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March 6, 2013 —
With spring around the corner, migrant birds of all types are preparing to make their move north. Eagles that are over-wintering in our area are returning to their Canadian breeding grounds, and the first returning turkey vultures should be arriving in our region right around the start of March. A few raptors suffered various mishaps during fall and winter, however, and they spent the winter healing up at the avian equivalent of a hospital.
Bill Streeter, director of the Delaware Valley Raptor Center, contacted me early in the week to ask if I wanted to accompany him and assist in releasing a trio of rehabilitated raptors back into the wild. Bill said it would be a long ride, as each bird had to be released where it was found; a bird released into unfamiliar territory would incur undue stress and compromise its chance of survival.
Bill explained that the center had an influx of injured hawks and owls over the fall and winter, and rather than release them in the middle of winter, he would rather wait a few weeks until the weather broke; rehabilitated raptors stand a better chance of surviving and re-acclimating themselves in the wild than if they were released in the middle of a harsh winter. Also, some raptors are migrants and would not cope well in the wild here in our harsh winter climate.
Some four hours later, all three birds were released and all the releases went well; the trip encompassed three counties in two states. The species list consisted of a Cooper's hawk, a barred owl and an eastern screech-owl. Thanks to the citizens or conservation officers who called or rescued these birds, and to the dedicated staff at the Delaware Valley Raptor Center, all of these birds have a second chance in living out their life free in the wild.
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Jude Law has a model girlfriend
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Jude Law and model Alicia Rountree were supposedly dating last year. They were seen travelling together – click here for a refresher. And then nothing. Then there were rumours of him hooking up with other people. Yesterday he turned up in New York, got out of a cab, and Alicia was with him. Full Story
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Remember when Jude Law got caught f-cking with his nanny Daisy while engaged to Sienna Miller? And then Sienna got back at him by f-cking Daniel Craig? Well we're reliving it now because Jude testified at that never-ending phone hacking trial in London where it was revealed that Sienna and Daniel (who starred in Layer Cake together – their chemistry was HOT) were actually carrying on for a while and she'd call Daniel while was with Jude and leave him messages like, "I can't talk. Full Story
Jude Law: no more Alfie
It's been 10 years since Jude Law played Alfie. God he was SO f-cking hot in Alfie, do you remember? Sienna Miller was also ridiculously hot in Alfie. They were ridiculously hot together. It's been a long time since I've been attracted to Jude Law. And then I saw these pictures of him leaving the Noel Coward Theatre in London last night after performing in Henry V and …there was a twinge. Full Story
Jude Law's genes
Jude Law produced his own clone. It's CRAZY. In 2011, I posted these photos of Jude with his son Rafferty, then 14. Even then it was freaking me out how the same they looked. Two years later, Rafferty – they call him Raffi – is now modelling. Full Story
Jude in the Royal Box
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It's men's semi-final day at Wimbledon. I've got one eye on the Djokovic-Del Potro match right now. It's a good one. After they're done, Andy Murray takes centre court. With an entire country behind him, including Jude Law, who's watching from the Royal Box, not far from that bore Pippa Middleton. Full Story
Jake & Jude
God I love celebrity friendships. What are the connections? Why are they friends with some and not with others? At the heart of it, as with everything, it's all high school. And, well, because it's my default to bring everything back to my Gwyneth, the most popular girl at the best lunch tables, she's often tied to the best crews. Full Story
Lynne Ramsay & Jane Got A Gun
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To everyone who's asked "have you heard about Lynne Ramsay" in the last 24 hours, the answer is yes, I, like you, heard about her abrupt departure from Jane Got a Gun on Monday. I waited to write about it, though, because I was hoping we would hear FROM Ramsay, not just ABOUT her. Full Story
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John Edwards2 of 13
The intricacies of this politician's scandal are many, and the worst part of this whole thing was that he put his late wife Elizabeth, who was battling cancer, through so much. But being the strong woman she was, Elizabeth wrote candidly about the affair in her second memoir, Resilience. She'll always be remembered as a role model of class.
Shaq3 of 13
After nearly seven years of marriage, this sports legend's wife Shaunie filed for legal separation as 2009 was wrapping up. But the real story unfolded over the course of this year, including allegations that one of his mistresses, whom Shaq met when she was 14, was pregnant. We're just glad his wife got away when she did.
Matt Lauer4 of 13
This Today show anchor was accused of getting cozy with some other ladies during the Winter Olympics. He and his wife both deny the claims and remain a couple — we assume they are working through whatever transpired.
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Tiger Woods5 of 13
It goes almost without saying that this pro golfer takes the prize for worst celebrity cheater in 2010. There's no saving your marriage when prostitutes and "sexting" are involved. Speaking of … thank you, Tiger, for seeing to it that "sexting" is now a common verb.
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A close runner-up to Tiger is Sandra Bullock's ex, who ditched his Oscar-winning wife for some not-so-tasteful company. Good riddance: A man who can't handle having a successful, gorgeous woman by his side doesn't deserve one.
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The Bones star openly admitted his infidelity last March, saying his mistress was threatening to come forward. While his fear of being exposed on someone else's terms isn't exactly the best reason to come clean, we respect his honesty and the fact that he and his wife of nearly a decade are working on their marriage. We wish them luck.
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While his tales of sleeping with staffers came to light in late 2009, he opened up for the first time about his affairs in April 2010 to Regis and Kelly, calling his behavior reckless and stupid. When a man admits he's wrong and can have some self-awareness, we say he's forgivable.
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We were super sad when learning of the eco-friendly former vice president's split from wife Tipper. Of course, the rumor mill started churning out theories, one of which was that Al was having an affair with Larry David's ex-wife, Laurie. Seems as though there was no foul play involved, but the media wanted a reason for the divorce.
Sam Mendes10 of 13
This director's spilt from wife Kate Winslet was another 2010 surprise. While infidelity hasn't been confirmed, there were rumblings of Sam's "friendship" with a 27-year-old woman, which he refused to discontinue at Kate's request. If that was the case, we commend her for getting rid of him.
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Of course, we had to have one (hopefully) last celebrity cheater in 2010, and it came courtesy of this basketball star, who was apparently swapping texts, among other things, with a woman who was good friends with him and his soon-to-be-ex-wife Eva. This offense seems impossible to forgive and forget, and we're glad Eva didn't.


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United We Serve to Save Energy & the Earth!! I organized a home energy efficiency event in Battle Creek, Michigan. The overarching goal was to reach out to the Battle Creek community to help lower their energy costs and decrease carbon pollution emissions.
Volunteers from the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, the YMCA, and youth from the 21st Century after-school program gathered at the Battle Creek YMCA to kick off the President Obama's United We Serve initiative.
U.S. Secretary of Energy Dr. Steven Chu, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm and U.S. Rep. Mark Schauer joined us to create home energy efficiency kits. With over 150 community members onsite that day, I'd say we are off to a great start!
With the generous donation of home efficiency supplies from Meijer, Inc., volunteers helped the children assemble the efficiency kits. Each kit contained CFL light bulbs, air pressure gauges, power strips, and low-flow shower heads - simple items that you can pick up on the cheap, to save dollars for years to come. The kids learned how to spot inefficiencies in their homes, and received some tools to make their homes more green.
I used this service initiative to educate the community on the many ways we can cut back on our energy consumption. I've found that it's much more fun to get a whole community involved because an individual can change light bulbs to save some cash, but when a whole community comes together - that's when we can shift the nation to a more sustainable future.
Together through service we made Battle Creek a better place for future generations. This event highlighted how to build strong, healthy, and sustainable communities throughout the United States. I hope that you will find ways to cut back your community's energy consumption.


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#23573 - 03/19/01 10:08 AM values verification excercise
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(inspired by the 'handedness index' -- submitted without prejudice :)
How moral are you? What is your attitude to morals, sex and honesty?
A Sydney marriage expert who is a qualified psychologist wrote this personality test. It began as a dinner party conversation gimmick, but it has been prepared in this form for readers to test themselves.
To do the "test" you must give your honest opinion about morals and honesty of the four characters in our story of Sherwood Forest. Forget any preconceived ideas you may about them - this is a different sort of story from all the others.
"The Sheriff of Nottingham captured Little John and Robin Hood and imprisoned them in his maximum-security dungeon. Maid Marion begged the Sheriff for their release, pleading her love for Robin. The Sheriff agreed to release them only if Maid Marion spent the night with him. To this she agreed. The next morning the Sheriff released his prisoners.
Robin at once demanded that Marion tell him how she persuaded the Sheriff to let them go free. Marion confessed the truth, and was bewildered when Robin abused her, calling her a slut, and saying that he never wanted to see her again. At this Little John defended her, inviting her to leave Sherwood with him and promising life-long devotion. She accepted and they rode away together."
Now in terms of realistic every-day standards of behaviour, put Robin, Marion, Little John and the Sheriff in the order in which you consider they showed the most morality and honesty.
There is no "right" answer, and the following is the psychologist's estimate of you for each of the 24 arrangements.
#23574 - 03/19/01 10:17 AM Re: values verification excercise
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Posts: 107
This was a very neat test. I loved the outcome as much as trying to decide everyones place.
#23575 - 03/19/01 10:20 AM Re: values verification excercise
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Loc: London, UK
I scored Little John first, Robin and Marion equal second, and the Sherriff fourth. This did not appear to be catered for by the good professor's table. The two possibles (JRMS & JMRS) have rather different interpretations, so I'm not sure if either of them fits... (Maybe it's just that I've been hurt by a man? [trying to bat eyelashes and hide beard emoticon])
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#23576 - 03/19/01 10:32 AM Re: values verification excercise
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I scored Little John first
Don't tell Marian, you bitch! But do you not reckon LJ has betrayed his first oath to Robin - so what will his honeyed words to Marian mean in time...?
#23577 - 03/19/01 11:04 AM Re: values verification excercise
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Loc: rego park
I scored the Sheriff first-- i didn't really like his proposal-- but he made it, and honored it.
and put Robin last ... and as the test results say..(bold area a truism)
You claim to be a realist or even a cynic, but you are more emotional and romantic and truthful.
(Women) You have been hurt in the past by men, or perhaps a particular man - and will probably let it happen again_________________________
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#23578 - 03/19/01 11:14 AM Re: values verification excercise
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Loc: this too shall pass
>equal second... did not appear to be catered for by the good professor's table.
math(s) aside: if ties were figured in, how many p&c is that to account for?
#23579 - 03/19/01 11:18 AM Re: values verification excercise
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I put Marian first, because she was willing to suffer in a worthy cause.I put John second, because he did not compromise his principles in any way, and had compassion for Marian. I put Robin third because he was unwilling to accept Marian's sacrifice on his behalf and made her suffering worse by rejecting her. I put the Sheriff last for dishonoring his oath of office and using his power to violate Marian.
#23580 - 03/19/01 12:25 PM Re: values verification excercise
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My result: Maid (sacrificed for another), John (defended another), Sheriff (kept his bargain, although nothing in the circumstance suggests he could have been made to), and Robin (judgmental prig who hurt the one who sacrificed for him)
The test says:
You are essentially a contented person, even if you consider yourself a little superior. You are moral by your own standards, for you believe that morality is what best suits the occasion.
(Men) You are sexually uninhibited, more romantic than you may appear, and more dependent on the approval of others than you care to admit.
(Women) You like being a woman, you understand what love is, and frankly enjoy sex.
#23581 - 03/19/01 12:35 PM Re: values verification excercise
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Registered: 09/15/00
Posts: 4757
It doth appear you are a worthy judge;
You know the law; your exposition
Hath been most sound; I charge you by the law,
Wherof you are a well-deserving pillar,
Proceed to judgment.
#23582 - 03/19/01 12:38 PM Re: values verification excercise
Registered: 01/18/01
Posts: 428
Loc: Cape Cod, MA, US
I love the idea, and it was a fun exercise, but some of the estimates seem perhaps a bit too critical, and I sympathize with shanks -- I was torn between LJ-S-M-R and LJ-M-S-R.
Also, for those who felt Little John was not behaving morally, what do you base that on? If we are to disregard what we know of the story, John has no reason to be loyal to Robin. Is it the fact that he took advantage of Marian when she was "on the rebound"?
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(CHICAGO, May 31, 2006) The Illinois Early Learning Council
today released the "Preschool for All" report
upon which Governor Rod Blagojevich's "Preschool
for All" initiative is built. The report outlines
recommendations which served as the blueprint for Governor
Blagojevich's proposal. The Governor's preschool
expansion legislation passed the Illinois General Assembly
with strong bipartisan support.
Illinois is the first state in the nation to make all
3- and 4-year-olds eligible for state-funded preschool.
The FY07 budget includes a $45 million increase to reach
10,000 additional children, with continued aggressive
expansion planned over the next several years. When Preschool
for All is fully funded, 190,000 children will be served.
The Preschool for All report is the product of the Illinois
Early Learning Council, which was created in 2003 to make
recommendations to meet the early learning needs of all
children by establishing a high-quality, accessible and
comprehensive early learning system. The Council is co-chaired
by Elliot Regenstein, Director of Education Reform for
Governor Blagojevich, and Harriet Meyer, President of
the Ounce of Prevention Fund.
"Governor Blagojevich has been a champion of preschool
funding, and has made Illinois a national leader at preschool
expansion," said Regenstein. "The Preschool
for All report is truly the blueprint for that expansion,
and we are grateful to the many members of the Early Learning
Council whose hard work made this report possible. We
know that this report will not only guide the work of
thousands of dedicated educators here in Illinois, it
will also ensure that Illinois' preschool program will
continue to be a model for other states throughout the
"The Preschool for All report shows the thinking,
priorities and strategies that went into an initiative
that is getting national attention," said Meyer.
"We are building on what is right with our early
childhood system, including the two-year preschool program,
our emphasis on quality and a strong commitment to the
notion that learning begins at birth." Eleven percent
of Preschool for All funding is set aside for at risk
infants and toddlers.
For the first time, programs will be allowed to use state
dollars to serve kids who are not at risk. All programs
are encouraged to apply, and awards will be made depending
on available funding. Programs that serve primarily at-risk
children will be the first priority, but for the first
time those programs will be allowed to serve children
who are not at risk.
"Preschool for All will bring high-quality preschool
to thousands of children who otherwise would not have
received it," said Dr. Vinni Hall, a member of the
Illinois State Board of Education who serves on the Early
Learning Council. Preschool for All will be administered
by the Illinois State Board of Education, except in Chicago,
where the will Chicago Public Schools administer the program
using the same criteria.
More than 50 appointed Early Learning Council members
and more than 200 committee members took part in the process
that led to the Preschool for All report. Stakeholders
represented schools, the early childhood community, business,
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Busch avoids Hamlin-Logano wreck in Fontana finish
Rescue workers tend to the wreckage of the No. 11 FedEx Express Toyota driven by Denny Hamlin after he collided with Joey Logano on the final lap of the NASCAR Sprint Cup series auto race in Fontana, Calif., Sunday March 24, 2013. The pair had been battling for the lead the last three laps. The No. 18 car of Kyle Busch passes behind on its vicory lap. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
FONTANA, Calif. Kyle Busch earned his first victory at Fontana on Sunday after rivals Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano wrecked on the final lap in a thrilling NASCAR finish.
Hamlin and Logano made contact while they raced side-by-side in the final lap of their first race since the drivers confronted each other last week at Bristol. Logano hit the outside wall and Hamlin hit the inside wall, with Hamlin leaving the course in an ambulance.
Tony Stewart then confronted Logano after the race and shoved the younger driver before teammates pulled them apart. Logano blocked Stewart out of a late restart.
Busch led the most laps and took advantage of his remarkable stroke of luck to pick up Joe Gibbs Racings first victory at Fontana, the only track where the team had never won.
They forgot about me. I knew they were going to, Busch said. We had a good run on the top side, and they were messing with each other so bad that they took each other down. I was just hoping I could get by before they took me with him.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. finished second and took over the lead in the points standings despite falling from third to 22nd late in the race with a dismal pit stop. Kurt Busch came in third, with Carl Edwards fourth and Greg Biffle fifth in front of Logano.
Kyle Buschs victory was his 25th in NASCAR, completing a weekend sweep after his Nationwide Series victory Saturday. He ended a 31-race Cup winless streak since last April at Richmond.
Last week at Bristol, Hamlin spun Logano while Logano was racing Jeff Gordon for the late lead. Hamlin claimed Logano had cut him off three times earlier in the race, but Logano ran over to Hamlins car afterward and leaned in his window for an angry exchange before the teams pulled them apart.
Their final-lap theatrics at Fontana mostly appeared to be motivated by fierce racing for a win in a back-and-forth race on a wide two-mile track. Hamlins crash was more dramatic than Loganos contact with the wall, with Hamlins car going head-on into the inside wall.
Hamlin got himself out of the car, but then slumped to the ground beside it before medical help arrived. NASCAR didnt immediately have an update on his condition.
Reverse of last week, opposite of what he did last week, Logano said. So thats what he gets.
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POSSIBLE, a WPP Digital company, and Fox Digital Entertainment announced today the debut of DIE HARD, a new mobile game for the iOS and Android platforms, including Amazon's Kindle. Based upon Twentieth Century Fox's upcoming feature film, A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD, starring Bruce Willis and Jai Courtney, the game combines the best of the "endless runner" and "first-person shooter" genres into a thrilling, new format – the "endless shooter." The app retails for $0.99 on iOS and Amazon and is free on Android.
To create the app, Fox Digital Entertainment turned to POSSIBLE's Goroid, the app developer behind the successful TheEndApp, an endless runner that has hit the top 10 games list on both iOS and Android. With DIE HARD, the mission was to develop an app with the gameplay and attitude to match the groundbreaking nature of the DIE HARD franchise, its longtime hero John McClane and new protagonist Jack McClane. In a twist on the endless runner genre, where the player runs from danger, DIE HARD equips the player to face the action head on, running towards foes and confronting them from a first-person perspective.
"The DIE HARD franchise is one of the most recognizable entertainment properties in the world and we are honored to bring the latest installment to life in the form of the new DIE HARD app," said Andrew Solmssen, managing director, Los Angeles at POSSIBLE. "Our number one mandate in developing the app was to create an awesome standalone gaming experience."
Designed to thrill DIE HARD fans and gamers alike, the DIE HARD app incorporates characters, locations and weapons from A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD. Fox Digital Entertainment and POSSIBLE will support the game on an ongoing basis, providing updates, new missions and new in-game extras to keep fans coming back.
"We are pleased to partner with POSSIBLE to create the DIE HARD game," said Rick Phillips, Senior Vice President of Mobile at Fox Digital Entertainment. "Our goal is to create an innovative, stand-alone gaming experience that delivers the same visceral thrills as the film – and the DIE HARD game fulfills that promise."
- To download the game from iTunes, please visit: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/die-hard/id597413791?mt=8
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- DIE HARD will be available from the Amazon Appstore for Android in the next few days.
About Fox Digital Entertainment
Fox Digital Entertainment (FDE) is the Twentieth Century Fox division dedicated to fostering new and innovative mobile content and apps in emerging distribution channels. FDE develops and produces original videos, apps, and games based on new concepts and extensions of existing Fox brands. The group has produced a number of award-winning products, among them GLEE™ KARAOKE, ANGRY BIRDS™ RIO, ICE AGE VILLAGE, THE SIMPSONS™ TAPPED OUT and many others.
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POSSIBLE is a global agency that creates award-winning, digital experiences for the world's top brands. With a worldwide team composed of the industry's most talented and insightful strategists, creatives, technologists, inventors and dreamers, the firm combines global capability with refined, local expertise across five continents, including a leading position in the fast growing Brazil, Russia, India and China markets. POSSIBLE's work spans the universe of high impact digital experiences with an emphasis on driving measureable business results for the world's most dynamic brands.
POSSIBLE has 32 offices around the globe including New York, London, Shanghai, New Delhi, Los Angeles, Seattle, Singapore, São Paulo and Cincinnati. Part of WPP Digital, the firm's clients include AT&T, Barclays, BP, Canon, Comcast, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Procter & Gamble, Nokia, Microsoft, Mazda and Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide. For more information, please visit www.possible.com.
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Data is the fuel that drives the machine learning algorithmic engines and ultimately provides the business value. In his session at Cloud Expo, Ed Featherston, a director and senior enterprise architect at Collaborative Consulting, discussed the key considerations around quality, volume, timeliness, and pedigree that must be dealt with in order to properly fuel that engine.
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We are always online. We access our data, our finances, work, and various services on the Internet. But we live in a congested world of information in which the roads were built two decades ago. The quest for better, faster Internet routing has been around for a decade, but nobody solved this problem. We've seen band-aid approaches like CDNs that attack a niche's slice of static content part of the Internet, but that's it. It does not address the dynamic services-based Internet of today. It does...
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What happens when the different parts of a vehicle become smarter than the vehicle itself? As we move toward the era of smart everything, hundreds of entities in a vehicle that communicate with each other, the vehicle and external systems create a need for identity orchestration so that all entities work as a conglomerate. Much like an orchestra without a conductor, without the ability to secure, control, and connect the link between a vehicle's head unit, devices, and systems and to manage the ...
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Everyone knows that truly innovative companies learn as they go along, pushing boundaries in response to market changes and demands. What's more of a mystery is how to balance innovation on a fresh platform built from scratch with the legacy tech stack, product suite and customers that continue to serve as the business' foundation. In his General Session at 19th Cloud Expo, Michael Chambliss, Head of Engineering at ReadyTalk, discussed why and how ReadyTalk diverted from healthy revenue and mor...
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Date: Friday, April 25, 2014
Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Speakers: Museum staff
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College Night is an evening at the Museum just for college students. Meet the curators, attend tours and listen to gallery talks with exclusive behind-the-scenes information about your favorite paintings and sculptures. Learn about the 20-foot-tall Buddhist thangka in the special exhibition In the Land of Snow: Buddhist Art of the Himalayas. Get inspired by the photography exhibition Face It: The Photographic Portrait, and then channel that inspiration as you draw in the galleries and enjoy music, food and drinks with fellow art lovers in the Museum's sculpture garden.
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Written by Deadmeat on 18.03.2009 at 14:41
This is one of the best power metal albums ever released!!! Halloween is the only 10+ minutes song that I like (from all bands I ve heard)..!
Written by Metal Invader on 05.03.2011 at 18:54
Well im a bigger fan of keeper 2 then keeper 1..this album is great with some timeless songs!:)
Written by RavenKing on 05.03.2011 at 23:10
Written by Metal Invader on 05.03.2011 at 18:54
Well im a bigger fan of keeper 2 then keeper 1..this album is great with some timeless songs!:)
Opposite for me. I think a few unpleasant Flowermetal tendencies started to point their ugly head on Keeper 2 and it bringst it down a little bit for me.
Written by Angelic Storm on 06.03.2011 at 08:12
"Twilight Of The Gods" became a crowd favourite at live shows? :\ I don't think they've played that song live since 1987!
The album is great, the only problem with it, is it's very short. "Halloween" might just be the best song of Helloween's whole career, and the rest of the album is pretty awesome too. I think I prefer the 2nd album merely because it's longer, but the quality of the material is very similar. Besides, I've always seen the 2 albums as 1 (indeed, the band originally wanted to release the Keepers as a double album, but the record company objected), rather than 2 individual albums. Anyways, this album is a total classic, and was a huge influence on the power metal genre, maybe even more so, than their genre defining first EP and album. xD
Written by RavenKing on 06.03.2011 at 15:46There's not really a decrease in musical quality from part 1 to part 2. What I dislike on part 2, mostly, is silly lyrics start to make their apparition. I also think the sound is a bit 'plastic', less alive than part 1. A few vocal parts I dislike here and there too.
Written by Angelic Storm on 06.03.2011 at 16:42
I do think part 2 sounds a little bit less raw (and alive as you put it hehe) than part 1. It would have been better if part 2 had been recorded during the same sessions as part 1, like the band originally wanted to do.


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- Thrash metal pioneers Flotsam & Jetsam performing their best compositions live on this spectacularly vivid and digitally crisp DVD!
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Brujas del Sol, one of the band's hit by the weekend theft. Photo by Meghan Ralston
The city's music scene took a huge hit over the weekend when a Grandview Heights warehouse utilized as a rehearsal space by a number of local bands was burglarized.
On Saturday, Adrian Zambrano of Brujas del Sol posted details of the robbery to both the band's Facebook site and Reddit, writing, "Our rehearsal space was broken into [overnight Friday] and [a number of] bands have had guitars, pedals, microphones and all sorts of other gear stolen."
In the hours since this initial posting the affected bands have taken to various social media platforms to ask the public for its assistance in recovering the stolen instruments.
"We are crippled … because all of our guitars were taken, and the equipment ... that stores all of our songs for our record is gone," The Weight of Whales wrote on Facebook. "If you have any information, or can help us, or any other bands on this list out, then please do so."
"Our hearts go out to friends ... that had gear stolen in the break-in at our rehearsal facility. We also lost items, but our lost gear pales in comparison to that of some others," wrote Lo-Pan on Facebook. "Be on the lookout for lists of stolen gear from these bands ... and let's try to help them find their stuff."
Much of the gear, which includes dozens of guitars worth thousands of dollars, is either one-of-a-kind or personalized to an incredible degree, which, in theory, should make the instruments easier to track. Stolen guitars belonging to Bummers, for instance, are described as having "a large amount of sticker residue on the body" and "paint chipped off the entire back."
An up-to-date list of the stolen equipment can be viewed by visiting the Reddit thread right here.
One thing the burglary has demonstrated, however, is the close-knit nature of the local music community. In the Reddit thread, a number of musicians have offered up loaner instruments to the affected bands ("I have an Austin hollow body that I literally never play that I would be happy to lend out to you if you need something to play or practice on," wrote one such poster), and hundreds have done some part to get word out in the hopes the perpetrators will be caught and the stolen gear recovered.
"A big thank to everyone for the outpouring of interest following the theft of our rehearsal space Friday night/Saturday morning. We had over 240 shares of our status with the gear list in 15 hours...that is amazing," wrote Lo-Pan. "Special thanks to the amazing Columbus Arts Community, which has come together in a [manner] seldom seen. Respect."


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Christine Tobin – vocalsm Phil Robson – guitar, Huw Warren – accordion/piano, Dave Whitford – double bass, Adriano Adewale – percussion
One of the great interpreters of modern popular song salutes the legendary Canadian singer, songwriter and poet. This night will be the CD launch of Tobin's 10th album, 'A Thousand Kisses Deep' her celebration of Leonard Cohen songs to mark the year of his 80th birthday.
A glowing review of Christine's show at the 606 Club from 6th Jan 2014 here:
Christine Tobin, the mellow-toned and poetic singer/songwriter, has often showcased one facet of her work at a time – as befits a prolific and independent creator of new projects. For her performance at the 606 Club in Chelsea, however, Tobin took a beguiling tour around some of her favourite musical haunts – Leonard Cohen songs and quietly probing originals of related persuasions, Broadway standards, WB Yeats poems, improv – with her regular band and some additional kindred spirits including pianist Liam Noble and cellist Kate Shortt.
Tobin was in a relaxed mood, casually balancing improv adventures against deep, purring expositions of memorable themes and haunting lyrics, and the musicians supported her with unobtrusive inventiveness and the warmth old friendships kindle. Her slow-burn delivery and subtlety at low registers makes her a compelling Leonard Cohen interpreter (her forthcoming album, A Thousand Kisses Deep, is a homage), and the opening Famous Blue Raincoat drifted over a dark landscape established by Phil Robson's lustrous guitar chords, percussionist Adriano Adewale's graceful brushwork and Dave Whitford's attentive bass. Dance Me to the End of Love was spun over a rising guitar-and-bass hook and taken far from its roots by Tobin's unhurried wordless improvising as well as a solo of startling twists from Robson.
Noble joined for a jubilantly swinging account of You Go to My Head (with Tobin's variations recalling the audacity of the late, great jazz diva Betty Carter and Noble in urgent post-bop mode). In the singer's own Brandy and Scars, her atmospheric lyrics were given a hypnotically distracted delivery to a blazing double-time guitar break and a closing Tobin quote from Eleanor Rigby. Shortt deepened the band's already rich sonorities on Yeats's The Wild Swans at Coole, from Tobin's Yeats-devoted Sailing to Byzantium album. A choppy, bluesy groover closed a set that confirmed how far this gifted, imaginative and honest artist has come in a career she has successfully steered by her own star.
As an exceptional singer-songwriter herself, Christine Tobin specialises in idiosyncratic, highly musical poetic vignettes with a strong sense of story, so it's no surprise she weaves such magic with the profound, sensual and mysterious songs of Leonard Cohen. In 2013 she won a 'Herald Angel Award' at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for this show, adding to a long list of accolades which includes, a 2012 British Composer Award, two nominations at the 2013 Parliamentary Jazz Awards 'Best Musician' and 'Best Album', and also 'Best Vocalist' at the 2008 BBC Jazz Awards.
The Guardian writes 'Christine Tobin is inspiring on her own material. But she is in a class of her own singing Leonard Cohen.' They also say she possesses a '24 carat voice' and call her 'a jewel of the London jazz scene, streets ahead of the pack… She should be on a global stage, rubbing shoulders with fellow troubadours like Cave, Mitchell and Cohen.' Her programme will include new takes on Cohen classics such as 'Famous Blue Raincoat', 'Tower of song' & 'Suzanne'. Christine has performed and recorded with a list of diverse creative artists, including musicians Julian Joseph, Nigel Kennedy, Django Bates, Billy Childs, Carleen Anderson, Cleveland Watkiss, Liam Noble & Billy Hart, actor Gabriel Byrne, film director Mike Figgis and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Paul Muldoon. She appears regularly on the international scene and her debut performance at the U.S. Rochester International Jazz Festival last year drew record audiences.
Other hit performances include, Shanghai Jazz Festival, Cork Jazz Festival and Berlin Jazz Festival. Christine has also presented programmes for BBC Radio 3 and RTE Lyric FM. Her stellar band features some of the U.K.'s most acclaimed musicians: Huw Warren accordion, Phil Robson guitar, Dave Whitford double bass and from Brazil percussionist Adriano Adewale.
"Tobin's new version of Leonard Cohen's Everybody Knows is stunning. The trio delivers more than the sum of its parts and there is a rapport between the players that goes beyond everyday musicianship, working on subliminal and emotional levels." The Guardian
"Sexy, gutsy, bluesy and beautiful."
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ATI, the graphics product group of Advanced Micro Devices, will delay the release of the long-awaited code-named R600 graphics processing unit (GPU) by several weeks, sources said on late Tuesday. The delay is likely to impact sales of the company's graphics cards during the quarter, as despite of low volume, the high-end graphics card come at a high price.
Officials from Advanced Micro Devices confirmed the product delay saying that the code-named R600 has been delayed due to strategy-related reasons and a wish to address broader market segments.
"To better align our strategy with current market opportunities, we've changed the launch plan for R600. We are going to deliver a competitive configuration to market with an extremely attractive combination of performance, features and pricing, targeting a broader market segment in Q2," a statement by the company reads.
Usually leading designers of standalone graphics processors for graphics cards release two versions of the new chips at launch: the highest-performance one and a product with lower specs providing lower performance (e.g. Radeon X1800 XT and XL or GeForce 8800 GTX and GTS), however, at this point the R600 would have to target not only the GeForce 8800 GTX and GTS that are sold for $599 and $449, but also the GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB, which is available for $299. By delaying the product by a few weeks, AMD receives some time to analyze it specs and make possible tweaks to better address the market.
The reason for the delay might be plain and simple, though: already made changes to the lineup and consequent delay of production shipments. A document by AMD regarding the R600 release schedule leaked onto the Internet several days ago confirmed once again that AMD is preparing two versions of its new product: a long one – 12", targeted at system integrators – and a shorter one with 9" or 9.5" length aimed at the channel. However, the document claimed that production boards for the channel market will reach add-in-card suppliers only on the 12th or 13th week, just days before the quarter ends, hence, it would be hard for AMD to commercially release the product in Q1 2007.
"With the revised strategy, AMD will be better able to capitalize on the broad appeal of 3D graphics and DirectX 10, being driven in part by the growing popularity of Windows Vista," the statement by AMD claims optimistically.
The final release date of the R600 remains unclear and it is also unclear whether the company may have plans to align the R600 commercial launch with the preview of the code-named RV610 and RV630 products.


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Alumni X-Change: The Changing Role of the Modern Teacher
On April 19, David Hollander, '89, addressed an audience of educators and students at the Alumni X-Change: The Changing Role of the Modern Teacher.
Hosted by the SXU Office of Alumni and Parent Relations and the School of Education, Hollander spoke on the importance of networking. An eighth-grade social studies teacher at Kennedy Junior High School in Lisle, Hollander has taught for over 20 years, coaches sports and enjoys acting in community theater.
Networking, he stressed, among different professions, will not only enrich the vocation of the educator but with also enhance the educational experience of the student.
A colleague quoted, "He teaches kids, he doesn't teach subjects."
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Skip to comments.Mountain Dew introduces a breakfast drink
Posted on 02/11/2013 10:17:25 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
NEW YORK (AP) If you don't like coffee or tea, Mountain Dew has a new breakfast drink that might perk you up.
PepsiCo Inc. is rolling out a new drink called Kickstart this month that has Mountain Dew flavor but is made with 5 percent juice and Vitamins B and C, along with an extra jolt of caffeine.
The company, based in Purchase, N.Y., is hoping to boost sales by reaching Mountain Dew fans at a new time of day: morning.
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Unless you can dunk a doughnut in it, it is doomed to fail.....................
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Have you ever had breakfast and said to yourself, "I wish this was more disgusting"? Does Mountain Dew have a product for you! PepsiCo Inc. has announced that its Dew brand is moving into the morning market with Kickstart, a lightly caffeinated drink made with Mountain Dew flavor and 5 percent juice. The beverage will be sold in the same 16-ounce cans as popular energy drinks. Always wanted to combine the radioactive taste of Dew with the jittery paranoia of a Red Bull, then cut it with just enough "juice" to pretend youre a healthy person? Kickstart's your new best friend in a can!
It's Got Electrolytes!
In case you're tired of beer and cold pizza....
I think I'd rather have a Jolt tm. Cola.
Their motto...All the sugar and TWICE the caffeine!
It's the thirst mutilator and it has what plants crave!
I used to work with a woman who would fix breakfast for her husband and two sons but she would not eat. Then she would come to work and drink a can of Coke and eat a Twinkie for her breakfast.
She was smart, healthy and average weight, but she had this weird breakfast habit.
In college, I thought that Mountain Dew was a morning drink...
Until I went completely off soda 5 years ago it still was... ;-) Nothing wrong with a Mountain Dew in the morning!
Do I remember an add encouraging us to drink Dr. Pepper hot?
I read somewhere 15% of all soft drinks are consumed in the morning. I was a big Diet Coke in the morning drinker for years. About a year ago I became one of those annoying loose tea drinkers. Much more pretentious.
They need to just cut to the chase and "Jungle Juice" it up by adding some alcohol for good measure.
"... much more pretentious".
Ooohhh, you point your little finger up! (I bet, I bet. LOL!)
By the dentures when older.
Yes, you probably do remember that. :) After seeing some old ads from the 1960's, I was inspired to prepare it for some Fall parties last year. Not bad...
You heat Dr. Pepper in a saucepan just short of boiling, and then pour it over a thinly sliced round of lemon in a coffee cup. Let it sit for 30sec and enjoy. The strange thing is that no one can tell what it is at first, but after you let them in on the secrect, it clearly tastes like hot, lemony Dr. Pepper... lol
People that like sweet hot spiced tea will generally like it.
Breakfast of Champions.
And for me, Diet Mt. Dew still is. Never liked coffee and I'm not a fan of hot tea, either.
and Signs of the Apocalypse just keep on coming...
Dare I say, that it makes you a "hipster".
Morning Dew
It's called Mountain Don't.
When I was in Army aviation, it was said that a Mountain Dew, candy bar & cigarette was a real helicopter pilot's complete & balanced breakfast.
IIRC, Jolt Cola was introduced just as the disastrous New Coke came out. The former's sales soared.
My hipster cred is damaged due to the fact I put the tea in a reusable "k cup" and run it through a Kuerig coffee maker instead of using an infuser.
I really liked Jolt Cola.
After a hard night on the town Mountain Dew always has been my breakfast drink..
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Indeed. The recent announcement of canned scotch goes together with this bit of news, hand-in-glove.
I remember that when I was a kid. My aunt made a cup for me. Think of sweet hot tea with a hardly noticeable touch of prune juice added.
Its what plants crave!
Mountain Dew and a Snickers bar is the Breakfast of Champions.
Hamburgers - The cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast.
Big Kahuna Burgers!
Check out the big brain on Responsibility 2nd!
Right up there at the top of my movie list...but some energy doesn go out of the film when Vincent gets cut down, doesn't it?
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UVM researchers develop a way to vastly increase maple productionPhotos by Sally McCay
Four years ago, Tim Perkins and Abby van den Berg cut the top off a maple tree. As researchers at the University of Vermonts Proctor Maple Research Center, they wanted to learn more about sap flow.
Instead, they discovered an entirely new way to make maple syrup.
Its revolutionary in some ways, says Perkins.
Their new technique uses tightly spaced plantations of chest-high sugar-maple saplings. These could be single stems with a portion or all of the crown removed. Or they could be multiple-stemmed maples, where one stem per tree can be cut each year.
Either way, the cut stem is covered with a sealed plastic bag. Under the bag, the sap flows out of the stump under vacuum pressure and into a tube. Voilà huge quantities of sap.
In short, these plantations can allow maple syrup production in a farm field.
Typically, a traditional sugarbush produces about 40 gallons of maple syrup per acre of forest by tapping, perhaps, 80 mature trees. With this new method, the UVM researchers estimate that producers could get more than 400 gallons of syrup per acre drawing from about 6,000 saplings.
The new technique has the potential to enhance business for existing syrup producers, the researchers think, and defend Vermonts maple industry from threats that range from climate change to spiking land costs to Asian long-horned beetles.
From the ground up
We didnt set out to develop this system, says van den Berg. We were looking at ways to improve vacuum systems.
But during a spring thaw the tapped tree, from which they had removed the crown, just kept yielding sap under vacuum pressure. And more sap and more sap.
We got to the point where we should have exhausted any water that was in the tree, but the moisture didnt drop, says Perkins. The only explanation was that we were pulling water out of the ground, right up through and out the stem.
In other words, the cut tree works like a sugar-filled straw stuck in the ground. To get the maple sugar stored in the trunk, just apply suction.
While the cut plantation saplings will regrow branches and leaves from side shoots and can be used year after year the top of the tree is really immaterial for sap flow under vacuum-induced flow, Perkins says.
Once we saw that we could get yields without tops, it was wow! this changes the basic paradigm, says van den Berg.
Large, mature trees are no longer needed to provide the sugar. It became clear that we could deal with an entirely new framework, she says.
Parallel production
Maple syrup production is a rich part of Vermonts working landscapes. Some people make it their full-time profession, using hundreds of acres and tens of thousands of taps. Others supplement farm income or other work with smaller sugaring operations.
At all scales, maple syrup producers face increasing challenges.
One of the most pressing is the rising cost of land.
There is a great deal of expansion in Vermonts maple syrup industry right now, and forestland prices have gone up a lot, says Perkins. This can help those producers who are at the stage where they cant afford to go out and buy a few million dollars worth of land to be a full-time producer. But they could add some acres of plantation production for more syrup with less land.
If you are using 10 acres of abandoned farmland or a regenerating forest that you already own, this technique makes a lot of sense, says van den Berg.
With lower start-up costs, and quicker expansion (or contraction) of ones business, its another way to help us maintain the traditional working landscapes of Vermont, she says, letting people continue to make a living and remain on their land.
The researchers estimate that the cost of production using the plantation technique will be roughly the same as current methods. Though the sap yield per acre is much higher on a plantation than a forest, so, too, are the potential costs of equipment, labor and maintenance.
I think youre going to find sugarmakers who are doing both, standard sugarbush and plantation, says Perkins.
Coming threats
With climate change, this dual approach may become increasingly attractive even a matter of business survival.
If this region is going to warm more then with a plantation we dont have to rely as much on strong freeze/thaw cycles to get sap flowing, Perkins says, because these smaller trees freeze faster and thaw faster.
Any form of maple syrup production relies on freezing temperatures to transform starch in the wood into sugar. But in larger trees, its much more important to generate sap pressure from a freeze/thaw cycle, van den Berg says, than in a plantation system with small trees that can rely predominately on vacuum-assisted flow.
The spirit of this work is to augment and help out existing producers, she says. With a semi-wild harvest youre always going to have limitations.
One of which may be a deadly limitation in the form of an invasive pest. Though Asian long-horned beetles are not currently found in Vermont, they are infesting trees in Ohio, Massachusetts, New York and Ontario. They kill mature maple trees, and so federal and state officials have been vigorously cutting and burning any trees where the beetles are found.
This pest likes big trees, Perkins says. They dont like saplings.
Jacques Couture, a maple syrup producer in Vermonts Northeast Kingdom and chairman of the Vermont Maple Sugarmakers Association, sees how this new technique might help producers be more nimble or recover from trouble.
One of the really interesting aspects (of the plantation approach) is the possibility to establish some maple syrup production in a much shorter time-span than is the current norm, he notes.
If we had a natural disaster, such as a widespread hurricane or some insect pest, that would wipe out a large percentage of the maple stands, Couture says, this might appeal to some who were affected as an alternative way of getting back into production sooner than the normal 40-plus years for trees to grow to tap-able size as we know it today.
Plantation saplings could be ready in seven years.
Another potential advantage of agricultural-style maple plantations is, well theyre agricultural.
We can control the system much better by fertilization and irrigation, Perkins says. One of the limiting factors on sap production in the spring is soil moisture. Typically we have enough in Vermont but during years where its a very dry winter we may not have enough, and that hurts production.
Unknown outcomes
Still, despite the potential for more predicable and profitable management of maple sugar operations that plantations might bring, much remains unknown about the implications of this research.
Its too early to make any predictions, says Eric Sorkin, a producer of organic maple syrup from Cambridge who was briefed on the new project.
Any time something comes along which fundamentally undermines the status quo, there will be clear winners and losers and that is what this could be, he says. This could lead to a fundamental shift in the way we make maple syrup, so certainly there will be people who benefit from it.
But just who benefits is hard to say, and many other changes are afoot in the industry and the world that make the impact of plantations hard to foresee.
I dont think there will be a sudden shift; the life cycle doesnt permit it, Sorkin says.
But if over the next 20, 30 or 40 years, the plantation technique is combined with efforts to select seedlings with improved sweetness (that is, the amount of sugar they yield) or faster growth, this could give plantation syrup a distinct market advantage.
If you can grow these sweet trees that have twice the sugar content, then your price of production drops in half, Perkins says. In 20 or 40 years from now this method could be considerably less expensive than the standard methods used now.
For Sorkin, the future seems unclear.
If this leads maple syrup from a semi-wild crop to something farmed, plantation-style, I think that would be tremendously sad, he says.
And that would have implications for multi-generational operations and landscape-scale implications for the working forest in the Northeast. But thats a huge, huge if.
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Time again for my annual Christmas letter, a tradition dating all the way back to last year when I had nothing better to do than pretend I had a better year than you.
When I adopted this ancient ritual, I decided traditional Christmas letters are too pretentious, so I've developed this multiple-choice form letter, which can be tailored to any situation. Simply circle the responses that best fit you and, bah humbug, an instant Christmas letter that looks as personalized as a White House Christmas card. Just clip, sign and mail.
My Dearest ___________:
A) Family and friends
B) Casual acquaintances who I feel a need to impress
C) Drinking buddies who don't give a damn
D) People to whom I owe money/Owe me money (pay up)
It's that time of the year again. I'd just like to take this moment to ____________ during this holiday season.
A) Wish you and yours (the best)
B) Say "up yours"
Please accept this most heartfelt __________
A) Merry Christmas
B) Seasons greetings (for the atheists)
C) Feliz Navidad
D) Merry Grinchmas
As we prepare to celebrate this joyous time, and of course I'm talking about __________
A) The birth of Jesus
B) The Dallas Cowboys comeback
C) Forgiveness of interest on past-due loans and gambling debts owed to me
Let me cut through the chase and get on to the most important matter: my family's accomplishments, which I'm sure will out Christmas letter yours. This was a year of many blessings. We _____________
A) Added a new bundle of joy to our clan
B) Joined the Ku Klux Klan
C) Won $100 on scratch offs
D) Purchased our dream home
To add to our joy, the kids all __________
A) Made the "A" honor roll again
B) Joined AA
C) All of the above
D) None of the above
To top it off, the kids ______________
A) Were named most talented, superstar soccer kids in the universe and yours will never top that so Merry Christmas again.
B) Were able to plea bargain and receive reduced sentences for "the shooting incident"
C) Kids, we have kids?
As for me, I fulfilled a dream by going to Mexico this summer to __________
A) Study Spanish and walk on ancient pyramids
B) Get cheap dental work and stock up on over-the-counter antibiotics
C) Find an inexpensive housekeeper.
During my stay in Mexico, I got a taste of the native culture by ___________
A) Touring Mayan villages
B) Getting mugged at knifepoint
C) Eating at McDonald's
As the year draws to a close, we expect to end it with a bang because _________
A) Maria's having a shotgun wedding.
B) Johnny's getting out on parole
C) Dallas just may make the playoffs
As you can see, judging by not only my personal accomplishments, but those of our great nation __________
A) FEMA disasters
B) Electing more conservatives to the Supreme Court
C) Adding Dora the Explorer to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
This has certainly made for a great year. How about them __________?
A) Cowboys
B) Democrats
C) Republicans
D) Liberals
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My little man turned one yesterday! I can't believe how fast this year went, and am so proud that I made it this far BFing I couldn't have done it with the help and support of this board, thank you all so much!
Anyway, his habits have started changing a little the last week or so and I just get overwhelmed sometimes by the "unknown!" The last few days he has nursed early in the morning, around 6 or 7, then not until 1 and then bedtime and once in the middle of the night (1 or 2 am). Today he nursed at 2:30 am and I had to leave for work at 6:30 and tried to nurse with no luck, tried once more 20 minutes later at my mom's before leaving him, and nothing...he just ate at 10:30 his breakfast and bottle. He used to be very consistent (2:30 am, 7 am, 10:30 am, 1:30 pm, 5:00 pm, and 8 pm). Now he seems to be down to 3-4 times, is that normal? And will my supply be affected? I still pump twice at work (was thinking of pump weaning when we can try cow milk, but now am afraid I'll lose my entire supply). I only pump enough for one bottle between my 2 sessions (total of 4 oz). He eats solids pretty well, and will take a sippy cup of water (sometimes with a little juice mixed in) with lunch/dinner. Maybe he's getting more solids that he doesn't want/need to nurse as much? This is hard emotionally, but I know he's becoming a big boy now! He seems to take a bottle okay with/after meals when I'm at work, so I think that hurts a little more that he doesn't want to nurse when I'm home Anyone have advice for this age?
Also, the last 3 days he's been up around 5 am...WTH??!! I hope this is just a phase too, OY!
Thanks all!