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Top 10 Must-have Free iPad Apps for Senior Citizens
There are nearly 15 to 20 million iPads out there.
Many of those millions of iPads are owned by seniors. For any senior who has an iPad, stuff there are a multitude of great apps for seniors to make the most of their new tablet device.
The Best Free iPad Apps for Senior Citizens
- iBooks: iPad's e-book reader, decease the iBooks app is an essential part of your iPad arsenal that will make reading books easier. You can make the text size bigger or make other adjustments to make the reading easier on the eyes. If you own several devices made by Apple, such as the iPhone or Macbook, you can sync the ebooks you're reading in all these devices, down to the exact page you last stopped reading. Incredibly convenient.
- Kindle: if you instead buy your ebooks from Amazon.com, then you will need its free e-book reader called Kindle. The Kindle app connects your iPad to one of the internet's largest catalogues of e-books, so if you find joy in reading, you can't go wrong with this app.
- Flipboard: we already know how seniors are a growing presence on social networking sites. The Flipboard app makes it much easier for seniors to connect with friends on the internet. Apple itself named it "App of the Year" for the clever way it combines your access to various social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, and any RSS feeds you may subscribe to.
- ABC: if you love watching TV shows, then the ABC app is for you. It lets viewers watch recent ABC shows on their iPads at no charge at all. A reminder, though: you might want to use earphones to make sure you don't miss out on anything.
- Netflix: on the web, Netflix is a service that allows its customers to order movies and other videos on the DVD format. The app works the same way, but with the addition of streaming video (perfect for those with a good broadband connection). But while the app is free, you will still need a paid Netflix account to order videos.
- Google Earth: This app reminds you—and beautifully demonstrates—the awesomeness of the device's built-in GPS capabilities. Install it on the iPad and you'll be able to always know where you are exactly—it is pretty nifty if you're wondering where to go or just find your way around a new city. Google Earth is usually best when paired with the iPad's built-in Maps feature.
- Zinio: If iBooks or Kindle are for books, then Zinio are for magazines. Many major periodicals produce content specifically optimized for viewing on the iPad—that's why reading them is like treating the eyes to some candy. With the Zinio app, you'll get to read the current feature stories in a number of magazines for free, but being able to read the entire magazine issue will still require you to burn some bucks.
- The Weather Channel: Seniors are vulnerable to sudden changes in the weather, that's why installing the free Weather Channel app will keep you updated on the latest weather conditions and forecasts. The app provides maps, radar sweeps and even videos—just enter your ZIP code.
- Epicurious: if you love to cook, this app makes it very easy for you to find recipes to your favorite dishes—and even encourages you to discover previously unknown but delightful ones.
- WebMD: based on the popular medical website, the WebMD app is a handy and very useful reference, especially for seniors. Among its functionalities is a symptom checker, a list of first aid essentials for any medical emergency, an extensive database of drugs and treatments, and a tool that helps you identify your pill.
This special list of the top 10 free iPad apps is by no means complete, but this selection basically rounds off the most common needs of seniors—from entertainment, to safety, to medical awareness.
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A Cardassian vole was an animal native to Cardassia Prime. Cardassian voles were about twenty-five centimeters long, had little hair on their bodies, and were generally regarded as pests. They had six legs and were attracted to energy fields. Voles featured spoon-shaped impression on their foreheads, similar to those of Cardassians, and lines at the base of the cheeks (under the ears).
A pair of mating voles were said to "breed like tribbles", but that "they're not as cute." They had even been described as "disgusting hairy little creatures with ravenous appetites." They lived in nests, and were known to create secondary nests in addition to the main one. (DS9: "Ferengi Love Songs")
In the mirror universe, Dr. Phlox was operating on a vole in 2155 when he heard Commander Jonathan Archer's announcement that he had taken command of Enterprise. (ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly")
Li Nalas likened Bajorans who were evacuating Deep Space 9 in 2370 to frightened Cardassian voles who were abandoning their homes. (DS9: "The Siege")
Deep Space 9 suffered an infestation of voles in formerly uninhabited sections of the station. After the supposed eradication of the infestation, Quark's suffered from a further infestation in 2373 and had to be temporarily closed down while they were exterminated. (DS9: "Playing God", "Ferengi Love Songs")
Although illegal in Bajoran space, it was possible to train Cardassian voles to fight. Quark was warned at least once by Odo that no live vole fights would be permitted on the station, and both he and Morn were once caught by Odo preparing a number of voles for a fight. (DS9: "Destiny", "Through the Looking Glass") There was apparently a market for their bellies. (DS9: "Body Parts")


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And me, right? You love me, too?
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My daughter. She hates corn. Loves you, though.
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marc jacobs and vena cava, oh my
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- August 29, 2009 at 9:20 PM
- Alice said...
HOW do you find these deals? honestly?
and the heels are truly timeless.. very versatile. not too pointy, not too plain, not too high, not too short.. really great.
as for the dress.. is it also versatile? i can't really tell with that jacket, but i love that slit going up the leg.
- August 29, 2009 at 9:22 PM
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those shoes are timeless, indeed. i can only imagine what the dress really looks like...
amazing deals on super expensive items are quite miraculous. haha.
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I am envious of your amazing finds! But I'm totally in love with the shoes too. Timeless things are good to have, I agree.
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LOL because I made you come with me to Marc Jacobs.
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Marc Jacobs is such an amazing designer, lucky you, you have some great pers of shoes! And your photos are amazing!
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I love the way the dress is tied with string! Bit obscure to comment on I know but hey... :)
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Vena Cava is a gem. And a deal makes it even that much more sweet! Finding good deals is a talent!
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How???? how is that possible? Hand crafted marc jacobs for 20 and Vena Cava for 50??? i think you just scored the deals of the century!
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awwww!! cute shoes!
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the marc jacobs were $20? whaaaaaat?
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incredible steals. damn.
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Vena Cava is the bomb. If you don't follow their blog, you should. Those two are incredible. You've inspired me to wear my VC Demon blouse tomorrow :D
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Wow what great finds! And I can't wait to see pics of you wearing the dress!
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Great finds! You always need a pair of classic shoes. Nice to hear there are some deals left out there that are not "too good to be true".
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Such great bargains, you really are a lucky girl! The shoes are perfectly professional and really classic.
The dress looks lovely too - can't wait to see it on you.
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The fate of Atlantic City's 12 casinos and the push for online poker in New Jersey have been two mostly unrelated sagas in this space for the past year or more.
Now, they may just be getting close to an intersection. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that PokerStars, an online poker company, may look to buy the struggling Atlantic Club:
This would be a fire sale similar to the one that Morris Bailey managed with Atlantic City Resorts two years ago, picking up that casino for about $30 million. Here, the purchased price unsurprisingly is said to be "less than $50 million."
The purchase may be contingent upon the state legislature passing an online poker bill as soon as two weeks from now – AND on Governor Christie not vetoing this idea, as he did almost a year ago in a similar incarnation.
PokerStars has an interesting history, however, establishing itself as a major online entity and then still taking bets even after others were scared off by the federal government's increasiongly louder footsteps. While the company denied any wrongdoing in its $731 million settlement with the government this summer, according to the Journal, one wonders if that will set off some alarms in Trenton.
Even if the deal goes through, it may not happen quickly enough for PokerStars to give this property its fourth name in less than two years. This is the former Atlantic City Hilton, then briefly ACH, then the Atlantic Club – and who knows what next?
The owner is Colony Capital, better known to readers here as the would-be developer of Xanadu circa 2006-09 before that fell through. Colony also was the seller-for-a-song of Resorts to Bailey.
I wrote about the question of how long all 12 casinos could stay open in The Record recently, given the tough economics and increasing competition – with the Atlantic Club nominated as a possible door-closer.


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Massive real estate project seeking green accreditation
Riyadh's King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) is now the largest project in the world that is seeking green building accreditation, MEED's Saudi Green Buildings Forum 2011 was told today.
The project involves building 34 towers in a site with a total area of 1.6 million square metres. It will provide more than 3 million square metres of space for various uses, 62,000 parking spaces and accommodation for 12,000 residents. The KAFD aims to create 44,000 new jobs and to be the largest financial centre in the Middle East.
The LEED director for the project at the Saudi BinLadin Group, Whysal Numan said that the drive to achieve the highest standards in sustainability has involved a wide range of initiatives designed to lift environmental standards during the construction process and after the opening of the project. This is scheduled to take place in 2014.
The Saudi Binladin Group is the principal design and build contractor on the project.
Sustainability initiatives at the project include an erosion sedimentation control plan to reduce pollution from dust and to control soil erosion. "We have land-watering in the project each hour and every day and other measures to control dust coming from the site," Numan said. Traffic speed within the project is controlled for the same reason.
"Our construction waste management programme aims to divert at least 50 per cent of our construction waste from disposal in landfill and incinerators," Whysal said. "The indoor air quality plan is to reduce health risks for construction workers."
The project will use alternative transport systems. "The KAFD is to have a monorail system with six stations that will connect with public parking areas. There will also be parking for bicycles and changing rooms for people who come the district by bicycle.
LEED requirements demand that water consumption must be reduced by 20 per cent. To achieve this, technology being used in the project includes dual-flush toilet systems and low-water flow fittings. Buildings within the KAFD will also make use of gray water.
"Energy performance is most critical," Whysal said. "LEED requires a 10 per cent reduction in energy use. We have introduced a lot of strategies to achieve this and they include low ultra-violet materials; shading device systems; heat recovery systems and efficient light fixtures.
"We are aiming to use at least 50 per cent of the materials from recycled material," Whysal said. This has involved using recycled steel and porcelain. "We are aiming that at least 10 per cent of the total cost will be in the form of recycled material and we could get to 20 per cent and more."
"Building materials have been selected which are extracted and manufactured within 500 miles of the project site for a miniumum of 10 per cent of the cost of the total value of the materials used in the project," Whysal said. "We are targetting 20 per cent." Sustainable adhesives, paints, flooring and composite wood are being used to reach this target.
The client for the King Abdullah Financial District is the Rayadah Investment Company.


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Rihanna kicks off Diamonds world tour
RiRi thanks fans for unforgettable opening night
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RiRi thanks fans for unforgettable opening night
She also tweeted: "I will never forget how you made me feel tonight!!! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!"
Related: Behind the scenes of Rihanna's new world tour
The tour will take the Only Girl (In the World) across the States before jetting to Europe in May, and hitting our shores with David Guetta in June.
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Diamonds tour setlist:
Phresh Out the Runway
Birthday Cake
Talk That Talk
Pour It Up
All of the Lights
(Kanye West cover)
Rockstar 101
What Now
Man Down
No Love Allowed
Rude Boy
What's My Name?
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Loveeeeeee Song
Love The Way You Lie
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Hate That I Love You
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We Found Love
Only Girl
Don't Stop the Music
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Set in the centre of Nitra, this 4-star hotel offers free access to the hot tub and various saunas including dry and infrared saunas. You can dine in the onsite restaurant or work out in the fitness room, which is also free. The rooms at Hotel Comfort are contemporary in style and offer free Wi-Fi access. Decorated in soft tones, each one has an LCD TV and some have a private balcony with views of the town. A buffet breakfast is provided every morning in the hotel's Café Comfort or on the terrace. You can also relax in the piano bar before sampling traditional, Slovak dishes in the restaurant. The hotel is wheelchair friendly. Free parking is available on site and is monitored by CCTV. Agrokomplex Exhibition Centre is 1 km away. Other sights in the town include the Piarist Church behind the hotel and Andrej Bagar Theatre, 500 metres away.
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Beringia lowland tundra
Nunivak Island, Alaska, USA. (Source: Photograph by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
The region experiences a climate that is transitional between maritime and continental influences. Average annual precipitation varies widely, ranging from 250 millimeters (mm) in Kotzbue Sound to 860 mm near Bristol Bay. Mean daily minimum temperatures in winter range from -25°C in the northern parts to -10°C along the Alaska Peninsula. Summer high temperatures can reach 18°C. In the Koetzebue Sound and the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta areas, soils are shallow to permafrost and consist mostly of Histic Pergelic Cryoquepts and Pergelic Cryofibrists. In the more southerly and better drained Bristol Bay area, the permafrost table is deep to discontinuous and somewhat more developed soil profiles can occur. All but the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta was covered in Pleistocene glaciation.
Biological Distinctiveness
The abundance of surface water makes this ecoregion excellent habitat for waterfowl, and the tidal flats of the coast provide an abundance of habitat for shorebirds. Many species of birds depend on the habitats of this ecoregion for the majority, if not all, of their nesting habitat. These include the Arctic loon (Gavia artica), Canada geese (Branta canadensis), bristle-thighed curlew (Numenius tahitiensis), dovekies (Alle alle), McKay's buntings (Plectrophenax hyperboreus), and white wagtails (Motacilla alba). The highest densities of nesting tundra swans, the majority of the world's emperor swans, and 50 percent of the world's black brant (Branta bernicla) are supported by the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta alone. This delta is the most expansive area of highly productive waterfowl nesting habitat in Alaska, and among the most significant on earth. Izembek Lagoon, on the Alaska Peninsula, is the most important migratory staging area for black brant in Alaska. St. Lawrence and St. Matthew Islands also support large seabird colonies. St. Lawrence Island colonies support approximately 2,000,000 seabirds, including the largest murre (Uria spp.) colonies in the eastern Bering Sea.
Mammals include river otters (Lontra canadensis), short-tailed and least weasels (Mustela erminea and M. nivalis), brown bear (Ursus arctos horribilis), moose (Alces alces), and caribou (Rangifer spp.). Populations of all top-level predators are intact, and brown bears reach extraordinary natural densities in the Katmai and Lake Iliamna areas. All five species of North American Pacific salmon are native here, and Bristol Bay supports the largest run of sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) in the world.
Conservation Status
Habitat Loss and Degradation
The Beringia Lowland Tundra is almost entirely intact. Human disturbance consists of small permanent and seasonal settlements, mostly along rivers and coasts. These communities depend on subsistence fishing and on hunting of marine mammals (seals, whales), caribou, moose, and birds. For the most part, the terrestrial impacts of these settlements are local and slight.
Remaining Blocks of Intact Habitat
The largest blocks of intact habitat include the Ahklun Mountains and the Bendeleben Mountains, which contain diverse habitat types.
Degree of Fragmentation
This ecoregion is naturally fragmented into three large mainland areas and numerous islands. The southernmost block of habitat around the Ahklun Mountains is relatively unfragmented. The norrthernmost block is still mostly intact but is becoming trisected by roads and is increasingly impacted by mining. This area has the potential to be much more fragmented in the future.
Degree of Protection
This ecoregion is represented by several protected areas. Those in the Seward Penninsula/Kotzebue area include:
- Bering Land Bridge National Park - western Alaska
- Selawik National Wildlife Refuge - western Alaska
- The Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta is contained completely within the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge.
Protected areas of the ecoregion surrounding Bristol Bay and on the Alaska Peninsula include:
- Togiak National Wildlife Refuge - western Alaska
- Egegik, Pilot Point, Cinder River, Pt. Moller State Critical Habitat Areas - western Alaska
- Izembek National Wildlife Refuge - western Alaska
- Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge - western Alaska
- Becharof National Wildlife Refuge - western Alaska
- Katmai National Park and Preserve - western Alaska
Finally, a number of islands scattered throughout the ecoregion, especially St. Matthew Island, are included as units of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.
Types and Severity of Threats
Currently, waterfowl harvests are managed by USFWS, through co-management agreements with Native communities, and through international treaty. Although there is some potential for unsustainable waterfowl harvests from local communities, the harvests are at present well managed and represent less of a threat than habitat destruction in wintering areas for nesting waterfowl.
Commercial fishing is a significant presence, and can affect not only the marine ecosystem but the many terrestrial species that rely on the abundant fish runs each year. Salmon fisheries in the area are generally well-managed to ensure sufficient spawning stock returns to the rivers. As with any commercial fishery, there is a concern with overharvesting, particularly of weak stocks in years of generally abundant returns.
Suite of Priority Activities to Enhance Biodiversity Conservation
The biggest gap in the protected areas of this ecoregion are in the Nushagak River Valley and along the west side of the Alaska Peninsula.
Conservation Partners
- Alaska Marine Conservation Council
- National Audubon Society - Alaska-Hawaii Regional Office
- The Nature Conservancy - Alaska
Additional Information on this Ecoregion
- For a shorter summary of this entry, see the WWF WildWorld profile of this ecoregion.
- To see the species that live in this ecoregion, including images and threat levels, see the WWF Wildfinder description of this ecoregion.
- World Wildlife Fund Homepage
Disclaimer: This article contains certain information that was originally published by the World Wildlife Fund. Topic editors and authors for the Encyclopedia of Earth have edited its content and added new information. The use of information from the World Wildlife Fund should not be construed as support for or endorsement by that organization for any new information added by EoE personnel, or for any editing of the original content.
CitationFund, W. (2014). Beringia lowland tundra. Retrieved from http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/51cbed0f7896bb431f68f69f
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Insurgency is here! Modern Infantry Combat on Valve's Source Engine. Insurgency (INS) is a total conversion of Half-Life 2 focused on tactical gameplay.
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NEW ORLEANS – Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints still must close a significant gap in guaranteed money if they are to agree on a five-year contract worth about $100 million by Monday's looming deadline for a long-term deal, said a person familiar with the negotiations.
The sides were more than $10 million apart in the guaranteed portion of the contract Wednesday, the person told The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because talks are ongoing.
The stakes are high for both sides and the negotiations have lasted for months, including long gaps in communication between the two camps.
Brees, who is 33 and entering his 12th season, has never before had the chance to negotiate a contract on par with the elite quarterbacks of the game. The Saints, meanwhile, risk alienating the best quarterback in franchise history, not to mention their fan base, by failing to make an offer to his satisfaction by Monday – the deadline for players with the franchise tag to sign long-term deals.
Several months ago, Brees first raised the possibility that he would not report to the opening of training camp if all that was on the table at that time was the one-year franchise tag of about $16.3 million. People familiar with the quarterback's plans say that remains the case.
Brees has said he does not want to play under a one-year contract with no long-term security in the coming seasons. He did it once before, with costly consequences, when he played under the franchise tag for San Diego in 2005 and wound up with a career-threatening injury to his throwing shoulder.
That injury led him to accept a six-year, $60 million deal with New Orleans in 2006, which left him playing for well below market value in the past few seasons, even as he was setting club and league records.
Brees had hoped that an extension would be done before 2011, but when it was not, he decided not to hold out and played without the security of a long-term contract. He remained healthy the entire season and passed for an NFL single-season record 5,476 yards. Brees considered that an act of faith in the Saints, and now he is insistent that that faith be returned in the form of a contract that not only would give him the highest average annual salary in the game, but also guarantee a significant portion of his salary.
General manager Mickey Loomis has said he understands that Brees' contract is the most important deal on which he has worked in his career. However, he has stressed that such a deal, with the potential to affect the team's ability to sign other players, must be entered into with caution.


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Your organization might be considering a move to the cloud. But before you make that leap, consider the implications that regulatory legislation like the US Patriot Act could have on the security of your private data.
In this new whitepaper, USA Patriot Act and Data Privacy Concerns for the Cloud, we explore some of the concerns that today's enterprises are faced with when contemplating data in the cloud.
Corporations are thinking long and hard about the legal and regulatory implications of cloud computing. When it comes to actual corporate data--no matter what the efficiency gains are--legal departments are often directing IT departments to steer clear of any service that eliminates their ability to keep potential sensitive information out of the hands of federal prosecutors. Organizations with any information that they want to keep private--or need to keep private for other regulatory considerations, are looking looking to private PaaS as a way to keep that data private. From employee HR records to healthcare organizations and financial/banking organizations, knowing who accesses your data and when is of the utmost priority.
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Interesting post. I know many people are concerned about their privacy. Myself included. These are some very good points that we all must consider in order to make the right decisions as to moving toward cloud computing or not.
There is always going to be some questions for the games as to how regulations will allow, or if they will allow for governmental officials being able to access file in the cloud.


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Elderly women guilty of conspiring to murder - Crime & courts - MSNBC.com
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Shilajit is a dark tar like rocky substance collected from the deep rocks of Himalaya.
It's considered to be one of the cornerstones of Ayurveda (Indian medicine) and its use dates back thousands of years.
Even in the western medicine (where Shilajit is rather new thing) it's considered to be a supreme healing substance, mainly due to the fact that it contains more than 85 different trace minerals in their ionic form, along with fulvic acid that enhances the absorption.
All of the minerals in Shilajit are essential for the human body. However many are so rare that most people in the western diet never come to contact with them.
And on top of it all, Shilajit is a potent testosterone booster:
Shilajit as a Testosterone Booster
The preliminary reason why Shilajit boosts testosterone is extremely simple…
…It's jam-packed with an unbelievable amount of ionic minerals (85) along with fulvic acid which transports the minerals deep into the human tissue
(basically Shilajit is like natures very own ionic multi-mineral with extremely high absorption rate).
Needless to say that some of those minerals have a testosterone boosting effect (selenium, gold, zinc, magnesium, and boron for example). The fulvic acid also has a lattice structure that chelates heavy-metals from the body.
And somehow this natural mineral complex with the ionic fulvic acid is capable of increasing testosterone levels without really stimulating the hypothalamus-pituiary-testicles axis.
Just check out this study:
The Researchers at the J. B. Roy State Ayurvedic Medical College and Hospital in India, gave their infertile subject males 200 mg's of Shilajit for 90 consecutive days to see if it would reverse their issues.
What they found out after the 3 month period was quite remarkable:
Shilajit was able to increase their subjects serum testosterone levels by 23,5% on average, while it also more than doubled their amount of sperm cells.
Shilajit supplementation didn't really change luteinizing hormone (LH) levels, which indicates that this tar like substance does not increase testosterone by stimulating the testicular production (like most of the herbs do), but it must have some other mechanism of action, most likely caused by the minerals.
Check the Quality of Your Shilajit
The fact that Shilajit has regained quite a popularity in the past years, means that there's a big market of hungry sellers cashing in with all sorts of fake products.
About 95% of the products in the market are complete jokes as the market is full of black pills and powders that really have nothing to do with the actual Shilajit.
Some even claim to have a fulvic acid content of +50% which is theoretically impossible as you'd need to prepare a 1:100 extract to get that amount of fulvic acid and then the cost would probably go past four figures…
…Yet they sell those "concentrated pills" for prices like 20$ 😀
As a rule of thumb, real authentic Shilajit is never powdered or in pill form.
If it's the real deal, it comes in its original resin form, like this authentic Shilajit from Lotus Blooming Herbs which I'm personally using, or this Pürblack Live Resin which has its very own letter of authenticity along with the lab tests.
If you're using any mineral pills or multi-minerals, you can basically throw them all away when supplementing with authentic Shilajit.
It contains a ridiculously high amount of ionic trace minerals (85) along with fulvic acid which is a naturally occuring acid in dead organisms that greatly increases the bio-availibity of the minerals.
When looking at the amount of testosterone boosting minerals in Shilajit, it comes not as a surprise that it increased serum testosterone levels by 23,5% in a controlled human study.
These are the only two brands of Shilajit that I feel comfortable recommending (Lotus Blooming Herbs Authentic Shilajit, Pürblack Live Resin) as most of the other Shilajit products in the market have nothing to do with the actual rock like substance.


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While the candidates are preparing for Wednesday's presidential debate in Denver, former comptroller of the currency David M. Walker has been crisscrossing the country imploring both parties to put forth a plan to put the nation's financial house in order.
His bus tour, dubbed the "Comeback America Initiative," is non-partisan and has the support of a number of respected advisers, including former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker.
When we caught up with him a few days after an appearance in Denver, he stressed the importance of the upcoming debates and the role that a serious economic discussion should play in the election. He said he would like to see debate moderators "raise the stakes on this debate and make it more solutions-oriented. They've got to step it up and give us some meat."
Harkening back to the line that Walter Mondale used on then-Colorado Sen. Gary Hart in the 1984 primaries, he asked: "Where's the beef?"
Walker is frustrated by the fact that President Barack Obama says he has a plan but really doesn't. He observed that the Obama administration's proposals, included in several budgets, were soundly rejected by both the Senate and the House. Challenger Mitt Romney has yet to provide enough specifics to make his proposals viable, he complained. That leaves a huge opportunity in the debate for one candidate to seize the initiative.
"The biggest deficit we have today is leadership. The American people are smarter than the politicians realize. They appreciate the truth, and this is the time for truth, leadership and solutions," he said. "I feel it every day, all over this country."
No matter what the election outcome, Walker thinks there's little chance for a so-called "grand bargain" on taxes, entitlements and defense spending in the post-election Congress. He thinks things are just to polarized to get anything more than a short-term fix on spending cuts and expiring taxes. "What should happen is that the lame duck Congress tries to separate the wheat from the chaff," and set the stage for broader action in 2013.
Walker believes 2013 is critical because it gives a window for action before the 2014 election. He believes the GOP has a good chance to take the Senate then, even if it does not prevail in 2012. Getting tough jobs like entitlement reform done will take a lot of citizen engagement and "extraordinary presidential leadership" to defuse the coming "debt bomb," Walker says. The first year of a new presidential term, no matter who wins, is an opportunity to focus on the huge fiscal challenges the country faces.
What's at stake for America is daunting — and coming at us fairly fast. "Bush 43 had a terrible fiscal record and so far President Obama does, too," Walker says. He believes that within "a couple of years," the U.S. could face a debt crisis along the lines of Spain or Italy, with interest rates soaring and the nation unable to get the funding it needs to roll over its towering debts.
However, he equally believes that there is time for a meaningful settlement to get debt in order and reduce it to about 60 percent of GDP within a decade. And the upside for the U.S. is getting trillions of dollars now sitting in cash off the sidelines and make key investments in infrastructure to remain competitive.
Walker thinks the Bowles-Simpson budget plan is "about 85 percent" of the way to a budget solution. Its chief deficiencies are that it understates the cost of fixing health care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid and that it isn't clear enough about tax reform. Under Walker's initiative, income taxes would go up for the wealthy, down for the middle class, and a minimum floor would be set so that more people contribute something to the system.
The latest round of quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve was a strategic mistake, Walker said, because it takes some of the pressure off of Congress to strike a long-term deal on debt reduction. With the Federal Reserve buying so much government paper, he warned, "over time it becomes a giant Ponzi scheme."
Walker believes the debt ceiling — now highly politicized — ought to be abolished and replaced by an agreement among the parties in Congress to create statutory budget controls, such as the ones in the late 1980s and 1990s that helped turn the Reagan-era deficits into Clinton-era surpluses.
Walker thinks Wednesday's debate could be an important step in putting the nation on the path to "a fairer, simpler and more competitive" tax system and spending reforms that put the nation back on a sustainable path. The candidate who does the best job of seizing that opportunity might just win four years in the White House and a chance to put the economy back on center stage.
Henry Dubroff is an entrepreneur who splits his time between California and Colorado. John J. Huggins is an entrepreneur and investor in Denver. For previous installments of their occasional series on the nation's fiscal issues, go to denverpost.com/dubroff.


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Four area teams climb in prep football rankings
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Four area teams moved up in their respective classes in this week's state high school football rankings.
The Jefferson City Jays (2-0) climbed one spot to No. 6 in the Class 6 rankings.
The Helias Crusaders (1-1) are back to No. 2 in Class 4.
The Blair Oaks Falcons (2-0) are No. 4 in Class 2, while South Callaway (2-0) fell one spot in the Class 2 rankings.
The Tipton Cardinals (2-0) moved up two spots to No. 3 in Class 1.
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Bettors will be able to bet against horses
There was big news Thursday in horse racing, especially where the game pertains to betting, the multibillion dollar engine that drives the sport.
The California Horse Racing Board approved rules at its meeting at Betfair Hollywood Park that will allow for exchange wagering in the state, sometime in 2013. Exchange wagering gives gamblers the ability to bet against a horse, or to bet a horse will lose a race. The rules and regulations passed by the CHRB now will go to the state's Office of Administrative Law for approval. There is expected to be legal challenges to exchange wagering. Owners and trainers have spoken out against the practice in the past.
The state legislature approved exchange wagering in 2010, pending the development of rules by the racing board. Betfair-TVG and Twinspires.com (Churchill Downs Inc.) were granted provisional licenses, according to board spokesman Mike Marten. However, CDI's approval could be rescinded if it doesn't agree in the next 10 days to split the startup costs of the venture, which is expected to be more than $500,000.
Josh Rubinstein, the senior vice president of development for the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, attended the meeting in Inglewood. He said the DMTC is in favor of the sport moving to exchange wagering.
"We (DMTC) are interested in looking at anything that helps horse racing and helps provide the first-class product that we put out at Del Mar," Rubinstein said. "If exchange wagering is approved, we'll look at it."
As a way to expedite the process, the CHRB approved a provisional license application for Betfair-TVG to conduct exchange wagering.
"They granted a provisional license application for Betfair TVG assuming that the Office of Administrative Law approves the rules and regulations," Rubinstein said. "They can't approve a license if the rules and regs don't allow for that wagering to occur. TVG Betfair will have the ability to conduct exchange wagering, but they need to find a willing partner in a racing association as well as the consent of a horsemen's group like the Thoroughbred Owners of California. All those things need to happen, but this is a step in the right direction."
Rubinstein described an example of exchange wagering.
"The easiest way I can describe it is take the Pacific Classic for example," Rubinstein said of last year's signature race at Del Mar that was won by Dullahan. "If I thought Game On Dude was going to win the Pacific Classic and you thought Game On Dude was not going to win the Pacific Classic, then the exchange operator would match us up. It would be in cyberspace, of course, but you would have all the other horses in the field, and I'd have Game On Dude. You would have won because Game On Dude didn't win. If one person is backing the horse and thinks it's going to win, and that's how betting at the track is right now, then he bets on a horse to win. But the second piece, the exchange wagering, allows you to lay a horse, or get the rest of the field against that horse."
Trainers like John Sadler have spoken out against exchange wagering. They believe there is a possibility for tainted races or inside cheating in the game.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- A state-approved curriculum to guide classes about the Everglades is now available to Florida teachers.
The Everglades Foundation unveiled lesson plans for grades kindergarten through 12 on Monday in West Palm Beach. The Palm Beach Post reports the curriculum was tested in pilot programs in five counties.
Everglades Foundation board member James Kushlan says not everyone understands the importance of the Everglades and the teaching guides aim to make every student literate on the subject.
The curriculum was created through a partnership of the foundation, Florida Atlantic University, the Pine Jog Environmental Education Center and a panel of state teachers.
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There is no doubt that the advent of trail cameras has changed the way we scout. They give you the ability to see what is happening in your favorite hunting areas without having to spend hours in the field educating deer to your presence. It wasn't all that long ago that hunters got excited about simply getting a few photos of deer, but now that they have been around for a while, cameras have become tools for intense scouting and even herd management.
Are you looking for a way to get your daughter or wife interested in outdoor sports? If so, the perfect opportunity is tomorrow, Saturday, October 5, because the Trailblazer Adventure Program is teaming with Cabela's to offer you a "Ladies Day Out"!
The Truths About Hunting Whitetails in Wind
Whitetail season is upon us, and with that many of you are hitting the field in hopes of bringing home that trophy buck. Weather when hunting can serve as our friend, or our mortal enemy and that certainly rings true in the deer hunting world.
Our friends at Outdoorlife.com have weighed in on the truth behind hunting whitetails when the wind is blowing. Click here to read Brad Fitzpatrick's advice on high wind hunting.
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I am 50 percent effaced but no dilation?
I am 36 weeks today and I have been having sharp pains in my cervix. My doctor checked me and I am 50 percent effaced, but I have not dilated. I have already lost my mucus plug....when will I be having the baby?
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Effacement comes before dilation. I was so convinced I was going to go early with my first because I dropped at 36 weeks and was 70% effaced and 2 cm dilated, lost my plug at 38 weeks, was having lots of contractions... She was 3 days late and when I went in after 19 hours of early labor, I was only 3 to 3 1/2 cm. Hang in there, it's almost over, but unfortunately there's no way to tell just how soon.posted 03/09/2012 by a BabyCenter Member
Unfortunately losing your plug doesn't mean you are going into labor, I lost my plug about two weeks ago, and I'm still waiting to have my little bean, and the pain in your cervix could just be your dilation starting but monitor the pain, and if it gets to a regular 5 min apart then call your doctor and GO IN. Good luck I hope this helps :)posted 03/07/2012 by KaylaJarod
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Taco Bell Gave Me a Cellphone
Then I started getting urgent calls from ConEd and the Bronx Criminal Court.
Some quick investigating revealed that I was much lower on the social media totem pole than many of my competitors, one of whom was a singer from California with 88,000 followers who managed to get his plea for Taco Bell–themed bed sheets to trend worldwide. I'd long been a voluntary shill for the company, but something felt dirty about shilling at the company's direct behest. I decided to be a trained seal with principles, dedicating all my promiscuous hoop-jumping to the pursuit of the most extravagant prizes. The second mission, delivered via automated recording, was one such prize:
On the beach in sunny California, or taste your first Waffle Taco in New York City. Just use #wakeuplivemas #contest and tweet where you want to try Taco Bell's breakfast in the continental United States. Be sure and tell us why. We'll pick a favorite and legit fly you there. For real.
The timbre of the voice on Taco Bell's automated messages could only be described as Knowing Bro: too cocksure for you to dismiss, too clueless to not say "legit" in nearly every single message, and too casual to begin a transmission with a simple hello. I sprang into action, tweeting that I wanted to be sent to Downey, Calif., home of the very first Taco Bell. (It was early in the morning, OK?) When the phone rang hours later, I scrambled to pick up, hoping it was a call to name me as the winner:
[Name withheld] has a court-ordered appearance for a desk appearance ticket and must appear at Bronx Criminal Court at 265 E. 161st Street, Bronx, N.Y., 10451, on Tuesday, March 25 at 9:30 in the morning. If you have received a desk appearance ticket from the police and the date and time are different from the information you just heard, follow the directions on the desk appearance ticket.
After this Kafka-esque directive, I wanted to speak out. It had become clear that my burner had a history. But I also felt like I would be betraying the honor bestowed upon me by my favorite brand if I suddenly began committing digital samizdat against the taco state. I also wanted to grant the rare reprieve that no one in my life circle ever gives Taco Bell: the benefit of the doubt. Maybe my burner was a fluke. As if anticipating my concerns, Taco Bell soon sent a clarifying text:
Taco Bell: When we call, we'll call from 949-863-8339 or 310-866-2965 and we'll text from 75289. Accept no imitators. and disregard messages from other numbers.
The rest of the week was a blur of promised riches and urgent reminders, none of which really seemed to be addressed to me. Tweet a haiku and get a Waffle Taco T-shirt. I'm calling about your ConEd bill. Don't forget to hashtag your sleepy selfie for a chance to win $100. Hello, this is Marie Curie High School … Show us your excited face on Instagram.
A final text came on Wednesday night announcing that the missions were over. All that was left was breakfast. Just after 7 a.m. on Thursday, not far from Union Square, I ordered what might have been the first A.M. Crunchwrap and Waffle Taco ever served in New York City.
Biting through the Crunchwrap's tortilla wrapper and into that gratifying medley of bacon, hash browns, cheese, and egg, I was just another guy eating a $5 breakfast on 14th Street. At that moment, I was reminded that one reason I enjoy Taco Bell is precisely because I don't feel like an insider when I eat it. I could be wanted in court, in hock to ConEd, parent to a delinquent child, or just someone who had decided he could live mas without getting too close to his brand—and none of it would matter. In other words: Never send to know for whom the Taco Bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
When I got home, sated, I received another text on my breakfast phone:
Hey Family I just thought I would let you know that Tuesday I had my store Manager interview and I passed! So I think as of April 16th when my knew store opens I will officially be a store manager. :)
I knew this was a good time to turn off my breakfast phone for good. But then I got the sudden urge to play Luxor Quest.


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I'm new to Buffalo, but already I feel offended on the city's behalf every time I turn on the news. No city in the country gets less love from the national media than Buffalo. And no city's journalists get left out of the fun more. When was the last time you saw a TV reporter from Buffalo standing in a flak jacket in front of a burning tank? When was the last time you saw an overpaid Buffalo journalist (Tim Russert no longer counts) with a self-satisfied smirk on his face lobbing out softball questions from a panel at a Presidential debate? The answers in both cases are never and never-- and the sad news, folks, is that that will probably never change.
Here's an illustration of how bad things are for Buffalo. Just last week, when the remains of Chandra Levy's body were found in a park in Washington, every major network in the country had a reporter in a jogging costume at the park within two hours. Fox TV's Greta Van Susteren was there in 90 minutes. As I watched her doing her live shot, I thought there was something strange about the camera was set up. Van Susteren's trademark masculine chin was just as freakishly cubical and convex as always, but the background in the shot looked fuzzy, remote. After a minute, I thought to myself: "Gosh, Greta's pretty far off the ground. She's gotten taller."
But that was only the way it looked. In fact, Van Susteren was standing on top of Wolf Blitzer, Sam Donaldson, and 23 other bureau hacks from local affiliates all over the country. The journalists were standing in a pile there at Rock Creek. They were stacked so high that the networks had to shoot from crane-buckets and towers. But there was no one there from Buffalo, not even on the print side-- in fact, as far as I can tell, there was no Buffalo reporter even in the city at all.
Buffalo's best chance to get in on the feeding frenzy, the Buffalo News, mailed it in. Their front-page Chandra story the next day was a dull double-bylined offering by two out-of-house reporters, Steve Twomey and Sari Horowitz of the Washington Post.
The Levy story, frivolous as it obviously is, is a perfect illustration of how the structure of modern media fails smaller markets like Buffalo. Year after year, the Buffalo News attains some of the highest profitability margins of any newspaper in the country. Just a few years ago, Editor and Publisher magazine rated it as the most profitable newspaper in the country. It has a billionaire owner and seemingly limitless resources to pursue its own coverage of breaking news. Yet it doesn't even have its own reporters in the nation's capital to cover hot-button news stories. If a major city's sole print daily can't even cover Washington, what kind of coverage of the rest of the planet can it possibly get?
The owner of the News, hurrumphing billionaire Warren Buffet, has an answer to that question. As a director of the Washington Post and the owner of a 17 percent stake in that paper, he would naturally answer that, by allowing the Buffalo News to take advantage of the fine coverage of his other, more famous paper, he is doing the citizens of Buffalo a favor. And indeed, when Buffet bought the News, it was widely hoped that an owner with deep pockets and media connections would help raise journalistic standards in the city. At the time of the sale, Buffet issued a statement that was widely cheered and quoted: "I want to achieve business success in newspapers, but will be unhappy unless it is accompanied by journalistic success."
But in fact what Buffet's business acumen has meant for the city is a one-horse daily newspaper market, and a pattern of cost-cutting that has left the News itself utterly dependent on outside sources for non-local coverage. As for the efficacy of using material from the reputable and much-ballyhooed Washington Post, well... one need only look at this year's Pulitzer Prize awards to see what that has meant for ordinary readers in places like Buffalo, who live far from the action.
The Post, as it does every year (the Post and the New York Times usually win about half of the Pulitzers overall and generally all of the important ones, while lesser papers like the Boston Globe are usually thrown a bone for things like sports coverage or editorial cartooning), won a handful of Pulitzers in 2002. One of the three awards that it won this spring was for National Reporting. This particular award is directly relevant to Buffalo, since most all of the articles submitted for the prize were also republished in the Buffalo News.
In lieu of having its own home-grown reporters cluelessly wandering the mall at Washington in search of dubious scoops, Buffalo last year had the privilege of reading storied muckraker Bob Woodward's celebrated insider bulletins from the Hill. The Pulitzer committee, which singled out stories like the October 21 "CIA Told to Do 'Whatever Necessary' to Kill Bin Laden," (republished in the Buffalo News under the homier headline of "Bush Backs CIA on Killing of bin Laden") for praise, deemed this a good thing. But upon closer examination, what the committee was really praising the Post for was its willingness to restrict itself to sources higher up in the ivory tower than a small-town reporter would likely have access to.
The Post's National Reporting award was for "comprehensive coverage of America's war on terrorism, which regularly brought forth new information together with skilled analysis of unfolding developments." The Pulitzer Committee's ruling was that the Post coverage of the most important story of this or any other recent year was the best that the country had to offer. Cities like Buffalo that relied on Post coverage, in other words, had no reason to complain of being uninformed about 9/11.
But get this: of the eleven stories the Post submitted to the Pulitzer Committee for the award, a full six relied exclusively on government sources, the vast majority of them unnamed. And as sportswriters say, this game wasn't even as close as the score indicated. Even in those stories that didn't rely entirely on government sources, the overwhelming majority of the information still came directly from anonymous employees of the state.
I actually went through all the articles and did a count. By my reckoning, 67 of the 78 quoted sources in the eleven Post articles were government sources. And again, the vast majority of those sources were unnamed.
It is hard to call reporting that relies solely on government sources real journalism. The Soviets did it, of course, giving prizes to Pravda and Izvestia journalists for their efficient clerical work in relaying official Communist party press releases to the masses. In the States, we confidently called that kind of reporting total bullshit for over 70 years. But when one of our own journalists does exactly the same thing, we can't give him awards fast enough.
Here's an example from the award-winning Post submissions-- the December 9 piece, "U.S. Says New Tape Points to bin Laden," written by Walter Pincus and Karen DeYoung. This is a piece that the Soviets couldn't have done any better. In it, the Post reported that a "new tape" obtained by U.S. intelligence services offers offers "the most conclusive evidence" to date that Osama bin Laden was behind the 9/11 bombings. Unnamed government sources quoted in the piece claimed that the tape shows bin Laden bragging about the attack to associates, and noting that the damage to the World Trade Center was "worse than [he] expected."
The story was reported as fact despite the fact that the journalists were not even allowed to see the tape, or even see a transcript. It ran it despite the fact that none of the sources in the piece were willing to go on the record asserting the tape's existence.
Given the fact that the Bush administration's failure to publicly release concrete proof linking bin Laden to the attacks had already been an international issue, this was extremely dicey journalism. A truly independent newspaper would have laughed in the White House's face had it called up to say, "We have proof that bin Laden did it. It's on tape. But don't quote us on that."
The right response there would have been to say, "Uh-huh. Show us the tape and we'll think about it." But the Post blew off all of these considerations and just ran the piece under a big banner headline on the front page. Again, if the Soviets had done this (and they did, over and over, for instance in the numerous Pravda articles claiming that the Soviet Union had been "invited" to invade Afghanistan), we would have laughed at any suggestion that this was real journalism. But Pincus and DeYoung now have a Pulitzer Prize on their resumes.
A quick note on Pincus. Since all news articles in papers like the Washington Post seem more or less exactly alike, few people ever bother to look at the byline to wonder who wrote them. After all, you don't ask the name of the chef that cooked your Big Mac. But in Pincus's case, the byline is worth a look. Among journalists, his name is one of the most notorious in the business. In an article he wrote for the Post shortly after taking a job there in 1967, Pincus admitted proudly that he had worked for the CIA, representing the U.S. at international conferences in 1960 under an assumed identity. The Washington Times, one of the most conservative papers in the country, referred to Pincus in 1996 as the "CIA's house reporter."
It's well-known in the business that when the intelligence community has something it really wants to put over on the people, it gives Pincus a call. A good example came in the famous San Jose Mercury-News fiasco in 1996, when the small California paper published an expose that claimed that the CIA had sold crack to fund the contras. Pincus led a counterattack by the big dailies dismissing the Mercury reporting as groundless.
He was an old hand at dismissing Contra-hijinks allegations by then. In 1989, Pincus's take on the Iran-Contra allegations had been, "Just because a congressional commission in Costa Rica says something, doesn't mean it's true." Obviously, he doesn't bring the same muckraker skepticism to statements by American officials... but who's counting?
If you bother looking closely, you can see that the Post itself is uneasy about its reliance on unnamed sources. This is clear when you look at the tortured wording of the attributions in the pieces. There are a finite number of different ways to say "According to one unnamed government source," but the Post somehow manages to use all of them, sometimes within the same article. Take the aforementioned Woodward piece, "CIA Told to Do 'Whatever Necessary' to Kill bin Laden." Here's a list of the attributed sources in that piece:
- "Officials"
- "One senior official"
- "A senior official"
- "The Vice President"
- "Another senior official"
- "A senior Bush official"
- "Another senior Bush official"
- "One official"
- "Bush officials"
It takes some doing not to repeat any of those phrases within an article. I mean, you have to really be looking out for it. And in this case, you wouldn't be looking out for it if you weren't painfully aware of how embarrassing the whole thing is.
This is what having Warren Buffet running your only serious newspaper does for a city like Buffalo. Here you have a city that's in the midst of a serious fiscal crisis, brought on in no small part by a shortfall in expected income tax revenue sent back to the region by the state. That shortfall is obviously mainly due to the blow dealt to the New York State economy by 9/11. The terrorism issue, and the federal government's decision to allocate more of its resources to a military buildup than to aid to New York State, is directly relevant to this city.
But instead of getting the perspective of a local reporter, who might be inclined to ask if a dozen new school buildings in Buffalo might be more useful in the long run than one pilotless drone that the Air Force fires into the side of a mountain somewhere in Afghanistan, we get a bunch of Georgetown hotshot hacks with monster expense accounts feeding us feel-good war news from the anonymous White House pals their paper just treated to lunch. It might be the truth, but who knows? Would you be willing to bet your school system on it? All of this sucks, but that's the way things work in the Warren Buffet era-- it just costs too much to let the natives in small cities do their own reporting. We don't even get to gawk at Chandra Levy's skull with our own eyes.


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What is the typical bedtime for a 4 month old?
Posted: 08/26/2007 by Ryansmom4807
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I too understand, when I pick my son up after work it is sometimes almost 6:00pm. He is almost always crabby between 6:00 and 7:00. We have a routine, so I pretty much start the routine the second I get home with him. Doesn't leave any room to make supper or do any chores. He is very good at going right to sleep and sleeping through the night. I hate to say it but between 7 and 7:30 is the best time to put baby to bed. We've tried to keep him up late, let him cat nap around 6:30 then wake him and play, put him to bed around 8 or 9. He wakes up constantly throughout the night. I am a firm believer in early bedtimes equals longer nights, even though that sounds terrible. I am very much into the book Healthy Sleep Habits Happy Child. It gives great advice and strongly encourages early bedtimes and regular naptimes. We are at 4 months today, and my little man has the routine down, but it has been a long road getting here! ~Danielle, Iowa.posted 10/06/2007 by mdluhring
I understand what you mean exactly. I work full time and can't pick up my baby from daycare until 4:00 every day. I want to have all the time with her I can get but I also want her to have healthy sleep habits. Right now, I've found that giving her a short nap right when I get home helps me stretch her bedtime out a little longer but my little girl still can't make it until eight either. Everything I've read says 6:00 to 7:00 seems to be the best bedtime for babies and right now, my little girl pretty much has to go to bed around that time. When she was 4 months, I would start her bedtime routine around 6:00 and around 6:45 to 7:00 she was sound asleep. She would sleep until about 5:00 in the morning and would wake up usually once but sometimes twice for a bottle and diaper change. Anyway, I'm not sure it's a good idea to try to stretch his bedtime out. I think probably aiming for 7:00 may just be the best thing for him right now. Hope this helps.posted 08/31/2007 by AlabamaMama2
My LO is 5 months and typically goes to bed around 6:30-7:00. I would love to stretch that to 8, but I am not sure how to do that. I start work next week and don't get home until 5. I want to spend as much time with him as possible. I know it's selfish and will NOT stretch his time just to be with me, but I am wondering if that bed time is too early. Don't get me wrong. I will NOT jepordize his sleep pattern for me. If he cannot go past 7 (which he can't right not) where is no way on God's green earth that I will change that, all I am asking is if that is a too early bed time for my little guy.posted 08/26/2007 by Ryansmom4807
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Nicole Kidman has been cast as a mysterious woman who may be a Nazi war criminal in 'The Reader'
Following the underwhelming box office performances of 'Bewitched', 'Fur' and now 'The Invasion', Nicole Kidman is in urgent need of a hit, so it's not surprising she's turning to screenwriter David Hare and director Stephen Daldry for her next film. After all, the three combined to win Kidman a best actress Oscar for 'The Hours' in 2003, and their latest collaboration sounds just as award-friendly.
Based on Bernhard Schlink's bestselling novel of the same name, 'The Reader' is set in post-war Germany and revolves around Michael Berg, a teenager who embarks on a tempestuous love affair with an older woman, only to discover that she may have been involved in Nazi war crimes.
Kidman will play the mysterious woman in question, while Ralph Fiennes has also been cast in the film, with early word suggesting he will play the grown-up Berg.
'The Reader' will shoot in Berlin next month for release at the end of 2008, though before then Kidman may well be back on track with fantasy flick 'The Golden Compass' and Baz Lurhmann's period epic 'Australia' both hitting screens.
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Aside from my family, there are two things in this world that I honestly don't think I could live without. At the very least, my quality of life would surely suffer without them. They are Nutella and Rice Krispie treats. Seriously. I have to keep the Nutella jar safely hidden away in my pantry where I can't see it, or else it would quickly disappear, spoonful by spoonful. And, don't even get me started on the Rice Krispie treats! I always say that I make them for the kids, but the sad truth is I make them for ME, ME, ME! In fact, I rarely dare to even make them anymore, because if there's a tray of them in the house, I cannot rest until I have consumed Every. Single. One. If there was a twelve step program for Rice Krispie treats, I'd be in it. Sigh…
So, imagine the allure of a Rice Krispie treat made with mounds of Nutella swirled in. It's almost too much to contemplate! I can't believe I never thought of it before! I actually didn't think of it this time. I got the idea from an episode of Top Chef Just Desserts, which is pretty much the only thing I've gotten from that show so far, except a throbbing headache from watching all of the drama. (Seth, I'm talking about you!)
Now, I'm pretty sure that most of you already know how to make Rice Krispie treats. But I'm going to explain it anyway, because I need some words to go along with all of these pictures. read more >>
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