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Just got word today that I'll be traveling to California next week (I'm in Huntsville, AL) and I just started this past Monday.
I pulled the trigger and ordered an Aeronaut to use as my second carry-on bag along with the Empire Builder I currently own and use.
Along with the Aeronaut, I ordered some packing cubes:
1 large
1 small
1 end with mesh
2 clear quarter
I plan on using one quarter cube for toiletries and the other for cables, power adapters, and such.
Heh... I'm looking forward to the trip just so I can use the Aeronaut!
I was using a wheelie bag before and decided to get rid of that in my last move a month ago. In my effort to reduce weight I felt that my wheelie carry-on bag was too heavy when it was empty and being 24 years young I decided I can handle carrying my gear on travel.
Looking forward to joining the Aeronaut crew!


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Call of Duty 4 Beta Closing September 30, Level Cap Rising Beforehand
Sunday, September 30 will be the last day on which you can play the Call of Duty 4 beta. That's a little more than a month away from the November 5 release date, so hopefully the wait won't be too hard. But if you're ready to give up on the beta now, you shouldn't – the level cap is going to rise from 16 to 25 on Friday, September 28 (at approximately 10AM PST) which will allow you to access a ton of new stuff that we've yet to see. That includes the Dragunov sniper and the perks Martydom and Slight of Hand.
You'll only have those two days to hit level 25 and try out everything before the beta ends. From the blog of developer Infinity Ward's community manager, the beta has been very successful and has apprised IW of map exploits, seen improvements to the host selection process, and a variety of other things. Hopefully it makes for a better game in the long run.
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What is Bethenny Frankels Closet Confession? (VIDEO)Sunny Chanel
Bethenny Frankel is the newest celebrity to air their dirty laundry clean clothes on national TV. Bethenny let viewers take a peak at her closet as part of Bluefly's Closet Confessions series.
She said her closet is for function and she doesn't have anything "extra." She tries to stick with the classics, pieces that are timeless. She not afraid to make changes to her clothing, she pointed out a dress she got from a Dolce & Gabanna sample sale where she switched out the buttons. She's crafty like that! There's a hilarious moment when she pulls out a little black dress and declares… "this one says…I'm a whore." She also takes a moment to pull out dresses from her closet that would be appropriate for the other housewives, proving she might just might have a future in stand-up. Other closet highlights include one of her Herve Legers bandage frocks, the dress she wore the night she met Jason, her comfy sweaters and her Chanel handbags. She also says that "tailoring is the key" and that she'd tailor her underwear if she could. And her power color? It's red.
But that's not it, she also show's off her daughter Bryne's closet too. She said she would "never in the land of never would I spend $200 on a baby dress but she has a couple fancy dresses that were gifts." She also shows off her daughter's Tutu (to wear to the shopping market), and her daughter's adidas track suits (she said they're thinking of all going as gangster rappers for Halloween).
She also keeps all her accessories separate. She uses a closet that is right off the kitchen that she thinks was actually supposed to be used as a pantry. Her shoes are very organized, all in clear boxes with photographs on the front of each one.
Would you ever let the world into your closet?
You can check out the video right here!


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Senior Emily-Anne Rigal '16 teaches readers how to build self-esteem
Barnard's Committee on Online and On-Campus Learning examines how faculty can use digital technology to enhance learning
A host of projects confirms the College's commitment to new technology
Peter Bower, model developer of Brownfield Action hosts this meeting at Barnard College. He will demonstrate his multi-dimensional digital teaching tool and Joe Liddicoat will explain his modifications and applications of the Brownfield Action tool.
When I was in college in the early 1980s, letters—on paper, in ink, with self-licked stamps and everything—were the primary form of communication. Cell phones, Facebook, and e-mail were inconceivable; the payphone in the hallway was noisy and unreliable. And so, like every college student of that era, I wrote letters.
Newspaper stories, magazine profiles, books—an illustrious publishing career encourages this writer to create an online magazine for women on the "right side of 45"
Ousseina Alidou and other scholars consider how women in different Muslim contexts, who may or may not identify with feminism, are engaging media to explore different understandings of Islam.


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Water Your Mind—With Nautical Nonfiction
Pirates, ghosts, crab fishing, exploration, survival, all happening on the open seas.
The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
The fascinating story of the search for the Northwest Passage, from early beginnings in the age of exploration, through development into a British national obsession, to the final sordid, terrible descent into scurvy, starvation, and cannibalism.
The Motion of the Ocean: 1 Small Boat, 2 Average Lovers, and a Woman's Search for the Meaning of Wife
Part travelogue, part relationship guide, Esarey recounts the two and a half years she spent at sea with her husband. With sharp humor and honesty she negotiates the rough waters of the ocean and her marriage.
The Shipwreck that Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America
Ambitions of finding gold and planting a New World colony seemed within reach when in 1606 Thomas Smythe extended overseas trade with the launch of the Virginia Company. But from the beginning the American enterprise was a disaster.
Seized: A Sea Captain's Adventures Battling Scoundrels and Pirates While Recovering Stolen Ships in the World's Most Troubled Waters
A ship captain, airplane pilot, lawyer, teacher, writer, adventurer, and raconteur, Max Hardberger recovers stolen freighters for a living.
North by Northwestern: A Seafaring Family on Deadly Alaskan Waters
Told in the honest and believable voice of Captain Sig, from the popular Discovery Channel series Deadliest Catch, comes the story of three generations of Hansens and their bonds to the sea and to each other.
The Living Shore: Rediscovering a Lost World
Modeled on John Steinbeck's "The Sea of Cortez," this slim volume contains a good-news environmental story about how an oyster can help restore the oceans.
Buccaneers of the Caribbean: How Piracy Forged an Empire
Buccaneers were not pirates but privateers, licensed to attack the Spanish by the governments of England, France, and Holland. Jon Latimer charts the exploits of the men who followed few rules as they forged new empires.
A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found my Heart in the Middle of the Ocean
During June 1998, Tori McClure set out to row across the Atlantic Ocean by herself in a twenty-three foot plywood boat with no motor or sail. Within days she lost all communication with shore, but decided to keep going.
The Spectral Tide: True Ghost Stories of the U.S. Navy
From translucent sails to phantom crews, from a flaming ghost ship to the infamous psychic anomaly at the U.S. Naval Academy to battleships where the dead still linger, this book offers no less than a haunted history of the U.S. Navy.
Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season
In 1871, an entire fleet of whaling ships was caught in an Arctic ice storm and destroyed. Though few lives were lost, the damage would forever shape one of America's most distinctive commodities: oil.
Black Wave: A Family's Adventure at Sea and the Disaster that Saved Them
Successful businessman John Silverwood and his wife, Jean, both experienced sailors, decided the time was right to give their four children a taste of thrilling life on the high seas. They had no idea the terror and challenges ahead of them.


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for divisibility by 9 x+y=5 (5 solutions) or x+y=14 (6 solutions)
for divisibility by 11 x+y-5=0 so x+y=5 again 5 solutions so in all 5 values......
just came back frm IBPS IT office exam..
my attempts.
quant--- 23
english 39
comp---30(approx) F**king time
another example of time mismanagement...
bloody invigilator nvr told us about time...could complete the comp section...
P.S. paper was quite easy...
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I haven't downloaded the e-invoice/challan.
Is there any way to get that.
Feeling really tensed.
Somebody please help.
I haven't downloaded the e-invoice/challan.
Is there any way to get that.
Feeling really tensed.
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Do we need to furnish all the details for extra curricular activities ??
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I have been refreshing the website all dis tym in search of pdf...
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my score is
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Hi Avinash,
My profile is:
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Science Olympiad AIR 274.
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A drug information system is a tool that enables authorized health care providers to access, manage, share and safeguard patients' medication histories. A component of an electronic health record (EHR) system, a drug information system supports the storage and retrieval of patient prescription and medication information, and may provide application services supporting dispensing activities such as drug-usage evaluation.
Infoway pre-implementation DIS certification is relevant to health information technology solutions for drug information services. It is expected that implementers will provide drug information services to point-of-service systems by integrating a DIS component into their EHR system.
There is an important scope qualification to the DIS Pre-Implementation Certification. It does not contain criteria which would apply to a stand-alone, complete DIS application, because some application requirements are expected to be met by other parts of the EHR infostructure. An example of such an absent criterion would be the requirement to log all access to patient data.
The DIS pre-implementation certification allows for assessment of these component applications alone, or as application-based service offerings.
The drug information systems domain is made up of two certification classes:
- Category I Drug Information System
A Drug Information System that serves only as a medication information repository, and does not provide any clinical application functionality, such as Drug Usage Evaluation or interaction checking. A Category 1 Drug Information System also does not support storage and retrieval of allergies or adverse reactions.
- Category II Drug Information System
A Drug Information System that serves as a medication information repository, provides clinical application functionality, such as Drug Usage Evaluation or interaction checking, and supports storage and retrieval of allergies or adverse reactions.
Certification criteria
The pre-implementation assessment criteria include:
- Generic Criteria, applying to all classes of health information technology application or service (for example, requirements having to do with privacy and security)
- Interoperability Criteria, which specifically apply to a DIS.
These criteria use the phrase "personal information" to mean any personal information maintained by the application or service about the subjects of health care. Therefore even basic demographic information falls into the category of "personal information" and is therefore subject to the requirements of these criteria.
The framework for the assessment criteria is shown in the table below. It consists of two classes of criteria:
Solution – Refers to the aspects of privacy, security and interoperability that need to be assessed.
Management – Refers to how the organization providing the product manages solution accreditation.
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If you're not a member of US Airways' Dividend Miles program, and you've been meaning to sign up, this would be a good time to do so.
Offer Details
Through December 31, new Dividend Miles members will earn a 1,000-mile sign-up bonus when enrolling with promotion code NMCB.
And there's an extra 2,000-mile bonus for using a MasterCard (not necessarily the US Airways MasterCard) to book a flight and travel within 60 days of enrolling in the program.
Deal or No Deal
I don't recommend signing up for loyalty programs just because it's easy, or because there's a bonus in place for new members. Maximizing the value of program participation requires, among other things, intense focus on just a few programs, which takes time and energy. And enrolling in programs that aren't central to your core earning and redemption strategy dilutes that time and energy.
On the other hand, if you haven't had a compelling reason to join the program to date, it might be time to give Dividend Miles a second look. As I've discussed elsewhere, the program has been uncommonly generous recently, offering a slew of bonus offers, as well as its recurring 100 percent bonus for purchased miles.
Reader Reality Check
Is this bonus enough to give Dividend Miles a try?
This article originally appeared on FrequentFlier.com.


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This is my closest approximation to one of my favourite dishes when I eat out. I hope you will like it.
Kulambu is a tamililan spicy stew-like preparation. The main flavours are from tamarind and jaggery or sugar. This is a delicious kulambu using boiled eggs. You can easily use fish or crab instead of the eggs.
Aviyal is a South Indian delicacy, a hugely popular vegetarian dish that we make for festivals and auspicious events. Almost every household makes a different style of aviyal inspite of the same ingredients – vegetables, curd, coconut and spices. My mother's from Andhra and this is her recipe. Hope you'll like it as much as we do.
This is a relatively easy paratha to make and tastes good with curd.
From Amritsar to Chennai, this recipe for ever popular Chhole goes great with rice, naan, bhature or even aloo tikkis! Slather on some imli chutney and they're great even in sandwiches!
There is nothing like a hot Mooli paratha on a cold winter day! It is a treat that is relished by all!
This is one of my favourite street foods that is quite easy to make. You can make the papdi a day ahead and store in an airtight container so that they stay crisp. This is a very popular starter dish for a party.
Originally a dish from Punjab, but I don't know of anyone who does not make or like Aloo paratha. The recipe varies from house to house, but this is the way my mother makes it. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
Besan is found in most Marwari dishes. Here's a besan stuffing you can use to make anything. This is a spicy version with green chillies stuffed with besan masala.
This is a richer variant of the traditional guttey. Mewa(dry fruits) and mawa(khoya) are the main ingredients of this dish.


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TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- The head of Oklahoma's dental board says her office wants prosecutors to pursue criminal charges against a Tulsa oral surgeon at the center of a health scare.
Susan Rogers told The Associated Press that she met with Tulsa County District Attorney Tim Harris on Monday to discuss whether Dr. W. Scott Harrington is criminally liable. The complaint filed last week called Harrington a "menace to the public health."
Inspectors said they found unsafe practices at Harrington's Tulsa-area clinics and letters were sent to 7,000 patients, urging them to be screened for hepatitis and the virus that causes AIDS.
Court records also show that Harrington has been sued for medical malpractice and negligence. He was also named in a paternity suit in 1997. Many cases were settled out of court.
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The episode begins with Cam and Lily dancing around in their living room preparing for Lily's dance recital at school, with Mitch looking on. Just then they receive a call informing them that, they have been chosen by a mother to be the adoptive parents of her child. It also turns out that the mother is delivering today, and the both of them have to be there for the delivery. Later, Gloria tells Jay and Manny about the baby, she also tells Claire about it over the phone. Claire then calls Mitch to reprimand him for not telling her first, but turns out its Cam who informed Gloria about it. Meanwhile at the Dunphy house Phil is trying to convince Haley to go to the prom. She in turn tells him that a prom is for dorks.
Alex in the meanwhile is going to the prom. Haley then tells Phil and Claire that she has decided to take a gap year and work, before joining back college. Meanwhile, Mitch and Cam drop Lily at the Pritchetts, and instruct Gloria about all she has to do at the dance recital. Just then they receive a call from the sister of the mother who is having the baby, she speaks in Spanish and Gloria talks to her. Gloria then informs them that, the sister will call in an hour and inform them as to where exactly the hospital where the baby is being delivered is. Mitch then requests Gloria to come along with them as she is the only one who knows to speak Spanish. Lily meanwhile is left behind with Manny and Jay. Meanwhile, Phil is busy teaching Alex how to dance, for the prom.
Haley meanwhile comes in and tells Claire and Phil that she has gotten the job, she then shocks them by telling them that she has gotten groceries to cook dinner for her and Dylan tonight. Her plan basically is to tell her parents that, she is planning to move in with Dylan. Meanwhile, Lily is busy getting on Jay's and Manny's nerves. Alex in the meanwhile is all dressed up for the prom. Phil and Claire are overjoyed to see her looking so beautiful. Her date then comes to pick her up, and turns out he is gay, he just doesn't know it yet. Later at the dinner table Phil describes to the family the memories of his own prom. Haley then breaks the news to the family that, she and Dylan want to get an apartment together. Claire tells Dylan to leave so they can talk to Haley about this. Meanwhile, Mitch and gang arrive at the hospital where the baby is to be delivered.
The mother's sister tells them that, the baby was born half an hour ago and is perfectly healthy. They then see a priest come out of the OR and tell the sister something in Spanish after which the sister begins to reprimand a nurse in Spanish. The nurse replies in Spanish and then slaps the sister. Gloria translates that the nurse is mad at the sister because she stole her lover. The sister is mad at the nurse because the nurse told the mother about the baby. Meanwhile, at the dance recital one of Lily's teachers informs Jay that Lily doesn't want to perform. She asks Jay or Manny to talk to her and to convince her to perform. Jay then talks to her. He discovers that Lily isn't too happy with getting a new baby brother, but Jay assures her that her dads will love her just as much even after they bring her a new brother.
He cites his own example when explaining things to her. She doesn't seem convinced and instead agrees to dance, only if Jay joins her. Meanwhile, Claire and Phil try talking Haley out of the whole moving in thing, by describing to her how difficult life will be for her if she goes through with her decision. Luke in the meanwhile has a talk with Dylan. Meanwhile at the hospital the confusion seems to have increased, with Gloria not telling Mitch and Cam that someone has told the grandmother about the baby and that, she wasn't suppose to know. Two new characters then get added to the whole confusion a man called Eduardo and an elderly woman.
Gloria then informs Cam and Mitch that the elderly woman who is possibly the grandmother has decided to raise the baby. Cam is heartbroken on hearing this and rushes out. Meanwhile, Luke and Dylan come out and show Haley that, she has actually gotten into the college she had applied for. Luke it turns out would have missed her and hence he hid the letter. Phil, Claire and even Dylan are overjoyed to know that she has been accepted into a college. Dylan is fine with Haley not moving in with her as he too feels college is much more important, but he wants to go to the prom with Haley as he wants her to remember him.
Meanwhile, Mitch and Cam are completely distraught about getting their hopes up and being disappointed once again. Meanwhile, Jay and Lily perform at the dance recital, with Manny recording the whole, thing. Haley and Dylan meanwhile leave for the prom. Gloria meanwhile it turns out is pregnant. Meanwhile, Luke hands over to Phil and Clair all the letters he has hidden over time. The episode ends at this point.
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Know Your Online Baby Photo Rights
I've been reading your blog since Ezra was a little baby. I lovelovelove it! Your boys are totally delicious (is that a weird thing to say? I feel like that was weird.)! Congrats on baby Ike and pretty much being kick-ass in general! I recently gave birth to my own little man named Archer. Yay boys! I also happen to be breastfeeding him as I'm typing this (TMI?). Yay boobs!
Anyhoo… I started a blog a few years ago to keep my friends/family in the know about my wedding planning and stuff. Well, turns out people really like babies. Now that Archer is here, and thanks to our good friend Social Networking, I have "a lot" of people looking at my blog. Here's the part where I have a question:
Sooooo… how do I copyright a blog? I went to the copyright.gov website and my mind exploded. I mean, I'm no Tolkien, but I don't want what I write or pictures of my kid stolen.
Okay, so. This is a topic near and dear to my heart, obviously as an online writer/blogger/poster-of-kids-photos, but ALSO because in my last years of college I switched from an English major to Communications, with a focus on communications law. I then proceeded to do absolutely nothing with that particular focus, except develop a lot of headaches during each and every Internet kerfluffle over stolen posts and photos because there is sooooooo much misinformation flying around about copyright, trademark, fair use, plagiarism and what these terms mean out here in the wild ol' Internet.
In other words, hold onto your butts, because I'm about to get SUPER CRAZY BORING:
In order to "copyright" something — be it a piece of writing, a photo, a song — you only have to create it. That's it. The act of creation makes it yours. Sure, you can (and should) add one of those little "COPYRIGHT 2011 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED DON'T STEAL YOU JACKWADS" things in the footer or sidebar of your blog, and you can (optionally) file various forms and things with the copyright office or post a Creative Commons license spelling out what usage you're okay/not okay with, but here's the thing: You still own your words, photos, or other work even if you don't do any of that. If you find that someone has jacked your blog posts or photos, all you really "need" is a way to prove that you wrote/took the photo FIRST. Public blogs, having nice things like timestamps and dates and URLs and all that, make this job pretty easy.
(For things not so easy to prove, like say, the draft of the novel you're about to send out to publishers, filing with the copyright office is helpful, because it gives you the proof you need that you created X work on Y date and that Z work was created later and is a big ol' stealypants. Publication is not required to claim copyright.)
What you are probably thinking of is trademark. Trademarking is more complicated and definitely requires filing forms and paying a few hundred dollars and has a higher burden of proof on you, the author, to provide evidence that yes, you are entitled to a particular trademark because it's yours, you thought of it first, and it doesn't infringe on existing trademarks (i.e. a cartoon named Mackey Mouse) or is an attempt to trademark something that shouldn't be trademarked (i.e. the word "Mouse"). Most bloggers honestly don't need to worry about trademarking anything beyond say, their blog/brand's name. (Think "Alpha Mom" or "Dooce" or "Mamapop" — all trademarked.) A registered trademark gives you SUPREME POWER AMMO if someone were to come along and try to confuse readers by creating a site with the same name or logo or something super-similar (even in another language).
However, even if your blog name/brand/logo is trademarked and someone steals the CONTENT of your blog, you're still talking copyright, not trademark. And you will always, ALWAYS own the copyright to your blog and its contents. (Provided you didn't steal them from anyone else. WORMHOLEOMG.)
But. Listen. You can copyright, Creative Commons and trademark to your hearts' content, but none of these things can in and of themselves prevent your writing or photos from being stolen, or for your copyright from being violated by people who don't do a good due-diligence Google before deciding on a blog/brand name. The folks who steal are either 1) completely ignorant that stuff they see on the Internet isn't up for grabs, or 2) know better but don't care.
I've had entire posts stolen and republished on someone else's blog. I've had my RSS feed scraped, I've had photos stolen, blah blah blah. So I fight back, each and every time. I know my content is mine, I know a violation when I see one, and no, I don't really care if it's just some teenager on MySpace or a major corporation. It's WRONG. STOP IT. I make a polite attempt to contact the violator and ask them to remove my stuff. If that fails (and oh, it so often does), I move on however I deem appropriate: Reporting them to whatever hosting/blogging service they are using, sending DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown notice or a cease-and-desist letter, etc. And of course, a brutally public shaming online. Heh.
One more thing: If you are using any third-party service — like Flickr, Facebook, etc. — it's a really good idea to actually read the terms of service and privacy policies and all that. Flickr had trouble with companies treating it like a free stock photo site for awhile because it expected users to set the usage rules for their photos themselves and some people didn't know this…and some companies just went and ignored the little "no commercial use/all rights reserved" notices ANYWAY. Read the fine print and find out if there's something the service expects YOU to do — some setting or checkbox — to ensure that if you come to them for help with a violation, they will agree that you did everything "right" and the copyright thief is in the wrong. (And don't even get me started on Facebook.)
Oh wait. I done got myself started: A very shady/spammy company recently swiped a photo of Ike from my blog and used it in a Facebook ad. When I complained on Twitter and Facebook I was immediately swamped with misinformation from people about Facebook's policies. Everything from Facebook owning all commercial rights to anything and everything you post there, so if I uploaded the photo to Facebook that's "why" this happened (not true), from companies having permission to use your photo albums as stock photo sources (also not true — there was a time when your profile photo could be used to promote pages you "Liked" to your friends if you didn't change a setting, but that's since changed and NEVER have companies had the right to use your personal photos in ads) and my favorite, which was that since I linked to my blog posts from Facebook, that gave the company the right to take a photo from there. WHAT THE WHAT?
I spent an hour at Facebook's Help Center reading up on their privacy/copyright policies and reported the CRAP out of that ad, because it was in clear violation of Facebook's Terms of Service (TOS) for advertisers. The ad was quietly pulled a couple days later, though it wouldn't surprise me to see it again under a different ad buy. (I could never track down contact info for the offending company. SO SHADY.)
It's a really crappy feeling having something stolen — particularly a BABY PHOTO. It's a violation, pure and simple. For some people, it's not worth the risk, so they password protect their blogs or don't keep a blog at all. Some people still like to blame the blogger for posting the content in the first place, because they should have known it was a risk. Well, yeah. I know it's a risk. I also know that if I leave my house and cross the street, there's a risk of getting hit by a car. Instead, I know my rights, I know how to fight back. Again: the act of creation gives you copyright. Don't let the dirtbags out there stand in the way of creation, because it's an awesome thing.
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andrea Aug 29 at 1:10 pm Reply
Wholly crap! I can't believe they didn't think you'd see it and recognize your own baby! wtf
Hannah Aug 29 at 1:24 pm Reply
Just checking in from the Legal-O-Verse to say, yes to everything Amalah said, and if the violation is serious enough (i.e., ShadyCo above) and you think someone's making actual money off of the stuff they stole, consider hiring yourself a lawyer to send even more nasty letters, cease-and-desist demands, and potentially, ACTUAL LAWSUITS.
(which are expensive, etc., etc., but if it's serious enough…go for it)
Chiming in to say that a year ago my LAW SCHOOL (from which I graduated and hold a degree from) used a stock photo of me (taken in a law school photo shoot for a brochure) to promote…wait for it…wait for it…..their new paralegal program. On Facebook. And the ad ran in Chicago and one day I came into work with an inbox full of messages asking me why I quit being a lawyer, and "oh man is the job market that bad?" because EVERYONE I went to school with saw the ad. It was horrible. And there is nothing like a lawyer fighting a law school for a good time (she says sarcastically). Anyway, the ad was removed, I rescinded my permission on the photos & all is well. My point is: you have to be vigilant.
Mary C Aug 29 at 3:30 pm Reply
Here's a related question:
-You are in a public place or at a public event.
-Someone takes your picture without your knowledge or
-they post it online and/or sell it and/or use it in an ad or news
-You contact them asking them to remove it because it is a) inappropriate, b) unflattering or c) of your underage child
are they required to do so? do you have any legal recourse if they refuse?
Thank you for any insight you can provide,
Isabel says: see pseudostoops' answer below. If that situation happened to me (ie, they refused), I would check with a lawyer.
I totally saw that ad with Baby Ike and I wanted to ask you about it, but we're not like IRL buddies so I totally chickened out and now, here you are, all talking about it! OMG! I'm so glad about so many things. Like, that I recognized your baby, and more, well, most importantly that you got them to STOP IT with your BABY'S FACE!!
JB Aug 29 at 5:25 pm Reply
This is why I remain completely anonymous online, though I do enjoy reading others' sites/blogs. (So, am a hypocrite). This stuff creeps me out to the extreme. I do not even let people "tag" my location in Facebook, and no one can find me who isn't already my friend. It's all creepy, to me.
Which is too bad, b/c I think it would be fun to have my own site, without fear of images/entries getting hijacked.
I'm no help, I know…
Suzy Q Aug 29 at 5:49 pm Reply
I am also completely anonymous on the Internets, by choice. However, if I follow you on Twitter or I have been reading your blog for years, you pretty much know who I am, as I have probably emailed you at one time or another, and I always will tell you my real name.
For those blogger-peeps that I love (like you, Amy!), I always report to them when I find content or photos hijacked by someone else. I am a Tiny Invisible Internet Crime Fighter!
pseudostoops Aug 30 at 11:04 am Reply
I love Amy's answer, because it is correct! and clear! So helpful.
As far as Mary C's question is concerned, while laws vary state to state, people actually have few privacy rights in public– generally speaking, if you're in public, your picture can be taken without your permission, unless you're in a place where you would reasonably expect privacy (dressing room, bathroom, etc.) How those photos can be used varies- generally it's okay to use them for non-commercial purposes (ie, newspaper), but many states impose restrictions on using them for commercial purposes (ie, in an advertisement) without your permission. But again, privacy laws vary by state, worth looking into your state's particular laws.
Isabel says: thank you for chiming in. I have modified my answer to have folks come look here. Though personally i still have questions. For example, all newspapers I know of are commercial entities (some may claim to serve a public interest though they sell ads in their pages).
Lindsey Aug 30 at 1:03 pm Reply
To Mary C: a lot of people in our litigious society forget a step before going to a lawyer- ask the person to remove the photos! I am not sure if you are speaking of a specific incident, but most people would be happy to comply with your request.
This does remind me of when I was taking some photos in Boston. Some man yelled at me that I was not legally allowed to take photos of his dog (not true) but I wanted to respond- your dogs are messing up the shot and aren't that cute!
Isabel says: you're correct and I agree. we should always ask first to have the picture taken down (I bet it probably would be). My answer below was framed to respond to Mary C's question about someone refusing (I see I wasn't clear initially– so I modified).
pseudostoops Aug 30 at 9:42 pm Reply
Isabel- You're so right, newspapers ARE commercial entities, but courts considering this matter, as far as I know (and I can't claim this is an exhaustive 50 state survey, but I do know of at least a few cases) have determined that despite ad sales, newspapers aren't "commercial" the way that, say, advertisements or product packaging are.
Isabel says: Thank you. and this is why I call upon lawyers when in doubt. it's to answer my questions and seek advice.
Candace Aug 31 at 8:57 pm Reply
Awesome work pseudostoops, you give us lawyers a great name. Since you took all the fun out of this post for me can I just say to "Daisy" OMFG! They used a LAW STUDENT PHOTO for their paralegal program?!?!?!?! Seriously?! Like you wouldn't notice?! I almost died laughing! I am sorry, I am sure it was a b@#ch to go through, but wow, what a story…..
Jennifer Sep 09 at 9:56 pm Reply
some hosting sites you can pay extra so that your images can't be right-clicked and copied. That's what I did for my photography website and yes there are so many things that define if you can or can't use a "public" photo. But to make things a little easier if I do anything along those lines to make sure that it is safe for me to use I try to purposely blur the image of that person or get it as a silhouette that way you can't tell who it really is. But if you go out in public you are for the most part volunteering for someone to use you in their photos.
reka Sep 12 at 6:59 am Reply
Jennifer, even if right-click option is turned off, there are several ways of stealing a picture. The easiest is a print-creen imported into a photoshop. And since in most cases the person stealing the picture wants to use it in a commercial way (ad, website design…), they probably have photoshop.


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Today, the nutty former major league slugger and roider went on about giving out hugs to the people he hates, as you may have heard mentioned today on Pardon The Interruption:
You should hug the people you hate will make you feel better about yourself
I am broke but I am happy do you need a hug even I need one sometimes
If I could hug you to take your pain away I would
Let's try saying and doing nice things for people for just one day
Someone should open up a hug store
And guess what his last tweet was? A hug for me!
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- Bioprocess engineering principles, 2nd ed.
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- This welcome new edition covers bioprocess engineering principles for the reader with a limited engineering background. It explains process analysis from an engineering point of view, using worked examples and problems that relate to biological systems. Application of engineering concepts is illustrated in areas of modern biotechnology such as recombinant protein production, bioremediation, biofuels, drug development, and tissue engineering, as well as microbial fermentation. The main sub-disciplines within the engineering curriculum are all covered; Material and Energy Balances, Transport Processes, Reactions and Reactor Engineering. With new and expanded material, Doran's textbook remains the book of choice for students seeking to move into bioprocess engineering.
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Category: Feature Stories
2007-03-21 08:23:43
"I was really nervous," recalls Jackie Madunic. "I love Tina Turner - she's, like, one of my idols - and I was terrified."
Madunic is describing the first time she rehearsed her role as Turner in the Quad City Music Guild's production of Beehive, and the actress' fears are understandable. The revue, running March 23 through 25, is a celebration of the 1960s' most prominent female musicians - among them Turner, Janis Joplin, Lesley Gore, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, Connie Francis, and Annette Funicello - yet in addition to portraying one of our country's most identifiable rock icons, another factor is conceivably adding to the performer's nervousness: Madunic is white. (As, it should be noted, is actress Sarah Ulloa, who plays both Franklin and Ross.)
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Section: Theatre
Category: Reviews
2007-03-20 14:04:25
As it was a technical dress rehearsal with four days to go before opening night, it was understandable that the March 19 presentation of Quad City Music Guild's Beehive encountered a few glitches. The scene transitions were on the poky side; it was often unclear, during the frequent medleys, whether musical numbers were supposed to end with applause or not (there were a few too many uncomfortable pauses); and the sound, during Act I especially, obviously needed polish - the over-amplification on the opening number, in particular, was painful.
But when all was said and done, there was only one thing sorely missing from this presentation: An audience. Because when Beehive's performers finally get one, this thing is gonna go through the roof.
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- This article is about the neuropsychiatric disorder. For the physical malady, paralysis, see paresis.
General paresis, also known as general paralysis of the insane or paralytic dementia, is a now-rare neuropsychiatric disorder affecting the brain and central nervous system, caused by syphilis infection. It had been considered a psychiatric disorder before and during the nineteenth century, when it was first scientifically identified and discovered to be extremely common, because the patient usually first sought—or was brought for—treatment because of psychotic symptoms of sudden and often dramatic onset.
The diagnosis could be differentiated from other known psychoses by a characteristic abnormality in eye pupil reflexes (Argyll Robertson pupil), and, eventually, the development of muscular reflex abnormalities, seizures, memory impairment (dementia) and other signs of relatively pervasive neurocerebral deterioration.
Although there were recorded cases of remission of the symptoms, especially if they had not passed beyond the stage of psychosis, these individuals almost invariably suffered relapse within a few months to a few years. Otherwise, the patient was seldom able to return home because of the complexity, severity and unmanageability of the evolving symptom picture. Eventually, the patient would become completely incapacitated, bedfast, and die, the process taking about three to five years on average.
While retrospective studies have found earlier instances of what may have been the same disorder, the first clearly identified examples of paresis among the insane were described in Paris after the Napoleonic Wars. General paresis of the insane was first described as a distinct disease in 1822 by Antoine Laurent Jesse Bayle. General paresis most often struck people (men far more frequently than women) between twenty and forty years of age. By 1877, for example, the superintendent of an asylum for men in New York reported that in his institution this disorder accounted for more than twelve percent of the admissions and more than two percent of the deaths.
Originally, the cause was believed to be an inherent weakness of character or constitution. While Esmarch]] and Jessen had asserted as early as 1857 that syphilis caused general paresis, progress toward the general acceptance by the medical community of this idea was only accomplished later by the eminent nineteenth-century syphilographer Alfred Fournier (1832–1914). In 1913 all doubt about the syphilitic nature of paresis was finally eliminated when Noguchi and Moore demonstrated the syphillitic spirochaetes in the brains of paretics.
In 1917 Julius Wagner-Jauregg discovered that infecting paretic patients with malaria could halt the progression of general paresis. He won a Nobel Prize for this discovery in 1927. After World War II the use of penicillin to treat syphilis made general paresis a rarity: even patients manifesting early symptoms of actual general paresis were capable of full recovery with a course of penicillin. The disorder is now virtually unknown outside Third World countries, and even there the epidemiology is substantially reduced.
See also
- de:Parese
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ST's antenna tuners and tunable capacitors offer high quality and high reliability based on a ferroelectric material composed of baryum strontium and titanate (BST). The adoption of this new tunable material is a breakthrough that enables RF tunable technology to serve the mobile wireless market.
ST markets three product series, derived from its tunable technology:
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How do you calculate the server load of PHP/apache? I know in vBulletin forums there's the server load displayed like
0.03 0.01 0.04 but it's not really understandable to a average joe. So I thought about a 1-100 percentile scale. I wanted to display a server load visual that reads from a DIV:
$load = $serverLoad*100;

//show visual for server load on a 1-100 % scale

Current server load is $load%

However, I don't know how to detect server load. Is it possible to do turn this server load into a percentile scale? I don't know where to start. May someone please help me out?


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GRF Goldens that passed in 2010 - The list.
This was not an easy thing to do. I have been through 12 pages of Rainbow Bridge threads for the past week or so. Penny'sMom had a great idea for a thread for those of us that can share a story or picture. For those of us who cannot, this is my remembrance of Goldens lost this year that belonged to members of this forum. I know it is far from complete because I have not looked at every single thread written throughout the entire forum in the past year. I hope it does not feel "cold" as it is just name, date, member. Some dates may not be correct and I apologize. If anyone wants to edit this feel free to copy&paste. Or post corrections or PM me and I will edit for you. My heart goes out to all of you.
Run free boys and girls, we miss you.
Buddy 1-2 jdman
Taylor 1-2 Mom of Jake
Obi 1-4 spruce
Ginger 1-8 carkus
Millie 1-15 MILLIESMOM
Kelso 1-16 Ray Williams
Macy 1-16 jal239
Montana 1-17 montana's mommy
Wembly 1-18 ChiPack
Spencer 1-27 goldensrbest
Cobey 1-? Starfire
Duke 2-11 Duke's Momma
Keeper 2-16 AmbikaGR
Arnie 2-18 rosemary
Sunka 2-26 justmejanis
Murphy 3-8 djoz
Apple 3-12 ckp
Candy 3-16 cangolden
Maggie 3-21 whiskaz
Violet 3-27 sunnyy&violet
Maxie 4-4 Mssjnnfer
Gabby 4-15 SweetSoul
Buddy 4-23 Buddy'sdad
Sydney 4-28 werblam
Barkley 4-30 DallasGold
Beau 5-28 jealous1
Hannah 5-? Animallover
Subiaco 5-? Ian'sgran
MeggieOliviaTaylor 6-8 Meggie'smom
Sierra 6-12 tine
Sara 6-17 hutch
Taya 6-17 Jenny Wren
Tasha 6-17 goldencontriever3
JOY 6-19 Claire'sFriend
Charlie 6-19 Liz22
DaisyMae 6-21 DaisyGolden
Sheba 6-? CrossCreations
Wooly 6-? Luckybuster
Dakota 7-6 smarge117
Cindy 7-7 mikebg
Freedom 7-23 Freedom
Shadow 7-16 Shadowboy22
Kameha 7-25 bp44039
Hunter 7-28 ELI&BAILEYSmom
Daley 7-29 MissinOurDaley
Lexie 7-31 Lexie'sMom
Maggie 8-6 Mygoldenkids
Sadie 8-7 Luna2
MaggieBelle 8-12 Russ Krain
Riley 8-14 MissingRiley
Marvin 8-21 pwrstrk02
Bridget 8-30 KellyH
Reuben 9-2 penparson
Sam 9-6 Sam'sMom
Selka 9-9 Debles
Morgan 9-8 Claire'sFriend
Peanut 9-12 PeanutsMom
Leo 9-17 lovemydoggiex2
Cooper 9-17 Goldilocks
Tucker 9-20 GoldenCamper
Sophie 9-21 HuggenKiss
Beanie 10-2 Beanie'sMom
Newton 10-7 GeorgeM
Sha 10-9 goldensha
Kody 10-14 goldyjlox
Casey 10-15 CarolinaCasey
GingerMae 10-18 Mom2TwoGoldens
Copper 10-22 coppers-mom
Tessa 10-22 TessaLover
Teddy 10-28 musicgirl
Mandy 10-? Mandy'sDad
Ruby 11-1 aprilg
Nugget 11-5 K9mom
Kerosene 11-6 lovealways_ jami
Amber 11-? Foreveramber
Belle 11-? BellesMommy
Smooch 12-7 Karen519
Savannah 2010 sadiegold
Seattle 2010 RBCC
Caesar 2010 caesar's buddy
Murphy 2010 Melh2os
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My heart goes out to all these families. May the memories they hold in their hearts soften the pain.
I lost Tessa on the 22 of October. The 24th was the day that everyone found out. I know it probably doesnèt matter, but just thought I would say. it was the smae day as Cooper.
This is a thoughtful thing to do...and so very heartbreaking to see how many we've lost in just this year.
"To my mind, I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man."
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
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A very thoughtful thing indeed.
I cannot believe how long I had to hold my finger on my down arrow to go through the list. Just heartbreaking and so sad.
My thoughts are with all members that have lost a best friend this past year.
RIP sweet angels.
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Very thoughtful thread...thank you.
Looking at the list and remembering each dog..such a long list...
Mary and the Goldens from Maine
"Trace" - Can. CH Bramley's Light Up The Night, CD, RA - (CGC, CCA, TDI-Therapy Dog and Novice DockDock)
"Rumor" - Jackson's Leap of Faith, RN
"Cadence" - Poeticgold's Of Soldiers and Song
Waiting at the Bridge
"Lexi" - Wise Teacher and Best-est Puppy Raiser
"Liberty" - Bramley's Golden Moments Libby CD, RE - ASCA-CD, Can. CD - (CGC and TDI-Therapy Dog)
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Steve, what a kind, wonderful way to remember the GRF puppers who have gone ahead. Thank you so much. I hope this can stay bumped up, because I hope to scroll down and say prayers for each of them and their families this month.
Betty and the Dallas crew
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Tourists top 1bn in 2012Thu, 17 May 2012 2:29 PM
The number of people vacationing abroad this year is expected to top a billion for the first time, the head of the global tourism authority said this week.
The forecast is higher than expected and presents an opportunity for governments to create jobs in difficult economic times, added Taleb Rifai, secretary general of the World Tourism Organization.
"We will see more than a billion tourists this year, that's virtually a seventh of the world population," Rifai told a two-day meeting in Mexico of tourism ministers from the Group of 20 major economies. "It's a first in history."
Statistics for the first quarter of 2012 showed a 5.8 percent increase in the flow of tourists compared to the same period in 2011, Rifai said late Tuesday. That's higher than a previously anticipated increase of about three to four percent over the course of the entire year, he added.
In 2011, the Spain-based World Tourism Organization recorded 980 million international tourists, a four percent increase compared to 2010.
Rafai urged meeting participants to come up with ways to use tourism to create much-needed employment in "a world in need of growth and economic stimulation."


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Second of the year in the middle of the street. I wonder if these guys are going to have as big a flight year as the Red Admirals have.
First of the year.
Standing guard over a nest.
Cool hoverfly.
Ugly-nest Caterpillar on Chokecherry, it's primary host plant.
This is the first time I've ever seen the adult form.
Larval form. The Arrowwood in the park are being devastated by these things.
About 1cm long.
99% sure this is a European Skipper larvae I found sheltering in Common Milkweed.
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Using Internet Explorer to Download Files from the S:Drive
This page explains to students how to use Internet Explorer (IE) to access the S: drive and download files from the S: Drive, as well as from home when files can not fit them in one single diskette.
- Connect to the Internet.
- Run an internet browser such as Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, or Mozilla Firefox.
- Go to the Business Lab Home Page.
- Click on " S-Drive". You will be presented with the welcome page.
- Under "Access S:Drive" box, click on "CLICK HERE" to access the S:Drive.
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Jet Lag is the feeling of extreme tiredness and other physical effects to the body after flying across numerous time zones. The result can be confusion and the inability for your body to adapt to the current time zone.
Our body had a circadian rhythm which is a 24 hour cycle of physical, mental and behavioural changes otherwise known as our body clock. Basically our circadian rhythm regulates everyday goings-on like eating, sleeping, blood pressure and our body temperature. It is driven by internal factors within our body and also external changes in our environment such as light and temperature.
When we cross numerous time zones, this disrupts our circadian rhythm. The more time zones crossed in one flight, the more severe the disruption. A long flight in the same one or two time zones would not upset our body clock.
The crossing of the time zones causes our circadian rhythm to be out of sync with the destination time. The external signals such as day and night are different to what our internal clock expects.
The body can't immediately realign its rhythm so this causes the tiredness and confusion. As long as these internal and external factors are out of sync you will feel jet lagged.


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Microsoft Not Cool With Hybrid Storage Netbooks
Microsoft isn't too keen on SSDs and HDDs living under the same roof.
Some of the first mainstream computers to incorporate SSD technology were early netbooks. The durable and speedy nature of solid-state storage made them ideal for the application.
Now a couple of new models of netbooks have learned the trick of using an SSD for your startup and OS drive to take advantage of the speed and then using a traditional HDD for the less demanding storage. It's a set up that many of us would like to have in all our computers, not just our laptops.
Unfortunately, Microsoft isn't so taken with the idea for netbooks and is disallowing the bundling of Windows XP with 'hybrid' storage netbooks, according to Bit-tech. Microsoft setting hardware limitations for netbooks allowed to pack Windows XP isn't new.
Netbooks with Windows XP can have an SSD no larger than 16 GB or an HDD up to 160 GB. Having both at the same time, however, appears to be taboo. The only netbook affected appears to be the MSI Wind U115, which is available in various combinations of 8 GB or 16 GB for the SSD, and 120 GB or 160 GB for the HDD. Bit-tech reports that MSI must remove its Windows XP-packed hybrid netbooks by the end of this month.
Last week NEC announced its own netbook packing both a 160 GB HDD and a 16 GB SSD, which appears will now not be shipping with Windows XP.
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0will_chellam , 9 June 2009 21:25This is so stupid, microsoft seem to be limiting the functionality of their own software - seems to be a bit daft to be honest...
I wonder how it would stand up in a court of law? I reckon Microsoft would have a hard time proving their case, firstly because windows xp predates 'netbooks' by a number of years and secondly because i ssuspect youd be hard-pressed to find a standard definitiion of what a netbook actually is unless you say any hardware based on an atom processor, but then you could be referred back to point one - where in the original EULA there is obviously going to be no mention of this....
0Anonymous , 9 June 2009 21:43What about the Lenovo s10e with its 4+80 drive?
0PT88 , 9 June 2009 23:08how old is this news, i musta seen it on other websites about a week ago!
0waxdart , 9 June 2009 23:39Why on earth do they care?
0shoota , 10 June 2009 03:14it prolly has to do with the way xp handles hdd and ssd differently. Poor performance would make Windows look bad. just a guess.
0caskachan , 10 June 2009 18:36shoota Poor performance would make Windows look bad.
and vista doesnt look bad? XD.. silly microsoft =(
0Clintonio , 10 June 2009 19:46They're trying to get rid of XP users by ensuring they can't get even close to good performance in comparison to Vista/ 7 machines. It's true though, with newer hardware, WinXP is far less efficient than 7/ Vista. Good job on Microsoft really, killing the outdated dinosaurs.


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:( Boyfriend wants baby, I'm UNSURE...need advice!
I am 25, met my 31-yr old bf 7 months ago and we fell in love instantly. We both have no kids. Before finding out I was preg (now 6 weeks), we had been looking at engagement rings. I also just recently got a new job which would pay me $20k more per yr. He is soooo excited about me being pregnant that it almost makes me feel like a bad person for considering abortion. He would be crushed. I love kids and want to be a mom - but I really want to be married first. I've seen so many single mom horror stories up close! He also makes a ton of money, so I feel like having a baby will give him total control over my life. He already has planned to buy a house in TX :( (I am a New Yorker & all of my & his family is in NY) and he wants me to not work. Some women would like the housewife title, but I went to college and have built a career that would just go to waste. Am I being selfish?? This is tearing me up emotionally. Any advice would be great :)
Posted: 01/04/2013 by Bluu24
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It sounds like you have a great guy who wants to have a baby with you. Becoming a mom is emotionally straining for most people. I went through the same feelings when I was newly pregnant and I have been married to my husband fo three years (BTW I am 25 also). You can still have a career and be a mom. Talk to him about your feelings and see how he is feeling. When you hear that babies heartbeat, see it on an ultrasound, or feel it moving, it is the best feeling in the world and it eases your anxiety so much! Good luck and I hope everything works out for the best for you and you boyfriend.posted 01/05/2013 by brianneb1429
It's his baby. He has the right to want it, and you shouldn' take that away from him. It took 2 to make his baby. Being married doesn't mean that he wouldn't leave you, but he sounds really excited about this. And just because you marry a man and have a baby with him does NOT mean that he has control over your life.posted 01/05/2013 by LillithsMama
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