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The script removes the blue/purple fringe found in digital camera pictures.
This script came out of necessity, when laborious and tedious work for fixing a large set of images became too much! It's certainly not perfect, but it does do a really decent job for a hands-off approach!
Version 1.1 (2009 June 18)
Version 1.2 (2009 July 5)
Lomo-Gimp tries to give your digital pictures the warmth of those taken by an old rangefinder analog camera. Think of it as a Kodak Instamatic or a Lomo Holga faking effect. It enhances contrast and saturation, and applies a light and a dark overlay, trying to emulate incorrectness in exposition. Please note this does nothing to emulate the chromatic aberration peculiar in pictures taken using a real Lomo.
Get it at Lomo-Gimp.
This is an automation script to dodge and burn the highlights and shadows.
This script tries to fix the tone of a photo taken with wrong exposure. In some landscape photos, it can have a nice effect of enhancing the colors.
The general idea is to produce different copies of the image at different gamma levels, then applying simple tone mapping techniques to produce a vibrant photo.
The script allows the user to control the number of copies by setting the lowest and highest gamma setting then the interval. For example lowest=20, highest=170, interval=10 results to (170-20)/10 = 15 copies with increasing gamma level from 0.2 to 1.7. Play around!
To fix burned out or white skies by adding clouds and a blue sky gradient (using a threshold mask).
Guide to Using the Blue Sky & Clouds Script
To reduce the effects of Purple Fringing or Chromatic Aberration in high contrast areas of an affected photograph.
Guide to Using the Purple Fringe Script
To fix burned out or white skies by adding a blue sky gradient (using a threshold mask).
Guide to Using the Blue Sky Gradient Script
Adds a Contrast Adjustment layer to your image to help fix contrast problems.
Guide to Using the Contrast Fix Script
Saturation Fix for restoring clipped colour channels.
Guide to Using the Saturation Fix Script
After you download the script to your scripts folder and refresh your scripts (Filters -> Script-Fu –> Refresh Scripts), you'll find the new script in the menu under Script-Fu> Darla –> Saturation Fix.
To fix areas produced by hot, dead or stuck pixels. (Includes procedures for noninteractive file and folder batch processing.)
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Airtechnic Solutions - a Hotraco Group company
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Airtechnic Solutions is an internationally operating company dedicated to developing, manufacturing and the supply of tailor-made air technological systems for the industry. We are specialists in providing integral solutions for air technological problems in the field of process air treatment and powder processing. More than 60 employees work for customers all over the ...
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IPEX designs and manufactures one of the world's largest and most diverse lines of integrated thermoplastic piping systems—pipe, valves, fittings, auxiliary components and tools—all engineered from the ground up to handle the full range of today's municipal, industrial, commercial and residential applications.
Enerac Inc.
based in Holbrook, NEW YORK (USA)
Enerac is the leading manufacturer of portable emission analyzers and portable combustion analyzers in the world. The company introduced the model 842 in 1979. This was the first automated combustion efficiency analyzer ever built. Enerac combustion analyzers are Made in the USA. Our units can give you O2,CO,NO,No2,So2,H2S,HC,Co2,Draft,Temp & Efficiency. Enerac 500 & 700 ...
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AEREON, headquartered in Austin, Texas, is a global leader in the supply of high-quality technologies and services for gas and vapor handling, combustion and recovery for the oil and gas industries. AEREON was formed in 2012 when Flare Industries, LLC acquired Jordan Technologies. Under the two brands, AEREON offers the broadest product line of engineered flare systems, ...

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I may not have made myself clear, but the time in the string is not a duration, it's part of a timestamp, e.g. "Meeting <2010-11-11 Thu 13:00>" means that a meeting is scheduled for November 11 at 13:00 (or 1 PM).
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Pitti Uomo 84 18-21 Jun 2013 Florence
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Luxury and Elegance. French porcelain at court and the Manifattura Ginori (1800 - 1830)
Located in the eighteenth-century Casino del Cavaliere (literally: the knight's little house) in the Boboli Gardens, the Porcelain Museum is now forty years old: this is an important birthday for the Museum that collects porcelain tableware of all the Florentine ruling families and it is celebrated with an exhibition.
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Zito passes physical, making $126 million deal official
Updated: December 30, 2006, 12:49 AM ETAssociated Press
SAN FRANCISCO -- True to form, Barry Zito had a little fun when quizzed about how he might alter his style now that he has the richest contract for a pitcher in baseball history.
"I'm just thinking of canning the curveball. Other than that, nothing major," Zito joked Friday, when his $126 million, seven-year contract with the San Francisco Giants became official.
The former AL Cy Young Award winner passed his physical Friday, the last step in the process for the star left-hander ...
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In this part we will touch a little of the core relevancy model. Be careful! The modification work described in this part can be a disaster to your search result if you don't know what you are doing.
The theory in this part of relevancy tuning comes from a technical article wrote by Dmitriy Meyerzon, Avi Schmueli and Jo-Anne West :Evaluating and Customizing Search Relevance in SharePoint Server 2007. You can find it in MOSS SDK and MSDN library. It should be your pre-reading material.
After go through the article, you should now understand that we can change several parameters to meet our custom needs. For example, the weighting of a managed property.
Scenario: The end users have a request - A field in their Lotus Notes system is very important, and when they do a search, they want the top results should emphasize this field.
Brilliant idea. But it will be very tough if your search engine cannot make this change. Luckily, the relevancy model in MOSS can be adjusted to meet the request. Here' re the steps.
1. We need to map this field to a managed property. For example, this field has a name:"NotesTitle", but in fact it is a subject not the title of the document. You need to create a managed property first and then map this field to this new property. Setup the Lotus Notes content source first,then crawl the database. This will make the field name shown in crawled properties list. And then you can do the mapping job.
2. After field "NotesTile" is mapped to a managed property "NotesTitle", you can now change the weight of this property. We need to call object model to do this, but there is a free tool on SharePointSearch.com.
You can see the weight and length parameters of "NotesTitle" are all zero. By default, MOSS will only have three properties have this setting enabled, they are Title(75.855), Author(8.215) and FileName(29.43). If you want to change a new managed property and make it more important, you need to write a higher value in their weight parameter.
Let's change it to a bigger number. The bigger the weight, the more important this property will have. (Please note there's a bug in this tool, you cannot input any value higher than 99 actually)
Then press "Update". No restart of any service, the relevancy will be applied automatically.
So here's the result. If you can read Chinese, you will get a more clear idea.
Result before weight tuning, please note "NotesTitle" field is listed in grey font, below Path property. In the top results, you cannot find anything of the keyword in NotesTitle. And the Rank of first result is 854.
Result after tuning. You can see the keyword is not in the "general title", but in our NotesTitle. And the Rank of first result is 879.
This can be applied to many factors. For example, you can modify languageprior parameter to make the result langauage bias. When an English user searches for something, he will get English results first. When a Chinese user searches for something, he will get Chinese content first. The language is detected through language setting of client's browser.
This is written by my colleague Aleck. It is a "livesearch" experience on SharePoint based products, for example MSS and MOSS. It hacks the search keyword webpart with javascript code, and when you type something in it, a reference list will show in a AJAX listbox. Looks like Google, right?
Feel free to modify it and use on your own box. It may need some tweaks to fit your environment.
This is another result for Hylanda wordbreaker testing...
The story is very interesting. After we got 18000+ search results for each wordbreaker, we need to evaluate the results to decide when, where and how the new wordbreaker is better than the original one. Such thing cannot be decided by myself, or by any of the physical measure. When people say "Hey, you know sometimes Yahoo is better than Google", they are measuring it with their own eyes.
This is quite similar with my research for my Master's degree. I studied Psychological Acoustics for two years in that time, try to use some way to measure sound quality. This is called subject quality evaluation. So I used the same method, to measure search result quality.
This method is called Paired Comparison. The tester will be given two sets of result, and choose which is better. For example, there're 50 results in each set(A, B). So first, A1 and B1 show up and the user choose A, then A2/B2 show up and user choose B... In the end, count the number of A and B, you will get tester's preference.
To make sure there's no psychological interfere during the test, the order and set can be randomized. Tester will not know which is A and which is B, they just need to choose the better one.
Here's the interface of the program.
Testing. If tester cannot choose which is better(sometimes the two sets are the same good or bad), he can choose not to vote or vote for none.
Final result will displayed in a message box.
Of course, this is just a simple proof of concept. I shared the source and a sample in the release package so you can do your own research work.
When I was testing the new wordbreaker provided by Hylanda, they gave me a keyword library which had 100,000+ keywords. Each of them needed to be queried, and the results needed to be saved.
After some sorting/removing garbage work, there were still 18,000+ keywords. It would really be a pain to query them by hand.
There is also a request from http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2512852&SiteID=1.
So I wrote a small tool to do this job automatically. It reads keyword list from a pure text file (each keyword in one line), and then queries them on MSS/MOSS, saves the results in XML files to the disk.
The source code is very simple. Most part of it is from MOSS SDK. So feel free to use it.


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The 58th annual Almelund Threshing Show will begin Aug. 8, featuring all sorts of tractors, attractions and a whole lot more. The show continues to attract people of all generations from across the country and even internationally. It has become a place of summer destination for those who enjoy all ...Read More
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The Chisago County Master Gardeners just finished a very successful weekend at the Alemlund Threshing show. We were invited to the show about ten years ago and it's amazing how the basic questions remain the same. However, this year was somewhat different because of some new diseases and inse...Read More
The Almelund Threshing Co. has chosen to begin the annual Tractor Caravan at Eko Backen Summer Events Center. The Caravan will depart from Eko Backen Summer Events Center, 22570 Manning Trl., Scandia, 10 a.m., Aug. 4, for a leisurely ride that will end at the Almelund Threshing Showgrounds. Everyone...Read More
The 56th Annual Almelund Threshing Show treated folks to another great time last weekend (Aug. 10-12). From youth tractor safety clinics to live music in the beer garden to everything tractors, the event did not disappoint. The show was hosted by Almelund Volunteer Fire and Rescue, Almelund Lions Cl...Read More
The Almelund Threshing Show is over for another year. Each year a tractor is raffled off and this year's lucky winner was Duane Damm of Lindstrom, who was very excited with the prize. Slide show of the event coming soon....Read More
Perhaps you had a chance to take a little breather from the fun and excitement of summertime community events. Well, here comes round two. This week it's Stacy's turn to present its annual celebration – Stacy Daze. Running right now is the medallion hunt, unless someone has already found i...Read More


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The Potty Chronicles: A Story to Help Children Adjust to Toilet Training
Pages: 32, Color
Size: 7 12" x 8 1/2"
Age Range: 2-6
Item #: 4414355
List Price: $8.95
Copyright: 1991
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Toilet training is a difficult task for any child, yet it is easy for parents to overlook how hard it really is for young children to achieve the needed mental and emotional as well as physical control. This delightful book expresses children's natural fears, letting them feel comfort and trust from knowing their experience is understood. Since the psychological issues of this stressful time often live on even after the physically demands have been resolved, this book will appeal both to children in training and those who have already been trained.
About the Author
Annie Reiner, LCSW, gave up a career as a psychotherapist to pursue writing and painting. She is a published poet, playwright, and author of the children's book A Visit to the Art Gallery. Her paintings hang in galleries and in private collections.
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Composed with wit and charm, this carefully crafted work expresses the conflicted emotions experienced by children who are being toilet trained: feelings of confusion, avoidance, and opposition regarding the assumption of personal responsibility.
—Allen B. Weiner, MD, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles
The author conveys extremely complex and profound ideas in a beautifully rendered poem that will appeal to children as both art and education. Ideal for parents and educators to provide children with the correct understanding of this crucial life experience.
—Alan H. Blanc, MD, PhD, unit chief, Inpatient Psychiatry, Thalians Community Mental Health Center, Los Angeles


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(En español: Arterias y venas)
Say: ar-tuh-reez and vayns
If you've ever seen a road map, you probably saw many roads going here, there, and everywhere. Your body has a highway system all its own that sends blood to and from your body parts. It's called the circulatory system and the roads are called arteries and veins. Arteries, which usually look red, carry blood away from the heart. Veins, which usually look blue, return blood to the heart.
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|Over 600,000 readers have taken advantage of previous editions of this book. Here are more fun and helpful hints to assist users in getting the most out of the latest Windows OS and the Active Desktop. Features advanced coverage of file compression and storage, networking, customizing the desktop, and new features such as multiple monitor display and TV tuner technology. *Author: Rathbone, Andy *Series Title: More ... for Dummies *Binding Type: Paperback *Number of Pages: 358 *Publication Date: 1998/06/16 *Language: English *Dimensions: 9.35 x 7.48 x 0.99 inches


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Ruth Carter lost the use of her right arm when she suffered a stroke a month ago.
I want you to work on here to here.
Three weeks ago – at the age of 42 – Michael Bainkley had a stroke that affected his right side.
OK, untie and retie.
Just 10 days ago 64-year-old Horace Cox lost the use of his left arm when he had a stroke.
I can raise my arm now and I can do this here. When I first come here I couldn't do nothing
These stroke survivors are in the hospital and typically get 3 hours of rehabilitation every day. Their job is to get ready to go home.
They certainly can't do things like dress themselves, bathe themselves and because inpatient rehab is so intensive, it's an excellent way to start their stroke recovery.
To recover or regain use of the arm – occupational therapists use a variety of tools.
It's really up to the therapist to know what's available and what's going to work best for that particular patient.
There is no magic bullet for how to treat a stroke and there is no absolute method that works for everyone.
One tool is remediation… encouraging use of the affected arm by repeating a motion.
We want to remedy the problem and the problem is you don't have as much grip strength and coordination on this hand or this arm.
Another tool is adaptation – learning to do things a new way. Exercises like these help the brain re-wire so it can get the arm moving again.
A stroke basically kills part of the brain. It can happen because of a hemorrhage. It can happen because of an ischemic event like a blood clot.
Remarkably we have a lot of brain cells we don't use…so critical information can be rerouted around the dead cells.
Mrs. Carter does have some spasticity, so like if I try to bring her arm up to strengthen it, it will catch there. Ok, so like here? It stops there.
Spasticity can occur when there's damage to the area of the brain controlling movement. As a result:
That arm becomes tight and spastic. The fingers get flexed, the wrist gets flexed and the arm gets stuck to the side of the body.
To block spasticity, occupational therapists use various techniques such as this air splint. Other options include medications to relax muscles…and surgery to sever the nerves causing the problem.
Once patients leave the hospital they can continue to regain arm movement in outpatient rehabilitation for up to two years following the stroke.
Forty-percent of the people will get complete recovery, 40% will get partial recovery and 20% will get very little or no recovery
Severity of the stroke makes a difference in the final outcome, but it's not the only factor.
How motivated are they? How much are they participating in their therapy? Are they doing their homework? Do they have positive attitude?
Reno Williams had a stroke a year ago.
At first he couldn't move his left side – by the time he left the hospital he could move his arm a little and walk a little…
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NEW HAVEN ——A library book Steven Hayes was reading in the months before the Cheshire home-invasion killings could be used as evidence by prosecutors at his trial.
Hayes' defense team, however, is prepared to fight the use of the book to prosecute Hayes for the July 2007 killings of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters, Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11, inside their Cheshire home.
Most of the motions Blue discussed Tuesday, including motions to sequester witnesses and to suppress physical evidence, are filed routinely before criminal cases. While discussing motions, Blue made a reference to "a library book" that could be an issue in the case.
Citing a court-imposed gag order preventing parties from talking publicly about the Hayes case, neither prosecutors nor defense attorneys would comment on the library book.
Brian Garnett, a spokesman for the state Department of Correction, also cited the gag order when asked about reading materials Hayes may have signed out from prison libraries.
Hayes, whose long criminal record dates back to when he was a teenager in the 1980s, was serving a five-year prison sentence following a burglary conviction in October 2003 when he was granted community release in June 2006. He returned to prison five months later and remained there until May 2007 when he was granted supervised parole.
Hayes, 47, of Winsted, is the first suspect to be tried in the deadly break-in at the Petit family home on July 23, 2007. Hawke-Petit was raped and strangled. Her daughters were left bound in their beds and the house was doused with gasoline and set on fire. Before the killings, Hawke-Petit was forced to go to her bank with one of the suspects and withdraw money. Dr. William Petit Jr. was brutally beaten during the break-in but escaped the burning home.
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Henry L. 'Harry' Thomas III of Bristol, went home to the Father Saturday, Aug. 16, 2014, after a valiant battle with illness. He was 57.
Harry worked as an EMT for the Trevose Heights Rescue Squad (Tri-Hampton) where he met his wife, Donna. He was constantly volunteering in the community and especially cherished helping with his sons' Cub Scout Packs, Boy Scout Troops, and their Sea Scout Ships. Harry was an avid fan of his wife's playing with the Tri-County Band of Feasterville.
He leaves behind his beloved wife, Donna Jeanne (Kingsmill) Thomas; his sons, Michael and Stephen; Stephen's fiancé, Nichole; his sister, Kathy (Thomas) Simmons; and many other family members. He will be sorely missed by all who knew him.
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Located in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, the Ministry of Cannabis provides marijuana seeds to legal medical growers worldwide. Ministry of Cannabis has recently introduced 5 new strains with great medical potential.
(PRWEB) March 26, 2010 -- Located in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, the Ministry of Cannabis has recently made available 5 new varieties of marijuana seeds to legal growers worldwide. Medical marijuana is already legal in fourteen states in the U.S., and according many experts will be legal for recreational use in those states, possibly nationally, in less than five years. Hundreds of different varieties of marijuana seeds and plants are available to individuals legally permitted to buy them in the U.S., and any place in the world where marijuana is legal. It's the mission of the Ministry of Cannabis to supply growers with classical strains of cannabis seeds and offer new strains as they are developed.
Entering into details, the new strains names are Early XXX, Ipot and Zensation, all of them can be successfully used as medicine, all of them are feminized. This term is probably familiar to those who currently buy marijuana for medical purposes. Cannabis is the plant; marijuana is the end product. The most desirable cannabis plants are unfertilized females -- they produce larger, riper buds with higher levels of THC and other psychoactive substances. Stronger levels means the user, under medical control, can obtain beneficial effects with a smaller dosage of the product.
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Tuesday, 4 Oct 2011
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A recent vulnerability that exposes user data to apps that are granted certain permissions on Android devices such as the HTC Thunderbolt and Evo 3D will be patched in an upcoming firmware update.
Thursday, 29 Sep 2011
HTC Explorer Announced
The HTC Explorer has been officially announced in India, and it will be available in Asia from Q4 2011. Its pricing and availability within Singapore has not been confirmed at this time.
Friday, 23 Sep 2011
New HTC Android Phones to Have 5GB Free Dropbox Service
HTC entered into a partnership with Dropbox to bring cloud storage service to its latest Android devices. Users can enjoy 5GB of free storage on their mobile devices.
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Thursday, 8 Sep 2011
Google Backs HTC with Patents Against Apple
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That's a 54 pitch game if he keeps it up
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Pierre strikes out looking. 1 out.
Womack grounds out to short. 2 outs.
Holy crap....we got Womack out.
This post is BABIP-lucky.
Interesting factoid:
2 of Matt Murton's 4 hrs came against Red pitching.
This post is BABIP-lucky.
That's the Womack I remember
Go Gators!
Murton grounds out to 3rd. 0-0 after 1.
Actually 3 of the 4 came against the Reds.Originally Posted by TheBigLebowski
Dunn lines a double to left center.
Dunn likes Wrigley.
Opposite field power
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Dunn for Lee when he's healthy?Originally Posted by Matt700wlw
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still going the other way.Originally Posted by Reds Fanatic
marty says he likes to see that.
I like to see it too. Although I can't b/c EI isn;t showing the game on comcast tonight.
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Help! I seem to be a bit confused. Since I BF on cue, I let DD nap "on cue" as well. When she's tired, I let her sleep. When she's not, we've not insisted on it in the past. But I think this has been pushing her bedtime later and later. Sometimes she's down for the night at 8:30, other times not until 10:30 with a lot of prodding on our end. And this is when she's tired - rubbing eyes and the whole shebang. DH and I have started to enjoy the semi-regular adult time in the evenings, but DH gets up very early for work, and I want that adult time to not cut into his sleep. That's why I'd like DD to get to bed by 9pm. She sleeps 10-12 hours at night, with 2-3 feedings at night. She catnaps during the day, about 3-4 naps daily, 30-45 minutes each. So she's getting the minimum amount of sleep for her age, and doesn't seem to need/want any more.
How do I continue to BF her on cue while at the same time establishing some semblance of a bedtime/nap time routine?
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I think you can just give her the opportunity at that same time every night. I think she will catch on to sleeping at that time. Make it some kind of bed time ritual... soft music, books, bath, rub down, pjs etc. if she falls asleep, bonus, if not, you can try again the next night. It is nice that you guys sound pretty flexible with her bedtime/ routine. I may also suggest cluster feeding from about 4pm on (offer the breast every 30 minutes or so up to the time you want her to go to bed....)
Good luck
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I have started offering the breast when it's naptime or become, and DD has started nursing to sleep or asking for the binky instead, after which she generally goes down easily.
At bedtime though, I have to try to grab a shower, brush my teeth, or whatever else I need to do before trying to get her to sleep bc putting her down often wakes her up. So I let her snooze in my arms as DH and I watch a show our have an adult conversation, and then I just turn in with her. It wastes too much time to stay with her trying to get her to fall deep enough sleep that I could leave for any reason. It's not ideal, but that's what's keeping us same
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Questions: How old is your sweet baby? Is she sleeping in your bed/on a separate surface/in another room? What has been your current "method" of putting her down for the night? Is her morning wake up time consistent, regardless of when she goes to bed, or does it fluctuate with the bedtime?
It was harder for me to get my sweet daughter down for bed when I was still trying to hold her in my arms to nurse her to sleep, but since she sleeps in the same bed with us, I started nursing lying down at bedtime, and then just rolling away once she has fallen deeply asleep. She does single-cycle sleeping until I go to bed with her, however, so I do end up nursing her back down once or maybe twice before I'm ready for bed. This has been the case since she was about 3 months old, this month she will be 9 months.
Once we got our bedtime routine figured out (story, massage, fresh diaper and jammies, "Love you forever" song, pray, and nurse to sleep; takes a total of maybe 30 minutes), we found that doing it about the same time every day can bring on the tired signs, even if she's not showing signs beforehand. Bedtime at our house is between 7 and 8 pm, and my baby sometimes won't rub her eyes until we get to her bedtime song, but as soon as I begin to sing she starts rubbing her eyes and she usually goes to sleep very cooperatively.
Another thing I have noticed is that my baby associates the living room with being awake and the bedrooms with being asleep, so it is easier to get her to drift off if we are in one of the "sleep rooms"... She used to nap in my arms in the living room but is now much more interested in playing when we are in the living room, even when she is clearly very tired. Do you help your babe fall asleep in the same place each night?
On the amount of sleep she is getting: My baby also has always been on the lower end of "necessary" sleep, but some babies just don't need all that sleep! The fact that she is sleeping 12 hours at night means that napping is now just icing on the cake, per say. Just keep focusing on a consistent bedtime, and as long as she is happy and interactive while she is awake, you can be assured that she is getting an appropriate amount of rest.
On the cluster feeding: Some babies wake more at night/get fussy in the evening because they are hungry, cluster feeding can really cram that little belly full of the good stuff (without making sweet baby feel overly full, like large meals in a single sitting) so sometimes they can sleep better/longer/earlier/whatever :)
Sorry about the ridiculously long post, I'm just hoping I can be of any assistance at all, and I'm assuming you will get the most use out of me if I provide just all the information I possibly can :)
I just wanted to be sure that I finished with a hearty GOOD JOB to you!!! Listening to your baby can be very tough, and breastfeeding on demand has been the most draining activity I have ever attempted to do. Props for continuing to follow your baby's lead, as difficult as that can be!
Dd is now 5 months old, sleeps in my bed, we don't have much of a routine since when I tried that, with closing the blinds to start nap time, she started crying bc she knew she was going to sleep and didn't want to. I also read Raising Your Spirited Child, since we suspect she may be spirited, and in it I read that baths raise body temps and so often spirited kids get wired up for some reason instead of it having a calming effect. In our case she also hated baths, so that wasn't a part of the routine either, and one by one we were left without much of a routine.
And it's true, she does not have a consistent wake up time. I stay home with her and as a spirited melancholic, I need more sleep than most to be fully functioning. So I sleep in whenever she lets me. Often she plays for a while in the morning after a feeding and drifts back to sleep, so then we both keep sleeping.
I realize this affects her bedtime. But it's not so much the time she goes to sleep as it is knowing how to consistently get her down AND STAY ASLEEP WHILE I LEAVE THE ROOM. Caps just for emphasis.
She is incredibly attached to me, which I find very endearing, but also troublesome. For instance, I cannot drive anywhere with her bc she doesn't tolerate being alone in the back seat. But that's another problem for another thread :-)
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Since she is spirited, I would strongly suggest trying a bedtime massage, slow and deep and SLOW, to help wind down.
I definitely had the best luck with the baby sleeping alone by nursing to sleep on the bed and then rolling away once she was asleep. At your sweet baby's young age, I hate to say it (because I don't think it's what you want to hear) but you might just have to settle for single-cycle sleeping while she's alone. That's how my baby girl still rolls, single-cycle (like 45-60 minutes) when she is alone. I think it's part of their survival instinct, and there is no way to break that "habit" quickly without destroying your mother-child bond. But never fear, the single cycle gets longer and longer... When my baby girl was 5 months she would only sleep 20 minutes at a time when alone, and now she's up to almost 75 minute cycles at night!
A random suggestion for the car: I have one of those mirrors in the back seat so I can check on my babe by looking in my rear view mirror, and it so happens that my babe can also see me through this mirror setup! You might try it, if you haven't already, to help her feel like she's not so alone.
Good job, mama! Keep on trying!
At night, she is actually sleeping longer stretches, so I guess I can't complain too much. It's just trying to get some adult time with DH that she doesn't approve of. Lol.
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I get in the car in about an hour to drive the 8 hours to cincy for the weekend series.
Glad I'm going to Kings Island.
I get in the car in about an hour to drive the 8 hours to cincy for the weekend series.
Glad I'm going to Kings Island.
"But I do know Joey's sister indirectly (or foster sister) and I have heard stories of Joey being into shopping, designer wear, fancy coffees, and pedicures."
Zach Stewart is bringing Denorfia like reaction for RZers.
"I saw Wedding Crashers accidentally. I bought a ticket for Grizzly Man and went into the wrong theater. After an hour, I figured I was in the wrong theater, but I kept waiting. Thats the thing about bear attacks. They come when you least expect it."-Dwight K. Schrute
IMO the odds of Rolen staying healthy and playing 120+ games in 2010 are not good.
What are you, people? On dope? - Mr Hand
Couple things:
EdE may be considered a bad contract. The Jays may not have wanted him, and the Reds had to overpay in minor league talent.
I was at the Louisville-Syracuse game last Friday, and I was surprised at how small Stewart is. Thought he was a much thicker guy. Not that that means much, but he does not look at all like a workhorse to me. I don't like giving him up in this deal, though.
The thing to keep in mind with trades, as always, is that you have to give to get. It's often painful.
"Baseball is a very, very complex business. It's more of a people business than most businesses." - Bob Castellini
Breaking news: Rolen injures back bending over to sign no-trade waiver paperwork.
a super volcano of ridonkulous suckitude.
I simply don't have access to a "cares about RBI" place in my psyche. There is a "mildly curious about OBI%" alcove just before the acid filled lake guarded by robot snipers with lasers which leads to the "cares about RBI" antechamber though. - Nate
Fay has spoken, this needs a sticky.
There is a decent chance that Stewart won't pan out. I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't.
It's just that I wonder if better players from another organization couldn't have been had with that same package.
I'm not as mad about what will be as I am about what could have been.
"Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?" ~ Jim Bouton
Walt must think we are contenders. The only reasoning to back this trade is if you think the Reds are contending this year or next. I know you don't, and I know that 99% of this board doesn't.
I don't even get Rolen as a target, let alone as the guy we decided to shell out prospects for. Actual contenders haven't been willing to give up as much as the Reds just did in this trade.
Of course, if Stewart does pan out, well ... we just got reamed.
Knowing the Reds' luck, the latter is probably going to end up happening.
Kevin Gregg and Jason Marquis brought back vivid memories of the Lost Decade.
Kevin Gregg: DFA'd May 11, 2015
Jason Marquis: DFA'd June 5, 2015
Good chance Stewart might be the closer for the Jays in 2009
What are you, people? On dope? - Mr Hand
Could be wrong. It happens. I was looking forward to seeing Stewart in Cincinnati myself.
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Roeenicke is a reliever, possibly a good one but still a reliever.
Stewart is a prospect, not even our best one.
Good trade, if we are going to have any shot at competing in 2010 then we needed this trade.
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In public, the pseudonymous Internet drug czar known as the Dread Pirate Roberts doesn't say much. Roberts' website, the illegal, anonymous drug-selling black market known as the Silk Road, has survived only because of its creator's discretion. On the rare occasions when DPR speaks to the press, he (or she) does so in short messages, and–at least in my case–only through the anonymizing service Tor, the same cryptographic tool used to prevent the Feds from tracking down the Silk Road's servers or its users. Thanks to that discretion, the Silk Road's Bitcoin-driven narcotics trade has thrived for more than two years without being shut down by law enforcement, and its founder hasn't been identified.
But within the community that the Dread Pirate Roberts has created, Silk Road's founder is hardly so shy. On the Tor-hidden online forums associated with Silk Road, Roberts posts long manifestos, philosophical and political musings, love letters to Silk Road's users, and even hosts the Dread Pirate Roberts Book Club, a reading and discussion group devoted to "agorism, counter-economics, anarcho-capitalism, Austrian economics, political philosophy, freedom issues and related topics."
The character that emerges from those writings is no run-of-the-mill cybercriminal. (Though Silk Road site was moving $22 million worth of illicit pharmaceuticals a year at last check.) Roberts instead comes across as a principled libertarian and cypherpunk in the same vein as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto.
Below, I've assembled DPR's writings from Silk Road's forum on every topic from the War on Drugs to Ron Paul to his own motives and ideology. Since most readers don't use Tor, I've copied some entire long passages here. But for those who do use Tor, I've added links at the end of each subject back to Silk Road's Tor-hidden community forum, where you can read all of Roberts' words in context.
On the Silk Road as a practical libertarian system:
"Silk Road was founded on libertarian principles and continues to be operated on them. It is a great idea and a great practical system…It is not a utopia. It is regulated by market forces, not a central power (even I am subject to market forces by my competition. No one is forced to be here). The same principles that have allowed Silk Road to flourish can and do work anywhere human beings come together. The only difference is that the State is unable to get its thieving murderous mitts on it." [10/1/2012]
On the War on Drugs: (In response to criticisms from another user who said that Silk Road hasn't affected the War on Drugs)
"Silk Road has already made an impact on the war on drugs. The effect of the war is to limit people's access to controlled substances. Silk Road has expanded people's access. The great thing about agorism is that it is a victory from a thousand battles. Every single transaction that takes place outside the nexus of state control is a victory for those individuals taking part in the transaction. So there are thousands of victories here each week and each one makes a difference, strengthens the agora, and weakens the state." [9/23/2012]
On the potential for drug cartels to form on Silk Road:
"Cartels are nearly impossible to maintain without the use of violence, especially in an environment as competitive as Silk Road. There is also nothing morally wrong with them. If a cartel were to form, I would not attempt to break it up unless its members were breaking other rules. If you want an explanation for why cartels are nearly impossible to maintain in a free market environment, please read "Man, Economy and State" chapter 10, part 2, section D." [3/21/2013]
On maintaining the trust of Silk Road's users: (after a Silk Road outage raised concerns among users that the site's administrators might have run off with the funds stored on the site)
"I know this whole market is based on the trust you put in me and I don't take that lightly. It's an honor to serve you and though you don't know who I am, and have no recourse if I were to betray you, I hope that as time goes on I will have more opportunities to demonstrate that my intentions are genuine and no amount of money could buy my integrity.
Especially you old hats that have been around since the beginning, but this goes for everyone, you all are like family to me. Sure we have some crazy cousins floating around, but they just add character, right? Doesn't matter though, I love you all. Of all the people in the world, you are the ones who are here, in the early stages of this revolution. You are the ones getting this thing off the ground and driving it forward. It is a privilege to have you by my side. Thank you for your trust, faith, camaraderie and love." [11/17/2012]
On the "heroes" who sell drugs on Silk Road:
"There are heroes among us here at Silk Road. Every day they risk their lives, fortunes, and precious liberty for us. They are on the front lines making tough decisions and working their asses off to make this market what it is. Of course I am talking about our vendors. I won't try to acknowledge them individually because we are blessed with so many extraordinary people who have stepped up to the task and taken it upon themselves to find a way to stock the shelves at Silk Road. They labor tirelessly to balance the heavy responsibilities they've taken on. From customer support, to supply chain and inventory management, to promotion, to quality control, to risk management and mitigation, to IT, to Bitcoin finance, to order fulfillment, and on and on, these guys and gals are professionals that are rising to the top of their game."[2/27/2012]
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Constance Benson
Constance Benson (26 February 1864 – 19 January 1946) was a British stage and film actress.
Born Gertrude Constance Samwell in India, Benson became the wife of actor Frank Benson in 1886. They had two children, Eric William (1887-1916) and Byrnhild Lucy (b. 1888). After F. R. Benson's affair with the actress Genevieve Smeek (d. 1927), the couple separated. However, they did not divorce, and Constance (who had become Lady Benson in 1916) attended her husband's funeral as his widow, in 1940.
Constance Benson worked in theatre for most of her career, but did appear in lead roles in four silent films, all of which were early film adaptations of William Shakespeare plays. She starred in film versions of Shakespeare's Richard III, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and The Taming of the Shrew, all in 1911. During the First World War (in which her son, Eric was killed), Benson ran a canteen for soldiers in France.
In addition, Benson was the author of an autobiography, Mainly Players (1926); two novels, The Chimera (1928) and Cuckoo Oats (1929); and an acting manual.


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Cream-of-Chicken Soup
7 Dec 2008
|Egg yolks
|Chicken consomm
|12 1⁄2 Ounce (Undiluted)
|Heavy cream
|1 1⁄4 Cup (20 tbs)
|1 Teaspoon
|1⁄4 Teaspoon
|Dry sherry
|3 Tablespoon
|Chopped watercress
|1 Tablespoon
In top of double boiler, combine egg yolks and chicken consomme; mix well.
Cook, over hot water and stirring constantly, until mixture thickens and forms coating on metal spoon—about 10 minutes.
Remove from heat.
Stir in cream, salt, and pepper.
Cook, over hot water and stirring occasionally, about 5 minutes, or until very hot.
Stir in sherry.
Serve at once.
Garnish each serving with a little watercress.
Makes 3 cups—4 servings.
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Widdershins New Complete Edition - Widdershins - By Oliver Onions - A Classic Ghost Story. George Oliver Onions (13 November 1873 - 9 April 1961) was an English novelist who published over forty novels and story collections. Originally trained as a commercial artist, he worked as a designer of posters and books, and as a magazine illustrator during the Boer War. The first editions of his novels were published with dust jackets bearing full-colour illustrations painted by Onions himself. Encouraged by the American writer Gelett Burgess, Onions began writing fiction. [2] He married the writer Berta Ruck in 1909 and they had two sons, Arthur (born 1912) and William (born 1913). Onions legally changed his name to George Oliver in 1918, but continued to publish under the name Oliver Onions. In the book Twentieth Century Authors, Onions described his interests as motoring and science; he was also an amateur boxer as a young man. Onions wrote detective fiction, social comedy and historical fiction; Poor Man's Tapestry (1946) and its prequel, Arras of Youth (1949) are about the adventures of a juggler, Robert Gandelyn, in the fourteenth century. Onions wrote two detective novels: A Case in Camera and In Accordance with the Evidence . Two of his works are science fiction novels: New Moon (1918) about a utopian Britain, and The Tower of Oblivion (1921), featuring a middle-aged man who recedes back to his youth. A Certain Man (1931), about a magical suit of clothes, and A Shilling to Spend (1965), about a self-perpetuating coin, are fantasy novels. Onions wrote several collections of ghost stories, of which the best known is Widdershins (1911). It includes the novella The Beckoning Fair One, widely regarded as one of the best in the genre of horror fiction, especially psychological horror. On the surface, this is a conventional haunted house story: an unsuccessful writer moves into rooms in an otherwise empty house, in the hope that isolation will help his failing creativity. His sensitivity and imagination are enhanced by his seclusion, but his art, his only friend and his sanity are all destroyed in the process. The story can be read as narrating the gradual possession of the protagonist by a mysterious and possessive feminine spirit, or as a realistic description of a psychotic outbreak culminating in catatonia and murder, told from the psychotic subject's point of view. The precise description of the slow disintegration of the protagonist's mind is terrifying in either case. Another theme, shared with others of Onions' stories, is a connection between creativity and insanity; in this view, the artist is in danger of withdrawing from the world altogether and losing himself in his creation. Another noted story from Widdershins is "Rooum," about an engineer pursued by a mysterious entity.
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The Iraqi vote was a victory for Prime Minister Maliki. Now he'll need to do something for the Shiite masses.
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It's not a view, even with all of the horrific suffering that has occurred in the last six years, that has much traction in Iraq. At least not with the Shiites, who represent around 60 percent of the country's population, or the Kurds, who account for another 20 percent of Iraq's 28 million souls. Antiwar Shiites and Kurds are certainly out there--if a parent loses a child to war or sees a child disfigured by a suicide bomber, then nothing in this world could seem of higher value. And many Shiite Arabs and Kurds were Baathists, who understandably pine for yester-year. But what is striking in Iraq--at least among the Shiites with whom I've spent my time on this trip--is the seemingly unalterable conviction that the fall of Saddam, no matter what happened afterward, was a wondrous event. From the Shiite rich to the Shiite poor, from the most secular to the most religious, from those who have sought a terrible revenge against the Sunnis to those who have mourned their dead peacefully, I have heard the same word to describe their world since March 2003: mu'jiza ("a miracle").
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The Phillies added some depth to their spring roster by signing veteran right-handed reliever Juan Cruz to a minor-league contract, per Jon Heyman of CBS Sports. Championship. Cruz, 34, had a 2.78 ERA last year but was wild and when he refused to accept a demotion to Triple-A, the Pirates released him. He's pitched for seven teams in 12 years. He has a 4.05 career ERA, a 1.41 WHIP, and has struck out four more batters than innings pitched. He has a mid-90s fastball, and also uses a cutter, slider and changeup. Cruz's best year was 2008 with the Diamondbacks, when he pitched to a 2.61 ERA in 51.2 innings, with 71 strikeouts. He's also made 10 postseason appearances and finished two games. When the Phillies were swept in the 2007 NLDS by the Rockies, Cruz — pitching for Arizona — held Colorado hitless with eight strikeouts in four appearances in the next round. The only other notable thing to add is that Cruz was part of the package the Athletics sent to the Braves in December 2004 for Tim Hudson. It was Cruz, reliever Dan Meyer and outfield Charles Thomas for Hudson. Thomas had upside but never realized it. Really points out how long Hudson has been with the Braves. Can you believe he's made 50 more appearances for Atlanta than Oakland?
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