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Re: UniPWNed
I like this shirt. I just wish the unicorn looked a lot meaner! llo
Re: Happy Apple!
I like it, but i'm not sure about the face of the worm. But hey it's GMV.
Re: Martini Olive
Re: Revenge of the Gummy Worm
Cute yet Menacing. GMV!!
Re: Cereal Killer
I love it!! GMV!!
Re: Shirt Smash!
Awesome idea!! Would make a great costume!! GMV!!
Re: Stabbed in the Back
Yeah, but you can't print on both front or back.
Re: terrifyphone
just need to download the wiggle application now
Re: Using blatent copyright infringment seems to work!
I'd be happier if all shirt submissions were Zelda and Nintendo references but that's just me. There is always room in my closet for another Link shirt.
BootsBoots wrote:Hahaha! I like it!
[quote postid="2651584" user="kherova"]You should only be alowed to wear this shirt if you can wistle the whole song to Mario Bros.
Great Idea [quote]
who can't?
Make it just a red Q and your golden.
blammoed wrote:Wow, that's a very cool drawing. Well done.
Thanks, I'm happy I did well enough to have a few shirt.woot veterans come by and check out my illustration, I love this community!
me likey
DavidShenoda wrote:I would wear this shirt in the summer so that I would not get cold.
but you might melt
Re: Fee! Fie! Foe! Fum!
Haven't voted on a Derby shirt in a long time but this is just too awesome! I agree that the perspective and shadows are perfect. It's such a clean design, and I look great in olive (and cranberry, more cranberry!)
GMV and purchase if it wins.
Re: Joe The Plumber
This is the best shirt I have seen by far. It gets my vote! if you win, when can we buy them?
Thankfully I've made it past the rejections.
I haven't been with Woot long enough to know of these old shirt designs...
Re: Hello Operator
I Would So Wear this shirt!! GMV!
toe2254 wrote:thanks! the file is 2.1 megs, which is one of the reasons i like it over photoshop.
got the PM and replied.
I agree. I used Illustrator for about 8 years, but that was 7 yrs ago! Before that CorelDraw. Seems like a lot has changed with both, but all I have now is Photoshop Elements & Corel Paint Shop Pro. I just started to play with them but they're a totally different method, & I miss the crispness from AI & Draw. Thanks for your replies! I'll keep you posted.
Re: Everybody Loves Dr. Feelgood
oh sweet jesus let this win! =]
Re: Fish As Costume
As a fellow goldie fan, I'd love this! Great costume shirt.
blammoed wrote:Wear this shirt: To remind the homeowners you visit this Halloween of the consequences of not treating. They are dire, and you are seemingly very well armed.
I think the same would go for year-round wear. Who knows what people might hand over?
Nice, I really like this one. Concept and execution are both very good. Well done!
chrisbarbar wrote:This is the best shirt I have seen by far. It gets my vote! if you win, when can we buy them?
Thanks!!! I am really glad you like it, but it needs A LOT more votes if it is going to get printed. Woot sells the top three vote getters starting Friday...
1st Place goes on sale Fri @ 12:00:01 AM
2nd Place goes on sale Sat @ 12:00:01 AM
3rd Place goes on sale Sun @ 12:00:01 AM
Re: ...and then I was like BOOO!
Ok.. so Im getting confused on the idea of "incidental" text
A speech bubble is hardly incidental..
just looking at the rejected items that say "not incidental text".. they are far less important to the shirts theme than this one..
take away the text and its a chestburster with a teacup, which makes no sense.. take away the teacup, and its just like two other shirts that were submitted.
Im not trying to knock the OPs effort.. Im just getting a bit put off by the application of woots rules each week.
I guess the idea of being a bird bath for Halloween wasn't as enticing as I'd hoped, but thanks for the positive comments! If any of you really, really want this design, it'll probably make an appearance in the WE3TEES shop at some point.
what a load of carp. this shirt was great.
I'm completely not interested in this derby now.
Re: Hello I am A LVL 12 PALADIN
The only thing i suggest for this shirt is to raise the level! Nobody wants to walk around with a noob shirt! Or maybe you could make a 70 horde shirt, that would piss off alliance people llo.
Jestik wrote:what a load of carp. this shirt was great.
I'm completely not interested in this derby now.
Ovaltina, my goat!!!!!!!!! why was this shirt rejected!!!!!!!!
Quote from WOOT's own rules "Text is ok as long as it's part of a larger design"
Well W T F do you think the rest of the shirt is?!
Not to mention you wait till the 4th day of voting to reject it. It's not like it was down out the bottom somewhere. Seems pretty obvious to me!
Take it back woot, or at least let it be a daily. I swear I'm done with you if you won't.
DavidShenoda wrote:Quote from WOOT's own rules "Text is ok as long as it's part of a larger design"
Well W T F do you think the rest of the shirt is?!
Not to mention you wait till the 4th day of voting to reject it. It's not like it was down out the bottom somewhere. Seems pretty obvious to me!
Take it back woot, or at least let it be a daily. I swear I'm done with you if you won't.
Incidental text means the shirt would get the same point across without the text AND that it's not a major design element. It appears that woot didn't think you met these criteria.
Re: PRESS MY BUTTONS
Very realistic colors. Great job!
Re: Bun In The Oven
uh..... looks like a loaf of bread, not a bun, in the oven.
Re: BE THE LEGEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alright, I retract all my previous statements. This shirt is garbage, as is every other shirt I've wasted time in submitting. Please do not vote for this shirt!
Woot was definitely a little to picky about this. The speech bubble was incidental for sure.
Re: You. Are. A pirate!
I gotta tell you, its times like these where I feel like opening up a 2nd secret account (or ten) and dump a bunch more votes on designs I dig, like this one. Its gets me anxious to not see well deserving shirts like these in the fog. I mean, there really isn't else I can do once I've voted but wait and see... it gets to me. Come on, get up there!
Why not resubmit without the text?
Also, this would be a great time to add the cigarette he NEEDS to the other hand.
Thanks to all the cool people who have voted for me and supported on woot up to now. You guys are awesome, and please feel free to stop by threadless or dbh to vote for my past designs, alien included. I don't want to hassle with woot's ridiculous inconsistent restrictions.
Awesome design. Probably my favorite from this Derby. I really hope it manages to break into the fog - maybe taking the place of that God awful Game Boy entry.
Re: Future NBA Ref
Constructive criticism:
Woot will not be able to print that close to the seams. Make sure the design is within 1" from the seams and collar.
This just needs a little work and it'll be a great idea. Good Luck.
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Here's a typical post by a good Giants fan:

Eli played OK on Sunday and it sucks that bad breaks and tipped ballshad to determine the result of the game.

Now here' the same post, when viewed through the twisted, skewed prism ofthe classicEli Cultists:

Eli played OK on Sunday and it sucks that bad breaks and tipped balls had to determine the result of the game.

They see only what they want to see.

LOL that typical Giants fan is right! the problem is you post only the Bold when you speak of him.
And MMB about the philly game and the whole team letting us down...I was speaking specifically of the 4th Quarter...yes even the offense let us down there....if they could have just killed some clock...but whatever it's over and done with.
again after a touchdown by the offense with 8 minutes to go it gave us 31 points and a 21 point lead. We then had the ball for two more possessions.
First possession took 2:30 off the clock and we had 3 first downs
By the time we got the ball back for the second possession it was a tie game and we tried to drive to win the game
Im not killing the offense for that

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[beavis]boing!!! [/beavis]
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. - Ayn Rand
[beavis]boing!!! [/beavis]
Ask questions first; Distance? Windage? Elevation?
""...when you capture spoils from the enemy, they must be used as rewards, so that all your men may have a keen desire to fight, each on his own account""
- Sun Tzu
"A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a State."
- Zhuang Zi
CeeKay I was thinking that when I read Zoom's "boing"
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The way the good lord meant it to be! Sweet, thanks for sharing
The way the good lord meant it to be! Sweet, thanks for sharing
I have a daughter. I tell her, "911 is what you dial after you're raped. 1911 is what you should have before they try."
WOW I want a few stupied 86 law what bs
Oh, if only we could get the registry reopened. Amazing, we need to tell our reps how many people are willing to pay a tax and the gov isn't letting us!
Fantastic workmanship Pirate !!! That is one beautiful Bren.
Yea. it's like looking at a centerfold magazine, great to look at but chances are you'll never get one to ride.
"The two enemies of the people are criminals and goverment, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so that the second will not become the legal version of the first" ~ Thomas Jefferson
Best one yet
Did I do that?
Looks great! I'm sure there a lot of fun.
Hey is that a pkm in the background, you guys doing any of those?


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You can cross one major trophy off the list for fun. at the Grammy Awards.
The pop-rockers won song of the year for their transcendent anthem, We Are Young, featuring Janelle Monae, during Sunday night's telecast, taking the first of four major awards the group's been nominated.
"I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote the chorus to this song," lead singer Nate Ruess joked. "This is in HD, everyone can see our faces, and we are not very young."
Most of the attention has been on Frank Ocean going into the awards - he won a trophy for urban contemporary album and is up for four more trophies during the telecast. But his fellow lead nominees got an early lead on the R&B singer.
We Are Young helped fun. earn a starring role at these Grammys with nominations in all four major categories after the release of their first album, matched only by Christopher Cross in 1981, and six overall. The band turned in a powerful early performance of Carry On early in the show as a downpour on stage began mid-song and guitarist Jack Antonoff got a kiss from girlfriend Lena Dunham of Girls fame after winning.
Fun. may have picked up a major win, but it was The Black Keys and Skrillex who had the early lead thanks to strong runs in the pre-telecast awards show.
The Black Keys singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach took the early lead during the pre-telecast show, picking up three trophies and assisting with a fourth. Auerbach won Producer of the Year Alone and Best Rock Song for Lonely Boy and rock album for El Camino with his bandmate Patrick Carney, joining electronic dance music innovator Skrillex atop the early leaderboard. He was also producer for another winner, Dr. John.
A slew of artists sit one back going into the main awards show at the Staples Center, including fellow top nominees Kanye West and Jay-Z, Australia's Gotye, former best new artist winner Esperanza Spalding, jazz man Chick Corea and Christian singer-songwriter Matt Redman.
West and Jay-Z won best rap song and best rap performance for the song Ni**as in Paris from their Watch the Throne collaboration and lost a third for short form video for No Church in The Wild, which featured Ocean. Ocean will be up for five awards later in the evening.
Other early winners included Rihanna, Beyonce, Mumford & Sons and Taylor Swift, who opened the show as the Mad Hatter. Swift dressed in white top hat, tails, shorts and tall boots during the surreal version of her hummable hit We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together that included a troop of mime clowns and a guy on a tricycle with a flame-thrower attached.
The singer pretended to talk to the offending boyfriend on the phone: "I'm busy opening the Grammys and we're never getting back together."
Justin Timberlake debuted new tracks Suit & Tie with Jay-Z and Pusher Love Girl in a performance that was broadcast in retro black and white. Elton John and Ed Sheeran teamed on The A Team and Miguel and Wiz Kalifa teamed up on Adorn.
Adele won the first award of the night on the main telecast, taking home best pop solo performance for Set Fire to the Rain (Live), in one of the night's least-surprising moments - though the singer was somewhat taken aback.
"I just wanted to be part of the night, because I loved it last year, obviously," she said of winning a record-tying six awards in 2012.
Carrie Underwood won best country solo performance for Blown Away.
The Grammy pre-telecast awards show at the Nokia Theatre had 70 trophies up for grabs, including rock, pop, rap and country categories.
Skrillex won best dance recording for Bangarang, featuring Sirah, best dance/electronica album for Bangarang and best remixed recording a year after winning those same awards in his first appearance at the Grammys.
Gotye won Best Alternative Album for Making Mirrors and Best Pop/Duo Performance for Somebody That I Used To Know, featuring Kimbra.
Winners in selected major categories at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards:
- Pop/duo group performance: Somebody That I Used to Know, Gotye featuring Kimbra.
- Traditional pop vocal album: Kisses on the Bottom, Paul McCartney.
- Rap performance: Ni**as in Paris, Jay-Z, Kanye West.
- Rap song: Ni**as in Paris, Shawn Carter, Mike Dean, Chauncey Hollis, Kanye West.
- Rap album: Take Care, Drake.
- R&B performance: Climax, Usher.
- Traditional R&B performance: Love on Top, Beyonce.
- R&B song: Adorn, Miguel Pimentel.
- R&B album: Black Radio, Robert Glasper Experiment.
- Rock song: Lonely Boy, The Black Keys.
- Rock album: El Camino, The Black Keys.
- Hard rock/metal performance: Love Bites (So Do I), Halestorm.
- Alternative music album: Making Mirrors, Gotye.
- Dance recording: Bangarang, Skrillex featuring Sirah.
- Dance/electronica album: Bangarang, Skrillex.
- Country duo/group performance: Pontoon, Little Big Town.
- Folk album: The Goat Rodeo Sessions, Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile.
- Reggae album: Rebirth, Jimmy Cliff.
- Pop instrumental album: Impressions, Chris Botti.
- Compilation soundtrack album: Midnight in Paris, various artists.
- Score soundtrack album: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross.
- Song written for visual media: Safe & Sound (from The Hunger Games), Taylor Swift, John Paul White, Joy Williams.
- Musical theatre album: Once: A New Musical, Steve Kazee, Cristin Milioti.
- Producer of the year, classical: Blanton Alspaugh.
- Producer of the year, non-classical: Dan Auerbach.
- Short-form music video: We Found Love, Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris.
- Long-form music video: Big Easy Express, Mumford & Sons.


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Excerpt: "WBZ-TV in Boston reported Wednesday that, according to a law enforcement source,Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez "has not been ruled out as a suspect" in a homicide case near his home. Hernandez is connected to the case through a vehicle rented in his name that is reportedly a key piece of evidence, according to SI.com. An ABC News report said Hernandez was initially uncooperative with police.
Let's get this out of the way first: When you hear things like "uncooperative" and "not been ruled out as a suspect" being used by the media, please, please, please take a breath, grab your salt shaker and think rationally.
That's not to question the reports. It's simply to point out that the phrase "uncooperative" when describing someone mentioned in a homicide investigation can mean many things. To wit: uncooperative could mean Hernandez hired a lawyer. It could mean he didn't let police search his home without a warrant. It could mean he's stonewalling them. It could mean lots of things.So could "not been ruled out as a suspect" -- that phrase sounds like "considered a suspect" to many people. But it simply means Hernandez, because of his proximity to the victim and his name on a rental car cannot be considered not a suspect at this time." Read more...


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Intel Core i7 920 and 965 review -
1 - Introduction
Intel Core i7 920 and 965 Extreme processor
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Street price:
Core i7 920 (284 USD) Core i7 965 (999 USD)
Aaah yes, my dear apprentices ... the force is strong today. Hey everybody and welcome to another Guru3D.com review. Intels code-named Nehalem processors have been discussed for years now, it's been pending for a long time and Intel's' marketing machine has been spinning for for a while. Today is the day that Intel is lifting the embargo on these consumer desktop processors that you guys all have known to learn as the "Nehalem" processors. The processors will become available this month, and they should be fast, they should be flexible and also, reasonably priced. What's not to like, eh?
So today Intel launches these Nehalem based puppies on the new name Core i7 as in their 7th architectural generation. A name that will catch on quickly and you'll get used to it just as quickly as well. No less then three processors are announced today and Guru3D.com will take a look at two of them. We'll do more though, later this week a couple of x58 motherboard reviews but today we'll also post an extensive Multi-GPU article to see what kind of effect Core i7 processors have on the hottest gaming gear.
But surely we start off with the processors themselves.
Nehalem (familily) processors code-named Bloomfield (Core i7) have four physical processor cores and a triple-channel DDR3 memory controller.
A new processor deserves a new motherboard, so a new chipset is announced today as well; the x58 chipset. We'll cover that mainboard in several other articles this week as well, but we really wanted a review dedicated to the new architecture first.
Speaking of architecture, what we'll do today is to have a deeper look inside the Core i7 processor, the technology, the architecture, a nice little photo-shoot and obviously a decent benchmark session to see where this product establishes itself performance wise. All in all we got a lot to cover, so hover onward to the next page where I'll show you what specifically is being launched today.
Good times, let's rock. Next page please.
We test the Gulftown based Core i7 980X. Intel launches the Core i7 980X processor today priced at US$ 999 in thousand-unit tray quantities. It's scrumptious, it's delicious. Really it overclocks brilliantly as well; it's dark demonic matter my man. Head on over to the next page where we'll start up a technical overview and then head onwards to an extensive benchmark session, and sure... we'll throw in an overclocking session as well. We've got a lot of ground to cover.
Alphacool HF 38 Niagara Intel Core i7 CPU water block review
There aren't that many companies out there that offer liquid cooling products which you can purchase separately. There's a handful of them. One of them is the German based Alphacool. Recently they introduced a new CPU block called the Alphacool HF 38 Niagara. This new water-block is designed for Socket 1366 processor, aka Nehalem aka Core i7. A high-end liquid cooling CPU block priced fairly. Let's check it out.
Intel Core i7 920 and 965 review
So today Intel launches these Nehalem based puppies on the new name Core i7 as in their 7th architectural generation. A name that will catch on quickly and you'll get used to just as quick as well. No less then three processors are announced today and Guru3D.com will taken a look at two of them.
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 processor review
See, a Core 2 Extreme X6800 is pretty much the fastest desktop processor in the world, yet adding two more cores gives you the absolute best of both worlds. Get the highest stock clock speed Intel offers for the best performance in lightly multithreaded (or single threaded) applications, and a total of four cores for those heavy multitasking or CPU intensive multithreaded scenarios. Really, you can't lose there now can you ?


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Friday, October 16, 2009
Freedom to choose
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I totally agree. Althought Firefox comes standard on Ubuntu and is a decent browser, I personally don't like it. I use Opera and yes, I've been "reminded" here and there that what? you use Opera? but Opera is proprietary! So what! I say, I'm gonna use the browser I want and that's the end of it!ReplyDelete
Vive la liberté d'expression! Vive la liberté de choix!
- AnonymousOctober 17, 2009 at 1:39 PM
Et chacun a son gout ;-)ReplyDelete
I like it to have a free alternativ to proprietary stuff. Just an example from using a 64bit built: Until recently there was no 64bit port of e.g. Flash (yeah I know flash sucks anyway, so no big loss;-)). There were workarounds with a 32bit layer and such, but that went against my intention to use 64bit in the first place. I was happy to have something like swdec or gnas, (limited as they were)
Btw. I made similar experiences being called names when stating I tried to preserve as much freedom as possible on my linux box. So, both sides shouldn't make such a bis fuss about this topic I guess. ;-)
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Agreed. As a non-programmer, while I like the idea of open source, it's less important to me than the freedom to choose the software that I like best.ReplyDelete


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Remember I had this view next door in upstairs sewing room? Now I have it in my back yard
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Remember I had this view next door in upstairs sewing room? Now I have it in my back yard
I got these at the $ store. I thought they were adoreable for my rock garden
They are having an old world war plane show this weekend at airport. Here's a couple flying overhead
Great pictures. Love the view from the back yard. I don't have anything like that to see from MY backyard!
I DO live near the airport in St.Louis, but the ANG was just transferred, so we will miss the practice flights. Will have to watch for Boeing's test flights ! Don't usually pay attention because planes fly over so often.
Like your rock garden...I like to collect interesting rocks in my travels and arrange them in my house plant containers.
Mine is actually the whole length of the front of my house. I never had one til we moved in here in Feb of this year...Originally Posted by Lainee
We live about 5 miles from airport (small airport) but we too get planes overhead all day long. Geez some of the jets sound like they're gonna land in my backyard :shock:Originally Posted by Shemjo
I'd be lost without my view. My sewing room NOW has the view of my old house :( Oh well.Originally Posted by Loretta
Thanks for sharing your pictures. Loved them!
I haven't been sewing, so HAD to show something lolOriginally Posted by Debbie1


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Here's a man who is 71 and competiting. Brings tears to my eyes.
Here's a man who is 71 and competiting. Brings tears to my eyes.
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Saturday, July 28
Individual and team eventing dressage: 1:45 pm. - 2:45 pm. (NBC Sports Network)
Sunday, July 29
Individual and team eventing dressage: 2:15 pm. - 3:00 pm. (NBC Sports Network)
Monday, July 30
Individual and team eventing - Cross Country (LIVE): 8:15 am. - 12:45 pm. (NBC Sports Network)
Tuesday, July 31
Eventing - Team Jumping final (LIVE): 6:00 am. - 8:15 am. (NBC Sports Network)
Eventing - Individual Jumping final (LIVE): 9:15 am. - 10:30 am. (NBC Sports Network)
Thursday, August 2
Dressage qualifying: 1:30 pm. - 2:30 pm. (MSNBC)
Friday, August 3
Dressage qualifying: 12:30 pm. - 1:30 pm. (MSNBC)
Saturday, August 4
Jumping qualifying: 3:30 pm. - 4:30 pm. (NBC Sports Network)
Sunday, August 5
Team jumping final - first round: 2:30pm - 3:00pm (NBC)
Monday, August 6
Team jumping final - second round: 1:00 pm. - 1:45 pm. (NBC)
Tuesday, August 7
Team dressage final (LIVE): 10:45 am. - 11:30 am. (NBC Sports Network)
Wednesday, August 8
Individual jumping final: 11:00 am. - 11:30 am. (NBC)
Thursday, August 9
Individual Dressage final (LIVE): 9:00 am. - 11:00 am. (MSNBC)
Thanks, Johar. I hope to catch some of this. Dressage is a sport in which athletes can compete for quite a long time, and that's very gratifying to watch. This is another reason it's so great to watch some of the less well-known sports; besides getting to learn about a new sport, you get to see people who might not always fit your inner vision of what an athlete looks like, or people who come from countries you don't usually think of as sports giants.
Canada's Ian Miller is competing at his 10th Olympics in show jumping at 65. With Big Ben long gone, Miller proves himself to be more than merely lucky to have such a fabulous horse.
Dressage is soooooo hard! How do you train a horse to do all those gaits and look good doing it? Watch Totilas:
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Equestrian Cross Country the most dangerous Olympic sport?
This is the sport that incapacitated Christopher Reeve. Princess Anne herself once broke a bone in her back, as I recall, luckily with no damage to the spinal cord itself.
I'm not sure that there wouldn't be a three-way tie among equestrian cross country, road cycling, and certain apparatus of women's gymnastics. Just last year, I think, one of the world's premier cyclists died during a race. They hurtle around pretty quickly, and often though hilly, irregular terrain. And they ride in groups, so that if one crashes, he/she can bring down a lot more people. As for gymnastics, there are a few instances of dreadful, permanent injury to champion girl gymnasts. While men's disciplines have fewer moments where the gymnast isn't holding on to the apparatus, there are those flips on the bar, where the guy lets go and twirls and then hopefully catches hold again. Thank goodness for padded floors, but it is a long way down if you fall.


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The English Literature program at RWU celebrates the British and American canon, while offering opportunities to explore authors and works from other traditions, including world literatures in translation and literatures that focus on cultures, genres, periods and themes representative of both non-western and western perspectives. Studies occur in an environment marked by strong faculty commitment to student-centered education. As a result, students are actively engaged in achieving individual excellence and are involved also in the larger life of formal and informal program activities in and out of class.
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Happy Anniversary - and happy National Day from your reader in Zurich :-) They began blowing up things along the hillside of Uetliberg at 7:00 a.m. yesterday - sounded like canons but probably just firecrackers.ReplyDelete
My husband of course was off work and we walked by the lake a bit. All in all an easy day.
I love that you are going to Iceland; it's on our list of places to visit while living on this side of the Atlantic.
And I LOVE the thermalbad - cool that you stayed there. I have only been in winter and it's very fun to be in that rooftop pool with snow falling.
This is long, but just want to say I'm so pleased you enjoyed Zurich. Sorry about the heat - every summer we have about 3 weeks that is really hot. this year we received more than our share. I'm thankful that for 10 days I was in Scotland. You need to go there. Glencoe is amazing.


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Overview of the Closure Project
For master's candidates, the closure project typically functions as a central component around which the self-designed curriculum is structured. Varying according to the student's goals, the closure project is a major scholarly and/or creative effort demonstrating the student's accomplishment and mastery of the chosen area of study. The closure project is not simply a tutorial or directed study (LNT 599). It differs in two ways.
First, its content must be central to your entire curriculum. This means that it must build on some of your core coursework and/or directed study. Ask yourself: "What is the most advanced, or the most important, understanding or ability I want my curriculum to end with?" In other words, "What do I want as the culmination of the personal and academic growth I will seek in pursuing my curriculum?" By designing your closure project as an answer to either form of this question, you will make it central in the intended sense.
The second way in which your closure project will be more than simply another directed study is that it must demonstrate mastery of essential aspects of your curriculum. There are two sides to this demonstration. The first is to show a high degree of proficiency and understanding. "High" means a step beyond what is normally expected of an undergraduate major. To show this, you will be asked in LNT 521 to prepare for your project by writing a review of the literature that is most important to your curriculum. Then, in conducting your project itself, a preliminary part of what you will be expected to do is to make clear its relation to that literature.
The second side to demonstrating mastery of your "chosen area of study" is to show your ability to do the sort of problem-solving typical of that area. This form of problem-solving is what your instructors mean by methodology. In designing your closure project, the problem may take the form either of a theoretical question that is answered through research, or a practical need that is met by applying the ability and knowledge you have achieved through your curriculum. This theoretical/practical distinction brings us to distinguish two sorts of closure project, namely, the Thesis (LNT 560) and the Master's Project (LNT 550).
Traditionally, master's work has culminated in a thesis. The purpose is for the student to demonstrate his or her ability to do a high level of scholarly work. "High level" means research that contributes reliably to knowledge and understanding.
Such scholarship requires effective use of the methodology or mode of problem-solving of one of the following:
- Humanities such as history, literature, or philosophy,
- Sciences such as sociology, psychology, or economics, or
- Interdisciplinary subjects such as education or management.
Theses in the humanities are based on the use of texts and other documents usually found in a library. Theses in the sciences seek to:
- Gather and make generalizations from new data (e.g., structured surveys), or
- Formulate and test new hypotheses.
Theses in interdisciplinary subjects sometimes employ the methodology of one of the relevant disciplines (e.g., of psychology in studying educational methodology) and sometimes alternate between more than one methodology.
This traditional thesis approach seems more appropriate to some LNT students than to others. While some students benefit especially from engaging in research to generate new knowledge, others are more concerned with deepening their grasp of what they have already learned by applying it. It is to serve the needs of this second group that LNT has created the option of doing a Master's Project.
The same general requirements apply to the Master's Project that we have discussed concerning the Thesis. The Master's Project must accomplish the following:
- Work with material that is central to your curriculum, and
- Demonstrate mastery of the chosen area of study through a major scholarly effort.
This means that the application you create must be something you could not have done without applying some major knowledge you acquired in the courses or other credit-generating activities that are central to your program of study.
It is essential, then, that your Project include written material that shows explicitly the important prior learning at UIS that you are applying. This will involve the same use of a review of the literature as we have described for those doing a thesis.
Note that your ability to determine and carry out significant applications of your learning is another indication of your mastery.
Let's consider some Projects that would not meet the criteria we have been discussing. Perhaps you would find it helpful to produce a booklet for use by your clients that discusses, say, child care or group dynamics. If the booklet is one you could have written without having taken some of your key coursework at UIS, then it does not meet the criterion of demonstrating mastery achieved in the subject matter of those courses.
To take a second example, you as a teacher might wish to create a new curriculum for your students. This would not meet our criteria if this project did not depend on some of the basic learning achieved in pursuing your curriculum. This project would qualify as a Master's Project, though, if (1) the central aim of your studies has been to update your mastery of the field in which you teach and (2) your curriculum revision makes extensive and complexly reasoned use of your increased mastery.
Consider, finally, that you might have taken an introductory course in computer skills (e.g., Software Packages) as a peripheral part of your curriculum. You then wish to create a project that demonstrates your mastery of those skills by applying them to your work as an educator. This does not meet the criterion of working with knowledge that has been a central component of your degree program. Note, however, that if this project would significantly enhance your mastery of those skills, it would be appropriate as a directed study (LNT 580: Independent Field Project) because this does not carry the requirement that it be central to your program of study.
Master's Projects may also take a modified form that combines new research with its application. This research must meet the criterion of being a central component of your curriculum. Here, too, you would begin with a review of the literature that is most important to your curriculum. You would next carry out the new research, then apply it into your project, and finally show how the research and application are related to the literature you have reviewed.
Before concluding, we need to consider two additional points. First, although most closure projects will be of the scholarly sort we have been discussing, these projects may occasionally be essentially creative in an artistic or creative writing sense. For this to be appropriate, such creative endeavor must be a continuation and culmination of a central component of your program of study. It will demonstrate mastery in two ways. First, it will do this by its use of the artistic form involved (this is analogous to problem-solving in the scholarly sense). Second, it will provide a written review of the essential literature relating to this art form and a written discussion of the project's artistic product in terms of this literature.
Second, although Master's Projects must have a written section, they may also incorporate other media. For example, some Projects have applied computer technology to various curricula. Part of each of these Projects has been the development of computer programs for teacher and student use and of written curricula that provide a place for these programs. This has been complemented by a written discussion of principles that should guide such use of computers—principles that have been developed through prior learning.
Let's emphasize, in conclusion, that the main point to bear in mind, as you determine what your closure project will be, is that "closure" means not just something that comes at the end but an achievement that will be a highlight of your entire program of study. Whether it takes the form of a thesis, generating new knowledge and understanding, or of a project, applying knowledge gained in work central to your program of study, it is to be a major scholarly effort and to demonstrate mastery in terms of both a review of the essential literature and a sound approach to problem-solving.


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In many ways South Korea is on a roll in terms of its positive global image. In soft power terms, it has found an unlikely source of attraction in Psy, whose dance video Gangnam Style has been a global phenomenon. While Psy is the popular face of a confident South Korea, ready and willing to play on the world stage, there are other signs of its success.


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What a wonderful gift! Hope your sister appreciates it.
BTW, I've been wondering for a while... What is your avatar a picture of?
"I do not understand how anyone can live without one small place of enchantment to turn to."
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Gorgeous - your sister is going to be over the moon when she sees it, its so beautiful.
nice hearts....
very pretty nice wedding gift!
Lovely quilt!
A dog is not "almost human" and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.
It's beautiful and your sister will be thrilled to receive it!
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Love it!! You did a great job.
Thank you all so much! I really liked the way it turned out!
morelcabin, one of these days, I'll learn how to applique too!
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Hess, a global energy producer, is undergoing a makeover that could leave it a slimmer but stronger oil-patch gem.
The New York-based company, under pressure from activist investor Elliott Management, has been working to shed assets, including its oil-storage terminals, energy-trading and market operations, and several international properties, in order to focus on exploration and production. The company also plans to unload 1,350 Hess gas stations, a familiar brand across much of the U.S.
Hess hes -0.040346984062941293% Hess Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD49.55 -0.02 -0.040346984062941293% /Date(1495659826550-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3202499 AFTER HOURS USD49.55 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 219149 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 15759095284.7546 Dividend Yield 2.0181634712411705% Rev. per Employee 2198350 More quote details and news » shares (ticker: HES) have rallied 64% in the past year, to close Friday at $73.94, spurred in large part by the company's receipt in January of a letter from Elliott founder Paul Singer, disclosing the New York hedge fund's 4% stake in the company and decrying Hess' "lack of focus and strategy." This year's 2.7% run-up in oil prices, to north of $108 a barrel, also has drawn investors to Hess and other energy plays.
Hess could have more room to run, say analysts and investors, with some projecting a 12-month target price in the low- to mid-$80s.
Elliott charged that Hess' capital-allocation decisions were obscuring the company's true value, which it pegged at as much as $126 a share. Elliott advocated that Hess spin off its valuable acreage in North Dakota's Bakken oil shale, shed downstream assets, and streamline its international portfolio. "Simply put, what is an E&P [exploration and production] business in 2013 doing in the hedge-fund business?" Singer's letter stated.
The fund also pushed for five new board members, and a separation of the chairman and chief executive roles, held by John Hess, son of company founder Leon Hess. It noted that Hess shares had underperformed competitors during John Hess' 17-year stewardship.
Elliott already has scored some big victories. Three of its candidates were elected to Hess' 14-member board at the company's May 16 shareholder meeting, and John Hess agreed to step down as chairman, while keeping his CEO post.
Founded 80 years ago as a one-truck residential-delivery service, Hess has become one of the world's most diverse energy concerns. It reports results in two segments: Marketing and refining generated 67% of last year's revenue of $38 billion, while exploration contributed 32%, although it was responsible for 91% of earnings. Crude oil and natural-gas liquids account for more than 70% of proved reserves of 1.55 billion barrels of oil equivalent, making Hess more leveraged to oil prices than most other major E&P outfit.
After accounting for divestitures, Hess is expected to earn $2.2 billion, or $6.31 a share, this year, on revenue of $19.8 billion. Per-share earnings will get a lift from stock buybacks, as a $4 billion share-repurchase program is scheduled to commence before year end. Analysts expect the company to earn $5.99 a share in 2014, with the expected drop reflecting additional asset sales. The early earnings consensus for 2015 is $5.67 a share.
By almost any metric, Hess sells at a discount to many peers, and to its historic valuation. Based on enterprise value to 2013 estimated Ebitda, or earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization—the preferred metric for exploration and production companies with heavy capital expenditures—the company sports a multiple of 4.3, below the industry's 5.1 EV/Ebitda average, as calculated by Oppenheimer.
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Hess shares have rallied 64% in the past year, to $73.94. They could climb to the mid-$80s as management focuses on exploration and production.
John Williams, an analyst at T. Rowe Price Associates, Hess' top institutional holder with 4.65% of the shares, thinks the company could earn a higher multiple, pushing the stock up to the low $80s, if management continues to execute asset sales. More aggressive sales could lift the shares closer to $100. "I feel comfortable with the oversight of the company," he says. "There's a magnifying glass on [management] to make sure they perform well."
HESS' PRIZED ASSET is 725,000 acres in the Bakken shale, one of the richest energy plays in the U.S. Elliott values the Bakken acreage, together with smaller shale plays in the Utica and Eagle Ford formations, at $37.48 to $40.99 a share. Elliott officials weren't available for comment. Hess, which reports third-quarter earnings next week, declined to comment.
CEO John Hess, 59, has said that Hess began moving to a pure E&P company in 2010. In January the company said it would leave its oil-storage terminals, and in March it announced plans to leave its energy-trading and marketing operations, and holdings in Indonesia and Thailand. Hess realized almost $3.4 billion in proceeds from asset sales in the first quarter, and analysts think total proceeds from dispositions eventually could top $7 billion, which the company probably would return to investors via more buybacks, higher dividends, and reduction of debt.
With more-focused operations and a more independent board, Hess likely will be a different and faster-growing company a year from now. That's good news not just for Elliott Management, but all shareholders.
Drilling Down
Hess' jewel is 725,000 acres in North Dakota's Bakken shale. Activist Elliott Management wants the company to spin off the property. Activist investors also have pushed changes at Occidental.
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This bright apartment was completely renovated in 2012 and decorated in a classic style using beautiful furniture and modern paintings. The colourful bedroom features a double bed and a cosy desk area. A comfortable living room provides an additional single bed and nice views of the city. There is a well-equipped kitchen and a dining area.
Walk for 5 minutes' to Praca Martim Moniz, the starting point for the well-know number 28 tram. Popular Rossio Square is located within a 10-minute walking distance. A lively meeting place for tourists and locals, it was once a venue for celebrations, bullfights and executions. Rossio Metro Station is also located in the area.
The area is full of local life and includes typical grocery stores, old bars and cheap cosy restaurants. Explore the rest of the city by walking to the nearby districts of Baixa, Bairro Alto and Chiado.
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The appartement is located very central and everything is as described - very nice, comfy and clean and it was easy to feel like home.
I can recommend this appartement and the host Hugo very much!
The appartment was beautiful. You got so much space. Everything was clean and tidy. Hugo was very helpful and gave us some advices for our stay in Lisbon. He is very friendly and was flexible with the key handover. Every thing is close to the room, if you have a god map. The streats are very tricky. Lisbon is a beautiful city and next time I will also stay at the Appartment of Hugo!
This is the perfect accomodation to explore and enjoy Lisboa. The Location is perfect, so nearly everthing is in walking distance. It was very clean and comfortable. It was no problem to cook. A supermarket is very closed by. We would recommend this to all of our friends.
If you want to discover Lisbon in the best way possible, you should definitely book this place! The appartment is perfect for two, well located; 5 mns from the "Praça do commercio", with lots of restaurants around !
The host is very kind, always here to help or to give advise!
One regret: We wish we stay longer ! :)
Our trip to Lisboa was very good. We enjoyed to stay in this beautiful apartment in the middle of the city. We were located directly in the middle of all beautiful areas we would like to visit. City center was only a short walk away from were we stayed. We tried 3 Restaurant in the circle of 200 meters and all of them are really great. the apartment was in a great condition and clean. We did´t prepare food during the day, but everything is there. Hugo the land lord is every time available in answering your e-mails. During our stay we did´t have any questions because it is easy to get everything you need. For us it was a special time in a great apartment in a wonderful magic city.
We had a very nice accomodation in the lovely lisbon and recommend the well furnished apartment of Hugo in a authentic area. Near by is a restaurant from mocambique. If you arrive lisbon by plane, its easy by metro to the station ROSSIO and to walk 5-10 minutes up on the hill.
Best regards from Berlin, Kerstin and Frank.
We had a great time in this cosy apartment en felt very much at home. The location is ideal and there are a lot of things to see in the neighbourhood.
Stay at Hugo's flat was enjoyable and much like home.
He met us at the apartment, gave keys and guidance on how to get around. Location was convinient, there was several sights within walking distance and metro is near as well.
Flat was clean and much like staying at home, so we could have a nice break after day of walking around Lisbon.
Would highly recommend Hugo's flat to anyone.
Very nice and cosy apartment near the town center of Lisbon with everything you need. The castle of Lisbon and a small supermarket where you can get all the things you need for your stay is very close by.
Hugo himself is very kind, reliable and helpful. When we arrived he gave us a map and explained a few spots. With his direction it was very easy to find the apartment.
We can highly recommend that place and maybe we will be back.
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For a quarter of a century, Apple cofounder Steve Jobs pushed and helped define the boundaries of computing technology. In October, Jobs died from a rare form of cancer. Millions of people mourned his death, creating monuments to his memory at Apple stores across the country. Throughout his illness, he never stopped innovating. In fact, he helped push through groundbreaking new products just weeks before he died.
His leadership will be forever felt at Apple and across the personal-use landscape. He helped start the company in the 1970s. Apple's first big success was the Apple II personal computer in 1977.
In recent years, Apple has been associated with huge success and huge sales. Ten years ago, Jobs introduced the world to a new MP3 player—the now well-known iPod. The company introduced the iTunes Music Store in 2003, allowing consumers to purchase and download music with the touch of a button.
A true breakthrough happened in 2007, when Apple first showed off its iPhone. The product, more than merely a gadget, is essentially a computer that can be carried in your pocket. Consumers agreed that it was a revolutionary product. Many camped out in front of Apple stores to be the first to buy the new device. By 2011, the iPhone was selling more than 220,000 units a day.
In 2010, Apple broke into the tablet computer industry with the iPad. The company sold 14.8 million iPads in 2010, which was well beyond what industry analysts predicted.
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Guest poster Christina began by sharing the first 5 decisions… today she continues on with 5 more decisions for parents of newborns.
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6. Newborn Heel Prick Metabolic Disorders Screen
Babies usually have a single heel prick to draw a drop or two of blood, which is put on filter paper and run through a tandem mass spectrometry test to screen for an average of 20+ inherited metabolic disorders, including PKU, cystic fibrosis & sickle-cell anemia. Some states recommend two such tests- one immediately after birth and one just before hospital dismissal.
Why might I want this?
Many see the trade off of a single heel prick for the screening of so many diseases –many both potentially fatal AND treatable– as quite worthwhile. If you know that any of the diseases tested for run in your family, this seems especially a wise choice. (However, different regions test for different diseases, so ask for a full list from your pediatrician or intended place of delivery.)
Why might I want to opt out?
All of the diseases screened for are very rare. The blood screen's rate of false positives is relatively high. Thus many parents receive news their child needs further (more invasive) tests, may be advised to suspend breast-feeding in the meantime, and are understandably concerned, only to be told that the diagnosis was negative. Additionally, some of the disorders have no treatment or cure, or have variations in forms which may require no intervention (despite showing up as "positive"). For these reasons, some doctors such as Dr. Robert Mendelsohn (in his book How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor) recommend waiting for signs of a disease before testing or testing specifically for a disease that runs in your family, and certainly asking for further information and testing if a screen comes back positive.
Your options: Assent to the standard heel-prick screen as a precaution (see below for some steps to make it easier), test specifically for diseases for which your family has a history, or wait and see if any problems manifest, then pursue definitive testing. If one disease in the screen comes back with a positive result, know that many of these are false positives: continue breast-feeding, pursue further diagnostic testing, and try not to stress about it in the meantime.
**Please note that while the diseases are rare and the vast majority of kids will be fine with no screening, for the few that DO have a disease, an early detection often means the difference between life & death, or normal development & severe (often permanent) disability. For many metabolic diseases, which can appear with no family history, the symptoms are subtle and likely to be overlooked until potentially irreversible damage has been done. With this in mind, here are 4 steps you can take to make the screen easier & more accurate for your baby, if you choose to assent to it: 1. wait to do the test, ideally 3 days after birth, so metabolic factors have stabilized, 2. make sure baby is warm –especially warm baby's foot in your hands for several minutes before prick to ensure that blood flows easily, 3. request that nurse hold baby's foot until she stops kicking and only then prick, and 4. offer baby something to suck during prick (finger, binky, bottle or breast).
7. Vitamin K Injection
Vitamin K is a fat-soluble vitamin we get chiefly from bacteria in our gut (it's also in leafy green veggies). It is crucial in blood clotting & bone health. Babies are born with lower clotting factors than adults, perhaps because their intestines lack the bacteria which provide most of ours. A Vitamin K deficiency can lead to "vitamin K deficiency bleeding"– severe internal bleeding.
Why might I want this?
Bleeding in infants due to vitamin K deficiency can be severe, leading to hospitalizations, blood transfusions, brain damage and death. While formula is enriched with Vit K, breast-milk tends to be lower in it. Intra-muscular injection (i.e. a shot) of Vitamin K is quite effective in preventing internal bleeding. There are several risk factors for VKDB, including: preterm delivery & difficulty feeding, low birth weight, delivery by forceps or vacuum extraction delivery, prenatal maternal use of certain medicines (including antibiotics, anticoagulants, & anticonvulsants), liver disease, extremely fast, or extremely prolonged labor, particularly during the pushing phase, and delivery by C-section.
Why might I want to opt out?
Many question whether God would design a faulty system– why would all babies be deficient in a vitamin that was also lacking in their natural food? Some feel that it's preferable to instead supplement the breast-feeding mother's diet with Vitamin K, both/either through a diet high in leafy greens & probiotics, or a supplement, rather than giving a newborn a painful injection. Colostrum, which precedes milk, is quite high in Vitamin K. An injection is an unnatural means of getting a vitamin that is usually absorbed through the gut wall, and, like all injections, provides an opportunity for contamination to be introduced, as well as potentially toxic preservatives. The amount of Vitamin K injected is also very high: 20,000 times the level present at birth. Lastly, high Vitamin K levels are a cause of jaundice in newborns.
Your options: Choose to have the injection as a precautionary measure, especially if your child had a traumatic birth, if your prenatal diet was low in Vitamin K, or if you took medications tending towards VKDB. Take a non-interventionist approach of a late-pregnancy diet high in leafy greens, delayed cord-clamping, and immediate breastfeeding. Or opt for the oral method of vitamin K supplementation.
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8. Sleeping Arrangements
Many hospitals now offer the option of "rooming-in," in which baby & mother are kept together in one room, as well as the former model of nursery care, in which babies are tended by nurses in a separate room. Few hospitals recommend that the baby stay in the nursery throughout the day, though it is always an option if you need a break. Fathers are usually welcome to accompany the baby into the nursery during any screens or tests (and if they aren't, they can insist upon it!).
Why might you prefer the nursery model?
Many moms (and their spouses!) are exhausted after delivery and will be facing months of sleepless nights tending a newborn. The chance to have someone else changing diapers and keeping an eye out for problems can be a welcome and unique break, especially if you deliver at a hospital friendly to breast-feeding who will bring your baby to you to be fed at the first sign of hunger.
Why might you prefer to "room-in"?
Some new moms don't want their precious children away from them at any point, especially if their hospital tends to force standard procedures (injections, eye ointment, etc.) on newborns despite parental preferences, or if they are likely to give a hungry baby a pacifier or a bottle of formula. As newborns have very little stomachs (large as a thimble), ounces of formula really sabotage their metabolism & eagerness to nurse (in turn interfering with maternal milk production). Entire nursing relationships have been sabotaged by bottles given before hospital discharge.
Your options: Ask around and find out what hospital policy is regarding bringing babies to moms for feedings or giving them bottles– ask other patients and your doctor/midwife what this hospital's reputation in this area is like. If it's parental-preference friendly, you may want to take advantage of the nurses ability to watch over your child during the night (so you and Daddy can both sleep). If, however, the hospital nursery seems a risky place, keep baby with you, perhaps trading off with Daddy or another family member to tend to baby's non-nutritive needs.
Note that you can begin one way and then switch as needed: I personally began with our daughter in our room, but when it became apparent that my husband & I were too tired after our 45-hour labor to adequately care for her, we gladly surrendered her to the nursery nurses, who faithfully brought her to me for feedings throughout the night and recorded her every diaper on her chart so I'd stay informed (Our hospital is stellar with respect to honoring parental wishes in all areas.).
9. Artificial Nipples (pacifiers or bottles)
Hospital nurses only have 2 arms, just like all of us, and tend to pacify crying babies with a pacifier rather than with cuddles. Some feel that sucking on a pacifier tires a baby out, decreasing their desire to eat. And some babies just plain old spit them out.
Why might you want to allow pacifiers?
Some babies like to suck. It's a comfort thing– babies have been caught sucking fingers, thumbs, tongues, and hands in utero. As anyone who was a child-hood thumb-sucker knows, it's hard to break those habits. Some parents would prefer that their baby's "non-nutritive sucking" needs are met through a paci, which can be detached, washed, and eventually discarded instead of through a body part, which is always around (and often dirty).
Why might you want to avoid artificial nipples?
Some lactation experts warn of nipple confusion; with babies getting into poor latching habits after sucking on a paci or bottle (these require entirely different tongue positions). Many parents would prefer to allow their newborn to suck frequently at the breast, even if only for the first few days, to ensure a good milk supply, as well as to maximize skin-to-skin contact.
What are your options? Allow pacifier use, limit it to times when baby isn't hungry or your breasts are sore from a feeding, or request that no artificial nipples be used at all. If your baby is too weak to nurse or has a poor latch, you can still use systems other than a bottle –such as a supplemental nursing system (with expressed breast milk or formula), finger-feeding, or a dropper. Here's a handy trick: latches can usually be "re-set" by simply allowing a baby to suck a finger, which gets the tongue in the correct position for breast-feeding.
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10. Time of Discharge
Most hospitals keep mom & baby for 24-48 hours after an uncomplicated vaginal delivery. For moms with c-sections, 3 days is the minimum, and for complicated births moms & babies may be kept any number of days.
Why might you want to stay the full recommended 2 days?
State laws were passed in the mid-1990s regarding postpartum "Length of stays" (LOS) out of concern for maternal & infant health. Many health problems (such as a retained placental fragment, for instance) take a few days after birth to manifest themselves. Additionally, many mothers will not be going home to much help, so the rest and care they receive immediately after birth in the hospital can be very welcome.
Why might you want to ask for an early discharge?
Plainly put, even the best hospitals are dirty places— they're mainly for sick, germy people. In this sense, getting a newborn and recovering mom out of there doesn't seem a bad idea. Some mothers also find sleeping difficult in a hospital bed, and being woken by nurses every few hours for vitals to be checked can be wearing. Some moms just recover faster in their own beds. Postpartum doulas— hired help specifically trained to care for newborns and their mamas– are far more available these days and can fill in the gap hospital nurses provide. Some midwives do house-calls, and many pediatricians or OBs will allow you to come in for a check-up 3 days post-partum, somewhat negating the need to spend all 48 hours under observation. Studies in California after the LOS laws were passed showed "a significant decline in neonatal readmissions [to hospitals] but not in 1-year mortality."
Your options: Enjoy the full 2-day hospital stay, or ask for an early discharge if your delivery was uncomplicated and un-medicated, and follow up with a 3-day postpartum checkup for both mama & baby. Consider hiring a postpartum doula or having Grandma stay and care for you once home. You will likely need to get your OB/midwife and pediatrician to put a request for early discharge in writing, ideally in your birth plan.
For Parents of Little Boys: Circumcision
This is such a complicated issue (worthy of a post all its own) that I will only briefly touch on it. American doctors are split down the middle on recommending circumcision or not. The AAP's official position states:
Existing scientific evidence demonstrates potential medical benefits of newborn male circumcision; however, these data arenot sufficient to recommend routine neonatal circumcision. Incircumstances in which there are potential benefits and risks,yet the procedure is not essential to the child's current well-being,parents should determine what is in the best interest of the child.
Basically, it's a preference issue. However, more boys are circumcised in the US than are not, often before leaving the hospital after birth.
Why might you want circumcision?
There do seem to be hygienic benefits to it: fewer yeast & urinary tract infections, lower cancer rates and drastically lower transmission rates of HIV, and STDs (even the female partners of circumcised men are slightly protected). There is a small percentage of men who require circumcision later in life for medical reasons, and circumcisions later in life are far more complicated than in an infant. Babies don't remember the pain of surgery. Many Christians feel that if God commanded it for generations, it likely has some health benefit to it, just as the dietary laws do. When performed by a mohel (Jewish rabbi specializing in circumcision) on the 8th day, the procedure is very quick (under a minute), usually done in the comfort of your home with your son held in familiar arms and anesthetized in non-invasive ways such as sugar pacifiers, drops of wine, and topical anesthetic cream.
Why might you want to skip this elective surgery?
The hygienic benefits of circumcision can usually be overcome through personal hygiene and a monogamous lifestyle later in life. It's a painful surgery, even if some form of anesthetic is used. In hospitals, it is probably terrifying for the baby, who is separated from his parents, strapped down, and in considerable pain for 10-20 minutes. As noted above, clotting factors are low in newborns and don't rise until 5-7 days after birth, reaching their apex at 8 days after birth— surgery before then carries increased risk of hemorrhage. As some Christians have pointed out, modern hospital circumcision is quite different than the OT version in timing, method & environment.
Your options: Have the circumcision in the hospital before discharge (when it's still covered by insurance), using one of the following methods decided on beforehand: the mogen clamp, the plastibell, or the Gomco clamp. Research each as well as the doctor who will perform the circumcision. Alternatively, wait until the 8th day (as is Jewish custom due to Genesis 17:9-14) for the surgery at the hospital, or hire a mohel to perform the surgery in your home or the hospital, usually using the Jewish shield technique. Or, skip the surgery altogether and add extra emphasis to your son's personal hygiene.
(As a mom making this decision myself, I must say that, should we choose to circumcise our son, of all the methods the mohel-performed, Jewish shield technique seems the quickest, least painful, traumatic and risky; well worth the extra cost.)


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The Pine River Revitalization (PRR) group is asking for bicyclists to attend the July 9 Pine River City Council meeting in order to ask the council for support of their bike lane plans.
PRR has drafted a resolution of support which they intend to present to the council on July 9, but they hope to have bicyclists there to support them when they present it to the council. PRR is seeking the support of the council partially out of solidarity with the city, and partially because they believe support of the city would be instrumental in getting approval for bike lanes from the Minnesota Department of Transportation. Currently, MNDot is not in support of the plan. Other cities, such as Alexandria, currently have similar bicycle lanes.
PRR also decided to order 25 plaid flags for flag poles throughout the city and discussed having a citywide plaid celebration on July 19. Some ideas included having the flags installed prior to July 19 and having Pine River Mayor Jim Sabas cut a plaid cake from the Pine River Bakery with an axe.
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Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal warned that the Gulf Arab kingdom needed to reduce its reliance on crude oil and diversify its revenues, as rising U.S. shale energy supplies cut global demand for its oil.
In an open letter to Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi and other ministers, published on Sunday via his Twitter account, Prince Alwaleed said demand for oil from OPEC member states was "in continuous decline".
He said Saudi Arabia's heavy dependence on oil was "a truth that has really become a source of worry for many", and that the world's biggest crude oil exporter should implement "swift measures" to diversify its economy.
The shale oil threat means Saudi Arabia will not be able to raise its production capacity to 15 million barrels of oil per day, Prince Alwaleed argued. Current capacity is about 12.5 million bpd; a few years ago the country planned to increase capacity to 15 million bpd, but then put the plan on hold after the global financial crisis.
While most Saudi officials have in public insisted they are not worried by the shale threat, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has recognised that it needs to address the issue.
At what point does the US and South America manufacture enough BPD that OPEC loses it's ability to price control?
... is a freakin' weirdo. LINK His obsession with his Forbes' List rank is hilarious and sad.
The Saudi royal family are idiots when it comes to investing their wealth. So, I'm taking any of their guidance with a grain of salt.
The US will get to the point that we are energy self-sufficient. We have huge untapped reserves of shale oil/ng. The OPEC countries know it, still deny it, but can't change it. We need to develope OUR reserves, send the Middle East to hell, and let the Japanese, Chinese, and Europe fight over OPEC oil and play their games. Bring our troops home and take care of Americans. Rant over.
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A novel limit controls the size of an animal weapon, the beetle horn
Katie L. Burke
Some of the most ludicrous and extreme body structures in the animal kingdom—from elk antlers to peacock tails—evolve because they either attract a mate or aid in defending the ability to procreate. In species in which the males compete for females, adaptations for male-to-male combat arise. From the females' and opposing males' perspectives, bigger is better. But across most species that have them, these weapon structures are not continually evolving to be bigger, and evolutionary theory says that what limits the extreme of sexually selected characteristics are costs that reduce the ability of the male to reproduce and pass on his genes. So bigger is better, until the bigness is too costly to maintain. Costs can range from being more conspicuous to predators, being more susceptible to disease, stunting the development of other necessary structures or impeding mobility.
Enter the rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus. Males of this species have a pitchfork protrusion extending from the face that helps dislodge opposing males from a tree to protect the males' favorite things: food and females. Meet Erin McCullough, a doctoral candidate at the University of Montana who became interested in what costs were limiting the size of the rhinoceros beetle's incredible horns. In January, she presented her research findings at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in San Francisco.
To study this beetle species, she traveled to part of their native range in Taiwan and spent a summer studying the nocturnal beetles from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. She endured swarms of mosquitoes (someone studying insects cannot wear insect repellent), as well as strange looks from the Taiwanese locals as she traipsed around at odd hours in gardening gloves and a headlamp with radiotelemetry and camera equipment. After all this work to understand the beetles' survival and movement patterns, she "surprisingly found that the horns are not costly."
After another year of field and lab experiments, McCullough showed that "big males and small males fly at the same speed; there's no difference in how far they fly. Horns do not impair locomotion." She also found that the horns were lightweight and did not increase drag significantly, and in the biggest males, flying with a horn required only 3 percent more force than flying without one. Developing big horns did not stunt the development of other body parts and did not have any immune costs, nor were there any differences in survival between males with big horns and males with small horns. All that work, and McCullough still had more questions than answers: "Costs form the basis of the theory of how and why females pay attention to sexually selected traits. If these horns aren't costly, what's going on?"
When an expected result is debunked, the scientific method is to make more observations to lead to a new hypothesis. What McCullough observed was that about one-fifth of the beetle population had scratches or gashes on their horns and about 4 percent had broken horns. These observations led her to a new hypothesis: "If the horns weren't costly in terms of resource allocation or locomotion or immune costs, maybe there is some type of mechanical limit that is setting the upper bound on how big the horns can get." To test this idea, she turned to engineering techniques, examining what are called safety factors, meaning how safe a structure is from breaking given the loads it experiences. For example, she says, "Steel bridges have safety factors of about two, which means they are twice as strong as they need to be, compared to the loads that they typically experience." McCullough needed to measure the typical load and the breaking point of the horns. She used a mechanical tester to measure the force it took to break horns of different sizes. She compared this number with the amount of force it took to dislodge each male, measured with a spring scale. Because intense male-male combat is typically between males of the same size, she could assume that the force needed to dislodge another male was the same as the force needed to dislodge that particular beetle. Finally, she found support for her hypothesis: "As the horns get longer, they become more susceptible to breaking."
Not all rhinoceros beetles have pitchfork horns on their heads. Among rhinoceros beetles alone, and certainly among horned beetles in general, horns vary in their shape, location, orientation and weapon tactic. In a previous study published in Science in 2001, McCullough's advisor, Doug Emlen, showed that dung beetles' horns all have the similar function of blocking other males from entering tunnels, but nevertheless have very different forms and locations on the head and back. He showed that this variation was not due to female preference or weapon effectiveness, because bigger was always better in the case of effectively blocking tunnels, but rather due to developmental costs. Bigger horns were related to stunted development of eyes, antennae or wings, depending on the horns' locations on the body. Different species of dung beetle evolved different structures, depending on which structure was the least costly if stunted.
Rhinoceros beetles are clearly totally different in costs than dung beetles, because their horns do not stunt the growth of other body parts and their fighting tactics are different. McCullough thinks that mechanical limits may play a role in the variation in horns seen in rhinoceros beetles. Next, she's learning another engineering technique called finite element modeling. With this modeling technique, she can experimentally manipulate the shape and size of the horns to understand the forces different horns experience in different types of fights, using three-dimensional reconstructions of horns from micro-computed tomography scans (also called micro-CT scans). "Rhinoceros beetles have some of the most fantastic weapons morphology that you find in nature," she says. "I am interested in how costs, or the lack therof, might help us understand the patterns of diversity that we see in animal weapons."—Katie L. Burke
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Homemade Christmas ornaments add a fun and meaningful touch to any tree. When you go green, it takes the meaning to a whole other level. Create a Recycled Lightbulb Snowman from Cyndee Kromminga using materials you already have. This is a great way to save money on supplies. This Recycled Lightbulb Snowman is also a great way to save the environment by reusing old light bulbs. Eco friendly craft ideas are perfect for the holidays when there seems to be so much extra waste.
- Standard-size light bulb
- White or off white acrylic paint
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- Paintbrush
- Craft wire
- Wire cutters
- Measuring tape
- Masking tape
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- Blush and a cotton swab
- Orange felt scrap
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- Homespun fabric scrap
- Red acrylic paint
- Sponge paint a standard-size light bulb (including the screw top) using white or off white acrylic paint. This layer of paint will provide a slight texture for the glue to adhere to. You could omit this step, but this will prevent the glue from slipping while constructing the snowman. It also provides another layer of durability to the thin glass.
- Paint the screw end using black acrylic paint. Allow the paint to dry.
- Cut two 5-inch lengths of craft wire. Holding the two pieces side-by-side, begin twisting them together 1/2-inch from one end. Continue to twist until you are 1/2 inch from the other end. Separate the 1/2 inch ends to form a "Y" shape. These are the snowman's hands and the twisted wire in between form the arms. Measure down 1 1/4 inches from the bottom edge of the light bulb's screw end. Bend the center of the twisted wire around the width of the bulb at this measurement. Bend the arms outward at the sides of the bulb. Using masking tape, tape the center of the wire to the bulb.
- Rip 1/2-inch-wide strips of white and/or off white fabric scraps. Clean off all the loose threads along the edges.
- Apply craft glue to the bulb. Wrap the strips vertically, horizontally and diagonally around the bulb until the entire surface is covered. The section of the wire that is taped will also be covered by the strips. Do not cover the screw end of the bulb.
- Cut a 1/4-inch-wide by 3 3/4-inch long strip of black felt. Apply glue to the bottom edge of the painted screw end and the top edge of the wrapped bulb. Place the strip over the glue and wrap it around the screw end. This is the bottom cuff of the snowman's hat.
- Apply two 1/4-inch cheeks, 1/4 inch below the hat, using blush and a cotton swab. Space the cheeks 1/4 inch apart.
- Cut a 1/2-inch-tall triangle with a 1/8-inch-wide base from orange felt. This is the carrot nose. Apply craft glue to one side of the felt. Position the nose in the center of the face with the point facing toward the left or right.
- Dip the pointed end of a wooden skewer in black acrylic paint. Dot two eyes above the nose. Using a fine-point black permanent marker, draw a smile below the nose.
- Rip a 1/4-inch-wide by 10-inch-long strip of homespun fabric. Wrap the strip around the snowman just below the smile and above the arms. Tie the strip in a knot on the front of the snowman. Trim as desired.
- Dip the blunt end of a wooden skewer in red acrylic paint. Dot two buttons down the front of the snowman's tummy.
- Cut a 12-inch length of craft wire using wire cutters. Wrap the wire around the screw end of the snowman. Twist the ends on the back of the ornament to secure. Separate the wire ends and form into a ring. Twist the ends together to secure the ring. This is your ornament's hanger.
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