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I was reading the previous post about pumping on long flights, I'm flying to visit family in a few weeks with my LO and was wondering if a breastpump counts towards my carry on luggage allowance and if any of you who have experience flying with an infant (he'll be on our laps) and figuring out carry on allowances (diaper bags, your own bag, breastpump etc.) have any advice, I'd love if you could share!!
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Breastpump generaly counts as medical equipment so doesn't count as your allotted carry-ons.
It could depend on the airline though all that I've flown allowed it as extra, with no issue.
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I've flown for two trips. I haven't tried to get the pump declared as medical equipment, but I put it inside a tote or rolling bag so that I could bundle other stuff with it and it only counted as my one carry-on item. I used a medium-sized backpack as my diaper bag/personal item (fits under the seat) in addition. For me, I felt more pressure from lack of hands to wrangle stuff than pressure from my carryon allowance. My DH flew back with me on the last trip and that helped a lot. People were very nice and accommodating.
Beware of the tension of boarding early with "those need assistance or extra time" (= extra time for LO to get fussy) vs. boarding at the last minute and all the overhead bins are full. Also, be aware that on some flights, especially if they know they're full, the gate attendants will ask you to check any large carryons. In some cases, the overhead bins won't even fit them. Make sure not to have anything you absolutely need inflight there if that might be the case.
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We just flew for the first time with LO (15 weeks), and carried a diaper bag, my pump bag w/milk in an Ameda cooler, and husband wore a backpack with our computer. The diaper bag got stuffed in the stroller basket. Declare your milk with TSA and they will pull it aside to test it. Stroller gets gate checked (we had a seat for LO so used the carseat on the plane, it snapped onto the stroller otherwise). I did an extra pump before we left for the airport, and then pumped about 45 minutes before boarding (had everything ready to go in the pump bag so I could be quick and do it in a stall standing up). We fed LO with the pumped milk at takeoff. It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be although I use the Freestyle, which is so compact and easy to travel with. Also, I would just pay to check a big luggage bag, it's worth it so you have less to carry through the airport.


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Russia called on the United States on Tuesday to press the Syrian opposition to hold direct talks with Damascus, saying President Bashar al-Assad's opponents must appoint negotiators.
The crisis in Syria made up "the bulk of the conversation" between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry at talks in Berlin on Tuesday, US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.
After talks she characterised as "really serious and hard-working", Moscow and Washington sounded a rare note of accord over efforts to launch talks to end the nearly two-year-old conflict, in which 70,000 people have been killed.
Lavrov said the new US top diplomat seemed to grasp the gravity of the crisis in Syria and that the former Cold War foes had agreed to do everything in their power "to create the best conditions to facilitate the soonest possible start of a dialogue between the government and the opposition."
He said Russia wanted to see the Syrian opposition name its representatives for talks with the government at a meeting in Rome this week between the Syrian opposition, and Western and regional powers favourable to their cause.
Moscow and Washington have been at loggerheads over whether the Syrian opposition's calls for Assad to step down should be a pre-condition for talks.
Lavrov, ahead of the meeting with Kerry, said he would urge Washington to lean on the Syrian opposition to drop requests for Assad to go, a demand he characterised as "unrealistic".
Russia has been one of Assad's staunchest ally and, with China, has blocked three UN Security Council resolutions aimed at mounting pressure on him to end the violence that began with a crackdown on street protests against his rule.
Washington has sided with the Syrian opposition in seeking Assad's removal from power.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said in Moscow on Monday that the government was ready for talks, but opposition leaders and rebel commanders insist Assad must go first.
Kerry responded dismissively to Moualem's offer, saying it was hard to understand how people having Scud missiles fired at them would take an offer of dialogue seriously. Syria denies using ballistic missiles in the fighting.
He also appeared to promise more concrete support to Assad's opponents, without saying whether the United States might rethink its earlier aversion to arming or training them.
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Lavrov also signalled on Tuesday that the prospects for direct talks in Syria had receded in the past few days, voicing fears "extremists" now have the upper hand among Assad's foes.
"A few days ago it seemed that conditions for the sides to sit down for talks... were getting clearer," he said.
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Western countries and some Arab states have accused Russia, a long-standing arms supplier to Damascus, of shielding Assad.
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Critic's PickAs I ate dinner on Tuesday evening before attending a performance at Dayton's Victoria Theatre, my server asked, "Did you hear that Green Day is performing next door?" I had to set her straight. "Well, not exactly. Green Day's music is being performed next door — it's a Broadway show that uses the tunes from their American Idiot recording." I caught the opening night of a three-day gig (through Thursday, March 14) by an energetic touring company that's recreating the Tony Award-nominated American Idiot: The Musical. If you have time to make an hour north on I-75, you won't be disappointed.
Green Day's powerful Punk score — their 2004 album was conceived as a "Punk Rock Opera" — is the perfect soundtrack for the story of three disaffected guys who take different downward spirals when confronted with the numbing boredom of everyday life, "alien nation," as they sing in the opening number. Johnny is the central character, a wannabe musician who yearns to make it in the city; he convinces his buddies Will and Tunny to join him in escaping suburbia.
Their paths diverge quickly: Will's girlfriend is pregnant, so he stays to sort things out; Tunny is quickly disaffected by urban life and captivated by dreams of military success; and Johnny, not quite willing to admit his loneliness, dreams about a girl he sees and gets caught by a drug dealer — who's probably a figment of his imagination.
The current tour has a young cast (it's a non-Equity tour) without a ton of experience, but that's perfect for this show, which demands a stage full of angry energy. They hurtle through the 100-minute performance, diving right into the title tune with thrashing energy demanded by Green Day's music. (For theater fans, it's worth noting that Green Day's music has been orchestrated and arranged by Tom Kitt, composer of the Tony Award-winning next to normal, a show that has a score with similar power.) Steven Hoggett's pounding choreography captures the physicality of Rock stage performance, rendered rapidly and rhythmically with tons of repetitive angular motion.
Alex Nee, Casey O'Farrell and Thomas Hettrick, as Johnny, Will and Tunny, turn in credible performances of roles that don't have a lot of depth — and that's OK. American Idiot is more about emotions than storytelling, and they each capture that: Nee's hallucinatory attraction to destructive behavior is convincing, O'Farrell's frustration with being trapped and left behind is believable, and Hettrick's dreams of heroism and his wake-up call to a damaged life are rendered credibly. Female roles are more stereotyped — two of them don't even have names: Whatsername and The Extraordinary Girl — but Alyssa DiPalma, Jenna Rubah and Kennedy Caughell (as Heather, the mother of Will's kid) have fine voices. DiPalma and Rubah have featured choreography (Rubah does an aerial ballet with Hettrick as he recovers in a military hospital) that is effective.
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The grunge of American Idiot is made all the more vivid by the green velvet and gilt trim of the Victoria Theatre in downtown Dayton (138 North Main St.). While the nihilistic young men sing, "I don't care if you don't care," I suspect that a lot of people will care about this show, one that reaches out and grabs audiences by the scruff of their necks and never lets up. But bear in mind: Only two more performances — Wednesday and Thursday at 8 p.m. Tickets ($46-$67, half-off student rush, day of show): 937-228-3630 or victoriatheatre.com.


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By removing flowers, buds and even some of the stems, you can increase the plant health, delay flowering time into the fall, and even increase the number of flowers that you get.
Three of the most common practices are shearing, pinching and thinning.
Shearing is usually done to improve the overall aesthetics of the plant, but also to increase the likelihood of a second flush of blooms. When shearing, you're removing a lot of the plant -- the spent flowers, the flower stalks, and even some of the stems.
Catmint "Walker's Low" is a perfect example of a plant that can be sheared. Once the flowers seem to be done blooming, the foliage usually starts to flop or fall down. If you look at the base of the plant, you can usually see new growth beginning to develop. So when shearing, remove all the old plant material, letting the new growth get larger, and eventually bloom.
Pinching is most commonly associated with mums or asters, but other perennials can benefit from it as well. Where shearing removes a great deal of plant material, pinching is much more selective. In pinching, all buds are removed to delay flowering to the fall, which will help achieve that nice fall color mums are known for.
An alternative to removing all of the buds is to remove every fourth or fifth bud to create a staggered and longer period of bloom time.
Thinning is especially beneficial to large plants that can be prone to disease. By removing some of the stems of the plant and thinning it out, there will be better air circulation around the plant, more space, and quite a bit more light. This lets the remaining stems increase in vigor.
When thinning a perennial plant, remove about every third or fourth stem by cutting it either to just above the crown, or by leaving 6 to 12 inches of stem and leaves. Leave some stem material if your perennial is especially sparse and you want to create the illusion of fullness. Either way will help and achieve the desired benefits.
The best time to do any sort of perennial pruning is the first week in July. If you wait until later than that, the plants might not have enough time to regrow and bloom before frost.
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2015 Week 16 vs WAS (1 / 1 / 18 / 0 rec)
Brent Celek was left uncovered on his one target, and turned it into a nice 18-yard gain. He also fumbled the ball as he was tackled but was able to recover it.
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2015 Week 14 vs BUF (2 / 1 / 1 / 0 rec)
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2015 Week 13 vs NE (1 / 1 / 16 / 0 rec)
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2015 Week 12 vs DET (4 / 2 / 10 / 1 rec)
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2015 Week 11 vs TB (10 / 7 / 79 / 0 rec)
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lets say you've got a property
@property(nonatomic, retain)NSString *test;
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(only an example).
The result is, that the newly allocated NSString object has a Retain-Count of 2. Releasing the Object in the dealloc method only reduces the count to 1 resulting in memory leaks.
Is there a way for "Build and Analyze" to recognize these leaks? oO


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The stock just got even more dangerous. Wait for the shares from this deal to come unlocked, and the stock is going to crater.
Oh my! Longs are saying this is a great deal. Shorts are saying retail AND institutional investors are stupid. Hmmm. I would suggest you read my earlier posts where I laid out the game plan - which just so happens to be the plan used at Petrohawk. I can almost guarantee you this won't be the last stock offering. They're kind of painful when they happen, but contrary to what EandPexpert thinks, the people that bought these shares are much more in tune with what is going on than he is. I suspect they have found something and want to start on a buying spree similar to when Petrohawk sold their Gulf Coast assets and bought Haynesville and Eagleford. Stock offerings are only a problem if they use the money to pay the electric bill and the company picnic. I suspect they've found something with some value.
Hey Patrick, How is your game plan working you? Looks like you've generated a really solid return on your investment so far this year. I guess I was dumb for not listening to you. Next time leave the investing for people who know what they are doing. I've made 40% on my short so far this year, and look forward to riding this thing further into the dumps.


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I guess I fail to see how setting boundaries in a relationship is treating them as lessor? All of us have boundaries in every relationship whether we are poly or mono. So if I say to a potential new lover that I want to find someone to love and cherish, but my lifelong commitment will always be to my wife and we are probably never going to be interested in polygamy or a triad, and my wife never wants to meet you or for you to meet my children, then I don't see that as an insult. It's just being honest up front and you can either choose to be in that kind of relationship or not.
It's not really much different from a guy saying I never want to get married or have kids. And the girl can either accept that or move on.
More than likely the type of woman who would accept this situation would be someone who also was married and had no desire to meet my wife.
I'm only using this as an extreme example. And I'm just saying that as long as everybody is honest about boundaries up front then I don't think someone is a bad person, immature, or unreasonable. It may not be something you would personally agree to. But every relationship has boundaries.
I do see your point though about whether its you setting boundaries for a potential partner or the person you are already with. Because that does seem to be a trust thing. It's like saying, "I don't trust you enough to set your own boundaries that are reasonable, so let me set them for you." On the flip side of that coin I'm a pretty boundary less person so it would scare the crap out of my wife to just let me go free. So I could see where we might have a discussion about whether someone at work was too risky because it threatened our livelihood and where I wouldn't set that boundary for myself, I choose to set the boundary in order to keep my wife from becoming a nervous wreck.
What you want is fine. But you're asking your questions in a poly forum. In poly, this behavior is unacceptable (just as your lifestyle would be unacceptable to someone who was mono). Someone who identifies as poly would probably be looking for more than you could give. What you need is someone who already has a partner (or doesn't want one at the moment), is open, and is looking for some fun on the side. That's what you're offering. Telling them that the relationship between you and them is always going to mean less than your relationship with your wife. But they might not consider you that important either, and you can both use each other as you like. That's not a criticism; though I personally find that kind of relationship unfulfilling.
I''l warn you, though, that feelings cannot be controlled. What do you do if you "accidentally" fall in love with the woman? Toss her aside because your wife might be a "nervous wreck"?
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This weekend we went to the Clay County Fair to attend a performance by a classic rock group from the late 60s - early 70s, Three Dog Night. 3DN is a bit of an unsung group - you never hear them mentioned as a candidate for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, for example - but for a few years, they were as popular as any act, with 21 hit singles over a four year period. During those years, I know they were right up near the top of my personal musical pantheon, anyway. One of the reasons that I think 3DN has not received the attention that other acts have is that they did not write their own songs in any era where just about everyone else did.
Though they did not compose their own music, 3DN showed a genius in finding young unknown composers and bringing their music to the public.
This apparently came about because of the past experiences of one of the group's original lead singers, Chuck Negron. Negron, a native of the Bronx, spent a lot of time visiting the Brill Building in New York, a place where many of the popular songs of the 60s were composed, and the connections he made there apparently paid off in the 3DN days. Among the young composers whose material 3DN selected to record were Alan Toussaint (Play Something Sweet), Laura Nyro (Eli's Coming), Hoyt Axton (Joy to the World, Never Been to Spain), Paul Williams (Family of Man, Old Fashioned Love Song), Harry Nilsson (One) and one Elton John (Lady Samantha). The first version of John's signature song, "Your Song," that I heard, in fact, was the one recorded by 3DN.
Though the names of these composers may not be familiar to all readers, believe me, they wound up being the most successful pop tune-smiths of the day. And though 3DN is not in the Rock Hall, Toussaint and Sir Elton John are, and they may be joined someday by Nyro and Nilsson. Another composing team, Lennon and McCartney, also provided 3DN with the opening song on their first album , "It's For You," a unique song, never recorded by the Beatles, which shows off the three lead voices of the group. Williams had a brief acting career in the "Smokey and the Bandit" films, but is best known as the composer of "We've Only Just Begun" and many other hits by the Carpenters and Three Dog Night.
Three Dog Night were also pioneers, or ground-breakers, in a couple of areas. They were one of the first multi-racial groups (drummer Floyd Sneed was an African - American), and they were also the first (and perhaps the only) group to feature three lead singers, as Negron, Corey Wells and Danny Hutton were singers only - that is, their voices were their only instruments.
The original Three Dog Night disintegrated years ago, thanks largely to the severe drug habit of Negron, but Wells and Hutton have continued to perform through the years and original guitarist Michael Allsup and keyboard player Jimmy Greenspoon still provide the duo with strong accompaniment. The original drummer (Sneed) and bass player (Joe Schermie) have been replaced, and the guy who currently plays bass (Paul Kingery) also serves as the third singer, replacing Negron, who overcame his addiction in 1991, has written a book ("Three Dog Nightmare") about his experiences, and continues to perform as a solo act.
3DN also has another spot reserved in my memory bank, as they were the first concert my young bride and I attended (in the old Veteran's Auditorium in Des Moines) some 40 years ago this summer. I'm happy to say that, though times have changed and so have we, that young bride accompanied me to the concert again on Sunday, and we enjoyed the superb music of Three Dog Night all over again. Thanks for the memories, guys!


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PHOENIX -- It's a chilly, wet December afternoon in the alleged Valley of the Sun and a mud-covered Kurt Warner is lost. He's just finished helping build an elementary school playground and is driving home to stuff Christmas stockings for more than 100 foster kids when his cell phone rings.
It's Arizona Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt, congratulating the 37-year-old quarterback for making his third Pro Bowl, his first as a Cardinal. Warner asks which of his teammates made the team, then reacts to his own good fortune with the enthusiasm of someone who is yawning.
"That's great thanks Coach I couldn't have done it without the opportunity see you tomorrow." And just like that, the conversation is over, the career renaissance complete. Eight years since Warner came out of an Iowa supermarket to lead the St. Louis Rams to a Super Bowl title, he is once again one of the top quarterbacks in the NFL. Despite his struggles the past two weeks, Warner's on-the-field success has shined an even stronger spotlight on his off-the-field deeds, which, depending on your perspective, are either saintly or too good to be true.
It's the reason his wife, Brenda, refers to him as "Pollyanna," and his teammates' wives kiddingly call him "Jesus." But as the Warners will tell you, for every blessing there is a burden. Because for every person in the NFL who loves Kurt Warner, who puts him on a pedestal and believes we need more faith-driven athletes who spend their time and money helping others, there are those -- current and former teammates included -- who roll their eyes, keep their distance or simply feel uncomfortable around the quarterback.
On this day, at least Kurt Warner is lost. At least in the middle of all this selflessness, humility and utter lack of ego, the man is texting while driving, paying little attention to the road and can't remember if the path home follows I-10 East or I-10 West. Because otherwise, ugggh. Otherwise, this story might need to come with its very own barf bag. And Warner knows it.
Nobody responds to Warner, so he tries again. "So who's ready for Christmas?"
And that's when it becomes clear. Nobody knows what to say. Not after that game. Not after watching Warner underthrow some receivers, overthrow others and get treated by the Vikings as if he were their own personal tackling dummy. Sure, these kids are his guests, sure it's his foundation that gave them tickets and brought them to this room, to meet No. 13, but they're nervous, insecure and uneasy. They don't want to say the wrong thing. So Warner tries again. "What's the problem here?" he asks. "You all look like you just lost a football game. You guys tired? Beaten up? You look like I feel. Why is everyone so quiet? Loosen up. Tell me about yourselves."
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Brenda's. And Kurt's.
"If he wants to walk away, that's fine with me," Brenda says. "I love watching him do what he was born to do, but at the same time, it's hard watching a bunch of grown men try to hurt your husband almost every day." Warner later insists he hasn't made a decision about retirement and that it isn't exactly the right time of year to be reading into his future. Everyone wants to retire in December, he says. But one has to look no further than a hallway in the Warners' house to understand where football ranks. There, atop a massive black safe in which the home's previous owners used to store valuables, the Pete Rozelle Super Bowl MVP trophy sits tarnished, dusty and covered in fingerprints. A replica of the Vince Lombardi Trophy looks much the same. A bunch of other trophies, commemorating everything from playing in the Pro Bowl to winning NFL Player of the Year honors, are tossed into the glorified box, with the door left open, less on display than just out of the way.
Warner's Super Bowl ring is there, too. For now. It's an ongoing joke in the Warner family -- all the unique places the ring has popped up over the years. Like under the couch, in the pool.
Don't be mistaken. The man likes to win. Perhaps no one has been more irritated by the Cardinals' disappointing losses to Minnesota and New England in the past two weeks than Warner, who appeared visibly frustrated on the sideline during both games. Yet, his eyes are set on a bigger picture.
"People think that whatever happens on the football field should define me way one or the other," Warner says. "A lot of people say I can't believe you don't think more highly of yourself, two-time MVP, Super Bowl MVP, but it's like whatever It just happens to be what I do. I want to be defined by what I believe in, by who I am." It explains how Warner can at least temporarily set aside the loss to Minnesota and be "on" for the kids from Sunny Acres. It explains why, before Warner leaves, he will rip the bandage off his right hand, push the bags of ice to the side, grab a marker and do exactly what he said he couldn't do: sign autographs. There will be smiles. There will be laughter. There will be pictures. And of course, there will be prayer.
|Isaiah Acosta's life was forever changed when he met Warner.
A few months later, back in Arizona, Warner surprised Isaiah by showing up at Chuck E. Cheese's for his eighth birthday. If you press Isaiah to talk about Warner, ask about the autographed jerseys, the overstuffed photo albums or the fact he makes his mom snap a picture of Warner every time they see the quarterback on television, the boy pulls out his computerized voice box and sums it up: "I like Kurt Warner. He is my hero." Isaiah is just one child. His story is just one of thousands out there from people whom Warner and his First Things First Foundation have touched. Maybe it was through a trip to Disney World, maybe it was a newly furnished home, a special-needs football clinic or a scholarship for a mission trip. Maybe it was a fresh start in what was once a flood-ravaged section of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Warner's hometown, or new winter coats for a struggling single mother and her three children in St. Louis. There are thousands of Isaiahs out there, people convinced that when Warner smiles, he's smiling at them. People who ask Warner for an autograph, expecting he'll always say yes.
"We have a rule that he doesn't sign autographs when we're out for dinner with the kids," Brenda said. "But sometimes, it's easier just to sign and smile than to say no 100 times. It's a blessing that God has put us in a position where someone wants a signature from us, but it's a burden that we constantly have to share our time with everyone else." Just walk into Isaiah's home, see the boy look for Warner and then stomp his feet when he realizes the quarterback isn't coming and you get it. Being Kurt Warner comes with expectations. And every time he says yes or helps another family, the bar is raised. "Sure, there are times where there's pressure that comes with all of this," Warner said. "But if there's any kind of pressure you want to be under, it's people expecting you to be a person of character.
"The missing piece in this whole thing of me serving and giving back is that the reward is so much greater for me than it is for any of the people I've impacted. The perspective it gives me, the feeling it gives me inside when I know I'm doing what God called me here to do that's when I feel most alive."
|Warner takes his faith with him everywhere he goes, including on the football field.
June 20, 1996. That's the day the football cards that Warner hands out say he was "born again." Warner grew up in a religious family, but not until he met Brenda in college at the University of Northern Iowa, not until a couple of his Iowa Barnstormers teammates and she started pressing Warner on his beliefs, did he truly dig into the Bible searching for answers. What he discovered was a whole new life.
"Now he's reading that we shouldn't have premarital sex, we shouldn't drink in excess or be drunk," Brenda Warner said. "He's finding all these things and calling me on it. So we had to make changes. He wanted to get our lives right. He decided no sex for the year until we were married. Who does that? Who goes back? But he found that in the Bible and wanted to live that way.
"He made the decision that if he was going to do this, it would be all the way, it wouldn't be pick and choose like I was doing." Since then, Kurt Warner has never wavered, building a reputation as arguably the most high-profile Christian in professional football. Sure there are others who share his beliefs and his desire to help others, but few with the platform of a two-time NFL MVP. "I don't think anyone has a bad perception of me," Warner said. "Just a limited one. Everyone thinks I pretty much sit around and talk about Jesus all the time. But I'm normal. I'm just a guy. Yeah, I love Jesus and do things a bit different, but I have the same conversations and the share the same thoughts as anyone else." Former Arizona teammate Josh McCown, now a quarterback with the Carolina Panthers, believes NFL players are split almost down the middle when it comes to Warner. There are players like McCown and Cardinals receiver and close friend Larry Fitzgerald who look up to Warner and are amazed by his faith-driven selfless ways. And there are others who simply aren't comfortable around the quarterback. "I've heard it all," McCown said. "Holy Roller, Bible thumper. And then there are the guys who don't want to be around him because they feel like he's judging them, which is hilarious because people will say that and Kurt's never said a word to them. There are even fellow Christians who roll their eyes because it bothers them." Said Warner: "I think a lot of times where people see they're insufficient or lacking in certain areas they feel they're being judged even when they're not. And they condemn themselves more than anyone else does. But that's part of it. That's part of this stigma, this preconceived idea of who I am."
This past summer, Warner invited his Cardinals teammates and their families to his home for a day of swimming and eating. Barely anyone showed up. Warner believes the perception, still after all these years, was partly to blame. "When I asked Larry [Fitzgerald] what happened, he told me that everyone is afraid to come over because they don't know if I'm going to stand up on a podium and preach to them," Warner said. "They just think I'm going to jump up and down and introduce them to Jesus. But that's crazy. And the people who know me realize that's not who I am." The poor turnout disappointed Warner, Brenda said. "We try to keep it normal so that people don't think we're a bunch of weirdos, but that perception is out there," she added. "We fight it every day." He fights it in the locker room, where some teammates don't feel comfortable around Warner and giggle like little kids on rare occasions when he curses. They fight it in the marketing world, where Warner's agent struggles to find endorsement opportunities for a potential Hall of Fame quarterback with a pristine off-the-field résumé. And they fight it in the media, where Warner tries to walk the line of getting his message out to the public without alienating fans.
During a visit to the "Oprah Winfrey Show" to honor Masters champion and fellow Iowan Zach Johnson a couple of years ago, Warner purposely mentioned Johnson's faith in the second of three sentences, believing the show's editors wouldn't be able to cut the sentence and eliminate the religious reference. But when the show ran, the second sentence was gone.
|Moments of rest are few and far between in the chaotic Warner household.
|Warner wasn't content just to go through the motions while helping Riverbend Prep with its new playground.
The woman apologizes. "Most guys, you know, on a day like today, wouldn't want to get their hair wet."
Warner, of course, isn't like most guys. He, his wife, his family, his teammates, they've spent the past four days insisting he's normal. They helped compile a list of all the things that make Warner flawed and human, like everyone else.
Warner himself points out that he sings "American Idol" on the Wii with his kids. He listens to hip-hop in the locker room. One Thanksgiving a few years ago, he says, a group of teammates taught him how to dance to the hip-hop song, "Walk It Out." And he can never escape the everyday roller coaster of being a father of seven. There's the fourth-grader who hasn't turned in his past three book reports, the 16-year-old who just found out she got accepted into NYU and the 3-year-old who is tugging on his pants begging for money to stuff into her change purse. Yet every time the Warners go out to eat, they ask their kids to select one family in the restaurant to anonymously buy dinner for. They ask their kids to tell them the eye color of any guests to their home, making sure that they've made eye contact when introducing themselves. There are 38 pictures of the Warner kids that cover the walls of the family home gym. Warner won't go on an extended vacation with Brenda because he can't stand to leave his kids for more than a couple of days. And then there are those 106 overstuffed Christmas stockings lining the entryway to the Warners' home, filled with socks, toothbrushes, lotions, Tic Tacs, chewing gum and $150 gift cards. No matter how much people argue, Warner is not your usual guy. Not in the era of me-first, fan-last athletes. Not with guys like Adam "Pacman" Jones, Terrell Owens and Plaxico Burress roaming around. So why do some people shake their heads when they hear about the good things Warner does for others? Why does the hair on their necks stand up?
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Looking at post by Konstantin Osipov we should finally get Query Cache working with prepared statements in MySQL 5.1
The interesting thing Konstantin notes it just took few days to fix it – I believe MySQL Support Team alone spent much more times explaining customers why is it not done or troubleshooting cases with wrong customer assumptions regarding this problems. I think I alone spent tens of hours in various cases related to this problem.
This is one thing MySQL Development Management could consider – if the thing is annoying and it does not take a long to fix it why not to go ahead and make it done instead of spending longer time explaining over and over again why this stuff is not high priority
This feature should help MySQL getting even better results in SpecJAppServer benchmarks as previously it was hard choice – if you want to have fast prepared statements without query cache or no prepared statements with it.
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In this case, the speedster star is known as Kappa Cassiopeiae, or HD 2905 to astronomers. It is a massive, hot supergiant moving at around 2.5 million mph relative to its neighbors (1,100 kilometers per second). But what really makes the star stand out in this image is the surrounding, streaky red glow of material in its path. Such structures are called bow shocks, and they can often be seen in front of the fastest, most massive stars in the galaxy.


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Spearheaded by the twin attack of the Nissan (TYO: 7201) Leaf and the Chevy Volt, electric vehicles have slowly but surely made inroads into the U.S. domestic market. Hybrid electric vehicles are already well-established, and now plug-in EVs are scaling up their market invasion.
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