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A newborn doesn't know that people sleep at night. Your newborn sleeps in short bursts through the day and night, in blocks of up to four hours.
When newborns are awake, they're usually feeding. Playtime at this age is very short. After feeding, your baby will probably want to go back to sleep.
Every time newborns sleep, they go through a cycle of deep sleep and light sleep. Then they wake up for a little while. During this time, your baby might grizzle, groan or cry. Baby might also fidget and squirm going from deep to light sleep, and back again. A newborn sleep cycle takes about 40 minutes. If your baby wakes after 40 minutes, you might need to help him settle for the next sleep cycle.
Premature babies have trouble getting into deep sleep, and sleep lightly for around 80% of their sleep time. Full-term newborns sleep deeply half the time.
In the first few months, it's common for newborns to wake 2-3 times a night for feeds. Between one and three months, the number of wakings decreases and a baby's longest period of sleep increases.
By the time your baby is around three months old, your baby might have begun to settle into a sleep pattern of around 4-5 hours at night. But up until six months of age, many babies still need help and attention at night.
Armstrong, K.L., Quinn, R.A., & Dadds, M.R. (1994). The sleep patterns of normal children. The Medical Journal of Australia, 161, 202-206.
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Stalked for Protecting Copyright, Author Gets Restraining Order
An author who was stalked and bullied online for her efforts to enforce her copyrights has won a permanent protective order against the perpetrator, Matthew Chan, who is also in the sights of stock photo agencies for thwarting their efforts to enforce photographers' copyrights. The restraining order reflects an increasingly vitriolic tone and no-holds-barred personal attacks against copyright holders and their attorneys on Chan's website, extortionletterinfo.com (aka ELI).
A Georgia state court judge issued the restraining order against Chan on February 28, at the request of Linda Ellis of Marietta, Georgia. Ellis writes and markets inspirational poetry, and is the author of several books. As a result of her efforts to protect her copyright by issuing demand letters to individuals and organizations who published her work without her permission, she was subject to attacks by Chan and his followers on the ELI website.
The court said Chan's actions "placed the petitioner [Linda Ellis] in reasonable fear for [her] safety, because [Chan] contacted [Ellis] (and urged others to contact her) and posted personal information of the petitioner for the purpose of harassing and intimidating [her]." (more…)

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- Date submitted: 30 Oct 2011
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- Name: Earth Child Institute
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Full SubmissionI am writing from Nepal in support of three billion young people who are worried about their -- and their planet's -- future. The current degradation and exploitation of our Earth?s resources is simply unsustainable, and world leaders must respond in full measure when they meet next June in Rio de Janeiro. First, we need all world leaders to recognize the urgency of the current situation. They need to understand and inform their own people about the dangers of not acting to move us toward a green economy and a more sustainable future. Youth are worried about the inequity and corruption that contribute to the overtaxing and mismanagement of critical natural resources and ecosystems and undermine the basis for ensuring decent livelihoods for the next generation. The United Nations should urge presidents and prime ministers from every nation to commit as early as possible to come to Rio and to initiate their preparations for the Earth Summit. Second, world leaders must deliver more in Rio than another agenda with lofty goals for a distant future. Over the last half-year, young people meeting around the world have called out the weak Implementation of scores of existing treaties and action plans adopted at previous summits. These young people are demanding that the next Earth Summit instead generate specific commitments to real actions from governments at all levels, corporations, communities and civil society groups. I agree, and the United Nations should ensure that we are holding everyone accountable for their promises. Third, governments and corporations need to commit to major new investments in education, employment and empowerment of young people in the transition to a green economy. We cannot wait another generation for sustainability; the world's young people need their leaders to act now.


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Kitan Club, a Japanese company well-known for sending up unique capsule toys into the world, has released a tiny hamster figure series called PUTITTO.
Today, Mouse Computer started accepting orders of a new 5-inch non-SIM-locked Windows smartphone, the MADOSMA Q501. They will start shipping on June 18.
Another Kumamon RC Car?
Yes! And why? Because the Chubbeh Bear with the Thousand-Yard Stare moves product. A LOT of product.
Takara Tomy proudly debuted a "Linear Liner" shinkansen/bullet train toy. It's planned to be out for sale in September.
Panasonic has developed technology for using an LED as the light source so that smartphones can read optical ID signals containing various kinds of information.
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ZF-3471: Some Zend_Db_Table examples not rendering correctly
Some notes and code examples for Zend_Db_Table do not appear to be rendering correctly, through a problem in either DocBook or CSS. See the URLs below and the attached screenshots. This was tested in Firefox 3.
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/… http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/…
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Re-categorizing. We will try to fix this issue as part of the manual rendering efforts that are underway.
I'd suggest closing this one. This does not seem to be happening anymore. I've tested under IE and FF 3.5
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After witnessing tens of thousands of starving children and families, Mother Teresa, a Catholic activist and saint, decided to keep her advice simple to fight these overwhelming odds.
"If you can't feed a hundred people," she told followers, "then just feed one."
Inspired by this advice, St. Catherine's Parish in Rockland County decided to make feeding the hungry their Lenten Challenge. Mobilized by the New York Archdiocesan Feeding Our Neighbors campaign to shore up food pantries' dwindling supplies, the parish asked children that attend the church to donate shopping bags filled with food from February 13 through March 30 during Lent.
Students broke into teams that competed to bring in the most food donations. All told, the students brought in nearly two tons– 3,799 pounds – of food.
They donated this bounty to the food pantry run by Rockland Catholic Community Services.
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Orgasm Inc., a film on female sexual dysfunction (FSD) by veteran documentarian Liz Canner, is heartbreaking in a way that no Hollywood romance could ever be.
Canner opens the film by asking three women what they feel and think about orgasms.
"I'm going to say that it's like… a blooming flower," says one girlish twenty-something, laughing as she strokes a purple blossom in an outdoor garden.
"It's like coming down from the highest and the best rollercoaster ride," says another young woman, citing the sound she makes as she hits her climax.
"War," says a midlife woman, looking grave. "That's what I think about, is the war in my head."
Charletta from North Carolina, the woman with war on her mind, is the emotional heart of the film. Diagnosed with FSD, and unable to have an orgasm during sex with her husband, she enrolls in a clinical trial that embeds in her spine an electrode attached to a remote control device. Called the Orgasmatron, it promises to induce a climax with just the touch of a button. But the procedure fails—the jolt just gives Charletta tingly, kicking legs.
It's a disappointment. "I'm in this to heal myself," she had said earlier, on her way into surgery. "Not only am I not normal, I'm diseased. And that feels real bad."
The question of what "normal" is haunts every frame of the film, which explores the emergence of FSD, a term that only entered the medical literature a decade ago. Generated by a group of experts at a panel on sexual disorders (funded, the film wants you to know, by the pharmaceutical industry), FSD became the bucket into which they threw a wide assortment of previously accepted diagnoses, including low sexual interest and arousal, inability to orgasm, sexually induced pain, sexual aversion and the always popular "not otherwise specified." By refashioning these very common sexual experiences as dysfunctions, the group told women who didn't enjoy sex that something was wrong with them. And that meant that there was something that could be fixed.
The announcement of a new disease was a starting shot for inventors and drug manufacturers, all of whom, Canner points out, began competing to come up with the metaphorical "pink Viagra," a pill, potion, cream, treatment or device intended to make women as ready for action as their male counterparts are supposed to be. The film introduces Alista, an arousal pill invented by the folksy doctor Virgil Place (whose predilection for giant bow ties make him look like a refugee from an Errol Morris film), the Orgasmatron, vaginal rejuvenation (tightening of the vagina by surgery or laser treatment), and finally, Intrinsa, Procter & Gamble's testosterone patch, meant to spike libido but shot down by the FDA over safety concerns.
As the film follows the money, it begins to ask: Do women really need to be "fixed"? Could this new medical term, sexual dysfunction, simply reflect the effects of stress, aging, a bad relationship, sexual abuse, or any of a host of other deeply personal mitigating factors that make women less interested in jumping into bed with someone, or unable to get off when they're there?
"What is female sexual dysfunction?" asks Kim Airs, a sex expert shown advocating within the film for vibrators over Viagra. "Is it that you're withholding sex cause your husband's cheating on you? Is it wants and desires that are unfulfilled? It's so complex."
The majority of scientists in the film admit there is no scientific "norm" for female arousal, no real baseline against which a woman's excitement can be measured. And to make matters worse, there's no real way to measure it. Men have erections, but women must fill out personal diaries and questionnaires, and even submit to a $50,000 machine called the Genito Sensory Analyzer, which assesses warmth, coolness and vibration within the vagina, to help researchers determine whether they are responding to stimuli. The fact that "fixing" arousal in women is so difficult is what makes it ripe for co-opting by manufacturers.


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ZF-3173: Integrate Zend_Translate with Zend_View_Helper_HeadTitle?
It seemed to make sense to me that the HeadTitle helper should be doing translation when it's cast to string, and it was pretty trivial to implement. Thoughts?
Index: HeadTitle.php
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* @license http://framework.zend.com/license/new-bsd New BSD License
+/** Zend_Registry */
+require_once 'Zend/Registry.php';
/** Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Container_Standalone */
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* Turn helper into string
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+ * @param string|null $indent
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$indent = (null !== $indent)
? $this->getWhitespace($indent)
: $this->getIndent();
$items = array();
- foreach ($this as $item) {
- $items[] = $this->_escape($item);
+ if(Zend_Registry::isRegistered('Zend_Translate')) {
+ $translator = Zend_Registry::get('Zend_Translate');
+ foreach ($this as $item) {
+ $items[] = $this->_escape($translator->translate($item, $locale));
+ }
+ } else {
+ foreach ($this as $item) {
+ $items[] = $this->_escape($item);
+ }
$separator = $this->_escape($this->getSeparator());
I can see a benefit to this, definitely. However, I can also see this leading to unexpected results when people are unaware that it translates.
I think a better solution would be to have an accessor via which you can enable or disable translation:
// optionally, even set the specific translation object:
I'm going to schedule this for the next minor release.
Here's a patch that should be doing things more properly. Sorry about the lazy patch before, I am a lazy lazy man. :) One last thing I am wondering... would it be possible (or wise) to try pulling the translator from a registered Zend_View_Helper_Translate object in addition to the Zend_Registry key?
(Replacement patch) Or, we could try not requiring Zend/Registry.php twice. Sigh. Sloppy copy & paste on my part.
No this would not be wise, because the official registry key to use for the translation adapter within all other components is "Zend_Translate"... ;-) See the Zend_View_Helper_Translate helper for details.
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You had "just a couple more little loose ends to wrap up" before leaving the office, but before you know it, it's already past 7 pm, daylight is waning quickly, and you're just pulling into your driveway. Fortunately, there's no more haunting or magical time in the garden than twilight, so you quickly remove your work duds, slip into something more comfortable, grab a cold drink, and head out to the garden to relax and unwind. Ahhhhhhhh. If only you could extend twilight for an hour or two, the day would be redeemed. Well, that's where outdoor lighting comes in.
You don't want the hassle or expense of installing underground wiring — just a little romance and illumination. That still leaves you with three very good choices: Luminaries (or other candle supports/enclosures), oil lamps, and solar-charged electrical lighting. Any of these can be used all by itself, or, better yet, together with one or both of the other options.
Canned Sunlight: The Solar Solution
It was only a few years ago that self-contained solar lighting seemed like an exotic, science fiction technology. Now solar lights for the yard and garden are affordable, reliable and come in a variety of styles, from spotlights to decorative string lights.
Three basic components that go into making solar garden lights: the solar cell converts sunlight into electricity, rechargeable batteries store the energy, and the LED (light emitting diodes) "bulbs" produce the light using a tiny amount of energy compared to conventional incandescent bulbs. For added convenience, a light sensor built into the solar cell automatically turns the light on at dusk and off at dawn.
Solar path lights come in variety of styles and finishes to complement many house styles. These path lights put out enough light to safely illuminate walkways or driveways.
Solar spotlights come in a variety of powers, ranging from smaller accent lights to spots powerful enough to light up a wall or a sign. The more powerful spotlights and security lights often have a remote solar panel allowing for placement of the panel in more direct sunlight along with a larger panel size.
Solar-powered string lights are available in different decorative motifs and make it easy to decorate a porch, tree, fence, table umbrella or arbor anywhere in the yard without need for an outlet.
Little or no maintenance is needed for solar lighting. The rechargeable batteries generally last about two years before needing to be replaced.
Oil Lamps: Rustic Light Is Right Outdoors
Before the advent of electrical lighting, there was the oil lamp, and though you'd find very few folks who'd swap the convenience and safety of electric lighting for the flicker of an oil lamp indoors, it's a completely different story when it comes to outdoor lighting---for porch, patio, garden path or elsewhere in your garden. Somehow, the light of an oil lamp feels warmer, more natural, more rustic, more appropriate in the garden than electrical light ever could.
Candle Power: It's The Measure Of Light
From the time some inspired ancestor of ours first dipped a mullein stalk or something similar in tallow, ignited it in the community fire, and used it to illuminate the night, humans have been fascinated with candles. That fascination has been tempered sometimes with anxiety, however, because exposed candle flames can indeed be a hazard---especially indoors. Outside, though, candles in enclosed holders are reasonably safe, and they contribute to an atmosphere of warmth and romance in the garden after dark. They're also probably the most versatile and least expensive solution to shedding some light on your private Eden after dark.
Whether it's solar lighting, oil lamps, candles, or some combination of these that's the right solution for your situation, one thing you should realize is that there are few---if any—other additions to your garden that will make such a profound impact for so little expense. And a garden, though perhaps beautiful by day, is pure magic when illuminated at night.
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A mother of two was focused on organizing a couple of areas of her home, but there were two limitations: space and budget. We would have to be very creative in order to overcome these challenges.Read more
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Contemporary Living: Simplicity Through Design
People strive for simplicity and clean lines in their living environment because it creates a sense of serenity within the sanctuary that we call home.Read more
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As a mainstay of the show, Dwell Outdoor has always been showcased, but this year, the organizers brought the outdoorsto the center of the convention area — and to great effect.Read more
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- Date submitted: 6 Oct 2011
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- Name: International Cooperative Alliance (ICA)
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General Contenta) What are the expectations for the outcome of Rio+20, and what are the concrete proposals in this regard, including views on a possible structure of the Outcome document? N/A
b) What are the comments, if any, on existing proposals: e.g., a green economy roadmap, framework for action, sustainable development goals, a revitalized global partnership for sustainable development, or others?
c) What are the views on implementation and on how to close the implementation gap, which relevant actors are envisaged as being involved (Governments, specific Major Groups, UN system, IFIs, etc.); N/A
d) What specific cooperation mechanisms, partnership arrangements or other implementation tools are envisaged and what is the relevant time frame for the proposed decisions to be reached and actions to be implemented? N/A
Specific Elementsa) Objective of the Conference: To secure renewed political commitment for sustainable development, assessing the progress to date and remaining gaps in the implementation of the outcomes of the major summits on sustainable development and addressing new and emerging challenges. Contributions could include possible sectoral priorities (e.g., (e.g., energy, food security and sustainable agriculture, technology transfer, water, oceans, sustainable urbanization, sustainable consumption and production, natural disaster preparedness and climate change adaptation, biodiversity, etc.) and sectoral initiatives that contribute to integrate the three pillars of sustainable development could be launched and endorsed at Rio+20. N/A
b) Green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication: views regarding how green economy can be a means to achieve sustainable development in its three dimensions, and poverty eradication; what is its potential added value; experience to date, including what has worked and how to build upon success, what are the challenges and opportunities and how to address the challenges and seize opportunities, and possible elements of an agreement in outcome document on a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication N/A
c) Institutional framework for sustainable development: Priorities and proposals for strengthening individual pillars of sustainable development, as well as those for strengthening integration of the three pillars, at multiple levels; local, national, regional and international. On behalf of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) the association which represents some 300 co-operatives in 96 countries and close to a billion citizens globally we wish to include the following additions to the Compilation document:
Starting with the UN General Assembly?s Document A/CONF.216/PC/& the Objective and Themes of the United Nations conference on Sustainable Development, we take note of (f) Improved institutions are crucial to the favorable social outcomes of green economy policies;
ICA believes that in seeking to improve these institutions it is vital that co-operatives, value based business models are used as an integral part of any development planning process. Co-operatives (or ?co-ops? as they are often called) are autonomous associations of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically controlled enterprise.
Co-ops are generally divided in two ways- by type and sector: consumption and production being the two main types. Easy type may have subcategories and some may contain elements of both. However, regardless of their ?form? their seven core principles remain the same: voluntary and open membership; democratic member control; member economic participation; autonomy and independence, inclusion of education, training and information; cooperation among cooperatives and finally concern for community.
Dating back to the 1800s, this value based business model has demonstrated time and again its ability to generate badly needed jobs whether it is in rural or an urban setting and an ability to weather the viscitudes of financial instability in countries as well as provide financial underpinnings in areas that other financial institutions reject as unviable. Credit unions, savings and credit cooperatives or cooperative banks often are the only entities willing and able to serve in extremely poor areas or those with unrest. Often loans made by co-operative banks have been the lifeline for small businesses to begin or advance. Agricultural cooperatives have enabled beleaguered farmers to gain a badly needed position in markets so that they can sell their products, obtain equipment and compete. Alone a poor farmer may have little hope-but together with other farmers of similar needs, their strength in numbers as part of a co-operative enables them to have a future.
So important is the co-operative model in terms of its values and successes, that the United Nations General Assembly has designated 2012 as the International Year of the Co-operative. It is fitting that as the year advances it also marks the 20th year of the Rio Principles and Agenda 21. Both UN years share many mutual objectives. Indeed it was Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on the occasion of the UN General Assembly?s passage of the resolution creating the IYC who noted:
? Co-operatives are a reminder to the international community that it is possible to pursue both economic viability and social responsibility."
As the UN Secretary General?s Report of July 13, 2009 (A/64/132 focusing on ?Cooperatives In Social Development? indicated ?Agricultural cooperatives help in marketing agricultural products and in improving farmers ?access to markets. It is estimated that 50 percent of global agricultural output is marketed through cooperatives.? (Page 8). For instance, while 57 percent of those over 10 years old in Mozambique work in agriculture and livestock production, there are few medium sized farms. Ninety nine percent of the country?s holding are small ones. And since 2002 the percentage of farms over 3 hectares has actually decreased. Working through the NCBA/CLUSA Mozambique at the present has 20 selected small farmers it assists in increasing their production to become successful medium sized farms with the objective of developing a solid program for further agricultural development.
In East Timor, a 17 year old project was started to improve four value chains: coffee, spices, beef and timber. By 2002 our member NCBA/CLUSA had helped form the cooperative Caf� Timor (CCT) to improve coffee procurement and other aspects of coffee production. By 2005 Starbucks began buying all of the CCT coffee. As a result of this relationship CCT became the largest supplier of fair trade coffee in the world. Moreover, there are now at least nine community Health care clinics in East Timor because of the CCT program?s success. The government does not fund any of these but they team up with the government to deliver public Health programs and educational information such as on tuberculosis.
In the area of finance in the developing world, again the SG Report stated ?Globally, financial cooperatives of all types serve an estimated 857 million people or 13 percent of the world population.?(Page 11). Moreover, ?Financial cooperatives are the largest providers of microfinance services to the poor.?
Co-ops are also often instruments of peace as well as prosperity. For example, an Afghan cooperative for sustainable skin care products provides an economic alternative to the opium trade and men and women of various tribes and ethnic groups work together on an equal basis. In Iraq?s Abu Ghraib region, a coop is helping farmers to make strides after years of war. In South Africa, a rural area has a telecommunications system thanks to the establishment of a cooperative ? a priority for that country once apartheid ended.
With this as a background, we would respectfully submit that in putting together the Compilation Document it is fitting and indeed important to include language calling for a direct consideration of the co-operative model as programs and projects are put together to green the economy and advance sustainable development. Moreover, the document should also state its strong support for a regulatory, legislative and political atmosphere that nurtures the creation and advancement of the cooperative model.
By a unanimous vote the General Assembly in making 2012 the International Year of Cooperatives (Document A/Res/64/136) called on Member states ?(5)?to promote the growth of cooperatives as business and social enterprises that can contribute to sustainable development, eradication of poverty, and livelihoods in various economic sectors in urban and rural areas and provide support for the creation of cooperatives in new and emerging areas:?
Hence, as delegates shape the final outcome document for this historical meeting on Agenda 21 plus 20 we would respectfully urge that the language above used in that UN General Assembly approved IYC document in support of co-operative enterprises ?to promote the growth of cooperatives as business and social enterprises that can contribute to sustainable development, eradication of poverty, and livelihoods in various economic sectors in urban and rural areas and provide support for the creation of cooperatives in new and emerging areas? be integrated into the guidance for moving towards a green economy and the advancement of sustainable development.
In closing, we thank you for your consideration of this proposal.
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Wilmington | A 16-year-old was arrested in connection with a shooting late Tuesday afternoon, according to a Wilmington Police Department spokeswoman.
Malik Point is accused of shooting at a Chevy Tahoe that Marcus Clark, 28, was driving in the 400 block of North 11th Street.
Clark was injured by shattered glass from the shooting and went to New Hanover Regional Medical Center, where the incident was reported at 3:23 p.m.
Clark told police he and another man were riding in a Tahoe in the 400 block of North 11th Street when someone began shooting at them, said Linda Rawley, the WPD spokeswoman. She said Clark refused to cooperate further.
Police later located the Tahoe in the 600 block of North 11th Street with "several bullet holes" in it,
Point was charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, discharging a handgun into a moving vehicle and possession of a handgun by a minor.
Point is being charged as an adult and is in police custody.
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Vote on reform of electoral commission in DRC
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Didier Reynders is satisfied to note that the Parliament of the DRC has approved the law on the reform of the Independent National Electoral Commission. This took place just before the parliamentary session ended.
This reform is crucial for preparing the continuation of the electoral cycle in better conditions than during the presidential elections.
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Junior midfielder Sam Mewis will be blogging for UCLABruins.com during the 2013 season. Mewis is a regular with the U.S. Women's Youth National Team and a two-time all-conference selection who has scored 28 points on nine goals and 10 assists in her two years as a Bruin.
This week has been packed with events and activities as we wrap up our summers and start to prepare ourselves for preseason next week. Abby Dahlkemper, Sarah Killion, and Caprice Dydasco flew to Florida last weekend to play in the W-League National Championship game with their summer team, the Pali Blues. They won the final on Sunday, 1-0, and are now both Western Conference Champions and W-League Champions!
Sarah also celebrated her 21st birthday on Saturday, so a big Happy Birthday to her as well! A bunch of us got together to celebrate and have a cookout by the pool. We all chipped in to buy her a miniature grill, which she loved and will definitely put to good use.
While those three were playing for Pali in Florida, Crystal Shaffie, Rosie White, Kylie McCarthy and I went to a John Mayer concert in Irvine with our former teammate Erin Cole. We drove down to Erin's house in Orange County and had a nice cookout before the concert. It was an awesome performance, and we all had so much fun. We celebrated it as kind of a last hurrah of summer because it's really getting down to crunch time for preseason.
Most of us on campus this week are taking our Summer Session A finals today and tomorrow, and about 10 of us are in the process of moving. I'm personally looking forward to a new start at a new apartment and to finishing up with my two classes. All of us returning players have been waiting for preseason since last November, and now that it's finally upon us, I think we are all more than eager to get going.
Last year was a tough loss for us against Stanford in the Elite 8. The most frustrating part for me was giving up a 1-0 lead, which was what happened in our game against them during Pac-12 play previously in the season. While I think we were a different team during tournament, the outcome was the same, and that was extremely disappointing for us as a whole. We left Northern California more disappointed than anything, and I for one still have a bitter taste in my mouth about the turnout of last year.
But looking forward, we have a completely new experience ahead of us. For one, we have a new coaching staff as we welcome Amanda and Josh from the University of Central Florida. We have a bunch of incoming freshmen that have been talked about since some of them committed two years ago. The underclassmen have become upperclassmen. We have all learned so much from our experience here as UCLA student-athletes, and I really think that this year should demonstrate our preparedness and desire for success.
With that said, the rest of the team will join us here in Westwood on Tuesday for our first team meeting. The fitness tests and practices will start following that meeting. We are down to three weeks until our first game against Northeastern at Drake. The next few weeks will be crucial to our success as a team this season as we all finally get together and form new traditions, standards, and habits. I can't wait to see what preseason will be like and what the 2013 season will consist of.
Crystal and some of the other seniors came up with a really cool team motto that we have hanging in our locker room. It says, "1 day at a time, 1 rep at a time, 0 excuses" with the numbers all lined up to spell out 110. It's a constant reminder for us of our goal for this season and the attitude that it is going to take every day to get us there. I think that it is a perfect motto for our group right now.
That's all for this week. Go Bruins!


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With such a limited library barricaded by a double-layered pay wall, it might be difficult to get gamers onboard the new service. Without revealing specifics, OnLive COO Mike McGarvey said customers can look forward to "original, exclusive" content from developers of all sizes, but it remains to be seen exactly what that entails.
To be completely fair, pricing for games has not been revealed yet. In our opinion, if new releases were marked down by, say, 30+% it might be easier to look past the monthly payment, though you would still forfeit a lot of control. For instance, they will always be locked behind OnLive's subscription. If for any reason you could no longer afford that fee, you would presumably lose access to your entire game library. On the other hand, with OnLive you are not expected to upgrade your PC as often, you can play your games virtually anywhere, and assuming it works as advertised, it could pose fewer hassles (no installs, driver troubles, etc). Considering that other experienced giants like Blizzard and EA have often had trouble keeping up with massive online demands when launching blockbuster titles, it will be interesting to see if OnLive can deliver a hiccup-free experience next June.
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The Utah Cultural Celebration Center in West Valley is a great place to celebrate diversity and enhance unity in the community through expressions of art.
And the center's current exhibit, Renewal: Finding Life Through Art, features nine artists who repurpose discarded materials into unique works of art to tell a hundred different stories. One man's trash is definitely another man's treasure—or in this case, his inspiration. Not only is this artwork sure to inspire each of its viewers, but it has also inspired a few local writers whose impressions on the pieces are also displayed.
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"I'm so proud of the girls, they got down early in the second half but they just battled back," said head coach Heather Henson. "They fought very hard and continued to battle. I'm very proud of this team, they have really battled back from a lot of injuries early in the season and they just haven't quit.'
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I just had to post that my mom's book on homeschooling, "A Lap and a Library Card", is out. She's been working on it forever and I'm so happy for her that it's finally done! It's a book I asked her to write since I'm homeschooling my kids, but I have no memory of the earliest years of being homeschooled and wanted her seasoned advice. :-)
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Anna, Congrats to your mom! That's a cute book title. :) Is there a place where we can order or read about her book? I always find it interesting hearing from second generation homeschoolers.
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Gardner Village is known for its witch-themed events this time of year, but it may also have a ghost. And we decided to focus on that ghost for this week's Local Haunt. Scroll to the bottom of the page for all of the local haunts we've posted this month.
Archibald Gardner, one of Utah's original settlers, ran the West Jordan Mill—now the site of Country Furniture & Gifts at Gardner Village. And many years after death, some say he's still there, looking after the property.
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Tina McDonald, former employee at the store and current manager at Archibald's Restaurant, says she can't prove it is Archie that's hanging around the store, but she's seen the signs of a playful ghost.
One night, McDonald and an employee closed up for the night, leaving the store pitch black. Ten minutes later, McDonald got a call from a co-worker asking if she went back to the store. "She says, 'I just got a call from the store,'" McDonald explains. So, McDonald headed back to the store and found the lights on. When she saw there was no sign of forced entry or anyone at the store, she turned the lights off and headed home. But the lights were back on in the morning, seemingly before anyone had arrived.
McDonald says it's also common to find the beds unmade, like someone had taken a nap while the store was closed.
"Most of the activity comes whenever changes go on in the store or something's remodeled," McDonald says. Once, during renovations, she says a customer and an employee saw garden picks float out of a glass jar, which started to spin on the dresser it was displayed on before crashing to the floor.
Another employee swears she spotted a jovial man in overalls who disappeared at second glance.
"It actually feels pretty positive," McDonald says. "There's nothing intimidating or scary about it. Mainly, it seems playful."
Gardner Village is located at 1100 W. 7800 South, West Jordan
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MOSCOW, Idaho – After wrapping up a 14-year professional playing career, including eight NBA seasons, Milt Palacio has joined the Idaho men's basketball coaching staff as Director of Player Development.
Palacio, who began his professional career with the Vancouver Grizzlies in 1999 and played in the NBA until 2006, spent the previous six seasons playing professionally in Europe. The former point guard is reunited with Idaho head coach Don Verlin, who was an assistant at Colorado State during part of Palacio's collegiate career with the Rams.
"I've stayed in touch with Milt throughout the years since he played for us at Colorado State," Verlin said. "We've kept that relationship. He called and was deciding if he was going to play one more season or get into coaching, and it just happened to work out that I had an opening on my staff and it worked out perfectly."
Palacio's duties will include helping with academics and mentoring Idaho's players off the court, while also assisting Verlin with breaking down film and game preparation.
"He'll do a number of things, but probably most importantly is mentoring our young guys," Verlin said. "Because it's a non-coaching position, his impact will be more off the court. Teaching kids first and foremost about taking care of academics, and helping guys with the finer points of the game of basketball from a mental standpoint."
Verlin also hopes Palacio's work ethic rubs off on the young Idaho team.
"I hope they take what he did because he worked his tail off," Verlin said. "I remember when we were recruiting him out of junior college he averaged six points per game, then every year he got better and better and was able to make it to the NBA."
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Having a short position in a stock means that the investor is expecting to make money from the decline in price of a stock. It is the opposite of a long position.
Expanded Definition
"Normal" investing is buying shares of a company, holding them as the company does well and watching the share price go up, possibly getting some dividends along the way. This investor makes money when things go well for the company and/or the economy. This is right, proper, and the red-blooded American way of investing. This way of investing is called "going long" (not to be confused with the directions of your pickup football game's quarterback, "going deep").
People who invest "short," on the other hand, are viewed as being against America, capitalism, and, quite possibly, apple pie. They make money when the company messes up, loses money, or otherwise sees its share price decline. Definitely anti-American, at least according to some.
One common use of a short position is as a "hedge" to offset some risk. For instance, if an investor is long in one stock of an industry, that investor might go short in another company of the same industry to protect against losses in the first company if the industry as a whole declines. The losses in the long position would be offset by gains in the short position.
In order to go short, the investor borrows shares from another ("normal") investor, sells them to somebody else, and then purchases them back at some future point in time, returning them to the original owner. When it works, it still follows the "buy low, sell high" mantra, but it does the selling first, then the buying.
Both the short seller and the one whose shares are borrowed must be using a margin account.
In the past, the exchange required an uptick in the price of the stock (that is, the last trade must have been higher than the previous trade) before shares could be sold short.
While the short position is open, the person doing the shorting must pay the person lending the shares any dividends paid. This can be a disadvantage.
The maximum gain to be made is 100% of the original investment, which only happens if the stock falls all the way to zero. The maximum loss is infinite, as the stock price can continue to rise. Note that this is the opposite result of what long investors expect. Most brokers impose a limit on losses and require the short investor to "close" their position by repurchasing the shares after a certain amount of price rise. If many people are short the stock when the price rises dramatically, this forced closure of their positions can create a short squeeze.
Even though many people look down (or even hate) short investors, these investors play an important role in the market. When a stock price has grown too fast or too far, such that the company's performance cannot support the price, an increase in short positions will tend to drive the price down, restoring some balance to the market. It's been hypothesized that one reason the stock market "dot-com" bubble of the late 1990s, early 2000s got so out of hand is that there were not enough short investors helping to hold prices down at more reasonable levels.
Possibly because of this misunderstanding about the role of shorts (besides being comfortable clothing), that is a belief that the shorts are driving down the price of a company's stock, the SEC banned the shorting of financial (primarily bank) stocks in the fall of 2008 to give protection to these companies against the downward pressure short selling is said to create. Of course, if a company, such as a bank, is losing money for its shareholders, nothing any regulating body can do can prevent the decline of the stock price -- people can still sell their long positions, which will also lower the price -- so that move was really kind of silly.
Motley Fool jobrfool: Brokers may or may not generally charge interest on short sale positions. Some brokers may pay interest to the account that has loaned substantial amounts of shares for short sales. See http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080228180413AA9Ko4a
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4. It's sizzling and if you don't watch it you're a loser, with a capital "L"
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Ocean shipping: ODFL makes expansions to Pacific Promise service
in the NewsCorrugated recovered for recycling hits all-time high of 93% in 2015 Expanded Panama Canal open for business but questions linger on its ability to be a game changer Brexit impact yet to be measured by U.S. logistics managers Behind KION Group's acquisition of Dematic UniCarriers Americas executives partner with Roosevelt University More News
Less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation services provider Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL) said it has seven China-based ports to its Pacific Promise service.
Rolled out in March 2009, the Pacific Promise is a less-than-container load (LCL) service between ODFL and various ocean carriers. This is a joint guaranteed LCL service from China to the U.S., which allows importers to move LCL quantities "with a much higher degree of velocity, predictability, and visibility" than has previously been available and is also backed by a money-back guarantee.
When the service was first introduced, ODFL executives commented that the Pacific Promise service will provide shippers with velocity and predictability when sourcing products in China and be able to remove money and time from their supply chain operations and transport freight more quickly to the U.S.
With yesterday's announcement, the China-based ports added to the Pacific Promise service include: Dalian, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Ningbo, Qingdao, Xiamen, and Xingang. This brings the total number of ports served by the Pacific Promise service to ten, joining Shanghai, Shenzen/Yantian, and Hong Kong in moving goods into the U.S. at nearly any domestic destination, said ODFL.
Customer demand has driven this program from its inception and will drive further expansions in the future," said Greg Plemmons, vice president of Old Dominion Global, an ODFL subsidiary, in an interview. "We had always planned to expand the program to include additional origins in China and throughout Asia."
Plemmons commented that the Pacific Promise service has generated a lot of interest, and while bookings started off slowly in 2009, he said it has grown considerably, especially in the last couple of months as customers who are tired of paying air freight rates have learned that they can accomplish almost the same service with better visibility and savings of up to 70 percent.
When asked about specific transit times for the Pacific Promise service, Plemmons explained that transit times vary depending upon the origin and destination. ODFL officials added that shippers can ten days or more from standard LCL transit times.
ODFL collaborates with several ocean carriers for the Pacific Promise service and chooses whatever carriers make sense for its customers and for the transit times it has committed to, according to a company spokesman, whom added that no one ocean carrier offers the fastest transit times between every port pair so ODFL picks and chooses specific carriers depending on the need.
"Compared to traditional LCL transit times, Pacific Promise transit times are eight to 10 days faster on average, depending on origin and destination pairs," said Plemmons.
An ODFL statement cited shippers of the following types of products as those most likely to benefit from this new service: high-value products; time-sensitive goods; seasonal or promotional goods; shippers to multiple destinations from a single origin; and products that cannot be trusted to "a traditional" LCL service.
ODFL added that rates for this service are quoted as a simple single rate per cubic meter, with rates up to 75 percent less than air freight.
Other examples of LCL services in the marketplace include an Asia-Memphis LCL service rolled out by Averitt Express in July 2008 and OceanGuaranteed, collaboration between Con-way Freight and APL Logistics that was first introduced in August 2006.Logistics Management October 21, 2010
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Sorry, how do I know what bitrate they are at? and the whole second paragraph was gibberish to me, although I do get the part about never ripping again and that sounds like a great idea. Can you explain in lamens terms please? Thanks
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You can use MediaInfo to find what bitrate your files are at now. Choose a LAME mp3 -V equivalent and listen to a few files after you transcode them. If they sound OK go for it.
It is possible to create a file that contains the same information as what's on the disc. These are considered lossless. The most commonly used is FLAC. Those lossless files can be used to create lossy copies that don't suffer the additional loss in quality that occurs in a lossy to lossy transcode. It's the same as if you're creating the lossy file from the disc only much easier. With a lossless copy there is no need to rip the disc again. Ever.
Exact Audio Copy(EAC) and a few others, dBpoweramp, foobar2000 and CueTools come to mind, can rip lossless copies that match exactly what's on the disc. Other rippers can create lossless files but the audio information doesn't match what's on the disc exactly. Personally I decide that if I was going to re-rip my CD collection I'd get it right that one time and used EAC. There's guides on how to do that here.
If that seems to be too much work you can try the Configuration Wizard in EAC. The last time I needed to set up EAC I used that and accepted the defaults to rip to FLAC. It produces bit accurate results in all the tests I've done. The important part IMO is to do it right once so you never have to do it again.
There's a link in my sig to the Glossary for Newbies. I tried to make sure any terms I used are in there. Take a little time to follow some of the links in there and you'll soon come to the time when you never have to rip your CDs again.
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I too have been having problems loading music onto my Fuze (I can't bring myself to use the verb "to sync" when the verbs "to load" or "to transfer" have been doing the job. But I digress...)
I initially tried to load my music (97% .mp3, 3% .wma) using my favoured method with MSC. Unfortunately in doing so, I found that I was running up against Sansa's "unknown album/artist" bug where for every 100 files loaded onto the player, 1 would be reorganized into the "Unknown" folder, even after all files had proper and unaccented tags entered with Tagscanner, mp3tag or Windows Explorer (i.e. *right-click*, "Properties" and so forth).
I then restarted by formatting the player and microSD card and then loading the files using WMP via MTP. This achieved better results with all of my music showing up properly when loaded onto the internal flash drive, as well as on the 8GB microSD card.
However recently I added about 60 more files with MTP using WMP, and noticed that about 25 files got placed in the "Unknown folder" even though I had tagged all of these new files, and ensured that the meta-data of the files in the "Unknown" folder lacked accented characters. I deleted these 60 new files, and tried again. No luck. I then tried to load these files using Winamp, and again found the same 25 files getting stuck in the "Unknown" folder. I don't see a problem with other specifications of these files and they were ripped as .mp3 at 128 kb/s like the vast majority of my music.
If MSC didn't work smoothly and now MTP isn't working, what's next?
I appreciate any comments or tips. Apart from this recent problem I've been doing fine with the Fuze and really like the ease by which I can expand memory and load music.
I do not believe that I have heard of this "unknown folder" bug affecting 1 in 100 songs. But I only have 550 files on my Fuze.
If I was going to use MTP, I would not have chosen to use WMP with it. Windows explorer drag & drop will work, but I have only used MTP a little bit. I understand that Winamp, and Media Monkey will work with MTP.
AFAIK there's no "unknown album/artist" bug in Sansa players. I just bumped my Fuze to the OF to check the stats. Between the player and the card there's 3256 files all fully recognized in the database. There's not a single item in any category that's "unknown". All transferred by drag and drop in MSC mode. I use MSC mode exclusively on all my Sansa and haven't seen an unknown in a couple of years. It's simple and it works.
I've shown a couple of people how to drag and drop in MTP and that works well on their Sansas. With simple drag and drop and well tagged files all their items display properly. Trying to sync or use a media management program is when it breaks down for them.
It's been my experience that if the files are properly tagged they show up according to their tagged values. What may also be contributing to your problems is using multiple taggers. I use foobar2000 to write my tags and Mp3tag to cross check them, that's all. Using fooby2k and Mp3tag all the "unknowns" have gone away.
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FreeZ5 and skip252, I also had this problem with the "unknown" albums on my Sansa M260. On my Sansa e260 (which is still working), I didn't have this problem. For both of these players I always used MSC (didn't bother with MTP at all) and tagged everything in a format that avoided accented characters.
To my surprise, I got this "unknown" album problem again (even after properly tagging every file on Windows Explorer) after doing the initial loading of music onto the Fuze using MSC. And so I figured that I had nothing to lose by trying out WMP and MTP. It worked great and loaded everything fine (this was a couple of months ago). It's only very recently that I've had this annoyance with loading with MTP.
skip252, believe me, I had heard enough horror stories about MTP, hence why I initially plowed into loading music using MSC as I always had done. I'm not so sure if it's solely a WMP thing. As mentioned originally, I also tried to load the files in MTP using Winamp, and ended up with the same group of 25 files out of 60 being reorganized as "unknown album" with gibberish Chinese characters replacing the tags that I had created in Windows Explorer.
How do you do drag-and-drop using MTP? (I presume that you're in Windows Explorer doing this).
I just tried using drag-and-drop (still in MTP mode though) in Windows explorer after having formatted the microSD card... and got the same result. The same 25 files get reorganized into the "unknown" folder despite having the tags done in the same way as the remaining 2000+ files. What makes this maddening is that each of these 25 files comes from albums whose other files are organized properly. Again, the tags are all there and I used Foobar2000 to re-do the files' tags in the albums which have been affected by this problem.
This bug is starting to tick me off. I would have thought that Sandisk for all of its prowess in flash memory would make players which wouldn't be spoiled by problems in the memory (although I hear that the Fuze+ brings problems that go beyond the memory). Perhaps I just got lucky with my e260 as the other two Sansa players that I've had are merely going par for the course with a "genetic" problem. Just for a laugh, are there any worthy non-Sandisk, non-Apple replacements for a 8GB Fuze?
Have you tried using MP3 Tag to tag the files? I have never had what you described happen.
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foobar2000 writes ID3v2.4 tags by default. Your Fuze can't read those. If go in the preferences and
Advanced>Tagging>MP3>Preferred Tagging Scheme>ID3v2. Also check ID3v2>Writer Compatibility Mode.
That will cause ti to write ID3v2.3 tags the Fuze can read. Then have it re-write your tags. Not update, re-write. BTW Windows Explorer also writes non-compliant tags a Sansa may or may not read.
You can check that the job was done right by dropping the files into Mp3tag and seeing which version was written. You could also have Mp3tag write the tags. Mp3tag writes tags that will eliminate the "unknown" problem. Just set it so that it writes ID3v2.3 tags only and they should display properly. They do on all my players Sansa or not.
If you wonder why I'm so confident that there's no bug I either have or had the Sansa E250, E280, E270, and E280. The same goes for all models and capacities of the Clip and Clip+. Ditto for the Fuze line. All of them display the proper information when it's present. They all fail to do so when it isn't.
If you really are convinced that there's a bug in the Sansas (there isn't) take a look at the Sony line of players. They make nice players and you can usually find a 8GB NWZ E344 or something in that line for under $80 in the US.
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To piggyback Skip's post....here are the commonly recommended (from the SanDisk forum) MP3Tag settings....with the key point circled by me.
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Thanks. I'll keep these latest suggestions for reference. I stumbled upon another solution before seeing coachop94's post. I re-burned the tracks that were messed up and tagged them again in Windows Explorer. Now they show up properly in the Fuze.
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That may have worked but I'd have work REAL hard to find a more labor/ time intensive way to fix a tagging issue. A 5 minute setup in either Mp3tag or fooby2k would fix this and any future tagging issues. As long as you insist on using the inferior tagging abilities of Windows Explorer there's a fair chance this will happen again.
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fre:ac not letting me select all files
Hi skip, sorry I'm being thick, downloaded fre:ac but it isn't letting me drag and drop my files. I even copied music into another folder and tried to import that, nothing! It will let medo it one by one but that's worse than putting the cds in. As you suggested if I have the cds that would be good but I only have about half.
I know I'm being a pain in the butt but please put me out of my misery.
I find that I'd much rather use some kind of sync than drag and drop. Drag and drop is a pain in the butt when it comes to managing music on a DAP. In concept it's much simpler, but in practice it's a lot more work.
Just some of the reasons:
I ended up writing a small VB script that syncs my Fuze in MSC mode based on two lists of albums to be synced to the internal memory and to the microSDHC card. It's easy to change the contents of the lists and then just run the syncing script to update the Fuze. It automatically removes content that was deleted from the list, and updates any files where the size or mtime has changed. I've been thinking of looking to see if any of the popular music library management programs could do something similar, as it would be a little easier to work within a GUI.
Have you tried the File...Add context menu? That has an option to add folders all at once. Drag and drop works fine for me but that might help? One other thought, none of these files are DRM protected are they? Fre:ac doesn't work on DRMed files.
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