her email to me, Melissa said:
"Time has a way of making you forget some of the little parts of their childhood."
Teething will be over before you know it, and you and your baby will both make it through just fine!
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about teething, feel free to leave a comment below. Thanks for reading!
Just wanted to say, keep up the great and helpful work with these detailed posts. Wish they'd been around when my children were babies!
Thanks Pamela!
Tom, this is a brilliant website, and helps a lot when mummies are in doubt!
Hi Tom,
My daughter is 11 months old and still doesn't have any teeth! Should I be concerned? She shows signs of teething for months now, but no teeth. I know every child develops differently, but I'm afraid something could be wrong? Your thoughts are greatly appreciated. -
Thanks for posting these pics. My 6 month old has been really fussy these last few days, and doesn't seem to be able to sleep very well. She's constantly tired, but keeps waking up. Did you notice any obvious swelling before the teeth erupted? I keep feeling her gums, but I'm not really sure what I'm feeling for…new at this.
thank you so much tom it has helped so much. i wish i found U 1st time tHAnk YOu THANK YOU.
Hyland's teething tabs contain Belladona. That is a sedative which are not recommended for babies. Furthermore homeopathic meds are not regulated by the FDA so it is hard to tell how much of the sedative is even in there.
i can recommend these for teething.
our daughter was an absolute nightmare with her teeth until we tried this. she has been wearing it since she was 8 months old and we haven't looked back since. i never take hers off, she sleeps with it on too. i have heard from a few people that take their lo's necklaces off at night and they all say that they still get sleepless nights due to teething. i think that they should be worn 24hrs a day. i feel quite happy that they are not a choking hazard. the necklace has a low breaking strain so if it had to get caught on something(an unlikely occurence) then it would snap. if it were to snap for any reason, each bead has been double knotted on, so that they wouldn't all fall off. i got mine off an Latvian Amber store. it was $15, so not expensive at all.http://www.latvianamberstore.com/#ecwid:category=2287307&mode=category&offset=0&sort=addedTimeDesc
My son will be 3 months old on April 16th. Right now he has 2 tiny teeth that are coming in. Only thing that worries me, they are his upper canine teeth.
My daughters top two canine teeth came in first as well my 3 month old grandsons.
Every baby is different. My son had no teeth until a week before his first birthday. They are developing in there and getting stronger. They will come before you know. Enjoy the pain free days!
thanks my sons gums look like the top pics right now i was worried cause of a little bleeding but hopefully they will come out soon : )
My son is a week shy of 17 months and still no teeth. This does not seem to slow him or his eating down one bit. His gums (upper gums in particular) have been swollen. The top two teeth you can see the outline perfectly and it appears that his gums have shifted down, kind of like the teeth are coming down but with the gums. Is this something we should be worried about. Are there some children that progress like this as I know this is not the norm.
Thank you!
Thank you for these pictures. My fourth son is currently cutting his molars (he's 11 months old) and he was just sitting outside with us when suddenly blood was pouring out of his mouth! I remembered that one of my other sons had a little blood when he teethed, but this was a lot more. This website reassured me that I was right and the bleeding was normal. My husband reported seeing a new molar in our baby's mouth that evening.
this site is so wonderful! as I have been trying online to check what does teething look like on the upper gums and the pictures are exactly what my son's gums look like. but he is only 10 weeks old! again thank you.
Thank you for these pictures, though they look VERY painful. My DD is 10 1/2 months old and just cut her bottom 2 teeth (about 2 weeks apart). Her upper gums look like this now, though I didn't remember seeing it before now so I wasn't sure if it was teething or not. (FTM) She wears an amber teething necklace and isn't that fussy, but when she is I like to give teething tablets, but I wanted to make sure she was teething first (if that makes since)
My son's mouth looks very similar to the top pictures of Logan in how I can see the outline of his teeth through the front of his gums and also that his upper lip frenulum attaches to his hard palate. Is a frenulum attachment like this normal? Does it cause a gap between the two front teeth or any problems in mobility of the upper lip?
Hi Kaitlyn – Everyone's frenum goes from the front lip back towards the palate. It's hard to say if it will become a problem in the future. As long as he can eat fine, we usually don't do anything until they are done with braces and it looks like it will be a problem. I hope that helps!
The first thing I thought when I saw these pics is that this baby appears to have a lip tie.
I thought the same thing. My son loved very similar. We were having trouble with breastfeeding. I had it corrected with a minor less than a minute procedure at a plastic surgeon when he was four weeks. It made a huge difference in breastfeeding. If not corrected – not a huge deal but may cause a gap in front teeth.
My baby looked like this. She was diagnosed with a class 4 lip tie.
My little boy is 6 months today (7-17-13)
He is teething because he is constantly rubbing his gums. So today I pulled down his bottom lip snd noticed a small white bump on the outer part of the gum. It looked like a small white head (pimple) what could that be? And what can I use to relieve his pain or itchiness? -
Question regarding the gums– was the baby pictured here classified as having a lip tie? Our three month old daughter has the same wide band on her upper gum, attaching the upper lip. We have read this can cause gapped teeth, speech issues, and sometimes feeding issues.
We are also trying to figure out if her teeth buds indicate teething in process. Ah, so hard to tell!
The line where it says babies don't die from teething is actually not accurate.
A boy was lost in my husbands family, because all of his teeth came in at once and his fever spiked.
A doctor advised that the boy's gums be cut open to allow the teeth to come down, but the mother
did not want to. The child passed away from a fever spike and a few hours after, the teeth broke through the gums. A chilling story of some hereditary teething issues. As with all things, everything must be kept in check.


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Here is the beautiful girl that constantly makes me laugh. She is no stranger to Fashion Bananas. I am sure some of you recognize her. Anyway after living with me for 6 months she has gone back home and I miss her like crazy! She definitely has my heart 100%.
May 31, 2010
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Here is the beautiful girl that constantly makes me laugh. She is no stranger to Fashion Bananas. I am sure some of you recognize her. Anyway after living with me for 6 months she has gone back home and I miss her like crazy! She definitely has my heart 100%.
64 comments:
- WendyB said...
Can't tell at all you were burned!
- May 31, 2010 at 12:51 AM
- sharonlei said...
Ouch! I hope your sunburn is healing. Soothe your skin with some cool aloevera gel. It works wonders! You always look fabulous Delmy.. hope you're enjoying the three day weekend.
xx Love & Aloha
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- Niika said...
u look great..so easy breezy in the first pic
- May 31, 2010 at 2:00 AM
- Dylana Suarez said...
Those blue shorts are so striking!
colormenana.blogspot.com - May 31, 2010 at 2:49 AM
- Peach City Style-Launching 6.1.10! said...
Love the clutch and the blue shorts! By the way your sunburn isn't that noticeable ;)
- May 31, 2010 at 3:02 AM
- syd vicious said...
Love your wedges (both pairs)!!
- May 31, 2010 at 3:14 AM
- moded'amour said...
Love the last outfit!!
mode-damour.blogspot.com - May 31, 2010 at 4:02 AM
- Holly said...
I love those blue shorts with the leopard wedges.
You're such an inpiration. Thankyou!
Holly x - May 31, 2010 at 4:15 AM
- Leia said...
You are so lucky you got some sun! Here in London it is freezing and windy and gray. And your niece (?) looks like your twin!
- May 31, 2010 at 4:33 AM
You've beautiful hair :)
greetings from Poland :) - May 31, 2010 at 4:50 AM
- Camilla said...
These are so pretty, I am in love with your dress in the first pics.
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- Dominique said...
Love those outfits, those blue shorts and wedges, stunning.
http://caribbeaneco-living.blogspot.com/ - May 31, 2010 at 6:08 AM
- Maryn said...
blue with leapoard is very nice!
www.intuitioncouture.blogspot.com - May 31, 2010 at 6:21 AM
- ilovefashion said...
Great outfits :D
I love the heels on the last outfit they look tooo fab
http://fashion-in-pictures.blogspot.com/ - May 31, 2010 at 6:36 AM
- Nina said...
I love your skin, end result is golden and gorgeous...beautiful white dress, and the photo of you & your sis is stunning!
fashionableroad.blogspot.com - May 31, 2010 at 9:53 AM
- stilettolover91 said...
Beautiful outfits!! I'm loving those leopard wedges!!!
http://whattafox.blogspot.com/ - May 31, 2010 at 10:27 AM
- FASHION SNAG said...
I love your cobalt blue silk shorts. I have really been into silk shorts lately as well! x
www.FashionSnag.com - May 31, 2010 at 11:34 AM
- 406 Olivia said...
I love the shade of clue on the shorts...
http://406olivia.blogspot.com - May 31, 2010 at 12:06 PM
- BrooklynBlonde said...
Love the shorts and those leopard wedges! Happy Holidays!
www.BrooklynBlonde.com - May 31, 2010 at 12:25 PM
- CONFESSIONS OF A DOLL said...
love it the blue shorts with the clutch is so hot xoxo hautedolleyes.blogspot.com
- May 31, 2010 at 12:32 PM
- Alina said...
love the lux dress its the perfect summer outfit ;)
happy memorial day!
www.dreamingchic.blogspot.com - May 31, 2010 at 12:54 PM
- Lena said...
Delmy! God, I LOVE these blue shorts! As for your sunburn...ugh...good luck with that! :P
You and your niece look so much alike!
Have fun!
Lena! - May 31, 2010 at 1:12 PM
- Elysia said...
i love that zara clutch soo cute what a great accessory to spice up a simple out fit you look great! love all the photos and how cute is that birdie! xo
http://faceless-fashion.blogspot.com - May 31, 2010 at 1:22 PM
- the gorgeous said...
loove those shorts, the colour is fab!
xx - May 31, 2010 at 3:11 PM
- laplusbelle21 said...
Girl, those aquamarine shorts look so-o-o-o amazing on you:)
Love the outfit - May 31, 2010 at 3:51 PM
- Ashley said...
Ahhhhmazing style girl! I've been following your blog for awhile and your outfits are always timeless and chic, very inspirational.
btw...loving your hair color<3
www.plum-bucket.blogspot.com - May 31, 2010 at 3:53 PM
- Choco-Lyna said...
Love both outfits and the dress is adorable! That food looks delicious yummy
- May 31, 2010 at 4:28 PM
- Maggie ☮ said...
you do look GOlden lol ...you only really look burned on your chest in the first few pictures I love the blue shorts!! the birdie is soo cute!! and is that your twin? the picture literally looks like a mirror image of you.
xoxo - May 31, 2010 at 5:16 PM
- kelly frances said...
the blue shorts are perfect! i just ordered to sam edelman wedges, hugggge fan!
heelsandinspiration.blogspot.com - May 31, 2010 at 8:02 PM
- Nika said...
love all the looks!
- May 31, 2010 at 8:35 PM
- Mia Sumiati said...
Catherine looked exactly like you in the picture. More like a mirror image! And the dish is so mouth-watering...
- May 31, 2010 at 9:30 PM
- Hal said...
just found your blog, following now :) love those leopard print wedges. xo
HALCOHOLIC.com - May 31, 2010 at 9:50 PM
- ShoesForDessert said...
I love the bold blue shorts and those leopard wedges! Such a cute look together!
http://shoesfordessert.blogspot.com/ - June 1, 2010 at 12:09 AM
- Style ninfa said...
I love that shorts!!
The color is great
xoxo Angie
www.styleninfa.blogspot.com - June 1, 2010 at 2:04 AM
- Taryn said...
Love the simplicity of the first outfit and the clutch and shoes of the second.
- June 1, 2010 at 2:20 AM
- Bruninha said...
Perfect shoes, perfect hair and perfect outfit! I'm following =)
- June 1, 2010 at 2:46 AM
- Mirjam said...
maybe i will cut my hair the same.. just love your hair sooooo much
- June 1, 2010 at 3:50 AM
- Irene Colzi said...
The little white dress is adorable!
♥ Irene's Closet♥
http://ireneccloset.blogspot.com - June 1, 2010 at 5:49 AM
- pearlslaceandruffles said...
Love the second look! Fab
http://www.pearlslaceandruffles.com - June 1, 2010 at 8:22 AM
Summer clothes!!!!
and that Girl?
Is she your friend or sister?!!
That Pic seems a mirror! - June 1, 2010 at 10:18 AM
- Glamour Bbey. said...
3 stunning looks! I love them all!
- June 1, 2010 at 11:50 AM
- Neekoh said...
You poor thing! I hope your sunburn gets better.
I like that summery white dress on you -- such the staple these days.
Neekoh - June 1, 2010 at 1:14 PM
- Lenka James said...
your dress is so lovely I like your pictures so much :D
- June 1, 2010 at 1:54 PM
- Alina said...
really like your easy and stylish summer looks!
http://www.lainfluence.blogspot.com/ - June 1, 2010 at 2:05 PM
- holly in heels said...
ADORE your Sam Edelman wedges. Great style, great outfit, great weekend!
www.hollyinheels.com - June 1, 2010 at 3:36 PM
- Laura said...
I love all your outfits I hope your sunburn gets better soon. Have you ever put cold green tea on your sunburn? I have found that it works really well especially if your scalp gets burnt.
- June 1, 2010 at 5:07 PM
- xshumzx said...
Simple & Classic. Love it
www.mydailylookbook.blogspot.com - June 1, 2010 at 6:34 PM
- Alba said...
I love your sandals!! xoxo
- June 1, 2010 at 7:52 PM
- JT said...
You are such a cutie delmy!!
Absolutely love both outfits! The white flowy dress is sooo pretty-perfect for spring/summer!
Love the hair btw, the volume and length is to diiiie for! Oh and the color too!!
Come out to LA soon!
Jules - June 2, 2010 at 1:48 AM
- Domonique said...
Love the pics......the aqua blue shorts are amazing! Hope the sunburn gets better soon...ouch
x - June 2, 2010 at 4:52 AM
- Pixie Dust said...
Woow, your style is impeccable and you are super beautiful :O Love the leopard shoes :))
If you have the time, come check out my blog, I think you'll like it :)) Also, there's a giveaway going on at my blog now, I hope you join :))
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Have a great day hon :)) - June 2, 2010 at 9:45 AM
- Cubicle Chic said...
Love the shorts! The outfit is such a great summer look. Hope the sunburn is wearing off!
cubiclechicblog.com - June 2, 2010 at 2:08 PM
- PaolinaBM said...
i like your leopard wedges!
http://timeless-is-more.blogspot.com/ - June 3, 2010 at 6:55 AM
- LadyLUX said...
OMG that shrimp dish looks amazing! The fashion is wonderful too :)
- June 3, 2010 at 1:54 PM
- Aspirante a Miss Divina said...
Que mona que estás con el vestidín blanco, ¿será porque me encantan los vestidos blancos para el verano y tengo varios colgando de mi armario? No me cansan aunque a simple vista parece que siempre vaya vestida igual... Jejejeje...
El que llevas es ideal.
Un besín. - June 3, 2010 at 2:09 PM
- K8 said...
you've got gorgeous hair girl! And I'm totally digging those Sam Edelman's.
Fashion X K8.blogspot.com - June 3, 2010 at 3:34 PM
- Karoline said...
God, I love your wedges!
- June 3, 2010 at 5:38 PM
- C said...
The blue shorts and leopard print are so cute together. I should try that combo
- June 3, 2010 at 8:22 PM
- Sassy POSE said...
Just found your blog and love it! I am going to follow now. Check out my blog if you can...newly revamped.
www.sassypose.blogspot.com - June 3, 2010 at 10:38 PM
- Indigo said...
I really love the blue shorts and the clutch bag.
xx - June 4, 2010 at 6:38 AM
- Bionica said...
you have a twin? that is so cool =)
lovin' the blue shorts
-Bionica - June 9, 2010 at 7:30 PM
- Talk Pretty To Me said...
Those leopard wedges are fabulous!
www.talkprettytome.blogspot.com - June 11, 2010 at 11:12 AM
- peggy said...
- June 12, 2010 at 9:01 AM
- Trendy Gourmandise said...
you look likes twins with your sister


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January 12, 2011
Illinois Man Claims $775,000 Show Me Cash Jackpot
A man from Caseyville, Ill., has stepped forward to claim the second-largest winning Show Me Cash jackpot - a $775,000 prize from the Dec. 29, 2010, drawing. John Wielgus, 55, purchased the winning ticket at Metropolitan Newstands, 211 N. Broadway, in St. Louis. He bought $5 worth of tickets for that drawing, two sets of numbers he picked himself, and three sets that were Quick Pick. It was a Quick Pick combination that matched all five winning numbers: 11, 17, 19, 27 and 39.
"Ever since they took away our 401K, I've been spending that money on Show Me Cash tickets," Wielgus joked.
When asked if he would continue to play the Lottery while claiming his prize at the St. Louis Lottery office on Jan. 6, Wielgus was uncertain. He said he visited a casino following the win, and it "just didn't seem like any fun."
"Maybe I'll step up to Powerball," he continued.
This is the first large Lottery prize for Wielgus, but he recalled another big win.
"I hit a huge prize in 1978 when my wife agreed to marry me," he said.
He added that the windfall will allow him to retire early.
Metropolitan Newstands will receive a bonus equal to 1 percent of the jackpot, $7,750, for selling the winning ticket.
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