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Withholding sex of fetus could curb 'female feticide' in Canada: doctor
SHERYL UBELACKER Toronto— The Canadian Press
Published Monday, Jan. 16, 2012 12:45PM EST
Last updated Monday, Jan. 16, 2012 4:28PM EST
Dr. Rajendra Kale calls it the most severe and repugnant form of discrimination against females — and he wants to see it stopped.
The practice of aborting a female fetus after the parents learn the sex of their developing child through ultrasound is not as widespread in Canada as in such countries as India and China, where a cultural and often religious preference for boys has led to the estimated destruction of millions of females in the womb.But Dr. Kale says smaller numbers in Canada, estimated in the thousands, are no reason to ignore such gender-based violence.
"Female feticide devalues women completely," said Dr. Kale, interim editor-in-chief of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. He wants to see doctors withhold information about the sex of a child in the womb until 30 weeks' gestation to prevent "an unquestioned abortion" because parents prefer a boy.
Dr. Kale said research in Canada has found the strongest evidence of fetal sex selection among some Canadians of Asian descent, including people from India, China, Korea, Vietnam and the Philippines.
"What this means is that many couples who have two daughters and no son selectively get rid of female fetuses until they can ensure that their third-born child is a boy," he writes, while stressing that not all Asian-Canadians condone nor engage in the practice.
In an editorial in Monday's issue of the CMAJ, entitled "It's a girl — could be a death sentence," Dr. Kale puts the onus squarely on the medical community to try to halt sex-based abortion.
He calls on the provincial colleges that regulate physicians to rule that health-care professionals should not reveal a baby's sex to any woman before 30 weeks of pregnancy.
"I'm arguing that the sex of the fetus is medically irrelevant information because it does not affect care in any way whatsoever, except in the very rare instance where you have sex-linked genetic diseases," Dr. Kale said in an interview.
"Doing so should be deemed contrary to good medical practice. Such clear direction from regulatory bodies would be the most important step toward curbing female feticide in Canada."
Dr. Kale said waiting to divulge the sex of the fetus until after the start of the third trimester would still give parents who want to know whether they are having a boy or a girl enough time to prepare their nursery or purchase appropriate clothing.
The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada said Dr. Kale's proposal runs counter to the medical group's policy that a patient's request for disclosure should be respected.
"Examination of the fetal genitalia is a recognized part of the routine second-trimester obstetric ultrasound," the SOGC said in an emailed statement. "Providing patients with results of diagnostic imaging procedures is part of the Canadian standard of care, and fetal sex determination and disclosure should not be exempt.
"Therefore, the SOGC believes it is the right of the patient to be informed of the gender of their fetus, and that this information should not be withheld."
Though reasonably intentioned, Kale's call for policy changes is likely a moot one in any case, said Bernard Dickens, professor emeritus of health law and policy at the University of Toronto.
During deliberations of the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies, it was suggested that withholding the gender of a fetus could be a way to reduce the possibility of sex-based abortion, but the control device wasn't built into the subsequent legislation, the 2004 Assisted Human Reproduction Act.
Mr. Dickens suggested that was likely because the Supreme Court of Canada, in the case of McInerney v. MacDonald, had ruled in 1992 that patients' medical information is not owned by their physicians and must be surrendered at a patient's request.
"If the patient persists and wants to know the sex … the doctor cannot lawfully deny the patient the information," he said.
For Dr. Kale's goal to be fulfilled, new legislation would be needed that contradicts the Supreme Court decision, but introduction of such a law would no doubt trigger a challenge based on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Dickens said.
A challenge could be based on contravention of a number of enshrined rights, including discrimination on the grounds of the right to security of the person, that women have the right to continue only wanted pregnancies.
There are also pockets among some of Canada's immigrant Asian communities that hold strong religious beliefs that a male heir is necessary to carry on the family name and to perform certain rites to ensure deceased parents have a proper afterlife.
"And, of course, this could trigger a Charter claim of denying religious convictions or violating the anti-discrimination provision of the Charter," Mr. Dickens said. "So any legislation could trigger a Charter argument on that sort of ground."
Third world immigration produces third world problems.
Our government must look into this very seriously.
We do not need such customs implemented on Canadian soil.
It is already horrible that the primitive practice exists in those parts of the world.
Those immigrants caught doing this should be deported.
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Before summer ends, make a super easy and inexpensive white clutch for your last trip to the beach.
This perforated white clutch is inspired by the summer accessories of Tory Burch and others. The DIY clutch costs only $2 and takes about five minutes to make. I originally created this tutorial for Dollar Store Crafts.
To create this clutch you will need:
- Two white dish mats from Dollar Tree
- Good glue like E6000
- Two small flat magnets (optional)
To make the clutch:
- Line up the magnets and glue to the inside top of the clutch.
- Glue the remaining three sides of the dish mats together and put some books on top so that the clutch will dry flat.
That's it. Your new clutch is waterproof and big enough to carry a paperback or magazine to the beach.

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Chris to appear on the July cover of Starburst.
Source: Starburst Magazine
Starburst recently caught up with former Doctor Who star Christopher Eccleston to discuss his latest role in the new Sci-Fi trilogy The Dark is Rising Christopher Eccleston is an actor who always savors a challenge. His healthy career highlights the variety of roles he has undertaken, from The Second Coming to Doctor Who and Heroes, and his latest project, as the Rider in The Dark is Rising trilogy, promises to be just as different.
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Chris talks about his upcoming film The Seeker: The Dark is Rising
Source: ComingSoon.net
ComingSoon.net had a chance to talk to the actor while visiting the Bucharest, Romania set of Fox Walden's upcoming The Dark Is Rising, based on the series of novels by Susan Cooper. Eccleston plays The Rider, the series' dark force of evil. The day we visited the set, Eccelston actually wasn't shooting anything, but he was kind enough to take some time out of his leisurely day off to meet with a group of journalists in the lobby restaurant of his hotel.
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Tactical SOA Governance Processes. AKA, where to start?
By Dave Berry-Oracle on Jun 02, 2009
I was discussing with a solutions consultant recently the perceived complexity of putting in place an initial governance solution. In following up on Mike van Alst's recent blog on SOA governance processes, I wondered what tactical processes would be approachable for an organization trying to get a handle on SOA asset management. A couple things came to mind that I've heard from customers such as loading assets into their repository to discover dependencies with the benefit being more granular deployment bundles and reduced deployment time. But an even more mundane and common process every customer has some processes in place for is the management of endpoints in different environments. I'll admit up front that this may not be a simple task but it is one that almost every organization has some practical experience with and thus a good starting point.
The basic use case is fairly straightforward and well known. SOA projects checked into source control systems contain files such as WSDL, XSD and BPEL deployment descriptors. These assets import URL's pointing to hard coded hostnames and ports specific to a particular environment such as dev.company.com, qa.company.com, stage, prod etc. The environments are typically separated from each other using a firewall or physically isolated network to make sure there isn't any accidental sharing of data across environments. This is a great example by the way of a business requirement driving a data quality and assurance governance process. Anyway, managing these assets as they are deployed to their respective environments and assuring they only interact with other services, assets or infrastructure servers within that environments is not a trivial task. In the JCA adapter world, JNDI is used to create consistent names across different environments for database, JMS connectors and connection pools but this technique is generally not applicable for web service based assets. A service bus proxy service or service registry providing a normalized UDDI serviceKey can help fill this gap.
For this discussion, we will focus on a specific type of URL associated with the location of the web services runtime implementation also known as the WSDL Service Port SOAP location as shown below from an example at http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl#_soap-e.
<service name="StockQuoteService"\>
<documentation>My first service</documentation>
<port name="StockQuotePort" binding="tns:StockQuoteBinding">
<soap:address location="http://example.com/stockquote"/>
Assuming the external service has an location for each environment, then logically each business process or composite application referring to it needs to ensure it is only calling the service located in the correct environment such as shown below
Location=http://dev.example.com or
Endpoint management methodologies seem to come under 2 main camps, automated or manual and I think this also matches customer's size and SOA adoption maturity level. Customers using a manual process might not be as large or sophisticated enough to worry about using an IDE to manually change the project and redeploy in each environment. Larger more mature shops with more specialized IT operations groups and a much larger service portfolio are looking to automate this process at every stage. They likely make use of Apache Ant deployment scripts with substitution variables to handle WSDL and XSD files that include or import dependent assets using hard coded host and port names. Automation scripts do help a lot but usually do not solve the often-requested request for the ability to change the endpoint location without redeploying the business process or application. This type of solution provides more flexibility and overall IT agility for responding to unpredictable changes in the business.
Two approaches for advanced endpoint management are
1) Virtualize the external endpoints using a service bus proxy service
2) Integrated lookup mechanism such as UDDI in the SOA infrastructure or fabric layer.
Both of these solutions externalize the management of endpoints from the SOA application and can support multiple endpoints for load balancing or high availability failover situations. A service bus implementation provides a true virtualization solution making use of content or context based routing and document transformations in the event an endpoint schema changes. It should also allow for managing and changing endpoint locations in an operations management console. The UDDI lookup mechanism is purely for endpoint management and less robust than a service bus virtualization solution but still effectively enables IT operations to change or add endpoint locations. It should achieve this without affecting runtime performance or redeploying the consuming applications such as business processes or composite applications.
Often customers want a single location to manage all service endpoint locations. To meet this requirement, a service bus should allow it's own endpoints to be externally managed at runtime without redeployment by using service registry's UDDI serviceKeys. This is a topic for a future discussion but hopefully it has provided fuel for thought on how to break down seemingly complex governance problems into smaller manageable processes to jump start your overall governance strategy.


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Over the years ice cream has been enhanced by chocolate chips, strawberries, cookie dough, and more recently bacon! You've read right folks, bacon. Bacon is becoming the new craze as criminals are shooting when their bacon is missing while others are having unsavory reactions to its taste.
Apparently ice cream has reached a heavenly pinnacle that will leave many speechless and others more vocal. This was the case for a woman who was metaphorically blown away by the salty sweet flavor of her bacon ice cream. Burger King has skin in the game. They have introduced a bacon sundae. However, I can almost guarantee that people not react to the Burger King Sundae like infamous ice cream bacon lady.
Warning: This video contains no nudity (thank God) however the language used contains innuendos that may be inappropriate for viewers. Watch it now!
After watching the ice cream bacon video please express your thoughts. Do you believe this video is of a random woman or a hired actress?


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Introduction – LAWMA's mandate is to handle Public waste collection, disposal and clearance of backlog of waste. Domestic, Commercial and Industrial waste collection and disposal are handled by the accredited PSP operators all over the State.
Purpose – This Charter contains information on the scope of LAWMA's services, conditions in which these services are rendered, and the right/responsibilities of the clients
Vision -
Mission –
Customer and stakeholder groups
Service Provision and Delivery
Waste Collection
All household are serviced at least once weekly
Waste Recycling
Recycle banks are placed in designated places all over the state
Recyclable materials are sorted and transported to designated places
Waste Receptacles
All waste generators store their wastes and place them in appropriate locations for ease of collection
Advocacy, Enlightenment and Education
Ensure a robust relationship with the host communities
Continuous dissemination of information on effective waste management practises.
Marine Waste collection
Regular collection of waste along Lagos shorelines
Billing and waste service charge
All clients are to receive bills as at when due for services rendered
Special Needs Provision:
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Customers are to call Lawma on the toll free lines;
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Monitoring and evaluation
Daily monitoring reports(AM and PM reports) are assessed and analysed to identify where service has dwindled or non-existence. We quickly respond by sending intervention trucks in the first instance as a short term rescue operation, whilst the PSP are assigned to provide long term services.
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We have a team of trained, committed and dedicated staff at LAWMA, we are passionate about what we do.
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For complaints and enquiries, our customers can reach us on our toll free lines
Kindly reach us on any of the above phone numbers and email address for complaints, suggestion, observation and advice.


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Use romantic in a sentence
- She was no romantic creature out of her sphere, no exotic. [11]
- There is not much of romantic interest in the Adirondacks. [4]
- I may be mistaken, but I think this is to be the romantic episode of the year before me. [6]
- And he continues in another strain: With the romantic period of Spanish history Irving was in ardent sympathy. [4]
- They could have found a cooler place, but they would not deny themselves such a romantic feature as the roasting camp-fire. [5]
- Laura went to bed at last with a mind that had gained largely in tranquility and had lost correspondingly in morbid romantic exaltation. [5]
- Keeping school in a castle is a romantic thing; as romantic as keeping hotel in a castle. [5]
- The county of Franklin in Northwestern Massachusetts, if not rivaling in certain ways the adjoining Berkshire, has still a romantic beauty of its own. [4]
This page helps answer: how do I use the word romantic in a sentence? How do you use romantic in a sentence? Can you give me a sentence for the word romantic? It may also be related to course, elementary, high school, classroom, and words starting with.
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Dos Equis Beer created a promotional character touted as "The Most Interesting Man in the World." While he certainly has some fascinating attributes, Greyhound owners might be able to give him a run for his money.
Look around at all the dogs in your neighborhood or at the dog park. Are you the only one with a Greyhound? Owning an ex-racing Greyhound puts you in a small, cozy group of ownership, making you an elite member of an exclusive club.
Your neighbors will instantly identify you as "those neighbors with the Greyhound" instead of "I don't know if I know those folks."
If you are a man taking your Greyhound for a walk, you will suddenly discover an abundance of single ladies you never knew existed in your area. They will appear every day to be taking their walk when you do.
A 20-minute walk becomes a 30-45 minute event. Pack a lunch. You could starve walking your dog as people stop you to ask about your beautiful and unique hound.
If you are shy, the Greyhound will be your "wingman" and if you are outgoing, you will have no shortage of chances to meet people as the Greyhound is a natural conversation starter.
Hopefully you are a fan of "Jeopardy" as bystanders will be mesmerized into asking you millions of questions.
Owning an ex-racing Greyhound evokes the cachet of a time previous when Greyhound ownership was for the extreme rich and instantly projects you as having the "Champagne wishes and caviar dreams" kind of life.
At parties, when Mildred launches into what little Fifi did that was oh-so adorable, you can casually drop that you adopted an ex-elite racing athlete. If Mildred continues, you can also insert into the conversation that by adopting an ex-racing Greyhound, you took it away after their track life was completed and saved them from an uncertain future. No amount of sitting up and begging by Fifi can top this.
So, no disrespect to the Dos Equis Man, but based on the above, perhaps Greyhound owners are "The Most Interesting People in the World." Now if he were to adopt an ex-racing Greyhound…


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- Alterations: No alterations have been made to this dress.
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More than 200 high school seniors entering military service will be recognized at a ceremony at 10 a.m. April 27 at the Armed Forces Reserve Training Center, 15005 N.E. 65th St.
The third annual such event is hosted by the Our Community Salutes Committee of Portland, Vancouver and Clark County. This group includes local veterans, educators, community members and business leaders. This event is an opportunity to meet seniors and to hear why they enlisted in the military.
This is the largest Our Community Salutes event in the Northwest. Seating is limited at the free, public event. For information, call Candice Ziegler, 503-256-1436.


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Home › Recycling Department › FAQ › How can I get rid of my television or computer?
How can I get rid of my television or computer?
Recycle TV & Computers: Capitol Waste will pick up your TV or computer monitor curbside on your regular scheduled trash day. The pick up must be scheduled and called in by 3:30pm the day before. Please call Capitol Waste 617-569-1718. Leave message, if necessary. Driver does not assist with transport of item to curb. Items should be placed curbside by 7am.
Please report any abandoned computer's or TV's to Capitol waste with address for pick up.
Contact Info
Municipal Building
165 Lexington St.Waltham, MA 02451
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A trucking company's owners have been indicted on embezzlement, tax evasion and million dollar fraud charges related to the World Trade Center site clean-up. A thirty-one count indictment was unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn this month charging trucking company owners Gerardo P. Fusella and Vincent J. Fusella, Jr., with crimes including embezzlement, mail fraud and tax charges. As alleged ... Read More »
The Rapid Expansion of Internet Domain Name System Could Lead To More Online Fraud
Earlier in December the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent a letter to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) expressing concern that the organization's plan to dramatically expand the domain name system could leave consumers more vulnerable to online fraud and undermine law enforcers' ability to track down online scammers. ICANN is the organization that oversees Internet domain ... Read More »
Two Of America's "Most Wanted" Sentenced
Two of America's "Most Wanted" health care fraud fugitives were sentenced in Florida last week. Two sisters, Caridad Guilarte and Clara Guilarte, owned a fraudulent medical clinic near Detroit that lead to a $9.1 million Medicare fraud scheme. Each of the sisters face 14 years in prison. In August the sisters plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit ... Read More »


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As we approach March 14th and the beginning of Daylight Savings Time Charlotteans are ready and anxious to "spring forward." Glimpses of warm weather over the weekend has officially given our city Spring fever and the extra daylight that will follow this week will soon replace seasonal depression and darkness with renewal and energy.
With our first few steady 60-degree days, one can already taste the anticipation for Spring. As you drive around Charlotte, everywhere you look people are going on walks, working in the yard, playing tennis or just generally in a good mood. And the city is fully ready to embrace the green - as in landscape and St. Patrick's Day.
This weekend marks the 14th annual St. Patrick's Day Parade and Charlotte Goes Green Festival. Beginning in 1996 as a small group walking down Tryon Street with a bagpiper, this open to the public outdoor event has become Charlotte's largest parade with over 50,000 spectators. Following the parade, Uptown will host an eight hour festival with Irish crafts, food and beer.
The festival officially kicks off this Saturday (March 13, 2010) with the start of the parade at 11:00 a.m. at Tryon and 9th street in Uptown Charlotte.
As we welcome the warmer weather, what better way to celebrate the official coming of Spring than being outside celebrating with our community? And perhaps indulging in an Guinness or two.
Visit www.charlottestpatsday.com to find out more.


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Mean Street: A Wall Street Conspiracy? Of Course.
You know things are desperate when Wall Street honchos start reverting to conspiracy theories.
Three days ago, Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack saw no good explanation for his stock's death spiral. He didn't have to say "conspiracy," but you knew what he meant.
At the time, I thought, "The nerve of Mack! Conspiracy theories are supposed to be for the little guy."
Like me. When I spent a year as a day trader, I had a conspiracy theory for everything. Who was to blame for the late day sell-off? "They" were. The short squeeze? "They" did it.
Just who are "they"? Market-makers? Hedge funds? Quants? Some clueless day trader and his buddies? Apparently neither I nor John Mack really knows.
But we love our conspiracy theories, especially when we run out of explanations for why things turn against us. That is exactly the genesis of Wall Street's and Washington's current witch hunt for short-sellers.
Somebody is pushing the U.S. financial system into the abyss. And it has to be a conspiracy of short-sellers. Or does it?
Thursday, Wall Street and Washington pledged to find out.
SEC Chief Chris Cox put in place new short sale trading rules and announced plans for greater hedge-fund disclosure. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo opened investigations into short-sale abuses.
Meantime, Jim Cramer appeared on CNBC and raised the specter of "financial terrorism."
John Mack worked the phones to lobby for a full ban on short sales of all financial stocks. And Thursday night, Mack got his way. The SEC went further and banned short-sales in 799 financial stocks.
Conspiracy? It certainly felt like one–but a conspiracy to squeeze the shorts, not destroy Morgan Stanley. And the timing was beautiful.
Around 1 p.m. eastern time, the U.K. Financial Services Authority banned the short sale of any financial stock until early 2009. Shortly before 3 p.m., and just in time for the pivotal last hour of trading, the Treasury let the media know it was considering an RTC-type bailout.
That was enough to set the shorts running to cover their positions and drive the Dow up more than 400 points.
Here is a mind-bending conspiracy theory: A conspiracy of the longs to drive out the conspiracy of the shorts. And both conspiracies are probably impossible to prove.
It does seem very likely that there has been some monkey business in the short-selling of financial stocks. The volatility in certain shares has been astounding. Lehman Brothers and American International Group disintegrated in a matter of days.
But as of Sept. 16, less than 3% of Morgan Stanley and Goldman shares were sold short. Is it heavy short selling or just panic selling that is driving the shares down? Or just the two feeding off each other?
It will be interesting to see what Cuomo's investigations turn up. He probably will find something. A rumor here or there. Piling on by hedge funds in momentum trades. Perhaps a trade in the credit-default-swap market that produced a panic effect in the shares.
Whether any of what he finds is illegal is another matter.
It is, of course, delicious irony that the broker-dealers may be the victims of abusive short-selling. They founded the hedge-fund revolution by arming ex-traders of theirs to the teeth with capital, leverage and trading technology.
But when the children of the revolution turned on the founders, the founders ran to Washington for protection. The brokerage industry fought regulation at every turn, pleaded for regulators to leave the hedge funds alone and asked for the removal the uptick rule. Leave us free to trade, they demanded.
Nowadays, the freedom of the markets isn't so attractive. It's scary. And when people are scared, you always get a conspiracy.
So good luck to Cox and Cuomo as they set off to find and punish the guilty short-sellers. It may be a long and fruitless journey.
But it could still be a success. Like all witch hunts, it is really a convenient distraction. The real mission of the short-seller conspiracy is to buy time for Wall Street and Washington to line up taxpayer money to pay for the sins of the past.


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The media has jumped on unsubstantiated allegations against Herman Cain. Yet in 2008 there were rumors about Obama. Larry Sinclair claims he performed oral sex on Obama in the back of his limo. Rumors are also circulating that Kal Penn (Kumar) and Obama were once an item. It explains his brief stint at the White House. The media has ignored these allegations.
Last week, the agenda-driven, drive-by media trashed Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain with unsubstantiated and poorly sourced sexual innuendo.
This week, let's all talk about Democrat President Barack Obama being gay, him sexually harassing male actor Kal Penn, and his frequenting of Chicago gay bathhouse "Man's Country" — using the Left's established precedent for journalistic integrity when it comes to rumor and gossip.
During the 2008 election, I campaigned for Hillary Clinton in the Democrat primaries. Repeatedly, I heard over and over here in Chicago that Barack Obama is gay and that his marriage to Michelle is one of mutual convenience. In the black community, this is called "being on the down-low", where a closeted gay male weds an often-times gruff and demanding woman (typically without other male suitors of her own) to take public scrutiny off them both and afford the pair a successful life they'd never achieve separately.
There are, apparently, a lot of such relationships forged at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago — where Barack Obama's pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, oversaw the coupling of down-low gay black men with sour and caustic black women.
This jives with everything Larry Sinclair said about his own sexual encounter with Barack Obama in the back of a limo many years ago. You remember Larry Sinclair, right? He's the man the agenda-driven media worked overtime to destroy and did its level best to silence because he posed a direct threat to the narrative the Left needed to push for Barack Obama to elect him president — and needless to say, that narrative didn't include Barack Obama receiving oral sex from another man in the back of a limo in Chicago.
So, why can't we all talk about Barack Obama dating Hollywood actor Kal Penn during the 2008 presidential campaign, and Obama then inventing a strange, nebulous position for the actor in the early days of the Obama administration (just so Penn could abruptly leave his hit TV show and move to Washington to be close to Obama?). Apparently, since Penn then left the White House abruptly after just a few months of work (in a position that was created solely for him) the current President and his down-low boyfriend must have broken up.
Did Barack Obama sexually harass his subordinate, Kal Penn, in the brief time he worked in the Obama White House?
You can speculate about what went wrong between these lovebirds while you're watching the new Harold & Kumar movie or eating at White Castle. Because, let's face it, if there was an (R) after Barack Obama's name this whole affair with Penn would have been nonstop "news" since 2009…instead of the pervasive sound of chirping crickets we got because Barack Obama's a (D) — which stands for "down-low", don't you know.
Read the rest: Why won't the agenda-driven media report on Barack Obama being gay, sexually harassing male actor Kal Penn, and frequenting Chicago bathhouse Man's Country
Personally, I could care less about Obama's personal life. What irks me is the the way the media dismisses allegations and rumors about Obama but promotes those about Herman Cain.
The Progressives' hypocrisy is a sick cancer on this nation.
(Hat Tip: Bumr50)
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A unified visa for the six member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) could become a reality in mid-2014, security sources have said.
'The plan to have a GCC tourism visa, similar to the Schengen visa in Europe, is about to be implemented after obstacles have been cleared,' the sources told Kuwaiti daily Al Rai on Sunday, reports gulfnews.com.
Under the visa, Arab and foreign tourists could visit the GCC countries.
The single-entry visa should be valid for one month, but multiple-entry visas could be issued for one year, the sources said, reports gulfnews.com.
Conditions for obtaining the GCC visa include presenting evidence of sufficient financial resources.
'There are some technical issues that are being addressed now and the GCC visa could be issued in mid-2014,' the sources that the newspaper did not name said.
Foreigners who are not allowed to enter a GCC country for legal reasons and those who had been deported will not be issued the unified visa.


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"I take a thought, a story, a theory and turn it into a reality with beautiful locations, clothes, movement. I'm in search of intelligence and beauty when I create my work." London-based photographer Diana Patient has worked for the press, photographed ballet dancers and fashion spreads, but she is best known for her dreamy, romantic portraits and self-portraits. We had a chat with her about self-portraits, selfies and smizing.
What is the role of the artistic self-portrait in the age of the selfie?
The artistic self-portrait is just that: artistic and informed by art that has come before it and carries on the conversation that Rembrandt through to Cindy Sherman have left behind for us. By representing themselves they have challenged the role of the artist and subject. The selfie is very much about status. It is self-branding and the artistic self-portrait is self-expression. My self-portraits are not so much representative of me but rather I am a vehicle used to explore and challenge the role of the photographer and the model in fashion photography.
Portraiture is your field of choice: what drove you to it rather than to other forms of photography?
I love faces and the slight changes in people's expressions could occupy me and my camera for hours on end. I'm also interested in people's identities and who we can be. I think self is something fluid and even more so when a camera is put in front of us. It justifies so many seemingly crazy actions we may want to perform. It liberates.
Some cultures believe photography steals your soul. While it's true that a good picture will make a person's soul very visible, do you need to go there to have a good portrait?
I find portrait sessions very emotionally involving. I confront or embrace people's insecurities and dreams and we work together to reach a shared vision. There is always a certain amount of engagement with someone's soul for a portrait. I don't believe anyone can steal it but with more candid photographing you define someone's soul for them sometimes without their knowledge. You capture your impression of them and say something about them without them knowing. That moment is immortalised and the choice that we usually have to define ourselves is taken away for that photograph.
What is your concept of human beauty?
Beauty is very hard to pin down. As soon as you verbalise what you find beautiful it is easy to quibble with that definition. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder. On human beauty, I don't think physical beauty should be limited and attributed to a few as it is, but then that is not my decision to make: we make that as a culture by our compliments, by our choice of heroes or heroines. I find many things beautiful and am constantly and quickly making decisions for photographs on what I think is beautiful - a thought shining in the eyes, a line of the neck, a crook of a smile - but beauty is something to chase and never to catch. After a session my subjects will often look at their photographs and see another way that they can be beautiful, see their beauty through my lens.
What is the role of fashion in your art?
Fashion allows us to express new sides of ourselves. I wake up everyday and want to explore a new character with my clothes. I love fashion. Who can we be? Is a question I ask a lot and our choice of clothes expresses this. The clothes or lack of them in my photographs tell stories about the subject and create the lines and composition of a shot.
Fashion photography is under fire for its excessive use of Photoshop. What is your take on it?
We have a duty to use Photoshop responsibly. I don't think people should use it out of fear; the fear that the user's figure isn't thin enough or doesn't have "perfect skin" but rather to add artistic value or express a vision. There are two types of photographs: one that sells a dream and others that show someone's soul and they can not represent a collective vision.
Do you have a favourite model or somebody (beside yourself) that you've photographed multiple times?
I only used to photograph and paint my sister when I was younger and there is something about knowing one person incredibly well. Now I often work with people I know and I like the concept of muses. I am always excited to meet new people and it is something about the way they move and and if they are unaffected that I pick up on and then they become a muse.
Is there anyone you'd like to shoot but haven't had the chance yet?
I'd love to photograph Ian Mckellen or Lana Del Rey or a Russian lady on the Orient Express. I've always had a dream to create a photo essay about a journey on the Orient Express. I have a picture of a lady in a carriage, sitting so still but moving so fast, she is wearing furs as it is cold outside and I think she is Russian. I'm waiting to take that photograph.
Can you smize?
Yes. I much prefer to smile with my eyes even away from the camera.


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Yes, several months later we're still talking about Missoni for Target, but here's the thing - we were a teensy bit disappointed with the footwear offerings from that much sought-after and elbow-jabbed-for collection. So we're definitely not blaming these Qupid Enclose 45 Orange Print Color Block Platform Heels ($36) for totally ripping on the same color scheme. Plus, we're into the faux-leather peep toe on these clunky cool heels; it's very seventies, and totally vegan to boot!
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LOS ANGELES – The 20th-ranked Arizona State women's gymnastics team heads to Los Angeles for its second road meet of the year as the Sun Devils (5-2, 2-1 Pac-12) take on the No. 9 UCLA Bruins (2-2, 2-1 Pac-12) Saturday, Feb. 8 at 1:30 p.m. MT/12:30 p.m. PT on the Pac-12 Network.
The Gym Devils have already proven to be a formidable opponent on the road, upsetting Washington in Seattle and recording a sizable away score of 195.900 that will help the team's RQS standing further along in the season. The NCAA uses a gymnastics team's RQS score to determine NCAA postseason standing.
The Gym Devils also had one of their best meets, individually, on the road at Washington. Sophomores Allie Salas and Risa Perez set career high marks of 9.875 on vault and floor, respectively, in Seattle.
ASU is off to its best start in eight years, recording a season-high score of 196.000 at home against Cal. The Sun Devil's score of 196.000 was the highest score awarded in January since the 2006 season.
With its best team ranking since 2010, No. 20 Arizona State is ranked in the top-25 nationally in three of the four events. The Sun Devils are ranked 16th on vault, 20th on the uneven bars and 22nd on floor.
The fourth-ranked Bruins are coming off of a 196.575-195.550 victory over Cal on the road, for which freshman Hallie Mossett won Pac-12 Freshman of the Week honors. UCLA is known for its strength on floor and is ranked fourth in the nation on the event.
The Pac-12 is the strongest conference in the nation with all eight gymnastics teams ranked in the top-25: No. 4 Utah, No. 9 UCLA, No. 12 Stanford, No. 13 Arizona, No. 16 Oregon State, No. 20 ARIZONA STATE, No. 22 California and No. 24 Washington.
Jim Watson and Olympic Gold Medalist and Arizona State graduate Amanda Borden will broadcast the meet on the Pac-12 Network.


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College Hockey:Yingling's Late Goal Sends Lebanon Valley to NCAAs
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BOSTON — Brian Yingling scored the game-winning goal and added two assists as Lebanon Valley won its first ECAC Northeast Conference title and an NCAA tournament bid with a 4-3 win over defending-league champion Wentworth at Northeastern's Matthews Arena on Saturday.
Yingling broke a 3-3 tie at 4:23 of the third period to give Lebanon Valley the lead. The Steeton, Pennsylvania sophomore was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player.
Junior Kevin Block made 27 saves for Lebanon Valley to improve his record to 9-5-1.
No. 4-seeded Lebanon Valley, went through the fifth, third and second seed in the tournament, after top-seeded Tufts was upset in the opening round by Salve Regina.
The Flying Dutchmen jumped out to a 3-0 lead midway in the first period, getting the first goal from rookie Anthony Pace just 3:30 into the contest. Two minutes later, Lebanon Valley made it 2-0 on junior Dan Fox's tally. Junior Greg Kutchma scored his sixth power-play goal of the year midway through the first to open up the three-goal lead.
Wentworth (18-8-2) scored three unanswered goals to tie the game. Sophomore Tom Milward scored for the Leopards at 15:38 to cut the lead to 3-1 at the first break. Less than five minutes into the second period, freshman Michael Nicoletta broke through the Dutchmen's defense to add the Leopards' second goal.
Junior Tim Yakimowsky, Wentworth's leading scorer, tied the game at three with a power-play goal 11:20 into the second period.
Wentworth's sophomore goaltender Jamie Vanek stopped all 15 Dutchmen shots on goal in the second, and made 27 saves in the contest.
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The Full-Frame DSLR Class of '08: Still Waiting to Graduate
If there was a vintage year for full-frame digital SLRs, 2008 would have been it.
With four major DSLRs with full-frame sensors (imaging chips that are about the same size as a piece of 35mm film) flooding the market — the Canon 5D Mark II, Nikon D700, Sony A900, and Nikon D3x — and two other full-frame carryovers from late 2007 — Canon 1Ds Mark III, Nikon D3 — 2008 was a banner year for "flagship" pro cameras.
If only every year was like 2008.
Three years on, at the time of this writing, only the Nikon D3 has been replaced with the slightly enhanced D3s. (HD video anyone?) It's also worth noting that we haven't seen any full-frame DSLRs released in nearly two years.
So what gives? A combination of factors, of course. For one, there's this lingering, lousy economy, which has put many pricey products on hold.
Secondly, there was the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March, causing a wave of residual global camera shortages.
And thirdly, the meager yield that comes from producing full-frame CMOS sensors, makes them cost prohibitive for manufacturers, especially during Recession-like economic conditions.
Many had hoped that this August — traditionally a busy month for camera introductions — would yield some follow-ups to 2008's bumper crop of full-framers. Not so. So far, we've only seen some compact cameras from Canon, some other compact cameras from Nikon, and some very interesting, but non-full-frame DSLRs from Sony.
Of course, there's still lots of time left in 2011 and while and there was no PMA show this year and no photokina in Germany, PhotoPlus Expo (sponsored by PDN) in New York City is right around the corner. So stay tuned.
How do you feel about the lack of new pro DSLR introductions in recent years? Frustrated that there hasn't been a Canon 5D Mark III yet? Or are you happy with the camera you've got and thankful not to be tempted with the latest camera bling?


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Pole Dancing Lessons in Saudi Arabia
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A Pole Dancing instructor travelled to SA and gave private lessons to a Saudi wife, so she can learn how to pole dance for her husband [link].
Misch taught Qahtani – who is, unusually, the sole wife to her husband Mohammed – intensively for two hours each day, six days a week, teaching her to climb the pole, do the splits upside down and create a fluid routine.
The two trained in Lycra gym kit – a stark contrast from the abaya Saudi women wear in public.
As a stunt, Misch and her host took photos of themselves performing a pole dance wearing the abaya, Saudi Arabia's traditional dress.
'Qahtani wanted to make a point,' says Misch. 'But it angered a lot of people who thought the photos were insulting.'
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eGestalt Presents At RSA 2013 (Booth No. 3106), Where The World Talks Security
(http://www.eGestalt.com), a provider of IT security monitoring and compliance management for Small and medium businesses and enterprises, today announced its participation at the RSA 2013 Conference, in San Francisco between Feb 25 and Mar 1, 2013.
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eGestalt Technologies (http://www.eGestalt.com), a provider of IT security monitoring and compliance management for small and medium businesses and enterprises, today announced its participation at the RSA 2013 Conference, in San Francisco between Feb 25 and Mar 1, 2013. The RSA Conference will be hosting 371 sessions, 590 speakers, and 370 exhibitors.
eGestalt's flagship product Aegify, a world's first, Cloud-based SaaS delivered, completely integrated and unified IT-GRC and Security Posture Management (SPM) solution, will be showcased at the RSA 2013 Conference. Aegify has won many leading industry awards over the last 3 years since launch for its innovation through end-to-automation, cost-effectiveness and ease of deployment. Aegify is a powerful and unique combination of security posture management and compliance management capabilities, supporting multiple compliance frameworks such as PCI, HIPAA, FISMA, SOX, etc., making security and compliance management and assessments easy, cost-effective and powerful.
"We look forward to meeting with our existing and new potential customers at the RSA conference. There has been a lot of excitement about Aegify and rapid customer adoption and we look forward to sharing some exciting news at the conference. Aegify's uniqueness comes from a complete integration of eGestalt's HIPAA and PCI compliance tool SecureGRC, with security posture management capability using an innovative, patent-pending expert systems technology to automatically map the security vulnerabilities to compliance mandates", says eGestalt President Anupam Sahai. "The solution can import data from other industry standard vulnerability scanners in the industry as well."
Security Posture Management (SPM) is the art and science of monitoring and managing business security status by orchestrating process, people, and technological resources to achieve security objectives. This involves identifying business critical IT assets, evaluating their risks based on vulnerabilities and the impact of potential threats, and mapping results directly to controls to initiate appropriate countermeasures.
Aegify SPM is powered by Rapid7's Nexpose vulnerability management technology, which scans physical and virtual networks, databases, operating systems and web applications, enabling customers to remediate vulnerabilities and misconfigurations and to enforce policies. Rapid7 (http://www.rapid7.com) is a leading provider of IT security risk management solutions used by more than 2,000 enterprises and government agencies in more than 65 countries.
As a cloud based service, Aegify's SPM addresses threat management, asset discovery, vulnerability analysis, risk profiling, threat impact analysis and compliance mapping. It performs over 92,000 checks for more than 31,800 vulnerabilities across physical and virtual networks, operating systems, databases, and Web applications.
eGestalt's flagship product Aegify SecureGRC, a unified security and compliance management tool that includes all of the necessary security and IT-GRC functionality required to gain control and improve compliance levels across more than 400+ regulations.
Based on a framework approach, it becomes very simple to plug-in any regulation or standard and supports the most stringent and popular regulations including PCI, HIPAA/HITECH, SOX, FISMA, and GLBA, or any country-specific regulations. It provides automated mapping of a network's security posture to compliance controls.
All told, the integrated Security Posture Management solution Aegify offers a single approach to security and compliance management, and because it is delivered as SaaS, it is available at low cost due to its "pay –as-your-grow" model.
The top management team of eGestalt will be at the conference and available in Booth no. 3106. The Registration code FXE13PHSH can be used to get complimentary entrance into the Expo.
A Community Edition for diagnostics is available as a free download at http://www.egestalt.com/. For further details please call (408) 689-2586 or email sales(at)egestalt(dot)com.


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Jan. 11 - Health Clinic
On Friday, we started out at a school for upper-middle class students. The kids were so well behaved! Many of us got to talk to some of them, which was fun. We ate sandwiches on the bus on our way to a church in a poor area. We did another health clinic there with at least twice as many people attending than we had expected. We had problems with the language barrier and felt like we couldn't do as much for them as we would have liked. At the same time, it was nice to know that we were able to be the hands of God and give the people supplies they cannot always afford, like soap and toothbrushes.
We ask that you continue to pray for us. We have another clinic to run today and will go to Rio Bamba tomorrow, which is a very poor area of Ecuador, about 3-4 hours south of Quito.


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April 20, 2012
Lanie Lane To Support Jack White In Australia
It doesn't get much better than this – Lanie Lane will be joining Jack White for his solo shows in Melbourne and Sydney this July. Lanie, who has had a tremendous year and is selling out her own shows across the country, will also be playing at Splendour In The Grass along with our favourite new friends, The Rubens.
The Jack White tour promises to be pretty special indeed, and we're secretly hoping Mr White sees fit to join Lanie for a rendition of the tracks he produced for her and released on his Third Man Records label – 'Ain't Hungry' and 'My Man'. Imagine that? So many dreams coming true. Dates and ticketing details below.
Frontier Members pre-sale via www.frontiertouring.com/jackwhite
From 12noon AEST, Thursday 26 April – 12noon AEST, Friday 27 April
General public on sale from 9am local time, Tuesday 1 May
Wed 25 July Festival Hall, Melbourne, VIC
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In 2013, the AFC West had three teams make the postseason. Not only did these teams flourish throughout the season, a major factor for the winning was due to the quarterback play. Led by Peyton Manning, Alex Smith, and Philip Rivers, the AFC West should be highly contested once again.
Ben Roethlisberger has the AFC North under wraps.
Peyton Manning dominated the regular season and breezed to the AFC West title. Believe it or not, Manning's completion percentage was slightly lower than in 2012, but his touchdown production was astronomical.
Johnny Manziel gets more publicity than Super Bowl winners.
Peyton Manning finished with 55 touchdown passes on 68.3% passing, while only throwing 10 interceptions. There were a few changes in the Broncos' receiving corps, but expectations are as high as ever for Denver. The Broncos will still be one of the most explosive offenses in 2014. That's a guarantee.
Tom Brady has the Patriots ready for another Super Bowl run.
Alex Smith helped change the culture in Kansas City for one season. In 15 games, Smith finished with a (11-4) record and a wild card berth. Although Smith is thought of as a game manager, he finished with 23 touchdowns and seven interceptions. Those were the most touchdown passes in his career.
Jameis Winston wants to be the next Peyton Manning.
Since 2006, Philip Rivers hasn't missed a start, yet, in 2013, Rivers was playing the best football of his career. Although San Diego only finished at (9-7) Philip Rivers willed his team to the postseason down the stretch. If Rivers can improve off of his 32 touchdowns and 13 interceptions, the Chargers should be right in the thick of another playoff run.
There's one newcomer to the AFC West and that's Oakland's off season acquisition, Matt Schaub. The former Houston Texans' quarterback lost games, his confidence, and his job in a disappointing 2013 season. If he's able to have a resurgence, the Raiders could be a sleeper for a playoff spot.
If Schaub is not capable of reverting back to his prior form, Derek Carr is one of the rookies waiting to take his spot.
Here are the AFC West quarterback rankings.
4. Matt Schaub- Oakland Raiders
Matt Schaub couldn't get out of town fast enough after the disastrous season with the Houston Texans. Luckily, he's able to find a fresh start with the Oakland Raiders in 2014. If Schaub is unable to make plays early in the season, Derek Carr will be waiting anxiously in the wings for his time to shine.
3. Alex Smith- Kansas City Chiefs
A season ago, Alex Smith was the newcomer to the AFC West. With his steady play early on, Kansas City breezed through the first half of the schedule. They faltered down the stretch and in the playoff loss to Indianapolis, but Alex Smith found his stride under Andy Reid.
2. Philip Rivers- San Diego Chargers
Philip Rivers led a scrappy bunch of Chargers into the final Wild Card spot last season. Once again, a lot is expected of San Diego during the regular season. Philip Rivers played some of his best ball in his career in 2013. The San Diego Chargers are a dark horse for a Super Bowl appearance.
1. Peyton Manning- Denver Broncos
Peyton Manning was breaking all types of records, while demolishing opposing defenses. Denver got all the way to the Super Bowl before playing their worst game of the season. Now Peyton Manning is back with more vengeance on his mind. Could he follow in John Elway's footsteps and win a Super Bowl before riding off into the sunset?


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WILMINGTON, Del. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Children with neuromuscular diseases, like muscular dystrophy, have a hard time moving their arms and doing basic things like eating, playing, or hugging their loved ones. Now, a new 3D printed exoskeleton is helping these kids move in ways they never thought possible.
During her fifth month of pregnancy, Jennifer Mohn was told to prepare for the worst for her unborn daughter.
"They told us to make arrangements for her," Jennifer Mohn, Hannah's mom, told Ivanhoe.
Baby Hannah Faith survived, but was born with a list of health conditions, including arthrogryposis, a disease that affects muscle strength.
"She was just really unable to move," Jennifer said.
Four years later she's making great strides, thanks in part to 3-d printed arms known as the Wilmington Robotic Exoskeleton, or WREX.
Each WREX is constructed of lightweight plastic and rubber bands and can be custom made overnight with the use of a 3D printer.
"If you do the geometry right and you put the bands in the correct place, you can get this floating sensation for a kid," Tariq Rahman, PhD, Senior Research Engineer, Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, told Ivanhoe.
It's allowing kids like Hannah the ability to move their arms and even flick a rubber band.
"To see her have the ability to reach her arms out, to reach out and grab something is just a really amazing feeling for a mom," Jennifer explained.
Since a 3D printer is used, the customized exoskeletons can easily be made to grow with the child.
The WREX can also be used by children with other neuromuscular diseases or by adults with stroke and spinal cord injury. MORE.
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Hey there. My name is Cindy Wright. I'm the owner of Pattern Patti Sewing Patterns and I'm so pleased to have the opportunity to participate in the 12 days of Ruby Star FQ challenge. I've had such fun coming up with a great way to use Melody Miller's fabulous fabric. This is what I've got for you.
All-Star Stockings in two sizes
The All-Star is a tube sock style stocking designed for the athlete or anyone who grew up in the 70's or 80's and wore tube socks with everything, like matching shorts or a bathing suit, perhaps. I have at least two acquaintances who match that description. I'm sure you do too. There's no better fabric for such a project than Melody's Ruby Star Rising. Very cool stuff!
Well, let's get started. By the way, all seam allowances are ¼" and are included in the pattern pieces.
Materials needed:
Small amounts of fabric and fusible web, also called wonder under, for applying the applique.
Print your pattern pages (found here) and cut out the patterns that you choose to use.
Using the patterns, cut out the fabric and fusible web. Cut 2 pieces of fabric for the exterior and 2 pieces of fabric for the liner. Follow the instructions on the applique pattern pieces for cutting the fabric and fusible web. Make sure you cut the fusible web so that the glue side is the right side. You'll also need to cut a loop piece: 2"x5" for the small pattern and 3"x5" for the larger pattern.
Press your applique pieces to the fusible web. Once they have cooled to the touch, peel the paper from the back and arrange your applique pieces on the stocking the way you like. Press the pieces to the stocking.
Note: For my example today, I've only cut enough applique pieces for one side of the stocking. The instructions printed on the applique pieces tell you to cut enough for both sides of the stocking.
Use your favorite stitch and sew the applique pieces to your stocking. A straight stitch would work. A zig-zag stitch would be nice. I like the blanket stitch. It makes the applique pop.
Next, we need to make the loop. Take your loop piece to your ironing board. We're going to fold this like a bias binding. Fold the loop in half lengthwise, wrong sides together. Open to show the center fold line. Fold the bottom of the loop toward the center, matching the raw edge to the center fold line. Fold the top of the loop toward the center, matching the raw edge to the center fold line. Fold both halves together. Your loop piece is ready for stitching.
Using a 1/8" seam allowance, stitch along both long edges of the loop. This will keep it closed and make it pretty.
Now we're ready to construct the stocking. Place your stocking exterior pieces together and liner pieces together, right sides together. Stitch around the perimeter of the stocking exterior, using a ¼" seam allowance. Be sure to leave the top open. Repeat with the liner, only this time, you're also going to leave an opening on the back side that is about 2" long. After stitching together, clip the inside curve of the foot close to the stitches a few times and trim the toe and heel seam allowance to about 1/8". Do this for the exterior and the liner. This allows for nice, smooth curves.
Turn your liner right side out. Slide the liner into the exterior piece so that right sides are together.
Make your loop piece into a loop by folding it. We'll put it in place by sliding it between the exterior and the liner, folded end down, matching the raw edges of the loop and the liner/exterior. I placed mine on the back of the stocking, next to the back seam. Pin the loop in place.
Sew your liner and exterior together by stitching around the opening.
Pull your stocking liner out. Then, pull the exterior through the opening in the liner. Push out the toe and heel and make sure all of your curves are neat.
Fold the raw edges of the opening of the liner in and press them. Stitch the opening closed by hand for the neatest seam, or by machine for the lazy girl. That's me.
Push the liner into the exterior. Press the stocking very neatly, especially the opening. Topstitch around the opening to finish it up.
Yay! You're finished. These stockings will be great for small gifts like gift cards, iPods, candy and other yummy goodies.
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Consider two random variables $X$ and $Y$ with joint distribution $F_{X,Y}$ and strictly positive density function $f_{X,Y}$. Additionally, let $x^*$ be the value of $x$ that solves: $$ \Pr[Y\leq y\mid X=x^*]=1-k $$ for some constant $k \in [0,1]$.
I would like to know the minimum conditions I should impose on $F$ in order to ensure that $$\frac{\partial x^*}{\partial k}\geq 0$$
It seems quite intuitive that $COV[X,Y]>0$ would do the job, but this is not the case. I found in the literature that Affiliation* or Decreasing Inverse Hazard Rate** are sufficient, but I would like to know if there are weaker conditions.
*The pdf $f$ is affiliated if $x \leq x'$ and $y \leq y'$ imply $f(x, y')f(x',y)\leq f(x', y')f(x,y)$
** $Y$ is Inverse Hazard Rate Decreasing in $X$ if $\frac{F(y|x)}{f(y|x)}$ is non-increasing in $x$ for all $y$ (where $f(y|x)$ denotes the pdf of $Y$ conditional on $X=x$).
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The event, similar to College of Marin outreach events held last year in Marin City, is an opportunity for the college to more effectively serve all of Marin's diverse communities.
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Harden hit two free throws late as Spain closed the gap to six with under a minute to play for the 107-100 win.
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I carried at my dad's funeral, so did my mom.
I am a pastor in Western Kentucky and from time to time I am asked to conduct funeral services. I always carry when I do, whether in church or a funeral home. I also carry while I am preaching. I carry a Glock 30sf in a Crossbreed holster. When I see someone is going to hug or embrace I drop my arm in such a way that they must embrace above the gun. I have only had two people to ever touch the gun. Only one knew what it was and commented they liked it. Carry whenever and wherever you can.
Concealed is concealed. If you're not breaking any laws than why not?
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Heck...were do you think Zombies come from??? Duh.
Funny that you posted this today. I attended an unvailing. (Showing of the stone a year after a passing of a person of jewish faith). I was carry. My great aunt would want to know that the family was protected if something was going to happen.
Is it just me or does anyone else feel like they are on another planet after reading the initial post?
It's not like there hasn't been shootouts at funerals in the past.
If the funeral you're attending happens to be next to a funeral going on at the same time for some gangbanger that got shot up, I would sure hate to be in the middle of the crossfire of a rival gang shooting up the place for more victims of the opposing gang.
Now where I live, that's not going to happen. But it has happened before in areas which are plagued by gang warfare.
For what it's worth, my wife and I both have carried at several funerals. Most recently, my mother-in-law's funeral. Oh, and no one knew.
It's amazing how no one ever knows unless you decide to announce it to everyone. Or can't figure out how to keep your gun put away.
I suppose for many, carrying a gun is some big major event like the day they got married or something. For me, it's just another day. Getting up and putting on a gun is no more eventful than putting on a pair of socks in the morning.
I do however, go through a mental check before I leave the house. I do make sure I have my head in the game, and ensure that I am aware I am carrying a gun, and other tools and that I'm not complacent. My concern is geared more to realities of living in a dangerous world and not so much geared towards, "OMG, I have a GUN, is it okay if I carry such a thing? What will people think?"
People get emotional at funerals and many drink a lot. So it is best to have a gun in case you need to defend yourself.
Is a person any less likely to experience crime merely because the destination happens to be a gathering of many people who are seriously focused on what they're doing (and away from potential threats) at the time? What is it about going to/from that spot, or that spot particularly, that's so much safer?
IMO, "proper" is one of those things that gets people into sticky situations in the first place. Many feel safer at home, as if $10 in woodwork or 1/16" glass can keep invaders out; or, a quick trip to the corner store, lulled by the short duration within the neighborhood. "Proper" is a luxury for those who have nothing to lose, in this regard. And those waggling their fingers at you have little to lose by doing so. You do, potentially, if you acquiesce.
The first funeral I went to after I started carrying, I couln't help but think about Night of the Living Dead. I texted my best friend and asked if it meant that I was a terrible person that I kept picturing zombies coming down the hill. His response was "probably, but that's hillarious. We'll pray for your soul."
Grandma would have wanted someone to be able to protect the family.
If it's legal, carry.
I come with a gun. It goes everywhere it can legally go with me. At a funeral I also come to honor the deceased and support the living. What's the problem?


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