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If indeed it could be called an illness, it is not the same in scope as any illness that has ever existed. It's an affliction that's gone global and that threatens to make humanity extinct.
You can't really compare the barn to a mental hospital because even those in there can still reason, speak, and aren't constantly trying to eat other people unaffected by their "disease". And even if they were trying to, if they greatly outnumbered the sane population, you can bet that some killing would happen.
Yeah it should be clear to everyone in that world by now that whatever's causing this, isn't based on any kind of real world science. This isn't just an advanced form of rabies they're dealing with; these are supernatural creatures which can survive and function in ways that are simply not possible.
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Even though the growing season is getting off to a quick start and everything is "greening up," we're getting ever so closer to a drought. Precipitation departures keep inching up with very little rain to help out. This weekend's storm, though, is coming at a good time to play catch up!
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By Trina TriceOn Friday, local meteorologists predicted that Friday night would be drenched in rain. Thus, would begin an adventure into the bowels of an outdoor music festival that I dreaded, yet was intent on attending. When I say I don't like outdoor music festivals, I'm not saying it to be cool or alternative. I hate them for very valid reasons. For instance, at most music festivals, there's a battle of odors that compete for your nose's attention. It's usually the worst, vomit-inducing smells that win. Music festivals are normally held in the late spring or summer time when the weather promises to be more stable and pleasant. But what most people forget about the South is that the weather is usually hot in late spring and summer. I can count on my hand the number of stable and pleasant weather days we have had so far. It's either too hot, too humid, too rainy, too icy, too cold, too much pollen ? you know what I mean. Nonetheless, people looking to make some major moola under the guise of "We want to give Atlanta a good time!" persist with putting on events that cause traffic nightmares downtown, which is where I live. The music festival I speak of is Music Midtown, which is in its 10th year. During the three-day event's first few years, it actually took place in midtown Atlanta around 10th and Peachtree streets. A new federal building is there, now, forcing the Music Midtown organizers to find another spot. The event is near and around the Atlanta Civic Center and SciTrek on Piedmont Avenue. I went last year for the last day when favorite acts No Doubt, Rick James and many others performed. I walked around in the mud to get from one stage to another. It was muddy because it rained the day before the festival started, kind of like this year. As I walked around, sweating (I hate sweating), dodging drunk people and getting knocked around by teenagers showing off in front of each other by being rude and acting like they couldn't give a flying flip about anyone (Those dang youngins!), I kept asking myself why am I here? Why? I blame it on No Doubt who put on a really good show. I was about two or three miles from the stage, but they were good, nonetheless. Lead singer Gwen Stefani looked like a blond-headed flea, but she was great. I couldn't make out what the drummer had on or didn't (Sometimes he plays the drums naked), but I'm not bitter. I forgave the thousands of people who were in my way. This year, though, I'm taking a different approach to Music Midtown. I made an effort to see bands I've never heard of and older acts I'd normally consider too boring to watch. I also wore sensible shoes. Last year I wore platform sandals. Darn, I'm getting old? I'll let you know how it goes. Trina Trice is the education reporter for the News Daily. Comments should be sent to email@example.com.
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Article: Long-term motor cortical map changes following unilateral lesion of the hand representation in the motor cortex in macaque monkeys showing functional recovery of hand functions[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Purpose: How are motor maps modified within and in the immediate vicinity of a damaged zone in the motor cortex of non-human primates? Methods: In eight adult macaque monkeys subjected to a restricted chemical lesion of the hand area in the primary motor cortex (M1), motor maps were established using intracortical micro-stimulation (ICMS) techniques. The monkeys were subdivided into five animals without treatment, whereas three monkeys received an anti-Nogo-A antibody treatment. Results: Following permanent M1 injury, the lesion territory became largely non micro-excitable several months post-lesion, in spite of some recovery of hand function. Few sites within the lesion territory remained excitable, though irrespective to the degree of functional recovery. Around the lesion in M1, there was no reallocation of proximal shoulder/arm territories into distal hand functions. However, ICMS delivered at supra-threshold intensities in these proximal territories elicited digit movements. Post-lesion ICMS thresholds to elicit movements of forelimb muscle territories increased, independently from the degree of functional recovery. Further behavioural evidence for an enhancement of functional recovery promoted by the anti-Nogo-A antibody treatment is provided. Conclusion: The degree of functional recovery is not related to a reorganization of motor maps within, and in the vicinity of, a M1 lesion.09/2013; 31(6). DOI:10.3233/RNN-130344
Article: Comparison of Functional Recovery of Manual Dexterity after Unilateral Spinal Cord Lesion or Motor Cortex Lesion in Adult Macaque Monkeys[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: In relation to mechanisms involved in functional recovery of manual dexterity from cervical cord injury or from motor cortical injury, our goal was to determine whether the movements that characterize post-lesion functional recovery are comparable to original movement patterns or do monkeys adopt distinct strategies to compensate the deficits depending on the type of lesion? To this aim, data derived from earlier studies, using a skilled finger task (the modified Brinkman board from which pellets are retrieved from vertical or horizontal slots), in spinal cord and motor cortex injured monkeys were analyzed and compared. Twelve adult macaque monkeys were subjected to a hemi-section of the cervical cord (n = 6) or to a unilateral excitotoxic lesion of the hand representation in the primary motor cortex (n = 6). In addition, in each subgroup, one half of monkeys (n = 3) were treated for 30 days with a function blocking antibody against the neurite growth inhibitory protein Nogo-A, while the other half (n = 3) represented control animals. The motor deficits, and the extent and time course of functional recovery were assessed. For some of the parameters investigated (wrist angle for horizontal slots and movement types distribution for vertical slots after cervical injury; movement types distribution for horizontal slots after motor cortex lesion), post-lesion restoration of the original movement patterns ("true" recovery) led to a quantitatively better functional recovery. In the motor cortex lesion groups, pharmacological reversible inactivation experiments showed that the peri-lesion territory of the primary motor cortex or re-arranged, spared domain of the lesion zone, played a major role in the functional recovery, together with the ipsilesional intact premotor cortex.Frontiers in Neurology 07/2013; 4:101. DOI:10.3389/fneur.2013.00101
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Article: Influence of anti-Nogo-A antibody treatment on the reorganization of callosal connectivity of the premotor cortical areas following unilateral lesion of primary motor cortex (M1) in adult macaque monkeys[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Following unilateral lesion of the primary motor cortex, the reorganization of callosal projections from the intact hemisphere to the ipsilesional premotor cortex (PM) was investigated in 7 adult macaque monkeys, in absence of treatment (control; n = 4) or treated with function blocking antibodies against the neurite growth inhibitory protein Nogo-A (n = 3). After functional recovery, though incomplete, the tracer biotinylated dextran amine (BDA) was injected in the ipsilesional PM. Retrogradely labelled neurons were plotted in the intact hemisphere and their number was normalized with respect to the volume of the core of BDA injection sites. (1) The callosal projections to PM in the controls originate mainly from homotypic PM areas and, but to a somewhat lesser extent, from the mesial cortex (cingulate and supplementary motor areas). (2) In the lesioned anti-Nogo-A antibody-treated monkeys, the normalized number of callosal retrogradely labelled neurons was up to several folds higher than in controls, especially in the homotypic PM areas. (3) Except one control with a small lesion and a limited, transient deficit, the anti-Nogo-A antibody-treated monkeys recovered to nearly baseline levels of performance (73-90 %), in contrast to persistent deficits in the control monkeys. These results are consistent with a sprouting and/or sparing of callosal axons promoted by the anti-Nogo-A antibody treatment after lesion of the primary motor cortex, as compared to untreated monkeys.Experimental Brain Research 09/2012; 223(3). DOI:10.1007/s00221-012-3262-x · 2.17 Impact Factor
Article: Representation of motor habit in a sequence of repetitive reach and grasp movements performed by macaque monkeys: Evidence for a contribution of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: In the context of an autologous cell transplantation study, a unilateral biopsy of cortical tissue was surgically performed from the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) in two intact adult macaque monkeys (dlPFC lesioned group), together with the implantation of a chronic chamber providing access to the left motor cortex. Three other monkeys were subjected to the same chronic chamber implantation, but without dlPFC biopsy (control group). All monkeys were initially trained to perform sequential manual dexterity tasks, requiring precision grip. The motor performance and the prehension's sequence (temporal order to grasp pellets from different spatial locations) were analysed for each hand. Following the surgery, transient and moderate deficits of manual dexterity per se occurred in both groups, indicating that they were not due to the dlPFC lesion (most likely related to the recording chamber implantation and/or general anaesthesia/medication). In contrast, changes of motor habit were observed for the sequential order of grasping in the two monkeys with dlPFC lesion only. The changes were more prominent in the monkey subjected to the largest lesion, supporting the notion of a specific effect of the dlPFC lesion on the motor habit of the monkeys. These observations are reminiscent of previous studies using conditional tasks with delay that have proposed a specialization of the dlPFC for visuo-spatial working memory, except that this is in a different context of "free-will", non-conditional manual dexterity task, without a component of working memory.Cortex 06/2012; 49(5). DOI:10.1016/j.cortex.2012.05.025 · 6.04 Impact Factor
Article: Short-term effects of unilateral lesion of the primary motor cortex (M1) on ipsilesional hand dexterity in adult macaque monkeys[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Although the arrangement of the corticospinal projection in primates is consistent with a more prominent role of the ipsilateral motor cortex on proximal muscles, rather than on distal muscles involved in manual dexterity, the role played by the primary motor cortex on the control of manual dexterity for the ipsilateral hand remains a matter a debate, either in the normal function or after a lesion. We, therefore, tested the impact of permanent unilateral motor cortex lesion on the manual dexterity of the ipsilateral hand in 11 macaque monkeys, within a time window of 60 days post-lesion. For comparison, unilateral reversible pharmacological inactivation of the motor cortex was produced in an additional monkey. Manual dexterity was assessed quantitatively based on three motor parameters derived from two reach and grasp manual tasks. In contrast to the expected dramatic, complete deficit of manual dexterity of the contralesional hand that persists for several weeks, the impact on the manual dexterity of the ipsilesional hand was generally moderate (but statistically significant) and, when present, lasted less than 20 days. Out of the 11 monkeys, only 3 showed a deficit of the ipsilesional hand for 2 of the 3 motor parameters, and 4 animals had a deficit for only one motor parameter. Four monkeys did not show any deficit. The reversible inactivation experiment yielded results consistent with the permanent lesion data. In conclusion, the primary motor cortex exerts a modest role on ipsilateral manual dexterity, most likely in the form of indirect hand postural control.Brain Structure and Function 05/2011; 217(1):63-79. DOI:10.1007/s00429-011-0327-8 · 4.57 Impact Factor
Article: Autologous Adult Cortical Cell Transplantation Enhances Functional Recovery Following Unilateral Lesion of Motor Cortex in Primates: A Pilot Study[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Although cell therapy is a promising approach after cerebral cortex lesion, few studies assess quantitatively its behavioral gain in nonhuman primates. Furthermore, implantations of fetal grafts of exogenous stem cells are limited by safety and ethical issues. To test in nonhuman primates the transplantation of autologous adult neural progenitor cortical cells with assessment of functional outcome. Seven adult macaque monkeys were trained to perform a manual dexterity task, before the hand representation in motor cortex was chemically lesioned unilaterally. Five monkeys were used as control, compared with 2 monkeys subjected to different autologous cells transplantation protocols performed at different time intervals. After lesion, there was a complete loss of manual dexterity in the contralesional hand. The 5 "control" monkeys recovered progressively and spontaneously part of their manual dexterity, reaching a unique and definitive plateau of recovery, ranging from 38% to 98% of prelesion score after 10 to 120 days. The 2 "treated" monkeys reached a first spontaneous recovery plateau at about 25 and 40 days postlesion, representing 35% and 61% of the prelesion performance, respectively. In contrast to the controls, a second recovery plateau took place 2 to 3 months after cell transplantation, corresponding to an additional enhancement of functional recovery, representing 24% and 37% improvement, respectively. These pilot data, derived from 2 monkeys treated differently, suggest that, in the present experimental conditions, autologous adult brain progenitor cell transplantation in a nonhuman primate is safe and promotes enhancement of functional recovery.Neurosurgery 05/2011; 68(5):1405-16; discussion 1416-7. DOI:10.1227/NEU.0b013e31820c02c0 · 3.03 Impact Factor
Article: Effects of Unilateral Motor Cortex Lesion on Ipsilesional Hand's Reach and Grasp Performance in Monkeys: Relationship With Recovery in the Contralesional Hand[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Manual dexterity, a prerogative of primates, is under the control of the corticospinal (CS) tract. Because 90-95% of CS axons decussate, it is assumed that this control is exerted essentially on the contralateral hand. Consistently, unilateral lesion of the hand representation in the motor cortex is followed by a complete loss of dexterity of the contralesional hand. During the months following lesion, spontaneous recovery of manual dexterity takes place to a highly variable extent across subjects, although largely incomplete. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that after a significant postlesion period, manual performance in the ipsilesional hand is correlated with the extent of functional recovery in the contralesional hand. To this aim, ten adult macaque monkeys were subjected to permanent unilateral motor cortex lesion. Monkeys' manual performance was assessed for each hand during several months postlesion, using our standard behavioral test (modified Brinkman board task) that provides a quantitative measure of reach and grasp ability. The ipsilesional hand's performance was found to be significantly enhanced over the long term (100-300 days postlesion) in six of ten monkeys, with the six exhibiting the best, though incomplete, recovery of the contralesional hand. There was a statistically significant correlation (r = 0.932; P < 0.001) between performance in the ipsilesional hand after significant postlesion period and the extent of recovery of the contralesional hand. This observation is interpreted in terms of different possible mechanisms of recovery, dependent on the recruitment of motor areas in the lesioned and/or intact hemispheres.Journal of Neurophysiology 03/2010; 103(3):1630-45. DOI:10.1152/jn.00459.2009 · 3.04 Impact Factor
Article: Effects of unilateral motor cortex lesion on ipsilesional hand's reach and grasp performance in monkeys: relationship with recovery in the contralesional hand.Journal of Neurophysiology 01/2010; · 3.04 Impact Factor
Article: Reduction of the hand representation in the ipsilateral primary motor cortex following unilateral section of the corticospinal tract at cervical level in monkeys[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: After sub-total hemi-section of cervical cord at level C7/C8 in monkeys, the ipsilesional hand exhibited a paralysis for a couple of weeks, followed by incomplete recovery of manual dexterity, reaching a plateau after 40-50 days. Recently, we demonstrated that the level of the plateau was related to the size of the lesion and that progressive plastic changes of the motor map in the contralesional motor cortex, particularly the hand representation, took place following a comparable time course. The goal of the present study was to assess, in three macaque monkeys, whether the hand representation in the ipsilesional primary motor cortex (M1) was also affected by the cervical hemi-section. Unexpectedly, based on the minor contribution of the ipsilesional hemisphere to the transected corticospinal (CS) tract, a considerable reduction of the hand representation was also observed in the ipsilesional M1. Mapping control experiments ruled out the possibility that changes of motor maps are due to variability of the intracortical microstimulation mapping technique. The extent of the size reduction of the hand area was nearly as large as in the contralesional hemisphere in two of the three monkeys. In the third monkey, it represented a reduction by a factor of half the change observed in the contralesional hemisphere. Although the hand representation was modified in the ipsilesional hemisphere, such changes were not correlated with a contribution of this hemisphere to the incomplete recovery of the manual dexterity for the hand affected by the lesion, as demonstrated by reversible inactivation experiments (in contrast to the contralesional hemisphere). Moreover, despite the size reduction of M1 hand area in the ipsilesional hemisphere, no deficit of manual dexterity for the hand opposite to the cervical hemi-section was detected. After cervical hemi-section, the ipsilesional motor cortex exhibited substantial reduction of the hand representation, whose extent did not match the small number of axotomized CS neurons. We hypothesized that the paradoxical reduction of hand representation in the ipsilesional hemisphere is secondary to the changes taking place in the contralesional hemisphere, possibly corresponding to postural adjustments and/or re-establishing a balance between the two hemispheres.BMC Neuroscience 02/2005; 6:56. DOI:10.1186/1471-2202-6-56 · 2.85 Impact Factor
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Just over a fortnight ago, the Secretary of State for Transport visited Wolverhampton and reached a conclusion that I and almost every resident has reached: that the station is desperately in need of an upgrade. Locally, Centro, working with developer, Neptune, has come up with an innovative deal, bringing £80 million and 1,300 jobs, to make sure that we continue investment in the city....
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Great report and fantastic pics!
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Hey Flux, maybe you didnt get to join Wes and I in Mexico, but it looks like you had a hell of a trip yourself! Maybe Labrador next year?. Hey man, what camera were you using by the way? Your pics look a lot better than my iPhone report.
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Thanks BNick for reading along.
Oyster, yeah we had a great time. Labrador has my attention....
Most of my pics are actually iPhone 4 pics believe it or not. Straight off the phone. Some are from an Olympus FE300 12 megapixel point 'n shoot I bought when I was writing a lot of articles and needed 12 as a minimum. I actually planned to bring a Canon Rebel but glad I didn't because I broke the Olympus halfway through. I'm sure off road vibes would have killed the DSLR. Colorado makes it damn easy to take good pics.
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After packing up camp and leaving Silverton behind us we shot up 550 for THREE HOURS of riding to get to the BMW/KTM/Harley shop in Grand Junction. The ride to Ouray was good. North of Ouray, though, through Montrose and Delta, was BORING. Pretty much this all day but imagine it was 100F out. Straight and boring.
We finally got to the dealer to get the bolts for Lucky's skid plate. He had called and they told him they had a bunch of them. Cool, we told them we were coming from Silverton, have them ready. We get there... he has bolts for a 1200. I just walked out, leaving Lucky to deal with it. They were able to find something to work on the 1100. 4 bolts cost him $30. Sheesh. We holed up in some little motel next to the airport there, repaired his bike, and got a little drink in us before heading to sleep for the next day's riding. I wanted to get into some more good offroading now that the skid plate was back in action.
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The next day started out pretty good. We shot out of Grand Junction to the east (after talks about Moab but it was just too dang hot) on I70. We got off on Hwy 65 to Mesa. This was a fantastic road, full of twists, canyons, and along a river. I knew this was going to be a good day. Wish I had taken pics of that road but DANG it was just too much fun to ride it.
From there we jumped on 330E to FS265. Nice dirt roads but not technical at all. I wanted a challenge. I happened to see a little jeep trail to the left and saw it was called 525. Being a former 525EXC owner, I took it as a sign and with a nod to make sure Lucky was cool we were off.
It started off pretty easy.
But soon we started riding some good old fashioned rutted out stuff. (never as steep in pics as it is in real life of course, lol)
A little video of Lucky tackling the rutted hill climb:
And when we came to this obstacle, which us Georgia boys are not used to seeing, we knew good times were ahead!
The GS and the wide Gobi boxes on the 950 just barely squeezed through. Let the games begin!
The trail began to twist and turn and was a pretty narrow 2 track. We kept expecting it to dead end but when it started rolling through big wide valleys we could see it kept going.
It brought us through this aspen forest. With a few obstacles. Fallen tress on fully loaded pigs is fun. The 950 rolled right over with no issues. The Big Red Angry Bird bottomed out on one and I had to give him a boost... was repaid with his rear tire slinging cow patty on my leg, lol. We would eventually start riding through groups of cows. Again, a new experience for us.
A look ahead!
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The rest of the trail went on down the mountain, over another open range, and we eventually made it back to the original forest service road. Another afternoon storm was on the horizon, and we were ready to get to some shelter when the bottom fell out. Along the way we learned we were on Owens Loop. Off the main FS road there were tons of trails like it. This one had a gnarly hill climb towards the end I am glad we both made it up because I did NOT want to turn around.
We decided to head up to Carbondale for fuel, and over to Aspen for lunch.
On the way we found these coke ovens, in a neat little town called Redstone on Hwy 133. Neat place to stop.
I kinda wanted to eat at the Woody Creek Tavern where Hunter S Thompson used to hang out, but it was so ridiculously busy we left. Aspen had a good little place called Little Annies or something like that. What a trendy town. Bunch of yuppies. We ate a fantastic lunch then shot to Independence Pass...
From Aspens to Aspen.
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After out foray into Aspen we hit Independence Pass before the search for the evening's campsite. Weather was looking spotty so not many pictures again, sorry. But the road was fantastic. Great views, plenty of curves, and nice elevation change.
The summit.
Had to get at least a few shots on the way down...
We searched high and low for campsites along the Twin Lakes area but we didn't think ahead, had no supplies, the general store was closed, another storm was moving in, and on top of that it was now Friday and apparently everyone around camps and reserves sites for the weekend. After 30 minutes of searching we decided we'd head south to Salida for the night.
But, by the time we got halfway towards Buena Vista, we could tell this storm was inevitable and it was gonna be bad. We donned the rain gear on the side of the road, and got into town just in time to duck under a bank drive through for the worst of the storm. Next door was a Super 8 and a few ADV-looking bikes were there... a few LC4 Enduros, 1200 GS... we looked at getting a room but it was an amazing $160 a night! A few calls later we found the coolest motel of the trip, the Mountain View Motel just a few buildings away. After negotiations with "Patty" ended (she was awesome, and knew all the good places to eat, etc) we moved into our $80 room and had a great (and DRY) night.
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The plan the next day was to ride east towards Colorado Springs, collect the trucks sometime late that afternoon, and get our final room of the trip together before splitting ways Sunday.
Sadly, THIS put an end to that.
Lucky's GS had had enough and blew its oil sight glass out. Luckily we were just south of Buena Vista, it was the last day of our trip, and we were next to a service station.
I rode back to BV, thinking I could somehow locate the glass, and we could rig it back onto the bike temporarily. No such luck.
Lucky has some pics of the situation to add in. He at least made friends with a chipmunk while I rode back looking for the glass.
A few calls to GS-riding friends and mechanics and the plan was made Lucky would ride bitch on the 950 back to CO Springs, collect his truck, and come back for the Big Red Angry Bird.
I wish I could remember the truck stop's name but its owner, Mark, was very cool and let us stash the GS in his shop til Lucky could retrieve it.
Helluva way to finish the trip, but all things considered I am glad it happened here, on the last day, and in a town not a cow trail.
Sorry, pics don't exist of us riding mandem but I assure you Lucky let several people know in traffic about our heterosexuality and informed a car full of girls that we "weren't gay, his bike was broken down"
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After leaving Steve's house in CO Springs, I decided since I had a few days to get home that I would head south to NM, drive a little Route 66, and visit a good friend in Monroe, LA. Then to see my sister who works at the Birmingham Zoo.
Let me tell you, that drive through CO, NM, and TX was TERRIBLE. I would take driving through Kansas again any day. I stopped that night at a crappy motel in Amarillo. I SHOULD have stopped on Route 66 in Tucumcari, NM but NOOOOO I wanted to keep driving.
The next day I drove Hwy 287 to Dallas. Hwy 287 NEVER ENDS and I had to stop a few times just to wake myself back up. In Dallas, I got in another very bad storm after getting onto I20. It was so bad people were stopping in the freeway. After some hail, I jumped off the interstate and ducked under a quarter slot car wash for about 40 minutes til it passed.
Not a great pic but you can see that is a lot of water.
That was a lot of hail, too.
I would finally make it to my friends in Monroe where we went to a pool party and enjoyed maybe a few too many drinks. It was a good welcoming to LA and everyone was really cool, just there to have a good time.
Neal made this crazy thing which was a weave of bacon on the outside and ham, boudain, cheese, and some other crap inside the roll. Then smoked 4 hours. Then fried. Then dipped in whatever this blue stuff was. Then rolled in raspberry jam and powdered sugar. I couldn't bring myself to eat it, but it smelled good. It looked TERRIBLE though.
I had an uneventful drive through MS and AL the next day to see my sis. Not sure which of these states wins the award for WORST ROAD CONDITIONS but I was thankful to be back in Georgia where we've managed to learn to properly pour concrete.
All told, I drove about 4000 miles. We put only about 1200 on the bikes, which amazed me. All the offroading takes time I guess. I learned a few things I will put to use the next time I go out there... and there WILL be a next time... that I'll add in a bit.
In the meantime, maybe Lucky will post some more pics. He took a lot more than I did.
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Hi, Flux!
Awesome trip, dude. Thanks for the report.
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No problem GhostDncr! LOL, glad I could help!
Wow, if it isn't the TigerTriple legend himself. How ya been, Stretch? You back to riding again??? Hope you have been well.
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I'm doing great, thanks. Yep, back on 250's riding single-track in the woods. Town Creek OHV area is in the Oconee National Forest south of Athens, so I load up the truck and head down there on a weekday a few times a month.
I haven't given up motorcycles, but I have given up traffic.
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Good Morning! At Smithville, MS, the current temperature is 78 and it feels like 80. Highs will continue to range between 89 and 93 with lows between 70 and 73. More storms will be possible today and into next week. Few storms could be strong to severe each day with large hail and damaging winds. At the Regional Rehab Center in Tupelo, MS, the current temperature is 78 and it feels like 78. Today's high is 91 with a low of 76. Saturdays high is 91.
Now, for your tropical update. In the Atlantic, we have Tropical Storm Ernesto. Winds are at 45mph with a pressure of 1004mbars. Movement is West at 24mph. Forecast for Tropical Storm Ernesto is to move into the Caribbean Sea this weekend and intensify into a strong tropical storm. Could be a hurricane by Monday and may get into the Gulf of Mexico. A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect from Saint Lucia to Guadeloupe in the Lesser Antilles. Also in the Atlantic, a weak low pressure area associated with a tropical, located about 300 miles South of the Cape Verde Islands, is showing signs of organization. Environmental conditions appear conducive for development of this over the next few days. The National Hurricane Center is giving this system a low chance, 10%, of becoming a tropical cyclone during the next 48 hours. In the Eastern Pacific, all is quiet with no development expected over the next couple of days.
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text: DSpace Collection: http://hdl.handle.net/2117/1138 2015-07-01T17:20:07Z The large observatory for x-ray timing http://hdl.handle.net/2117/27544 Title: The large observatory for x-ray timing Authors: Feroci, Marco; den Herder, J.W.; Bozzo, Enrico; Barret, Didier; Brandt, S.; Hernanz Carbó, Margarita; van der Klis, M; Pohl, M; Santangelo, A; Stella, Luigi; Watts, ana; Willms, Jörn; Sala Cladellas, Glòria 2015-04-23T10:33:06Z The unreasonable effectiveness of experiments in constraining nova nucleosynthesis http://hdl.handle.net/2117/26223 Title: The unreasonable effectiveness of experiments in constraining nova nucleosynthesis Authors: Parikh, Anuj Ramesh Abstract: Classical nova explosions arise from thermonuclear ignition in the envelopes of accreting white dwarfs in close binary star systems. Detailed observations of novae have stimulated numerous studies in theoretical astrophysics and experimental nuclear physics. These phenomena are unusual in nuclear astrophysics because most of the thermonuclear reaction rates thought to be involved are constrained by experimental measurements. This situation allows for rather precise statements to be made about which measurements are still necessary to improve the nuclear physics input to astrophysical models. We briefly discuss desired measurements in these environments with an emphasis on recent experimental progress made to better determine key rates. 2015-02-05T10:28:37Z The white dwarf population of tri-axial haloes http://hdl.handle.net/2117/24495 Title: The white dwarf population of tri-axial haloes Authors: Torres Gil, Santiago; Camacho Díaz, Judit; García-Berro Montilla, Enrique Abstract: The nature of the several microlensing events observed by the MACHO team towards the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is still a controversial subject. Substellar objects and stars with masses larger than ~ 1M¿ have been ruled out as major components of a Massive Astrophysical Halo Object (MACHO) Galactic halo. Stars of near half-solar mass, in particular white dwarfs, appear to be the best candidates to explain the observed microlensing events. On the other hand, observational evidence based on the structure of the debris of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy suggest that the Galactic halo is non-spherical. We use a tri-axial halo model and advanced Monte Carlo techniques to study the contribution of the halo white dwarf population to the dark matter content of the Galaxy 2014-10-28T10:58:32Z On the origin of high-field magnetic white dwarfs http://hdl.handle.net/2117/24432 Title: On the origin of high-field magnetic white dwarfs Authors: García-Berro Montilla, Enrique; Torres Gil, Santiago; Loren Aguilar, Pablo; Aznar Siguan, Gabriela; Camacho Díaz, Judit; Kulebi, Baybar; Isern Vilaboy, Jordi; Althaus, Leandro Gabriel; Corsico, Alejandro H. Abstract: Every two years, white dwarf researchers and enthusiasts meet to exchange their knowledge and discuss recent developments in white dwarf theory and observations. These proceedings are from the 18th European White Dwarf Workshop held at Pedagogical University of Cracow (Krakow, Poland) on 13th - 17th August, 2012. The scientific topics discussed in this Workshop included: pulsating white dwarfs; luminosity function, mass distribution, and populations; white dwarf structure and evolution; white dwarf catalogs and surveys; central stars of planetary nebulae; supernova progenitors; white dwarfs in novae and cataclysmic variables; white dwarfs in detached binaries; physical processes in white dwarfs and magnetic white dwarfs; and discs, dust and planets around white dwarfs. The conference was organized by four institutions: the Polish Astronomical Society, the Astronomy Department of the Pedagogical University of Cracow, the Jagiellonian University Astronomical Observatory, and the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Altogether, these proceedings include 87 talks and posters presented during the meeting. 2014-10-20T12:39:53Z Dark energy and thermonuclear supernovae http://hdl.handle.net/2117/22981 Title: Dark energy and thermonuclear supernovae Authors: Domínguez, Inmaculada; Bravo Guil, Eduardo; Piersanti, L.; Tornambé, A.; Straniero, O.; Höfflich, P. Abstract: Nowadays it is widely accepted that the current Universe is dominated by dark energy and exotic matter, the so called StandardModel of Cosmoloy or _CDM model. All the available data (Thermonuclear Supernovae, Cosmic Microwave Background, Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, Large Scale Structure, etc.) are compatible with a flat Universe made by _70% of dark energy. Up to now observations agree that dark energy may be the vacuum energy (or cosmological constant) although improvements are needed to constrain further its equation of state. In this context, the còsmic destiny of the Universe is no longer linked to its geometry but to the nature of dark energy; it may be flat and expand forever or collapse. To understand the nature of dark energy is probably the most fundamental problem in physics today; it may open new roads of knowledge and led to unify gravity with the other fundamental interactions in nature. It is expected that astronomical data will continue to provide directions to theorists and experimental physicists. Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) have played a fundamental role, showing the acceleration of the expansion rate of the Universe a decade ago, and up to now they are the only astronomical observations that provide a direct evidence of the acceleration. However, in order to determine the source of the dark energy term it is mandatory to improve the precision of supernovae as distance indicators on cosmological scale. 2014-05-14T12:22:04Z Simulations of radiative shocks and jet formation in laboratory plasmas http://hdl.handle.net/2117/22966 Title: Simulations of radiative shocks and jet formation in laboratory plasmas Authors: Velarde, Pedro; González, Matthias; Oliva, Eduardo; Kasperczuk, Andrzej; Pisarczyk, Tadeusz; Ullschmied, Jiri; Stehlé, Chantal; Rus, Bedrich; García Senz, Domingo; Bravo Guil, Eduardo; Relaño, Antonio Abstract: We present the simulations of two relevant hydrodynamical problems related to astrophysical phenomena performed by three different codes. The numerical results from these codes will be compared in order to test both the numerical method implemented inside them and the influence of the physical phenomena simulated by the codes. Under some conditions laser produced plasmas could be scaled to the typical conditions prevailing in astrophysical plasmas. Therefore, such similarity allows to use existing laser facilities and numerical codes suitable to a laser plasma regime, for studying astrophysical proccesses. The codes are the radiation fluid dynamic 2D ARWEN code and the 3D HERACLES, and, without radiation energy transport, a Smoothed-Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) code. These codes use diferent numerical techniques and have overlapping range of application, from laser produced plasmas to astrophysical plasmas. We also present the first laser experiments obtaining cumulative jets with a velocity higher than 100 km/s. 2014-05-13T14:34:07Z Supernovae and dark energy http://hdl.handle.net/2117/22952 Title: Supernovae and dark energy Authors: Domínguez, Inmaculada; Bravo Guil, Eduardo; Piersanti, Luciano; Straniero, Oscar; Tornambé, Amedeo Abstract: A decade ago the observations of thermonuclear supernovae at high-redhifts showed that the expansion rate of the Universe is accelerating and since then, the evidence for cosmic acceleration has gotten stronger. This acceleration requires that the Universe is dominated by dark energy, an exotic component characterized by its negative pressure. Nowadays all the available astronomical data (i.e. thermonuclear supernovae, cosmic microwave background, barionic acoustic oscillations, large scale structure, etc.) agree that our Universe is made of about 70% of dark energy, 25% of cold dark matter and only 5% of known, familiar matter. This Universe is geometrically flat, older than previously thought, its destiny is no longer linked to its geometry but to dark energy, and we ignore about 95% of its components. To understand the nature of dark energy is probably the most fundamental problem in physics today. Current astronomical observations are compatible with dark energy being the vacuum energy. Supernovae have played a fundamental role in modern Cosmology and it is expected that they will contribute to unveil the dark energy. In order to do that it is mandatory to understand the limits of supernovae as cosmological distance indicators, improving their precision by a factor 10. 2014-05-12T13:59:00Z Smoothed particle hydrodynamics: checking a tensor approach to calculating gradients http://hdl.handle.net/2117/21515 Title: Smoothed particle hydrodynamics: checking a tensor approach to calculating gradients Authors: Escartín Vigo, José Antonio; García Senz, Domingo; Cabezón Gómez, Rubén Martín 2014-02-11T13:32:28Z Classical and recurrent nova models http://hdl.handle.net/2117/20008 Title: Classical and recurrent nova models Authors: José Pont, Jordi; Casanova Bustamante, Jordi; García-Berro Montilla, Enrique; Hernanz Carbó, Margarita; Shore, Steven N.; Calder, A. Abstract: Remarkable progress in the understanding of nova outbursts has been achieved through combined efforts in photometry, spectroscopy and numerical simulations. According to the thermonuclear runaway model, novae are powered by thermonuclear explosions in the hydrogen-rich envelopes transferred from a low-mass stellar companion onto a close white dwarf star. Extensive numerical simulations in 1-D have shown that the accreted envelopes attain peak temperatures ranging between 108 and 4 × 108 K, for about several hundred seconds, hence allowing extensive nuclear processing which eventually shows up in the form of nucleosynthetic fingerprints in the ejecta. Indeed, it has been claimed that novae can play a certain role in the enrichment of the interstellar medium through a number of intermediate-mass elements. This includes 17O, 15N, and 13C, systematically overproduced with respect to solar abundances, plus a lower contribution in a number of other species (A < 40), such as 7Li, 19F, or 26Al. At the turn of the XXI Century, classical novae have entered the era of multidimensional models, which provide a new insight into the physical mechanisms that drive mixing at the core-envelope interface. In this review, we will present hydrodynamic models of classical novae, from the onset of accretion up to the explosion and ejection stages, both for classical and recurrent novae, with special emphasis on their gross observational properties and their associated nucleosynthesis. The impact of nuclear uncertainties on the final yields will be discussed. Recent results from 2-D models of mixing during classical nova outbursts will also be presented. 2013-07-26T11:45:47Z White dwarf mergers and the origin of R coronae borealis stars http://hdl.handle.net/2117/19289 Title: White dwarf mergers and the origin of R coronae borealis stars Authors: Lorén Aguilar, Pablo; Longland, Richard Leigh; José Pont, Jordi; García-Berro Montilla, Enrique; Althaus, Leandro Gabriel; Isern-Fontanet, J. Abstract: We present a nucleosynthesis study of the merger of a 0.4 M⊙ helium white dwarf with a 0.8 M⊙ carbon-oxygen white dwarf, coupling the thermodynamic history of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics particles with a post-processing code. The resulting chemical abundance pattern, particularly for oxygen and fluorine, is in qualitative agreement with the observed abundances in R Coronae Borealis stars. 2013-05-16T11:56:45Z Computer simulations using implicit Lagrangian hydrodynamics in 3D http://hdl.handle.net/2117/15372 Title: Computer simulations using implicit Lagrangian hydrodynamics in 3D Authors: Escartín Vigo, José Antonio; García Senz, Domingo; Bravo Guil, Eduardo Abstract: The method known as Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is an important tool in modern numerical Astrophysics. It has been extensively used to simulate a large number of systems ranging from planets to clusters of galaxies. Nevertheless current applications of the method are restricted to dynamical situations because of the limitations in the time-step imposed by the Courant condition. Here we describe the main features of a new implicit SPH code which is able to handle with several thousand particles and, therefore, it can be used to simulate slowly evolving systems. 2012-02-27T09:24:40Z Population Synthesis of Post-Common Envelope White-Dwarf-Main-Sequence Binaries in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey http://hdl.handle.net/2117/15331 Title: Population Synthesis of Post-Common Envelope White-Dwarf-Main-Sequence Binaries in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Authors: Torres Gil, Santiago; Camacho Díaz, Judit; Rebassa-Mansergas, Alberto; Zorotovic, Monica; Schreiber, Mathias R.; García-Berro Montilla, Enrique 2012-02-23T12:50:02Z Secondary fe-peak nuclei in the tycho supernova remnant http://hdl.handle.net/2117/11702 Title: Secondary fe-peak nuclei in the tycho supernova remnant Authors: Badenes Montoliu, Carles; Bravo Guil, Eduardo; Hughes, J.P. Abstract: The Mn to Cr mass ratio in supernova ejecta has recently been proposed as a tracer of Type Ia SN progenitor metallicity. We review the advantages and problems of this observable quantity, and discuss them in the framework of two Galactic supernova remnants: the well known Tycho SNR and W49B, an older object that has been tentatively classified as Type Ia. The fluxes of the Mn and Cr Ka lines in the X-ray spectra of these SNRs observed by the Suzaku and ASCA satellites suggest progenitors of supersolar metallicity for both objects. 2011-03-08T10:11:58Z Monte Carlo simulations of the binary white dwarf population: a progress report http://hdl.handle.net/2117/11292 Title: Monte Carlo simulations of the binary white dwarf population: a progress report Authors: Camacho Díaz, Judit; Torres Gil, Santiago; García-Berro Montilla, Enrique 2011-02-07T12:25:04Z Monte Carlo simulations of the post-common envelope white dwarf-main sequence binary population http://hdl.handle.net/2117/11281 Title: Monte Carlo simulations of the post-common envelope white dwarf-main sequence binary population Authors: Camacho Díaz, Judit; Torres Gil, Santiago; García-Berro Montilla, Enrique; Zorotovic, Monica; Schreiber, Mathias R. 2011-02-04T14:56:23Z


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Sidelined until January by heart surgery, UA baseball coach Andy Lopez is working ahead. Leading to Wednesday's letter-of-intent day, Lopez got a recruiting commitment from elite infielder Shane Martinez of North High School in Riverside, Calif., who was a first-team all-conference player as a freshman in 2012. Martinez is just entering his junior season.
Short stuff: Heart surgery doesn't keep UA baseball coach Lopez from getting talent
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Final Maintenance for Hardy Heron: Ubuntu Update 8.04 LTS
Canonical has released the fourth and last maintenance update for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron).
Further upgrades and security fixes will in future only take place via the package manager. This will be valid for desktop systems until 2011, and servers up to April 2013. The next Ubuntu version with Long Term Support (LTS) with the codename Lucid Lynx is expected in April 2010.
The update 8.04 fixes bugs in the use of SMB/CIFS shares in the Gnome Virtual File System and Nautilus. Desktop systems will also be the subject of changes in the Instant Messenger Pidgin. Here support for version 16 of Yahoo's messenger protocol has been added, making it again possible to log into Yahoo.
For servers, improvements have been made on the free radius daemon, that will now carry out a problem-free configuration reload. Bug fixes have also taken place in Vblade, the software implemented ATA-over-Ethernet-Target. A complete list of changes can be found at the Ubuntu Wiki.
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The Obama White House has issued a memorandum telling all US government agencies they must use HTTPS for all websites and web communication.
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ST. LOUIS, MO - SEPTEMBER 03: Head coach Steve Spagnuolo of the St. Louis Rams looks on during the preseason game against of the Kansas City Chiefs at the Edward Jones Dome on September 3, 2009 in St. Louis, Missouri. (Photo by Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images)
Steve Spagnuolo, who was fired as head coach of the St. Louis Rams after the regular season, is expected to join the Philadelphia Eagles' coaching staff before the end of the week, according to the NFL Network. League sources told the network Spagnuolo will either replace current defensive coordinator Juan Castillo or be named an assistant once head coach Andy Reid returns from vacation at the end of the week. Spagnuolo was hired by the Rams a year after helping lead the New York Giants on their storied playoff run in 2007-08, culminating in a win over the undefeated New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII. Spagnuolo, 52, started his career with the Eagles in 1999 as a defensive assistant. He spent eight years with the team, learning under the late Jim Johnson, before leaving to become the Giants' defensive coordinator. A return to the Giants was unlikely for Spagnuolo, whose Rams finished 2-14 this season. Current defensive coordinator Perry Fewell had been criticized by fans t...
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Watch out when you win an argument. That means someone else lost. If you are loving that person, you are then part of the loss. If you are not loving that person, you have your work cut out for you.
As for me, if there is a conflict with another human being and someone declares it a win-lose situation, I'd choose the loss.
I'd rather lose my ego, my position, my need to be right than win. I'd rather that someone I love learn from their winning than I inflict a loss on them. That's a heavier loss than I prefer.
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Delric Miller's life ended at 9 months and Angel Mauro Cortez Nava's at 14 months.
Delric was in the living room of a home on Detroit's west side Feb. 20 when someone sprayed it with gunfire from an AK-47. Other children in the home at the time were not injured.
Angel was cradled in his father's arms on a sidewalk near their home in Los Angeles when a bicyclist rode by on June 4 and opened fire, killing the infant.
Most media reports don't include information on the type of gun used, sometimes because police withhold it for investigation purposes.
Gun violence and the toll it is taking on children has been an issue raised for years in minority communities.
The NAACP failed in its attempt to hold gun makers accountable through a lawsuit filed in 1999. Some in the community raised the issue during the campaign and asked Obama after he was re-elected to make reducing gun violence, particularly as a cause of death for young children, part of his second-term agenda.
"Now that it's clear that no community in this country is invulnerable from gun violence, from its children being stolen ... we can finally have the national conversation we all need to have," said Ben Jealous, president of the NAACP.
This year's gun deaths reviewed by the AP show the problem is not confined to the inner city or is simply the result of gang or drug violence, as often is the perception.
Faith Ehlen, 22 months, Autumn Cochran, 10, and Alyssa Cochran, 11, all died Sept. 6. Their mother killed them with the shotgun before turning it on herself. Police said she had written a goodbye email to her boyfriend before killing the children in DeSoto, Mo., a community of about 6,300.
In Dundee, Ore., Randall Engels used a gun to kill his estranged wife Amy Engels and son Jackson, 11, as they ate pizza on the Fourth of July. An older sibling of Jackson's also was killed. Engels then committed suicide. The town of more than 5,000 people boasts on its website that it is a semirural town with "the cultural panache of a big city."
Many of the children who died in 2012 were shot with guns that belonged to their parents, relatives or baby sitters, or were simply in the home. Webster said children's accidental deaths by guns have fallen since states passed laws requiring that guns be locked away from youths or have safeties to keep them from firing.
But even people trained in gun use slip up - and the mistakes are costly.
A Springville, Utah, police officer had a non-service gun in his home that officials said did not have external safeties. His 2-year-old son found the gun and shot himself on Sept. 11. The names of the father and son were not released at the time of the shooting.
Obama has tapped Vice President Joe Biden to shape the administration's response to the Newtown massacre. The administration will push to tighten gun laws, many that have faced resistance in Congress for years. The solutions may include reinstating a ban on assault-style rifles, closing gun buying background check loopholes and restricting high-capacity magazines.
Those may have limited effect for children like Amari Markel-Purrel Perkins, of Clinton, Md. He shot himself in the chest on April 9 with a gun that an adult had stashed inside a Spiderman backpack.
Like most of the child victims at Newtown, Amari was 6.
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You need to get better first. I had the same problem with my first one but I think it was due to
1) lack of knowledge (I thought babies are easy to "deal with" :) how wrong I was!)
2) lack of sleep
3) pain pain pain
This time around I am more rested, calm and not panicing when baby cries.
Are you feeling okay? I am sure you're still in pain from the c-section (I had one too this time around) and tired. Are you eating? I am more irritable when I am hungry/thirsty.
If you feel fine and not stressed out the baby will feel that and you will have moe patience to handle baby's crying.
Truthfully I felt like that with my first and now with my second I appriciate it more. *maybe what your hubby feels like.
It really does get better and I didn't get much done today. I literally got my older son fed (dishes are in the sink) and one load of laundry put into the washer (still there)..... My house is spotless ALL the time and today it isn't. It is ok.
This period of time is considered the 4th trimester. Baby is adjusting outside of you and youre adjusting to having a baby.... It is HARD it is the HARDEST thing you'll ever do.
I am constantly attached to my bub too... It's hard work. My dd wasn't like this. I use a moby wrap through the day... And night is a bit of a battle at time.
I know it's hard. I cry too sometimes. But I am looking at this challenge as a personal strength builder. You can do this - you are strong enough.
It is only for a short time that you will have this challenge. Others will arise, but I don't think it is as hard.
I've never had a 4 hrs stretch - and in only get one 3hr stretch/24 hrs :/
Mum (33) to XB (7/7/11) and SG (11/20/12)
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I'd make sure nothing is wrong with lo. It is NOT normal to cry/scream all day. My dd screamed for 7hr+ every day for the first 4m because the drs didn't believe me. at 4m they diagnosed her with severe GERD. got her started on meds. screaming went from 7+ to 3+hrs. Some babies are just much more demanding than others.
Second with you not handling things well. do you think you could have ppd? your baby is probably feeding off of your emotions as well.
Kristin Wife to M, Mom to H and S
Im going through the same thing...My bf has a son from a previous relationship and he coonstantly compares our son to his other one and acts like i dont know what im doing or tries to act like he knows more than I do just cause he already has gone through all this...But my son does the same thing he cries for no reason even though he just ate and changed and sometimes i cry with him but then i realize that this comes with having a baby and that this phase wont last forever and that helps me get through it...Hope this helps some :)
Aiden Michael arrived 11/10/12 :)
I was a mess at 3 weeks after my c-sec. I'm a FTM also. Your body is still not healed so don't be so hard on yourself. Its harder to do the things you could do, I couldn't even change my sons diaper for 3 weeks because I could not bend. I started to feel better last week. But that on top of sleep deprivation and leaning your childs needs is enough to overwhelm anyone. Hell, I had a breakdown in the shower a few times and just cried. All the BTDT moms say it gets easier and the've all had more than one kid, so I am sure it does. Or so I am hoping.
Hang in there.
I've had t start keeping a pillow next to me everywhere so I can pull a fake out on my son. I put the pillow down and nuzzle it by his side with him laying on his belly on the couch so he thinks he is still on me. Of course keep an eye on LO and make sure baby's face is not toward the pillow. And I just recently bought a mobi wrap, but I am still trying to figure it out.
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